Cry Baby

Cry Baby (also spelt Crybaby) is the fictionalized alter ego and mascot for the singer Melanie Martinez, of whom appears as the titular main protagonist of the overarching story in the album Crybaby, as well as the main protagonist in the album K-12 (alongside its 2019 film adaptation) and the album Portals.
She is characterized as being an insecure, lonely and delicate young woman living in a toxic household with a family she doesn't feel as though she connects with.
She was portrayed by herself.
==History==
===Crybaby (Album)===
Crybaby was instantly born into a world of resentment from an alcoholic mother, an unfaithful father and a slightly cruel elder brother who altered his own sister's birth certificate to make her legal name Crybaby. Growing up her home life was fairly difficult with her father continuing to have multiple affairs, her mother falling deeper into alcoholism and her brother becoming a habitual stoner, her emotional nature also made her a prime and easy target for bullies. Being bullied also left Crybaby as a rather lonely and friendless individual, demonstrated from how nobody ever turned up to the birthday parties she planned.
As her life went on Crybaby went through two toxic relationships. One with a young man who cared little for her of whom she dubbed as Alphabet Boy and the other with a slightly older man named Johnny who constantly pressured her on thoughts of perfection (to the point of her even having reconstructive facial surgery) before ultimately rebuffing her and dumping her for another woman.
She made her birthday party on her own, she made several invitations with love by sending small cookies to them. guests but none of them showed up causing her to have a mental breakdown.
Sometime later she went to the grocery store to buy some snacks, when she went to the cashier to give a woman money she was given some sort of strange potion. Immediately after this she was kidnapped by the Big Wolf.
The wolf demands Cry Baby to make him Milk and Cookies, leading to Crybaby deciding to use the potion the woman gave her to put into the cookies, poisoning the wolf and killing him.
Soon after she meets yet another young man named Blue Boy who is in a relationship with a particularly unpleasant girl only referred to as a Basic Bitch, so Cry Baby starts to try get the Blue Boy's attention. Although she was almost successful the Blue Boy decided to go back to the Basic Bitch instead much to Cry Baby's sadness.
Cry Baby was at home eating cookies with her dolls while watching a pill commercial that made women thin and a blonde wig commercial. After seeing the commercials he goes to the bathroom and puts a yellow wig and toilet paper on his breasts and takes the pill while crying and laughing. She returns to the living room and starts watching a movie about Mrs. Potato Head's plastic surgery. After Cry Baby sees the result of Mrs. Potato Head's face, she regrets and takes off her wig and toilet paper
Cry Baby accepts who she finally is and starts smoking like her brother. She sees a drink written Trink Me. She drinks and feels sick and sees the Nurse who helped the rabbit in her birth and the Woman at the Market who gave her the poison,she starts to hallucinate and when she wakes up she has black eyes like the Nurse and the Market Woman who have their hands on her arm.
===K-12 (Album & Film)===
After being accepted into the boarding school K-12 Cry Baby and Angelita sit beside one another on the bus in total misery about their destination, something only worsened when some bullies (including Blue Boy) throw an insulting note at Cry Baby leading her to almost burst into tears. 
Once arriving at the institute Cry Baby and Angelita are immediately on edge and unnerved about the building and the ways in which their peers are behaving but they try to brush it off and survive their way through their time at the school. Problems soon arise, however, thanks to an envious girl named Kelly whose boyfriend was talking to Cry Baby confronts her during recess and begins fiercely pounding her with attacks while a restrained Angelita can only watch in horror. 
After having her arm sliced by Kelly Cry Baby begins demonstrating her powers in self-defense to the point of strangling the girl with her hair. Eventually, however, the two are broken away from each other by the teacher Miss Daphne who drags the two into detention. 
Once arriving, Cry Baby notices the boy next to her eating pills and asks him why, to which he explains that the principal and his staff are brainwashing the students much to Cry Baby's horror. Following this several shenanigans ensue which eventually lead to Cry Baby and Angelita almost falling victim to a dose of brainwashing before being rescued by a mysterious guardian to "empaths" such as themselves. 
After this Cry Baby is given a role in the school's play which she is disappointed with but is forced to play. She uses this to her advantage however and during the performance she breaks free all her fellow students by telling them they have been brainwashed leading to the vengeful mob of students to break into the principal's office and brutally attack him, tearing his limbs off and killing him. 
Their victory is short-lived, however, as soon enough, the principal's son Leo enters the picture and takes over his father's position. Soon after he is appointed Cry Baby and her growing number of friends decide to overthrow him in a comparable manner to his father, unfortunately however while checking the security footage Leo learns of their plans and is outraged and quickly formulates his own. He poses as the writer of a love letter to Cry Baby (Which was written by another student named Ben wrote) and asks Cry Baby to the school dance. Although surprised and confused, she accepts his offer to help the plan succeed further. 
During the dance, Leo confesses his knowledge of the plan formulated to destroy him, and in vengeance, he forces all the students to dance with each other until they die of exhaustion. Unfortunately for him however Cry Baby disguises herself as another woman with her powers and tricks him into going into a closet thinking they would have sex before exposing her identity and locking him inside. Cry Baby then tries to formulate a plan to destroy the school only to be helped by Ben who confesses his love for her and tells her the idea of using large spit bubbles to float the school away. The two try the plan and it works, with the two of them eventually leaping off the building as it floats higher and higher away. 
At this moment, Leo finally breaks out of the closet and calls out in horror and frustration as his school floats away with him in it before eventually disappearing along with the school, being killed. 
The spirit guardian takes Cry Baby and her friends to a better life; However, Cry Baby hesitates and looks back at the ruins of the school with a conflicted expression on her face. 
===Portal (Album)===
In her "Death" music video, It is implied that Cry Baby was impaled by swords and died after the events of K-12. However, she get reincarnated as another being due to being unable to truely die since she is an Empath.
==Personality==
As her name would suggest she was an extremely emotional individual growing up something which never truly left her as she is shown often times to be very prone to quick and violent lengthy bursts of misery or pure rage. Initially she was an extremely solitary individual who drew back into herself often and was full of many insecurities.
As she got older Crybaby matured more and became more confident and relaxed and managed to both overcome several of her insecurities and make friends as time went on, especially after being transferred to K-12.
==Trivia==
*The name Crybaby was derived from what bullies would often call Melanie Martinez growing up, when she began her music career Martinez adopted the name in a more positive light into being her mascot character.
==External links==
*Cry Baby on the Villains Wiki
*Cry Baby on the Melanie Martinez Wiki
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