Dragonet (Shining Bonds)/Tropes

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

## Characterization and background

* **Deadpan Snarker:** Up to Eleven. She is *the* snarkiest character in the whole series, even making Cheren green with envy and making snide remarks every chance she gets.
* **Jerkface**: She's quite rude, and her Hair-Trigger Temper does not help.
* **Hair-Trigger Temper**: Don't piss her off on purpose. We're warning you. *Just don't*.
* **Jerk With a Heart of Gold**: She is very mean, irritable, and snarky most of the time, but she does in fact deeply care about her friends.
* **Dark and Troubled Past**: Before coming into Elizabeth's ownership, she was kidnapped by a cosmetic factory who used her for experiments to test the products, giving her PTSD and a jerk attitude as a result.
* **Berserk Button**: Several.
	+ Don't intentionally harm, kidnap, or otherwise upset her daughters. EVER. In fact, if you can help it, keep your rear end the heck away from them unless you know her.
	+ Don't steal her food.
	+ Don't singsong songs meant for children in an annoying off-key high-pitched voice around her, especially if your name is Rotom.
	+ Don't insult her relationship with Elizabeth.
	+ Don't tell her where she can and cannot nurse her babies, whether in public or not. She can feed her children wherever the heck she pleases, and if you tell her otherwise, prepare to have a Mucus Shuriken flying at your face - or several.

* **Only Sane Pokémon**: Commonly.
* **All-Loving Heroine**: Just like her Trainer, as long as you don't piss her off.
* **Good is Not Soft**: She's generally nice when not annoyed, but not to villains.
* **Anti-Hero**: Firmly on the side of good, but tends to be irritable, snarky, and cynical.
* **Nice Girl**: When not ticked off.
* **Snarky Non-Human Sidekick**: Is a Ninja Dragonet (a Pokémon), and is the biggest snarker on the show.
* **Teen Pregnancy**: If she were human, she would be considered this, as a 3 year-old Ninja Dragonet is the equivalent of a 14-15 year-old human.
* **Only Known by Their Nickname:** Her real name is Bubbles, but her nickname is Dragonet. She only gets called "Bubbles" if somebody is mad at her or needs her attention.
* **Anger Born of Worry**: She gets *extremely* pissed off whenever somebody does something really stupid, but only because she doesn't want them to get killed by whatever stupid thing they just did.
* **Screaming Birth**: This happens in SBALM027 when she screams as she gives birth.
* **Naked Freak-Out**: A variation, since Pokémon don't wear clothes, occurs in SBALM027 where she freaks out and is visibly very uncomfortable with all the heroes watching the birth, though even in the original, the camera only shows the front half of her body. Earlier in the episode, when she's already gone into labor but the birth hasn't started yet, she even screams and hides under a blanket when Event Horizon storms into the dorm room where she's hiding to attack her.
* **Trademark Favorite Food**: Cashews. She absolutely *loves* cashews and cashew butter, and her Trainer has to hide the jar of cashew butter from her in her backpack or else she'll eat the whole jar by the finful.
* **Hold Your Hippogriffs**: When using idioms related to hands or feet, such as "I can't put my finger on it," she instead replaces the word with "fin," such as "I can't put my fin on it" or when she says "singlefindedly" instead of "singlehandedly."
* **A Tragedy of Impulsiveness**: Like her Trainer, she can be quite reckless and impulsive.
* **Bigger on the Inside**: The Water Pokémon Aqua Pot she often hangs out in works this way.
* **Defrosting Ice Queen**: A rare non-romantic example. After being adopted by her, at first she didn't return her Trainer's affection and simply tolerated being hugged and carried around by her without complaint, as shown in her debut episode SBALM013 since she had only been owned by her for a week at that point. She soon warms up to her, however.

