Shantae | ...from Shantae

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

Physical Appearance: Shantae is a young woman with a very slender yet curvy build, with a fairly narrow waist, a smaller but perky chest, and thin arms and legs. As a professional belly dancer, her outfit usually consists of sheer, somewhat baggy harem pants, a bra connected by a gold hoop in the center, and gold jewelry - hoop earrings, a yellow v-shaped crown that sits on her forehead, and large, cone-shaped wrist bracelets. This look is also known as the red bedlah attire and is the default look in every 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.

Age: Unknown (adult, at least 18, likely either flat-out 18-21 based on her behavior and temperament)

Height: 5'1 ft. tall (shorter in comparison to other characters)

Personality: Generally speaking, Shantae is a friendly, adventurous, courageous young woman. She displays a strong sense of duty as the Guardian Genie of Scuttle Town, although she can sometimes become insecure about her circumstances as a half-genie and not a full genie. It has been a source of internal conflict that sometimes manifests as an external conflict. In her earlier years as the Guardian Genie, her internal doubt had been an inward obstacle, but as time went on and she went on more adventures, she has grown more confident in herself and fully believes that she alone is capable of thwarting the plans of Risky Boots.

Shantae was not always like this; in her debut game Shantae, she was portrayed as young and somewhat naïve. In addition, her strong sense of justice drives her to help people in need. She chased Risky Boots across the Sequin Land in order to stop her plans and had a strong enmity for the pirate as a result. She was also slightly shy and once hid her status as a half-genie, believing that it made her "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).

She does, however, also seem to have a somewhat short-fuse for nonsensical or unserious things during otherwise serious moments. This mostly manifests in her frustration with Sequin Land's Barons. She is also shown to have somewhat odd and quirky traits: 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. She is also somewhat of a klutz.

History by Game Installments: Shantae - The game's story focuses on a young "half-genie" by the name of Shantae. Having been appointed as the Guardian Genie of a small fishing town, Shantae's life is fairly quiet. That quickly changes when a gang of pirates, led by the sinister Risky Boots, attacks the town and steals a prototype steam engine from the town's resident Relic Hunter, Mimic.

Risky Revolution - In Risky Revolution, Shantae and her friends must stop Risky Boots from using a device called the Tremor Engine which is used to shift the tectonic plates of Sequin Land around making landlocked locations easier to steal from. Eventually, the team are able to put an end to Risky Boots plans and seal up the Chasm and cracks providing a stronger foundation for Sequin Land.

Risky's Revenge - 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.

The Pirate's Curse - 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.

Half-Genie Hero - 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.

*Seven Sirens * - 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.

Abilities:

• Hair Whip:; Shantae's trademark and default move. Shantae can use her long purple ponytail hair as a weapon, cracking it like a whip by shaking her head. It was revealed in Shantae: Risky's Revenge that this skill is not a by-product of her genie half, as she is able to use this ability after her powers are removed. It's possible that this skill is a product of her own magic not tied to her genie side, or may have come from her father.

• Magical Belly Dances: Shantae can use her ability to belly dance to cause various kinds of magical effects, most notably teleportation and transformation. Although her dancing style is certainly mostly fanciful, similarities have been noted with the Turkish Oryantal Dans style of belly dance.

• Transformation: Shantae can transform into many forms such as a monkey, elephant, spider, harpy, mermaid, and Tinkerbat once she's learned the correct dance from a Guardian Genie, Magic Fountain or other means.

She is also proficient in fire-type magic and forms of close combat through training with Bolo.

Phrases: "RET-2-GO!"

• Basically means "ready to go!"

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