Shantae Girls (Snake Princess)

Character 1: Shantae

Bio: Shantae is a half-genie, whose job is to protect her home, Scuttle Town. She utilizes magical abilities to help her in her adventures.

Appearance: Shantae is a young woman with a very slender build. As a professional belly dancer, her outfit usually consists of sheer harem pants, a bra, and gold jewelry. This look is also known as the red bedlah attire and is the default look in every game, though it does change slightly as well. She has a relatively thin yet curvy figure and is rather short compared to some other characters in the game. Shantae has olive/tan-skin with blue eyes, and long growing purple hair tied up in a ponytail stem stalk. Her parentage is uncertain, but it is known that her mother was a genie and there is speculation about who her father was.

Throughout the series, Shantae has had the ability to transform into many different things by using her magical powers. Depending on the adventure and circumstance, she also has worn many different outfits.

Personality: In​ Shantae, as the Guardian Genie of Scuttle Town, Shantae lives in a lighthouse by the sea where she can spot incoming ships and trouble. During the events of the first game, she is portrayed at the beginning as young and somewhat naïve. In addition, her strong sense of justice drives her to help people in need. She chases Risky Boots across the map in order to stop her plans and has a strong enmity for the pirate as a result.

Slightly shy, Shantae is initially afraid of the citizens of Scuttle Town discovering her status as a half-genie. In addition, she often puts herself down; believing that only being half-genie is not good enough. After being tricked by Risky near the end of the game and subsequently thwarting her plans, she overcomes her insecurity and shyness and comes to terms with these anxieties, and is happy that the townsfolk still accept her.

Shantae has a deep care for her adoptive uncle, Mimic, as well as her friends Sky and Bolo, and at the end of the first game gives up on the chance to enjoy eternal peace in the Genie Realm in order to be with them. She also considers the zombie Rottytops as her friend, although Rotty's own attitude towards her, while friendly for the most part, is more ambivalent, as she does not hesitate in claiming she would like to eat Shantae's brains (which Shantae seems to take as a joke).

In Risky's Revenge, she's shown to have grown more confident, enough to believe that she's the only person able to stop Risky Boots and discarding Mimic's suggestion that Sky and Bolo should go instead. At the end of the game, Shantae is betrayed by Rottytops to Risky Boots in exchange for her brains (although Risky chooses to back down from the deal) and loses her genie powers. She is then shown to be much less self-assured, despite the fact that she manages to defeat Nega-Shantae, which causes Shantae to lose her magic powers. She is then comforted by Bolo, Sky and Mimic, who tell her they will help her protect to Scuttle Town from Risky and other evil forces.

In The Pirate's Curse, Shantae forms a temporary alliance with her nemesis Risky Boots to help stop the Pirate Master, despite not trusting Risky. Over the course of the game, Shantae slowly forms a bit of an attachment to her, asking her if she could "join the good guys for once" and even going as far as saving her life later on. Squid Baron calls Shantae a tomboy at some point. Shantae's more unusual habits are revealed during the game's progression; we learn that Shantae accidentally destroyed Sky's Library Card once by nibbling on it when she got nervous and that she considers herself a bad role model due to her bad temper and fashion sense. Shantae also appears to have low self-esteem (possibly tied to the loss of her magic), as when she was threatened with losing her hair after getting dismissed as Guardian Genie, she says, "They can't take my hair, can they, Uncle? It's all I have left!" At the end, if the player collects all the dark magic from Cacklebats and gets the true ending to the game, Shantae gets her magic back and is eventually re-hired as Guardian Genie as she was fired in the previous game. After that happens, she is in much higher spirits and appears to have regained some self-esteem. If the player does not collect all the Cacklebats, then Shantae will not get her magic back, and is forced to hope that Risky will eventually take down the Pirate Master on her own.

In Half-Genie Hero, Shantae has gotten her magic back and is tasked with protecting Scuttle Town from various threats like the Barons of Sequin Land, that person no one can remember, etc. Despite Shantae getting along with Risky Boots during the events of the last game and becoming sort of friends by the end, Shantae still considers Risky her enemy as the first thing she says to the pirate is, "Risky Boots! Back to your old tricks, I see,". In Half Genie Hero, Shantae's self esteem has increased again, since she has her magic back. Shantae is also shown to have a short fuse at times during the events of the game, such as when dealing with time wasters, such as Hypno Baron and Squid Baron's merchandising plot.

In the Shantae Half-Genie Hero Friends to the End DLC, Shantae's magic gets inverted and she becomes Nega-Shantae, who is a chaotic and evil version of Shantae. Fortunately, her friends are able to defeat Nega-Shantae in Shantae's mind and change her magic back to normal. Once she is restored, Shantae reveals that she had gotten caught up in trying to be a hero to make up for her human half, but forgot that she could rely on others along the way and rushed things. This is a trait that has lead to disaster before (such as losing her magic in Risky's Revenge).

