Bright chartreuse paints the whole of her lithe toned body as a dazzling base, dipping towards gradual darker shades at the extremities of her limbs and tail. Even her headknobs and ridges follow similarly in pattern, simple but fetching in design. A thin sweep of overlayed pine green starts near the middle of her forehead, stretching out over the back of her neck and ending abruptly at the base. Matching lighter hues of green wash either side of her, mingling with just a hint of bluish undertones across her hips. Her muzzle is a little more rounded than some but detracts little from her stunning features and feminine curves. With legs a touch too short and angular wings perfectly designed for speed — for this petite and spritely girl? It is just right!


Hooded Secrets Egg

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Deep greens of the forest's underbrush are painted upon the shell, the coarse, sharp lines that dissect the otherwise smooth surface creating the illusion of many fingered leaves. Beginning just above the middle star shaped splash of purple blue are found intermixed among the greens, the uppermost point of each more elongated then the rest. The center of each speckled with hints of yellows, whites and wisps of deeper blacks, faceless patterns beneath each hood.


Hatching Messages

Wobble Message
Hooded Secrets Egg shivers, touched by a breeze unseen and unfelt by anyone or anything else on the sands. The movement only lasts a moment before it stills again.

Crack Message
Hooded Secrets Egg illusions start to break, cracks beginning to mar its surface and connect the dots. Not quite ready to spill the truth just yet though.

Hatch Message
Hooded Secrets Egg finally spills the beans - or rather the dragon. Shattering into pieces both large and small, the shell falls away to reveal Faith in Friendship Green Hatchling inside, as she stretches her wings as if to say Here I Am!


Impression Messages

Private
Crackle. Fizz. Is that the sound of someone opening up a drink? Why has it completely surpassed the noise from the sands? What is going on here? Everything is dark, dimly lit and full of unfamiliar smells, and … that voice. « I heard that. Did you hear that? 'cause if it really is just all in my head, then I'm legit crazy. Do you think I'm crazy? » A deck of cards manifests as if held in a perfectly arranged hand of seven, except without any actual hand holding them, hovering above your mind before blinking out again. « Oh, wait, it's just my stomach. I'm hungry. I mean, I'm Pzaluth. And Shae, I just know we're going to be best friends! »

Public
Faith in Friendship Green Hatchling finally finds her direction, having taken inventory of each of the candidates put in front of her. A decision made and a path chosen, she walks right up to one white-robed figure, puts her head down and headbutts the young woman right in her middle.


Personality

As a young dragon she has a child-like excitement and curiosity for exploring this big new world outside the shell. Unafraid to question anything and everything so that she can understand it better.

"If you don't question something, what's the point of believing it? I doubt so that I can believe."

– Ella in “Everything's Coming Up Lucifer"

Collecting bits of this and that will also be common through much of weyrlinghood as she discovers Pern (or at least Fort Weyr and the surrounding area). It may just be something that she likes, you like, or she thinks you like:

« Those flowers should come home with us. They make you happen which makes me happy. »

Or perhaps something she wants to examine further:

« Yes, its a bug! But what does it do? What's it eat? How does it work? »

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From time to time you may find her speaking her own language so to say. Making up her own words for things, especially when she's excited or frustrated. You may or may not understand her all the time, especially at first, but as you come to know each other better where she won't make sense to anyone else you'll always catch her drift.

“Ta' vonlu'!” (Klingon for ‘The king is trapped.’)

– Ella in “Homewrecker”

As she grows and matures so too will her personality and while some of those child-like qualities will fade even before weyrlinghood has been completed she'll always retain that upbeat enthusiasm for … well, everything. Sure, she'll have those days where even the outgoing Pzaluth is in need of a day off so to speak, and she'll always be mindful of when her enthusiasm is perhaps just a bit too much for you today. That curiosity of hers will never fade either, though it may be redirected. She’ll always enjoy solving puzzles whether its helping you figure out how those pattern pieces are supposed to go together or searching out clues to who-done-it.

