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Nefera de Nile is the older sister of Cleo de Nile and a Monster High graduate/former fear squad captain. She's vain and hostile, feelings born from deep-rooted paranoia and a combo inferiority/superiority complex. Despite graduating, Nefera has had trouble succeeding in life beyond high school, and therefore often returns to Monster High, not rarely to torment her younger sister, Cleo. As such, she is one of the franchise's antagonists.
In the Hebrew version, she is voiced by Ronit Bakerman. who also voiced Headless Headmistress Bloodgood.
Personality
From her appearances thus far, Nefera seems to think that she's perfect, and that everyone else is beneath her - even her own younger sister, Cleo de Nile. She's always pointing out Cleo's flaws, and pushing Cleo towards acting more like her, even in matters that don't concern her.[1]
Nefera also appears to be quite deceitful, as she sometimes blames her sister for things that she herself has done, getting Cleo into trouble instead.[2]
She's basically an older version of Cleo, relying on their family servants and not even looking twice at a task that seems beneath her. This is most likely due to her regal heritage, and the fact that Nefera would be next in line for their dad's throne since she's the oldest. Plus having the attention of being a "world-famous" supermodel going to her head makes her even more stuck-up and meaner than Cleo is. Either way, she's very bossy and has been since she and her sister were little kids.
But despite her nasty ways, Nefera can have her moments of kindness and has shown the capacity to be a nice ghoul, as shown in Kind: The Shockumentary, after being told by Cleo that she was a great older sister, she smiled sincerely and let the Kind Campaign leaders through the door without being mean.
Portrayals
In the webisodes, she is voiced by Wendee Lee. She has made appearances in both the second and third seasons of the Monster High webisodes as well as the Ghouls Rule special.
Physical Description
There's an obvious family resemblance between the de Nile sisters. Nefera's hair is nile blue (it's unknown if this is her natural hair color or if she dyed it), with thick highlights of black and gold, which is done up into a ponytail through a gold headdress with a single braid. Her eye color is light purple. Like her sister, Cleo, she too sports a diamond shaped birthmark on her face as well, the difference being that of it's color, orange. She's always in some bandage wrappings, which she probably needs so she doesn't disappear into dust, just like Cleo.[3]
Relationships
Family
Cleo's her younger by three years. She acts very superior to Cleo, and will do anything to make her look bad. Because both sisters have superiority complexes, they don't get along very well. In the books, their father is Ramses de Nile, a wealthy and successful antiques dealer. Not much is known about their mother. They also have an aunt named Nefertiti.
Friends
In response to the Friends entry of her profile, Nefera claims that she "rules alone". But in Neferamore and Monster Mashionals Part 1, she was shown to be friends with Toralei and the werecat twins, Meowlody and Purrsephone. This friendship probably got blemished in Monster Mashionals Part 2, when the trio retaliated against Nefera's lack of trust for their fearleading skills (as Nefera had tried cheating so they could beat Cleo's B-squad).
Pet
Nefera's pet is a scarab beetle named Azura. Its gender isn't clear because Nefera's profile says that Azura's a male, but an entry in Nefera's Campus Stroll diary contradicts this, claiming that Azura's in fact a female.
Books
In Back and Deader Than Ever, Nefera's said to live in Cairo. Here, Spectra Vondergeist mistakes the de Nile sisters for being twins.
Dolls
Campus Stroll
- Line: Campus Stroll
- Release: January 2012
- Assortment number: N2851
- Model number: W9115
- Nefera wears a dress of bandages accentuated with the colors blue and orange. Her dress is half sleeveless, with the one existing sleeve covering her left arm all the way to the wrist. Attached to her dress is a blue sash which goes from the left shoulder to the middle of the waist on the front and from there to the waist on the back. Over the sash, she wears a thick golden belt with a snake design curled around it. On her head an elaborate golden head piece is seated that encircles her high ponytail and single braid. Nefera's left earring represents a golden snake, while her right earring is a golden triangle with three pendants hanging from it. Her right arm is decorated with a studded golden bangle and her golden necklace resembles a snake curled around her neck holding a red orb. Her final piece of jewelry is a large blue ring she wears on her right hand. Her shoes are black and golden with open toes. The heels are in the shape of blue king cobras.
