Pearl (L1)

"I mean, how am I supposed to trust you, Fathom? Whenever I look at you, I see everything he did. Won't you always be tempted to use your magic? What would stop you? What could ever stop you?"

— Pearl to Fathom, Darkstalker

(Not to be confused with Pearl, the current SeaWing royal treasurer and a member of Coral's Council.)

Pearl was a female SeaWing dragonet who was introduced in Darkstalker. She ascended the throne at the age of five after her great-aunt Lagoon, her cousin Splash, and her mother Manta were murdered during the Royal SeaWing Massacre, as the last remaining heir to the throne.

Appearance

Pearl was glittered with coils of gemstones, long twisted ropes of pearls and opals and sapphires circling her torso and ankles.

Personality

Pearl was shown to be intelligent, as she helped Indigo put on a pearl necklace correctly and successfully played dead during the massacre.

After the massacre, she was wary and cautious of animus magic. She wanted the best for her kingdom's safety as well as Indigo and prohibited Fathom from using his magic, making him swear he would never use it again. Pearl believed that isolating Fathom would end the animus bloodline, but she also carried the gene, showing that she might be narrow-minded despite her best attempts to keep others safe.

Biography

The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Moon Rising

She is mentioned in the book when Moon is reading a scroll titled The Animus Histories, which explains that Pearl was Fathom's sister, the granddaughter of Albatross, and one of the few dragons who survived the massacre. It says that Pearl became queen peacefully and ruled for many years.

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Legends

Darkstalker

Pearl was the sister of Fathom and one of the dragonets chosen for animus testing, which later became the Talons of Power ceremony. She tried to shush Indigo multiple times as they waited, and was the one to point out that it was Fathom's coconut that had hit Albatross in the chest.

During the Royal SeaWing Massacre, she used the glass from the shattered aquariums to cut herself, covering herself in the blood to play dead. After Albatross was killed, she emerged from her hiding place and claimed her new role as queen of the SeaWings. Her first decree was to outlaw animus magic throughout the Kingdom. Fathom made a blood oath to her, promising never to use his magic again as long as he lived and never have dragonets, which she told him meant he had to stay away from Indigo, whom he was in love with. She then appointed Indigo to be the head of her personal guard.

About a year later Current, another survivor of the massacre, returned from being held as a "guest" of the queen of the NightWings. He reported that the NightWings had an animus (Darkstalker), and that he was using his powers. To avoid a similar tragedy from occurring in the Night Kingdom, Pearl sent Fathom (with Indigo, Wharf, and Lionfish as his guards) to the Night Kingdom, and assigned Fathom to train Darkstalker and to warn him of the price of using his magic.

It is unknown what happened to her after the events of Darkstalker (Legends). It is possible that one of Fathom's dragonets challenged her, as the current line of SeaWings is descended from Fathom.

Relationships

Fathom

After the events of the massacre, Pearl's relationship with her brother was strained, as she feared that Fathom would go insane very much like Albatross, and did not trust him, even implying that she didn't care about him much. Her love towards her brother was still there as she accepted his oath and spared him from death. Fathom noted that while he and Pearl didn't always get along, Pearl was never mean to him for no reason.

Indigo

Pearl told Fathom that Indigo was her friend, that she wanted Indigo to live a happy life, and that she wouldn't be happy with Fathom, as he was not allowed to use his animus powers. However, she may have said this to make Fathom think it was better for Indigo to not be with him. Pearl lied to Indigo that it was Fathom's idea to never use his animus magic, implying that she thinks Indigo could stop her from separating her and Fathom. She planned for Indigo to stay away from Fathom despite her and the prince's wishes.

Manta

Fathom mentioned that there was a weird vibe between his sister and their mother. He suspects that Pearl could legally challenge their mother if she ascended the throne.

Family Tree

Albatross

Sapphire

Lagoon

Humpback

Eel

Manta

Reef

Splash

Current

Scallop

Pearl

Fathom

Indigo

Clearpool

Cowrie

Ripple

More

Quotes

"You two are HOPELESS. Have you never seen a dragon wear pearls before? They can't hang this way or they'll make it impossible to swim, and besides, everyone knows a double wind around the neck is most flattering. You have to tighten the slack here and drape it like this …"

― fixing Indigo's pearl necklace for the party

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"You can thank me by distracting Great-Uncle Humpback if he tries to corner me again with stories about the grand old days. 'You know, when I was a young whippersnapper, we had scavenger sashimi every afternoon. But where have they all gone, can you tell me that, eh? They can't have gotten smarter! Someone's been interfering with my scavenger supply! Some toothy little blowfishes, I'll show them."

― imitating Humpback

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"Besides, it's not fair to her. She's my friend, too, and I want her to have a happy life. Don't you? Think about it. What could she ever have with you? No dragonets, no future, nothing but constant danger. Do you want that for her? […] I'll make her part of my honor guard, promote her up the ranks quickly. In a few years, I'll find a minor noble she can have a family with. She'll have a safe, normal life."

― to Fathom about Indigo

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"Queen Vigilance is, naturally, worried about whether her animus might go all homicidally crazy, too."

― to Fathom, about Queen Vigilance's worries about Darkstalker

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"That story is nonsense. Who would want an animus?"

― to Indigo's question on whether the NightWings might try to steal Fathom

Trivia

• In the epilogue of Winter Turning, Darkstalker claims that Anemone is Fathom's great great great great great granddaughter, despite the fact that Anemone is in the royal family, and Fathom and Indigo were isolated from any ties to SeaWing royalty during the epilogue of Darkstalker.
  • This implies that something may have happened to Pearl, causing Fathom and Indigo's descendants to rejoin the royal family.
• She is noted to have had poor handwriting when she was a dragonet.
• She preferred everything perfectly symmetrical.
• Before the Royal SeaWing Massacre, Pearl was thought of as "the one who might be queen someday." Because of this, she had special diplomacy classes, extra policy sessions with the queen, private lessons to improve her handwriting, and advanced etiquette courses.

References

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