Overall she's pretty easy going, though you'll never be able to say she doesn't have her own opinions. She certainly isn't afraid to blurt out exactly what she's thinking even if it's not the most publicly acceptable (think Chloe's bachelorette party “All Hands on Decker”). She also has a mischievous side, pranks are certainly not out of the question especially in her younger years. Her jokes and friendly teasing extend even to herself:

« I'm okay! But did you see that landing? It was like a runner tripping on a gopher hole! »

Despite her making fun, she’s a friend first and foremost.

“There's just something about her. She's so positive, she makes you feel like… Good about yourself.”

– Azrael and Lucifer, about Ella in "Boo Normal"

Ever sociable she's quick to make friends (even if the other party isn't so sure) - or rather quick to name others as her friend at least. Quick to trust as well she always sees the best in people (and dragons), ever the optimist. Everyone makes mistakes, why hold it against them? And she's a hugger! In as much of the sense of the word as a dragon can be. Don't be surprised if as a young dragon many greetings include a headbutt, but as she grows and you guide her those will turn nuzzles if just as unexpected.

Faith and friendship are two of the defining factors of her. Faith in humanity and dragon-kind. Faith in the Weyr and its leadership and above all faith in you, Shae. And while she may eventually consider herself besties with every person and dragon in the Weyr (if not the whole of Pern) you will always be her BFF.

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Physicality

She isn’t tiny and neither is she large, not as a hatchling or an adult. While petite she’s perfectly proportioned to herself and just the right size. Some might say her legs are a little too short, her tail too long, or her muzzle too rounded that’s only their opinion. While it might get her down for brief periods when she’s young, she’ll grow into herself quickly. Her siblings may still be tripping over their own paws but she’ll soon be strutting her stuff with confidence.

And boy, can she move when she's got everything mastered and under control! Pzaluth is going to be a head turner and not just for her flashy colors! She'll live up to the typical expectations of a green: she's fast and agile in the air! Only thing is, is she's not keen on risky acrobatics and stunts, oh no. Her tastes are a little more linear, a straight forwards race if she can manage it! Should anyone actually challenge her (or vice versa) to a test of speed in a straight flight distance match? She's always game!


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Flights

Our normally witty green’s inner party girl is let loose when it comes to flights. While not usually overly flirty those tendencies creep out just a little more when proddiness hits, washing over her like one too many pina coladas at the club. Her already bright hide will make it difficult to tell when the time is nearing, but at least the minor change in her behaviors can be enough of a warning sign before she decides to take to the skies! When it comes to blooding, some are dainty and clean, others are messy and greedy - but this funster’s attack is far more fitting of a barroom brawl.

She doesn’t need the attachment to a male that some prefer and its whoever is willing to play her game and solve her puzzles who will win. She will of course try to take into consideration your preferences if you have them. When all is said and done romance ain’t no thing, but friends are always where she’s at.


Mindvoice

Does Pern have casinos? Does it matter? Because Pzaluth doesn't care — she is all about going to the casino, though it's mostly just for the cards.

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Technically, Pzaluth doesn't mind if you skip the rest of the casino part, although she likes the tables and the chips. She prefers her mental scents to match a funny, disconnected concept that the rest of Pern won't understand, but those of us who have ever been to Michigan might recognize as "Detroit-y" things: chopped up onions and sizzling meat, the buzzing froth of a very strong ginger ale, car exhaust, burning rubber. So much better than alcohol and sweaty people. But if you want to go to a gaming parlour, Shae, she won't stop you, and the ambiance will still seem familiar. There's always the sound of people walking and talking in the background, and a sense of glitter in the air, and … okay, you can also hear a lot of horns, which one doesn't expect to find in a Bitran parlour either, but that's just Pzaluth's individuality standing out again.

She communicates with her deck of cards, which matches up to any old deck of playing cards, though she has a number of her own games. Pzaluth will show a winning hand — whether or not it's to a game anyone else recognizes — when agreeing with something. She will throw cards at another dragon's mind when disgusted, suggesting « a nice game of 52 Pickup! » and possibly spilling some of that frothy ginger ale over the spilled cards just to make it harder for that one guy to get rid of the mess she left behind in his brain.

