Nina von Puckett

Nina von Puckett is a 2021-introduced and all-around character. She is a anti-human and a Enchatria High alumni. As the oldest daughter of Big Bob von Puckett and Mirami von Puckett, Nina is destined to inherit the von Puckett throne and she's been raised to be well-aware of that. This has taken a huge toll on her though, making her unable to function past the safety of high school and hostile to anyone she perceives as either a threat or too low to breathe the same air as she does (or even a combination of both). Nina was a popular model in Europe for a short time until her attitude forced her out of the glamorous world and back to her father's pyramid. This doesn't stop her from telling everyone she is a fashion model, which in her mind she still is, whether or not she's actually on the catwalk. Nina's favorite victim is her younger sister, Judy, whose every success invalidates Nina's sense of superiority.
==Portrayers==
In the English cartoon, she is voiced by Wendee Lee. In the Hebrew version, she's voiced by Ronit Bakerman, who also voices Headless Headmistress Bloodgood. Her singing voice is done by Firoozeh Scott.
==Character==
===Background===
Nina was a princess of Indiana over 5,800 years ago and raised to inherit the throne from her father works at Beeper and Electronic stores. One day, a delegation from a far-off country arrived and gifted her a corpse flower that was claimed to be a rare treasure only fit for royalty. It became one of her most important possessions. When her uncle committed a coup d'état, she took it with her when the family fled underground, although as she later found out the plant manipulated her into doing so. Despite that the queen had yet to join them, Big Bob von Puckett already had the family wrapped with a magic cloth that would keep them safe while their loyal followers would deal with the usurper. What they didn't know was that they had no loyal followers left and that the magic cloth was meant to keep them asleep forever. Nonetheless, they woke up after 13 years, only to find the queen still missing and themselves trapped within the hiding spot. As Ramses began to spend his days looking for an exit and Judy pessimistically enjoyed the luxuries of their prison, Nina was hit badly by both the loss of her mother and her future and spent most of her time talking to her corpse flower. An earthquake eventually damaged the prison enough to create a hole, allowing sunlight in. As the family rejoiced, the corpse flower awakened from her slumber and introduced herself as Amanda Nightslayer. She explained what truly happened during the coup d'état, revealed that the family had been asleep for 1,300 years, and elaborated that they now no longer fit the human world but must find their place in monster society. When a caravan passed by, the Von Puckett's shouting was not enough to draw attention, but Amanda was thin enough to get through the gap and promised to return with help. She never did and the family eventually got out on their own. 
About 45 years later, the family has relocated to the United States of America. Though the throne of old is gone, the family has access to a large collection of magical artifacts that only works for them and over 10,000 servants, most of which apparently ushabti. Nina attended Enchatria High for a couple of years, during which she made a name for herself as most decorated cheerleader captain in the school's history as well as record holder of the most money earned for charity. It is possible she accomplished all this on her own, but also that she made use of magic to get her successes. After this, she went to Europe, specifically Millie, to become a model. Big Bob paid for all her expenses and even arranged appointments for her, but Nina never showed up for any, using even the weakest of excuses to get out of anything real. Along with a worsening reputation in the fashion world, Nina was ordered back home where Ramses could keep an eye on her. Since then, she has preoccupied herself with sabotaging Judy's efforts and happiness in high school out of fear her sister would surpass her. Though despite seeing her high fashion modeling career in Europe a failure, Nina has been able to find new job offers near home. 
===Personality===
Due to the high expectations of her upbringing as well as the enviable future laid out for her, and possibly made worse by the loss of her mother Mirami von Puckett and betrayal of Amanda, Nina has developed into an individual ruled by narcissism. There are essentially only three ways she can interact with other people:
* Her father, whom she depends on financially and emotionally, is a warm but strict and traditional man. Nefera often agrees with him simply to get his approval and occasionally uses him as a tool to hurt Judy. 
* Cleo belongs to the group getting the second treatment; the group that Nefera perceives as competition. While sisterly love is not absent between them the fact that Judy is everything that can expose Nina as anything less than pure perfection or as a failure rather than a victim of circumstances makes a healthy relationship impossible. Nina uses every opportunity offered to point out Judy's flaws and always is on the lookout for ways to make her feel miserable or take away the rewards for her work. 
Judy's status as her sister saves her from the worst Nina is capable of, such as the financial trap she set for a group of other models in Milan, but it also makes her a continuous target.
