Kelsey stays down-to-earth and prefers staying indoors to embracing the madness of the city outside. Having to fend for herself for a lot of her life, she prides herself on her limited housekeeping abilities. However, because of her inclination to stay isolated, Kelsey tends to have issues connecting with others. She isn't particularly socially awkward, she'd just rather be doing anything else than socializing.
Having to deal with her father's shoddy memory and constantly forgetting important things over the years, she's become somewhat of a freak for trying to retain memories in any way possible. In the digital landscape, where she mostly resides, this is incredibly easy. Her one true dream is having a smaller house to take care of, one where she won't be held down by her father's possessive gaze and annoying wife.
Kelsey is not her legal name, but she'd rather chug poison before admitting her legal name.
She browses FORUMS.STEM daily, often documenting and archiving things that people post.
In her second year of secondary school, she flunked business basic and was barred from specialization school.
She's unaware of how her mother and father met; she pins most of the family's broken state on her father.
She lives with her father, Jamison Von Galax, and her Stem Slime stepmother, Strawberry Von Galax, in a large suitehouse. She isolates herself from them and spends most of her time archiving everything she can get ahold of online, particularly the secrets people admit. Periodically, her father drags her out to parties.
Growing up, her mother and her father were away a lot of the time. Her father hired nannies to care for her after school until she graduated from secondary school. Her school life was quiet; Nightmarina didn't make many friends besides a girl named Tessa Chielcott, whom she met after sharing a table in the library.
From a young age, she asked very basic questions relating to life and school on the FORUMS.STEM because of how obnoxious she found the nannies.
In XX815, her mother mysteriously went missing. Kelsey didn't mind much, not liking the woman who wasn't home at all, until Jamison replaced her with a Stem Slime. Extremely weirded out, especially after meeting her personally, Kelsey tried to ignore her father's horrible taste.
Her father started to forcefully drag Nightmarina out to neighborhood parties after he married Strawberry. She found being dragged out of the house annoying and told him that she wanted to leave the Von Galax estate and live in her own place. Her father flipped out and threatened to withhold the small allowance he had been giving her over the years.
Kelsey figured she could just get a job, but she found herself nervous at the prospect of constantly going out and being around others. She found the mere idea draining and settled on mooching off of her father's money until an opportunity opened itself.
During one party in XX819, she met Wheels Kaset as they both hid in the same dark halls of a Mr. Faeweather house party. They confided in each other, quietly teasing about how lame the party was and how they hated being dragged along by their families. Finding an equal, they both grew far more comfortable. Fortunately, they both had the courage to get in touch via STEMNET.
However, as they talk more and more online, Kelsey finds herself more and more nervous about the idea of meeting up again.
Jamison "The Unifier" Von Galax - Her father, whom she barely tolerates. While she sees his attempts are genuine, she holds many things against him: constantly leaving her with nannies, not helping her with the heaps of schoolwork, keeping her up by having intercourse with his illegal ex-slave wife, and not telling her anything about her mother.
She wants to get her own place, but the fact that he won't let her set out on her own bothers him. She figures he should know there's nothing to be afraid of, she's practically been left alone most of her life anyway.
Strawberry Von Galax - Her stepmother. Kelsey knows Strawberry doesn't like her, and frankly, Kelsey thinks she's weird and disgusting as well. They really only interact when Jamison forces them to or when they stumble on each other in the kitchen.
Wheels Kaset - A friend she met at a houseparty her father dragged her along to. She managed to get his FORUMS.STEM name and now chats with him exclusively online. She won't admit it to herself, but she finds his soft spoken, simple disposition to life attractive and wants to get to know more about him.
Tessa Chielcott - An old school friend who she goes to get haircuts from periodically. They don't talk about much, but Kelsey is fine with that. She just enjoys the familiar company.