S.W. Shelley

Memorable Quotes
"If you don't answer my questions I will fucking shoot you, I'm unstable, I lost my demon, and I don't know what the fuck I'm doing anymore"

Early Life
Shelley was born as Persephone Adams to a very traditional family in 1963. As they grew into their teens they began to notice that the expectations of their assigned sex at birth were suffocating, but didn't have the language to explain how they were feeling. They were born naturally attuned to the spirit world, though not intensely enough to make direct contact with any spirits on their own. All of this combined made Shelley appear odd to their peers and they had very few friends growing up. Originally wanted to go by Perses before meeting Phenex.

Possession
On June 15th, 1981, shortly after graduating High School, Shelley attended the graduation party of their close in age, but infinitely more popular cousin. Their mother convinced them to join the group of girls who were planning to have a sleepover after the party. After a couple hours of Shelley keeping to themself in the corner as the girls watched movies, Shelley's cousin pulled out an Ouija board. Shelley aware of their predisposition to the supernatural wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. They decided to go sleep on the couch in the house's basement to avoid any unwanted supernatural encounters. After an unknown period of time Shelley awoke to the sounds of screaming upstairs. They immediately hid behind some storage containers in the basement hoping to wait out whatever was going on upstairs. Eventually the screaming stopped and Shelley realized that they were being approached by a very powerful entity. The entity introduced himself as Phenex and offered Shelley a deal, they were a suitable vessel and he did not want to go back to hell, Shelley would still be mostly in control of their body and would be able to draw on Phenex's power for their own ends. Shelley agreed immediately. The next morning Shelley was found by the police unharmed in the basement, the only survivor of a massacre that had resulted in the death of everyone else in the house. Shelley told the police everything that had happened that night leaving out the part about the demon and told them that they had seen nothing. Shelley skipped town 3 days later and is still considered a missing person and a person of interest in the massacre to this day.

Prior to Season 1
Prior to season 1 Shelley had been traveling with Phenex for about 14 years. They were living in a van that they had converted into a roving home base. Over the course of those 14 years Shelley had filled many large binders with notes of the various supernatural entities they had encountered over the years. They also destroyed anything that was actively killing people, and they allowed anything that was mostly harmless to continue on. It was during this period of time that Shelley first met the vampire Kirsten.

Pre-possession
Shelley was mostly able to just feel supernatural presences and made a point to avoid them.

Post possession
Natural abilities intensified.

Hex - can hurt, break, or induce disease in both living things and inanimate objects.

Telepathy - reading minds, communicating telepathically, planting thoughts in people’s heads.

Jinx - magically manipulate a situation to their advantage.

The Sight - can contact spirits and sometimes get them to help.

Premonitions - will occasionally have very vivid visions of events that have not yet take place.

Unholy Strength - effectiveness in combat is supernatural rather than physical.

Immortal- Shelley does not exactly age in the same way as those around them and they will immediately reincarnate upon their death.

Can occasionally be fully taken over by Phenex and turn into a giant demon, though it is physically very taxing for Shelley.

Can also give Phenex permission to leave their body in order to quickly dispatch all enemies in the area. However this results in the slaughter of everyone in the immediate area and Shelley usually refrains from doing it when people they care about would be killed.

Immune to exorcisms due to the amount of time possessed and the consensual nature of the relationship.

In order to protect Phenex from Shax and Steward, Shelley temporarily switched powers with Crystal Moore, but have since switched back.

Season 1
Part way through season 1, Shelley is introduced as they are in Gettysburg PA, looking for something to hunt. An undetermined spirit approaches Shelley and tells them to go to Spirit Falls PA. Shelley immediately got in their van and started making the drive to Spirit Falls 3 hours away. Upon arrival it was about 3am and unsure exactly what they were looking for decided to pull off into a parking lot and get some sleep. At around 5am a car chase involving the other characters in The Original Group occurred that failed to wake Shelley multiple times. Eventually they awoke and started following behind the two police cars in their van. They hexed one police car, breaking the axel and killing the officer inside and the group in the bus managed to get the other car to crash going around a corner. The two vehicles pulled into the parking lot of the Blockbuster and as Eve Black exited the bus they handed her a business card reading 'S. W. Shelley; Psychic' (This is how Shelley presents themself to avoid the topic of demonic possession as that usually makes people less trusting). Shelley then followed the group back to the cabin and is filled in that Tyler, the chosen one, had been kidnapped by Juno.

