Pearl

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Name: Pearl
Alias/Nickname: none
Species: Humanoid Shroom
Age: 28
Height/Weight: 5'7"/ 171 cm | ≈ 155 lbs/70 kg
Gender: Female (she/they)

Reason for entering: to find a way to revive Pillarria, her best friend, whom died from a blood curse.

Memento: Pillarria's bag (is inside the bag shown in the REF, if you want a reference on that I promise I'll draw it ASAP when I can)


Strengths

• haves high knowledge about plants (at least the ones from her residence realms)

• is skilled enough upon making potions and healing stuff out of plants. With the enough ingredients for a certain potion recipe, she can make exactly one of the said potion. To do more, she needs the quantity of ingredients she needs for a potion multiplied at how many potions they are intending to make. Note : the potions are intended to make the user feel better gradually and not to fully heal them from the injuries taken in fights.

• knows a few rune spells for self defense. Two good example of them are :

    1) a spell that summons your stereotypical spheric shield around the summoner (Pearl in this case) and whoever she wants to protect with it (Note : she can use this spell over them + 5 more people and according to her strength level, Pearl can make it last up to 5 minutes, although if they take damage during making the shield, she can expand the duration up to 2-3 minutes in the luckiest cases)

    2) a spell which summons a hologram of herself to distract the enemy (that's mostly used to win extra time upon fleeing). The hologram that Pearl summons is identical to her, the only difference is that the hologram haves a sky blue glimmer, (since her mana is sky blue) and lasts more or less than 5 minutes, then it disappears. She can summon it once at 4 hours as this spell is rather hard and may drain her energy.


Abilities

• her staff can be used for rune spells (see Strengths), but it's mostly useful as a source of light or to temporarily stunt/blind enemies.

• she owns zmopp foam bombs (max. 5 of them, out of which, 2 are attached at her belt and the rest of 3 are in her pocket). Those, or at least their content, is made out of zmopps, a spongy fruit that is found in Katalith, Pearl's world of residence. The zmopps used are turned into bombs through a special technique which, if done wrong, the bomb doesn't work like it's supposed to be. A proper zmopp bomb, when thrown at the enemy, the bottle with contains the liquid explodes and the said liquid will interact with O2 from the air. It will start expanding on the target and during the expansion, the content becomes foamy at touch (from here comes the "foam" from the name lol). After ≈30 mins, the content solidifies completely, making the enemy unable to move. Of course, the solidified trap the enemy got stuck in can be broken in around 10 minutes by an average person (2-3 minutes if the enemy is though tho). This item can also be used to win time upon fleeing. A note upon that, is that any enemy that has been hit with a zmopp foam bomb can escape from being trapped within 5 minutes since the bomb has been thrown at them. After 5 minutes the content gets into the sticky form, from which is way harder to escape from.



Weaknesses

• weak physical structure : Pearl's musculature and strength in general isn't evolved enough for a bare handed fight, meaning that her punch will be barely felt or not felt at all, depending on how tough the enemy is.

• poor stamina : this weakness is put in evidence mostly during the combat moments. It will take a significant effort from Pearl to defeat an enemy through physical ways and may need some time to fully recover her forces.

• clumsiness : combat in overall isn't her experience domain, so she uses all melee and ranged weapons really badly, in 90% of the cases missing the target.

• staff gem fragility : overuse of rune spells (ex. trying to make the defense shield to last over the max length of 5 minutes) will result in the gem getting cracked, and the usage of any future spells may malfunction.

• poor-ish eyesight: this also makes a little reference to her clumsiness with weapons, but mostly refers to the fact that she doesn't spot the enemy easily from distance.

• easy to manipulate : due to her heavy desire of helping others and reach her life goals, Pearl can be easily convinced by others within a thing, even though that thing might not be good aligned.

• sensitivity to cold : Pearl barely bares staying in places with a temperature situated under 10°C.

• She haves exactly one weak spot at her left foot. It was injured when she was a little shroomie, thankfully it got healed, but several sharp pain might appear when doing high effort actions such as running or climbing. This will make her movement slower than usual.


Personality: Pearl is quiet but friendly. She doesn't mind having friends around and would like to give a hand with what they can do. Even though, Pearl tends to be shy by times, due to most of her free time spent in loneliness and silence. Pearl is definitely not the kind of person who engages in fights or any kind of argument (she also not the type who starts one) as that kind of actions makes them feel rather frightened. She won't show it much on her expression though, this making them being somewhat of an introvert.


History: She's basically a shroom who looked up to many famous sorcerers and potion makers and wanted since they were a young girl to become like them. With the help of her mother (who unfortunately passed away from currently unknown reasons), Pearl now runs the potions boutique that exists nowdays.

Likes: reading, plants, making potions, tea

Dislikes: cold, combat, coffee

Other: for this OCT, Pearl haves a bag. Inside it there is a tiny notebook, a pen, her beverage bottle with a plant drink, a photo with her friends and Pillarria's bag (aka the memento that they'll use for this event)