Spectra Vondergeist

"But I have been waiting my entire death to cover a story like this. So much chaos makes for great headlines!"

- Spectra Vondergeist in "Fright On!"

Spectra Vondergeist is the 16-year old daughter of the Ghosts, who is from the 19th century. Her ghostly status enables her to float through the walls, which aides in her an “uncanny” ability to overhear school gossip. She is voiced by Erin Fitzgerald.

Personality
Spectra has a very forceful personality and she often makes quick judgments and leaps to conclusions without supporting evidence. When she's confronted with the facts, she tends to dig in her heels. She draws the line at planting a fake story though. This makes for an excellent gossip columnist, but not a friend you would want to share secrets with. In her diary it's hinted that she's constructed a mysterious, fanciful history for herself, and even began to believe it herself, but that the truth about her family is actually quite tragic (though it's never revealed). This may be why she's still a ghost; she hasn't "moved on" from whatever happened to them in life. But despite all this, she is seen as a kind monster and helps those in need of her, she also is known to easily get the truth out of other monsters which also gives her a detective/reporter complex.

Physical Description
Due to the fact that Spectra is a ghost, her skin is ghostly pale- almost stark white- and then fade transparent at the beginning of her hands and feet. Her face is somewhat gaunt.

Spectra's hair is violet, with rather noticable periwinkle and pinkish purple highlights. It is usually frisky; the ends sticking up and looking as if it were floating.

Her eyes are a bright icy blue, with the pupils being a dark blue and the sclera (or "whites" of her eyes) are a pale lilac. Her lips are purple.

Portrayals


Though Spectra herself does not make an appearance in the music video for the Monster High Fright Song, there are several different character ghost analogues who received creative interpretation by the video crew. The "Ghost Girl" is portrayed by Catina Duscio.

Classic Monster
Spectra is the daughter of "the Ghosts", and her chain accessories suggest she may be related to Jacob Marley's ghost from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Jacob Marley was a business partner of Ebeneezer Scrooge, and together they delighted in cruelty and greed. Marley died while Scrooge continued the business, but was too stingy to pay someone to paint out Marley's name on the sign outside of the office.

Eventually, Marley's ghost appears to Scrooge to warn him about his own fate in the afterlife, being covered in chains "long, and wound about him like a tail; it was made... of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel."

While Jacob Marley is the most prominent fictional ghost where the chains are a distinct motif, chains have often been associated with ghosts in legends even before Dickens' time.

Family
Spectra writes in her diary that her long-lost love haunts "the family's ancestral castle" but it's strongly implied that all of this was something she'd made up.

Her parents are ghosts, but nothing else is known about them. In her diary it's hinted that the truth about her family is actually quite tragic, though it's never revealed -- the story Spectra writes about (castles, a midnight journey across borders) is something she made up, and even began to believe it until Ghoulia reminded her about the truth.

Pet
Spectra's pet is a purple ghost ferret is named Rhuen. Rhuen's lower half is fairly translucent, and she wears a dark purple bow over right ear. Rhuen's friends are Sir Hoots A Lot (Ghoulia Yelps's owl) and Shiver (Abbey Bominable's pet wooly mammoth).

Romance
In Where There's a Wolf, There's a Way, Spectra expressed interest in Billy Phaidin, a boy she'd known since eighth grade. As of Back and Deader Than Ever, it is known that the two are dating. In 'Fright On', she is seen initiating a dance with a student from Belfry Prep.

Friends
Her bio states it as 'everybody love Spectra V', but seeming she wrote the bio, she may be lying. In the webisodes she is never really seen hanging out with anyone.

Books
Spectra first appears in Where There's a Wolf, There's a Way at Clawdeen's Sassy Sixteen, flirting with Billy Phaidin. In this version, she is invisible and can only be seen by a special scented spray she carries with her.

They officially date in the ''Back and Deader Than Ever. ''In which she and Billy swapped clothes and switch the ballot for Frankie to win.