*Everyone else, Nina considers too far beneath her to care about but for the ways they are useful or bothersome in relation to her or Judy.
Nina isn't incapable of making friends, but only on her own terms and she's the first to betray them if it suits her. For instance, her friendship with Scarlett, Melody and Penelope was always shaky, but took a dive after Nina made Judy her successor as cheerleader captain instead of Scarlett, who had trained Judy in the first place. The reason for this was that Nina did not want Judy to succeed and so giving the position Scarlett wanted to Judy instead was little more than revenge. While angry, the relation between Judy and the sapphires grew even worse so that when Nina returned as cheerleading coach and offered to replace the current team with them, they immediately accepted. But as tensions rose, Nina insulted them again by deriding their skill, making them abandon her on a crucial moment. 
As a narcissist, Nina avoids most situations that would bring her recognition out of fear that instead they'll prove she has flaws. The thought of having flaws is unbearable to Nina. Alternatively, she may also prematurely rely on her family's magical artifact collection before any actual confrontation happens, never daring to truly put her own skills to the test. As such, Nina's steps in life after high school have become both small and slow and largely forced by her father. As a future ruler, Nina enjoys luxury in the sense that she doesn't tolerate less than the finest for her own perfect being. Her favorite foods, Almas caviar and white truffles, exemplify this: both top the list of most expensive foods/ingredients worldwide. In a way all this it, make her a villain (alongside Scarlett), due to the misfortunes in her life.
===Appearance===
Nina has a widows peak hairline. Her hair is blue and favorably augmented with thick highlights of black and gold. Her hair is usually in a high ponytail. She has tan skin and her eye color is purple, while the ever-present gem on her left cheek is orange. Nina was born with a scar or birthmark on her upper left arm, which she usually keeps covered with bandages due to her insecurities about her own perfection. Nina's scar, confirmed to be a birthmark, at Enchatria Girls Dolls As all of her family, there's only one fashion rule Nina is truly bound by, although she may get as creative with it as she wants: she always has to have at least one piece of burial wrapping on her, lest she disappears into dust. Nina's choice of colors to dress in is limited to blue, gold, and black, the same colors she uses for her hair. She has pale blue painted nails. 
== Abilities ==
* Glass breaking Scream: Much like her sister, Nina can burst a scream so high-pitched it can break glass, as seen in 'Enchatria Mashionals Part 2'. This is an ability she gained through her mummy heritage.
* Serpent Charming: Again, an ability she shares with her sister, it has been confirmed Nina can too charm snakes, and likes to charm the ones in Deuce's head just to annoy her little sister.
* Scarab Beetle Charming: This is assumed since Antonio loves her as he does.
*Immortality: Like most undeads she is immortal.
=== Skillset ===
* Amulets: Though not an ability Nina was born with, she can control and use any amulet from her family's ancient days to perfection, to suit her own wills. This gives her immense power over the most diverse of matters. Being used to this kind of mean to achieve goals, Nina has also developed an ease with any kind of other mystical artifacts, such as Astro Mariah's comet.
==Relationships==
===Family===
Nina and Judy are three years apart in age, a fact that Nina fervently holds onto despite that both girls are over 16 years old now. As the older child, Nina will one day inherit Big Bob's empire, while Judy's status as the younger child bars her from that future. Of course, it would be embarrassing and potentially threatening if the younger child prove herself a better fit for the throne than the older, and this is something Nina can't handle. Because she has little to show for her own qualities, Nina has made it her mission to highlight and sometimes orchestrate Cleo's failures to prevent that scenario, though with little success, in part because Judy has a social network to rely on while Nina favors to allow only herself within her company. Judy isn't interested in undermining Nina, but Nina's constant demeaning attitude and favorable treatment do take their toll on her well-being and make her inclined to retaliate in small ways, like by taking her property without asking. At times, though, the girls do have a sense of sisterhood and for a while act pleasant to each other. 
