Morpho/Smiling AU

This is the version of Morpho in ScrollreaderTheTribrid’s Smiling AU (permission was given to me by Scroll to create this).
This is going to feel....fundamentally wrong.
NOTE: This is in a different AU than the normal Morpho, and is not canon to the Morphoverse.
thanks for the Soundcloud button, Scroll!
== Appearance ==
The visage of a beloved dragon, gone horribly wrong. Morpho looks like she did before the Correction, for the most part, but with a few key differences, ones that make her look just different enough to become strange and unsettling when compared to her former self. Her frame is slightly taller and skinnier, and her colors are eye-blindingly saturated versions of her original default colors. Her scales are a blinding pinkish-purple, with her top scales being a slightly more bluish shade (but not too blue! Blue is too sad!), and her underscales and wing/frill membranes being a highlighter yellow. Her eyes are acidic yellow-green, with a gleeful sparkle and an insane gleam in them. Her teeth are shining white, and her fangs are always bared in a smile that stretches ear to ear. The only thing that remains completely the same as before are the silver stars on her wings and frill.
On top of the scorching yellow of her wings and frill is a swirling pattern of black, similar to the Smiler’s glasses, slowly circling in a hypnotizing manner. Her horns and spines are a bluish-purple, similar to her upper scales, but slightly darker and more bluish (but not to a degree to make it look sad!). Sometimes, Morpho will change color just for fun. She always changes herself to bright, burning, happy colors, usually shades of purple, pink, yellow, and orange. When she is very excited, she will make patterns of eye-blinding swirls and spots appear on her scales, in shades of bright magenta and yellow.
Morpho carries herself with a stilted, jerky walk, her neck always held taller than it should be, and her steps higher than what is natural. Her voice is clipped, and sounds too artificially bright. Her tail, talons, and eyelids are almost always twitching with hyperactivity. She sometimes will randomly talk to herself or burst into a fit of giggles. She no longer carries her shoulder pack with her, for she has no need for it.
== Personality ==
Some dragons are so complicated, with deep and tangled and intricate personalities, that hours of writing put into dozens of paragraphs are the only way to describe them. They have such deep souls, such delicate minds, such twisted moralities, and mere words can barely do justice to them.
After being Corrected, Morpho is not one of those dragons. Even though she was quite complex and interesting before, her personality, sadly, can now be described in a few short paragraphs, since it has become very simple and straightforward.
Morpho is cheerful to a fault, as like everyone else who's been Corrected, almost making her seem like a caricature stereotype of a RainWing. She is constantly bright and smiling, with a positive, but narrow-minded, look on life. She is significantly less intelligent than she was before being Corrected, and has very little personality of her own. She is also rather lazy, and spends her time doing things like watching TV and playing arcade games.
Morpho is extremely loyal to the Smiler. She is very helpful, and is always willing to help others with their problems, even if it means sacrificing her own comfort. She is very eager to please, and likes it when others notice her. Unlike her former self, Morpho is uncreative and not curious. She is hard to annoy or make displeased, and likes pretty much everything you put in front of her face. She is often oblivious to insults or bad things happening. However, if she does realize that something bad is happening, she will freak out and try to escape the situation as soon as possible so she can be happy again, and report it to the Smiler or another Sanctuary official.
Sometimes, deep in her mind, Morpho has a flash of memory of her former self, and wants to leave the living nightmare called the Sanctuary. However, the happy voices in her head always silence it, snuffing out the sparks that could grow into a fire of sorrow. After all, that's counterproductive for it: Sorrow and anger was what got her into this mess in the first place. What mess? There isn't a mess. Just go about your happy day and don't think that there was ever a mess!
== History ==
Unlike her current personality, Morpho's history in this world is quite complex and grim, unlike the happy life she should have lived in the universe that was meant for her.
Morpho's parents participated in a series of peaceful protests against the Smiler and the Sanctuary, wanting to restore dragonkind to being able to feel whatever honest emotions they wanted. However, everyone who participated in these protests...*ahem*...disappeared. Morpho's egg had already been laid, however, and she was left without any parents, so she was taken in by an orphanage in the Rain Kingdom.