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She will try to teach you card games … while you're asleep. You may dream of sitting at a table with a shrunken-down Pzaluth, explaining how things work. Except that she's a dragon, and has never been to Bitra or even into Shenanigan's for that matter (no matter how she might try to CONVINCE you to do this as a weyrling, it is a bad idea, do not), so she doesn't know how to play cards. But that won't stop her from making up games.

It won't stop her from expecting everyone else to play by her rules when playing her mind-games, or trying to lure any and every other dragon in to "pick a card, any card" — because not only can she count cards and cheat at blackjack, she can do tricks — but she'll be so nice about it, others are likely to be drawn in.

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When you find the right weyr to call yours, you'll have her making card houses in your head.

She likes her cards, she likes her games, she likes her weird horn soundtrack, and she likes making pictures. The only time you'll ever see the cards go away is if she's in a terrible mood and wants to be left alone, which is approximately never going to happen. (We can't guarantee absolutely never). At that point, it's an untouched closed box, an empty card table, a neat pile of chips, a closed bottle of ginger ale. A dragon who upsets her enough for her to recall they're not friends might get this treatment.

But for you, Shae? Never.

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Inspiration

SHAE, we love you and your beautiful name and its shortened but still beautiful version, and your fun idea for a dragon! There was a lot of YouTube watching and tossing around name-sound ideas and pictures of playing cards and funny episodes and Coney Island hot dogs and — well, suffice to say, we really wanted to make you a dragon. So we made you a dragon. And we really, really hope you have fun with your dragon but if for any reason there are any parts of her you don't like, feel free to change them! She's all yours now, even if you are now OURS as a weyrling. <3 Welcome to Fort dragonriding!

Egg Inspiration: With an egg them of "Pretty but Poisonous Plants" this egg was based on Aconitum. The the blue-purple flowers of this plant along with its many segmented foliage created the inspiration for the description. Its name is inspired by the more common names of the flower: monkshood and wolfsbane, while the touches come from a combination of habitat, toxicology, and just a hint of myth.

Dragon Inspiration: Ella Lopez from Lucifer? You got it! She's just so fun and sweet, but not too sweet. And everyone loves her shirts. Right? Right. (Sushi Shirt!) But really, she was a fun (and different at least for me) inspiration to work with.
Enthusiastic? ✔
Nerd Moments? ✔
Smart and sassy? ✔✔
Klingon? ✔
Rubik's cubes? ✔

Okay, so there aren't Rubik's cubes involved here on Pern, but she's certainly a puzzle solver. From Detroit to Los Angeles, we tried to work in as many of the aspects of Lucifer's LAPD forensic scientist as we could to round out Pzaluth. Her proddy self inspired by the slightly more aggressive version of Ella seen in the last episode of Season 3 "Once Upon a Time" and the girl's night out in Season 2's "Lady Parts".

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Ella used to steal cars in Detroit and once said "It's not fun if you don't drive 'em really, really fast." which made me think Fast & Furious (which also happens to be set in LA). So her description is themed on Brian’s Mitsubishi Eclipse which we all know was driven really, really fast. (https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fastandfurious/images/5/57/1995_Mitsubishi_Eclipse.png/revision/latest?cb=20160112004152).

Detroit also contributed to her mindvoice by Inri (whose family is from there!) as well as her being a blackjack star. :)

Zeal meaning "great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective" certainly describes Ella Lopez, that along with a play on the character's last name, some Klingon words and your preference for unique letter combinations … Pzaluth (p'ZAL-uhth) was born.


Credits

Name: Pzaluth
Created By: D'had & Inri, with Th'ero tweaks
Impressee: Shae
Hatched: June 23, 2018
Fort Weyr @ PernWorld MUSH

Clutchmates

Fort Weyr's 25th PC Hatching
Inri's gold Kouzevelth & Th'ero's bronze Velokraeth

M'ti (Mathis) and Seamless and Infinite Design Testing Green Cherith

And NPCs

J'ese and Quintessentially Bronze Calteth
Kh'ein and Thirty-Fourth And Vine Brown Rouriseth
H'ar and Coronet Calypso Blue Foneth
Ava and Subtropical, Nocturnal Blue Estinyth