Pearl

> "I speak for the water, it's ever changing presence flows through my veins and obeys my every command. The will of the pearl controls it and I am that very will." -Pearl
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Fiona Chen (Mandarin: 陈菲奥娜) is a Chinese-American superhero born in New York City. She has an ancient artifact known as the Pearl, who grants its user limitless control and power over every kind of water and endless knowledge on the element. Her goal is stopping the Pearl Society from drowning humanity in a sick and twisted attempt to do fast evolution to transform humans into mermaids.

## Fiona Chen

### Aliases

Pearl
Little Brat
Mortal Enemy
Target
Annoying Girl
Faye
Fia
Filly
Annie
F

### Relatives

Bengt Chen (Father)
Jia Chen (Mother)
Amy Chen (Stepmother)
Layla Chen (Stepsister)

## Appearances

### Debut

Layers of a Pearl #1

Fiona had an ordinary life until one day she discovered a pearl on a beach, she had no idea what it was capable of, and simply added it to bracelet and she wore it. Water seemed to be acting weird around her but she dismissed it as mirages due to the extreme heat. She unknowingly became the target by the Pearl Society, an old group who sought the pearl to achieve their goal of conquering humanity and making them adapt underwater.

They slowly gathered all of her info and launched an attack on her in an effort to get the Pearl back. She was walking back home from school when she got kidnapped and got transported to one of the Pearl Society's main headquarters. She got tied up and they asked for the pearl and that if she gave it, they would spare her life. She had no clue what was going on until they explained it and when they asked again, she refused. They stabbed her in the shoulder and attempted to wrestle the bracelet off her wrist, Fiona saw this as a chance to escape while they were distracted and she used her water powers and escaped.

She sought medical attention and attempted to learn the truth of the Pearl after discharge of her hospital stay, apparently the Pearl was in many history books and tons of people claimed it was witchcraft when wielders used the ability. She also learned the Pearl selected the owners, so that it didn't fall into the wrong hands.

One day however, during a fierce and intense battle, she tried to protect Jenna who secretly had a crush on and was planning to confess to that day, the Pearl Society noticed this and targeted her, killing her instantly by throwing a large metal pipe to her head which hit her temple and broke the bone area, which severed the middle meningeal artery and led to a severe intracranial. By the time she got to her, it was too late. She attended her funeral and swore to kill every single member of the Pearl Society and make sure the society never revives again.

After a mysterious alien entity appears and wants every superhero to fight him, she teams up with a few others, and hides out and is currently planning.

## Biography

### Early Life

> "Best times of my life, wish it remained that way."
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Fiona had an ordinary childhood, she became friends with Jenna Wang and Darcy Johnson. They were very close and constantly hung out, they explored the outdoors and even made a few secret fortresses to hide out and sneak whenever they could. Overall, probably the happiest time of Fiona's life. She remained friends with them.

### Parent's Divorce

> "Dad was having an affair with the blonde chick that is my stepmom, Mom was not happy."
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Her parents divorced at age 9 when her mother discovered her father was having an affair at work for a year straight, on weekdays she lived with her mom, on weekends she lived with her dad. Her dad married her stepmom and her stepmom had a daughter, Layla. She gets along with her stepmom and stepsister and considers them family. Her dad and her stepmom and stepsister moved to Queens, New York. Her mother remains unmarried and plans to stay so since her father was her only love.

### Discovering the Pearl

> "That one simple choice changed everything forever, the trip to a beach."
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While she was at her dad's house, they decided to go on vacation to a place where this a beach, and she agreed. She bought a few swimsuits for herself and her stepsister with her own money while her dad and stepmom picked out for themselves. When they arrived on the beach, everybody began to do their own thing. her dad went swimming with his stepdaughter and her stepmom was relaxing under a beach umbrella. Fiona was trying to build a sandcastle and while gathering sand in a bucket, she dug up a shiny pearl and thought it was beautiful, she kept it and built her sandcastle and overall had a good time.

Unbeknownst to her at the time the Pearl Society discovered the Pearl's location and when they saw her take it, they waited for an opportunity to strike and take the Pearl back but it never occurred. Finally realizing that they can't just sneak around to take it back, they gathered Fiona's information and stalked her every day at every chance they could. They devised a plan to threaten her to give it with her life being spared.

