100 Smurfy Profiles

Chapter 17: Mental Smurf ♂️

Gender: Male.

Special Trait: Psychology.

Job(s): Therapist.

Appearance: ??? height and build. ??? eyes. ...I haven't really decided much about his appearance yet, sorry.

Relatives: ???

Shipped With: ???

Age Bracket: Adult.

A traveling psychologist who visited Blossom, only planning to stay for a couple of days.

He's still there. He does not want to be there. But damn does there need him!

He has personally renamed like a third of the village ("Why the smurf are so many of your names so insulting?? No, you cannot just call someone 'Lazy' as their name– WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE'S A 'DIMWIT' SMURF?!"). I unashamedly am using him to explain most of the renames I've done.

Mental's Patients

Mental was an expert on the Smurf brain, both biologically and psychologically. If there was anything anysmurf knew about it, then he knew it plus some.

Of course, his brilliance had been entirely for research purposes only. Because that's what he was — a researcher. He knew a lot, but his knowledge didn't have much practical application beyond maybe writing some textbooks. Everything he did was stuck purely in the realm of theory and discussion.

Until he moved to Blossom, a small town somewhat cut off from the rest of the world, where most Smurfs didn't even know psychology was a thing. He hadn't intended to stay, at first, as he was only there for a rest as he journeyed across the world to study.

But something about the town and its Smurfs called to him. It wasn't like they were all deranged or anything, but there were certainly a lot of fascinating cases for him to study. Besides, there were some Smurfs who really needed him.

He hadn't intended to become a psychiatrist, but now he's Dr. Mental. Some of his cases are simple things: mild obsession, insecurity, the regular stuff that Smurfs always need to talk about but never do.

Others... Others are Scaredy, who had never heard of clinical anxiety but is the living definition of it. Others are Poet, whose obsession with verse affects his speech. Others are Jokey or Grouchy, who are nearly incapable of dealing with their emotions in healthy ways.

Then, of course, there are the truly exceptional cases. There's Feral, who was raised by squirrels and barely knows how to be a Smurf, despite Tracker's patient efforts. There's Smurfette, who isn't even really a Smurf, whose mind works more like a human's.

And there's Prophet, the only Smurf in Blossom to be put on permanent house arrest. He's never violent or self-destructive, always quiet and sad, but he can't be let out. Suffering almost constantly from hallucinations, he requires help with even the most basic of daily tasks.

Most know him as Crazy Smurf, but Mental refuses to call him that. He's constantly reminded of his insanity as it is, why must even his name be a reminder? So he calls him Patient or Prophet, encourages him to refer to himself as such, and to always keep working on overcoming his delusions — no matter how impossible it seems.

Beyond that, there's the cases he never signed up for, but are somehow his responsibility anyways — Smurfling drama, couples counseling, new parents panicking because their hatchling can't talk yet.

He still laughs at one memorable incident where Brainy insisted that Harmony must be insane for thinking his 'music' sounded good, and got half the village on his side before he'd even finished speaking. Explaining the difference between 'insane' and 'thinks differently' had taken Mental the better part of a week, though he's still not entirely sure Brainy was actually wrong...

Mental's life has never been boring — he traveled the world during his studies, after all — but it was a fairly normal kind of exciting, nothing like his life since he came to Blossom.

Somehow, he found the one thing he never considered in this secluded little town: a home. And he couldn't be happier, truly!

Even if he really, really wishes he wasn't the only therapist...