Dragonet (Shining Bonds)

**Bubbles** (Japanese: *Baburu-chan*), usually called her nickname **Dragonet** (Japanese: *Shitasakan-chan*) is a major Pokémon character in *Shining Bonds a La Mode.* She is a Ninja Dragonet owned by Elizabeth who is also considered to be one of the strongest and most powerful members of her species.

## Bio

### Appearance

Like all Ninja Dragonets other than the differing colors and patterns, Dragonet is a small (1'02" in length) fish Pokémon with smooth scaleless skin, a somewhat rounded snout, small transparent pectoral fins on her sides, two dorsal fins on her back, a small anal fin, and large pelvic fins that she uses as the equivalent of hands. Her head is dark pink in color, while her main body is azure blue with orange and cyan stripes. Her fins (except her pectoral fins) are orange and purple with sea green streaks. Her eyes are red and she often carries her shuriken or mucus blades stuck to her side.

### Personality

Dragonet tends to be a snarky (even making Cheren green with envy) irritable jerk with a short temper. Whenever somebody screws up or does something stupid, she has a tendency to furiously yell at them, and if somebody (such as Rose) fights with or harms her babies, she is not afraid to attempt to tear them to shreds. She only acts this way because she has PTSD, but as her Trainer says, it does not excuse her behavior or give her a license to be a huge jerk.

However, despite this, she does very deeply care about her friends and is quite nice and gentle beneath her angry exterior. She is extremely close with her Trainer as well. True to her Elemental, she is naturally a very loving and caring Pokémon who will gladly comfort somebody who is feeling down despite her usually irritable personality.

### Relationships

* Rose: Whenever Rose gets into a fight with or harms Sugar, Rose has to face Dragonet's wrath, and she will usually threaten to tear her to shreds if she lays one paw on Sugar again.
* Elizabeth: She is extremely close with her Trainer and loves her dearly, usually riding on her head or being carried in her arms alongside Rotom. She adopted her from the Ninja Dragonet shelter a few days after she got Rotom, since she can't survive on her own and waited for a Trainer at the shelter for 6 months, and she had gotten pregnant about a week before Elizabeth adopted her (since Ninja Dragonets are pregnant for 2 months). She also sleeps next to her every night.
* Rotom: She is often extremely annoyed by Rotom's immature behavior, but clearly cares about it.

### Moves used

* Return
* Mucus Pump
* Mucus Shuriken
* Transform
* Wake-Up Slap

### Spells used

* Warm Love Hug: Dragonet envelops her body with a glowing pink aura of love magic and hugs or at least makes contact with someone, physically warming them up and calming them down. This does consume some of her energy, however.
* Elemental Scan
* Changeling Radar: Using this spell, she can instantly tell if someone is actually a Changeling in disguise and stealing their love intended for someone else. This has proved useful several times, particularly on friendship missions to Equestria.

## Trivia

* Despite not being a PokéPet, she has the power to use Element Scan due to her connection to the Element of Love. Her Return attack also has the ability to purify monsters.
* Like all Pokémon, Elizabeth can still hear her talk since all Chosen Ones have that ability even if they have little or no magic. Whenever the scene cuts to how normal people hear Pokémon, she and other Shitasakan don't say their full name in the English dub, instead saying combinations of it, such as "Net!"
* It is unknown what Pokémon was her mate (as Ninja Dragonets are female-only and she has no mate, nor has she mentioned one), as otherwise she wouldn't have her daughters. It is implied that Pudding and Carrot Cake were conceived from a non-consensual encounter with an unknown male fish Pokémon, however.
	+ It is unknown how she conceived Sugar while at the Ninja Dragonet shelter despite the fact that, like real places that rescue animals, it has a no-breeding policy for its Ninja Dragonets until they're adopted out (unless they arrive already pregnant or with babies.)

* She is one of the few Pokémon owned by a main character to be a parent. Despite having 3 daughters, however, she is 3 years old. This is the equivalent of a 14 or 15 year-old human, making her technically a teenager and a bit young to be a parent.