Iris Petalfield

Lost: Caged songbird, if found, please return to black market slave traders.

Background
Born in the North Blue, Iris was designated to be a money grabber from the get go, at a young age she was selected as part of a program on her island to be given a devil fruit, this one being the Kobu Kobu no Mi, why would someone as random as her be given such a fruit?

Purely because of her looks, and the chance to use her looks and classical training in entertainment of the masses to be used to garner more coins. As chance would have it, her performances and enticement of the crowds worked, getting her island plenty of notoriety, too much in fact.

Found by slavers eventually, the island was ransacked, in the name of the black market, she was taken, and used quite often as a mercenary for whatever crew decided to rent her out for the time being, with the payments growing at each due date. She spent most of her teen years moving from crew to crew, branded with the Hoof of the Soaring Dragon across her side.

Living the life of property, of being a cute little bird to sing on command, she would look for any means necessary to use her power to get people to help her out of her situation, or die trying.

Personality
Bombastic - Iris is naturally exuberant in her actions and speeches, though she tends to be quite over the top with it, grandiose some may even say

Loyal - to those she cares enough for, Iris' loyalty is unwavering, she will throw more than everything she has into helping out those she is loyal to.

Entertaining - classically trained in etiquette, butler duties, instruments and parlor tricks, Iris is easily someone that can keep anyone entertained

Willful - no matter all of the training she has been through, her spirit refuses to be broken, no matter what, she has a strong will that defies even the fiercest of glares

Sour - Though she may be jovial to her allies, her demeanor, manner of speech, and actions tend to come across as sour, scathing to those that do not know her.

Sadistic - maybe it's learned from those who 'raised' her, maybe it's her venting out built up frustrations, but she sure seems to enjoy doling out punishment in a fight

Superstitious - plain and simple, Iris is superstitious, of everything. If it's got a rumor and a ritual on how to overcome it, she's gonna adhere to it.

Stubborn - Tied in to her willful nature, Iris refuses to change her standpoint on most things, she's not one for many second chances.

Appearance
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Devil Fruit
The biggest strength of this fruit is the ability to increase other people's fighting spirit and physical strength by simply encouraging them with words. The user can encourage and strengthen multiple people at once, allowing them to turn entire groups of average people into powerful fighters, possibly turning the tide of battle and making this fruit best applicable in group combat.

However, its effectiveness in battle largely depends on the strengthened targets being willing to help the user, as encouragement is the most the user can do to influence their targets' actions, and the targets must make the choice to fight on their own. It is unknown if the user is capable of being strengthened by their own words. Otherwise, the user is affected by the standard Devil Fruit weaknesses