i am the existing one
- eating disorders
- bullying
- depression
- toxic friendships
- edgy 15 year old behavior (/j)
- self-harm
it’s the norm for animals, it’s the norm for chemicals.
short and unimpressive, pluto's size and chronic baby face make him resemble a three-year-old dragonet more than a five-year-old. his hybridism isn't obvious at first-save for his darker scales and curved-back horns-and he resembles a sandwing more than a nightwing, despite being an even mix of the two tribes. he's typically considered “cute” or “adorable” by most, due to his baby face, large eyes, and short stature. however, he doesn't share this sentiment.
his scales are a deep brown, legs mottled with paler, cocoa-hued splotches resembling socks, which in turn are dotted with moons and stars. he often flaps his talons excitedly when he's happy, sometimes so fast it's just a blur. his claws are a cocoa brown, dented and blunted from work and mischief, as well as his habit of biting them. pluto usually wears black clawless gloves on his front talons to stop themselves from picking at his scars.
the dragonet's ears are quite long, resembling a bat's-and very expressive. whether they're pinned back, sticking straight out, or something in between, it's a pretty good guide to know how pluto is feeling. he has big, long-lashed, intense yet tired-looking eyes, a deep cocoa brown. no matter how much he sleeps (which, granted, is not enough), his large eye bags never seem to disappear. surrounding his eyes are four teardrops on each side, eight in total. despite not really needing them, he wears large round silver glasses, attached to his ears by earring chains. he often adjusts them when he is nervous or fidgety, playing with the small stars hanging from the chains.
pluto's wings are large and batlike, like his ears, and they often drag behind him on the ground, which leads to the edges getting dirty. he has no star scales on vir wings, which makes him look more like a sandwing. his sail sweeps over one of his eyes and resembles a permanently messy, incredibly fluffy mane, fading from pale yellow at the roots to a latte brown and finally to a rusty reddish-brown. this gradient repeats on his horns and wings, resembling a desert sunset. running up his neck are four-pointed stars rather than teardrops, light brown in color.
his smile, rare as it may be, is a lovely sight, revealing his braces, the gap between his two bottom teeth, and his notably long canines. the corners of his eyes crinkle up whenever he smiles, thanks to his rather chubby cheeks caused by pluto not having lost his baby fat yet.
it’s the norm for particles; eye for eye for tooth.
an oddity. an outlier. the one with a target on his back.
pluto is a rather strange dragonet, often described as a lonely and troubled individual. their personality is mercurial and erratic, his emotions shifting on a dime. he's sarcastic and witty, always having some form of insult or threat, often one that is incredibly nonsensical (examples: i will boil your teeth, i will play jenga with your bones). he also doesn't quite relate to those his age very easily, possibly due to his asperger's syndrome/autism. he sometimes zones out, staring at nothing in particular for minutes on end.
when he was younger, he had an awful temper, blowing up over the smallest things. however, over the years, pluto's been able to tame it, but he does still have outbursts at times (nowhere near as often as he used to). he is prone to extreme mood swings, switching from laughing to sobbing in the blink of an eye. the crying is much more pronounced-for all his faults, pluto is severely empathetic, but he has no idea how to deal with it. he is often saturnic; apathetic and tired.
his relationship to food is odd at best, vile at worst. pluto often forgets to eat, doesn't feel hungry, or feels too upset about their own weight to eat. they have a purging problem, often trying and failing to force themselves to vomit. pluto regards his own weight, no matter how low it is, as something negative. he hates, hates, hates, his weight, wondering why he can't look like other dragons his age. his body dysmorphia is very pronounced, and any doctor he’s been to has said he is a perfectly healthy weight, even underweight.
he suffers from mild echolalia, meaning he will sometimes repeat words or phrases over and over again under his breath, as if to calm himself down. pluto often has vocal stimming outbursts, and many of his stims are embarrassing or silly.
he also hates being babied or infantilized-calling him a bean or something of the sort is a quick way to get his barb at your throat. however, he secretly enjoys being fawned over...
he has incredibly low self-esteem, never thinking he is good enough and that he is inherently unlovable. no matter what he does to prove his worth, it is never enough. extremely sensitive, pluto often cries at nothing-or what others perceive as nothing. when he cries, he’s inconsolable. he’s been the punching bag of essentially everyone he’s met, and unlike other dragonets, this didn’t lead to him becoming an assassin, or to a moment where he snapped. this just lead to him having to deal with it. nobody ever helped him. nobody.
you could break an angel’s fall, and ignore the devil’s call.
past
an oddity from hatching, pluto has never fit in. their mother, lady aloe, realized she and pluto’s father, masterpiece, could not take care of a child, let alone a hybrid. the noblewoman did the right thing-rather than leaving pluto to fend for faerself on the streets, she dropped fae off at an orphanage.
pluto wishes she had left fae on the streets.
the sunshine coast orphanage was a living hell for pluto-as soon as fae could talk, fae were ridiculed and bullied by almost all of the other dragonets, and when fae blew up, so to speak, fae were the one who got in trouble. the oddity, the strange hybrid who cries faerself to sleep, the one who was abandoned, the one who could have had a chance at a good life if faer mother had raised fae inside her manor instead of doing the "good" thing and abandoning him here in this waking nightmare.
