Nancy de Witte

**Monster**

 **Relatives**

 **Age**

 **First Appearance**

*“A strange, older teen. She's extremely sensitive, suspicious, and prone to violent mood swings. She's not exactly trustworthy, but she hates SHELL with a burning passion, and "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."”*
    —Cast page description

**Nancy de Witte** is a recurring character in *Monster Pulse*. She has a monster formed from her blood, known as Red.

## Monster Connection

Nancy has has no visible Arma hole where Red exited. She shares this trait with Julie, Edward, and Rjinder. However, the same glow from a standard Arma hole appears wherever she is cut.

## History

Some time into the developments at SHELL, Nancy asked her mother, Agent de Witte, to be taken to see the projects. During an accident, a ghost struck Nancy and formed a monster from her blood. Frightful at the sight of a girl who had seemingly lost all the blood from her body at once, SHELL ran a series of tests on Nancy to investigate her health. Nancy, reeling from the trauma of the attack, mistakenly believed she had been tricked into becoming an unwitting experiment for SHELL's projects.

Embittered by the apparent betrayal of her mother, Nancy used Red's abilities to repeatedly break into SHELL's facilities, subtly weakening the glass containers holding ghosts to release them.  She believed that, with enough children possessing monsters, SHELL would be forced into the public eye, without Nancy herself being found out.

Nancy made her first in-comic appearance in Chapter 5, silently breaking into SHELL facilities to release a ghost.

Nancy appeared briefly on a bonus page of Chapter 6, angry at being asked how she named Red.

Nancy first began to interact with the main cast in Chapter 8, catching sight of Julie and Abel crossing under a bridge. Noticing the two were missing an eye and their hair, she suspected they were SHELL agents, and had Red use its blood vision to find where they had come from. Seeing the SHELL logo on the Boat, she became convinced of her mistaken conclusion, and fought a weakened Ayo and Bina, instructed Red to freeze Bina in stasis. After a struggle against Julie and Abel, Abel convinced Nancy they weren't with SHELL, using Red's blood vision to show they had killed the Unnamed Finger Monster rather than keep it for study. Nancy had Red release Bina from stasis, claiming she was "letting them off easy" as she left.

Nancy would not reappear again until Chapter 16, breaking into SHELL's headquarters on the same night the protagonists had broken in to save Nate and Lampwick. Though she squabbled with them- first about truly being SHELL agents, then about "stealing her thing"- Nancy was still willing to help the group, tossing West to them when he fell behind.

## Trivia

* Magnolia wrote Nancy as the sort of character that she typically hates in other stories, as a challenge to see if she could make herself feel sympathetic towards Nancy.
* Nancy's first spoken line is technically non-canonical.
* Nancy was originally conceived alongside Ray Wu as a couple who would be "the Jessie and James of the comic".

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 30, Pages 5-7
2. ↑ Chapter 5: Nancy and Red
3. ↑ Chapter 18, Pages 10-11
4. ↑ Magnolia's ask.fm
5. ↑ Magnolia Porter-Siddell on Twitter