Figuring that this is why they had been brought to the town, Shelley offers to assist the group and hold a seance to try to locate Tyler, which everyone agreed to. They determine that Tyler is being held at another location. Off to the side Eve gives Shelley's business card to Sarah, who then sees flashes of the night Shelley and Phenex met. Sarah and Eve accuse Shelley of being possessed and Shelley dismisses their accusations by stating that they have met several demons in their life as a side effect of being born a psychic and that just happened to be the one who killed members of their family. Shortly thereafter the three other spies from Eve's organization arrived and Shelley decided to go back outside to evaluate the situation alone. The house then suddenly went into lockdown and Shelley blacked out soon after.

Shelley awakes back in their van still in Gettysburg and realizes that the events of the last few hours have been a premonition and that if they leave now and drive directly to the cabin that they can prevent Tyler's kidnapping altogether. Upon Arriving at the cabin and pounding on the door Shelley awoke Eve and Belvedere to whom they communicated that they were a psychic and had a premonition that Tyler was going to be kidnapped and three spies were coming to potentially harm them in the early hours of the morning. The group in the cabin did not believe them, so Shelley drew their sword and prepared to defend the house on their own.

- group fights off Juno people.

- end up I basically the same car chase

- group briefly kidnaps Sarah’s grandmother

- gets first half of book of tomes from the cemetery

- get second half of book at the song with ritual

- Frank and one of the spys die

- Shelley has vision that Drake sets Eve on fire

- Tyler gets kidnapped

- Shelley actually gets set on fire

- group rescues Tyler

- Shelley’s van blows up

- group travels a month in the future minus Billy

- group meets back up with Billy

- at some point Shelley admits to being possessed but that it’s consensual; The group is chill about it

- group gets caught in Puzzler trap

- Shelley get shot twice in the chest with a shotgun by Billy

- group goes to bunker

- Billy explodes; Shelley steals his weed

- Shelley turns into giant demon monster

- Tyler and Jeremy die

- They come back but Sarah is gone

Returning from the bunker Shelley first takes Tyler and Jeremy home then drives Belvedere back to his house where Shelley sees that Kirsten is there with a woman that they do not recognize. Deciding to give Belvedere his privacy, Shelley Climbs into the back of their new box truck with Jill and the two proceed to smoke some of the marijuana that Shelley previously stole off of Billy's dead body. After Belvedere decides to stay there, they drive the remaining members of the group back to the cabin, where they find that all three of the spys are now alive. Shelley decides that it's probably time for them to leave town for a bit, but promises to stay close. Eve gives them a pager so that they can stay in touch and Shelley drives away to begin documenting the events of the last few months for their library. While stopping at the no longer destroyed Crab Shack and sitting at one of the outdoor tables, Shelley sees a figure standing directly across the street. They realize the the figure resembles themself, but distinctly more feminine. The scene fades to black.

Season 2
Shelley begins Season 2 where Season 1 left off across the street from their apparent doppelgänger. Shelley followed the doppelgänger down the street eventually catching their attention. They have a short conversation with Persephone Heart during which they are approached by Frank Heart, who in this universe is Persephone's husband. Unable to convince Persephone to trust them and come with them to help figure out what is going on, Shelley gives up for fear of drawing too much attention.

Flash forward 6 months and Shelley has been either staying just outside of town or actively stalking Persephone. Shelley finds themself unable to wrap their head around a version of themself that seems to be happily living as a woman, a housewife, and a mother of 2 children. They have become obsessed with the idea of Setting her free in the same way that Phenex set them free, though over the past 6 months has come to realize that Phenex is a creature of the multiverse and that there is only one of him. One morning Shelley is finally around to see Persephone leaving the house on her own and they decide to follow her. Shelley ends up following her to an old church in the middle of the woods that makes Phenex incredibly uneasy.