### Kidnapped and Threatened

> "They threatened me with all sorts of stuff, murder of my entire family, kidnapping my stepsister and stepmom, they were weird."
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While she was on her way home from school, she got snatched into a white van and was transported to their headquarters 3 miles away, she was gagged and tied up and asked about the Pearl. She was obviously very confused and asked what was going on, realizing what they done, they explained most of the Pearl's origins and their intentions and that if she handed over the pearl, she would be spared of her life. When they finished, they asked again for the Pearl, when she refused, they stabbed her shoulder and tried to get the bracelet off her wrist, she saw this as a chance to escape since they weren't paying attention to their surroundings. She used the water pipes and crashed water into them, freezed it over and ran off.

She sought medical attention for her arm and when her family arrived, they were extremely worried. She decided to tell only the partial truth, since they wouldn't believe it and she wasn't too sure she believed herself. She felt conflicted about powers being real, not in comic books and movies and wondered if she was faking it. She decided to test out again and then concluded it was real.

### The Pearl's Origins

> "Then I discovered magic was real, superpowers in comics were real, how shocking."
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When she was allowed home from the hospital, she began researching. She later discovered the origins, the Pearl was created by a water goddess in hopes to give humanity hope during times of floods and that this was not an expression of her anger, the first person to use the Pearl was a young girl named Lola, she was praised and worshipped, however when she died, a greedy unknown person stole the Pearl and wanted to achieve the goal of drowning humanity and forced evolution that would not work, others joined in the cause and they obtained it, just as they were about to do what they intended, during the water goddess' last moments, she sealed away the Pearl into an underground chamber covered by her magic and they lost hope for a while.

However they picked up a spike of energy as the barrier crumbled, it had been thousands of years, it was about to crumble. That's when they devised a plan and began to get the Pearl but when Fiona interfered their plans were thrown off.

### Constant Battles

> "I guess my dream sort of came true? I had superpowers and everything and fought a supervillain group."
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Ever since then, she has had constant faceoffs and showdowns with the Pearl society. She's kept this secret from everybody she knew, including family and friends. She had wished to remain not in the public eye but somebody took a video of her and uploaded it, she steadily increased in popularity ever since.

### Jenna Wang's Death

> "Please wake up, please. Everybody needs you, I need you, I love you!"
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Seeking a way to defeat Fiona and claim the Pearl back, they found out about Jenna and diverged a plan to kill her and steal the Pearl from a grief-stricken Fiona. They decided to launch the plan during their next battle.

When the battle started, Fiona fell right into their trapped and while she trapped a few members, the remaining wrestled lose a pipe and threw it at Jenna, it killed her instantly.

Fiona noticed Jenna was eerily still and jumped to her side, she begged her to wake up, she shook her and held her in her arms. She even admitted that she loved her, but she didn't wake up. She broke down crying.

Realizing what had happened, she quickly became blinded by rage and killed 1/3 of the society's members and almost fatally injured the leader, he would have died if not for a nearby healer.

#### Jenna's funeral

> "She was a friend, a daughter, a sister, she brought joy and light into everybody who knew her but most importantly she was Jenna Wang, an amazing girl. May she rest in piece."
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A funeral was held and she alongside Darcy made a speech about her, saying she was a wonderful friend, Fiona silently admited that she loved her, romantically as well.

A school assembly was honored for her and the entire school took an entire week off for people to grieve. Jenna was in the news and people began to question how far villains would go to achieve their goals and if that meant killing an innocent school girl, they were sick.

#### Aftermath

> "They all should be dead and rotting, nobody should remember them, they're horrible people that shouldn't have gravestones. Let them all burn for all I care."
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Even when school returned, hardly anybody was cheerful, the entire city shifted and changed perspectives. Now that superheroes were real, so were supervillains, and they would all face consequences

Fiona built up rage and hatred for the Pearl Society.

## Powers

### The Pearl

* Omni-water Manipulation - Fiona can control any and all types of water,
* Water Magic
* Water
* Hydroscience
* Oceanscience