>>21325554actually, altaria is the least weird to me.
"The story is about a girl called Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Bérylune."
it's japanese name includes a reference to this.
It's a mystical bluebird that brings a happy dreaminess to all that see it. The bluebird is also known as the messenger of Xi Wangmu, a fairy queen in doaist mythology.
And Peng is a bird fish-dragon (like gyarados) with massive cloud-like wings that symbolizes bright futures and the bliss after success, as its journey is to the Lake of Heaven, as opposed to the small bird who mocked it, who only flies from tree to tree.
It is both.
A large fairybird that brings bliss and a dragonbird that symbolizes attaining bliss by striving for lofty goals.