Fido was an engineer by day and a tarsier farmer by night. Tarsiers were the world's smallest natural primate that used to be found in remote southeast asia. They were thought to be naturally endangered for as long as anyone could remember because of their elusive, minute, shy, and nocturnal behaviour. They have eyes that are almost half the length of their faces and that were almost half the length of their height.
Some time ago, some person caught enough of them to begin illegally farming them. Apparently, the meat of the tarsiers began to be touted as tasty as it was rare and expensive. It was lucrative enough for more illegal farms to be set up. Then it was lucrative enough to bribe government officials and all that jazz ensued and tarsier farming grew into an industry.
Fido farmed tarsiers for a different reason. He conducted experiments on the tarsiers and wanted to reverse engineer their remarkable eyes in pursuit of unlocking secrets to more efficient lunar powered energy and some other scientific things.
Actually, he didn't believe that he'd make any breakthrough, and wasn't really interested in the science of tarsiers. Fido had wanted to adopt research as an excuse to cut up the animals because he resented his first-ex-girlfriend even though he openly denied it.
When he was young, he used to like to eat tarsier meat, it was one of his favourite things to eat. When he went out with the first-ex-girlfriend, she convinced him that they were too cute and that he shouldn't eat them. So, he adopted a tarsier free-diet in profession of his love for her.
After dating for too long, she left him and the city of USED. She failed to qualify as an engineer and didn't want to live the second-class lifestyle of a Dependent in USED. Fidelius, which was Fido's proper name before he was more known as Fido, wanted to leave with the girl but she was reluctant, and she told him that he should remain to fulfil his destiny as an engineer which was what she loved him for.
Some months after leaving him, she wrote on her blog to confess that actually she had left him because sometime ago, about 3 years ago, she had met a tarsier farmer who convinced her to try to taste tarsier meat when he overheard her denouncing the consumption to her friends in a restaurant. She had never tasted it before and he did the old “don't knock it till you've tried it” routine, that never went out of style, and she tried it in spite and liked it enough to have tarsier a few more times. She would have eaten it more frequently if she didn't feel so guilty, but she felt like she betrayed Fidelius and the compunction soured the relationship. They already had the whole "we love tarsiers" thing so hyped up that they were supposed to name a kid or two after the animal.
When she left she broke up with him, because she didn't like him enough to want him to overlook the entire episode. She tried to defend herself or to lubricate the situation by reminding Fidelius that things could have been worse, in that she could have slept with the tarsier farmer and was in fact running off to marry him, but she wasn't.
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