- Shelley tries to telepathically communicate with Persephone but is blocked by something in the church

- Shelley gets a page from Even to come pick her up

- Turns out the Eve needs to go to that church so Shelley drives both of them back there

- Belvedere and Kirsten also show up at the church

- The all decide to go inside, Phenex can't

- They sit in the back pew as a service begins, they quickly realize it is a cult

- Persephone is chosen as a sacrifice, Shelley causes a commotion to stop it

-The group fights the cult members and end up collectively running away


 * Kirsten gets the blood on her head and is acting weird.
 * Shelley tries to exercise her and Phoric gets pissed off.
 * Alice shows up
 * She has multiple versions of herself in her head.
 * Shelley tries to help also pissing off Phoric.
 * The group goes to ask Skip for help, which he won’t.
 * Shelley leaves a psychic message for Persephone
 * Shelley meets up with Persephone at the diner. Persephone does not want help and reveals that Shelley has been lead into a trap. Persephone leaves.
 * Shelley gives Phoenix permission to leave their body and he kills everyone still in the diner and it burns down.
 * Shelley arrives back to the cabin and discloses to the group what happened, stating that they are done trying to help Persephone.
 * The group finds Phoric’s four children in an attempt to stop George from collapsing the universes into one.
 * This ends up not actually helping as George summons them all anyway and steals Phoric’s powers.
 * the group tries to fight him and ends up in the shadow realm where Shelley is trapping in their own personal Hell in which they are living Persephone’s life and get sacrificed on a loop.
 * Shelley is freed by the group plus Crystal.
 * They end up back in the Phoric Cult universe.
 * Phenex wants to kill Persephone and takes over Shelley just long enough to drive to her house. There they see Frank about to hit her and Shelley rushes to her defense instead. Shelley ends up waiting outside of the house for them to leave for church.
 * There is a confrontation with George at Tyler’s house where Tyler, Kirsten, and Amila all die. Persephone comes to help and she and Shelley have a heart to heart finally convincing Persephone to take her life into her owns hands and she leaves Frank.
 * Belvedere leaves.
 * Steward and Baby end up at the warehouse at the same time as Shelley, Eve, and Tami.
 * Shelley ditches the others out of fear of Steward and Shax.
 * Shelley and Phenex have a change of heart remembering their fallen friends and decide to go back claiming to Steward and Baby that they had been instructed to go put gas in the truck.
 * The group meets an alternate universe Tyler who gets everyone sucked into the Machine.
 * Shelley and The Boys end up in the Robot Supremacist Universe and Shelley temporarily parts ways with Phoenix in order to protect him and borrows Crystal’s book and Zoobop.
 * The group is taken to jail where they are questioned and Shelley dissociates becoming increasingly unstable the longer they are apart from Phenex.
 * They escape and meet up with a human resistance, Hummus, and help their leader Misa, find her sister in the process of trying to find this universes Belvedere.
 * the group is again captured and ends up being taken to New York.
 * They escape again and find their stuff.
 * Shelley, The Boys, Misa, and Julie use this universes Machine to travel back to Shelley and The Boy’s original Universe.
 * Shelley and Phenex have a tear filled reunion and merge themselves once more.
 * Both groups convene and send the teens back to school until they can figure out the watch and the machine.
 * Shelley meets Phyllis and is incredibly uncomfortable.
 * The group decides to get started on their pillars and that they will leave just one until they can rescue Jill and Jeremy from the Phoric Cult Universe.
 * Shelley has a vision that someone in their group is going to get injected with something and explode.


