Petra Ringtail

Petra Ringtail is a one of the deuteragonists from franchise, starting as the deuteragonist of the Australian animated 2020 movie, and a minor character in . She is a insecure teenage female opossum living in a utopian town named Sanctuary City and Kerry's older sister who she struggles to get along with. When her little sister accidentally makes a wish that condemns the city, Petra joins Kerry's journey in the Wild to saving their home, despite her uncertainties and the dangers that will hamper their quest.
She is voiced by Kate Murphy.
==Personality==
Unlike her sister, Petra is thoughtful, calm, responsible and mature but lacks self-confidence, such as being afraid of heights even though she is a possum, but it's more because she doesn't take risks according to Kerry. She also has a pretty sloppy sense of humor, using poor puns. Petra spends her time trying to keep Kerry out of danger and her delusional dreams of adventure in the Wild, which often puts the two sisters in conflict over their differing views: Petra accepting life in Sanctuary City and not wanting anything else while Kerry doesn't see it that way. 
She is also easily irritable, not putting up with her sister's boast about nature, her immaturity or her irresponsibility and getting angry when Kerry further upset their way of life, going so far as to say that TV would be less boring than her as a sister. Almost every time she gets ready to scream in anger, she manages to release the stress with a sigh. Her inexperience with the out-of-town world initially led her to be incredulous about certain things and suspicious of strangers like when she stomped on the foot of Bernard the drop-bear because she believed he was trying to get them with them soft eyes and didn't want him when he followed the opossum sisters but during the trip she opened up more. She also didn't initially believe in magic until this unforeseen trip.
Possessing a brotherly side, Petra only wants Kerry's good. After their argument on TV, Petra kindly tried to put the pieces back together despite Kerry's bitterness towards her by admitting that she takes no pleasure in constantly watching over her because she only does because she doesn't. not find Kerry responsible enough, also trying to make her understand that their lives are in Sanctuary City and nowhere else, becoming sad when Kerry wouldn't listen. When Kerry left town, Petra went looking for her and urged her to come home immediately after. She remained opposed to Kerry's quest to find the Sister Wishmas Tree but eventually gave in as it was either freezing to death or running out of steam.
Regardless, Petra genuinely loves her little sister and if she worries about her all the time it's only because Kerry is her only sister, claiming that it's like wanting to be her friend and that she can help her to face all his problems. When Kerry lost hope after only finding a dead magic tree, Petra admitted that despite her sister risking their lives during the trip, she was grateful to her for making her believe the things she did always denied. She also revealed that she wished Kerry had the right to have an affair because the older one knew how important it was to her. Once again, she reminded her sister that she didn't have to face her problems alone and then encouraged her to finish the adventure.
==History==
=== The Wismas Tree===
Petra finds Kerry on a balcony after looking around town for her. After unwittingly listening to her sister's wild rantings about nature, Petra urges her little sister to come over just to get one review on her fear of heights and one more listen to Kerry's usual need for adventure. Bored, she reminds her that the ceremony is about to begin, causing Kerry to mockingly provoke her to run to the ceremony by calling her "Slow Poke", much to her exasperation. After Kerry jumps off the balcony and uses her tail to zipline, Petra gets the idea of ​​using an ostrich cab to quickly walk past her little sister. 
After an exchange in sign language, Kerry ends up falling back on the rooftops as Petra continues to swiftly through town with ostrich speed to a bridge. As soon as she arrives, she notices that Kerry has stumbled upon a business, much to her annoyance. Moments later, she catches up with Kerry in an exhibit on the wild only so the young opossum doesn't spin again. The sisters then join their father at the fountain in front of the Wishmas Tree cave where the annual vowing ceremony will take place. 
While Kerry is anxious to make her wish to see the wild for real, Petra is not so enthusiastic about feeling too old to believe in magic, despite her father claiming that no one is ever too old to believe in magic. Once the opossum family arrives in front of the magic tree and the picking of the tree's flowers has been done, each young animal in Sanctuary City makes their wishes, including Petra who first takes a quick look at her little sister fascinated before blowing with a secret thought on the pappus of the flower.
At night and back home, Petra and Kerry receive a huge gift from their father supposedly related to their wishes, a television. Although Petra appreciates the gift, Kerry is by no means delighted because she wished to see nature. After Kerry has a nervous breakdown, an exasperated Petra berates her for being unable to enjoy the home, leading to an argument between the two sisters where Kerry finds that Petra could have TV as a replacement sister, to which Petra replies that TV would be less boring than Kerry, but the little opossum replies that Petra only likes the machine because it's boring like her. 
