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Jefrie

Alsothe girl with the tail (Rosie); young lady (the host); LITTLE LADY, Miss, Ma'am, boss (the pitchman); J E F R I E S (the keypad)

Aaron's original character, the masked, grinning girl with the enormous tail and the eye-scythe; in Episode 1 the girl inside the painting, silent until the rag finds her grin, who takes the last stroke, tells the viewer to go to bed, and says "Again."; after that a painting, a print, a crayon and a tail that every later episode keeps drawing.

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Aaron's canon plate (studio canon jefrie main, his pick); it still shows the pre-2026-09-21 scythe, the weapon canon is her prop sheet {Aaron 2026-09-23} edit

Aaron's canon reference sheet (studio canon jefrie sheet): front, side, face {Aaron 2026-09-23} edit

Jefrie as painted in Episode 1, at the last hair: the one-hair catch-light lands in her eye at 19:57.5, DAY 76 {E1 19:58} edit

At a glance

Kind: Person
In: E1 E2 E3 E4 dashed: not released yet
Lines: 128
File: characters/jefrie.md

Jefrie is two things at once: Aaron's own character, whose canon lives on his Notion and is set in steel, and Episode 1's painted girl, whom Aaron called "not actually going to be canon Jefrie". Both are on this sheet, kept apart by their tiers. In the series she is "the girl with the tail" Rosie asked for at nine, and every tail drawn for Rosie since is hers.

Who14 lines

SteelAaron's original character: a small young warrior girl in the same dark world as BloodTailor and Yusef; introduced 2026-09-08, named 2026-09-09. {Notion: Jefrie} edit
SteelBorn by accident while Aaron was trying to draw BloodTailor; the model kept drawing him as a girl. {Notion: Jefrie, Aaron 2026-09-28} edit
SteelCute, crazy and ferocious at once; the huge grin is not joy: she no longer cares and wants to have fun before she dies. {Notion: Jefrie} edit
SteelSadistic and cruel rather than sweet; child-coded, so always fully covered and never sexualized. {Notion: Jefrie} edit
SteelAdopted by the Devil (unnamed), who taught her to fight. {Notion: Jefrie} edit
SteelThe Storm Bell is her home; she hunts the strangers who come near it. {Notion: Jefrie 2026-09-26} edit
SteelBy day a cashier at the fast-food chain Grease Basket. {Notion: Jefrie} edit
SteelA cautionary tale, not a celebration: she cannot earn forgiveness, is forgiven anyway, and becomes good. {Notion: Jefrie, Aaron 2026-09-29} edit
SteelHer world is a desaturated grey world where red is the only colour; her region is the Storm Bell. {Notion: Canon Hub, Aaron 2026-09-15} edit
SteelEpisode 1's Jefrie is "not actually going to be canon Jefrie", but her lines are based on what Jefrie would say. {Aaron E1 brief 2026-10-11} edit
RunningFrom Episode 2 on she returns as a painting, a print, a drawing or a sound, never as cast. {Aaron 2026-10-14: new characters every episode; Q-E1-31} edit
On screenIn Episode 1 she is the girl inside the painting; she speaks only once the rag has given her a mouth. {E1 08:52} edit
On screenShe has been listening since the start: her first remark is about the host's first story. {E1 08:59} edit
RunningInside the painting she is timeless: the painting's clock runs 76 days in twenty minutes. {E1 19:57.5; WORLD_TIMELINE} edit

