Queen Celsius

Ice Pixie (by Ariez)

Excelis (disguise)

Hurting others

Her minions

The cold

Her palace

Heat

Her height

Freezing people

Deception

Disguise

Ariez

Voltore

Imagi

Amor

Voltore (boss)

Queen Celsius, commonly just referred to as Celsius, is a female villain character in the world of Albagan, the main antagonist of season one, and one of the main antagonists of season eight. She is the queen of the Arktinen Citadel and ruler over the Snowbordinates who uses her ice abilities to trap Ariez, demobilize NiGHTS and friends, and seize control over Scenes.

Celsius is one of the most frequently recurring antagonists in the series, along with Reala. She made her debut in season one of Scenes and the first special episode in the series, and made an unexpected return in season five via a brief cameo while running for Scenes CEO. Her actual return as a villain occurs in season seven when Senth and Quorine recruit her, Sunshine, and Diamonds Eyes to form a security unit against NiGHTS and the rest of Scenes to prevent them from ruining IDAA's plans.

In the season eight premiere, she, along with Lord Kreon and Brili, join forces with Voltore to defeat NiGHTS and conquer Albagan. She is defeated by Hunter's friends and their allies in the season finale.

## Appearance

Celsius has had many varying renditions in design throughout the entire series.

Her original, standard design is often considered the most recognizable, and was used from seasons one to five. In this design, Celsius is a small fairy-sized, winged creature with cyan colors and royal blue details on her body and matching clothing. She has two short horns or ears, rings around her wrists, chunky boots, and a gem attached to her forehead. Her actual costume is a sleeveless, cyan catsuit with blue silk stripes.

In season seven, her design is altered slightly. She was given a frilly neck collar, ice-themed wing patterns, jewels attached to an ice crown around her horn, and arm bracers.

In the season eight (or season one of Generation 3) premiere, Celsius's design remains the same as the previous until Voltore rewards her cooperation with a more powerful Spectrum. This change has effects not only on Celsius's abilities, but her appearance as well. In this design she is completely mutated and is now tall enough to stand on two feet most of the time like the other characters, rather than predominantly flying. Her pupils are constricted and take on the appearance of a snake. Her crown is even further adorned with diamonds added on to the icicles. She is given a flared white collar that connects down to her blue belt-stripe and diamonds have also been added to the legs of her suit. She also possesses pointy dark blue heels (for breaking open her own ice) and statement earrings. The most noticeable difference is that her wings were changed from icy, fairy-like ones to glowing insect wings.

Her current design **(above image)** utilizes the most appealing design elements from each iteration. It is most similar to her mutated form but with the removal of the insect and snake elements such as the eyes and wings. Her wings are instead icy again, and her eyes are still thin but less intimidating. She retains the pointed shoes and earrings from the season eight design, as well.

As seen in her backstory, before becoming evil, Celsius had pastel purple wings, blue eyes, and lacked a gem on her forehead.

## Personality

Queen Celsius is known for her cunning tactics, tenacious remarks, and raspy voice. She uses her twisted, deceitful statements to gain control of others' minds. This is coupled with her ability to 'reason' with her captives, where she will manipulatively offer 'easier ways out' to them in order to get what she truly wants; that being justice for her kingdom and subjects. Starting out, Celsius was a harsh but deceptive queen of who wanted nothing but to make a name for herself and prove to herself that she can be somebody truly powerful. Later on in the series, Celsius's personality shifts after being defeated so many times. She is portrayed more as an outcast who lost both her kingdom and her sanity. This can be seen in the season eight premiere where she giggles to herself, and crazily talks about about defeating NiGHTS while sitting in the Forest.

## Relationships

### Lord Kreon

Celsius and Kreon are for the most part business partners, if not begrudgingly friends. They stick together through all of their evil plans and use their common disdain for NiGHTS as a reason to work in tandem. Although they both share a desire to eliminate the royals of Nightmaren, often their pride results in feuding or bickering about who's the better villain.

### Brili

Brili has a unique relationship with Celsius. Similarly to Kreon and Celsius's dynamic, they forcibly work together to reach their common goal of destroying NiGHTS. However, both being the two women of the Legion of Doom, they often mutually mock Kreon for his self-centered, vain view of himself. Outside of that, Brili and Celsius seem to get along quite well. The exception usually occurs when Brili is acting too soft or childish for Celsius's taste.

### NiGHTS

Since her first appearance, Celsius shows immediate animosity toward NiGHTS for his squeaky-clean persona and sheer power in the Nightmaren hierarchy. Not only that, he paints Nightmarens as timid creatures when, in reality, Celsius knows the truth. Throughout the series, she shows continuous efforts being made to defeat NiGHTS once and for all and get a taste of what it's like to feel more powerful than someone else.

