I've had this character in the design table for a long time now. In fact, this character was created in 2006, so she's actually older then Leo Winters. She was originally intended as a sidekick character for my older main character, Leoshi. However, when I switched to a penguin and decided to redesign all of my characters into more original appearance, I began a quest to make her look more interesting.

Way back in the day, my origonal appearance of her looked like this: [link]

Later she would be mentioned in a story that I never finished and quite frankly want to forget I wrote. Eventually she reappeared on my comic page: [link]

But even then her design wasn't too interesting. So, I gave her some more stripes, added some different colors, and wound up with this result. The left design is how she normally appears, and the right design is how she dresses in my current SOAP comic arc: [link]

So, I really can't say ANYTHING about her without spoiling some things about Shelly.

...or maybe I can.

Basically, she's a shellfish, as well as a pirate. Specifically, she's a "look out", so she has an observant ability, which allows her to see past things that might be hard to see past. She's bold, rough, aggressive: but not unreasonable or hasty. Wielding a sword, and having a shell on her back filled with equipment, she's both capable and highly formidable.

So yeah, here's Shelly from Story of a Penguin. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Shelly (c) Me, Leo, or Leoshi