helmet

 

You can't get too invested in fish as pets; you know they're probably going to die within the year. 

When I was younger, my family had three Bettas (Aqua, JAT/Jade Azure Teal and Astro). They all lived in different bowls, obviously. Bettas are pretty tough and 'thrive on neglect' so I decided to get another one in 2011.

I mostly bought Helmet for the novelty of putting him/any fish in my empty Crystal Skull vodka bottle. It didn't take long for me to decide that that was too small of a space for him, even compared to the crappy cup he'd be living in before, so I begged my friend for her old tank. (That tank broke, and then I had to trade up for another one, which also broke . . . )

Helmet was very passive, he never 'flared up' at me or even himself in a mirror. I would talk to him when I woke up or came home from school, and he would always swim over to where I was waggling my finger and 'glub' (blow bubbles haha) at me. I was pretty sad when he died. Sometimes I have dreams and he makes a cameo. I loved you, Helmet! You were a great fish!

 A thousand times better than stupid fucking Toki, that's for sure.

All he ever did was hide in/behind the skull.