Their father tries to calm them down with a snack only for a grumpy Kerry to come up to the bedroom with Petra tossing her a piece of food in frustration. The eldest once more holds back her anger and goes up in turn to the bedroom to try to make peace with her little sister. Kerry continues to piss her off, so Petra apologizes for yelling at her earlier while admitting that it doesn't make her happy to constantly chase Kerry around town or have her eye on her all the time, she just wants Kerry to be more mature and tries to make her understand that Sanctuary City is their home as well as their family and friends but Kerry reminds her that she is the one who has friends. Unable to get her across the basics, Petra tells her sister that she doesn't have to run away to make a difference, to which Kerry doesn't respond and falls asleep, leaving a saddened Petra to fall asleep too. She remains asleep during Kerry's brief jaunt to the Wishmas Tree to go make a desperate wish and was also not awakened when her little sister suddenly returned after the wish made come something disturbing in the sky.
The next day when it is mysteriously snowed, Petra is awoken by noises coming from outside and barely she opens her window when Kerry throws a snowball in her face. At first confused, Petra and her father set foot in the snow for the first time and enjoyed this new experience. The next night, Petra sleeps as Kerry decides to accompany Yarra on a quest to Sister Wishmas Tree to repair her selfish wish. The little opossum hesitates to wake up her big sister and ends up going through the window without warning her but also by waking her up accidentally.
Finding out her absence, Petra tracks Kerry into the dark depths of Swamplands where she urges him to come home but her little sister stubbornly refuses, starting a brief argument between them until a drop-bear pops up in front of the trio. Petra isn't reassured at the sight of the little creature, which gets worse when other drop-bears show up and surround the trio. As Kerry and Yarra manage to fend off the critters by stomping their toes, Petra is too intimidated to act until she sees a drop-bear trying to slyly bite Kerry's tail, pushing Petra to finally take heart and go on the attack. After she pulled out a rotten joke of situation to her sister, Petra stomped on the toes of a young drop-bear who was making eyes soft, believing it to be a trick. More drop-bears arrive in droves, forcing Petra and Kerry to flee by the only exit available to them while Yarra holds back the little creatures.
Crashing into the jungle, Petra scolds Kerry for going to the Wild as their town freezes over then listens to her sister's explanations as to what's going on but she doesn't take it seriously, not believing in Magic. When Yarra arrives to join the sisters, Petra accuses her of taking Kerry on this senseless quest until the little opossum stands up to the old lizard's defense and tells her older sister that the only two choices available are to come home to freeze to death or to die on an adventure, both choices Petra finds none but reluctantly reluctant to give in after Kerry admits she needs her help to right her mistake.
Camping at the edge of a cliff for the night, Petra and Kerry listen to Yarra recount her youth in the Wild as well as her first quest to the Sister Wishmas Tree out of sheer selfish desire similar to Kerry, a quest that failed and cost her life. to his father. A little later, Petra notices Kerry sitting on the edge of the void, feeling sorry for what she did after listening to Yarra's story, prompting Petra to try to cheer her sister up with another of her. rotten joke. As she failed to make her laugh, Petra becomes a bit sad, leading Kerry to believe that her big sister is still angry with her until Petra clarifies that she is not angry but just upset because Kerry left without telling her when she could have helped him. 
Kerry then admits that she wanted to show Petra that she could be responsible in fixing the damage caused by her fault, hoping that her big sister would start to love her after that, while also acknowledging that she wants to be his friend, more than just being his sister. Touched, Petra sincerely admits that if she worries about Kerry all the time it's only because she's her only sister and that's something she doesn't want to lose, also adding that from her point of view, a sister is like a best friend. She also promises that she will always be there so that her little sister doesn't have to face her problems on her own. As the relationship between Petra and Kerry finally begins to improve, Wolves corrupted by the Extinction approach them. The possums have no choice but to flee as Yarra sacrifices himself to slow the predators.
