Petra Arkanian is a main character of the books Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card. She is also a minor character in Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Petra is an Armenian. The cover art for Shadow of the Hegemon features Bean standing in the metaphorical shadow of Earth, under control of the hegemon Peter Wiggin. ... Shadow Puppets, by Orson Scott Card, is the sequel to Shadow of the Hegemon and the third book in the Enders Shadow series (often called the Bean Quartet). ... Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is a prolific and best-selling author working in numerous genres. ... The cover art of Enders Game Enders Game (1985) is the best-known novel by Orson Scott Card, set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, the insectoid Buggers (more formally known as Formics). Faced with extreme odds, humanity undertakes a coordinated... The cover art for Enders Shadow shows Bean standing in the metaphorical shadow of Ender Wiggin. ...

In Ender's Game, Petra is one of the few female students at the Battle School. As something of an outcast herself, she acts as an older sister towards Ender Wiggin and teaches him how to shoot. In fact she may, in the beginning, identified with Bean because in many ways he was so similar to Ender (small size, amazing genius). In Shadow of the Hegemon, it's mentioned that one of her teachers found her so aggressive that he actually had her genome scanned to make sure she wasn't a boy. In the science fiction novel Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card, Battle School was a military academy in Earth orbit. ... Andrew Ender Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Cards science fiction story Enders Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind), as well as in the second part of the spin-off series, Enders Shadow. ... The cover art for Shadow of the Hegemon features Bean standing in the metaphorical shadow of Earth, under control of the hegemon Peter Wiggin. ...

Petra becomes a member of Ender's "jeesh," or informal team and as such she rejoins him in Command School, where she serves as one of his most capable lieutenants during the campaigns against the Buggers. He relies on her so heavily, in fact, that he pushes her too hard and she finally breaks during combat; dozing off from exhaustion and causing a number of casualties. Although she recovers, she loses her aggressive edge and she never quite trusts herself again, believing herself to be weak and unreliable, a judgement that later events prove wrong. A jeesh is a word thought up by Orson Scott Card for use in Enders Game. ... Command School is an advanced training facility in the fictional world of Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card. ... Formics, usually referred to by the pejorative term, buggers, are a fictional insectoid alien species from the Enders Game series of science fiction novels by Orson Scott Card. ...

Throughout the Shadow series, Petra serves as a point of insecurity and necessity for Bean. He feels compelled to protect her, due to his failings to protect other important people in his life. In his early life he left his friend Poke alone, and she was murdered by Bean's continual nemesis Achilles de Flandres. When Petra is later captured by Achilles, Bean strives to rescue her. The subsequent death of his long-time friend and caretaker Sister Carlotta drives him even more to rescue Petra. Petra is a very strong character in her own right. Julian Delphiki, more commonly known as Bean, is the main character of the books Enders Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card. ... Achilles de Flandres is a character in Orson Scott Cards Shadow series, part of the universe created in the novel and short story Enders Game. ... Sister Carlotta is a fictional nun, that appears in the book Enders Shadow. ...

While believing she was a weak link in Ender's team, she continually fights Achilles when in captivity, and she is able to use his insecurities to both keep herself alive, and expose Achilles to danger. And infact Achilles himself has a short "romance" with Petra. Her actions also end up preparing and aiding several other captives of Achilles, once Bean finally comes to rescue her.

She was married to Bean and conceived his first child in the book Shadow Puppets. In Shadow of the Giant, Petra and Bean engage in a worldwide search for seven of their children, whom Achilles stole as embryos and implanted into the wombs of various women. Andrew Arkanian Delphiki was the baby born through Petra's womb and fathered by Bean. Bean and Petra manage to recover the rest of their remaining children, three of which share Bean's genetic defect. Shadow Puppets, by Orson Scott Card, is the sequel to Shadow of the Hegemon and the third book in the Enders Shadow series (often called the Bean Quartet). ... Shadow of the Giant (2005), by Orson Scott Card, is the fourth and final book of what is being called The Shadow Quartet (informally referred to as the Bean Quartet), which started with Enders Shadow, followed by Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets. ...

Bean decides to leave Earth and go into space with the knowledge that his genetic defect will one day kill him and his three genetically defected children. Heart broken Petra has no choice but to accept his decision. After divorcing Petra, Bean and those three children leave earth to wait in lightspeed for a cure, leaving Petra to raise the remaining five.

Her children of course come from the same genius stock that Petra and Bean did and so are intelligent years beyond their age. Peter becomes a father figure to her children, and later Peter and Petra marry and have five children of their own. In all, Petra has thirteen biological children, six of which she personally gave birth to.