Vanity

Pride Princess

"You all love me... And you all fear me." ~Vanity's ego displayed

**Sydney Shardblade**, otherwise known as **Vanity**, is a Female Inkling and the infamous leader of the Sinning Squids. She is plagued by the deadly sin of pride.

## Appearance

She is a Purple Inkling with a Double Bun hairstyle, pale skin, eyelashes, and most notably, demonic, red slited eyes.

She casually wears a Special Forces Beret, a Squid Girl Tunic, tight shorts, and a pair of Samurai Shoes that mark her arrival if she walks.

In her princess outfit, she wears a Pearlescent Crown, a Black Inky Rider, Tight Black Pants, and a pair of Punk Cherries.

## Behavior & Personality

As her name would suggest, Sydney is egotistical and mischievous. Out of all the Sinning Squids, she is the most powerful one. She has every method of murder known to man, and will do absolutely anything to kill you!

She can be anywhere, anytime, and everywhere to mock her victims, and pester them in order to take advantage of their annoyance to kill them immediately, especially if they tell her to shut up. However, she will feel sorrowful if she goes too far.

### Personality traits

Whenever she is livid, her eyes will glow purple. She is also the only Sinning Squid who can apply a demonic echo to her voice, depending on how malicious her intent is.

## Involvement

She used to be your typical popular girl with an addiction to dolls and dollhouses, of which she felt she had to show off to anyone that either *she* met or met her. While she did get acquainted with some, most weren't really impressed, some even going as far as to call out her snobbish attitude.

Her strong reputation was in part due to her excellent performance in the school she attended to, which she took much pride in. However, Stuart Ravenhelm and his sister also attended the same school, and while ignoring them at first, she soon felt challenged by their increasing popularity over the years, which prompted her to take action, and nearly succeed in bringing him down.

Her performance translated well into Turf Wars once Sydney got old enough to participate in them, resulting in many victories. She loved mocking her opponents who lost against her, but visibly showed her disdain for those she lost against in the very few instances of that coming to play.

However, at that point, her show-offy attitude finally began to deal costly blows to her reputation which she had a hard time accepting. Her hatred for the Ravenhelm duo only increased as their goodwill was also contributing to her downfall.

The proverbial last straw was when Stuart finally beat her for the first time, putting the nail in the coffin of her already crumbling reputation...that she could no longer handle watching fall. And while this did not affect her win-to-lose ratio as much as she thought it would, Stuart only grew more skilled with time, evening the playing field between the two...much to her chagrin.

That same chagrin eventually reached a point where it affected her health, forcing her into a temporary retirement, and to quietly disappear from Ravenhelm's circle, which they took with much ignorance.

Sometime during her break, she got lost far from home after an accident, which forced her to hunt for survival with a machete she found at an abandoned house that she called home for some time. During one of her ventures, she had reached a cabin, of which six other people were residing in. Despite their harsh differences, she was soon acquainted with them.

While exploring through the cabin the next day, she found a strange book that would supposedly grant them any wish they wanted if they followed a certain amount of steps, one of which involved setting up some lights in a circular formation. Having found the book humorous, she decided to show it to everyone, whom, after sharing a laugh, they jokingly decided to do the ritual described in the book*... This ''joke'' would soon change their lives forever, as they would soon find out.*

Noticing the few amount of candles that the cabin had, Sydney decided to use them for the ritual, and, once they finished performing it... Sydney suddenly collapsed to the floor, and after a few moments, awoke as a completely different person.

An evil presence had possessed her body... And used it to question the others on their reasons for invoking him.

Compelled, Rigby began to voice every frustration he had with Inkopolitan society, and persuaded the rest to follow, in the order of Ben, Gilbert, Wade, Wendy, Tiara, and finally, Sydney. They also expressed their desires for things that they never had...and what they wanted to have now.

Interested, the presence proposed a deal for the outcasts to become their enforcers, in exchange for their souls. Hesitant at first, it finally managed to sway the teenagers to his side once he promised them immortality, and, as it explicitly described, ''great powers''. Once they agreed to this contract, it let them know that the Netherrealm would be their new home, but returning to the surface was not prohibited. *But*... if they dared to bring any new members to the group, the deal would be off, and he would leave them for dead.

Upon it being settled, Sydney, along with the others, sold off their souls, and were brought to the Netherrealm within minutes of their binding.

As a result, Sydney Shardblade became Vanity, the demon of pride...and the deadliest of the Sinning Squids.

## Powers

1. Teleportation
2. Mirror emerging
3. Eye beams
4. Razor-sharp teeth
5. Razor-sharp claws
6. Satanic circles
7. Levitation
8. Vainglory Fusion

## Battle Statistics

### Horror Show

Vanity fires red eye beams at all her enemies.