In Seven Sirens, Shantae and her friends go to a tropical island resort where they encounter other Half-Genie allies. At the beginning of the game, Shantae is invited along with the other Half-genies to participate in the Half-Genie Festival. During the performance, however, the Seven Sirens cut the lights and use the cover of darkness to kidnap the other Half-Genies, leaving Shantae alone onstage once the lights come back, much to the confusion of the audience. The next day Shantae begins to feel suspicious, so she decides to venture into the islands underground terrain to uncover its secrets and come face-to-face with the Seven Sirens, freeing the other Half-Genies along the way, despite her allies (specifically Mimic and Sky, though the dialogue implies that Bolo doesn't want her to disappear either) forbidding her to go in an attempt to protect her. This is a good show of Shantae's determination - unlike others, Shantae is not willing to sit around and wait for problems to be solved on their own. She is determined to help those in need, even if it means putting herself in harm's way.

Snake Princess Outfit: The outfit consists of a cobra tiara, blue gemstone earrings, gold bikini armor and bridgeless bra, strapless bra, gold armlet and bracelet. Other items include blue heart pasties, gold coins straps on the showgirl skirt and thighlets, she is barefoot. Shantae's hair is now braided.

Character 2: Rottytops

Bio: Rottytops is a family member of a Zombie Clan. Rotty travels the land by caravan, threatening to eat peoples' brains. She has two brothers (Abner and Poe Cadaver). Rotty is obsessed with Shantae's brains and the thought of eating them.Even among zombies, Rotty and her brothers, like Risky Boots, are considered bad news, but Rotty genuinely cares for Shantae. Her true feelings for Shantae are revealed through her former identity when Shantae visits the Village of Lost Souls in The Pirate's Curse.

Personality: Rotty is a free spirit, being friendly, energetic, and headstrong. However, she is also extremely mischievous, unpredictable, and manipulative. From their first encounter, Rotty builds a complicated but mostly friendly relationship with Shantae. Although she initially threatens to eat her brains, she grows fond of the half-genie, mainly because Shantae doesn't run away from her like other people. Rottytops is subsequently both helpful and unhelpful over the course of the series, although it is revealed in The Pirate's Curse that she genuinely considers Shantae her best friend, but has trouble communicating it. In Half-Genie Hero, she also gets to know Sky, Bolo and Mimic. While she does like teasing Bolo from time to time, she and Sky generally don't get along, although they can work together when it comes to helping Shantae.

Appearance: Rottytops has green skin, choppy dark green hair, and red eyes. She has stitches on her left arm and right leg. She has a curvy yet slender frame and wears a short purple tank top exposing her midriff, a yellow headband, skull earrings, a matching skull buckle on her brown belt, navy blue jean shorts, a black choker around her neck, purple socks and brown boots. Her idle sprite animation has her hands on her hips as she swings back and forth in place; her eyes are closed while she does this in Risky's Revenge and The Pirate's Curse, but in Half-Genie Hero and Seven Sirens, they're open, and she occasionally blinks.

Snake Princess Outfit: The outfit consists of a cobra tiara, blue gemstone earrings, gold bikini armor and bridgeless bra, strapless bra, gold armlet and bracelet. Other items include violet heart pasties, gold coins straps on the showgirl skirt and thighlets, she is barefoot.

Character 3: Sky

Bio: Sky is a warbird trainer and Shantae's best friend. She lives in Scuttle Town with her friends (Oasis Town in the first game), and keeps a pet bird named Wrench, who she uses to help Shantae get around places quickly.

Appearance: In the first two games, Sky is portrayed tan-skinned, has blonde hair held back by a blue headwrap, and a purple hood. She wears pink and blue earrings in the shape of eggs, a blue tube-top with a pink lining at the top, pink bikini bottoms, a blue and purple sarong, brown wrappings on her shins and right wrist, pink socks and wears a falconer's glove on her left hand. In Risky's Revenge and The Pirate's Curse it is shown that her eyes are brown.

Sky's attire was greatly altered for The Pirate's Curse and still retains the new outfit for both Half-Genie Hero and Seven Sirens. Now Sky's hood has a cape attached to it, her bangs are longer, her eyes turn purple in Half-Genie Hero, her tank top is replaced with a blue, pink and purple girdle, with the breast covering having the same design as her earrings, her sarong and bikini bottoms are replaced with white khaki pants (that is given a buckle in Half-Genie Hero) and a pair of brown boots. While in the princess garb, Sky's hair is revealed to be arm-length and in braids. It is unknown how she fits it all under her headwrap.

Personality: Sky is an ally of Shantae's who lives in Oasis Town in the first game, then moves to Scuttle Town in the next installment. Sky owns a loyal war bird named Wrench and a hatchery of some sort where she trains warbirds. Since she's slightly older than Shantae, the half-genie tends to look up to Sky as a mentor of sorts; she tends to defer to Sky's breadth of experience and generally listens when Sky has wisdom to impart. Shantae practically treats her as an older sister, and the two having a very close relationship in spite of the trials and trifles that come from their adventures. They tend to tease one another good-naturedly fairly often.

