Nellie Rhodes

Nellie is a major character in The House in Fata Morgana acting as one of the protagonist of Door 1 alongside her brother, Mell. The second child of the aristocratic Rhodes family. An energetic girl with flaxen hair who, while she can be pushy and self-centered, is also sweetly charming. Nellie has a wide variety of hobbies: from card games to dressing up, foreign sweets to theatre, and of course-talking. She is also quite the impressionable young girl. She is very close to her older brother whom she calls her prince, a holdover from the make-believe games they played when they were younger. H...

Nellie is emotionally dependent, obsessive, and deeply attached to the idealized image she has of her brother. She clung to their childhood promise, which meant far more to her than it did to Mell, and built her identity around the fantasy of him as her "prince" and herself as his "princess." While ...