Pearl

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Pearl</default></title>

<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group><header>Basic Information</header> <label>Civilian Name</label> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Gender</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Death</label> <label>Age</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> <label>Relations</label> <label>Family</label></group> <group><header>Professional Status</header> <label>Occupation</label> <label>Classification</label> <label>Unique Features</label> <label>Alignment</label>

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Pearl is a disgusting cape living on the fringes of society.

Personality

While legitimately deranged, if not feral, Pearl is incredibly high functioning. She is able to utilize her power to present the image of a mad homeless women to the public while actually living it up in secret. She has no qualms breaking the Unwritten Rules or keeping slaves.<ref name="DG2.2"/>

Relationships

She exists, purposely, on the fringes of society. <ref name="DG1.1>Violent F-Listers (Feral) are rarely anyone’s friend. Existing purely on the fringe, they balance the unwelcome attention earned from screwing with the rules of the game with the reputation games of being an F-Lister. That balance is the primary focus, because it’s all they have in what is a very political world of capes - they won’t get a seat at the table, and there’s a very good chance they’ll be public enemy number one, when they don’t stick to the rules and can’t be urged to play along for the sake of standing. Can be a route for those who want to try their hand at being the big bad, or who want to try flying under the radar while gambling with the highest of stakes. - Dispositions Guide</ref>

Appearance

Pearl wears a pigs mask cut from a real pig, plus a horrible little shower curtain to cover her body.<ref>The giggle sounded very ill-suited coming from the person it had. 'Pearl' wasn't tall, but she was heavy. For a mask, she wore the skin of a pig, which had been flayed in mostly one piece and stapled together where it had torn, and to help it form more of a cowl. Her 'dress' was a shower curtain, the curtain's rings hooked to the pig carcass cowl. Her hair was greasy and she smelled like literal garbage. The eyes that peered through the holes in the pig's face were caked with makeup and liner. - /dl6rh4n Pearl encounter Part one</ref> This is accessorized with horrible body oderm bad make up and many other little blasphemies.<ref name="DG2.1>Pearl is a walking nightmare, with less than zero hygiene, personal upkeep, or standards. She wears flayed pig heads with lipstick as a mask, shower curtains or clothes that have been ripped apart and sewn back together, and caked-on grossness, all to act as multipliers for her repulsiveness aura, which can bring those around her to their knees. She’ll actively collect trash from other neighborhoods on trash pickup day and carry it back to her general territory to ‘decorate’. Homeless and living off of trash picking, she’s detested even by the other homeless. Ask most, and they would say she’s someone broken by her power, an F-Lister at best, who is really only dangerous as a walking biohazard, or if you step into her territory, which most don’t want to do anyway.- Dispositions Guide</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Pearl manifests an aura of repulsiveness so strong the relief of having it lifted can be addictive.<ref>"I thought my power doomed me," Pearl said, her voice deeper than Bandit's. "But I figured it out. Isn't it nice when it stops? Hold onto that, hon. Hold onto that."

It was nice. He knew what was going on. When the disgust stopped, he felt euphoric. He didn't want to hold onto that euphoria, he didn't want her to break him. It would very possible to succumb, to become an emotional slave, wallowing in this filth and worshiping 'Pearl'. - [https://www.reddit.com/comments/6rla13/ /dl6rh4n Pearl 1st appearance]</ref> She capitalizes on this by making herself and her territory as disgusting as possible this makes it easier for her power to amplify feelings of disgust to full repulsion and reinforce her reputation as a crazy person.

Her power is able to withstand the emotional effect of living in her circumstances.<ref> But Pearl isn’t stupid. Her derangement is (mostly) played up, and she uses the fact her power has made her emotionally resilient to endure her territory and create an environment people are loathe to thoroughly investigate. - Dispositions Guide</ref> Further she may have resistance to emotional manipulation by other capes.<ref name="R5">Having emotion manipulation usually appends a degree of emotion manipulation resistance. They'd probably both be pretty darn resistant to one another. That would include Gallant fuzzing Cherish's emotion map. His blast could theoretically knock her on her ass but wouldn't do much more than that (and against those she was controlling, would probably dash whatever effects were present to the winds, or sufficiently confuse/paralyze them to stop whatever Cherish had them doing).

When I say 'pretty darn resistant', I'd really say that the 80-100% resistance they had would veer one way or the other depending on how in concert they were with their passenger at the time of the encounter. - Comment by WildBow on Reddit</ref>

Tactics

She has constructed strategic squalor to shield a palatial lair where she can benefit from her slave trading.<ref name="DG2.2">But Pearl isn’t stupid. Her derangement is (mostly) played up, and she uses the fact her power has made her emotionally resilient to endure her territory and create an environment people are loathe to thoroughly investigate. She’s got a secret agenda, which is collecting people to keep as slaves and then breaking them with the emotional downs and rebounds of being afflicted by & released from her power - obviously against the unwritten rules. She uses contacts to keep track of who is new in town or if anyone’s not watching their backs enough, and pays attention to when things are most chaotic before taking covert action to times her moves for when authorities are preoccupied with bigger things than ‘little’ old Pearl. When opportunities arise, she’ll make a move alongside some mercenaries with emotion resistance or emotionless minions they can send to help, blindside some capes, and leave them little chance to defend themselves by using her power. No evidence is the rule, and when people investigate, the timing of the attack, the lack of resources due to the situation in the city, and the fact that Pearl portrays herself as the sloppiest of people while these crime scenes are clean enough to eat off of… she doesn’t even pop up on their radar.

She keeps the most able bodied around to wait on her hand and foot, and sells the excess members, often to illicit organizations who want to research powers (who may sometimes supply the mercenaries she utilizes for free, in exchange for future offerings). Her money goes towards equipment, future mercenary hires, and luxury items that she keeps hidden from view in the most private recesses of her hideout. - Dispositions Guide</ref>

Trivia

• Pearl seems to be modeling herself of of the phrase "Pearls before Swine", a phrase that can be traced back to the bible, as such there are numerous interpretations of the phrase.

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