Pearl Shanks

## Pearl

### Relatives

Scott (half-brother); Tilly (pet); unknown number of half-siblings including Amphibian, Nasch, Phinks, Rambldambl, etc.

## Physical description

### Hair color

brown

Pearl Shanks is a half-sibling of Amphibian and his brothers and holds the position of 9th General in the Frozen Legion, the sister army of the Black Rose Syndicate. Her soul was bound to Scott, another half-brother who is not related to the Shanks family, by Gair Doherty. As a result, their lives are linked and they share any pain caused to one of them, although wounds are not shared, additionally if one of them dies the other one dies as well. She also has a close emotional bond to her canine companion Tilly.

### Appearance

Pearl is a tall muscular woman with long dark-brown, wavy hair, and pearlescent-colored eyes, which look like they have constant slight shifts in color. Her body is covered in a variety of smaller patchworks of scars, the most prominent being a vertical scar cutting through her left eye, which does not affect her vision, but makes the color of her left eye tend towards a reddish tinge. Pearl also carries the tattoo of a pearlescent-colored crescent moon on the inside of her right forearm, which after joining the Frozen Legion and by extension the Amphibian Army, was joined by the insignia of the Black Rose, surrounded by thirteen smaller crystallized snowflakes. The ninth general usually sports a sleeveless black shirt, alongside a pair of dark-brown leather pants, tucked into a pair of black work-boots, and a pair of dark-grey finger-less gloves. Her most prominent piece of clothing is a bright red-hooded cloak, which has the right side of its tail damaged by rips and tears.

### Personality

Pearl most commonly acts unhinged and uncaring towards anyone she does not know and/or is not explicitly protected by her brother Scott. This includes everything from ignoring people and talking with almost no one, to recklessly attacking people with no warning, although these tendencies slightly died down after she joined the Frozen Legion. Nonetheless she still routinely puts both her life and consequently Scott's life at risk, by attacking potentially hostile people without backup. But, hidden from all but a very small number of people Pearl also has a soft side, a calm nature with a keen interest for flowers and architecture.

### History

Pearl was born in a small village in the jungles of the planet Olimpia, located close to the border of the collapsed Fauna Kingdom and Eight Banners Empire. She was born roughly three years after her half-brother Scott, to the same mother and a father she never got to meet in her childhood. Despite this Pearl and her brother had a good childhood in the tight knit community of the village, while keeping a very close bond to their mother. Tragically, by the time Pearl had grown to adulthood her mother had become incurably sick, after an attack on the village by raiders from the Empire of Decay. In a last desperate attempt to save her Scott and Pearl set out to journey to the ruins of the Kingdom of Black Gold, where it was rumored that a cure could be found in the abandoned palace ruins. The siblings journeyed south until they reached the port city of Xiu Pan, where they fetched a ship and set sail to the southern mountainous continent of Volsung. They made it to the palace ruins with little issue, but then they ran into Dreadknights still defending the castle, with the help of an abandoned canine and former Dreadknight companion, which Pearl adopted and nicknamed Tilly, they managed to get inside.