Risky Boots

Background

Risky Boots is an infamous pirate and the archenemy of Scuttletown's Guardian Genie, Shantae, and is known throughout Sequin Land for her love of wealth, power, and all things shiny. 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. It's unknown if Risky Boots is actually a human possessed by dark magic, or if she's actually a being of dark magic. She often plunders both the sea and the coasts of the ring-shaped Landmass known as Sequinland, a land full of magical creatures, Human settlements and the occasional villainy. Before Risky was either born or formed (She doesn't really know how she came to be), Sequinland was once guarded by Guardian Genies who would occasionally give birth to Half-Genies. Over time the Guardian Genies would disappear. With only half-genies barely being able to protect the land, Risky is often unopposed in her conquests - That is until she is usually stopped by her Enemy/Friend, Shantae.

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 belt angled around her waist with a gold buckle.

Personality

Risky Boots has shown to be cruel and cunning to her enemies, especially Shantae, this is evidenced by the fact she constantly attacks Scuttle Town and tried more than one time to enslave Shantae and all the genies for her own benefit. Aside from that, Risky is also greedy when it comes to treasure, priceless artifacts, and money in general given her role as a pirate. Risky also likes to gloat and make herself known for her actions, even if these implicate destruction and chaos, the most known being the constant attack on Scuttle Town and its inhabitants. She is also sneaky and deceptive and has no problem with having to lie or manipulate others to get her way. Risky Boots can get very violent and even sadistic when she's enraged, often threatening to skin her enemies alive or to dance on their guts. She often threatens to punish her crew if they fail in their assigned mission by either means of throwing them overboard or keel-hauling. Risky is also highly intelligent and surprisingly effective with technology, being able to conceive grandiose machines for her Tinkerbats to build and to operate them quite effectively. Ontop of being a Pirate Queen, she also has a fascination with ancient technology and often trades with fellow villains for either modern steam equipment or instructions on how to build ancient machinery. Abilities: Though she prefers to leave combat to her machines and Tinkerbats, Risky Boots had proven to enemies (Both living and dead) that she is a very capable fighter. Her main choice of weapon is a large pirate scimitar that she can rapidly slash with or throw like a boomerang. When she is caught without her favorite scimitar, she'll resort to using a flintlock pistol to blow a hole into whatever enemy is in front of her - with great accuracy too. Though she considers herself basically defenseless without her Scimitar and her Flintlock, this is far from the truth. She is also able to perform various acrobatic feats akin to parkour, which seems to suggest superhuman levels of athleticism. She also appears to have a high level of endurance for a human, as she is able to take many hits from Shantae's magic, and still have enough energy to escape almost unscratched. When caught off-guard or when cornered, Risky will use her dark magic to pull out a full-sized Canon from hammerspace in a attempt to turn her immediate enemy into red mush. Relations: Shantae: Shantae is the Guardian Half-Genie of a town nestled to the coast known as "Scuttle Town" and the Arch-Frenemy to Risky Boots. Ever since Shantae first defeated Risky Boots, Risky has a personal grudge against Shantae and dislikes her heavily, forming a hatred for all things 'Goodie-Two-Shoes' because of her. Risky often attempts to plunder Scuttle Town for not just it's treasures, but to also piss off Shantae too. Despite their statuses as enemies, Risky and Shantae have had to work together to defeat common threats and have formed a kind of phesudo-freindship that is quite close, sometimes literally. During times of teamwork they will fight, sleep and eat together although with plenty of insults and snarky remarks thrown in between. Risky respects Shantae's prowess in combat, Shantae being one of the only beings who can defeat her in combat time and time again. Shantae is also one of the only people who's she's allow to handle her weapons during times of teamwork - a sign of trust. Though Risky sees Shantae as a brat who is beneath her in both body and beauty, Risky has admitted on one occasion that Shantae would look cute with her hair put into a Bob cut. Tinkerbats: Tinkerbats are Risky's silent shadow army. Individually, they are not very formidable in battle, and therefore tend to huddle in groups of 3 or more. They are intelligent and skillful, yet skittish and non-communicative. Their loyalty knows no bounds, and like drones serving a queen they act as an extension of Risky's will. Where Risky harvests her Tinkerbats is unknown. The Tinkerbats are small, pitch-black, humanoid creatures with hands featuring four clawed fingers and feet featuring three similar clawed toes, yellow eyes, and always wear the same

outfit

a red bandana and pants. They have protruding spikes on their backs, presumably forming part of their vertebrae. It is unclear whether they have a mouth or not, as they don't ever speak and are usually always silent.