to escape faer bullies, fae would spend as much time as possible at the local library, reading about anything fae could possibly imagine, but the subject that truly captured pluto was space.
one time, at the library, pluto met faer first friend-a rainwing called harlequin. harlequin was kind at first, but she slowly started separating pluto from others. pluto didn’t care-fae were just so happy to have a friend.
but harlequin wasn’t a friend. she enjoyed seeing pluto cry, oftentimes pushing faer buttons and manipulating fae to like the things she did. the harmless games of pretend soon turned uncomfortable, and pluto took it and took it and took it until one day, fae just left. fae couldn’t take living in the orphanage anymore, fae couldn't take the bullying and taunting from everyone, fae couldn’t take it.
and fae disappeared.
present
pluto currently resides in possibility, away from faer bullies and the orphanage and harlequin. fae have started going to school, and have made a few friends, including faer dearest friend, paradise, a fellow runaway fae met on faer way to possibility. it still isn't easy, though.
perhaps it never will be.
it’s no more than cultural, you and me inseparable.
canon
harlequin (...): harlequin was one of pluto's closest friends, though the friendship was clearly toxic. harlequin would often force pluto to like the things she liked, while brushing off vir interests; ignoring vi for an entire year once, made pluto do things vi felt uncomfortable with, and were generally…not good for vi. pluto still misses harlequin, and the friendship they had, no matter how bad it was.
andes (negative): andes was one of pluto's worst bullies at the orphanage, tormenting vi at every chance she got.
paradise (positive): pluto met the neon-colored hybrid when vi were running away from the orphanage and paradise was running away from her family. the two decided to join forces and are now inseparable! they have their own little cottage
fanon-open for linking sonas!
anuke: wip
joy (positive): do pluto and joy understand each other? probably not. do they get along? yes. do they just ominously stare at each other? all the time! autism buddies!
neptune (very positive): friends!!! pluto likes neptune's company, believing they're on the same metaphorical wavelength. the pair share a hatred for a CERTAIN GREEN TRIBELESS ASSASSIN.
Ratchet (positive): ENGINEERING/SCIENCE BUDDIES! pluto is a little bit obsessed with the concept of time travel and sometimes, somehow, manages to annoy ratchet with vir persistent questions about it. Once he said pluto might've been dropped on vir head as a dragonet, to which pluto threw a wrench at him for that.
soultide (positive-neutral): pluto was stargazing one night and came across the tribrid. the two geeked out about space to each other because that's what geeks do. and about dinosaurs. and murder mysteries. and cool rocks. homies.
rosi (positive): they really like her! pluto finds rosi's mood swings a bit scary, but they understand. otherwise, vi think she's cool.
vaporwave: pluto doesn't know vaporwave that well, but vi immediately imprinted on him. pov ur a guy and some gremlin child forcefully befriends you.
starlight (positive): wip
suneater (positive): SPACE GEEK FRIEND. SPACE GEEK FRIEND.
basil (positive): pluto gets along decently well with basil, despite the difference in energy levels and age.
starcross (positive): birds of a feather and whatnot. astronomy goobers.
gallica (positive): burnt out gifted kids unite 🗣️
crescent (positive): autism buddies
Klaus (positive): homies :) pluto is teeny tiny compared to vro :(
from the hordes of cannibals, to psych wards of hospitals.
it’s a small hell, after all.
bold: songs that hit extremely close to home/are relatable
- hand me my shovel, i'm going in! (will wood and the tapeworms)
- the song with 5 names (will wood and the tapeworms)
- spider web (melanie martinez)
- against the kitchen floor (will wood)
- curses (the crane wives)
- misanthropologist (will wood)
- the chattering lack of common sense (ghost and pals)
- pathological facade (ghost and pals)
- crybaby (melanie martinez)
- starman (david bowie)
- appetite of a people-pleaser (ghost and pals)
- chemical overreaction/compound fracture (will wood and the tapeworms)
- thermodynamic lawyer, esq., G.F.D. (will wood and the tapeworms)
- hell's comin' with me (poor man's poison)
- providence (poor man's poison)
- laplace’s angel (hurt people? hurt people!) (will wood)
- willard! (will wood)
- amygdala's rag doll (ghost and pals)
- outliars and hyppocrates (a fun fact about apples) (will wood)
- cotard's solution (anatta, dukkha, anicca) (will wood and the tapeworms)
- disco! in the panic room! (bug hunter)
- void (melanie martinez)
- pluto (melanie martinez)
- rule #4-fish in a birdcage (fish in a birdcage)
- saint bernard (lincoln)
- aura (ghost n pals)
- skeleton appreciation day in vestal, ny (will wood)
- everything is a lot/destroy to enjoy (will wood)
- i am an animal cannibal (mysteron)
- incense and peppermints (strawberry alarm clock)
- i am all of me (crush 40)
- i constantly thank god for esteban (panic at the disco)
- rotary dial (ghost and pals)
- charlie’s inferno (that handsome devil)
- test me (melanie martinez)
- oh klahoma (jack stauber)
- ancient dreams in a modern land (marina)