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Pluffin is an [[Air]] and [[Water]]-type [[Creo]], the first stage of a seabird line that ends in [[Galuffra]]. It is a hatchling that has decided it is a soldier, and nothing will talk it out of the idea.

Pluffin still wears the top half of the egg it came out of, and it treats the shell as both helmet and treasure. It will challenge its own reflection in a rock pool, square up to Creo many times its size, and then guard the cracked shell it sleeps under as though it were plunder.

== Biology ==
Pluffin is 80 centimeters tall and 12 kilograms, most of it a round dark gray body over bright orange feet. The head is capped by a hard white and blue shell fragment that sits low over the eyes and is genuinely fused to the skull rather than balanced on it. It grows outward at the rim as the animal does, so a Pluffin never outgrows its helmet and never loses it.

The shell is dense and disproportionately strong, and Pluffin leads with it. Charging head down is its answer to almost every problem, and its unusually high defense for a hatchling comes almost entirely from being willing to take a hit on the crown of the head rather than dodge it. The wings at this stage are short and stiff and are used for balance and swimming, not flight.

Pluffins nest in colonies on sea cliffs and are noisy, territorial and completely undeterred by size. They feed on small fish taken in shallow dives, and the dive is where the shell first proves useful: it lets a Pluffin enter the water head first at speed without stunning itself. As it matures the shell splits and reshapes into the plume that marks a [[Skuffin]].

== Description ==
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== Evolution ==
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|creo_1_name = Pluffin
|creo_1_content = Evolution text for Pluffin
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