- The doll comes with a golden and blue handbag with a double-headed snake for handle, an Azura figurine, a real-life sized black brush, a black doll stand and a diary.
- Both Nefera's San Diego Comic-Con International display and her stockphoto show her with a blue brush and blue doll stand. The doll has never been put on the market with those.
Gallery
Webisode gallery
TV Specials gallery
Meta Timeline
- June 13, 2011: Mattel requests the trademark for Nefera de Nile.
- June 16, 2011: Nefera de Nile is mentioned in "Miss Infearmation".
- June 23, 2011: Nefera de Nile makes her webisode debut in "Hyde and Shriek".
- June, 2011: Nefera de Nile makes her diary debut in Cleo's School's Out diary.
- July 15, 2011: Nefera de Nile's profile is published on the Monster High website.
- July 15, 2011: Nefera de Nile's profile art is revealed.
- July 21, 2011: Nefera de Nile's first doll is put on display at San Diego Comic-Con International.
- Late January, 2012: Nefera de Nile's first doll is released as part of the Campus Stroll series.
- May 1, 2012: Nefera de Nile makes her book debut in Back and Deader Than Ever.
- October 9, 2012: Nefera de Nile makes her CGI-animated debut in "Ghouls Rule".
Notes
- "Nefer" is an old Egyptian word meaning "inner and outer beauty," and was popularly incorporated into Egyptian names for women. The name "Nefera" is a reference to Nefertiti, the most famous Egyptian queen after Cleopatra, whom Cleo is named after.
- Nefera must be around 5,845 years old, as she said that she's 3 years older than Cleo, whose profile says that she's about 5,842 years old.
- Due to the age difference between her and Cleo, it's likely that Nefera graduated from Monster High a year before the beginning of the main storyline.
- Nefera's preference for Almas caviar and white truffles exemplify her luxurious upbringing: both top the list of most expensive foods/ingredients worldwide.
- Nefera's doll is the tallest of the female molds, including that of than Abbey Bominable's, to reflect the fact that she's older. Her limbs are also much thicker than the standard dolls.
- It's mentioned in Cleo's School's Out diary that she was the former captain of the Monster High varsity fearleading squad, and had favored Toralei and the werecat twins, Purrsephone and Meowlody, which is why Cleo, as her sister's successor, kept them on the squad (Cleo says in her School's Out diary that her sister was "always a cat-person").
- Despite already graduating, Nefera's seen leaving and entering Monster High in the Kind Campaign special. This follows on a note to Cleo's School's Out diary entry about Nefera keeping tabs on Monster High still.
- Her bandages on her arm are different colors between appearances in both her official art and the webisodes. Additionally, her leg bandages are flipped.
- In Dueling Personality, it's stated by Headless Headmistress Bloodgood that Nefera's "the most decorated fearleading captain" in the history of Monster High.
- In Monster Mashionals Part 2, it's revealed that Nefera has a glass-shattering shout akin to Cleo's scream.
- Also in Monster Mashionals Part 2, Nefera was stripped of all her trophies because of cheating while using spells and idols.
- Her catchphrase is "Wrapped Up In The Past".
- Nefera has a scar on her left arm, which she usually keeps covered with bandages. She was born with this scar (thus making it a birthmark). Nefera keeps this covered up due to her insecurities about perfection.[4]
- In her profile art, her skin appears to be a light brown color, and much darker than Cleos. In the webisodes, however, her skin's light peach and much lighter than Cleo's skin.
- Since Nefera's a former MH-student, it's unknown how many fearleading trophies she really has. In Don't Cheer the Reaper, it's said by Cleo that the Smogsnort Vampyre Academy had won Mashionals the previous four years in a row, so Nefera would actually only have like two or maybe three trophies, unless Nefera's squad had won four fearleading trophies in a different kind of fearleading competition.
References
- ↑ Cleo de Nile's 'School's Out' diary, Tenth Month 22nd Day
- ↑ "Miss Infearmation"
- ↑ Cleo de Nile's Facebook profile
- ↑ Nefera's scar, confirmed to be a birthmark. at Monster High Dolls