 * When this group goes to destroy their Pillars they get, The Old West Universe, The Nazi Universe, and the Juno Universe.
 * Shelley is especially excited about the old west universe and takes the opportunity to acquire clothing from this universe to add to their wardrobe.
 * The group kills a bunch of Nazis.
 * at one point Shelley talks to Hitler’s ghost for information and they and Eve cuss him out.
 * Phyllis makes a point to mutilate his corpse.
 * In the Juno Universe Eve gets injected with a substance and disappears despite Shelley’s efforts to save her.
 * The rest of the group is captured and Jill and Heather hook Sarah and the time stone up to a machine.
 * The Teens arrive and help destroy this pillar and they all get sucked back into the black hole.
 * Shelly and The Boys are reunited plus Older Heather in 1978.
 * Shelley having gotten the rundown of the last time this happened from Eve knows that the other group will be in New York.
 * They pick up Young Heather (Destroying Old Heather), The Puzzler, and Poison Oak.
 * They break into Erebus and get to the other group as they are going forward going unnoticed and come out on the other side on the same day they came back from.
 * The Puzzler and Poison Oak depart.
 * The group reconvenes and decide to split up with the teens guarding the machine and the adults going to try to find George.
 * As they are leaving Eve shows back up and brings the group us to speed on what happened to her.
 * They all go to the high school where they sneak into George’s office where they realize that he will probably show up to the prom.
 * Shelley calls the teens and tells them to get ready for prom while Eve and Sarah look for disguises.
 * Shelley hides in the Library during prom with the others awaiting Georges arrival
 * When George arrives Shelley joins the chanting circle and after it fails they ask Phenex if he has any idea what to do.
 * Phenex exits Shelley’s body and tries to reason with George.
 * George shoots Phenex and he flies across the room.
 * Shelley runs to Phenex and cradles him as he disintegrates, he tells them that they are the only human he has ever believed in and then he fully disintegrates.
 * Shelley angrily tries to shoot George with their rifle and when that doesn’t work tries to Hex him and while it is not effective Shelley realizes that their powers remain intact.
 * Shelley joins the new chanting circle after Crystal freezes George’s feet and this time portals start to open and friends from across the multiverse start to show up and help.
 * Most notably Shelley’s doppelgänger from the Phoric Cult universe comes in and declares that they are now going by Weber Douglas Shelley before shooting George.
 * The group finally manages to kill George and the multiverse begins to collapse.
 * Sarah saves the group and resets the multiverse.
 * Sheridan wakes up in their box truck with Weber and the two of them go inside to find Eve, Jill, and the now 5 Totaly Spys.
 * Sheridan and Weber go to start calling around town to make sure the rest of their friends made it safely to their new reality and tell everyone to come to the cabin.

