Bond Forger

Bond Forger (ボンド・フォージャー) is the pet of the Forger Family. Formerly known as Subject 8 (実験体8号), Bond was used for experiments that resulted in him gaining precognition abilities.

Appearance
Bond’s large stature, long coat, and snout suggest he is a Great Pyrenees, being large enough for Anya Forger to comfortably ride on. He is a large dog of an indeterminate breed with fluffy white fur and black paws, noted by Anya to resemble the gloves and shoes of Bondman. His eyes are small and dark, with small ears that usually droop down. When his fur is wet, his body is revealed to be much thinner than his fur suggests.

Bond usually wears a collar in the style of a bow tie, given by Anya after she comes up with his name.

Personality
Bond is shown to be a very kind dog, as he uses his precognition abilities to rescue a child from being hit by a falling board and assists Anya in changing the future to prevent the death of Loid Forger. He also helps Anya to retrieve her favorite pair of gloves from a fierce dog by intimidating him. However, he's also shown to be overzealous and quick to seek gratification, often resulting in him jumping the gun and actually causing the misfortunes he tries to prevent.

Bond is also shown to have a petty and jealous streak, destroying Anya's beloved stuffed penguin when he felt it was getting more attention from Anya than himself. He did apologize to Anya, however, by fetching her a bag of peanuts after seeing how badly this act had upset her.

Due in part to his past as a lab experiment and the abuse he suffered, Bond is somewhat unnerved by dog training techniques.

Abilities and Skills
Bond's time as a research experiment left him with precognitive abilities and above-average intelligence for a dog. He is capable of understanding human speech. Precognition: Bond gained precognitive abilities from the experiments done to him, allowing him to briefly see into the future. Bond's precognition is not absolute, and the future he sees can be changed if he takes the correct course of action. Notably, Anya acted upon Bond's precognition to prevent the death of Loid and the outbreak of civil war.

Bond has, on occasion, received visions of black static, which he interprets as premonitions of his death. If such an interpretation is true, Bond has successfully avoided such a fate more than once.

Sense of Smell: Being a dog, Bond has a highly attuned sense of smell, being able to detect Loid's scent while he was on the other side of the city. He was also trained to help detect explosives and flammable chemicals.

Basic Combat Training: Due to his past as a research subject for military purposes, Bond might have already been trained in basic combat abilities. In addition, Bond has received some training from Loid in incapacitating potential threats and has shown to be quite effective at bringing down full grown adults.

Anya Forger
Bond is quite close to Anya, with her telepathy allowing her to comprehensively communicate with him. He has been shown to be somewhat possessive, once tearing up her stuffed penguin out of jealousy.

Loid Forger
Bond displays a great deal of affection and loyalty towards Loid, having used his abilities to assist him on missions and training. Although, this is also because Loid prepares his meals, which Bond prefers over Yor.

Yor Forger
While he harbors no ill will towards Yor, Bond is fearful of Yor's cooking (which he saw kill him in a vision) and her temper (although the latter fear is greatly exaggerated).

Franky Franklin
Franky usually takes Bond out for a walk when none of the Forgers are available. While at first having a distant relationship, they forge a bond when Franky gets to talk to women for having Bond, and Bond takes the opportunity to meet new female dogs.

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Trivia

 * Bond greatly resembles the Great Pyrenees breed.
 * Anya named Bond after her favorite cartoon hero Bondman, noting that his personality and appearance greatly resembles the fictional detective.
 * The bow tie collar Anya gave Bond is a reference to the iconic bow ties of the fictional spy James Bond.
 * The terrorist operation that introduced Bond to the story is loosely based on the Red Army's Anti-tank dog program, with the twist of having Nazi-inspired terrorists adopt it instead of mocking its use in their propaganda machinery.
 * Bond's chair, featured on the cover of the fourth volume cover, is a Ball Chair designed by Eero Aarnio.
 * Bond was supposed to be named 'Peanuts' but the name highly reminded people of another white dog, so they changed it to Bond.