Bubbles (Dragonet)

> "You know what, you stupid Pink Hopey Warrior?! You really \*bleep\*ed up by making that trade! If you hadn't made the dumb decision to trade your precious Garnet who is perfectly happy with you and then regretted it, [head comically grows enormous] **WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS MESS!** Too bad I can breathe underwater and you can't."
>
> - Dragonet, in the equivalent chapter to Pokémon episode 16

**Bubbles** (Japanese: バブル-ちゃん *Baburu-chan*), usually called her nickname **Dragonet** (Japanese: したさかん-ちゃん *Shitasakan-chan*), is a supporting Pokémon character in the present-day arcs of *Magicae Amicitie et Harmoniae.*

## Bio

### Appearance

Dragonet is a Ninja Dragonet with a pink head and face, red eyes, and a colbalt blue main body with orange and cyan stripes. Her fins (except her transparent pectoral fins) are half orange and half purple and have pale sea green spots. In her powerup mode, her skin noticeably darkens and she carries a big version of her Mucus Shuriken on her back.

### Personality

Dragonet tends to have quite a short temper and is very irritable, easily angered, and snarky. She often furiously yells at others and insults them. However, she is in fact very caring and gentle and truly cares about her friends deep down, and will do her best to comfort somecreature when she realizes her actions went too far, such as when she does her best to make up for picking on Cheren and causing a huge fight. She also *loves* to eat and is sometimes a slight bit childish and whiny, although she usually only acts like this when around those close to her.

It is also hinted that she seems to have an extreme craving for affection which may stem from her somewhat traumatic past, as commonly shown by her nearly always sitting on her Trainer's shoulder or being carried around by her, when she dares to go up and hug her while she's witched-out, when she instantly is shocked and cries when Professor Kukui announces who's going to swap Pokémon for the weekend, or during the "saving Katrina" chapters where when the scene briefly cuts to the Pokémon at the lab, she is too afraid to sleep alone.

### Relationships

* **Elizabeth**: Her Trainer who she loves very much. She often prefers to be inside the Water Pokémon Aqua Pot when not near a body of water, but when not in it, she is normally carried around in her arms or on her shoulder, and sleeps next to her every night. They do sometimes argue, however, such as when she understood that her Trainer's intentions to protect her were pure but were going way too far, and she was conflicted between running away and finding a new Trainer to have more freedom but losing her best friend, and staying with her but having little freedom and being frustrated and suffocated. Her berserk button often gets pressed whenever somecreature (such as Pinkie Pie or sometimes Cheese Sandwich) ships them.
* **Bouncee**: One of her close friends and her nonhuman best friend. They do also sometimes argue, however, such as when Dragonet got *furious* that she licked the spoon and placed it back in the food they were serving at a restaurant, and smacked her on the head with a miniature frying pan and caused her to run away crying. As a result, she feels guilty and has to go apologize and make up with her, though she admits she only yelled at her because she doesn't want someone to get food poisoning.
* **Sugar, Pudding**, and **Carrot Cake**: Her daughters who are stuck as babies (though they, along with her, are semi-immortal adults in the Law of Cycles retcon). It is clear that she loves them dearly, but she is often stressed and annoyed by them causing mischief despite knowing that they don't know any better. Before she was kidnapped prior to *Rosie Magica*, her last words to them before fading away as shown in the flashback are "Be good for Natalie-sama, okay? I'll see you soon. I love you.", and after being freed, she is happily reunited with her daughters.
* **Behaver**: Dragonet is *very* angry at Behaver for throwing a petty tantrum and destroying buildings all over her refusal to give her just a bit more freedom to go to the playground by herself for just a few minutes, though she understands that her intentions are good and that she isn't trying to upset her. Despite being extremely upset with her, she still loves her, as shown when she yells this fact at her and then goes up and hugs her to calm her down.