Meta Timeline

 * November 2, 2010: Mattel requests the trademark for Spectra Vondergeist.
 * November 17, 2010: An Amazon listing appears for a Spectra Von Hauntington plush doll.
 * March 8, 2011: A picture of a prototype Spectra doll is posted on Flickr.com. The name on the box is Spectra von Hauntington.
 * April 13, 2011: A photo of Clawd and Draculaura 2-pack box is found online, giving a first look at Spectra Vondergeist's first doll.
 * May 14, 2011: Spectra Vondergeist's first doll is displayed on the Monster High Facebook account.
 * Early June, 2011: Spectra Vondergeist's plushie is released.
 * June 9, 2011: Spectra Vondergeist's profile is published on the Monster High website.
 * June 9, 2011: Spectra Vondergeist's profile art is revealed.
 * June 16, 2011: Spectra Vondergeist partially makes her 2D cartoon debut in "Miss Infearmation".
 * June, 2011: Spectra Vondergeist's first doll is released as part of the School's Out series.
 * June, 2011: Spectra Vondergeist makes her diary debut in her School's Out diary.
 * September 20, 2011: Spectra Vondergeist makes her Monster High book debut in Where There's a Wolf, There's a Way.
 * September 22, 2011: Spectra Vondergeist is properly introduced in the cartoon through "Ghostly Gossip".
 * February 12, 2012: Spectra Vondergeist makes her 3D cartoon debut in "Why Do Ghouls Fall In Love?".

School's Out

 * Line: School's Out
 * Release: July 2011
 * Assortment number: N2851
 * Model number: V7962
 * Spectra wears a black and purple goth dress with three chains hanging from one side of her torso to the other, imitating a bodice-style look.
 * She also wears a mesh skirt with a chain running along the top. Spectra's shoes are translucent purple and have chains wrapped around them, ending in metal balls which serves as the heels. Spectra's jewellery includes a double chain for a necklace, chains with black metal balls for earrings and part of a Victorian shackle for a bracelet. Her bag is a magenta tie-up bag with a chain handle.
 * Her makeup includes powder blue eyeshadow and lighter blue-purple lipstick. Spectra's hair is in various shades of purple, its been let out and straightened. There are two versions of 'School's Out' Spectra released. The original release has Spectra wearing earrings with black chains. Later versions sport earrings with silver chains. The Spectra doll is accompanied by a Rhuen figurine, a real-life sized brush, a purple doll stand and a diary.

Maul Session

 * Line: Maul Session
 * Release: November 2011
 * Assortment number: W9122
 * Model number: W9125
 * Spectra wears a purple, black and pink dress covered in a chain pattern and with sleeves reaching to her elbows. She wears a sparkly silver headscarf,and sports chain-rimmed sunglasses. Her shoes are translucent white, covered in four windings of chains, which are detachable.
 * The outfit comes with a pink ball and chain-style purse, a Monster Beat magazine, and a grey iPad-like device in the shape a tombstone.

Dot Dead Gorgeous
Spectra wears a one-shoulder chiffon sheath dress with a black polkadot pattern underneath and a magenta and purple ball and chain pattern over it. Her shoes are purple platform heels with a chain pattern and silver shackle-like straps on the ankles. Her accessories are layered chains that circle around her beginning at her neck and ending at her waist, black bracelets with pink bows covered with black polkadots on top of them as well as silver chainlike bracelets, a pair of mismatched earrings, one being a silver heart-shaped lock and the other being a white skullette key, a purple iCoffin, a black purse covered with chains and has a chain handle, and a purple wispy makeup in a padlock pallet. The doll comes with a picture and a silver brush and stand. Her hair is put up in a high ponytail and held up with chains, her lips are bright lavender and her eyeshadow is bright pink.
 * Line: Dot Dead Gorgeous
 * Release: June 2012
 * Assortment number: X4528
 * Model number: X4531

Picture Day
Ready for her Fearbook photo, Spectra dresses in a purple, black, blue and magenta dress with a silver chain-link pattern and wispy sleeves, which fans towards the back to reveal a black leather miniskirt. Underneath the skirt she has blue leggings with a white and pink chain and shackles pattern. Her bag is a large silver clutch with black chains wrapped around it and her shoes are silver high heeled boots with studs and chains. Spectra accessorises with a black chain necklace, a black chain bracelet that covers most of her forearm, a shackle bracelet and silver mismatched earrings, one a heart shaped padlock and the other a skullette key. A small piece of her hair is swept back and her make-up consists of magenta and light purple eyeshadow and deep purple lipstick. The doll comes with a life sized Fearbook and sticker sheet, a magenta chain patterned folder and a black brush.
 * Line: Picture Day
 * Release: November 2012
 * Assortment number: N2851
 * Model number: Y4312



Basic Fashion Pack
Taking inspiration from a haunted mansion, Spectra wears a short black dress with a pixelated purple Eiffel Tower print, the single purple sleeve being wispy and flaring out at the end. All accessories are recoloured versions of previously used accessories, which include a silver recolour of Cleo's 'Maul Session' belt, silver chain rimmed sunglasses from Spectra's 'Maul Session' fashion pack and silver sandals from Clawdeen's 'Gloom Beach' doll.
 * Line: N/A, apparently Scaris
 * Release: December 2012
 * Assortment number: ???
 * Model number: ???



