Devin Zeller is a 15-year-old recently elected member of the Bluff City parks department and employee of the Bluff City Zoo 2. She entered the council election as a joke but as she ran unopposed she was automatically elected.
Her mother is a member of the zoo management board and thinks of the zoo as “a little bit of free childcare”. As she still sees Devin as a child, she drops Devin off at the zoo each day and leave Devin to her own devices. After the incident at the Zoo 2 party, his mother decided to homeschool her. This caused Devin to lose contact with many of her friends. Her mother tried to moderate this loss, putting Devin a homeschool group for events and social outings, however Devin disliked the other homeschooled teenagers. After completing her homeschool education, Devin got an out of town internshp at another zoo, which she transitioned into working for an out of town zoo in a similar managerial role to her mother. It is unknown if she took continued her interest in caring for chinchillas.
The Zellers were previously a prominent family (“it was a family that was something once”), with Devin's grandfather, D.E. Hitchcock, being a significant sponsor of the Bluff City Zoo.
Trivia
- Janine chose the surname 'Zeller' for this character as a reference to a defunct Canadian department store.
- She has a chinchilla named Popcorner which she got from Dax Leopard.