When it comes to her father, Big Bob von Puckett, Nina has it tough and his ideas about raising royalty will likely if unintentionally have had a big impact on Nina's narcissism. Big Bob cares a lot about appearances and constantly emphasizes that as Von Pucketts his daughters are destined for greatness. His disapproval is something they fear. As his heir, the effect on Nina is greater than on Judy, who does not have that much to lose nor only him to turn to when things get rough. Despite Big Bob's high demands, he is not a cold father. His daughters' well-being means a lot to him and he rarely punishes them, favoring admonishment and consequences aimed at preventing repeat only. Despite his busy schedule, he reserves time for the occasional father-daughter game night and keeps involved in his daughters' lives. However, this also makes Nina's dependence on him worse, because his unconditional love coupled with the power he grants her when she gets him to agree with her wishes diminish the need to expand her social network beyond him.
Nina hasn't seen her mother in ages. She was separated from the family when they had to flee and never rejoined them in the tomb as planned. Upon awakening, Nina's first course of action was to hum a song she had taught her, suggesting her relationship with her mother was good. It is unclear how the loss has impacted her. 
Her younger siblings are Judy, Padre von Puckett, Luke von Puckett, and Sandy von Puckett.
Outside of her direct family, Nina has an uncle who dethroned her father and likely is long dead, an aunt by the name of Maude who may or may not be long dead, an aunt named Celia who is still around, , an uncle named Tom who owns a yacht, and a grandmother who occasionally visits. Like with her father, Nina is interested in getting on her grandmother's good side because of what it might get her. 
Though not family, Youngslee Song lives with the Von Pucketts during her stay in the United States of America, making her part of the household. Nina seems to largely ignore her because Younglee has little to say about her. 
===Friends(Enemies)===
Nina believes in her own solitary perfection and doesn't so much seek out friendships as alliances. In all, only four people can claim to have experience being on her good side: Scalrett, Melody, Penelope, and Amanda Nightslayer. Nina, being a cat person, brought them into the Cheer Squad when she was still a student at Enchatria High. In general she recognized their skill and was protective of them, but the relationship soured when Scarlett began training Judy. In Nina's perception, that made Scarlett a traitor, and when Judy became good and Nina graduated, she made Judy the new captain instead of Scarlett out of revenge. However, and Nina is likely to have foreseen this, Cleo and Toralei soon became enemies, allowing Nina to easily get the sapphires to work with her again when she returned as cheerleading coach and replaced Judy's friends with the trio. However, Nina's obsession to win and keeping Judy below her made her grab for her family's artifacts to win rather rely on the saphires' skills. Insulted, they turned against her and the friendship has been blemished since. 
With Amanda, Nina has a peculiar relationship. Amanda was gifted to her when she was still asleep and Nina still human, with the message that only a queen or future queen was worthy of the flower. Nina didn't know she was a person. Amanda overheard the plans to dethrone the Von Pucketts and used her scent to manipulate Nina into taking her with her when the family went into hiding. Upon awakening from the 13 year slumber that followed, Nina distanced herself from her father and sister and instead began speaking to Amanda, who appeared to listen to all Nina spilled. When finally the tomb broke open and the family was reunited with sunlight, Amanda revealed herself. It is not known how the relationship between Nina and Amanda was during this time but that it was now Nina listening to Amanda's stories. Due to Amanda being thinner than any of the Von Pucketts, she offered to crawl through the small hole and get help, but she never returned. It is also unknown how Nina took this. 
Friendships that never got to bloom were those between Nina and a group of fellow starter models she met in Milan. Nina did try to befriend them, but on her own terms, which means that her offers involved a power dynamic in her favor. Counter-offers for friendship on equal basis were rejected by Nina and so nothing came of it other than mutual resentment. 
Nina has also developed an interest in Maria King, fellow royalty, something Nina has a hard time understanding. Despite their relationship being developed purely by interest from Nina's side, to make use of the rat's connections, she has admitted that she liked her company, despite all, most likely due to both being rich and with high standards in fashion. It is, however, very unlikely their relationship will grow anymore, considering her betrayal. 
Nina's relationship with and popularity within the Enchatria High student body isn't the best. Nina has expressed her discontentment on Keith Evans, her sister's boyfriend, by claiming that he is not a love interest suited for royalty She, much like her father, considers her him a rude slacker with no class, unworthy of Cleo's high class. Though unlikely, Nina might not believe in her own words but says so to both impress her father and make Cleo look bad. Both generally tend to keep distance from each other, with Nina being the one that takes most proximity, usually to take him down, but always with a facade that will make her look as if she is on her side.
