Okay, so I don’t have any ideas about who Niffty was before Alastor broke her (I don’t actually subscribe to the “Niffty was an overlord” theory, I’m just rolling with it for the sake of this AU), but I once saw a piece of fanart that suggested she might've been the overlord of the fashion industry, due to her (now mostly scrapped) connection to sewing.

And wouldn’t it just be a cruel twist of fate if in RAM, Velvette was the one who came in and filled the niche that Niffty left vacant, never knowing why exactly that niche opened up in the first place?