Bubbles (Dragonet)/Tropes

Tropes that apply to Dragonet, written as if it were a TV Tropes page.

## Characterization and background

* **Adaptational Nice Girl**: Unlike previous series, she was not experimented on and doesn't have PTSD, so she is far nicer and calmer in ToH.
* **Deadpan Snarker**: Sometimes, particularly when her trainer acts stupid, childish, or dense.
* **Actually Pretty Funny**: She's usually unamused at her trainer's behavior, but in the adaptation of "*Winter Wrap-Up*," she and Spike *laugh* at her and Twilight when they both don't know how to ice skate.
* **Only Known By Their Nickname**: Her real name is Bubbles, but she's usually called the nickname Dragonet. However, her trainer is the exception and usually just calls her Bubbles.
* **Face Palm (Face Fin)**: Frequently, whenever somecreature (particularly her trainer) acts like an idiot.
* **Big Eater**: She *loves* eating and can down her entire food dish in seconds.
* **Trademark Favorite Food**: Cashew butter. She loves it so much that she's only permitted *one* spoonful a day to prevent her from downing the entire jar.
* **Crystal Prison**: Benevolent example. In the flashback in *"Search for Bunrin!"*, the LoH protects her, her Trainer, and her partymates from having their souls stolen... except that it encases them in indestructible crystal comas to protect them, and they never wake up even at the end of TBL. However, they do awaken from their comas at the end in the rewritten timeline.
* **Berserk Button**: She has a few.
	+ First and foremost, ***DO NOT*** harm her trainer under any circumstances.
	+ Do not harm her daughters under any circumstances either.
	+ Do not ship her with Thunders. Their relationship is *purely platonic!*

* **Convenient Appointment**: The reason she and her trainer don't appear in the Squirtle episode is because of this, since her trainer had to take her to a prenatal appointment.
* **Plagued by Nightmares**: In the JTTDOH saga, this happens to her when she starts to have frequent nightmares of her trainer getting her soul stolen and fading away. As a result, she also has a hard time getting a good night's sleep because of her constant worrying and is sometimes sleep-deprived.
* **Hypocrite**: She sometimes makes fun of her trainer for loving food and having bad table manners, but she herself is just as gluttonous.
* **Desperately Craves Affection**: Mildly. She has a noticeable habit of saying "I love you" a lot and is very attached to her trainer (hugging her a lot, riding on her shoulder, refusing to ever go in her Poké Ball, and staying at her trainer's desk in SMaS while the other Pokémon go play in another room for example). This is later revealed to be the result of her being lonely at the Ninja Dragonet shelter for several months without anyone to take her in, resulting in her immediately growing attached to the first person to adopt her. However, while she prefers to stay by her trainer's side, she is able to handle being away from her for a little while (up to two and a half days in the adaptation of "The Old Raise and Switch!"), making it a downplayed example.
* **Took a Level in Jerka\*\***: Due to her aforementioned nightmares and sleep deprivation, she becomes noticeably more irritable and cranky in JTTDOH, and has a much shorter temper (most likely from her constant stress and fear). She returns to her usual personality after Queen Vera gives up on her goal, however.

## Appearance

* **Rainbow Motif**: She is mainly pink and blue with accents of purple, cyan, green, and orange.
* **Red Eyes, Take Warning**: Averted. Her eyes are red, but she's very nice.
* **Hollywood Genetics**: Pudding and Carrot Cake look *nothing* like her (being white and orange as opposed to Dragonet's pink and blue).

## Abilities

* **Heart Beat-Down**: Her spells revolve around love - specifically platonic love.
* **Arbitrary Weapon Range**: Not exactly a "weapon," but she must be within 100 meters (or about 328 feet) of her trainer's Harmonic Watch in order to cast her magic spells (besides WLH), use Harmonic Flash, or turn human. She brings this up in the adaptation of "The Old Raise and Switch!" when she can't turn into her human form at Elio's house because the watch is clearly too far away.
* **Cooldown Hug**: WLH has this effect. She often uses it to calm down her trainer or her daughters when they get extremely upset or angry, though she also uses it on others as well.

## Relationships

* **Happily Adopted**: By Elizabeth, after she was surrendered to the Ninja Dragonet shelter after her previous trainer went to prison for abusing his other Pokémon (but not her).
* **Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other**: She hates whenever her trainer is too overprotective of her and is frequently annoyed at her childish behavior. However, it is made clear that she loves her trainer dearly despite this and would be devastated if anything happened to her.
* **Platonic Life-Partners**: With Thunders.
* **Aromantic**: Not surprisingly, due to her focus on platonic love, she is aromantic.