| Shelley Winters | |
|---|---|
| First Seen | Bobbins |
| Appeared In | Bobbins, Scary Go Round, Bad Machinery
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Family | Erin Winters |
| Past Relationships | Bruno
Rafael Domingeuz Raffles Heroditus
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Shelley's file in the Troublemakers Index [1]
Shelley Endeavour Winters is an investigative journalist, mayoral assistant, novelist and the lead character for most of Bobbins and Scary Go Round. She is good friends with Amy Beckwith-Chilton.
She grew up in a somewhat rural location on the outskirts of Tackleford, with her parents and younger sister Erin Winters. She attended Griswald's Grammar School along with Ryan Beckwith and Tim Jones, and had a traumatic experience when best friend Mandy committed suicide (as recounted in Expecting To Fly). She worked for the City Limit magazine in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a writer and reporter, and had a number of other jobs after that magazine went under, including working for Tackleford's mayor's office and becoming a reporter once again for the local Tackleford Cormorant newspaper (a position her sister Erin would also later hold). When Shelley's children's book, Tibkins, became a big hit, she became a rich and famous author, and lived in London for a few years before returning to Tackleford. Recently she is sharing her house with Tim, and has been revealed to be pregnant
For a number of years she (along with the rest of the world) didn't know her sister ever existed, as the memory of her was wiped out upon her being consigned to Hell, but in recent times that memory has returned and they're once again close (when Erin visits Earth in a break from her duties as queen of the underworld).
Still something of a child at heart, she has often hung out with people younger than herself; she contributed a music review column ("Dr. Lady-Sounds") to Sarah Grote's "zine", and mentored Sarah's younger sister Charlotte Grote.
Shelley seems to have multiple lives (cat-like); she has been murdered and buried, then dug up and turned into a zombie, only to be struck by lightning which turned her fully human again. Later she worked her way out of the underworld in a near-death experience, and has survived some other incidents that would have killed anybody else; this was at one time revealed to be the work of Wee Folk who find her amusing. Her watch once told her that her estimated time of death would be December 4, 2061.[2]
Love Life
Before Shelley and Tim got together for good, Shelley's rather questionable choice in men was notorious among her peers.[3]
For the first two years of Bobbins, Shelley dated an a boorish, unintelligent man named Bruno, who had loved her back when she was 16 with "bad skin and braces".[1] He later dumped her after discovering she was running a webcam for flu-fetishists. [2]
Other relationships include: her workmate Rich Tweedy [4], the spy Rafael Dominguez (who, shortly after meeting Shelley, got shot by Fallon Young)[5], Raffles, Gentleman Thief [6], and the Atlantean Heroditus (who really shouldn't have "twusted" Shelley).[7]