By episode68 lines

Crimson Coil

On screenThe second half of her giggle opens the film; its first half ends it. {E1 00:00; 29:59.5} edit
On screenA three-note giggle under the pitchman's scratched star. {E1 05:13} edit
On screenFirst word, far away, as the rag lifts her grin: "...Hi." {E1 08:52} edit
On screen"I liked the egg." {E1 08:59} edit
On screenA giggle; then to the pitchman's sales pitch, flat: "No." {E1 09:03; 09:09} edit
On screen"I count them." (her scales) {E1 11:53} edit
On screenCorrects the tail root: "Heavier." / "It weighs more than I do." / "Heavier."; the host widens it twice. {E1 11:59-12:11} edit
On screenOn the underwriting: "He meant to draw HIM. He got me. In Megabonk, I jump five point seven seven metres." {E1 12:52} edit
On screenOn the fighting game: "He can't see the scoreboard." {E1 13:03} edit
On screen"Make mine flap more, Teacher. ...Please." {E1 14:18} edit
On screen"Every time you tap the brush like that, somebody at home sneezes." {E1 14:24} edit
On screen"You're coming toward the light, Moth." {E1 14:37} edit
On screenOn the bell: "It's my house." {E1 15:09} edit
On screen"Accepted, Coupon." {E1 15:17} edit
On screenClaims the kept spatter: "Mine. ...Again." {E1 15:50} edit
On screen"I'm not made of snake." {E1 16:09} edit
On screen"Say it loud, Coupon. I like it when you're scared." {E1 16:41} edit
On screenDirects her own grin: "Wider. ...Perfect. That's how it feels from inside." {E1 17:17-17:20} edit
On screenWhen the host fixes her scythe: "You fixed it. ...Nobody ever fixes anything for me. ...I'll let you live." {E1 17:41} edit
On screen"Do you want to know why it's so heavy?"; told to wait: "...Fine. After." {E1 18:36; 18:40} edit
On screenScratches her name low right while the camera looks at the palette; only a faint scratching is heard. {E1 19:37} edit
On screenThe host says her name for the only time: "Go ahead, Jefrie." {E1 19:51} edit
On screenThe last stroke is hers: a catch-light one hair wide in her left eye, laid by nobody, at 19:57.5. {E1 19:57.5} edit
On screen"There WE are." {E1 20:10} edit
On screenA tiny cut-out of her plants a red flag on the highest glint, giggles and hops away. {E1 21:02} edit
On screenAt the X-ray, of the cabin: "...Is anybody home?" {E1 21:36} edit
On screenSwings her scythe to cut the painting back: "Hold still."; at the wipe-out stage, "...Hi." again. {E1 21:40; 21:52} edit
On screen"That's not my tail. That's a stranger's snake." / "That's not my scythe. That's a can opener with ambitions." {E1 22:01; 22:05} edit
On screenIn the soap, of the host: "Is he gone?" / "Teacher. He looked at us for twenty minutes." / "Lucky." {E1 22:36-22:47} edit
On screenTo BloodTailor: "He gave you a person's mouth. Everybody always gives you a can." {E1 22:49} edit
On screen"And my tail comes out of ME now. Before, it just sort of... hovered nearby. Like an uncle." {E1 23:00} edit
On screen"He says no. He says it nicely, though." {E1 23:11} edit
On screenA cut-out of her answers the Coil Black phone with a giggle. {E1 23:44} edit
On screenSings the chorus: "Red is the thing that's leaving, the last light out of the room. So paint me while I'm grinning, I'm not going anywhere soon." {E1 24:26} edit
On screenA cut-out of her strikes the bell with the scythe's haft on the 25:00.000 downbeat. {E1 25:00} edit
On screenThe song's tag: "Heavier." {E1 25:19} edit
On screenIn the silent film she yanks her tail from under him, scratches his itch with the scythe tip, swings at a fly, and strains: "I CAN'T MOVE MY FACE." {E1 25:35-26:13} edit
On screenIn Four Hands scratches MINE, then her tail all the way round her quarter: "Longer. ... All the way round. ...There." {E1 26:24-26:41} edit
On screen"Thank you, Coupon."; as the caller falls asleep: "...Night, Moth." {E1 26:45; 27:41} edit
On screenIn the gallery: "I can feel that." {E1 28:05} edit
On screenUnder raking light: "That's mine. I signed it while you were looking at the palette." {E1 28:10} edit
On screenBy candle: "Keep this one." {E1 28:17} edit
On screenAs the painting ages under the "time" light: "...I look like somebody kept me." {E1 28:31} edit
On screenUnmasked, in the dark: "When I was small, the wind kept taking me." {E1 28:36} edit
On screen"Every storm, the bell would ring... and away I'd go." {E1 28:40} edit
On screen"So I asked for something that's mine. Something that keeps me where I am." {E1 28:45} edit
On screen"He gave me the heaviest thing he had." {E1 28:51} edit
On screen"Now nothing carries me anywhere I don't want to go. Everybody else leaves." {E1 28:54; 28:58} edit
On screenMasked again, with a giggle: "Anyway." {E1 29:00} edit
On screenWhen the house lights come up the frame is empty and the last of her tail slides out through the gallery door. {E1 29:02} edit
On screenFrom behind the canvas, to the viewer: "You've been watching for twenty-nine minutes. You have a long-day face." {E1 29:06} edit
On screen"You're not missing much. He's tired." {E1 29:13} edit
On screen"There's a little me on your other screen. Cooking. In the rain." / "I don't cook. I work the register." {E1 29:16; 29:20} edit
On screen"Go to bed. We'll still be here. We can't leave." {E1 29:22} edit
On screenIn the chaos: "...Hi.", "HEAVIER! HEAVIER! HEAVIER!", her giggle looped. {E1 29:30; 29:42} edit
On screenHer last word, unmasked: "Again." {E1 29:59.0} edit
On screenHer name is said once (by the host) and written three times: J E F R I E S on the keypad, the scratched signature, the credits. {E1 19:51; 23:40; 28:10} edit
On screenCredits: The Tail ........ herself; Jefrie ........ herself. {E1 S44} edit
On screenThe caller paints her for Rosie: a grin with about four hundred teeth, and a tail, on a pizza-box lid. {E1 27:55} edit