Season 3

 * Shelley and Weber are in West Virginia hunting and trying to find a lead about Phenex, when Shelley has a vision of a man dying in a park and having blood poured over him.
 * Shelley pages Eve that they are on their way and starts driving.
 * On the way Eve asked for an ETA and expresses concern about it, but only sends Shelley an address.
 * Shelley guns it and manages to shave an hour off of the trip.
 * Shelley arrives to the park and recognizes it from the vision.
 * Shelley and Weber take a position at the back of the park and Shelley sets up as a sniper with their Winchester rifle.
 * After Eve seems to be talking to Franklin for a bit to long Shelley takes a shot.
 * The shot should have hit him point blank in the head, but he catches the bullet revealing that he has telekinesis.
 * The group surrounds the Knights quickly dispatching them, ties up Franklin and takes him back to the cabin.
 * The group summons Hek, who confirms that Phenex is alive, but also tells Shelley that without him they are dying.
 * The group attempts to then lend their energy to summon Phenex, but they summon Shax instead. Who also confirms that Phenex is alive and Shelley is dying.
 * After this Shelley decides that they need to be alone and goes to sit in their van.
 * While very deep in meditation Shelley has vague visions of losing Phenex, and that something happened in London in 1666. Unbeknownst to them, they have managed to channel memories of past lives where they were also possessed by Phenex.
 * Shelley tells the group that they need to go to London.
 * Shelley has a vision of being chased down a street in what is clearly far in the past and they duck behind a corner to lose the pursuers.
 * They are found by a woman who takes her to a house(?) full of witchy things, she introduces herself as Alexandra and acts as if she know Shelley.
 * She tells Shelley that it is 1666 and makes her a potion to help their memory which they make incorrectly. She begins to remake it correctly and Shelley wakes up back in their van with Weber.
 * Shelley asks Eve if she knows anyone who can forge passports, she calls her friend Victor to get passports for Shelley and Weber.
 * Shelley uses Eve’s computer to research things related to ‘witches’, ‘london’, and ‘1666’. And they find an old book that happens to be in the spirit falls library.
 * The group goes to the library and Shelley has another vision, while looking in the book, in which they are still in the house with Alexandra who is remaking the potion and Shelley finds a medallion and they hear Phenex’s voice telling them to go to London.
 * Shelley comes back to the present and writes down the recipe for the memory potion. They go to the grocery store spice isle for ingredients.
 * A magical surge occurs and everyone heads back to the cabin with Eve driving the Van while Shelley makes the potion.
 * The source of the surge is Sarah and she emits another one throwing Shelly back again but this time as though they are watching events in which Shelley and Alexandra practice magic.
 * Shelley drinks the potion once they come back and Alexandra appears.
 * It is slowly revealed that Alexandria is likely a threat as they state that Shelley had bound her to the book back in the 1600’s and when Shelley tries to read her mind they only hear Phenex screaming.
 * Eve subdues her and ties her up in the basement.
 * Shelley and Alexandra talk and Shelley doesn’t learn much. They have at some point found out that Phenex gave them the spellbook seemingly unprompted.
 * Alexandra escapes and Shelley tells Eve.
 * Adult Jeremy shows up and the group realizes that they all need to go to London.
 * The group leaves to do a deal for the Russian mafia to acquire the fake passports for Shelley, Weber, Baby, and Jeremy.
 * Victor is shot and dies, the group fights the Italian mafia, the passports are acquired.
 * At the airport Weber becomes upset at the thought of their lost children and Shelley helps them meditate to calm down.
 * Shelley goes back to 1666 again but back at the beginning getting chased and ending up in Alexandria’s house. Shelley questions Alexandria about their relationship to each other and to Phenex. Apparently the two were childhood friends who decided to become witches and Alexandria seems low key power hungry which is concerning and a possible beginning to an explanation of why she ending up in the book.
 * Shelley goes back to the present and continues meditation with Weber.
 * Shelley gets trashed at the airport margaritaville.
 * A mysterious cab picks the group up at the airport mentioning Shelley by their first name.
 * it takes them to an apartment in the city that belongs to Anku the talking dog.
 * he gives Shelley half of the medallion and shows them a drawing of themselves from sometime in the 1800’s and a legend that states that Phenex will one day form a strong bond with a human who will bring about the end of the world and that this human must be locked away. It is unclear if the subject of this prophecy is Shelley or Alexandra as Alexandra was already locked away and Shelley and Phenex have been chilling for a while at this point.
 * Shelley summons the ghost of Charles the 2nd to ask where Alexandra’s shop was and he gives them the old name.
 * The group goes to the library to cross reference maps and finds the modern street.
 * on the way there Shelley has another vision of Alexandra, earlier than before where Alexandra is showing Shelley the new shop and states that her ‘Dad’ got it for her.
 * Shelley wakes up and they find a museum in place of the old shop.
 * Shelley finds where the other half of the medallion was, but it’s gone.
 * Belvedere and Richie show up having stolen the medallion half and try to kill the group using reanimated mummies.
 * the group kill the mummies and go back to Anku’s apartment.
 * Shelley astral projects to find Belvedere’s location and the group heads to a warehouse.
 * While Jeremy, Tami, and Weber guard the doors the rest of the group goes in to find Belvedere, Richie and Zombie Drake who still has fire powers.
 * Drake puts up a wall of fire allowing Belvedere to escape but blocking Richie’s exit.