### Voltore

Celsius and Voltore's relationship is not explored much. They seem to have an apprentice-boss dynamic due to Voltore's apparent strength that he possesses. Though, Celsius seems to only show respect to him because she has to, in order to advance her own personal agenda. Behind his back she is shown to talk disrespectfully about him, and often makes sarcastic quips to other members of the Legion of Doom. In reality, Celsius could hardly care for Voltore. On the other hand, it is revealed in the season eight finale that Imagi had been disguising himself as Voltore the whole time. It isn't certain how the fake 'Voltore' really feels about Celsius; it seems as if he would dislike her for wanting to destroy his nephew, Hunter.

### Ohshina

Ohshina and Celsius are adoptive siblings. They would cook, bake, play, and practice fighting together in the Mushmeadows where they lived together. They were shown to be quite close and never argued. However, by the end of Sparkling Sister Sabotage, Celsius rebels against the valley to seek out her own source of power and authority. She changes her name from Celsia to Celsius to reflect her identity shift into a more villainous, wicked Ice Queen. It seems Ohshina was disapproving of this decision, much like the other Faelies.

### Amor

When Celsius and Amor were younger (then called Celsia and Amria), they had an intense rivalry between the two; both of them wanting to best the other. Amria defeats Celsia in a sparring competition, which would eventually decide who would become the honorary sixth Guardian in Nightmare. Celsia, although she dedicated years to mastering her ice abilities, loses to Amria and is jealous of her new-found status. As far as we know, they have not reconciled since.

### Ariez

In the Epic Plot of Scenes Celsius captures Ariez (who is a friend of NiGHTS) to persuade the main heroes to her ice kingdom where they are eventually trapped in her frozen chamber. Their relationships is not shown much, but it seems Celsius does not care much for her; rather she used her as bait for the others so she could capture NiGHTS and prove him a failure. Ariez seems to show little to no respect for Celsius, even with her being her captor. She relentlessly sasses and defies Celsius's order since the queen is half Ariez's size. Ariez speaks up against Celsius when she mocks NiGHTS, and stands up for Knuckles and Rouge when the queen demands they perform for her.

The two of them don't seem to interact again until the Scenes series finale when Transmute Celsius seeks out revenge on all of her past foes, including Ariez. They fight on top of the roof of the Plevermare Conservatory before Celsius accidentally warps them to a an avalanche-prone snowy region in the middle of nowhere. Celsius eventually captures Ariez and imprisons her with the others in the royal family's dungeon.

### Dee

Celsius does not interact much with Dee throughout the series. Although during the Epic Plot of Scenes, she captures her along with the other heroes in her ice lair. Dee panics and is clearly wanting to put a stop to Celsius's temporary reign. They never speak to each other directly, but Celsius references her in Un-Together when she obnoxious mocks Dee's annoying behaviors in front of Kreon and Brili. They bond over Celsius's crude impression of her.

## Depiction in the series

### Season one

Queen Celsius first appears as Ariez's captor in The Epic Plot of Scenes - Part 1. NiGHTS's suspicions arise when Ariez fails to show up to humiliate Dee as is standard. Against Dee's will, they along with Enzo, Celeste, and Baruch set out to find where Ariez is being held hostage. They discover a strange new castle that has taken shape in Scenes, known as the Snowbordinate Kingdom, where Yeti-like creatures can be seen guarding the surrounding exterior areas.

Amid complaining, Ariez is interrupted by an annoyed Celsius who explains to her that she is only here as bait to persuade NiGHTS to come and save her. And that when he arrives, she will use the opportunity to freeze and capture NiGHTS, proving him and his altruistic cause a failure. Ariez tells her that her plan won't work, as NiGHTS has not cared for her since she helped Enzo steal the Ideya of their 'friends' in order to stop the negative energy of Enzo's wrath Ideya. Celsius is intrigued at the prospect of Ariez potentially being a helpful ally, with a villainous past of her own. But nevertheless, she resists giving Ariez anymore attention and requests that the guards bring out the Giant Squid to weaken NiGHTS on his way to the throne room. Ariez contineus to relentlessly sass and defy Celsius's order since the queen is half her size.

Celsius employs now-elderly Knuckles and Rouge to entertain her while she awaits NiGHTS and the gang's inevitable break in. She commands them to sing her a ditty, leading them to abrasively whine the My Little Pony theme song. She is irritated by this and sends them down a trap door. Meanwhile, Dee and Baruch are sparring with the final hallway of Snowbordinates. They just barely defeat them all and make it out alive, but at the cost of their strength to go on.