For the first few years of her life, Morpho lived happily enough, enjoying her life in the rainforest with the other RainWings. She occasionally heard about the Smiler, and because of what she heard and the knowledge that he *ahem* disappeared her parents, she hated and feared him, but he was a distant threat that would never come to hurt her because of the protection in the Rain Kingdom. She never even saw a Smiling Advocate because of the RainWing ban on them. Morpho made friends with some of the other RainWing dragonets in the orphanage, forming a small friend group with three dragons named Parrot, Vine, and Tapir.
Things changed, however, when someone wanted to adopt her when she had just turned 4. Morpho had always been anticipating the day with a mixture of excitement and dread, since she wanted to have an actual family to love, but didn't want to say goodbye to her friends. She had always imagined being adopted by a RainWing, but this dragon was a SandWing, a rich adult female named Antelope. Morpho was taken away from the Rain Kingdom and her friends by Antelope, and brought to her new home in the hot, dry, barren Sand Kingdom. It was a huge change for her, and not a happy one. She missed her friends and the humid, life-filled rainforest. Antelope did not have a romantic partner, but she loved dragonets, and barely even treated them as dragons, more like little sloths that she could show off and call cute. Her house was too filled with fancy trinkets and technology, and the air was much too dry for Morpho's scales, which quickly became peely and parched. Every day, Morpho was forced to come with Antelope and do everything she did with her, baking under the desert sun and being shoved in front of a bunch of admiring SandWings who rarely ever saw RainWings. Sometimes, there were whispers of RainWings being "dangerous" and "against the Smiler," but Morpho was rarely the target, since she was only a dragonet. It was strange for her to be in an environment where the Smiler's influence was treated like a normal part of society, not a scary threat to loom over Morpho's head. By far the worst part was the Smiling Advocates. The strangely-smiling dragons were a terrifying sight to the young Morpho, always watching with their too-bright eyes and walking around with their too-perfect movements. Morpho was constantly terrified of them snatching her away and doing who-knows-what to her.
Morpho desperately wanted to get away from this terrible place to be a RainWing. She came up with a plan when she was 5 years old and had already been there for a few months over a year: She would act as bratty, beastly, and destructive as she possibly could, doing everything that Antelope told her not to. She destroyed pottery, yelled at passerby, and refused to do what Antelope told her. She hoped that would get her sent back to the rainforest, and make it so that nobody wanted to adopt her. Antelope attempted to reform Morpho's ways, trying to make her the sweet child she had been before, but to no avail. Her darling pudding-muffin-dragonet had become a monster. So there was only one option. With tears in her eyes, Antelope gave up Morpho to the Smiler.
This, of course, was the exact opposite of what Morpho wanted to happen. She had ended up right in the talons of the monsters of her nightmares when she was trying to avoid them. She had thought that the Smiling Advocates would just want her out of their sight, but they snatched her up and brought her to the Sanctuary. Morpho was terrified out of her mind, paralyzed in fear and not able to know what to do to escape this mess. She fought and kicked and clawed at first, and even tried to use her venom before she was muzzled and led into the Sanctuary, with nothing she could do except numbly stare at the machines and zombie-like dragons with her empty, hollow eyes, once so full of life and light.
That emptiness was soon replaced with a bright, artificial light: The light of Correction. Morpho forgot about all of her worry and anger and fear, along with the whole rest of her life: Antelope and the desert, cameras and the sun, cool dewdrops on summer leaves, flitting among trees with her friends in the rainforest. Now, she would live in the Sanctuary, among machines and blinding lights, happy under the control of the Smiler. She has remained ever since.
== Trivia ==
* This version of Morpho doesn't really reflect me like the normal Morpho does, considering how warped she's been from her original personality.
* She is somewhat inspired by the Steven Universe episode "Everything's Fine."
== Gallery ==
8B61138F-0227-452B-8FDB-DAA34BC20BB9.png|A simple drawing of her wing by Morpho
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