Zelly/History

This page features the past versions of Zelly's character before her current iteration
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Phase 3=
Phase 3 lasted from 2015 to 2019 and was the phase right before Zelly received her current redesign.</p>
In this version, the Drimare Universe became better established, but Zelly was kind of left in an awkward character limbo because I couldn't figure out what to do with her.
The following is taken from the 2019 version of her wiki page before the redesign
"Zelly Stitchgrin is a doll maker and seamstress who enjoys making dolls of those surrounding her. She seems to be able to control invisible strings which she uses to control things, helping in her work."
"She also seems to be strangely popular with absolutely everyone, however, she prefers to keep a small friend group and various acquaintances."
== Personality ==
"Zelly appears to be stereotypically girly, with a love for fashion, dolls, the colour pink, and cute things, however she's a bossy tomboy at heart with a short temper."
"Being popular, Zelly tends to be influential and manipulative, mostly for good reasons, however if she dislikes someone, she may try to find their weak spot and use it to her advantage."
"She is needlessly revengeful and will attempt to ruin the reputation of anyone who has done her wrong. However she will throw a fit if anyone tries to wrong her."
"Although she is very arrogant, Zelly's leader spirit usually helps her find ways to help out with her friends' problems."
"Deep deep down, she is quite insecure and doesn't believe she deserves the admiration others give her, but she firmly hides it with her loud and quirky personality."
== Abilities ==
"Her main ability is voodoo, which she uses to "torture" those she hates and to manipulate others to do as she wishes."
"In her room she's got a huge chest where she keeps dolls of absolutely everyone that she meets. If you mess with her, she'll get a doll of you and begin hurting it, which will hurt you at the same time."
"But since carrying a lot of dolls isn't very practical, Zelly often carries a base doll, that doll can affect anyone, but it's not as effective as the actual doll of the person she's attacking."
== Lore ==
Same as Phase 2, aka non-existent.
In this stage I was considering the idea of them being part of the circus, but I wasn't sold of it yet so it never really went anywhere.
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Phase 2=
Phase 2 lasted from around early 2011 to 2015 before I stopped referring to my characters as Nightmaren and slowly began calling them Drimare instead.
Phase 2 Zelly became much more of a background character when other characters began getting more attention and development. She lived in the "Forest" along with her younger brother Blade.
== Lore ==
The biggest change to Phase 2 Zelly was that she was no longer the daughter of Jackle and NiGHTS, nor was she associated with any official characters from the NiGHTS franchise.
With this, the entirety of her lore was scrapped, with only her brother remaining. Their "lore" was that they didn't have any.
They were just two siblings who showed up on the forest one day and decided to settle. The fact that they were lovechild FCs is why it's so hard for me to figure out their canon parents.
Zelly also had a sewing hobby and dedicated her time to creating weird plush dolls, particularly ones of the forest inhabitants. She had voodoo-inspired powers and could use them to hurt her enemies by damaging their specific doll.
However, she didn't actually wish to hurt anyone. Her reasoning for creating the dolls was never established.
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Phase 1=
Phase 1 lasted roughly from June 2010 to early 2011, around the time Iron was introduced
Zelly was a Nightmaren who lived in Memory Forest, with her parents and younger brother. She was the daughter of NiGHTS and Jackle, who after rebelling against Wizeman, decided to get shelter in the Forest and begin to raise their family.
== Lore ==
Zelly's Phase 1 is actually divided in two smaller eras, which were basically before and after her brother Blade was established.
=== First version ===
Being the daughter of rebels, ever since she was a young child, Zelly's very existence was seen as an abomination.
Once word got out of her existence, Wizeman began to send out his goons to try and capture the young Nightmaren in order to train her to become one of his own.
Jackle and NiGHTS had never told Zelly about this, however, and as she grew up, she felt divided in her alignment.
She knew her father used to be a villain and even though he had retired from that life when he rebelled, Zelly was still captivated by the idea.
Meanwhile her mother was dedicated to doing good and representing a symbol of hope for those who wanted to escape Wizeman and rebel alongside her and Jackle.
When she were to grow up, Zelly would eventually end up joining Wizeman in rebellion to her do-gooder parents and become one of the boss Nightmaren.
=== Second version ===
Most of the same as above, but Zelly now has her brother Blade who is one year younger than her. Like most Nightmaren, Zelly was born with the ability to fly, and she also had a skill in puppetry and trickstery.
Meanwhile, her brother was born with the short end of the stick, not having any special abilities of his own, which in turn got Zelly to tease him relentlessly and gave her a bit of an ego.
In this version, Zelly gets captured by Wizeman and is brainwashed by Wizeman to work for him, and it was up to her brother to face his fears of flying and fighting in order to save his sister.
== Trivia ==
* Much like her brother, Zelly too used to have an partially invisible body, particularly on her overall stomach, crotch, and upper leg area
** This was later scrapped because it just looked weird and stupid lol
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