Cleo de Nile

Cleo de Nile
Monster High character
Portrayed by	Salli Saffioti (Voice)
Information
Gender	Female
Family	Ramses de Nile (Father), Nefera de Nile (Older Sister)

Cleo de Nile is one of the fictional characters in Monster High. She is also one of the Monster High fashion dolls. Cleo is the daughter of The Mummy and is approximately 5,842 years (give or take a few years).

Personality

Usually, Cleo's attitude is selfish, spoiled, competitive, arrogant, and unkind. She acts like this because she is an ancient princess and is used to being treated as royalty. However, she has been known to have a heart of gold on occasion. Cleo can work well with others if they share a common goal, and shows that she can be a highly effective organizer and leader. Cleo's biggest pet peeve is when someone refuses to obey her. Her favorite school subject is Geometry, where her least favorite subject is History.

In the first season of the Monster High webisodes, Cleo is primarily played as an antagonist. However, in the second season, she is finally confronted with her own compromising, overbearing nature when the regular Fearleading Squad resigns. Afterward, she slowly starts to become more accepting and accommodating towards other ghouls.

When she gets really upset, Cleo lets loose a glass-shattering scream. In more severe cases, she starts to obsessively clean things, like polishing the trophies in the trophy case. This and her rigid perfectionism could be an indication of strong OCD. In the webisodes, Cleo is occasionally seen using one of the Ancient Egyptian artifacts that she keeps in her locker, even though her father tells her that they are cursed.

Description

Cleo has flowing black hair with brown and gold highlights. She has dark, tanned skin (often described to be the color of latte) and light blue eyes. She always wears a crystal birthmark under her right eye. Cleo's "Killer Style" is normally complete with a headdress, exotic jewelry and the occasional stray bandage wrappings. She always has her golden (her favorite color) cell phone (iCoffin) strapped to her right leg.

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  Dawn of the Dance

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  Basic 2.0

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  Gloom Beach

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  Dead Tired

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  Fearleading Costume

Basic

Cleo wears a strapless jumpsuit made of yellow mummy wrappings and a turquoise wrapped organdy top with black lining. Her accessories include a gold belt, earrings, an arm bracelet, and a headdress embedded with jewels.

Dawn of the Dance

Cleo wears a teal green and yellow off-the-shoulder dress and one-legged tights. The matching Cleo doll comes with an iCoffin and a pyramid shaped purse.

Gloom Beach

Cleo wears a yellow and black striped two piece bathing suit with a strap across the abdomen, a matching leg warmer on her left leg, and wrist warmer on her right arm. She accessorizes with pyramid hoop-like earrings and a golden fan. Her sunglasses, waist wrap, lipstick and toe sandals are teal blue and her hair is pulled back into a high ponytail.

Dead Tired

Cleo wears teal (mixed with golden yellow) colored pajamas. She has one matching arm warmer, teal slippers, round gold bracelet, and a yellow eye mask with the Eyes of Horus on it. The matching doll comes with a pyramid shaped night light.

Basic 2.0

Cleo has bangs that are cut diagonally across, with her hair cut diagonally in the opposite direction. Her hair as blue streaks as well as gold. Cleo wears a sleeveless, off-the-shoulder black, gold and teal top with black printed slashes and a glittery grey skirt. She also wears black leggings with black and gold wraps around her legs and arms, one longer than the other. The heels of her light blue sandals are hourglasses. She accessorizes with a gold headband, a gold choker, gold earrings, and a gold belt wrap. The matching Cleo doll comes with a black and gold bag with a gold strap (teal beads encrusted into it), a teal fringe and a golden eye of Horus in the center as well as a black, gold and teal binder.

Fearleading Squad

Cleo wears a black tank top (with a jagged pink neck and a Monster High logo in the middle) and a black skirt. Her accessories and hair are the same as they are in her basic outfit.