 * the group unloads their clips into Richie.
 * Weber is found outside severely burned and dying. Shelley, Baby, Eve, and Phyllis offer what magic they can and Phyllis takes Weber to the Hospital.
 * the group then starts to fiddle with the amulet.
 * Eve uses her new phone to call lord Bark and skittles and the offer the information that the Medallion symbolizes Phenex and can be used to summon him. Shelley gears this and immediately grabs it from Eve.
 * Shelley is sucked into the amulet.
 * unbeknownst to them. The group outside calls Phoric who tells them that Shelley must face the 7 trials of Hel to get Phenex back and that they most likely won’t survive.
 * Eve, Baby, Phyllis, and Sarah follow Shelley to Hel.
 * the group arrives in hell and they go to a castle where they meet the queen of Hell who allows them to undertake the trials of hell as a group.
 * the all sign contracts that she will own their souls if they fail but that phenex will be returned to Shelley either way.
 * In order to pass the first trial Shelley has to kill Tyler destroying his soul completely. Shelley reluctantly shoots him in the back of the head while Eve distracts him with Shakespeare so he is happy and doesn’t know what’s coming.
 * the groups cuts the second trial short by restraining and beating up the queen of hell.
 * the third trial is riddles which the pass through quickly
 * the fourth trial is just an exit under a huge pile of money
 * The fifth trial is fighting a weird shapshifting Drake/Jill
 * the sixth trial is a coin puzzle to release Phenex who is chained to a rock.
 * when phenex is freed and regains consciousness he and Shelley have a brief reunion first with tears then with bickering before they are cut off by the queen of Hell.
 * Shelly and Phenex fight the queen wihile in their giant demon form.
 * after killing her the group is transported back to the warehouse. Everyone gets back on a plane to go back to spirit falls.
 * Jill is there to pick them up from the airport but she betrays them. It turns out that Shelley has been possessed by Shax this whole time and Alexandra steals Sarah’s body releasing Phenex from her body in the process.
 * The villains escape leaving the group surrounded by knights and Shelly sobbing into Phenex’s chest while he reassures them that he does not blame them for being tricked.
 * Eve soothes Shelley and before the group can start to fight the T-Rex shows up with the teens riding on the back and squashes all of the bad guys.
 * it is revealed that Hek has switched bodies with the T-Rex and gives the group time to return to the safety of the cabin before she switches back
 * at the cabin they regroup and spilt into two groups.
 * The group of Shelley, Eve, Gil, and Steward work on planning Tammy's wedding with Shelley in charge of outfits.
 * They find Jill who has been being controlled by and implant on her neck and did not willingly betray them. She brings them the spell to trap Alexandra in the book.
 * They collect the book, the sword, witch's metal and lilacs.
 * They reconvene with the other group at Eve's old apartment and prepare to fight Alexandra with the intention of trapping her in the book only until they can figure out who the Forgiven is and how to kill her.
 * The group protects Shelley as they try to cast the trapping spell but this fails, Eve, Crystal, Steward, Misa, Tammy, Skittles, and Baby all turn to dust and Alexandra starts the Apocalypse
 * 5 years later:
 * Weber, Daniel, and Heather have all died during this time.
 * Shelley is now an amalgamation of all previous incarnations and is considerably more unhinged.
 * They lost an eye the night Weber died and they now wear an eyepatch
 * They had Gil and Dane collect some spell materials to bring back to the cabin in order to attempt a spell.
 * Afterwards, Phenex's Spell book starts to glow and gives them a new prophecy.
 * They travel to the Library after Phyllis has a vision that they should go there.
 * The Spies and Richie live there with others. They show the group an old folktale that seems to parallel their situation. They now know that a god has to charge the sword.
 * They try to summon Phoric who doesn't answer, so Shelley casts their consciousness back in time to see which god it is.
 * They see that they were right to try to summon Phoric as he is the god who can charge the sword. Shelley also sees that Phenex was once the mistreated servant of the King Of Hel.
 * The group realizes through this vision that the high school's lunch lady is a god, so they summon her to ask her about Phoric. She doesn't know anything.
 * Alexandra tries to attack the library and the group escapes through the sewer.
 * They end up at the now mostly destroyed cabin.
 * They find an old group photo of the whole group taken at some point before the confrontation.
 * a portal opens up and they all end up going in.
 * They find their lost friends in another universe with Phoric
 * Phoric charges the sword, tells them to stop universe hopping, and sends them all back to the moment they tried to trap Alexandra.
 * They all merge with their past selves but with all memories in tact.
 * After keeping Alexandra busy and trying to figure out who the forgiven is, Sarah begs Shelley to fully merge herself and Alexandra and then begs Eve to kill her.
 * This works but everyone in the world loses all memories of who they are beginning the Gap from the starfinder lore.
 * Shelley and Weber assume that they are twins and end being the hosts of a ghost hunting TV show. They end up becoming reacquainted with Baby who is now a famous detective and he occasionally appears on their show. One of the episodes of their show ends up being hunting the ghost of Phyllis.
 * Phenex is no longer with Shelley, his current status and location are unknown. Shelley does not remember him, but now lives with a consistent empty feeling.
 * Eve ends up with Tammy, Jill, and The Spies, and they reestablish Nemesis, which goes interstellar after Tammy does eventually marry Skittles.
 * The season ends with Eve finding the old group picture and asking Tammy who the people in the picture are and why are they in it.

