So about bringing pets! I'm considering bringing in a character from Ghost Trick who has a pet. The pet is also an appable character (and has actually briefly been played here before), but at the pre-game canon point I'm considering, he's a perfectly ordinary animal who has never spoken, and that's how I would play him, but technically the events of the game don't do anything to alter his intelligence, he just gains the ability to communicate in specific circumstances. So, like, he's still theoretically appable pre-game? I just don't imagine anyone would want to.

Basically, what I want to know is, can I keep the pet? It would make a good conversation starter for a character who might otherwise avoid people and could otherwise lead to interesting shenanigans. And if somebody wanted to app the pet, I'd be totally willing to have it disappear for a canon update, so to speak (or maybe just actually canon update myself at the same time).