In The Books

In the Monster High books, Cleo is much nicer to the other girls (mostly due to their status as RAD's). Cleo's name is changed to Cleopatra de Nile, and Cleo is a nickname. She is described to be more with Clawdeen Wolf in the books. Apparently, Cleo was one of the popular girls at Merston High, despite being a RAD (Regular Attribute Dodgers) In The Ghoul Next Door, Cleo is one of the few monsters who are against the idea of human-monster equality. She strongly dislikes "Normies", a nickname used for humans. When she is offered a photo shoot for Teen Vogue, she does everything in her power to get her friends involved. However, when Brett Redding's (Normie) idea of a video is introduced, Cleo hates it, mostly because it is on the same day as her photo shoot. She tries to put an end to it, losing her friends in the process. When all seems lost, she forms an alliance with Bekka (antagonist of the story), which backfires.

Relationships

Family

Cleo lives with her father, Ramses de Nile and her older sister, Nefera. In the books, her father is an antiques dealer. To date, there is no mention of Cleo's mother. In the webisode "Miss Infearmation", Cleo mentions having an older sister named Nefera, who is out of the country with her father. Clawd Wolf's diary mentions Nefera being the previous Fearleading squad captain. In Cleo's Basic 2.0 diary, Nefera is said to be a super model. Based on both the wave three diaries and the webisodes, Cleo and Nefera do not get along well. Nefera does not make an appearance in the books, however. In some parts of the Monster High books, Cleo mentions having an aunt named Nefertiti.

Friends

Cleo is friends with Ghoulia Yelps, Clawdeen Wolf, Draculaura, Frankie Stein and Lagoona Blue in the books and webisodes.

Cleo is best friends with Ghoulia. Although she uses Ghoulia a lot more like a personal assistant, Cleo cares for her and tries to help when Ghoulia is in need of something. Since Lagoona is a warm hearted person, Cleo seems to get along with her fine and has never done anything bad to her. Clawdeen and Cleo sometimes don't get along sometimes, usually because of Cleo's attitude. Draculaura and Cleo also get along fine, but sometimes, Cleo deliberately does something bad to Draculaura (without Draculaura noticing), like in the webisode, "The Hot Boy". In the webisode "New Ghoul At School", Frankie mistakenly hurts Cleo's feelings when she tells Cleo that Frankie's boyfriend is Deuce Gorgon. Since Deuce is Cleo's boyfriend (which Frankie does not know), Cleo thinks that Deuce has deceived her.

Pet

Cleo's pet is a snake named Hisette, whose attitude reflects Cleo's. Hisette's scales are teal colored (in the webisodes) and she wears golden rings around her head, neck and tail. In the books, Deuce Gorgon gave Hisette to Cleo saying that she was his mom's first gray hair. Also only in the books, Cleo also has seven cats named Chisisi, Bastet, Akins, Ebonee, Ufa, Usi, and Miu-Miu.

Love Interests

Deuce Gorgon is Cleo's current boyfriend. She used to date Clawdeen's brother, Clawd, but according to Ghoulia, it ended badly. Deuce is the son of Medusa and has inherited her mother's powers to turn things into stone, hence the glasses. In the webisodes, his hair (green snakes) is shown, while on the other hand, he wears a hat in the books. Cleo is upset when Deuce takes Melody Carver (Normie) to a school dance (in the books). Deuce apologizes, though, stating that he was forced to go and gives Hisette to Cleo as a gift.

Student Files

Personality File

Cleo is haughty, demanding and regal which befits her royal linage. While she expects to be deferred to, she also possesses a certain nobleness oblige resulting in great acts of kindness and generosity on her part.

Parental Participation

Cleo's father is the chairman of MH construction committee and oversees all the new building plans. Publicly, he appears aloof and uninterested in the mundane happenings at MH but coincidentally much of the business he has here seems to correspond with the events where Cleo is involved.

Academic Standing

As a child, Cleo was tutored by the greatest in her father's kingdom. This tutoring has given her a broad knowledge of many subjects although she really excels in dead languages and geometry. Cleo's biggest hurdle has been the realization that we don't allow servants to do homework or take tests for our students.

Social Interaction

Cleo is a princess but she is not a mean ghoul. This has allowed her to establish genuine relationships with fellow students who can "let Cleo be Cleo" even when "her imperial bossiness" forgets that at Monster High, she is just one of the many ghouls.

Overall

Cleo de Nile has great leadership potential and seems to have escaped the traps that can turn rulers into tyrants. Cleo is the personification of a teenage monster with a pedigree who is learning that respect is not based on birthright but on actions.