Season 4
The flash backs to the original two parties in season 4 are a story being told to the starfinder party by Tammy who has had her memories downloaded into a computer on the ship the SS Spirit Falls.

Shelley begins in the year 2003 at the crab shack with Weber, the ratings on their show have gone down possibly having to do with the fact that Shelley is experimenting with micro dosing testosterone. Some kind of entity claiming to be one of a group called the 7 announces that they will be taking over this universe. They cast some kind of sadness over the building where Shelley for the first time acknowledges their feeling of emptiness out loud.

Gil, Daniel, and Steward are also present at the diner and decide to go to the library together to figure out who these entities may be. They arrive at the library at the same time as Eve and Tammy. Eve does not recognize Shelley from the picture as Shelley dresses and presents differently despite not aging for the last 7 years. While inside the library Shelley and Eve find a shelf of handwritten books that were written by an “S. W. Shelley”. Though they do not remember writing them they still claim them and insist on taking them after proving their identity with the fake passport that Eve got for them 7 years earlier.

Knowing that Eve is also pursuing the seven, Shelley brings the books back to Eve’s cabin where they all study them and find some basic information on the seven. Shelley feels a weird familiarity for the cabin. After realizing that the art on the front of the books forms a map pointing toward something hidden inside of the van that the books were found in the group tracks down the van and Shelley finds a smaller journal hidden underneath the front seat chronicling the 15 years they spent with Phenex as well some details of the past lives, but mostly it’s just embarrassing.

A business card falls out of the journal with Phenex’s name on it and when Shelley touches it he is summoned. He immediately returns all of Shelley’s memories, but is unable to do this for anyone else. He explains that killing Alexandra banished him and he was forbidden from returning to Shelley, but since Shelley Technically summoned him he can stay.

Shelley contacts Hek, who tells Them to bring Eve through a portal to the shadow realm to restore Eve’s memories. The group finds a portal at the destroyed Spirit falls High School. Eve’s memories are restored and she helps Shelley contact all of their other estranged friends. Hek also restores Crystal’s memories and gives the group valuable information regarding the seven.

Shelley leads a group into some kind of dream realm and Eve leads a group to the forest of sorrow.



Personality
Shelley is simultaneously constantly paranoid and pretty much ready to go with the flow in any situation. They have a very flexible moral compass and are generally down with any amount of murder, but draw a line at stealing from people they consider to be their friends. They are a bit of a hypocrite. When they care about people, they care about them deeply and will do pretty much anything to keep them safe short of putting Phenex in danger.

Without Phenex with how long the two of them have been together at this point Shelley is essentially not whole without him. Shelley becomes unstable with a tendency to dissociate and act rashly without regard for the safety of others. Shelley can still function to a point but not constantly or consistently.

In a way Shelley and Phenex are only separate internally. Externally at least part of the personality of the person others see is always Phenex. This very much has to to with why Shelley acts so strangely without him..

Shelley's final state as an amalgamation of all previous incarnations is generally very pissy. They don't enjoy interacting with people outside of their main group as they have decided that letting themself care about people was a mistake. Despite this Shelley is still very protective of the remaining members of the group, shown  when Shelley magically takes part of an injury for Gil. This version of Shelley is also generally considerably more unhinged.

Appearance
Shelley is supernaturally androgynous, using Phenex's power to manipulate their outward appearance. They are very short standing at only about 4' 11", and have brown eyes and light brown hair. After leaving home they developed an interest in vintage clothing eventually narrowing in on the Victorian era and they prefer to dress in that style most of the time. They stop manipulating their outward appearance as much in Season 3.

I’ve always imagined that Shelley is a very deeply unsettling person. They very much live up to the name of their playbook in that spooky is a very apt description. Even before their possession they were just kind of naturally like this and it had a tendency to make people keep their distance.

Shelley's final state as an amalgamation of all previous incarnations prefer's a dark academia type of style. At some point over the 5 years they lost an eye and now wear an eyepatch.

Previous Incarnations

 * The Original ‘Shelley’ (1633-????)
 * Shelley 2
 * Shelley 3
 * Shelley 4
 * Shelley 5
 * Shelley 6 (Pirate Shelley)

Fun Facts

 * If the story was set in modern day Shelley would identify as Agender and Pansexual.
 * Shelley uses They/Them pronouns.
 * Shelley was raised catholic and has an aversion to churches for more reasons than the fact that Phenex can't enter them.
 * Shelley's MOTW playbook is 'The Spooky'.
 * The origins of Shelley's Various Names:
 * Sheridan (Sheridan La Fanu; author of Carmilla)
 * Wilde (Oscar Wilde; The author of so many things)
 * Shelley (Mary Shelley; The original goth, the author of Frankenstein)
 * Persephone (The Queen of the Underworld, Greek Goddess of Springtime)
 * Perses (The Greek God (Titan) Of Destruction)