Saphentite Neikes

**Saphentite "Sapphee" Neikes** (サーフェンティット・ネイクス) is a character in *Monster Girl Doctor*.

## Appearance

Sapphee is a part of the lamia species; a monster half humanoid, half snake and a height of 8 meters. She has a long white serpentine body that descends from her waist with waist length silver hair. Her upper body is humanoid, shapely and agile with large glowing red eyes. She wears a black mesh skinsuit under a strapless white cup bralette. She uses the mesh to protect her skin from the sun. On her neck is a posing choker, white with gold accents and red gems to match the rest of her outfit. Her sleeves hang low over her shoulders and drape around her like a shawl. She wears a black skirt with a red, black, and white tunic-like fabric over it with white panels on her hips. On her head is a nurse's cap. The end of her tail has red and gold cuffs.

## Personality

Sapphee is diligent in her work, but easily allows jealousy to influence her actions. She is very protective of Glenn and wants to spend her future with him. It is clear she has unrequited feelings for him. She also loves to drink, and can be easily bribed with expensive and/or rare alcohol.

## Background

The Neikes family are renowned pharmacists and assassins and Sapphee also received such training at a very young age. As part of a partnership agreement between her family and Glenn's, to create a business trade route, Sapphee was conditionally sent to live with the Litbeit family. She was secretly instructed by her mother to kill the entire Litbeit family, if they were to betray the agreement. This was, however, later prematurely canceled because she could not go through with the instructions under any circumstances.

## Relationships

### Glenn Litbeit

Glenn is Sapphee's childhood friend and they became close during her time living with the Litbiet family. As time passed, she develops strong romantic feelings for him, which morally conflicted with her mission to kill Glenn and his family, if a business partnership between their respective families fell through. Much to her own relief, she never had to make that choice as their family's business flourished. A year would pass, before she was returned to her own family. Some years later, Sapphee would attend the Nemea Academy to become a monster doctor, where she serendipitously reunites with Glenn. While Sapphee is a doctor like Glenn, she happily serves as his medical assistant and helps him run the Litbeit Clinic.

She is very protective of Glenn and she wants nothing more but to be by his side and to spend her future with him. She easily gets jealous when other girls get too close or flirt with him. If a situation arises, Sapphee would use her assassin training to protect Glenn, and would gladly lay down her life for him.

As of the end of Volume 6, she officially becomes Glenn's fiancee after he proposed to her. Though she has to wait until Glenn pays off the Clinic before they can actually wed.

### Cthulhy Squele

While she was Saphentite's teacher, Sapphee often complains about her foisting strange cases on her and Glenn while they are trying to run their own clinic, and resents Cthulhy making her promise to not pursue a romantic relationship with Glenn.

### Arahnia Taranterra Arachnida

Saphee is shown to have close sister like relationship with Arahnia. The two of them are best friends and drinking buddies, and Saphee is comfortable with her trying to seduce Glenn because she knows it's harmless and trusts her completely despite Arahnia's behavior for the same reason. The two also like to tease and make fun of each other.

## Abilities

Despite acting as Glenn's assistant, Sapphee is a highly trained doctor in her own right, and is able to diagnose, treat and cure illnesses on her own. She specializes in creating medicines for the clinic, as she was reared from a family that is well known for their pharmaceutical prowess. Being a lamia has also endowed her with other physical attributes. Sapphee is stronger than a normal human, particularly her tail which she uses as a third limb. Her tail is able to extend and expand and is strong enough to hold and restrain full grown centaur warrior like Tisalia. She is also a trained assassin and martial artist, and is able to fight off a group of skilled mercenaries. She will often use her tail as her primary weapon, whipping her opponents with immense power. As a lamia, she is mostly immune to poisons that would normally be deadly to humans.
Due to being part snake, she possesses the ability to detect body heat and other heat signatures through her eyes.

## Weaknesses

Sapphee's biggest weakness being an albino Lamia is the sun, to which she is particularly susceptible. When she goes outdoors she requires her sun resistant clothing and a veil over her eyes to help shield them from the sun, and carries an umbrella from time to time. She is also cold blooded so cold climates such as the mountains affect her. She also has a fondness to alcohol to an extent that she can be bribed with high grade booze. She is physically incapable of crying as Lamia lack tearducts like real snakes and reptiles.

## Trivia

* Sapphee has an affinity for alcohol and tends to over-drink. She also becomes more open about her feelings for Glenn, as her inhibitions drop.
* She loves alcohol so much she can be easily bribed with high end expensive bottles.
* She likes to refer to her feelings for Glenn as her *"incurable disease."*
* As a monster doctor, Sapphee tends to get irritated when people call her a nurse.
* She seems to be sexually frustrated as Cthulhy made her promise she would never lay a finger on Glenn, something that she complains about when drunk.
* Sapphee likes to refer to Cthulhy as *"that octo-woman,"* when Cthulhy does something to annoy her.
* Sapphee is the first character to appear on the covers of more than one volume of the light novel, doing so solo on Volume 1 and with Glenn on Volumes 6 and 10, and the both of the with Lime in Volume 0.