Title: The Importance of Being a Tamer
Author: Kady the Red Panda
Fandom(s): Monster Allergy
Pairing(s): gen
Rating: K
Warning(s): issue 29 spoilers
Summary: prompt: monsters. Zick on his current situation post-"Only for Elena"/the comic series finale.
Word Count: about 400
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. That's a good thing IMO.
Other tidbits: It would be a sin for me to not write for my old fandom that has "monster" in the frigging title for a prompt about "monsters." Years later I hate issue 29 and its ending. One reason is how Zick seems so okay about his situation at the very end even though he's about to have a huge overhaul in his life and the one we've been watching throughout the whole series. If there's an amnesty round later on I could do the keeper sight thing in another drabble. Fans of my old "Little Moments" collection could consider this an honorary installment.

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I lied to Elena. I'm not fine with being a "normal" child now. I miss my tamer powers. I miss seeing my grandparents, seeing the monsters, and fighting and controlling them.

Now, I know that I gave up my dom to save my best friend. But it really stinks no longer seeing and hearing Bombo eat my shoes, for example. I can't even believe that I miss that. But... I do.

It's just that... that was normal for me. I guess it only took me losing my powers to realize it. It isn't normal like it is for other people, like Patty and Mattie or Soup and Ford. But it was normal for the life I live (lived?) in. Finding out I was a tamer was frightening at first but I thought it was awesome as it went on because I felt like everything was finally making sense. I finally had a purpose in. I was only finally learning how to be a great tamer. Dad's living with us as a normal sized man because I was a tamer. Teddy's father is a normal sized man because I was a tamer. I met Teddy through being a tamer.

Most importantly, I met Elena because I was such an odd person to most people. Okay, okay, I am an odd person. It kinda runs in the family. When Mom gave her keeper powers I felt even more comfortable as a tamer. Elena no longer felt left out, and that was great because I know so well what it's like to be left out or being the outcast. It's incredibly lonely and miserable. It wasn't until I became friends with Elena that I no longer felt like a true outcast or misfit. Now that I'm the so-called "normal" one though I feel like the outcast again. I'm afraid everyone's going to look down on me again, including Elena. That really scares me a lot. I hate it. I just hate it.

Mom knows a couple childless keepers so maybe they can help me at least get the sight back. Then I wouldn't need to keep faking being happy about being "normal." If that happens then I can't wait to have my old "normal" life back. Here's hoping that if I do get that back that Bombo will spit my shoes out quickly before I go visit my friends...