Sally

“*... She's the only one who makes sense around this insane asylum!*”―Santa Claus to Jack; referring to Sally

**Sally** is the deuteragonist in Disney's 1993 stop-motion film, *The Nightmare Before Christmas*. She is a rag doll monster from Halloween Town, created by Dr. Finkelstein. An intelligent, yet inconspicuous woman, Sally yearns for independence, but is repeatedly restrained by her overprotective creator. She is also romantically infatuated with Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King.

## Background

### Personality

Sally is kind, sensible, honest, and incredibly clever. Sally was created by Dr. Finkelstein, Halloween Town's resident mad scientist, yet their relationship is rather tense, as Finklestein insists on keeping Sally under lock and key, under the pretext of protecting her from the excitement of Halloween. However, Sally is restless and is intrigued by the wonders of the outside world.

It is this restlessness, or, more specifically, this desire for something better in her life, that draws her to Jack Skellington. At the beginning of the movie, she idolizes and admires Jack much like any of the other female members of Halloween Town; however, she quickly discovers that they are connected by the desire for something more in their lives, and her feelings for him intensify. The two refer to each other as "friends", though Jack seems unaware of her true feelings for him, as she is too shy to make them known to him other than through her sweet actions.

Sally is an expert at needlework and keeps a needle and thread on her person at all times. Her skills are well appreciated, as evidenced by Jack's request of her to tailor him a Santa suit and his encouraging words to her. She also has skills at brewing potions, which she uses to poison Finklestein so she can escape; and seems to have psychic-like tendencies.

### Physical appearance

Sally has faded blue fabric for skin, with multiple sewing stitches all over her body, and is quite slender. She has large eyes with small black pupils and red lips. Her hair, where she hides a sewing needle, is a reddish color and is kept at tailbone-length. Sally is also known to be stuffed with fall leaves.

Sally wears a knee-high, ragged dress with a V-cut neckline, and is presumably made by simply stitching together multi-colored pieces of cloth (it has a sewn pocket for her thread). She also wears black heel boots with black and white striped socks.

### Powers and abilities

Being made of stitched-together body parts, Sally is largely invulnerable to bodily harm, surviving an otherwise deadly fall from Finklestein's tower, albeit in pieces. Her limbs can also move independently from her body, shown when she used one of her legs to distract Oogie Boogie while attempting to save Santa.

Sally has extensive knowledge of potions, having used ingredients such as deadly nightshade to drug her jailor Dr. Finklestein on more than one occasion, and is an expert seamstress, using a needle and thread to stitch herself back together.

Sally seems to have some precognition powers, however, these powers were only shown once when Sally receives the vision of Jack’s ideas of Christmas ending in disaster. It is unknown if she inherently possesses such powers (or if she is capable of accessing them regularly) or simply received one due to the situation at hand.