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**Bubbles** (Japanese: *Baburu-chan*), usually referred to as her nickname **Dragonet** **(**Japanese: *Shitasakan-chan***)**, is one of Nijiko's Pokémon in Pokémon Legends. She is one of her two signature Pokémon after she adopted her since she can't survive on her own. Like Gigi and Rotom, she is one of the owned Pokémon characters additionally classified as a protagonist.

## Appearance

Dragonet, like all Ninja Dragonets, is a relatively small (1'02") fish Pokémon with big cartoony eyes, small transparent pectoral fins on the sides of her body, a somewhat pointed snout, large pelvic fins acting as her "hands," two dorsal fins, a relatively flattened and rounded tailfin, and a small anal fin. She also carries a sharp kunai/shuriken made of mucus on her side. Unlike in *Splash and Bubbles* where the animal (mandarin dragonets) Ninja Dragonets were modeled after were rendered in CGI, she and the other Ninja Dragonets are drawn in a typical 2D anime style while retaining the body proportions as much as possible. While she is nursing her babies, 8 teats are visible on her belly, with 4 on each side.

Her main body is bright colbalt blue with swirly orange and cyan stripes, while her head and face are dark magenta pink. She has red eyes, and her fins are orange and purple while also being streaked with pale green spots.

As Ash-Dragonet, her skin turns darker and she gains the same black cheeks as Ash-Greninja while also having a big green shuriken on her back.

## Personality

Dragonet is arguably the snarkiest, snidest, and most sarcastic character in the entire series, making even Cheren and Yume green with envy. She is a rude, mean, easily angered, short-tempered jerk due to struggling with PTSD since she was used for illegal Pokémon testing of cosmetic products in the past, where they deliberately caused chemical burns on her skin with the products to see if they would do the same on humans and thus have to be reformulated.

However, despite her being a massive jerk, she does in fact very deeply care about her friends and is very close with her Trainer. While she is often seen yelling at and scolding her daughters for being annoying and causing mischief, she loves them dearly and doesn't hate them, as shown in *the Danger of the Black Dream Hole* when she was devastated when Sugar told her she hated her. Since her species is domesticated and cannot at all survive on their own without human care, she needs human interaction daily to not go insane, so members of the group are usually seen playing a game like fetch with her or petting her.

## Relationships

* Nijiko: Along with Rotom, Dragonet is one of her two nonhuman best friends. Despite being a rude, snarky jerk who can lose her cool in the blink of an eye, she genuinely cares about her and always respectfully addresses her as "Nijiko-sama." She is also the only human she trusts 100 percent due to her PTSD. She does allow the other humans besides her Trainer to pet her since Ninja Dragonets need human contact, but she still only allows Nijiko to hug her.

## Magical abilities

Besides the standard abilities of her species, as Ash-Dragonet she has greatly enhanced super strength, speed, agility, etc, and also has enhanced senses like hearing. Nijiko can also see from her point of view (and vice versa), and talk to her through their linked minds even when they're relatively far apart, but whenever Dragonet gets attacked, she feels the pain in the same spot. If she pushes herself too hard, both her and her Trainer can pass out.

Unlike the canon Ash's Greninja, however, she does not have the ability to sense evil or abnormal energy. While her giant Mucus Shuriken is handy to use, she must use it wisely, as she can only use the attack once before detransforming 5 minutes after using it. After detransforming, she needs to recharge to transform again by eating food. Any food will work, but her preferred food is cashews.

She is also capable of using her Return attack to purify Nightmares even while untransformed, something that other Pokémon aren't able to do.

## Moves used

* Mucus Shuriken
* Mud Bomb
* Mucus Pump
* Ice Punch
* Flash

## Trivia

* She is drawn in 2D instead of in CGI like mandarin dragonets (the species Ninja Dragonets are modeled after, but with color changes and being Pokémon) in *Splash and Bubbles*, causing many viewers of the show to consider the art shift jarring. However, the creators have pointed out that it would be even *more* jarring if the Ninja Dragonets were rendered in CGI in a 2D world.
* Even though she is a Pokémon, she IS Bubbles from the PBS kids series Splash and Bubbles, but except that she was part of a group of abandoned Ninja Dragonets who had ended up in Reeftown and were struggling to survive on their own, forcing them to regularly raid people's houses for food and sleep in people's beds. She was sent through a portal to the Pokémon world so she could be safely rehomed and was eventually adopted by Nijiko, but before that, during her time at the cosmetic lab, she was injected with an immortality/eternal youth serum that also causes her babies to remain babies forever.
* She is chronlogically 5 years old in Ninja Dragonet years, or about 25 in human years, making her an adult. However, due to her serum, she is physically stuck at 3 years old or about 15 in human years, making her a teenager and roughly equivalent in age to the majority of the human cast. This is the same with Pumpkin Bread, who is 2 years old and would be about 10 in human years.
* While she isn't a human, the Èlèmen of Love appears to connect strongly with her, which was shown in the room in Yumesora containing the physical forms of the Èlèmens of Harmony when the Èlèmen of Love glowed brightly when she went near it. Even when it was shown to also be strongly connected to Sailor Ai in the next generation, when Natsuko got permission from her mother to let Dragonet come along for the day on the class field trip to Yumesora hosted by a trusted secret-keeping teacher, the Èlèmen of Love still glowed brightly when she went near it.
	+ When Ayuka uses the Èlèmen of Love when the heroes wield the Èlèmens of Harmony, Dragonet even joins her in using it since they are both connected to it, making it stronger.