## Appearance

* **Rainbow Motif**: Downplayed. She has a blue body and pink head with touches of orange, cyan, purple, and sea green.
* **Red Eyes, Take Warning**: Downplayed. She has red eyes and she's not evil at all, but can often be a jerk.
* **Feather Fingers**: Like every other Ninja Dragonet, she uses her fins like hands and can grab stuff just fine despite having no fingers. However, she can't do stuff like using chopsticks, knitting, or texting on a phone, due to her lack of fingers.
* **Pink Means Feminine**: Inverted. Her head is pink, but she's much more of a tomboy.
* **Animals Lack Attributes**: Despite her being drawn with none anyways whenever her belly/underside is seen, when she gives birth in SBALM027, the camera only shows the front half of her body once the birth starts since the show is for kids.

## Abilities

* **Pint-Sized Powerhouse**: Is 1'00 long and weighs 1 lb, the standard size for her species, but is one of the most powerful Ninja Dragonets.
* **The Ace**: She is a very powerful Ninja Dragonet.
* **Heart Beat-Down**: Due to being connected to the Elemental of Love, her Return attack works this away and can purify evil as long as it is posessing an Element Spirit.
* **The Power of Love**: Most of her spells revolve around this, and is what gives her her powerup.
* **Cooldown Hug**: Her spell Warm Love Hug does exactly this, enveloping her body in a pink aura of love magic, and she then hugs or touches someone.
* **Jack-of-All Trades**: Like all Ninja Dragonets, she can learn any Pokémon move and can get around the fact she doesn't have legs for some moves by transforming.
* **Voluntary Shapeshifting**: Like every Ninja Dragonet, she can shapeshift into anything she desires via the move Transform but cannot change her voice.
* **Super Mode**: She has a powerup form, Ash-Dragonet, via her ability Battle Bond.
* **Super Not-Drowning Skills**: Well, duh. She's a Ninja Dragonet, so she's a fish and can breathe underwater.
	+ Also inverted: As a Ninja Dragonet, she can also survive without being in water indefinitely, though she prefers to be underwater at least once a day,.

* **Immortality Inducer**: Was injected with an illegal immortality serum that makes her unable to be killed or physically age past 3, the human equivalent of a 15 year-old, and makes any offspring of hers age for a few days and then remain stuck as babies forever. In *340 Years Later*, it is revealed she requested the MOF to peacefully put her and her daughters out despite it so she could join her Trainer and her other Pokémon in the afterlife.

## Relationships

* **Glamorous Single Mother**: She raises her three eternally-babies just fine despite her never being seen with a mate, though her Trainer does help her.
* **Abusive Parents**: She often yells at and slaps her daughters when they start acting annoying, but is honestly trying to be the best mother she can to them.
* **Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other!**: Despite her often being harsh on her own babies and snarking at her Trainer, as well as being annoyed by Rotom, she does love them dearly.
* **Heterosexual Life-Partners**: An interspecies example with Elizabeth.
* **Token Adult**: Downplayed, as she's 3 years old or the human equivalent of a 14-15 year-old, but she's a bit older than most other Ninja Dragonets on the show.
* **Mama Bear**: *DO NOT* even *try* to harm her babies, period. She'll tear you to shreds with Mucus Shuriken in an instant. Same goes for her friends, including her Trainer.
* **Happily Adopted**: By Elizabeth, from the Ninja Dragonet shelter. They're extremely close and she always rides on her head, shoulder, or in her satchel or in her arms alongside Rotom.
* **Platonic Declaration of Love**: She often says this to her daughters and her Trainer, but this angry quote takes the cake in "Dragonet and Tikki's Odd Friendship" when she makes it very clear she still loves her Trainer but is upset that she's an angry, rampaging giant Braviary obsessed with hunting her down:
	+ **"Listen, Elizabeth! You can't do this! I admit, I didn't ask you for permission to go to the playground! But you're going on a rampage and destroying the entire city as some huge Akumatized Braviary! I absolutely hate that you're doing this... but I still love you."**

* **Living Emotional Crutch**: She's never away from Elizabeth's side since she refuses to go into her Pokè Ball and is usually held by her (and she even goes in with her when she is healed at the Pokémon Center), so naturally, her Trainer always become panicked and anxious whenever she leaves her sight.