Pearl

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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.

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.

- [https://www.reddit.com/comments/6rla13/ /dl6rh4n

Pearl encounter Part one]</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 resistant 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>

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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