Irida Pearl/Tropes

Tropes that apply to Irida Pearl, written as if it were a TV Tropes page.

## Characterization and background

* **Catchphrase**: Likes to drop the "space" word whenever she can.
* **Defrosting Ice Queen**: Is naturally suspicious about the Magis' abilities. but once they defeat Kleavor, she becomes one of their most supportive companions. It reaches the point where she is more outraged at Kamado's decision to exile them than either Adaman or the Magis themselves.
* **Deuteragonist**: She, Adaman, Victoria, Arcturus, Brandon, Aurora and Kiara *all* share a majority of *Nina Magica*'s focus and story with the titular character. She's promoted to being the sole deuteragonist in the act where Nina is exiled and is nearly left without friends.
* **Fatal Flaw**: Indecisiveness. She wants to form a plan on how to deal with Kleavor but lacks the time and information necessary to do so leading to criticisms within both clans.
* **Freudian Excuse**: Her indecisiveness was caused by an argument with Palina, in which Palina told her that she was essentially asking Palina to train a baby pup to become the next Noble after watching its father die.
* **Friendless Background**: Aside from Palina, she apparently had no actual friends growing up, what with being pushed into being clan leader at such a young age.
* **Genki Girl**: Once the Magis prove themselves to her, she's a lot more outgoing and friendly than her initial appearance would lead you to believe.
* **Meaningful Name**: Irida sounds like "iridescent", and nacre/mother-of-pearl is known for its iridesence. "Iridescent" is also similar in meaning to "lustrous", like the Lustrous Orb and Globe, items associated with Palkia.
* **Memetic Hand Gesture**: Frantically fanning herself with her hand to cool off. Initially, she fans herself when Adaman gets into his first disagreement with her, which makes it look like she uses the gesture to sarcastically imply she's affected by Adaman's comments. Later revealed she actually does this because she's perpetually overheated and sweaty due to being from the tundra. This despite the fact (and likely the reason for) her dressing to leave so much skin bare.
* **Nice Girl**: More so than Adaman. Irida becomes especially kind and sweet after the Magis quell Kleavor. She also doesn't hesitate to help Nina after she's exiled.
* **Red Oni, Blue Oni**: The blue to Adaman's red. She values approaching situations with caution & introspection, which puts her at odds with Adaman, who thinks fast and acts fast. Their outfit colors are reversed, oddly enough.
* **Signature Mon**: Glaceon. Fittingly, as she hails from the cold Snowpoint region.
* **Sugar-and-Ice Personality**: Particularly in scenes with both Adaman and the main characters. She'll warmly greet Nina and friends only to revert to her colder, initial side when dealing with Adaman.
* **Voice for the Voiceless**: Sort of. At some point during the climax, Palkia will speak to her through telepathy and Irida will relay its message to the others. Quite fitting for the leader of the Pearl Clan.
* **Young and in Charge**: According to Pearl Clan members at the Pearl Settlement, Irida has been training to be clan head from a very young age, to the point that she didn't really have anyone her own age to play with.
* **Recycled Plot**: Irida purifies Atalef by hugging her and telling her she loves her, after becoming furious and calling her out on her actions... and a very similar thing is seen again in *Bailey Magica*.

## Appearance

* **Ambiguously Related**: Ironically downplayed. Although she bears some resemblance to May (with a similar hairstyle - albeit lighter hair - and her headband resembling May's bow), she is actually confirmed to be *Barry's* ancestor.
* **Older Than They Look**: She doesn't look that much older than most of the Magis, but she is consistently referred as a woman.
* **She's Got Legs**: While not on Arezu's level, her Stripperiffic outfit and the way her cape-like waist-clothe drapes behind her does draw attention to her long, slender, and bare legs.
* **Stripperiffic**: Compared to other members of the Pearl Clan, where she wears tiny boots and short shorts that completely expose her legs, along with a tube tank top that leaves her shoulders, arms, and neck bare, which is very noticeable sine she lives in the snowy, freezing tundra. Adaman almost gives up on reconciling their clans over how ridiculously she dresses.
* **Who Wears Short Shorts?**: Wears one as part of her dress. leaving every bit of skin from her hips to her heels totally bare - something Adaman calls her out on when he realizes she still dresses that way even in the cold tundra.

## Abilities

* **Charles Atlas Superpower**: While she does not appear to have her teacher's superhuman strength or durability, she did at least gain his superhuman cold resistance, outright calling the tundra she lives in warm enough to almost make her sweat.
* **Exposed to the Elements**: Her dress leaves much of her arms and legs completely bare to the elements, which is particularly egregious because she lives in an icy tundra. Adaman himself finds it freezing when he accompanies her to Avalugg's Warden, and directly calls her out, asking how she isn't freezing with how she's dressed. Given that she was taught by Avalugg's Warden, Gaeric, who is constantly shirtless, it's implied she acclimated by training under him (she herself noting that to her the regular levels of cold in the area actually feels warm, and later admits that she deals with hotter areas extremely poorly). It's noted that her unusual attire is weird even in-universe. Sure enough, the rest of the Pearl Clan dresses warmly and several of them complain about the cold or the risk of sunburn from exposing too much skin, neither of which Irida or Gaeric are bothered by. This also applies in her transformed state, which has helped her a lot.
* **An Ice Person**: Downplayed. While she *doesn't* have ice powers, her signature mon *is* the Ice-type Glaceon. Fitting for someone who lives in an icy tundra. Further, she has developed cold resistance equivalent to most Ice-types and can walk around the tundra only half covered in clothes and be perfectly comfortable.
* **The Power of Rocks**: Downplayed. She is a Crystal/Rock Elemental and has the power to manipulate pearls and also seashells, which are primarily produced by living things in real life and are not fully considered "rocks." However, her powers are sufficient to classify her as having these types.

## Relationships

* **Innocently Insensitive**: Her urging Palina to train the next Noble was a result of trying to mend internal conflict within the clan. Unfortunately she didn't really consider the implications of what she was asking Palina to do.
* **Jerk\*bleep\* to One**: Both herself and Adaman are this to each other, bickering at every possible interaction while often turning to speak in a very friendly manner to the Magis right after, though their relationship does become better at one point.
* **Missing Mom**: Her mother died when she was too young to remember her. Due to her mother's death, she was forced to train to take the mantle as the clan's leader too early; something she has conflicts with due to personally feeling inexperienced (and believing Palina to be more fitting for the role). Her father is not mentioned, however.
* **You Monster!**: Irida outright *explodes* with rage when Kamado exiles the Magis from Jubilife Village out of paranoia, calling him heartless.
* **Heterosexual Life-Partners**: With Nina. She even admits that she platonically loves her.