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 was 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 then himself.

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

History
Bond was known as Subject 8 from a research initiative called "Project Apple", conducted by the previous Ostanian regime for the purpose of producing highly intelligent animals from a variety of species. When the research was terminated by the new administration, the former test subjects, including Bond, ended up in the black market. Eventually, they fell in the hands of the terrorist group led by Keith Kepler and were crudely trained as bomb dogs.

During his time as a test subject, he is shown to be treated cruelly and deemed replaceable by the researchers as he is fed disgusting food, frequently given shots, and electrocuted at a high voltage.

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 and is capable o Precognition: Bond gained precognitive abilities from the experiments done to him, allowing Bond to see briefly 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, once that has been trained to help detect explosives and flammable chemicals.

Basic Combat Training: Bond has received some training from Loid in incapacitating potential threats and has shown to be quite effective at bringing down full grown adults.

Stella Star Arc
Two men enter a poorly maintained room full of dogs in small cages and pour them a disgusting food in the dogs’ plates. As they comment on the poor state of them, Bond's ears perk up as he gets a vision of the Forgers, happily smiling at him.

Doggy Crisis Arc
Two men from the terrorist group are taking Bond and a German Shepherd out on a walk. One of the men leaves to get coffee from a shop, leaving the dogs alone with the other man. While waiting, Bond's ears perk up as he looks at a boy happily running in the streets and he suddenly runs towards the boy, pulling him backwards. Suddenly, a board falls off the building onto where the boy was previously standing. Shocked, the boy thanks Bond for saving him. The man quickly retrieves Bond as his partner returns. At the adoption fair, Anya notices Bond passing by through the window and is surprised at his large size. As they notice each other and make eye contact, Bond recognizes her from his previous vision and Anya is able to read his mind to see the vision as well. She sees Loid in the vision despite him not being there and her curiosity is piqued. Anya quietly sneaks away from Yor to follow Bond and his caretakers toward their hideout. Entering the room where Bond is, she wonders about Bond's identity but accidentally overhears the terrorists' plan to assassinate Minister Brantz. As she realizes where she is, she bumps into one of the terrorists and he grabs her before she can try to escape.

As Keith Kepler orders his subordinates to kill Anya, Bond chews through his leash and jumps in front of Anya to defend her. However, he is still fearful of their training and cowers behind Anya when one of the terrorists yells at him, continuing to bark loudly. Despite his loud barking, the noise from the nearby adoption fair drowns him out. Back at the adoption fair, Yor has realized that Anya has gone missing and panics, pleading for Loid to come back soon. After Keith is caught, Bond takes Anya back to the adoption fair, but in the way the Forger family reunites, making Loid learn that Anya and Yor had gotten caught up in the terrorists' plot. Members of WISE impersonating as members of the State Security Service show up and report that they need to take the dogs that the terrorists had used, meaning that they had to take Bond too. An upset Anya declares though that she wants to keep Bond and that she'll stop going to school if she doesn't get him. The Handler decides it would be fine to let her have the dog after it got examined by them. Bond arrives at 128 Park Avenue with a warm welcome from the Forgers. At the beginning he was scared of approaching them as he was having his past memories of how badly he was treated back then, but Anya approaches to him saying that now he’s a Forger, making Bond very happy to later get closer to the Forger family.

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).

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Anime Appearances

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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 (Snoopy) so they changed it to Bond. (Revealed in volume 4)