Skully J. Graves
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Skully J. Graves is an event character of Lost in the Book with Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas ~The First Halloween~.
Appearance
Skully is mentioned to be almost as tall as Malleus despite recently turning 16. He has short white hair crowned with a headpiece and falls to a black gradient. Skully is usually depicted with sunglasses covering his reddish orange eyes. Uniquely, those eyes have a spiral in the irises. Notably, he is missing two teeth, one on each row for unknown reasons. He also wears greyish lipstick with lines to give him the appearance of a skeleton mouth. For clothes Skully wears a white dress shirt with long ripped cuffs tied with a jabot at the front underneath a grey vest with black accents and a black jacket with white pinstripes and bat wing lapels. A rib-like accessory goes around the jacket, and the sections of it are held together by large, crude white stitches, possibly for design and styles. On the left side of his jacket is a metal brooch pinned to the fabric that says “Happy Halloween” on the bottom border, and inside is an image of spiral hill against the moon. Skully’s gloves are black, and have a skeleton hand printed at the back of the hand. The tailcoat of his jacket is long and ripped, and his pants lack any crude white stitches the jacket has. His shoes are white with black accents. Skulky’s skin is so unnaturally pale that it appears monochrome almost.
Personality
Skully is usually calm and does not like to raise his voice. He is very gentlemanly and courteous, seeing as he kissed the hand of the NRC students upon meeting them in the forest. Riddle even mentions he has good manners. He has a very firm idea of how Halloween should be: Gloomy, spent alone, and being scared. He even stays in the town hall that he’d get through the night with a single jack-o-lantern. Although despite these at-first-glance traits, Jamil and Jade find him to be suspicious, or rougher than he looks. A student has even expressed his discomfort when Skully gets excited. All these hunches turn out to be right.
Skully has expressed early on in the event story that he idolizes and deeply respects Jack Skellington for being the King of Halloween, however upon discovering that the pumpkin king has a different idea of Halloween than him, Skully rages at Jack Skellington for it, unable to cope and going as far to slipping something into his food to make him sleep, and arranging for Lock, Shock and Barrell to kidnap Jack, and kidnaps Grim as well when found out what he’s done by Grim amd MC.
Skully has also expressed that he is alone and feels lonely, most likely to the fact that others do not understand or share his idea of how Halloween should be. He describes the people back in the town where he comes from for being "stupid" for doing so. He deeply values manners, and when a character mentions he is acting in a weird way, Skully appears to be mortified, and in-game, a unique sprite shows where he fixes his glasses while his whole body shakes. However, despite this value, Skully does not seem to be against lying, as he says to the NRC students that his magic is not very strong yet, but in the latter chapters of the event, he is clearly seen using copious amounts of magic before giving out.
Background
It is apparent that Skully doesn't like talking about his past, as he only talks about it very briefly, only saying that the people from his town are stupid. When MC and Riddle, Trey, Leona, Azul, Jade, Jamil, Idia, Malleus and Sebek return from the book, they discover more of Skully's past from Crowley: Skully was a figure that made Halloween known throughout Twisted Wonderland, however he isn't and wasn't talked about much as he preferred to stay out of the spotlight. Night Raven College is also one of the only places to possess portraits of him, as such are very rare.
Unique Magic
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Skully's unique magic is called Scary Night (10月31日 Sukearī Naito; lit. October 31st), and it allows him to turn people into pumpkins.
Trivia
- His outfit seems to be heavily inspired from Jack Skellington's outfit.
- He likes gloomy, dark and silent places.
- Skully is revealed to have been a student from Night Raven College 100 years ago who graduated with honors.
- In a conversation with Jack Skellington, he reveals that he likes opera.
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