Black Pearl Cookie (Korean: 블랙펄 쿠키, bullaekpeol kuki) is a Legendary Cookie released alongside Head Icon Captain Caviar Cookie in the Legend of the Duskgloom Sea update (v3.6). She is of the Ambush Ambush type and her position is prioritized to the Middle Middle. Formerly known as Head Icon White Pearl Cookie, Black Pearl Cookie is the vicious sovereign of the Duskgloom Sea, impartially dragging countless vessels down into the abyss for her own enjoyment. She sits atop a foul throne of sunken wreckage and silently seethes over both the destructive nature of Land Cookies towards the sea and the long-ago betrayal of a Cookie once dear to her. Black Pearl Cookie is the youngest sister of the Gem Mermaids: Head Icon Crimson Coral Cookie, Aquamarine Cookie Aquamarine Cookie, Gold Citrine Cookie Gold Citrine Cookie, and Mystic Opal Cookie Mystic Opal Cookie. She was once attended to by Head Icon Frilled Jellyfish Cookie before becoming her current self. In her standard Cookie size, Black Pearl Cookie is an average-height and thin-yet-curvy mer-Cookie, though she scales up to be multiple stories tall in her true form. The mermaid has sickly light grey-blue dough and inky, full eyelashes with matching reflective eyeshadow. Her pupils are menacing black slits and her eye color is a powder blue. She wears a sadistic white smile and is usually seen putting her hand coyly near her mouth. As a sea-dweller, she has ear-like slate blue fins on either side of her head, being webbed with three points each. Black Pearl Cookie's hair is a pearly white and takes a curly style that resembles sea foam. She has middle-parted bangs which curl upwards and reveal the caliginous pearl on her forehead. Instead of legs, she has a glittering fish tail in an onyx and stone blue gradient. The Duskgloom Sovereign's torso sports an obsidian, skintight bustier with a large, white scallop shell at her chest. On her arms are black opera gloves with off-shooting bat wing embellishments, and about her hips sits a tulle pannier skirt that shines in the light and resembles the bell of a jellyfish. Being the ruler of her domain, she wears a webbed black crown atop of her head with five sharp spikes. Black Pearl Cookie's main implement is a vicious Aegean-blue trident. One of its prongs extends and curves upwards like a fish hook, and it is fashioned with gleaming obsidian insets on its face and the end of its shaft. Before she became the monster she is now, Black Pearl Cookie once was a kind Gem Mermaid under the name of Head Icon White Pearl Cookie who harbored insecurities over her lack of special powers compared to her sisters. Still, it didn’t stop her from doing the right thing as she saved the life of Lord Oyster, the young heir of House Oyster, and entrusted him with her pearl to protect him. When she saw how Land Cookies attacked her home, how Lord Oyster sold her pearl after she had given it to him for safekeeping (despite his efforts to get it back), and the apparent death of her closest friend and servant to the Gem Mermaids, Head Icon Frilled Jellyfish Cookie, she was both devastated and hurt to the point that she transformed into something monstrous. She vowed to obliterate anyone or anything that would prevent her from achieving her desire of solitude in a sea where she could hear nothing but the currents, without any ship to disturb her. What was once her kindness and innocence was twisted into wrath and hatred for all the Cookies who dwelt on land. Black Pearl Cookie bears resemblance to the sirens of Greek mythology. While sirens have been depicted in numerous ways, they are most widely known as mermaids capable of luring sailors to their deaths with their voice and songs similar to Black Pearl Cookie's tactics of mimicking a helpless Cookie to lure her prey. She also bears some resemblance to Umibōzu, a yōkai from Japanese folklore that takes the form of a giant black humanoid whose appearance at sea turns a calm ocean into a furious shipwrecking storm. Explore the Black Pearl Islands visual 14 Black Pearl Cookie may also draw inspiration from Ursula the sea witch from Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989). In the Legend of the Duskgloom Sea Story, Black Pearl Cookie mentions a "silly, naïve child who wanted to become a Cookie," referring to Head Icon Sorbet Shark Cookie and implying that she is responsible for their ability to transform. In the film, Ursula gives Ariel a pair of legs in exchange for her voice, similarly to how Sorbet Shark Cookie is unable to speak coherently while in Cookie form. Her spontaneous extreme growth as a result of her transformation and rage is similar to Ursula doing the same with the power of Triton's trident. Black Pearl Cookie's name may be inspired by the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl's titular ship, the Black Pearl. Remnants of the Black Pearl are cursed to be undead, possibly alluding to Head Icon Candy Diver Cookie's appearance. Furthermore, Black Pearl Cookie's powers seem to be based on Calypso from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, who is also able to upsize their appearance as well as summon maelstroms and lightning. As a whole, the rumors of curses and ghosts surrounding the Duskgloom Sea may be a reference to the urban legend of the Bermuda Triangle, where numerous ships and planes are thought to have vanished out at sea.