| “ | You don’t understand… entropy, hahaha. It’s a… a… balance. You don’t want too much or too little of it, but that… that’s entropy incarnate! Organized, structured, chaotic, with no limit to its expansion. I must stop it or it will grow. IT. WILL. GROW!!!!! | ” |
―Ceres | ||
Ceres (pronounced SEAR-eez) is a character in SolarBalls who debuted in “Something's hiding in the Asteroid Belt...”, and is one of the five dwarf planets officially recognized by the IAU along with Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. He is the only character to live permanently in the Asteroid Belt and is the smallest dwarf planet known currently.
Personality
In the episode How Do Planets Develop Life? - Part 3, young Ceres appears to be quite shy, but unfazed and apathetic, claiming that everything is pointless while explaining the concept of the entropy. He comes off as obsessive and arrogant when Theia denies his words.
In the present, Ceres seems to be mentally unbalanced as he behaves a lot more chaotically compared to other planets, even more than the Sun. He has a tendency for aggression and inflicting pain on others (particularly by his method of throwing large asteroids), likely influenced from his thoughts on entropy. When Mars headed into the Asteroid Belt to find Earth's favorite asteroid, he is spooked by Ceres' stealth and cackling. He also tries to keep anyone away from him. This behavior might be the result of being alone for such a long time, as stated by Alvaro. Despite his seemingly psychotic nature, he behaves a bit vulnerably when others retaliate against him, shown in The Moons of Jupiter - Part 2 when the Luna, Io, and Callisto tried to ambush him with asteroids, it left him running away, while still cackling maniacally. Despite this, he is not afraid to engage in combat with celestial bodies that are larger than him. He is also shown to be quite agile. This was proven when Io mentioned that he cannot aim any asteroids at Ceres, due to him being "too fast".
The change of Ceres personality may be because of his extreme loneliness in the Asteroid Belt. This has been proven to take a mental toll on the character as shown with the Sun, being portrayed as a psychopath in his adulthood. Neptune further proves this by forgetting everyone in his "lonely state" as shown in: What if the planets were ordered by SIZE? - Part 2.
In "The Disturbance in the Kuiper Belt!" Ceres is revealed to be able to talk, although usually just a few words at time, often mimicking the person speaking. As implied in The Moon Revolution - Part 4, Ceres had followed Charon and Pluto all the way back to the Kuiper Belt, and this is due to an unexplained engrossment towards Charon, later possibly being explained in part of the Theia Arc. Also shown with his attachment towards her and generally only speaking when around her. Makemake thinks that the reason behind the inability to talk is because he was living in seclusion, all alone in the Asteroid Belt. Similarly to Neptune, who also lost his mind in an orbit near the Kuiper Belt almost isolated. This theory was confirmed in The First Planets - Part 1.
At the end of The Earth Awakens Ceres imagines Earth as the same as Proto and Luna as Theia, it is unclear why he imagined this. It is possible he imagined this because of their size and personality, as he has interacted with both Theia and Proto, but never interacted directly with Earth, though he did make indirect contact with Luna
Appearances
- Something's hiding in the Asteroid Belt... (debut)
- Mission to Titan - Part 1 (mentioned)
- The Moons of Jupiter - Part 2
- The Moon Revolution - Part 4
- How Did Neptune Get His Moons? (silhouette cameo)
- The Disturbance in the Kuiper Belt! (first spoken line)
- Search for Planet X - Part 1
- Search for Planet X - Part 3
- Jupiter IS BACK! - Part 3
- Lost Earth - Part 1
- Lost Earth - Part 2
- Lost Earth - Part 3
- The First Planets - Part 1 (young debut)
- How Do Planets Develop Life? - Part 3
- Love between Planets - Part 2
- Before the Crash of Earth and Theia
- The Crash of Earth and Theia!
- The Earth's Core - Part 1
- The Earth's Core - Part 2
- The Earth's Core - Part 3
- The Earth Awakens
- The Solar System's True Scale - Part 3 (Hindi version only)
Trivia
- According to Jupiter, Ceres has been hiding in the asteroid belt ever since the early days of the Solar System.
- In Mission to Titan - Part 1, when Titan appeared, Astrodude said, "I thought you were Ceres for a moment," to which Titan responded, "I'm sorry if I scared you." This implies that Astrodude is possibly afraid of Ceres, just like how Mars is.
- In the Moon Revolution - Part 4, Ceres is shown for a brief moment as Pluto and Charon exit the asteroid belt, after they both stopped the Moon Revolution from attacking Earth.
- Ceres is named after the Roman goddess of agriculture and harvest.
- He is one of fourteen characters to have the opposite gender of the god/goddess they are named after - the other thirteen are Haumea, Charon, Thebe, Io, Neso, Galatea, Sao, Halimede, Umbriel, Venus, Tethys, Kallichore, and Proxima Centauri.
- Earth and Ariel are debatable. Earth is associated with Gaia, which is an Earth goddess, however the word "Earth" is not associated with any god with any gender. Ariel was a male in an original Alexander Pope play, but more females kept playing his role, and the Disney movie "The Little Mermaid" popularized Ariel as a feminine name.
- Luna is simply Latin for "Moon", so it doesn't have any associated god.
- Titan wasn't named for a god, but was named for the titans, which is a category of gods. This was due to people believing that Titan was the largest moon for a while, until more refined calculations confirmed that Ganymede was the largest.
- Planet X has not been discovered yet, and therefore, has no name.
- Proxima Centauri technically fits in this group because all centaurs in Greek mythology were male, the constellation Centaurus was named after the centaurs, and Proxima was named after Centaurus.
- Ceres is the first character to receive a redesign.
- Tethys is technically the second, as seen in The Moon Club - Part 2. However, this was just an error.
- Ceres is the 30th largest object in the Solar System (sandwiched between two of Saturn’s moons Tethys and Enceladus) for radius, and the 28th most massive (being significantly denser than both Dione and Tethys).
- Despite Ceres’ small size relative to most of the main characters (having 1/13th the Earth’s radius), he is the largest known object in the asteroid belt, making up an estimated 40% of the mass there.
- When Ceres was first found in the 19th century it was classified briefly as a planet, before being deemed an asteroid. With the creation of the Dwarf Planets category in 2006 (following the discovery of Eris) it was reclassified as a dwarf planet.
- Ceres still is considered an asteroid by many, making him the only character to hold a title as both dwarf planet and asteroid.
- This makes Ceres the largest known asteroid in the Solar System.
- The largest actual asteroid in the solar system is Vesta.
- This can also make Ceres the only character currently classified as an “asteroid” to be sentient in the series.
- Many smaller moons are considered the captured asteroids, but their stable orbits around their planets make them moons now.
External Links
- Ceres on Wikipedia
