“He rarely makes sense. I like that. It gives me a challenge and keeps me interested.” |
Shelly Girard is a major character from The Breaking Wheel, the second story in Fazbear Frights 7: The Cliffs. She is a nerdy teenage girl and one of Reed's only friends, although Reed hopes to become more than just friends one day.
Physical Appearance[]
Shelly has thick black hair that she wears in a particular chin-length style which puts the ends right at mouth level. She also has long bangs covering her forehead. Like her twin brother, Pickle, Shelly is short and dark, and both Reed and Julius find her rather pretty.[1] She has large eyes, long lashes, and a full mouth. Shelly also has small square hands with bitten-to-the-nub fingernails. She always wears baggy button-down shirts with her jeans. Shelly also likes to wear beaded bracelets.
Personality[]
Shelly is a science and information geek that loves sharing whatever she learns, constantly reading everywhere and speaking aloud when she does. She also enjoys schoolwork, always excited to answer questions in class and finding long homework sessions fun. Shelly is obsessed with order and is a perfectionist, never doing anything halfway and abandoning projects if she can’t do it well. She admires Reed since he’s unpredictable, giving her a challenge and keeping her interested. Shelly also likes teasing him. She has a few little imperfections that make her charming to some, such as chewing on her hair while concentrating. However, Shelly can come off as arrogant and thoughtless because she gets wrapped up in her books and projects.
History[]
Reed had been friends with Shelly and Pickle for nearly ten years around the time the story takes place. When they were five, Reed showed a lack of engineering skills when he tried to build a log cabin, something Shelly likes to remind him of. Eventually, Reed begins to wonder if he and Shelly can ever be more than friends. One day, he spots a cloud in the sky that looked exactly like a castle, and he joked with Shelly that it means impossible dreams can happen. Shelly responds by saying Reed's right and squinting at him. For her birthday, Reed bought Shelly a word-of-the-day calendar, which she uses to learn more words. At some point, Shelly tells Reed that Julius's hair is dreamy, although his personality isn't. In their freshman year, Shelly and Pickle convince Reed to join a robotics class, as Shelly believed it would be fun to take the class together.
During their spring semester, Shelly makes a skeletal robot dog about the size of Thales, the family's Labrador. A week before the story, Shelly and her father build a three feet tall and four feet wide miniature version of their own house. It's for a project for psychology class about family dynamics. Mr. Girard constructed the house itself while Shelly spent most of her time doing the decorations to replicate the real house.
One day, Julius complains that Pickle’s remote accidentally controls his suit by connecting to a specific frequency. Pickle, however, argues multiple ways for Julius to fix the problem, embarrassing him. After this, the teacher does another lesson on actuators and Shelly excitedly raises her hand to answer the four common types: electric motors, solenoids, hydraulic systems, and pneumatic systems. Getting the right answer results in the teacher activating a small spider-shaped skeleton to add a light-bulb shaped sticker on a row with Shelly's name on it. Out of everyone in the class, Shelly had the most. Shelly throws a note on Reed's desk inviting him to their house after school to study homework.
Today is a half day due to a teacher's conference, so when the bell rings everyone packs up and heads home. Pickle is tripped by Julius as he's heading out, which no one except Reed notices. Before Reed can tell Shelly what had happened, she was chasing after Pickle, who ran out of the room. They save a seat for Reed on the bus, and when Reed finally arrives Shelly is reading her history homework for AP World History. She reads Reed some of the torture devices from the book, mainly the Judas Cradle and the Wheel, also known as the Breaking Wheel, a torture device that was used to tie people to a wheel before using a tool to beat their limbs, crushing their bones and distorting their bodies.
At the Girards' house, Shelly reclines on an overstuffed navy-blue sofa, still reading her history book from earlier. She's so focused on studying that she fails to hear her mother announce that she's leaving. Shelly only briefly looks up from her book after Mrs. Girard leaves, however she puts her book down when Ory, their six-year-old brother, begins to slam Pickle's little robot into Shelly's miniature house. Shelly begins to chase Ory around the house as he repeatedly slams the robot into the house. Pickle steps in and shows Shelly that the robot isn't harming the house. After seeing that the house is unharmed, Shelly calmly returns to her book.
Shelly is once again lost in her reading, and doesn't realize when Reed gets up and nearly rushes out the door in an attempt to free Julius from his exoskeleton. Pickle stops him before he can and when he fails to come up with an excuse, Pickle tells Shelly that thinks something is wrong with Reed. Shelly tells Pickle that sometimes Reed doesn't make any sense, and she likes him for that. Pickle asks Reed again what he's going to do, but that's when something large hits the outside of the house. Shelly and Pickle excuse the noise as strong winds or a fallen tree branch, but Reed notices that the sound occurs every time the little robotic skeleton did.
Pickle gets hungry again and asks Shelly if there's any remaining chicken wings or poppers. Shelly reports that they're all gone and is shocked that Pickle is once again hungry, and asks if he's thirsty instead. Ory, who is now running the little robot in circles around the miniature house, calls out that he wants a soda. Shelly has to remind her siblings that their mother got rid of the soda after reading an article on the combination of sugar and carbonation. Pickle says that she's making their lives suck, which makes Reed very upset as, compared to him, they have much more. As Reed hears something crawl up against the side of the house, Pickle apologizes for saying they aren't lucky, and uses that to segway into begging Shelly for soda.
As Reed looks around upstairs, the Girard siblings continue to argue over the soda, and eventually they decide to go down to the corner to get sodas. Reed decides to stay behind, and as the Girards are leaving Shelly scares Ory by saying that their mother knows everything they do. When they return home, Shelly tells Pickle that building a better torture device than anything from the medieval ages isn't an accomplishment to be proud of. She then goes back to studying, failing to notice that Reed is nowhere to be seen.
References[]
- ↑ Fazbear Frights #7: The Cliffs | The Breaking Wheel | Page 66 and 74