Kelly Bailey

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Kelly, acted by Lauren Socha, is initially portrayed simply as a stereotypical chav, given community service for getting into a fight at an Argos store. The first to discover a power, she has telepathy. She hears the thoughts of others, including her dog and an infant.

She is aggressive but worries about what others think of her; it was she who killed the rampaging Tony — albeit in self-defence — and instigated the Argos fight after a girl called her a &quot;slag&quot;. With her telepathic ability, a habit of speaking before thinking results in exposing many of her fellow Misfits' secrets. However she is also shown to have a sensitive side, showing concern for the other members of the group and being genuinely hurt by her fiancé leaving her.

A tentative relationship develops after Kelly reaches out to Nathan, and the pair may be falling in love. Of the group, she is the most affected by Nathan's apparent death.

In the first episode of Season 2 Kelly and Nathan are still not a couple, despite the fact they like each other, because of Kelly's dislike of some of Nathan's personality traits, coupled with her fear of being used and hurt once again. When Kelly takes the same pills that reverse the user's powers, instead of learning everyone's thoughts, she uncontrollably reveals her secrets, so she tells Nathan she might love him and how many sexual partners she'd had. The two attempt to become physical in the third episode, but Kelly stops it before they can go all the way because she feels like snogging Nathan is like snogging her cousin, and suggests that they just stay friends. Despite this, the two still appear close; when Kelly was 'abducted' by her latest possible partner, Bruno- whose storm-related power resulted in him turning from a gorilla into a human-, Nathan appeared genuinely concerned for Kelly during the subsequent police pursuit, later sympathising with her evident grief over Bruno's death.

She has also started to develop an elder-sister kind of relationship with Simon; sticking up for him when the others pick on him. She has apparently warned Nathan not to do so, and violently threatened Curtis when she discovered he had hit Simon.

In the sixth episode of Season 2, Kelly was killed by another character who was affected by the storm and had gained the ability to manipulate dairy products, her death prompting Nathan to go after her killer in a rage after he saw her spirit. This is however reversed when Curtis rewinds time to cancel out all events which have taken place during this episode.