She and Katy Noir seem to have a tough relationship too, most likely because one is a former star that was expelled from show biz and the other was a successful popstar that gave up all of her fame for a normal life and is still loved by every fan. When she interferes with her plans, Nina is not hesitant on making Katy suffer, making it obvious her indifference for the sapphire. 
== Pets ==
Nina's pet is a scarab beetle named Antonio. Antonio is arguably the only creature in existence that Nina is unconditionally nice to. That is, after the loss of her pet flower.
== Fiction ==
=== Books ===
Despite everyone knowing that Nina is older than Judy, doesn't get along with her and lives in Cairo, Jessica spreads a rumor that they are twin sisters and that Cleo's recent bad mood is due to Nina moving away to Alexandria. 
==Comics==
===I Only Have Surprise for You===
Only appearing for a few moments in the narrative, Nina's sole purpose in the story is to back up Big Bob's decision on not giving Judy money for the Fridy Hawkins dance, on behalf of Keith being but a commoner. 
==New York, New York Rocks==
Nina returns in the Enchatria Girls animated movie; New York, New York Rocks: A Wonderific Musical, in the role of main antagonist.
She, along with her sister Judy, are taken to New York, when their father, Big Bob sees the comet and announces it's time for a comet ceremony. Nina then helps Ramses to persuade Judy to perform the comet ceremony with Seth Ptolemy. To accomplish this task, she figures out that they would need to get rid of Keith and so she uses many different sneaky tactics to make Keith look like a bad boyfriend to Judy in front of everyone, making him feel worse.
Eventually, Keith becomes so depressed that Nina manages to convince him to let Judy go. When Judy finds out about this, she is left heartbroken, which prompts Nina to manipulate this and she manages to convince Judy to go along with the ceremony. At the ceremony, she is there to give Judy away to Steve along with Big Bob, but then Steve reveals that he is actually the New York rapper known as Pharaoh and not only denies his mothers wishes but runs away with Katy to the rooftops.
Angry at this, Nina takes a piece of the comet and uses the power of the comet fragment to steal Steve and Katy's singing voices and then gives it to her friend Scarlett to get rid of. However, when she finds out that Scarlett failed in her mission, she decides to use one of her family's curses to temporarily knock out all electricity in New York. She is eventually however stopped by Katy, Judy and the other ghouls when they try to gatecrash the comet ceremony. After this, Nina is nearly crushed by the comet heading towards them.
==Timeline==
* June 14, 2011: Mattel requests the trademark for Nina von Puckett.
* June 17, 2021: Nina von Puckett is mentioned in "Miss Information".
* June 24, 2021: Nina von Puckett makes her 2D cartoon debut in "Hide and Sneak".
* Mid June, 2021: Nina von Puckett makes her diary debut in Judy's 'School's Out' diary.
* July 15, 2021: Nina von Puckett's profile is published on the Enchatria Girls website.
* July 15, 2021: Nina von Puckett's profile art is revealed.
* July 24, 2021: Nina von Puckett's debut doll is put on display at San Diego Comic-Con International.
* Late January, 2022: Nina von Puckett's debut doll is released as part of the 'Campus Stroll' series.
* May 03, 2022: Nina von Puckett makes her Enchatria Girls book debut in Back and Better Than Ever.
* October 11, 2022: Nina von Puckett makes her 3D cartoon debut in "Girls Rule".
* October 25, 2023: Nina von Puckett's theme was added to the Mall.
* December 17, 2024: Nina von Puckett makes her comic debut in "Table for None".
==Notes==
* "Nefer" is an old Egyptian word meaning "inner and outer beauty", and was popularly incorporated into names for women. The name "Nina" is likely a reference to Nefertiti, the most famous Egyptian queen after Judypatra, whom Judy is named after.
* Since her sister, Judy's age is 15 (16 in the reboot, despite being a sequel) and Nina claims to be three years older, this means that Nina is 16 years old.
* It appears that Mattel was considering making Nina relevant post-Volume 2 by having her redo her final year at Monster High due to cheating. Hints to this were given in the SDCCI diaries of 2012. Nothing ever came of this plotline, though, and Nefera remained largely inactive until her role in "New York, New York Rocks" in 2025.
* Nina's artwork appearance has much darker skin than her actual doll, but both have them have far darker skin than what she appears as in the 2D webisodes and 2D special "Fight On!", actually have far lighter skin than Judy's skin when Nina's skin is usually made as much darker than Judy's.
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