In The Epic Plot of Scenes - Part 2, NiGHTS and friends arrive at the throne room where Celsius resides. She states that she's been waiting for them and mocks their efforts of heroism. Enzo is ready to attack with his scythe, but NiGHTS is insistent that the only way to win this is by acting out of kindness. Otherwise, they would be going against everything that he stands for. Enzo retracts, but Celsius goes on to make fun of NiGHTS, though Ariez speaks up for him. NiGHTS says that Ariez is a friend regardless of anything she may have done in her past. And even though his goal is to break the stigma of violence and evil that surrounds Nightmarens, NiGHTS would allow Enzo and the others to battle it out with Celsius if she refuses to release Ariez. Celsius claims they are making a bit of a brash decision, rejects their offer, and instead immediately freezes NiGHTS in place; though not his entire body, so the ice continues to creep up to his head slowly.

Ariez threatens to "murder" Celsius when she escapes. Enzo is angered by the situation. He retrieves Dee and Baruch from the hall to distract the queen while he carries out another plan. Celeste also joins in order to annoy Celsius with her obnoxious idiosyncrasies. They go on to distract, but Celsius catches Enzo sneaking behind her back and commands her guards to stop his plans. Enzo very quickly breaks open the small cage and frees Ariez and together they fight off the rest of the Snowbordinates. NiGHTS continues to struggle, almost losing his ability to speak as the frost creeps farther up face. Dee, Baruch, and Celeste back Queen Celsius into a corner right before Ariez captures her in small bird-sized cage. Celsius remarks that she will return even stronger one day, and prove NiGHTS wrong.

She is often seen as a joke by others following her first defeat in season one. Since then no one has ever taken her quite as seriously. Regardless of what others think, she is persistent in her efforts to make a name for herself. She undergoes many physical 'upgrades' and transformations (especially in season eight) while her personality remains the same.

Aside from these changes, Celsius also has a secondary identity known as Excelis, a Plevermare tourist who she uses as a guise to fool the Nightmaren firework squad to quit right before Hunter's big festival begins. This causes disarray and confusion on the day of the event. She is able to transform into this character through the powers of the Knight Persona Mask, which can allow the user to take any physical form that their heart desires. When transformed, Celsius's raspy voice and echoing vocal effect is lessened in order to help her disguise seem more trustworthy. She later transforms into a maren-hungry, raging ice dragon in order to steal the Cyan Ideya from Abiria and Aria.

## Backstory

Growing up in a small, grassland village in Libertia, called the Mushmeadows, Celsius (then known as Celsia, her birth name) had always yearned for a distinct and solo recognition from the rest of the Faelies. She wanted a grandiose position of power where she could change the world for the better. The only problem was that she was always unskilled or too young to compete in local challenges that would promote her to a higher position. As revealed in her backstory in Sparkling Sister Sabotage, Celsia had waited years for the right opportunity to come where she could show others her true power. After mastering the art of ice, she finally competed in the Sparkling Sisters competition, which would award the victor with Guardianship in Nightmare, therein finally allowing someone from Libertia to venture into Albagan.

Later in the episode, it is shown that Celsia loses the competition to a simple dodge by Amor (then known as Amria) and fails in reaching for her dreams of leaving the Mushmeadows. Amria is then elected by Guardian Teneperes and is given the chance to have a full name (something Faelies were not accustomed to doing), choose the Ideya she would represent, and decide what responsibilities she would care for in the Nightmare Palace.

This, of course, upset Celsia and led her to lash out on her fellow sisters. Now using her ice abilities for evil, she would continue to answer to the title Queen Celsius and use her powers to construct a kingdom of her own, without the help of Nightmare or the Guardians. She would go on to defy the other Faelies wishes, abandon her home in the Mushmeadows, and become a driving force of evil in Albagan that could not be defeated so easily.

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## Trivia

* Celsius is the first original villain to be featured in the series.
* Celsius's diva-like way of speaking and personality are in-part inspired by the antagonist Vexus from My Life as a Teenage Robot.
* Celsius's name is based on the measure of temperature in which water freezes at 0°.
* She hates friendship and unity of any sort, which she makes clearly evident in season eight when refusing to become Kreon and Brili's friends. She does, however, become their ally.
* Her design is based on Lumina Flowlight from the Sega Dreamcast game *Sonic Shuffle.*
* When growing up in the Mushmeadows, Celsius considered Oshina as her own sister.
* She has undergone four different redesigns since her creation.
* The only people Celsius would consider family would be her underlings, the Snowbordinates, due to her responsibility as leader to care for them, as well as using their kingdom's successes to look good in front of people from her past.