Profile M-028: Glue Dog - "Molly"

-------TW for animal experimentation, "death" and neglect! I mean that's kind of a JellHead thing, but, well-

Subject M-028 is an artificial JellHead replica of a failed experiment on inducing natural Jellification which, it was hoped, would preserve some of the personality of the original subject. Unfortunately for the subject of the initial experiment, its jell was too unstable in laboratory conditions and failed to form a proper core. On a whim, one of the scientists took one of the more solid pieces of the failed JellCore and attempted to induce it into becoming an artificial JellHead via more traditional methods. The JellHead that formed had odd, opaque Jell that looked like- well, it looked like what comes out of an Elmer's Glue bottle, but it still was able to float as typical for most common JellHeads. Sadly, by that point the lab where this occured was already facing inquiry and money issues, and the scientist who created M28 was heavily chastised for using up a shard that could have been converted into currency. Though the behavior of the JellHead would normally have been recorded in detail, the scientists had major funding and legal issues to worry about and M28 was neglected and ignored, all apparent personality traits and behaviors regarded as unnecessary to keep track of in such a crisis. The JellHead itself seemed subdued and stayed out of the way, almost like it had a sense of what was expected of it... but that would be impossible as there was no apparent way it could have formed memories of the lab's procedures so quickly after its creation- while being treated like it wasn't even there, at that. No one seemed concerned or interested in the implications of this as most of the scientists had other things to worry about at the moment.

M28 was left to its own devices as the facility was in the process of decommissioning, and one day a breeze from a door carelessly left open was enticing enough for M28 to follow...

--------POV of Jell (to the extent that it can have one, being a JellHead and all)

She just wanted to be a good dog...

Molly was a good dog. She liked people and they seemed to like her. They said she was a good dog! She got lots of treats and praise but then one day she was taken to a place where they stuck pointy sticks in her and had her run a lot and measured things. The people talked in raised or hushed voices and she learned how to be a good dog for these new people.

She could feel her head getting fuzzy but she still wanted to be a good dog! They said she was "doing very well" and that they would "monitor her progress" and she was happy because she was a good dog! She loved people and she loved being a good dog! Sure, the pointy things hurt, and it was hard to think and eventually feel things sometimes, but she was loved(or so she believed) and she was good(so she knew, with ALL her heart and emotions), and eventually when there were only a few scraps of conscious thought left, she still knew, with all that was left of her being, that she was meant to be a good dog.

And so she was. She just wasn't quite an alive dog anymore... but still good!!!!
She is just a little melancholy(though not quite aware enough to recognize it as a feeling) because she has this stuff in/on her head that makes it hard to move around and do dog things. She doesn't realize what they've done to her. She doesn't *realize* anything really; her mental faculties are limitied now since she became a JellHead. But she still has dog instincts because even a "dead" dog is a dog at heart. It's hard to completely remove Dog-ness from a Good Dog, after all, even if it's all that is left.

And she is still very much a good dog...

...if she can even be called a dog anymore.