Nimona

Nimona is the titular deuteragonist of the series of the same name, serving as the titular main protagonist of the graphic novel and webcomic, as well as the titular deuteragonist of its 2023 animated film adaptation, of the same name.
A young anti-heroic teenager with the ability to shape-shift, Nimona goes to an adventure with the disgraced knight Ballister Boldheart to destroy the over-controlling Institute and expose its director for her crimes in order to clear his name.
She was the monster Gloreth reportedly slain, but in fact she simply left after Gloreth was turned against her by the mob of villiagers who were terrified by Nimona and her shapeshifting powers.
She is voiced by , who also played Hit-Girl in the Kick-Ass film adaptation, Abby in Let Me In, Cassie Sullivan in The 5th Wave trilogy, Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family animated films, young Penny Forrester in Bolt and Red Shoes in Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves.
==Appearance==
In her default form, Nimona appears as a 15-year-old pale girl who is somewhat chubby and has reddish-pink hair in a Chelsea cut, wearing a medieval pinkish-red romper with sequiny sleeves and shorts, and purple markings on it, as well as earrings and a removable choker attached to it (it’s seen for most of the film, but later vanishes; in the webcomic she doesn’t have it at all). Her eyes are a dark pinkish color that turn whitish when the light flickers on them, similar to a picture of an animal. She retains these eyes and her slight dark eyelashes in all of her forms— all of her animal forms are slightly anthropomorphic, and are reddish-pink in color (she can also in her base form make herself grow appendages like red wings, extra thumbs, extra sharp teeth, or muscles). When she shifts into Ballister, she has a reddish-pink streak in her hair and red accents on his mechanical arm. When she shifts into the Director as a prank and Ambrosius to trick the Director, she manages to keep the pink parts hidden. 
In her little girl form, she looks basically the same, but younger, and with longer, darker red hair and a brown peasant dress. Her “demon baby” form has slightly darker skin as if to resemble Ballister, black hair, and a grey medieval outfit, and pink flecks in her dark brown eyes. When she shifts into Gloreth’s Monster or the Great Black Monster, she has multiple eyes and large limbs, and a draconic mouth, and her eyes are all-white (her eyes also sometimes glow fully pink when she’s in other forms). Her heart in this form is also large and glowing, and visible.
In the webcomic Nimona’s forms are less specific, and she briefly cuts off the long parts of her hair and dyes it purple— her forms are all still tinted reddish-pink, and the hair on her Ballister form has a red tinge, though in the webcomic she has more forms that don’t have the color on it at all (like a gray shark, a blonde newslady, and a little boy with pointed ears who looks like Ballister).
==Personality==
Nimona is a rebellious and thrill-seeking individual who wants to overthrow the institution and initially only decided to work for Ballister because she was bored. She desires to kill her enemies and tries to do so when given the opportunity, and is only stopped by Ballister who tries to serve as her moral compass. She enjoys fear and can use paranoia to her own advantage, and likes to break stuff. She’s also rather spunky and loud.
Despite her sadistic traits and liking to prank and scare people, Nimona would never hurt someone innocent; she tries to save a child from being harmed and never threatens anyone who isn’t against her or Ballister, who she comes to deeply care for, seeing him somewhat paternally. She is somewhat vulnerable and hates being called a monster, as it reminds her how she was once attacked by villagers for her shapeshifting abilities, and betrayed by her friend Gloreth after the latter was manipulated by her parents to see Nimona as a monster— hearing the word uttered makes her get defensive and a bit reclusive.
Her vulnerability is so great that when she shifts into the Great Black Monster, she only means to kill herself with the sword on Gloreth’s statue while making a big show of it— earlier she had expressed sometimes losing her will to live due to their taunts. However, when she learned Ballister was truly there for her she stopped her plan in order to hug him. She becomes determined to do what’s right and put an end to the Institute and keep civilians safe, which she succeeds in. The relationship with her and Ballister stayed solid even after her presumed death, and she was extremely happy when he found out she was alive.
==Biography==
===Backround===
Nimona presumably just came to life one day with the ability to shapeshift into animals. She tried to find somewhere she could fit in, but never really did among animals, and one day met a girl named Gloreth. The two would become friends and they would often play with each other. However, when Gloreth's village saw Nimona shapeshifting, they became horrified and attacked her, and when Nimona tried to talk to Gloreth, she was manipulated by her parents to see Nimona as a monster, and told her to leave her village. Saddened by this, Nimona would start to accept her treatment as a villain and decided to cause havoc and chaos everywhere around her, shifting into an older-looking human form and gleefully spray-painting things, to the point where bystanders called her a “freak”.
===Nimona===
She is first seen in the movie vandalizing one of the Institute's posters, and after seeing a report about Ballister Boldheart, who had been accused of being the killer of Queen Valerin, she decided to go to his lair and talk to him. There, Nimona asks him to become his sidekick and commit crimes with him, unaware that Ballister wasn't interested in villany and that he wanted to prove his innocence in the death of Queen Valerin.
After finding out about Ballister's nature, Nimona was annoyed, and when he went to prove his innocence and find the one responsible, Nimona told him that he would end up in jail, which is exactly what happened. Nimona would then free Ballister and got him out of the Institute's castle, and when they escape through a window, Ballister was knocked unconscious and Nimona dragged him back to his lair.
