I was like a "Forsaken Ranger" at School when Favorite Animals became more than just street-fighting "Plagues" which are a Son or Daughter of a specific Animal that they are too - but that was the thing, they were the Adults Son or Daughter, and getting bothered to fight others, and if not they were qualmed as a "Plague" because it defeated them.
The gossip was hard to follow, but I got it still, aside that it was a Big Bad Wolf fighting the Adult of a Son or Daughter at School, and defending myself into the virtue of Thief occurred to defeat the Son or Daughter's Adult Father or Mother that were about their Son or Daughter being a Boy or Girl Scout.
The rumors of that became Plagues creating a Resistance of Vagabonds not yet Plagues, and they became Varments - which is where I began remembering about being an Animal myself on School Field Trips. A mix of types of Students occurred, but I kept to the whole aspect of Party Animal without the Hunting|Stalking Soulmates gist. So, when they were hunting instead of stalking, I comprehended my Guardian disposition amongst the peerage as a Forsaken Ranger. The Girls would try and bother another Boy to harass into becoming a Soulmate for them if they weren't capable of defending themselves, pathfinding, near us. It's just Ranger and not Party Animal because I didn't support harassment responses, but instinctual responses other than pathfinding, to diminish the chances of fake Soulmates inquiring ruefully at me next. Then when I had finished partying with some fighting experience, I had to much experience away from my partying and so through a steady job began comprehending Adult thoughts - next thing I know I wrote a restitution about my life, defeating "adolescence" which had to of been that "republican" moment when work began being steady, and became a Royalist, college, yaddayadda yadda - but it wouldn't of been fun without searching for my Animalsoul so it wouldn't just be a "favorite animal" answer.
Zoids or Gundams?