Shantae is a female half genie teen, born from a human father and a genie mother. Both of these parents are nowhere to be found, her mother being in the genie realm. Because of this she lives with her adopted uncle, Mimic. Her appearance draws heavily from Middle Eastern and Turkish aesthetics, featuring a traditional belly dancer's red bedlah outfit (harem pants, a top and gold jewelry on her wrists. She also has gold earrings and blue colored eyes). She has long purple hair tied up into a long ponytail that can reach below her ankles. She uses her ponytail as a whip to fight off foes. She lives in Scuttle town, being the Guardian genie of that town. Because of this she lives in a lighthouse to seek out trouble in the ocean. Shantae is usually seen being sweet, optimistic and upbeat. She’s nice to everyone she meets and is always determined to brighten anyone’s day. Since Shantae is a half genie, she can do a belly dance in order to teleport herself to certain places or transform into certain animals, like a monkey or elephant or mouse. Her best friends are Bolo, Sky and Rottytops. She sometimes gets tired from the way they all act around eachother. Even though Shantae is considered a genie, it doesn’t seem like she can grant wishes.

Bolo is a male human teenager. His appearance consists of frisky grey hair with black eyes and a yellow ninja styled headband on his forehead. He wears a white sleeveless shirt with a small grey vest with short blue jeans. Bolo is seen to be serious and leading, though his attempts at helping usually leads to him (or others) to get hurt. His friends, Shantae, Rottytops and Sky see him as an idiot, due to how clumsy he is. Despite this, Bolo keeps trying so he can be seen as a hero more than a goof up. Bolo really likes to flirt with women, but it never works because they aren’t into him. Bolo wields a mace on a chain as his weapon.

Rottytops is a female zombie teenager. Her appearance consists of green skin with dark green choppy hair with a yellow headband and red eyes, and skull earrings. She has stitches on her left arm and right leg with a purple tank top and blue shirt jeans with a belt that has a skull buckle on it. Rottytops is usually seen being friendly and energetic, though she could also be mischievous, unpredictable and flirtatious. Despite being a zombie, Rottytops doesn’t seem to be hostile towards any of her friends. She only cracks jokes occasionally like she would eats your brains or something else zombie related. She can be helpful and unhelpful some of the time. She sees Shantae as a genuine friend, but she doesn’t seem to be that close with Bolo or Sky. Everyone in her friend group is ok with her being a zombie.

Sky is a female human teenager. Her appearance consists of tan skin with purple eyes and blonde hair held back by a blue headwrap and a purple hood. She wears pink and blue earrings that are shaped like eggs and a blue, pink and purple girdle with her breasts covered with a blue and pink covering, white khaki pants with a buckle on it, and brown boots. She also has a brown bird handling glove on her left hand. Sky is usually seen irresponsible and/or selfish and bossy. She doesn’t act like this all the time but it is frequent. She tolerates Bolo, but often argues with Rottytops. Sky owns some sort of hatchery where she trains warbirds and watches over eggs. Sky has a warbird herself, that being Wrench. Despite her attitude, Sky deeply cares about her friends and Wrench.

Wrench is a small wren and a finch bird crossed over, his appearance having a purple and light lavender body with his wings and the underside of his feathers being an icy blue. He has large wings and a small head with a yellow beak, with large yellow eyes with yellow legs and a light lavender tail. Wrench got his name due to being able to rotate bolts in his beak. Wrench can grow 4x his size to carry others around, though this can only be done for a couple of seconds. Wrench sees Bolo as prey, always looking for a chance to nip at him, or when he’s big, tries to eat him whole. Wrench is stoic and obedient, and his love for Sky is very genuine. Wrench cannot talk due to being a bird.

Risky is a female human teenager. Her appearance consists of light purple skin with red eyes and purple hair tucked into her red and purple pirate hat with a beige skull in the front of it. She wears the top half of a skull as a bra with a purple bra top underneath, with red striped cuffs around her wrist with gold circular cufflinks and wears purple harem pants with the bottom jaw of a skull as a belt. Risky is usually seen being evil, selfish, smug and cocky, always pushing people aside for her own goals and desires. She has a very short temper and can be very violent. She’s the main antagonist of Shantae, always causing trouble for her by doing mischievous and evil things around Sequin Land to make Shantae’s life worse. She has a deep desire for finding gold and riches, using her ship to sail around and attempt to find some. Her relationship with others, Bolo, Rottytops and Sky are still the same, though she hates Shantae the most.