After he woke up, Ballister remembered that she turned into a rhinoceros, and called her a monster, which angered her, causing him to ask what she is, with her saying that she is Nimona. Ballister would then ask why she is helping him, with her telling him that it was both because she sympathized with Ballister due to how he was treated and because she was bored.
After Ballister realized that the Institute's squire should be involved in the queen's death, he and Nimona would go after him. The next day, they went to a subway to get to the squire, and during their time in there, Nimona faked being Ballister to distract the soldiers, but because of the cameras in the subway, the soldiers of the Institute were able to locate them.
However, they were able to escape, and when they find the squire, Nimona turned into a small boy and dragged him into the car where Ballister was hiding on and put him on the trunk of the car. After getting into a safe place, Ballister would notice that Nimona had an arrow in her leg, so he removes it and realized that she wasn't affected by it, so he asks her how she doesn't feel anything, with her saying that she had been through worse.
Nimona then tells Ballister that she spends a lot of time shapeshifting because it makes her feel free. They would then interrogate the squire, who shows them a video that reveals that the director of the institution switched Ballister's sword. Nimona would then talk about how they should show everyone in the kingdom the video, but Ballister decided to try to talk to Ambrosius, as showing it to the kingdom would only ruin the Institution's reputation and not just the Director's.
At the Institution's castle and tried to talk to Ambrosius, but due to the Director's manipulation, he refused to listen to Ballister and Nimona and tried to have them arrested, which caused a fight where they fight against the Institution, and during this, Ballister gets beaten up by Todd and several other soldiers, causing Nimona to turn into a dragon to save him. When a kid was in danger, Nimona saved her, and she turns into a little girl to talk to the kid, but she instead called Nimona a monster before the kid's mother grabbed the girl and left.
After escaping and getting to Ballister's lair, Nimona talks about what happened with the girl and how the Institution has taught people that they could be heroes by killing whoever was different, which greatly disgusts her. Nimona then talks about how she wished that she allowed people to kill her, which scares her. Ballister then tried to leave the wall with Nimona, but she refused and decided to make a plan to reveal the Director's true nature to the public.
Nimona would then fake being Ambrosius and confronts the Director, who admits to have killed the queen and framed Ballister, which caused them to release fotage of her admiting it, which ruined her reputation. However, due to the Director manipulating Ballister and Ambrosius and telling them how Nimona was the creature Gloreth fought in the past, Ballister splits up with Nimona.
After escaping from Todd and several other soldiers, Nimona remembers her past with Gloreth, which caused her to go on a rampage and turn into a kaiju-like monster. However, when she was hit by several of the Institution's drones and mocked by the civilians of the kingdom, Nimona fully loses her will to live and tried to kill herself using the sword of Gloreth's statue, but she was stopped by Ballister, who comforts her and the two then hug.
After seeing that the cannons of the kingdom being aimed at the city and realizing it would caused the deaths of countless citizens, Nimona went to the cannons in the form of a giant bird and got to them before they fired which caused an explosion that killed Director. The next few months, people would start to see Nimona and Ballister as heroes and make a memorial for Nimona who was presumed dead, with even a remorseful Todd honoring her memory. However, when Ballister goes to his old lair, he finds Nimona alive and is extremely happy.
==Powers and Abilities==
==Trivia==
*In the webcomic and graphic novel, Nimona was much more uncaring about innocent lives, prone to murder and genuinely evil despite her tragic past and extremely understandable reasons for how she turned out to the point that Ballister outright turned against her in the end despite still feeling sympathy for her situation. In the film, however, she's much more toned down, never once murders anyone and is willing to save lives of innocents and bystanders; thus her murderous streak is reworked into a desire to tear down the tyrannical system of the Institution and free everyone and herself from the tyranny they've imposed rather than burn it all down regardless of who gets harmed along the way, this finally leads into Ballister not turning against her but instead calming her down so she won't commit suicide.
*In the comic, her backstory is a little different: while she similarly helps Ballister, she is also more reclusive and tight-lipped, and has several possible backstories.
*In the comic Nimona said she got her powers by a witch that bestowed it to her via a spell, but in the movie she got it by a wishing well. In the comic it was seemingly implied that Nimona lied to Ballister about the origin of her powers when she asked What witch. This caused Ballister to believe that she lied to him, despite Nimona claiming that she didn’t. Her backstory was shown a little, with her apparently being experimented on and killing her parents, yet it’s still unknown how she got her powers.
*In the comic Nimona says she has three weaknesses:
** The first is she can’t turn into something inanimate unless she wants to “be inanimate”
** The second is she can only turn into someone or something that exists. She can become any person, real or made up, but it takes more effort
** And lastly three she's allergic to bananas, according to Nimona no matter what she shapeshifts into she will get hives.
*** Although unknowingly, Ballister and Nimona encountered a scientist Dr. Meredith Blitzmeyer. They observed an invention of hers called the Anomalous Energy Enhancer, it makes a magical green energy. When it activates and releases the energy it temporarily cancels Nimona’s power, making stay in cat form.
*In the comic Nimona indirectly defeated The Director when her blood came to life in the form of a monstrous dragon and burned her to death. In the movie Nimona transitions into a phoenix and crashes into The Director towards the cannons defeating her and saving the city, presumably killing her.
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