- "Honestly, Mills. Today was great, better than great. It reminded me of how we used to be like this damn near every day before you left. I hate it to think it'll be even longer before we see each other again."
- ―Sallie May to Millie
Sallie May[6] is Millie's younger[2] sister and one of the two daughters of Lin and Joe. She lives with her parents alongside her three unnamed brothers and helps out in the Rough n' Tumbleweed Ranch.
She is a minor character who made her debut in "The Harvest Moon Festival".
Appearance
Sallie May is a rather tall imp, roughly the same height as Blitzo, with light maroon skin and a pair of serrated, black-and-white-striped horns atop her head. Her eyes sport yellow sclera, slit-like pupils, and long eyelashes protruding from them, with a single white scar over her right eye and on her notched eyebrow.
Her charcoal-colored hair is long with white-colored roots, and is usually tied back into a ponytail by a brown hair tie with messy bangs that covers her left eye. Tied around the back of her head is a red bandana with holes.
Her attire consists of a sleeveless, black turtleneck crop-top with various tears at the bottom, heavily ripped black leggings under a set of gray-beige short-shorts held by a black belt with an oval-shaped dark gray buckle, and matching-colored cowboy ankle boots.
Personality
Sallie May is shown to be just as cheerful and violent as her sister. She is also shown to be relatively snarky, most notably towards Moxxie.
According to herself, Sallie May is more careful to hide the bodies of people she's killed, unlike Millie. She also appears to be a bit more laid-back than Millie, as shown from the way she talks.
In "Hell's Belles", she reveals that she misses her sister and is sad that she never visits home often because of her life in Imp City, making her have to help her parents out with everything in Millie's place. She slowly begins to overcome this when Millie says that she will never be too busy for her sister and that, since their brothers are older and able to help their parents at the ranch, she can visit too.
Similarly to Millie, she doesn't like being hit on by strangers, especially if she's not interested in them.
Abilities
- Athleticism - Similarly to her sister Millie, she has great athletic prowess.
Skillset
- Weapon-handling - While she hasn't wielded any real weapons on-screen yet, she is very proficient in wielding even a fake weapon, such as a fake chainsaw on a VR arcade game.
- Stealth - Sallie May seems to be good with stealth, as she is able to hide dead bodies without anyone suspecting her having a neighborhood head count.
Trivia
- According to Morgana Ignis, "Sallie May" is the character's full first name.[6]
- In a Twitter post, Morgana Ignis confirmed Sallie May is a transgender woman,[7] which was subsequently confirmed by the Helluva Boss Twitter as well.[8]
- This is also implied in her design, as her horns have thick white stripes, which is a trait only seen on the horns of biological male imps.
- She also has white roots on her otherwise black hair; white hair is a common trait among biological male imps while biological females have black hair, showing she dyed it to pass better.
- According to Morgana Ignis, Sallie May being transgender was always the plan, even way before they began designs.[9] Morgana also explains that because Millie's sister was planned to be transgender, Vivziepop definitely wanted a transgender actress and had Morgana in mind for her, with voicing Sallie May being a direct offer from Vivziepop.[10]
- In an Instagram post, Morgana confirmed that Sallie May's lesbian sexuality will be confirmed in the show.[11]
- Like Sallie May, Morgana Ignis is also a transgender lesbian woman.[11][12]
- According to Morgana Ignis there are a ton of plans for Sallie May, many of which having already been written and recorded.[9] This may imply that Sallie May will return beyond the second season, as Vivian Nixon previously said that season two had already been recorded in 2022.[13]
- According to Morgana, Sallie May and Millie have a lot more stories to be told, and their interaction in "The Harvest Moon Festival" wasn't accurate to what their relationship is actually like.[14]
- Morgana mentioned that Sallie May's time for an entire episode will come and there will be stories involving her.[15]
- For the "Hell's Belles" short, Morgana felt that if she was going to the city, she wanted to give Sallie a new look that worked a little more for the city because Sallie May's normal outfit in Wrath is her work clothes, logically like how the members of I.M.P got new outfits in the Wrath Ring for "The Harvest Moon Festival".[16]
- She shares the same voice actor as the Catfish Monster, with both of them being voiced by Morgana Ignis.
- According to Sterling Richter, Ignis requested that Sallie May have a visible bulge in the sexually-oriented parts of merchandise because many transgender females don't tuck all the time, but the original merchandise designs were more cisgender in sex appeal.[17]
- Morgana explained that when making the merch, Morgana was consulted with and asked if there should be any changes made. As the initial design for it had a much more flat crotch area like the other female characters, Morgana advocated to show that there is no shame with not hiding that part of the body. Likewise, she wanted to present Sallie May's feelings about her body in a positive light without hiding her transgender identity.[18]
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