Later, as the sisters sleep after their escape, Kerry wakes up from a nightmare before waking Petra to let her know that the snow is progressing, meaning they must hurry on and on without waiting for Yarra to return. The young drop-bear crossed earlier crosses their path and panics, Petra tries to smash him with a wooden stick but Kerry intervenes, having taken a liking to the little creature who is just scared and even calling him Bernard. Having no faith in Bernard to the point of saying that he could pretend to be nice and then slit their throats in sleep, Petra refuses for him to come with them and tells Kerry to leave him there so he can return home alone before the two possums resume their journey.
Once at the Misty Muds, Petra and Kerry jump on the floating stones to go further until they cross paths with Augustus, an enigmatic toad that Kerry met before Petra joined in on the adventure. Just seeing him, Petra is quickly disgusted by the hideous and pimply appearance of the batrachian who proceeds to give a sinister warning but Kerry interrupts him by recalling their last meeting and fiddling with him, which pushes an exasperated Augustus to withdrew. Right after, Petra notices a flying blue light like the one Yarra had mentioned before their split. Kerry wants to follow the light but Petra tries to warn her of the potential danger only so that her little sister won't pay attention and begins to follow the light, to the usual annoyance of Petra who then proceeds to follow Kerry. The two sisters arrive on a large platform where in front of them is shown a spirit having the appearance of the foundling possum. Kerry quickly makes the connection between the spirit and her recent dream where she had crossed the foundlings who once wanted the safety of all animals, including those of nature but the creation of Sanctuary City left them at the mercy Extinction, an event which Petra does not see how it can help them since the past is the past but her sister says that all the animals must work together and then reaches out to the spirit that subsequently disappears. After that, some sort of Spiritual Giant Wamba appears in front of the possums and terrifies Petra who starts running when the Spirit begins to charge them before stopping in front of Kerry and then disappearing after the young possum has calmed her. Petra then worries that her sister will fall to the ground and then becomes upon hearing that Kerry was not even sure it was going to work out. She then finds out to her exasperation that Bernard has been hiding in Kerry's backpack all this time but ends up changing her mind about him after her little sister uses her words about friendship against her, all while begging her exaggeratedly.
The trio finally arrive at the Gorge of Near Black and then at the Sister Wishmas Tree but only find a dead tree. So Kerry collapses with sadness believing she has failed and seems to give up, Petra refuses this and acknowledges that despite the times she almost died because of Kerry during this adventure, she has learned to believe things she didn’t. 'would never have believed before thanks to her sister, while admitting that during the vow ceremony, she wished Kerry could have her first affair because she knew how important was to her, adding even to be proud that her little one sister is wanted to save the world. Petra then recalls her promise to never let Kerry face her problems alone before reaching out to her and encouraging her to finish this adventure. Regaining hope, Kerry embraces Petra and the two sisters confess how much they love each other. A magical seed begins to grow afterwards but unfortunately the Extinction arises, followed by a corrupt Yarra. After Bernard gets repelled by the old lizard, Petra and Kerry climb to the top of the tree and seeing that the seed has almost finished growing as Yarra draws closer, Petra expresses her complete trust in Kerry to make the wish before knocking Yarra off the tree by throwing herself at him then tries to hold him off with pieces of his staff. Kerry takes a vow that all animals are safe but the evil entity attacks her and apparently leaves her dead, leaving Petra devastated and mourning her little sister with Bernard, moments before the wish takes effect. After Extinction's destruction, the end of the snow and vegetation growing everywhere, Petra discovers that Kerry is still alive, a new happy hug between sister ensues. Petra and Kerry then notice that Yarra has come to his senses but is horribly saddened by the condition of "Stick", his beloved staff. Compassionate with his distress, Petra uses one of Kerry's bandages to mend the staff, much to Yarra's delight.
When the adventure is over, Petra, Kerry, Yarra and their new friends they met during their quest return home.
===Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal===
Petra makes a few cameo appearances with her family as a Sanctuary City team supporter for the World's Scariest Animal, also taking selfies with Daisy Quokka. Her most notable appearance is when she evacuates the stadium on fire while her little sister is saved and evacuated by Frankie Scales.
==Quotes==
==Triva == 
*She have fourteen years.
*Petra's initial fear of Drop-Bears may slightly resemble to Arctophobia. Also according to Kerry, Petra is afraid of heights, like people with Acrophobia, although this is more because she never takes risks.
*As the photos show in her bedroom, Petra has a platypus, an echidna and a female koala in Sanctuary City as friends.
*Although part of the Ringtail Possum species, Petra is not nocturnal.
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