#with hoe readily petrie adopts guido into their family i think hes be just fine with dessie

[thelaughingmerman]

In that case, one thing I really wanted to say is that I love your Pterano and Dessie AU! Dessie is a really cute critter...I’ve wondered how she and Petrie might get along. Maybe there'd be jealousy or envy on either side first, considering the complicated situation with Pterano?

Thank you I love them so dearly.

The story I've been working on takes place after the VII movie, during Pteranos exile from the Great Valley. So I don't think there'd be any or much jealousy from Petrie there. If anything, once the situation is realized, it's like oh a new cousin. They get along well enough (even if Petrie thinks Dessie can be a little much at times, she's very loud and full of so much more energy for such a tiny flyer).

It takes a while to even realize the situation. Dessie and for a while Pterano live in a valley a ways away from the Great Valley, through the Mysterious Beyond, inhabited by an eclectic herd. They tend to wander here and there during the rainy seasons, as the valley floods in these times (they have given it the name Skywater Valley as a result).

As farwalkers their wandering takes them into the Great Valley. Naturally Pterano isn't allowed to enter so he explains the situation to the old leader of the herd (a very large flyer, a quetzalcoatlus aplyt named Atlus), who in turn finds Mama Flyer (who I call Donna). He in turn explains the situation to her and Dessie stays with them until the herd moves on once more.

Donna might explain the situation to her kiddos or she might just tell them something close to the truth leaving Pterano out entirely. It hardly matters because by the end of their time in the Great Valley, our normal crew plus Dessie end up on an adventure that ends up revealing the truth. Pterano is still meant to serve his sentence of course (and Topsy is none to pleased he was even as close to the Valley as he was, and has choice words for Atlus).

Dessies offered the choice to stay in the Great Valley for now but she wants to stay with the farwalker herd for now. She's very happy though. First she didn't have a Mama. Now she has a Papa, an Auntie, and so many cousins! No jealousy, only love for her new family.

(Important information I failed to explain at all, Dessie has been a part of the Farwalker herd for a while. No family she just sort of does her own thing. Some of the adults keep an eye on her but she's very self reliant. Other adults see her as a troublemaker since their kids use her as a scapegoat. While wandering the Beyond, Pterano stumbles upon the herd and Dessie sort of adopts him. Character growth and found family ensue).