| Shelley Godfrey | |
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| Born |
1999 (age 15) |
| Home |
Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
| Occupation |
Student (at Hemlock Grove High School) (formerly) |
| Species |
half-Demon, half-Human |
| Status |
Alive (resurrected) |
| Died |
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Shelley Godfrey is a reanimated child of Olivia and J.R. Godfrey. She maintains many demonic features much as her mother had in her youth. Shelley is completely devoted to her brother, Roman Godfrey, as he is to her. Though she is mute in the first season, the voice in her mind with which she would often speak sounded like a smart, sophisticated woman. She also has strong intelligence shown through conversations with her Uncle Norman. However, Shelley does find her voice in the second season, which by the tone indicates that she is truly a child by heart.
Early life
When Shelley was only a year old, she died of unexplained causes (possibly at the hands of Olivia). After J.R. found out that Pryce could reanimate people using one of his projects J.R, took Shelley's body to Pryce. Pryce's work was successful, however, not without some unforeseen consequences; Shelley became deformed and was given the ability of luminescence. One year later, J.R. emotionally disowned Shelley, calling her an abortion. On the night of J.R.'s death, with gun in hand, J.R. watched Shelley sleep in her crib, as she glowed and wheezed. Later that night, J.R. committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
Throughout The Series
Personality
Shelley is best described as a gentle giant and is never seen in an immoral light. She is a seven foot seven inches tall girl who is simply hard to miss. She dresses in dark colors and always hides a misshapen portion of her face from others. Though she is teased and treated somewhat cruelly by her mother, Shelley remains a very loving person who is quick to warm up to kindness. Her talking tablet is often hanging around her neck though she needs little help in the intelligence department. Her writing is incredibly profound despite the difficulty doing personality. She can also be quite aggressive and violent when she loses emotional control and her temper, and is even quick to kill, at least to protect herself and others. She killed Christina without a second thought, mostly due to her anger about her wolf killing a girl that she knew and who was her only friend other than the Godfreys, Pryce and Peter. She is somewhat animalistic in the way she confronts those that will do her harm and those who will harm people she cares for, and will defend them with all her might and may even sacrifice herself for others.
Physical Appearance
Shelley's hand
When she is frightened or touched, usually by her loving brother, her skin will give off an iridescent glow. This went away after she was shot by Sheriff Sworn. Her height and name are, as some fans might have suspected, a nod to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein novel. Shelley's resemblance to Frankenstein's Monster "Adam" is intentional. In the second season, however, she has changed drastically, becoming much shorter and more human in appearance. She is growing hair and she might even change into looking like a human; her arms and hands are revealed to be charred, blistered and unnatural. She once suffered pain from her hands but that seems to have gone away as she could even snap off someone's finger as if it were a twig. It is unknown if her hands and arms will change though.
Relationships
- Roman Godfrey: Roman is Shelley's extremely protective brother. He loves her dearly, and selflessly protects her from school bullies, adults, and even his mother. He tends to her affectionately, but also respects her and considers her to be powerfully insightful. In the labyrinth he sees in his coma, Shelley appears in a beautiful glowing form, and tells Roman this is how he makes her see herself. After Shelley had disappeared, Roman was devastated, and mourned ceaselessly. Roman searched for her, and even tried to get Destiny Rumancek to help him with her psychic abilities, however, she was unable to find her. When Shelley was found and they were reunited. Roman was delighted to see that his sister is alive, and deliriously happy to discover that she can now talk. When Shelley was clinging to Prycilla's dead body, Roman was right next to her to comfort her.
Powers & Abilities
- Enhanced Strength: Shelley has been shown to have incredible strength, possibly due to her half-demon side. She has been showm to be so strong that she can lift both Roman and Johann. She also used her strength to overpower the vargulf and also to rip the vargulf in half. Even after Shelley's immune system was wiped out she was still able to fend off against five security guards at The White Tower, sending people flying at speeds that would make impact with any object lethal, and tearing flesh with enough effort, much like an upir.
- Enhanced Resilience: Despite being a half-demon, Shelley does not possess enhanced healing and can be mortally injured. However, she has a greater tolerance to any form of damage as she can be stabbed or shot and still have the energy to move and fight for longer periods of time that a human can. She was shot twice with a shotgun and still ran into the forest and survived her injury without medical help. She was also stabbed in the back with a huge butcher knife near her heart and could still send people flying into the air with her strikes, though she was weak after and still experienced pain from her injuries. Shelley has experienced, malnourishment, dehydration, a gunshot wound that had not healed properly, infection that wiped out her immune system and phosphorescence, as well a lacerations on her back from a large butcher knife. It required medical attention to heal her completely but, even then, she could survive with all of this for months or more.
- Luminescence: Due to one of Johann's experiments on her when she was a child, when Shelley is feeling strong emotions her face or body begins to glow. Her face would also glow when someone would touch a certain part of her face. However Shelley's power of luminescence has been deactivated due to her immune system being wiped out after she was shot twice by the Sheriff.
Weaknesses
- Mortality: It is unknown if Shelley possesses the power to rapidly heal. However even after she was shot twice by the Sheriff she was still able to run away and even after months had passed she did not die due to gunshot wounds; however, it did take away her immune system making her vulnerable to any fatal physical trauma and can be killed like a normal human.
Name
- Shelley is a unisex name that comes from the origins of Hebrew, Germanic and Old English language, from Old English roots, its meaning is "meadow on a slope".
- Godfrey, Shelley's surname is of Anglo-Saxon or Irish origin along with being from the Germanic name Godafrid, which meant "Peace of God" from the Germanic elements God and frid "Peace".
Quotes
- "Astonishing how much of the worlds troubles can be erased by the simplest smile." (season 1, episode 4)
- "I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds, "through the clouds, and flies through heaven. (season 1, episode 4)
- You promised you'd always be here for me, but you're a liar! You're selfish and and you know how much I love you, but I hate you for making me see it. I have always defended you, but I cannot defend this. You are not allowed to remove yourself from my life."(season 1,episode 8)
- "Everyone thinks I'm a killer; tthis would make me one." (season 2, episode 7)
- "You found love and, in this world, that's a good thing." (season 2, episode 8
Trivia
- Shelley's name is in reference to Mary Shelley, author of "Frankenstein" because of her Frankenstein's creature-like features.
- Shelley's email address is "shelley@hemacres.com".
- Shelley has been nicknamed "glow-worm" by Pryce due to her glowing power.
- Even though Shelley and Johann are not related by blood or any other way she still calls him "Uncle Johann".
- Throughout Season 1 before Shelley discovered her voice she would use her phone to talk to others using an unknown app.
- Both Shelley and Prycilla share the same voice in season 2.
