Shari Plank
Shari Plank
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| Gender | female |
| Species | Human |
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| Series | Primitive Kingdom |
Shari Plank (she/her) is one of the three main protagonists of The Savarian Heist and is the animal representative of the RPS Knights.
History and origin
In Primitive Kingdom: The Savarian Heist, Shari is the first character besides the Primators in the intro to make an appearance. She wakes up in the middle of a cave in Amber Drop Cliffs, suddenly feeling thoughts and emotions thanks to the sentience that has mysteriously leaked over onto the world. She awakens, unaware of what sentience is besides the fact that it exists. When she exits the cave, she discovers a world from a whole new perspective, now seeing the beauty in all of it that she had not seen before sentience. She feels strangely compelled to walk around and explore and eventually finds the remains of a Sharcu that she uses as weapons to defend herself. She runs into Percy Rockwell, who is ambushed by Sharcus and who is later saved by Shari. Both of them are confused about this sudden sentience, but Percy has a strong feeling that the answers to their questions lie where civilization has been established, promoting them to visit Grenatton.
[To be continued...]
General description
Traits and abilities
Personality
Relationships
Development
Inspiration and Creation
Shari went through an interesting development, as she was intended to be a different character entirely. Back when Primitive Kingdom (series) still was the Star Guardians series, the main protagonists of the series were Plainsworth "P1" Rockbell and Percy "P2" Rockbell. In the installment '(9th) The Spirit of Corona Plank', one of the main antagonists was a character with a similar toughness and personality to Shari named Snake, who happened to be Plainsworth and Percy's father's sister. During the transition period when Star Guardians was becoming Primitive Kingdom, Adam DeVoix, Adam didn't want Plainsworth to be a protagonists anymore because he thought his design and personality were too basic, so he opted for Snake to take his place instead. With Snake being the sister of a character named Corona Plank, the last name "Plank" remained, and the name "Shari" was given for unknown reasons. The "missing link," so to speak, between Snake and the current version of Shari was from when Adam made his first version of Primitive Kingdom/Greedbag Heist on RPG Maker, where the sprite for Shari shared the design elements of Snake. When Adam started making Primitive Kingdom on Godot, the design completely changed, and this new version of Shari was considered a completely different character from Snake.
Design
Etymology
The name "Shari Plank," surprisingly had no intentional etymology put behind it, or if there were, Adam had forgotten it. In hindsight, however, the name has some symbolism behind it. Shari is a name that is very close to Sharcu, the animal that Shari harvested to create her weaponry and armor. The name Plank is related to the series's theme of animal/vegetable/mineral, where Shari, as an animal, has advantage over vegetables (vegetable -> plant -> plank). Coincidentally, Percy Rockwell's last name has a similar naming pattern, as they are a vegetable, which has advantage over minerals (mineral -> rock).
