Niffty

"Sometimes I kill mother-bugs in front of their children as a warning to others."

- Niffty

Niffty is a sinner demon who works as both the maid and cook for the Hazbin Hotel and is one of the main characters in Hazbin Hotel.

She was summoned to work in the Hotel along with Husk by their mutual associate, Alastor.

Appearance
Niffty is a small one-eyed demon, akin to a cyclops. Her one large eye has a hot pink and yellow sclera with a light yellow iris, and a black pupil. She also has a single eyebrow and white skin.

She has short pink hair with a yellow highlight. Her teeth are sharp and light yellow, and she has small pink dots at each corners of her mouth, evocative of dimples.

Her attire is that of a red 1950s maid dress and a white apron over it with three dripping splotches. She wears a dark red neckerchief. She has small, pointed limbs with her arms being black and her legs colored dark red.

Pilot
In the pilot she had red-pink scruffy hair and her limbs were a dark pink color.

Her attire was 1950s themed; she wore a dark pink neckerchief, a white blouse with pink dripping splotch patterning, along with a bright-pink swing skirt featuring a 50s'-fashionable dark pink poodle design with yellow dots.

Personality
Niffty is hyper, spontaneous, and agile, being very quick on her feet. She is easily entertained, easily distracted, and easily excitable. She dislikes when there is a mess in any room, and has a fixation on men in general. However, she appears to only like "bad boys", having a brief obsession with Sir Pentious, but stopping frustrated that he wasn't a "bad boy" after he was forgiven. She kicked him in what is meant to be his groin for this. She isn't afraid to get dirty, and enjoys cleaning everyone's messes all with a gleeful, yet creepy charm.

She is shown to enjoy violence, as she was very ecstatic to be thrown into a warzone as part of Vaggie's trust training, and afterwards stated she enjoyed when Sir Pentious was being hit with a severed arm. Despite all of her twistiness, she does have some kind of standards for how she views who is "bad" as she outrightly berates Sir Pentious for not being a bad boy when he was apologizing for trying to kill everyone.

She appears to have masochistic tendencies, shown when she liked the pain from falling off a stage and then repeated jumping off. She is also implied to be sadistic, stating her desire to "punish" people in a BDSM dungeon. She even outright states that she kills mother-bugs in front of their baby bugs as a form of lesson.

She is also shown to suffer from camera shyness, as whenever a camera begins filming her she goes into a state of hypnotic trance where she doesn't move, blink or speak, just stares at the camera until recording is done.

Abilities

 * Fire Resistance - When Alastor summoned Niffty from the Hotel's fireplace, she was entirely unaffected by the fire.
 * Agility - Niffty is capable of rushing to her desired locations easily and is able to make her way around her surroundings with little to no effort. She also appears to not have a walking animation, as when she walks forward, she simply hops.

Skillset

 * Jack of All Trades - Niffty is shown to be talented in a handful of ways. She excels at cleaning, cooking, and sewing, and outside of work she spends time reading and writing fanfiction.
 * Bilingualism- Niffty can speak both English and Japanese fluently.

Gallery

 * Niffty/Gallery

Concept and Creation
Niffty was originally intended to be a character that would feature in an arc of Vivziepop's then-running webcomic, Zoophobia, titled "Angels and Demons".

Vivziepop eventually realized that the collection of misfit demons she had designed to appear within the comic had the potential for their own self-contained story, and shifted them, including Niffty, over to the first draft of what would eventually become Hazbin Hotel.

Niffty's design and theming has changed very little over the course of her development. Only her sewing needle motif seems to have become less prevalent through later illustrations, and her patterning eventually simplified for later animation in the pilot.

Niffty is themed around bugs and B-movie aliens, matching her 1950s kitsch aesthetic. Vivziepop cites the song "One-Eyed, One-Horned, Flying Purple People Eater" as in influence when designing her.

Trivia

 * Her name alludes to the word "nifty" which means "to be particularly good (at something)".
 * Vivziepop describes Niffty as a crazy wild card and "grosser than you'd think", comparing her to Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, in that she would sleep in a cupboard full of dead rats.
 * Vivziepop said that, although she had yet to lock down all of the characters' races and ethnicities, she had been writing Niffty with a mind to her being Japanese. This was originally due to Niffty's pilot voice actress being able to speak Japanese fluently.
 * Niffty can play the tambourine and guitar.
 * Meet Niffty.jpg Faustisse thinks that Niffty likes anyone who is a man. They emphasized that Niffty is not very smart and that when she sees a man she instantly likes them.
 * Vivziepop thinks that Niffty would read fanfiction and that she would also write fanfiction about people she knows in real life.
 * According to Faustisse, Niffty is not a hopeless romantic, but she would be hopeless in her romantic life.
 * Faustisse has also mentioned that she is not very bright, which Alastor acknowledges and that Husk finds her to be annoying, although he remains very patient with her.
 * Niffty is currently the shortest character of the main cast.
 * Despite this, her pilot voice actor, Michelle Marie, was ironically the tallest of the voice cast.
 * According to the "Clocktower Countdown to Premiere" on the Amazon Prime YouTube channel, Niffty is the only straight character in the hotel.

Development

 * Niffty was originally intended to have antenna that appeared whenever she became excited, but they were removed as superfluous. Although, Vivziepop is unsure if they will be added back in at some point in the future.