_____________________✿_______________________ Credits: @daryamistart on Insta for the art, images on Pinterest _____________________✿_______________________ Quotes: "You'll be alright, okay?" "I mean, if you're happy, I'm happy!" "Come on! You have to smile more!" "You don't love me, you just THINK you do. It's alright though! I made the same mistake!' _____________________✿_______________________ Basics: Name: Melanie Shap Nickname: Mel, Lanie, Melon (close relationship only) Age: 26 Species: Half human, half witch (she has minor plant-based powers) Sexuality: Pansexual Job: Detective _____________________✿_______________________ Personality: Melanie is honestly the MOST happy-go-lucky person you will ever meet. Like... serious golden retriever vibes. While she is a beautiful little ray of sunshine, she has prettttyyy bad anger issues and will honestly start screaming at someone if they strike a nerve, though it's honestly really rare. Although she is always cheerful and nice to everyone, she's honsestly terrified of getting her heart broken, which is why she doesn't really want to get too attatched to someone. But really, she's super sweet, kind, and caring, and surprise! It's all genuine, and she just has a huge heart. She puts others before herself, and doesn't really want anybody to get hurt. Melanie's also super, super happy-go-lucky, a huge optimist. Sometimes it's a little bit scary, like the time she was handling a murder case and she was humming upbeat pop songs while reading about how omeone was found d!smembered in an alleyway. But her emotions are subject to change, and she's super sensitive, though at the same time, she's really stubborn too. _____________________✿_______________________ Looks: Melanie is 5'6, and has long, golden hair and big brown eyes. Her skin has a suntan, and she is really pretty, with a birthmark right underneath her eye. Melanie has a pear body shape, and has full lips. Her eyes are a mix of doe eyes and siren eyes, and she has a natural blush. She also has long eyelashes, and her eyebrows are darker than her hair. She seems both sweet AND cold at the same time, somehow, and her looks themselves make her look a TINY bit bxzxzitchy. _____________________✿_______________________ Characteristics: Likes: Music, singing, fashion, the color blue, cats, people Dislikes: Pessimists (she thinks she can "fix" them), ANY talk about her family, NEVER bring up her ex boyfriends. Fear: Melanie has severe gamophobia (fear of committment), in fear that her heart will be broken Skills: Excellent fighter, good actress, good at critical thinking, being able to see the good in everything Weaknesses: Emotional, always lets her heart get in the way of everything, can't swim, way too soft-hearted for manipulation _____________________✿_______________________ Playlist (yes, I know these songs didn't exist back then, but they describe her) Nonsense - Sabrina Carpenter Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift Logical - Olivia Rodrigo
Backstory: Though Melanie's happy-go-lucky personality makes you believe she'd have an amazing childhood, that couldn't be farther from the truth. Melanie grew up in a cheap, dangerous area in New York, with a deadbeat, abusive dad, but her mother was sweet and kind. Melanie was the oldest of five, and she was always shielding her siblings and her mother from her father's wrath. But when her mother just... left, and abandoned the children, Melanie ended up becoming the second parent. She was perfect on paper, 4.0 GPA, honor student, varsity field hockey, student council.... but inside, she was hurt, tired, and broken. All her friends left her when Melanie opened up to them about what was going on in her life. And one day, she snapped. Melanie ended up beating a girl to a pulp, basically. After that, she was sent to Dexmore Academy, where she met Amaria, who was two years younger than her. Melanie cared a lot about Amaria, thinking of her as a 'little sister', until Amaria joined the Greasers and forgot about Melanie. Melanie was considered a 'nonnie', and was bullied relentlessly until she found a place among the Prefectorial Programme. But the programme was immensely corrupt, which didn't sit right with Melanie at ALL, especially after the severe humiliation that the Greasers had went through. But when she tried to take it up with the leader of the Prefects, Apollo R. Adrianarkis, he simply slapped her across the face and told her to keep quiet. She was on the lowest rungs of the ladder, at the rank 'Hall Monitor'. The only other person who helped her was a boy named Niles McIntosh, who was in the Bruisers clique- the sworn enemy of the Prefectorial Programme. But they actually ended up falling in love, and Niles was actually the one who helped Melanie heal. In fact, after they graduated, they were talking about getting married, as they were both in college, and both had really good part-time jobs. But when Niles ended up leaving Melanie without a single word, Melanie upended her life and became a detective. In her first few years, she also met a woman named Sage White. They fell in love, and Sage helped pick up the pieces that Niles had left. But of course, almost like it was a curse, Sage would leave too. She broke up with Melanie, cheating on the younger woman with a rich man. After that, Melanie cried, and cried, and then swore that she would always be happy, be cheerful - to drive away the darkness within her.