### Pure Sharpness

Vanity slashes at an enemy with her machete, eating any dropped flesh.

### Mind Manipulation

Vanity possesses an enemy, distorting all other enemies.

### Terrifying Teeth

Vanity chomps at an enemy, expecting to devour them.

### Death Ensurance

Vanity attacks an enemy with her machete, casting a torturous spell afterward.

### Mirror Massacre

Vanity summons multiple mirrors, brings up her own, hides in it, and assaults all enemies by slashing at them with fast reflexes.

## Vainglory

Vanity calls upon the rest of the Sinning Squids to merge with her. She grows 50-feet tall, growing six tentacles, one representing each other Sinning Squid.

### Malicious Salivation

Vainglory spits geyser-sprouting acid. (Requires Lust)

### Indigestion Inflammation

Vainglory breathes explosive amounts of fire. (Requires Gluttony)

### Icicle Barrage

Vainglory fires icicles at any enemy trapped within a giant ice cube which she spawns around who she sees. (Requires Greedy)

### Almost Eternal Nightmare

Vainglory summons dark energy tracking down anyone alive. (Requires Lazy)

### Battlefield Omniscience

Vainglory summons huge amounts of thunder at everyone. (Requires Wrath)

### Indulged Smog

Vainglory emits a smoke cloud that gradually grows, harming and poisoning anyone caught. (Requires Envy)

### Reclaimed Terror

Vainglory focuses, pointing a purple laser from her eyes. She then fires red lasers, harming anyone in sight.

### Consumption

Vainglory won’t hesitate to swallow anyone whole.

### Sinning Squid Reformation

If a tentacle is cut off, that tentacle forms back into the Sinning Squid representing it.

• Upper-right is Lust

• Middle-right is Gluttony

• Bottom-right is Greedy

• Upper-left is Lazy

• Middle-left is Wrath

• Bottom-left is Envy

## Weapons

Anything she can grasp

Machete/Razor-claws/Teeth

## Likes

1. Herself
2. Mischief among friends
3. Dressing up
4. Shiny things
5. Mirrors

## Dislikes

1. Monsters
2. Losing
3. Being insulted by her "beauty"
4. Vandalism
5. Not getting her way

## Recruitment

Impossible to ally if you’re a good guy. She can, however, team up with many others if they’re about as evil as her, but if she fails, she’d take the blame on her former allies, never assisting them again.

## Books and Reasons

### Underworld

Vanity made a deal with an evil presence along with the other Sinning Squids, whom she would eventually rule over. She now rules over an entire nation of sin and chaos in the underworld!

### Evil Legions

Vanity is the Sinning Squid with the worst sin, having control of the other six. She has quite a lot of pride in what she does. Never has she thought of her victims, and she will even hoard them.

### Adventurers

Vanity is unpredictable by nature. She can be anytime, anywhere, and will try to kill you with anything. There will be a fat chance of escape.

## Weaknesses

### Pride in General

Ego, arrogance, both of them are a major distraction. This causes her to be an easy target at times. Like when she's trying to be stylish, that's likely your time to strike!

### Fragility

Vanity, while being the most difficult to survive against, isn't good at defending herself. She has the greatest chance of killing you, so that doesn't mean you should simply expect nothing from her... But with the right amount of raw power, she won't win.

### Immediately Does Something Else When Predicted

If by chance she does get predicted, she immediately moves on to something else. She even goes so far as to do anything she can, but eventually, she will be at a point in a moment where she finally runs out of ideas.

## Unofficial Quotes

1. "*Ooh!* Don't mind if I have a BITE!"
2. "Psh! That's nothing. I got a *lot* of tricks ya won't see coming!"
3. (Gasp) "**What's that?!** DEATH!"
4. "Ugh... Sometimes this can be exhausting."
5. "Hey! That's cheating!"
6. "All I wanted was to show you guys my stuff! I wanted to make people awe at me!"
7. "What kind of person am I?! I just made this worse for literally *everyone!* Even *myself!*"
8. "Meow! ...Woof! **Ahro-"** (Blech) "Ah sorry. That was from last manhunt."
9. (Sigh) "...I miss the good ol' days..."
10. (Demonic voice) "Whatever. You wanna do this the hard way? Well, we all can be a PAIN!"

## Trivia

* She, along with the other Sinning Squids, were originally going to be recruitable, but due to their souls being binded to their contract, this was scrapped.
* Vanity’s purple hair and red eyes are based off of the Decepticons from the Transformers franchise, with their purple logo and red eyes.
	+ This is also why Vanity is the first Sinning Squid to exist before they all became a thing.