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Rusty’s Traits

• He’s Hunter’s son (~3 year-old-dragon)
• Simple speech patterns, though somewhat smarter than most toddlers.
  • Most sentences six or fewer words.  Heavy use of fragments.  Logical process not fully developed (”Because!”)
• Gets lonely easily, like most really young kids.
• Generally enthusiastic and curious.
• Has insiders and outsiders, but it’s a little different than Hunter.
  • He’s afraid of and quite nervous around outsiders.  He’s super-engaging with insiders.  It’s far easier to get into Rusty’s “family” than Hunter’s.
• Doesn’t understand commonly accepted bounds (like when it’s ok to butt in on someone’s conversation or talk to strangers).
• Sassy.  He’s too young to know better and Hunter is too soft on him to lay down the law.
• Vaguely grasps distinctions between “Daddy” and everything else.  He doesn’t really understand the “baby” vs. everything else distinction, but it seems to end up with him not being able to go anywhere while everyone else has fun.
• Really likes comic books and other kinds of stories.
• He likes bright colors.
• Poor grasp of what is dangerous.  This is affected by comic books fascination, where the protagonists ALWAYS take bold risks and are applauded for it.  There’s never any real danger to them.
• Like Hunter, has a dragon and human form.  Human form looks pretty ordinary.
• Pathologically curious. (For example, he rummages through Rahul’s stuff).

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Linguistics

• Absolutely no more than 8-word sentences. 
• Few descriptive nouns (will use “shoes” rather than “sneakers”).
• Can repeat 4-syllable words, if careful.
• Understands comparisons like “bigger than”
• Chatters short sentences, pretty irritating.

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