My best little guy, and also the coolest cat that's ever existed. Genuinely likes me, comes when I whistle for him, bites like an emo girlfriend. He's also so damn adorable looking, despite his demonic tendencies
Well that's about right for his namesake at the start of the story, at least!
I have a remarkably close parallel to that. My cat is called Alaric. I called him that because he's a black cat and I thought it'd be funny to name him after a Goth. Years after I got him I started dating a woman who just happened to have a cat called Augustus (or Auggie), after the Roman emperor, and it turned out that Alaric hated Auggie