Sky (Shantae)

Sky is a character from the Shantae games.

Shantae's life-long friend and ally, Sky is a war bird trainer whose profitable egg hunts often span the known reaches of Sequin Land. Sky can't wait for Shantae to see more of the world and life's surprises, and seems to be in a hurry to grow up. Sky is a sort of desert rat, always nesting in out of the way places at length. For this reason, Shantae and Sky tend to have more unexpected reunions than planned visits. Even apart, their friendship is a strong one, and Sky's opinions hold equal value to Uncle Mimic's in Shantae's mind. Sky keeps a war bird named Wrench, and she is rarely seen without him. Wrench is a dangerous weapon and is totally reliable, even following Shantae's orders. For some reason, Wrench regards Bolo as prey, and takes every opportunity to prove it.

Appearance
In Shantae and Risky's Revenge, 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 serong, brown wrappings on her shins and right wrist, pink socks and wears a falconer's glove on her left hand. In Risky's Revenge it is shown her eyes are purple.

Sky's attire was greatly altered for The Pirate's Curse and still retains the new outfit for Half-Genie Hero. Now Sky's hood has a cape attached to it, her bangs are longer, her eyes are red only in The Pirate's Curse but return to purple in Half-Genie Hero, her tank top is replaced with a blue, pink and pink girdle, with the breast covering having the same design as her earrings, her serong 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.

Personality
Sky is an ally and long-time friend of Shantae's who lives in Oasis Town and later Scuttle Town. Sky owns a loyal war bird named Wrench and a hatchery of some sort where she trains warbirds. Slightly older than the half-genie, Shantae tends to look up to Sky as a mentor of sorts; she tends to defer to Sky's breadth of experience and tends to listen when Sky has wisdom to impart. Shantae practically treats her as an older sister, with the two having a very close relationship in spite of the trials and trifles that come from their adventures. The two tend to tease one another good-naturedly fairly often. Sky's also on fairly good terms with Bolo, despite the fact that her war bird thinks that he's edible.

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, both of which Sky generally resents. Her father is relic hunter, like Shantae's Uncle Mimic, but he is far less skilled, having dug up cursed items on more than one occasion. Sky repeatedly accuses both of trying to ruin her life.

Abilities
As a playable character, she is not as advanced in combat as Shantae, Bolo or Rotty, but relies on her birds in both combat and when overcoming obstacles:
 * Seagull Charge - Sky's main attack. It possesses long range and fast firing speed. It deals two damage points towards opponents at max level.


 * Egg Toss - By tossing an egg, Sky can hatch a Hover-Bird to stand on it. She can throw it forward or vertically to create a platform from this bird. The bird will disappear after two seconds if nobody stands on it. She cannot throw another egg if she is standing on a bird already. She can also toss the egg on enemies, dealing them a small number of damage points.


 * Summon Birds - By using Special Move that consumes her Dream Magic, Sky can summon several birds that protect while flying around her. These birds deal damage to any enemies in range.
 * Wrench - Sky can use him as a glider to jump higher and stay in the air for a longer period of time, similar to the ability of Risky's Hat.
 * Intelligence - It's revealed by Rottytops in the battle against Nega-Shantae that while not being the strongest,  Sky  is the smartest of their three and she's capable of outsmarting her opponents.

Trivia

 * Sky and Wrench are seen in the cancelled Shantae Advance Demo. In the Demo, Shantae is babysitting one of Sky's eggs which she has to retrieve. Wrench was enormous in the demo, and Shantae was originally going to use him as transportation between levels, in a fashion similar to the game Demon's Crest. While Risky Revolution was scrapped, Giga Wrench ultimately returned for Half-Genie Hero.