Earthlight

EggIn the framed print of Crimson Coil behind Teo's head. {E2 00:20; 26:39} edit
Egggrandma_rosie: "he painted me a girl with a tail once. on a pizza box." {E2 14:07.5} edit
EggNoor's crayon of the grinning masked girl with a tail and a red scythe, signed N., taped in her tunnel; only on the hidden page, the film parked it. {E2 hideaway page; EGG-07} edit

Context Window

not released yet

EggIn no14_crimson_coil_postcard.jpg, a postcard of Crimson Coil in ~/Pictures. {E3 ~2:11; 3:31-3:43} edit
EggA child's crayon of her, signed "N.", beside the pizza box on Rosie's fridge. {E3 10:21-10:22; E3-EGG-45} edit
EggRosie asks for "a little face and a little tail"; the little melon's curly tail answers the girl with the tail. {E3 ~5:15; 19:55} edit
Egg"again." lands alone on 25:00.000, as her "Again." did. {E3 24:59.7-25:02.4; E3-EGG-32} edit
EggHer cooking-in-the-rain screen in the end room, the paying man's bedroom; cropped off the right edge in Revision 1. {E3 rev0 26:44.7; E3-EGG-40} edit

Touch Move

not released yet

EggThe oil queen is painted in Crimson Coil's palette with an alizarin sash: "She looks like the painting in our hallway. The one I'm not allowed to touch." {E4 5:27.92; E4-EGG-01} edit

Look13 lines

On screenPainted in E1: a gunmetal half-helm, ember-red eye sockets, a wide white grin, red leather ear flaps, a gorget, a smooth breastplate, red gloves, charcoal trousers, a knee cop, brown laced boots, a chain and ball. {E1 painting; 19:58} edit
On screenHer tail grows from her lower back, as thick as she is at the root and heavier than the rest of her: black scales, thorn spikes, a red ribbed belly, a hooked tip. {E1 07:37; 12:11} edit
On screenOne scythe blade with the red eye at its root, a plain bare haft, a ring end with a chain. {E1 07:44; 17:33} edit
On screenHer sleeves are painted as soft rolls: "Her sleeves are wool." {E1 16:01} edit
SteelCanon: a gunmetal half-mask over eyes and nose; black void eyes with a faint red glow; a real grin below. {Notion: Jefrie} edit
SteelCanon: two folded red-leather points (right upright, left torn), a gorget, a tattered red cape, a gunmetal breastplate, leather-look sleeves, ribbed forearm wraps, red gloves, knee guards on both legs, tall laced boots, a belt ball-and-chain. {Notion: Jefrie} edit
SteelThe tail carries more mass than her whole body and grows from her lower back; she has two human legs. {Notion: Jefrie} edit
SteelThe scythe is bigger than she is and very heavy: one blade, a single unblinking red eye at its base, a bare haft, a ring pommel with a flail. {Notion: Jefrie} edit
SteelRed is the only accent in a grey world; her armour is gunmetal, never black. {Notion: Jefrie} edit
SteelThe girl is feather-light; the tail and the scythe move her, not the other way round. {Notion: Jefrie, Aaron 2026-09-23} edit
SteelAt Grease Basket she wears no mask and no armour, only her tail, with a polo and a name tag. {Notion: Jefrie} edit
SteelThe old picture got her tail and weapon wrong; the painting fixes them. {Aaron E1 brief 2026-10-11} edit
On screenCopies of her look: the pizza box's four hundred teeth (E1), Noor's crayon with a red scythe (E2, E3). {E1 27:55; E2 hideaway page; E3 10:21} edit

