Clarity Shoal, Princess of Piranhas (FiD)

Starfox's Princess World

Faction Representative for the Sparkle Union

Clarity is a shortish sort of princess with a blankish sort of face, with red hair done in short pigtails. She favours a lady explorer sort of look; rugged but handsome clothing, pith helmet, goggles hanging around her neck. Her princess weapon is a fish net, which can expand to magnificent proportions. Clarity has never enjoyed fighting, but she's an experienced princess who's practical about these things. If there are fish or fish-type monsters around she'll likely be focused on catching them and keeping them safe. Clarity had an okay time at the academy, never quite finding her place but not having anything in particular to complain about. After graduation her lack of direction continued, so she signed up for an expedition with Exploration Unlimited, in the hopes of seeing some interesting or cute fish, or fish-type monsters. She wasn't fussy. The expedition was a complete wash in terms of fishspotting, but it led to Clarity making friends with Cartaliza Lazurite, the Shark Princess, who had a dream; the Aquarium Kingdom. None of the factions were interested in the concept, so Clarity and Cartaliza ended up founding it themselves as a Sparkle Union kingdom. It took time and effort but the two of them were eventually successful. Their efforts were noticed by SUN, who offered them both positions as faction reps. Cartaliza chose to stay in the newly founded kingdom as a caretaker, but Clarity accepted the job offer.

It's been a bit of a rocky road for Clarity, as a representative for a faction that is tragically under-resourced. She's grown used to being presented with lists of needs and wants that she has no actual means of helping with, and with being looked down upon and bullied by the bigger more powerful factions. With that said she's quite a good little networker with a number of useful contacts, and she's always happy to reach out on your behalf. It never hurts to ask, is something of a motto for her. Clarity is always very happy when she can actually help with something, and over the years she's learned a number of tricks and shortcuts and stopgap solutions and so forth, to the sorts of problems that frontier kingdoms commonly face. Even if she can't provide any resources she'll often pitch in and lend a hand. She's got your backs, and even if she can't do all that much to help she'll always do what she can. At the very least she provides good moral support, and she's adept at telling princesses that she can't fulfil their requests in a way that leaves them feeling sort of good about the whole situation—a kind of you can do it, we're Sparkle Union princesses and we accomplish impossible things with no resources all the time, we have no roses OR bread but solidarity forever sort of mood.

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On those rare occasions that Clarity visits a kingdom and finds that they're doing fine on their own with no actual demands—an 'independent kingdom' living up to its name, so to speak—she'll be well pleased, and this will be reflected in her assessment of the kingdom. Regarding the other factions, Clarity doesn't have a lot of love for princess politics but, by necessity, has learned to play them. Mostly she's skilled at placating other factions, knowing full well that her own faction has little power or influence. She tends to get along with the looser factions—Exploration Unlimited, Luxury Seekers, Hunter Guild—but dreads having to deal with the likes of the Noble Traders or the Universal Librarians, those big powerful no-nonsense factions skilled at negotiation and used to getting what they want. Clarity likes fish, solidarity, freedom, animals generally, kindness, nature, basic food, hopes and dreams, clear explanations, and she loves to see princesses ACTUALLY doing it for themselves.

Clarity dislikes excess formality, bullies, manipulative behaviour, unreasonable demands, feeling helpless, and she has absolutely no tolerance for cruelty, especially to animals.