I'm just now starting some notes on the Mounted -- a person who keeps an animal as a mount/companion/spirit guide.
I've been working desultorily on ideas for the
K-9, who is not at all a ripoff of Harlan Ellison's "A Boy and his Dog." A guy sitting by his campfire sharing his last rat-steak with his psychically attuned Doberman, using it as a living weapon to help him Go Aggro, herding people like sheep, he'll work for a hardholder but keep his own counsel. His sex move is something like,
you join his pack temporarily. Kind of close to the mounted idea, but more about the hunt and self-sufficiency. It's tricky how to handle the dog, it's not just a move like an Angel's ambulance where the MC can blow it up and get another.
Or maybe it is! It would be totally cool story-fodder for a PC to burn down Hatchet City because someone kicked his dog.