Occasionally, Sky has shown a more irresponsible and selfish side. In Half-Genie Hero, despite transporting Shantae to different locations, she didn't mind pushing her off Wrench abruptly, and in Shantae and the Seven Sirens, where she prefers to relax on the island instead of helping to rescue the other Half-Genies.

Sky's also on fairly good terms with Bolo, despite her getting upset with him often and the fact that Wrench thinks that he's edible. However, she doesn't usually tolerate Rottytops, and they fight often, even when they're working together to help Shantae. While Sky can seem selfish at times and tends to be snobby, even towards her own friends, she cares deeply for them, as seen in Risky's Revenge after Shantae lost her powers, and in Half-Genie Hero where she helped save Shantae from dark magic.

Sky has an adversarial relationship with her parents, indicating that no matter how cool and collected a warbird trainer she may be, she cannot be cool in front of her mother and father. Her mother dotes on her constantly to the point of coddling her, and generally treats Sky like a baby bird, which Sky generally resents. Her father is a relic hunter, like Shantae's Uncle Mimic, but he is far less skilled, having dug up cursed items and dooming her prospective dates on more than one occasion. Sky repeatedly accuses both of trying to ruin her life.

Snake Princess Outfit: The outfit consists of a cobra tiara, blue gemstone earrings, gold bikini armor and bridgeless bra, strapless bra, gold armlet and bracelet. Other items include blue heart pasties, gold coins straps on the showgirl skirt and thighlets, she is barefoot. Sky's hair is now twin braided.

Character 4: Risky Boots

Bio: Risky Boots is the main antagonist of the Shantae series, appearing in all games. She is an infamous pirate and the archenemy of Shantae and is known throughout Sequin Land for her love of wealth, power, and all shiny things. Risky is an unchallenged and self-proclaimed 'Queen of the Seven Seas' who commands an army of Tinkerbats, and will caution and toll anyone who thinks otherwise.

Appearance: Risky Boots has light purple skin, purple hair, usually pulled up into her hat and wears purple lipstick. She wears a red and purple pirate hat with a pale beige skull and crossbones on the front and red ribbon trails down the back as well as golden hoop earrings. She wears the top half of a skull as a bra with a purple bra top underneath that also fills out the eye holes of the skull. She has purple and red striped cuffs around her wrists with gold circular cufflinks and wears purple harem pants with the bottom jaw of a skull as a belt. She wears a thick brown belt angled around her waist with a gold buckle.

In Shantae, Risky Boots has black eyes with yellow sclera. Her hat is purple with a red rim around the bottom. She has a purple gem on her chest and her buckled belt is purple. She wears purple heeled boots with thick cuffs. When damaged during the final battle, her hat falls off revealing she has long hair not unlike Shantae's. In her genie disguise she wears her hair up in a high ponytail with a red circlet and hair band. She wears a red bra with sleeves similar to Shantae, black harem pants and a red belt and shoes.

In Risky's Revenge, Risky has red irises and white sclera. Her hat changes to a more traditional pirate hat with the bottom half purple and the top half red. Her appearance is the same as Shantae yet she now has a purple choker, the gem on her chest is golden and she is missing her buckled belt.

In The Pirate's Curse Risky's usual appearance is the same yet she lacks her hat instead wearing a red and white striped bandana. On Tan Line Island, Risky Boots briefly wears a princess outfit. She wears her hair down and has a golden snake headpiece with a blue gemstone that matches her earrings. She wears a swirled golden bra, a necklace, a swirled armlet and thick bracelets. She has a purple skirt with a gold belt and a swirled bracelet on her thigh that matches the armlet.

Snake Princess Outfit: The outfit consists of a cobra tiara, blue gemstone earrings, gold bikini armor and bridgeless bra, strapless bra, gold armlet and bracelet. Other items include violet heart pasties, gold coins straps on the showgirl skirt and thighlets, she is barefoot. Risky's hair is now loose.

Tan Line Temple is a palace on Tan Line Island in The Pirate's Curse.

To enter, Shantae must use the X-Ray Specs on all three coffins in the desert, Sky's hatchery (courtesy of her dad), and Saliva Island and match the code with the animal symbols on the puzzle. Once inside, the servants of the temple mistake her for the long-lost princess and dress her in skimpy royal garb, taking away all of her Pirate Gear and the Magic Lamp. To get out, Shantae has to sneak past the guards roaming the temple. Getting caught results in starting over from the beginning, but if Shantae hits a switch while in the main hall, the blockade will open, lessening the penalty.

Eventually, Shantae finds Sky, Rottytops, and Risky Boots all captured and dressed in princess garbs, each with their own reason for entering the temple. Once all the girls are freed, they reach for the penultimate room and with forced teamwork pull on the giant rope. The last room has a giant statue of the princess, who happens to look nothing like them, despite the lack of resemblance, the royal advisor single humorously implies that Shantae, Risky, Sky, and Rottytops are all fat. The real princess turns up with a bag of groceries, revealed to have only been gone for thirty minutes. The royal advisor happily proclaims her return with an apology to the others and a confession that it happens a lot. Shantae gets the Golden Pickaxe, needed to advance further on Tan Line Island, and her gear back.

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