Shelly

"He's disrespecting us, he deserves the skull crushing punishment."

- Shelly

Shelly Morgan is a character introduced in The Dalshire Blackout. They are an aggressive enby who fights using a nailed bat, and also the protagonist of the game.

Appearance
Shelly has medium length brown hair, that is usually tied in a loose low ponytail. Their facial features are mostly the same, but there is a pink scar on their face that goes across the bridge of their nose. As for clothing, they wear a black choker on their neck, a gray shirt with dark gray stripes, long red jeans and gray shoes. Their most defining feature is their white, expressionless mask, with two big holes for the eyes and a single straight line serving as a mouth.

Personality
Shelly is often stoic around public and strangers, showing no interest or even completely disregarding everyone else. When threatened, taunted or in battle, they adopt a much more violent and aggressive behavior, threatening to use their spiked bat to bash their enemy's skull in until their brain turns into mush. They have no remorse or regret for killing their enemies as brutally as possible, and sometimes even enjoy that, especially if they hated the person. However, Shelly's not always so stoic. When close to friends or people they like, they show a more passionate and caring side, demonstrating their affection. They also suffer from depression and self-esteem issues, which makes them hate themself and the scar on their face, leading them to use their iconic mask at all times.

Powers and Abilities
Being a normal human, Shelly doesn't have any super fancy abilities or powers. However, they have shown to be incredibly strong, due to the fact that they can easily crush a skull with their bat, and they're also very agile and quick-thinking, allowing them to survive dangerous situations.

Faults and Weaknesses
Shelly is just a normal human, which means they're pretty fragile. But not only that, but one person can easily get to them if they taunt their gender or their scar, both of which are touchy subjects to them. However, this may have the opposite effect, causing them to enrage and become even more dangerous.

The Dalshire Blackout
Shelly makes their debut in The Dalshire Blackout, as the main protagonist of the game. They are playable throughout almost the entire game, with the exception of a few boss fights near the end.

The story of the game is also narrated by Shelly themself, who tells the player the occurrences of the game leading up to the main plot, and also the aftermath of the game, letting the player know what happened to them and everyone after the game ended.

They appear for the first time at the start of the game, in their house, attempting to distract themself with a book, when suddenly, the whole place goes dark. Upon realizing that it was a blackout, and a very suspicious one for that matter, Shelly leaves to investigate, aiming to meet up with James to come up with a plan. On the way there, they meet Agent ESP, who they form an alliance with after a quick battle. After convincing James to help them, they also meet Lance and his two robots, who go with them to help in the investigation as well, while they all leave for the power plant. Right before arriving, they bump into a young swordsman named Yokota, who threatens to fight them alongside his partner Hikari. After losing, however, Yokota apologizes and the duo joins Shelly and James.

Inside the power plant, they meet Sam, a goth girl who confesses having taken part in the city's blackout, and leads them to the power plant's mainframe. They find out that the mainframe has been compromised by a virus created by Harry Gentlestein and, after getting rid of the virus, Shelly and their friends march towards Harry's mansion to stop whatever his plan may be. On the way there, they cross through Pinewood Forest, including its jungle part, while facing many strong foes along the way, like a giant hive mind being, a psychotic killer girl, the guardian of Pinewood Jungle, and even a sadistic hitman hired by Harry to protect his mansion.

Shelly finally encounters Harry, who confesses having caused the city's blackout by stealing power away from it and storing the electricity in his mansion. While investigating said mansion, the group gets trapped in the freezer room while Shelly is brainwashed by Harry and forced to attack their friends. After they return to their senses, their self-hatred strikes at full force, but they are reassured by James, before Melanie frees everyone from the freezer room.

After more investigation, Shelly discovers that Harry was planning to use the electricity to power up a giant mech made with his own mansion. This causes Harry to activate the mech prematurely in an effort to kill the group, but they are saved by Andrew, who uses his own base to combat Harry's mech.

Back inside, Shelly and the group finally catch up to Harry and defeat him in battle, causing the old man to retreat and power himself up using the same electricity that he used to power up his mansion, thus turning him into a giant electric spirit. Shelly and their friends attempt to combat Harry, but to no avail, as their attacks are useless and Harry wipes them out with a single attack. However, the rest of Shelly's allies arrive and manage to distract Harry while destroying the generators to get rid of his invincibility, which gives Shelly's group another chance at combating the giant, electric old man, and this time, with success.

After making Harry promise to not perform foolish actions again, Shelly and their friends return to the city, where they spend some more time together before the game finally ends.