Nimona

In Nimona's child form, she is short and has long auburn hair, which she wears a pink bow in. In this form, Nimona also wears a seemingly long red sweater or short dress.

Nimona's age is unknown, but she typically appears as a young-looking human. In this form, she has short pink hair in a Chelsea haircut, pale skin, and a red nose. She is chubby and short, and often grinning. She wears a magenta tunic.[3] Underneath that is a chain mail shirt. She wears a metal gorget around her neck. She wears brown leather gauntlets and a brown leather belt. "Nimona’s boots hit just below her knees and are turned down at the top like pirate boots. . . . She has one ring piercing in her right ear, an eyebrow piercing on the left, and three rings in her left ear."

While shapeshifting, Nimona's body typically maintains a red/pink color scheme, though some of her forms are black, and her color scheme is more complex when she shifts into different human forms. Her shark form is unique in that it has visible breasts and legs.

After losing control of her abilities when she first comes into contact with Dr. Meredith Blitzmeyer's Anomalous Energy Enhancer, she dyes her hair purple. She still maintains her general red/pink color scheme while shapeshifting, though. Her regular form reverts to the pink color scheme at the end of the webcomic/graphic novel.

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Nimona appears to enjoy causing chaos and killing people. She is supportive of Ballister, and takes his side against the Institution, especially when she learns how they treated him. She is also playful, and often transforms to perform simple tasks, or just mess with people. She can be quick to anger, and dislikes waiting, losing, and science, generally, and can react to any of these with tantrums that range from childish and harmless to potentially fatal to bystanders.

Ballister is one of the few people Nimona cares for and appears to trust, to any particular extent, and even when they have a bad argument, she still goes to attempt to rescue him. Otherwise, Nimona is tight-lipped about most everything, whether it's the details of her past, her motives, how her powers work, or how she's feeling, and she lies to most everyone when asked. She is not used to trusting people, as she has been hurt before.[2]

She enjoys zombie movies (though she is afraid of them), pizza, hanging out, and dangerous objects.

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In the story, Nimona is a girl who used to be weak and sick as a child, but she recovered and became healthy. She discovers her powers when she protects her village from raiders and ends up killing them. Her parents think she is different and give her to the guards. She is imprisoned and then taken to a facility where they experiment on her. She manages to escape and kills some people there, maybe even her parents. After wandering around, she volunteers to be a sidekick for a man named Ballister. She is a shape-shifting creature and fights a knight named Gloreth. It is uncertain if she kills Gloreth or takes her place by changing her appearance. The author has confirmed that Nimona is not related to Gloreth. The author also mentioned that there is a backstory connecting Nimona and Gloreth that didn't fit in the comic but is explored in the movie adaptation. In the false story that Nimona tells, she lived in a village attacked by raiders until she was six years old. She meets a trapped witch who grants her a wish to fight the raiders, turning her into a dragon. She saves the witch, but when she returns home, she is chased away because she cannot turn back into a human or speak. She tries to become human again and when she finally does, she finds everyone in the village is dead. Then she meets Ballister after wandering around.