Queen Pearlescent

== Appearance ==
It's hard to look at Queen Pearlescent and not see her late mother.
The shape of her face, the way her horns curl inwards at the tips, her stance with her head tipped up and wings held regally above her- it's all an echo of Gloss. It's a given that she would resemble her mother, sure- and of course she didn't choose how her horns looked before she hatched- but ever since the previous queen's death Pearlescent seems to be trying harder to lean into that resemblance. 
Her scales, though, are distinctly different from Gloss's. Rather than gray-blue-green, Pearlescent's scales fade from an almost purple-ish blue on her head to reddish-pinks and finally pale yellows by the tip of her tail. As her name implies, they have a pearly iridescent sheen to them. While they have a natural glimmer to begin with, Pearlescent has kept them more carefully shined lately- she's got more of an image to uphold now, after all.
Pearlescent's horns, claws, and spikes are a warm but very pale off-white, with similar iridescence to her scales. Her eyes are blue-purple.
Pearlescent has never been one to wear lots of extravagant accesories, and that's one thing that hasn't changed now that she's queen. She wears only some delicate white-pink silks along her arms, a simple silk scarf, and a matching veil over her face. The veil and arm silks each have a single round, pale pearl in the center.
== Personality ==
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== History ==
Pearlescent, truth be told, had a remarkably average upbringing. A little different from a normal ShimmerWing citizen's, maybe, but average for a princess with busy parents and the knowledge that she could one day rival her siblings for the throne.
She spent most of her childhood in the ShimmerWing palace or the surrounding city, except for on the occasion that she was taken along to one of her mother's trips to visit some other ShimmerWing settlement or the other Piceus tribes. And really, even that was nothing special- her siblings went on those, too. She wasn't even the only one who was made to take the special classes meant to teach her how to be a better ruler should she ever challenge her mother.
Which was something Pearlescent had not planned to do, at the very least not for a long time. Though it would be hard for any ShimmerWing heir not to imagine a world where they were ruler, Pearlescent was pretty sure she wouldn't ever actually think of herself as ready to fight her mother for the leadership of the tribe. For one thing, that sounded terrifying- Queen Gloss was a powerful dragon. But aside from that, Pearlescent just genuinely never had any desire to battle her mother, especially with the risk of one of them dying. As distant as Gloss could be sometimes, with how busy she was, Pearlescent always knew her mother cared about her. And Pearlescent couldn't imagine shoving spikes through her mother's scales or clawing at her snout.
In the end, she didn't have to. The last time Pearlescent saw her mother wasn't with blood on her claws, in the middle of a room filled with dragons watching the challenge. It was just in the hall, on the way to the throne room where her mother had planned to make an announcement that day, when Gloss had collapsed. Pearlescent and one of her siblings had watched over the feverish queen as they waited for the doctor they'd sent for to arrive, and then they'd watched her be taken away to the healer's.
And then a week passed by, agonizingly slowly, with Gloss still sick. A few days in they moved her into one of the old quarantine rooms, which had already been a bad sign even before a timid RotWing doctor had admitted to her family that things weren't looking good for Gloss. It still felt like ages had passed when a few days after that the group of doctors and The Beacon gathered each of Gloss's heirs and told them that the queen was dead.
Pearlescent had already felt dizzy even before The Beacon had continued on, and told everyone that Gloss had chosen Pearlescent to take the throne after her death. She barely registered those words- it wasn't until the eyes of most of the dragons in the room had turned on her before she had fully realized that she was going to be the new ShimmerWing ruler. 
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== Relationships ==
Queen Gloss- Pearlescent was close...ish with her mother. Gloss was as good a parent as she could be to all of her dragonets while also being busy with her duties as queen. Even then, she still could never spend as much time with any of her dragonets as they all would have liked. Pearlescent still regrets not trying harder to be allowed to see Gloss in the days before her death- then she would have at least gotten a proper goodbye. And know for sure if Gloss had really chosen her to be the next queen- something she never would have wondered before other dragons in the palace started to question it. But maybe it's still better that she didn't- maybe it's better not to remember her mother sick and dying. Pearlescent still isn't sure of a lot of her thoughts about Gloss, really. 
Except that she's sure that it will be hard to live up to her mother's legacy as the ShimmerWing ruler.
The Beacon- Pearlescent isn't sure what to make of the strange royal advisor. She'd thought that becoming queen would make them seem less distant and unknown to her- after all, aren't they supposed to be the one to hold the ruler's closest secrets for them? At the very least, she thought they'd give some explanation for what was going on between them and Gloss. But they've remained just as vague and unhelpful as ever- even though it's clear they know more than they should, even for a dragon with their role. It's unsettling.
== Trivia ==
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