## Moves Used

* Return (magic-infused)
* Mucus Shuriken
* Stun Spore
* Transform
* Mucus Gun

## Spells

* **Warm Love Hug**
* **Tasty Transmutation**
* **Love Trail**

## Trivia

* Her favorite food is cashew butter, and she loves it so much that her Trainer has to limit her to one spoonful a day and Pokémon-proof the cashew butter jar lid (so even if she steals the jar from Elizabeth's backpack, she can't open it) to prevent her from eating the entire jar in one sitting. If she misbehaves, she takes away her daily cashew butter spoonful as punishment.
* Despite not having a Poké Ball, she is still officially owned, as the Ninja Dragonet shelter called the Pokémon League on the phone and had them register her as belonging to Elizabeth as a compromise over her refusal to go into a Poké Ball even for a second to be caught.
* It is mentioned that the WPAP she often hangs out in was bought from a store that sells them and similar magical hammerspace items intended for carrying Pokémon without being in their Poké Balls, such as Harmony PokéPads.
* Despite talking about love *a lot* and being connected to the Element of Love (which is somewhat of a rarity for Pokémon), she often says this phrase for clarification: "Sorry, I work in the platonic aisle of the love department."
	+ This implies, but not confirms, that she may be aromantic just like her Trainer (though not asexual, as she has offspring and confirms when she says she's not a lesbian and that a similarly aromantic Bruxish she met when she snuck out at the Ninja Dragonet shelter was Pudding and Carrot Cake's father), as she only ever says "I love you" and shows affection in a platonic way. In the Japanese version when she says this, this is also evident in how she always says "daisuki," never "aishiteru."As a running gag, she will get furious whenever Pinkie Pie ships her with her Trainer, and always has to be stopped before she can take things too far.
* Naturally, as she represents the Element of Love, Molly's Harmony Mark glows *extremely* bright whenever she makes a Platonic Declaration of Love.
	+ Despite being aro and not lesbian, when affected by Serena's witch form who can force Creatures to kiss and act romantically with another regardless of their sexuality or lack thereof, however, she and Cerisey end up kissing while under the witch's effects, only for them to be disgusted and horrified when they snap out of it.
* Despite constantly preaching about platonic love, she does not seem to understand that Jim's and Elis's love for each other is completely platonic despite them making out (though they don't take things any further than that), as before she soon gets over it and understands that their relationship is platonic, she sometimes spits in their faces when they make out.
* Along with her daughters and Bubblebath, she often goes in the Water Pokémon Aqua Pot when the Magis aren't near a body of water so that she still has a chance to be underwater. Said item is based on the Mermaid Aqua Pot from *Tropical Rouge Pretty Cure* and was bought from a store selling similar technomagic pots for Pokémon.
* Her coloration and real name are based on the character Bubbles from the PBS Kids show *Splash and Bubbles*.
* She is, so far, the only Pokémon to successfully purify a witch, which is also due to the fact that the witch in question doesn't actually mean any malice and is rather so consumed by grief and frustration that she takes it out on civilians, Pokémon, and her own friends. In her case. she calms her witched-out Trainer down and makes her reconsider her actions by telling her the three words she wants to hear very badly, which causes Chaos to dissipate, and the two share a *very* heartwarming hug after the incident.... which causes Molly's Harmony Mark to glow so insanely bright that everycreature is blinded for a few seconds.
* Despite her several colors and mainly blue body with stripes of orange and cyan (though her head and face *are* pink), her soul is pink as shown in *Rosie Magica*.
* The song "Connect" plays when she gives birth to Sugar, much like in GoH.
* She *always* sleeps next to Elizabeth as shown whenever the Magis are shown sleeping, most likely for a similar reason to Melody and Fireshine - so she doesn't get any bad dreams.
* Her birthday is confirmed to be August 30th, 2015, meaning was 3 years old when she was adopted (since she was adopted about a week before the start of *Madoka Magica*).
* While it is confirmed that Pudding and Carrot Cake were fathered by a one-time encounter with a Bruxish (which unlike her canceled origin series, was completely consensual), it is unclear how Dragonet managed to do so while at the shelter since it maintains a strict no-breeding policy for the NDs (due to all the NDs needing homes) until they are adopted and leave, or how she became pregnant a second time (and it is unknown what Pokémon was Sugar's father) despite this.