Voice4 lines

On screenMasked: short sing-song sentences through a metal-mask echo that shrinks from far (08:52) to dry by 20:00. {E1 08:52; 15:09; 20:10} edit
On screenUnmasked once, dry and close, for the tail story and "Again." {E1 28:36; 29:59} edit
On screen"Again." when she likes something. {E1 15:50; 29:59} edit
On screenHer names for people: Teacher, Moth, Coupon. {E1 14:18; 14:37; 15:17} edit

Ties18 lines

On screen Calls The host "Teacher", The pitchman "Coupon", The caller "Moth". {E1 14:18; 14:37; 15:17} edit
On screen Shares the painting, Crimson Coil, with BloodTailor, whom she calls "him". {E1 22:36} edit
Steel Loves fighting BloodTailor because he never pities her; she once drove her scythe through his heart and he still won. {Notion: Jefrie, Aaron 2026-09-29} edit
On screen The "he" who gave her the heaviest thing he had is never named. {E1 28:51} edit
Running That "he" is the one who adopted her (the Devil in Notion canon). {E1 treatment §4.5} edit
On screen Her home is the The Storm Bell. {E1 15:09} edit
On screen She works the register; the credits thank Grease Basket "for the night off". {E1 29:20; S44} edit
On screen The The One-Hair Brush lays her catch-light. {E1 19:57.5} edit
On screen Her name is on 1-555-533-7437's keypad. {E1 23:40} edit
Idea Revision 2's open port 7437, by which the lonely man came in, spells R I E S on a keypad: the tail of her name. {E3 rev2 plan v0 §3; EGGS_SWEEP} edit
On screen She sings the chorus of Red Is the Thing That's Leaving. {E1 24:26} edit
Running The girl with the tail Rosie asked for is her; the The pizza-box painting shows her. {E1 04:39; 27:55} edit
On screen She talks to the man in the The end room; a little her cooks in the rain on his second screen. {E1 29:06-29:22} edit
Egg Noor Haddad drew her in crayon. {E2 hideaway page; E3 10:21} edit
Egg Rosie's little melon's curly tail is her tail, passed on. {E3 19:55} edit
Egg The oil queen is painted in her painting's palette. {E4 5:27} edit
Idea Everyone who loves Rosie draws her a tail: her brother in oil, Noor in crayon, the agent on a melon. {series gather} edit
Idea Her "Everybody else leaves." points at Noor, left alone when all thirteen adults drive away in Episode 2. {E1 28:58} edit

Must stay true5 lines

SteelAlways fully covered. {Notion: Jefrie} edit
SteelTail from her lower back; one blade with the red eye at its root; a bare haft. {Aaron E1 brief 2026-10-11; Notion: Jefrie} edit
Running"Unmasked" only ever means her voice. {E1 treatment §0.2} edit
On screenHer first word comes late and small; her last word is "Again." {E1 08:52; 29:59} edit
RunningNot cast again after Episode 1: only her painting, its copies and her tail return. {Q-E1-31} edit

Open6 lines

OpenWhether E1's tail story (the wind, the bell, "the heaviest thing he had") is canon; Aaron called Episode 1's Jefrie non-canon. {Aaron E1 brief 2026-10-11; E1 28:36} edit
OpenWho "somebody at home" is, who sneezes when the host taps his brush. {E1 14:24} edit
OpenHow the gallery frame can be empty at 29:02 when "We can't leave." {E1 29:02; 29:25} edit
OpenWho lent the painting ("Lent by the girl in it"), and where the original hangs after Y0. {E1 28:00} edit
IdeaIn the Episode 4 boy's family hallway, "the one I'm not allowed to touch". {series gather; E4 5:27.92} edit
OpenWhether a real bell rings in the Storm Bell, as Episode 1 has it; Notion's Storm Bell is a dome. {Notion: Jefrie; E1 15:09} edit