Cleud name: Blearea (BLEER-eeyuh)
Cleud gender: Female
How they feel about their fangs: Blearea was never an outgoing cleud, even before she cared about how she looked. She tended to keep her head down to give the illusion that her fangs were much shorter than they really were. Needless to say, their size made her uncomfortable in her body. At one point, she'd gone as far as to attempt shortening them by sanding them down, knocking them against rocks, searching for a way to just cut them off already!
Blearea went into a fit of rage and tears, asking why it all had to be so unfair. "Why me?" she had asked herself. She didn't know how she could ever feel confident with those big white things protruding from her mouth. She laid down on the ground with her paws over her snout, a sniffling mess of a cleud. Blearea looked upwards at the sky and trees around her. The trees- some of them were small with needle like branches, but some were huge. They were crooked, bent, big and obvious to anyone who could see, with large and skinny branches reaching for the sky. It was such a beautiful sight. Nature's imperfections, no matter how crooked, could still be so pretty to her. So Blearea got up off the ground and shook herself off, still sniffling, but this time she wasn't going to cry.
Instead, she took off straight ahead to the lake that stretched out beyond the trees. As she always did, Blearea stared at her reflection in the water, tilting her head in different ways to see how her fangs looked. She thought they were ugly... but she didn't think the crooked and bendy trees were ugly, and she could see their reflections too. She looked around at the trees again and blinked away the remaining tears. "Part of me is bent and crooked too. The trees don't care about how they look... They just live. And they're beautiful... So maybe I could be... Too..." A single moment of hope wouldn't change things instantly. However, Blearea held her head up and accepted this reality. She was a sabertooth cleud, and her fangs were big. "I am beautiful, too," she told herself aloud.
This became her mantra, her affirmation she would repeat in her head when she saw her reflection. Learning to love herself was a process, one she is still working on to this day. But ever since she accepted the trees, Blearea has done her best to start to accept herself, too. After all, how couldn't she? "Because I'm beautiful, too!"
How they think others feel: When her insecurity was at its worst, Blearea had always worried that everyone else looked at her the same way. It took a long time for her to care less about what the others thought, but she still struggles to believe others think she is beautiful, fangs and all.
How others actually feel: Contrary to Blearea's worries, others didn't think much of it. In fact, it was the other things they looked at. They thought the stars that adorned her were so pretty, and her sparkling eyes could cheer anyone up. Knowing she was so insecure made others sad, but it didn't stop them from believing she was just as beautiful as any other cleud. Her fangs were cool and special to them, just like Blearea herself!