Jade(hearts)Karkat: Remember when aspiring young witch Jade Harley found Karkat who was cursed to be in the form a cat?
It was like finding a four-leaf clover, or a double headed snake. In short: really, really cool. You mean, how often was it you found a talking cat! See, your puppy Bec was a proper familiar, blessed with lots of neat powers and a smidgeon of omnipotence, but he still couldn't talk. So yes, it was a BIG DEAL, and you were appropriately excited, thank you very much.
Not that the cat said very nice things of course. In fact, it seemed to have a bit of a potty mouth. Well…actually it was mostly a potty mouth. Actually it was the sort of potty mouth that would put a sailor to shame, and you lived right by a port! A real small one frequented by smugglers, full of the sorts your granddad would call "unsavory."
But right, back to the point (the point being the talking cat you'd found). You'd been caught completely by surprise by it, but luckily you always keep a spell or two ready just for moments like this (moments where you need to rescue an animal, not for detaining talking ones okay? You're not crazy; nobody just expects to run into talking animals). And well, after you'd summoned an animal crate, it was just a matter of having Bec chase the thing into it!
And boy was it unhappy about that. Like, having cursed for a solid five minutes already and not showing signs of slowing down any time soon. But at least from listening to the incessant river of swears and general curses thrown upon you and your familial relations (nothing serious, you don't detect an inkling of magical might behind it, they're just words), you'd garnered some very interesting facts.
Like the fact that Mister Grey Tabby was apparently human before running afoul of another witch! From his…colorful description, you bet that it was Rose Lalonde. Her familiar was a cat similar to Bec, and she had a fondness for cats that rivaled your fondness for Bec! So yeah, with his personality? Rose probably though she was doing him a favor.
Wow, he just was not stopping was he? "Okay, now I understand where you're coming from. If someone changed me into a dog or something I can understand being a little upset." Well…not really, being a dog sounds really awesome! But clearly Tabby wasn't ready for that piece of wisdom, and you'd just gotten him to stop yelling.
"A LITTLE?" he mewled, and there he goes again. You know, you are really sure that he just needs a true love's kiss (Rose had an ironic appreciation for old school spells like that, probably a side effect of having a bard for a half-brother), but he just wouldn't settle back down to hear it. Tempting as it was to see if your kiss would break the spell, you're literally 100% positive that his particular bundle of crazy was not enticing enough to invite it in a more human form.