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Nina Harper
Nina

Gender:

Female

Age:

13 (Season 1)
14 (Season 2)

Hair color:

Brown (natural)
Red (dyed)

Eye color:

Blue

Relatives:

Romances:

Griffin (boyfriend)

Friends:

Claire
Lanie
Sharon Spitz (formerly)
Alyson Malitski (formerly)

Enemies:

Sharon Spitz
Maria Wong
Alyson Malitski

Pets:

Lorenza (dog)

Voice:

Katie Griffin

Nina Harper is the school's beauty queen bee who bullies Sharon and her two best friends every chance she gets. She is the main antagonist of the show.

Bio[]

Sharon and Nina were once the best of friends when they were younger, but that all changed when Nina found her dolls with their heads pulled off and blamed Sharon, even though it was actually her cousin Petra[1]. Despite Sharon pleading she did not do it, after that incident Nina did her best to wreck Sharon's life and those who dare attach themselves to her. For example, Nina was the one who stuck Sharon with the nickname "Braceface" when she first got braces. Despite her looks, Nina is not well liked by many kids, yet loved by adults. Although many people do not like Nina, there are some who would not mind being her since she has the money, looks, and life a lot of people would love to have. Alyson once admitted she and Nina used to smoke, but were caught by their parents and both found it really hard to quit.[2]

Nina has helped Sharon on a few occasions though like when she helped Sharon look for the dog Lorenza when she went missing[3]. Later on, Sharon gave Lorenza to Nina when she revealed why she wanted a dog. Nina's aspiration in life was to be a world fashion model. Part of which reinforces her attitude as a heartless bully who subjugates those she sees as flawed to ridicule and pull spiteful pranks on. Sharon and her friends for example, such as when Nina made a fake humiliating slideshow of Sharon and Maria for turning Alyson against her.[4]

Appearance[]

Nina has long, waist-length, red hair, blue eyes and right helix piercing. She usually wears makeup. a two-piece purple minidress that exposes her midriff and black boots. Nina has long, waist-length, red hair, which is not her natural hair color. She is, in fact, a brunette. She dyes it, which reflects her desire for beauty, charm, and popularity- all things she possesses and lords over her peers.

Personality[]

Nina is well known for her immense sense of vanity and obnoxious behavior toward others. Because of her family's wealthy status, she often looks down on others and tends to rub her success/material possessions in anyone's face. Her life's ambition is to become a world famous supermodel and/or actress. Nina often goes to great lengths to harass Sharon or other people for anything she wants or when she thinks something or someone denies or offends her in even the slightest of ways. Because of her high opinion of herself, Nina often expects to get away with things she does wrong and becomes very upset and angry when this doesn't happen.
Despite her usual stereotypical "mean rich girl" behavior, Nina has hinted at being extremely lonely as her parents are often busy with work or what little friends she does have are busy with their own activities. There have also been times when she has shown remorse for her behavior, best seen in Clean Slate when it is proven she wrongly accused Sharon of destroying her dolls and she began going to extreme lengths to make up for years of bullying.

Trivia[]

  • Nina wears glasses for long distance vision as she has trouble making out objects far away from her. This fact was kept hidden for a year, possibly longer, until accidentally discovered by Sharon, who, as a sign of unnoticed goodwill, kept it secret.[5]
  • Nina (this means "girl" in foreign language) is fluent in Spanish because she often travels to Mexico.[3].
  • Nina can apparently master new skills very quickly, as demonstrated by learning to knit when it was considered "trendy" to do so because celebrities were doing it.[6]
  • Despite often showing off her rich, beauty and social status, Nina's life isn't as perfect as she likes to make people think it is:
    • 1.) Despite being the most popular girl in her grade (and, by extension, one of the most popular girls in school), most of her schoolmates don't really seem to like and/or trust her and Nina seems to have very few actual friends outside of Alyson (who leaves her in Triangles), Lanie, Claire and Griffin (the son of Sharon's father's girlfriend, Lauren, and Nina's boyfriend since Griffin's Girl).
    • 2.) Nina's parents are generally too busy with work to spend any actual "quality time" with her and are often away on business trips.[3] Given that she refers often to the domestic staff, it is likely they are looking after Nina more than her parents do.
    • 3.) When Nina's parents actually are around to spend time with her, they're shown to be rather embarrassing and are also shown to be very fond of Sharon, to the point of assuming that she and Nina are still friends (even though they stopped hanging out when they were seven).
      • One embarrassing Nina's father does is call her by the pet name of "Popo," which Nina desired to keep confidential. Unfortunately (for Nina), both Sharon and Alyson learned this information when her father revealed it to them rather publicly—Sharon used this secret to blackmail Nina, but it's unknown what Alyson did with the same knowledge.
      • An example of Nina's parents' fondness was when Nina's mother, Ellie Harper, did not believe Nina when she tried telling her that Sharon and her friends were skipping school in.[7]
  • Nina is very skilled at high-diving, with her signature dive being the double axle/jackknife combo—however, Nina (ironically) is actually very acrophobic (meaning that she's afraid of heights).
  • Contrary to the common stereotype of popular kids being unintelligent, Nina is said to be a straight-A student and one of the smartest kids in school, and is especially good at math and science.
  • She appears in 48 episodes in total seen in cameo a times.
  • Nina realizes that her mean cousin Petra was the one who cut off Nina's dolls in a flashback and tries to make a clean slate with Sharon. But soon realizes she has gotten use to having her as a enemy for so long that being her friend is harder.
  • Her name may be a reference to Mina Harker, a character from Bram Stoker's Dracula who is turned into a vampiric monster by the novel's title antagonist.

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