Cottoncandies

Cottoncandies, also known as Candyflossies, Fairyflossies, and simply Cotton Candy Leggies, are an uncommon species of leggy.
==Appearance==
Cottoncandies are notable for the sugary composition of their bodies; while they are not entirely made of candy as some rumors would suggest, their hooves are made of a hard but sugary substance closer to hard candy then keratin in composition, and, famously, their Sheep Cloaks are made of cotton candy, giving them their name.
Cottoncandies come in two main color variants; pink and blue. Pink cottoncandies have pale pink fur, a pastel pink Sheep Cloak (can be represented with a white or magenta Sheep Cloak in Animal Jam), pastel blue eyes, and sky blue hooves. Blue cottoncandies have pale blue fur, a sky blue Sheep Cloak (can represented with a white Sheep Cloak in Animal Jam), pastel pink eyes, and pale blue hooves. On top of their Sheep Cloaks, they are also sometimes seen wearing pink or blue Cotton Candy Hats or pink or blue Lollipop Necklaces.
==Habitat==
In the Summer and Spring, Cottoncandies flock to the urban areas of Jamaa. Primarily, they're found attending the Summer Carnival, but they're also found in the urban areas of Jamaa, such as Jamaa Township, various buildings, attending parties, and have even been known to hide out in the dens of jammers. That being said, they can also be occasionally spotted in Crystal Sands. 
That being said, Cottoncandies only live in Jamaa during the Summer and Spring, as during Fall, they migrate elsewhere, and don't return to Jamaa until the next Spring. That being said, the question of where, exactly, is the place that Cottoncandies migrate to is a matter of scholarly debate, as despite generally being a friendly species, Cottoncandies will not let outsiders come with them on their journeys and generally dodge the question of where they actually come from. The most information that Cottoncandies are willing to give out is that its "the ancestral homeland of their species", but this doesn't exactly narrow down much. Theories regarding where the Cottoncandies head to have ranged from another dimension, the Forgotten Desert, fairyland, to even the mythical "land of dragons" described in some mythology. 
==Diet==
Cottoncandies need lots of sugar to keep their wool growing in healthily, so as a result, their diet consists entirely of extremely sugary foods. While their diet primarily consists of various forms of candy, such as hard candy, taffies, gummies, jellybeans, lollipops, bubblegum, and, well, cotton candy, they'll also eat various sugary carnival foods, such as caramel apples and churros, or just eat straight sugar. While they can drink normal water, they'll also drink soda, milkshakes, smoothies, and even straight caramel for the extra sugar.
==History==
Surprisingly for a species that isn't even particularly rare, the history of the Cottoncandy species is clouded in mystery, and its hard to determine where exactly they spawned from. Some theorize they spawned from regular cotton candy that somehow ended up mutating into a new species of leggy, others theorize they were an artificially created species made when leggy DNA was spliced with cotton candy, and some believe they're just a species of leggy that, do to whatever environmental pressures, just naturally evolved to have sugary cotton candy fur.
The Cottoncandies themselves, however, have a generally very consistent recount of their species' history. According to them, they were created by an entity they call "The Draconic Confectioner", a god-like half dragon half leggy, who spun them out of sugar, imbued them with the spark of life with their flaming breath, and gave them each two of their scales, one of which became their brain and mind and the other of which became their heart and soul. The Draconic Confectioner then gave them a purpose- to spread joy and happiness all across Jamaa- and sent them on their way.
That being said, most leggyzoologists take this recounting of the species' history with a grain of salt. While it's not exactly impossible, as Jamaa has known several gods and god-like entities, the only evidence there seems to be for the Draconic Confectioner's existence is the word of the Cottoncandies. There's no archaeological evidence of such an entity's existence, no other cultures, trend or non-trend, describe a remotely similar deity in their mythology, and even the rare few trends who have had divine contact and are fine with being interviewed have stated they know nothing of any entity called a Draconic Confectioner. While it's possible that all the hard evidence is simply in the Cottoncandies' unknown homeland, as it stands, it seems that the Cottoncandies' only source for the existence of the Draconic Confectioner is that they made it the heck up.
That being said, even if the Cottoncandies aren't actually the creations of a draconic god, and there is no hard evidence for how they were actually created, most leggyzoologists have come to an agreement that the mythological creation of the Cottoncandy is actually a highly mythologized retelling of how the Cottoncandies evolved.
While no mythologies and historical records have been found to discuss the Draconic Confectioner, several do discuss the Longxusu Leggy, a species of leggy that hasn't been seen in centuries and is presumed (but not confirmed!) extinct. Descriptions and fossils of it show it was a leggy that was often mistaken for an Eastern Dragon, do to its long, almost serpentine build, the scales covering large portions of its body, and its ability to fly without wings, a level of sheer power comparable to a Dragon's Breath Cheese Tiger, supposedly came from a mysterious, distant land, and, most crucially, had Sheep Cloaks made of spun sugar, much like Cottoncandies. Leggyzoologists believe that the Cottoncandies are descendants of these Longxusu Leggies, that their creation myth about the Draconic Confectioner spawned from tales of their species' evolution, and that the mysterious "homeland" they migrate to in the Fall and Winter is where the Longxusu Leggies also originated from.
On a related note, it's generally ill advised to ask "So, can Cottoncandies be considered a type of dragon?" at a meeting of evolutionary biologists unless you want everyone at the meeting to immediately start going for each others throats.
==Trivia==
*The Cottoncandies as a species have actually existed since 2019 at the earliest, as you might have guessed from how old the page image is, but I didn't have the inspiration to actually make a page for them until very recently.
*Obviously, the Cottoncandies are based off cotton candy. However, the Longxusu Leggies they're rumored to descend from are based off dragon's beard candy or longxusu, a Chinese candy so similar to cotton candy in creation some call it "Chinese cotton candy."
**Depending on how inspired I am, the Longxusu Leggies may or may not end up getting their own pages.
*Despite what the caption may suggest, I drew the page image in reality. That being said, the name of Emezz Peint, the fictional in-universe artist of the page image, is a pun on MS Paint.
*The scientific name for a Cottoncandy is "Dulce Mollities", Latin for "Sweet Softness".
*A group of Cottoncandies is called a Faire.
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