Queen Nerissa, known by her human pseudonym name Chelsea Van Der Zee, is the main antagonist of Dreamworks' 44th full-length animated film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.
She is the newest & most popular student at Oceanside High School. Posing as a regular human, her true form is actually a mermaid. Feigning a friendship with Ruby, Chelsea manipulates her into giving her a mythical trident, which she plans to use to increase her power, avenge her kind, and kill all the krakens. She is also the arch-nemesis of the Gillman family, particularly Ruby Gillman.
As the queen of the ruined Mermaid Kingdom, Nerissa's desires are to kill Ruby's mom, dethrone Ruby's grandmother, and lay waste to the kraken kingdom, as they did to hers, and is willing to manipulate, and hurt anybody, in order to accomplish her goal.
Due to Nerissa being a plot twist villain, determining the exact details of her personality is extremely difficult, and is made even more difficult due to the fact that, while normally, it can be assumed that her personality after the reveal is her actual one, due to her returning back to her Chelsea personality after being defeated, and staying in it, even after it became clear that it will not help her Escape, it may be possible that her Chelsea personality maybe her actual personality (although this is unlikely). Her voice as Chelsea sounds like an average teenager, while her voice as Nerissa sounds a little deeper like an adult.
According to Grandmamah, Agatha makes a unknowingly false statement that "Nerissa's daughter" is manipulating her, In response, Grandmamah is confused and replies agitatedly "Daughter?! Nerissa never had a daughter!" So sometimes, her mermaid physiology can sometimes confuse that of krakens.
She is a cruel, two-faced, arrogant, power-hungry, manipulative, "will-do-anything-to-destroy-the-world" kind of a mermaid, and since the queen of the mermaids is the central antagonist, she would do anything to twist the backstory, and turn the table, like how she did by revealing Ruby's identity intentionally using social media.
A possibility that is made even more likely due to statements made by the director of the film Kirk DeMicco, which were further supported by statements made by co-director Faryn Pearl, which essentially state that the backstory that Nerissa gave to Ruby was genuine and that she was genuinely relating to Ruby's plight, which, in turn, possibly means that all of her other reactions, such is the one where she appears to be confused, and possibly worrying about Ruby, after she ran off to the library, are genuine, a possibility that is further supported by the fact that many of set reactions occurred when nobody was looking or paying attention to her.
Additionally, the sequences in the movie in which Grandmamah talks about the mermaids and the Battle of the Trident, cannot be considered good sources of information about her, due to being too vague, and as a result of Grandmamah's clear hatred towards the mermaids, to the point where the movie basically confirms, that she either wants to, or is actively genociding the mermaids, clear bias.
With the same or similar problems existing with every statement about her made by every Kraken in the movie.
Due to this, the only sources of information that can be considered reliable, of her post reveal personality are her own words and actions following her reveal, alongside any statements made about her by the creators of the film.
Perhaps spawning from the persecution from the Krakens (real or imagined), Chelsea revealed a victim complex when defeated; instead of acknowledging her defeat or the fact that her planned destruction ended up threatening people who had nothing to do with the Kraken-Mermaid war, she claimed that she was only attacked for being "pretty." Similarly, she fails to take responsibility for her actions, displaying no guilt at manipulating and betraying Ruby, even though the Kraken girl thought of her as a friend; thus, even if she did start with a righteous cause, the years and her hatred had twisted her into the monster the Krakens feared she was the whole time.
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