Pearl Houzuki

Pearl Houzuki, also known as MC Princess, is one of the two idols that are serving as replacements for the Squid Sisters in Splatoon 2 as one of the hosts of Inkopolis News in their studio within Inkopolis Square. Her voice actress is named Rina Itou. Pearl is an Inkling with shoulder length cream tentacles with pink tips. She wears a cream-colored crown on her head that is also pink at the tips. Her eyes are a golden color. She wears black, fingerless gloves and a white sleeveless dress with a high collar and golden zipper that is pulled all the way up. Pearl also has pink tights and white boots with matching golden zippers. She holds a microphone while singing. Pearl resembles a stereotypical "pop princess.” In the “Octo Expansion”, Pearl is know as MC.Princess in the chat logs. She wears more hip-hop inspired attire than her pop stage outfit, specifically resembling rapper The Notorious B.I.G. She wears a golden, jeweled crown on her head, a long, golden chain necklace with a plus symbol pendant (similar to her zippers on her stage outfit), and multiple golden rings on both of her hands. She also has a baggy, pastel pink hoodie with yellow sleeves, and metallic platform shoes. She wears grey shorts under her hoodie. In the Side Order DLC for Splatoon 3, Pearl wears an outfit composed of black fingerless gloves, a mirror-patterned sleeveless dress, a pair of orange rhombus-shaped sunglasses, a golden crown that is slightly bent in one direction, and a pastel white hoodie. Splatoon 2's Splatfest logo can be seen in white and orange on the left side of the jacket and along with a slanted diamond-like pattern at the bottom right. The hood and the elbows are accented with an orange stripe, and she also wears white boots that, like her hoodie, have the Off the Hook emblem on the sole. In her Drone Form, she is a pink round drone with 'wings' on the side that look like Pearl's tentacles if they were only pink. There is also a mostly white crown with a pink gradient on the tips. The drone had round cream "eyebrows" and a digital interface with white pixel eyes, along with a rotor on the bottom. Pearl speaks rather bluntly using various slang words, matching a stereotypical rapper, as she appears to be (despite her "pop princess" appearance). Compared to Marina, she is more expressive and quicker to jump onto topics with a bit of short temptations. Oftentimes her comments can be playfully sarcastic playing off her co-host. Pearl originally had little to no idea how to write music, though she insists she had her heart in the right place. She demonstrated a notably more vulgar side with her song ‘‘#$@%* Dudes Be #$@%* Sleepin’’ Pearl’s voice is capable of creating massive shockwaves. Sunken Scroll 1 shows an incident in which a young Pearl destroyed various parts of the Youth Folk-Singing contest, and Marina’s Chat has a clip during a death metal concert in which glass is heard shattering. When fully warmed up and amplified by the Killer Wail, Pearl’s shockwave is concentrated into a powerful ink laser able to counteract a mostly charged cannon designed to destroy all sentient life. Pearl is also very protective of Marina, even after being told by Cap'n Cuttlefish of Marina's true nature as an Octoling and former member of DJ Octavio's army. Upon receiving the news, she remained loyal to Marina, including threatening violence against Cap'n Cuttlefish if he ever dared to splat her bandmate because of Marina's past in serving Octavio and his Octarians.