Melanie Hoskins

Melanie Hoskins is the protagonist of Tom Clancy's The Division: Hearts on Fire. She is a paramedic and firefighter turned First Wave Division agent. She is married and has with a young son. She's also featured in the Descent comms that were added in Year 6 Season 1- First Rogue as well as the comms in Y6S2.
== Tom Clancy's The Division: Hearts on Fire ==
Melanie Hoskins was a New York City paramedic and the sister of Johanna Fisher. She was recruited to Strategic Homeland Division by Jason Hsu after the latter witnessed her attempting to resuscitate a dying child. After passing her training, she was activated as one of the First Wave of Division agents to deal with the Dollar Flu threat. 
Melanie was initially partnered with a Division agent named Anderson, who she trained with, but he was soon killed by Cleaners after discovering that the quarantined apartment building where his family lived had been "cleansed." Melanie soon discovered that her sister was one of the killers and actively carrying out attacks against survivors as well as medical staff. After recovering from a gunshot wound, she partners with Agent Hsu to continue her mission. Torn between duty and love of her family, she initially tries to take Johanna prisoner but is tricked before being disabled. This results in Hsu's death.
Eventually tracking down her sister, she is forced to kill her in order to stop a train full of bombs from destroying a refugee camp. While traumatized, she is reassured by her fellow Division agents that she did the right thing and has a Christmas phone call with her husband and son (who both escaped the city). Partnering with a new Division agent, her fate is unknown.
== A New Assignment ==
At some point, Hoskins got into contact with Rogue Agent Aaron Keener. He started goading her by first talking about her sister, then the conversation changes when Keener asks her about her loyalties to Calvin McManus. In an attempt to convince her, he pulled an audio recording from ISAC, revealing Cal's negligence over Gordon Amherst.
After being shown the truth, Hoskins was convinced for the time being, though she still didn't trust Keener and had some reluctance defecting from the Division. As a show of goodwill, Keener used his Rogue Network to allow Melanie to leave the Manhattan Island and see her family in Buffalo, Colorado. He promised to send some of his people to her family to keep them safe, just in case. And in exchange, Melanie is tasked to visit an installation nestled in a small town in the middle of nowhere.
After visiting her family and checking up on them alive and stable, Hoskins gives a status report to Keener, revealing that the farm that her aunt got was bought using her Division bonus as a backup plan. In any case, Hoskins goes on the road, stopping in Chicago for a bit. She reported the state of things there to Keener, even adding supply trucks coming in and out of the city are commandeered by people who are not CERA, describing their apparel as biker gear. She reaches the small town, finding it to be a warzone. She's puzzled at the lack of Division operations there, but Keener reminded her to focus on her mission: Intercepting Cal's Hunter, He warned her to stay alert and expect contact once she gets close to the installation. 
Hoskins does make it inside the base and entered the secret entrance via a SHD Tech explosive, finding no opposition and managed to procure a USB drive a containing a roster as well as finding a team of four dead agents. She contacts Keener, revealing what she found. She also mentions that ISAC made a sweep of the deceased agents and their status reports, revealing that they were infected by Green Poison. However, the way those agents died wasn't by the poison itself. And apparently, that team were in a local lab to work on the antivirals for DCD before they all scattered and died. 
Hoskins took side roads to leave [Redacted] in order to avoid the Hunters who were sent there by McManus. 
== Revelations and a Special Assignment ==
After rendezvousing with Keener, it is revealed that the flash drive that Hoskins recovered contains a list of people who were recruited into the Hunter program before the Division's activation. While Keener was frustrated given the Division was trusted for their mission, Hoskins retorted that the power that be couldn't trust the Division to get the job done, hence the Hunters being activated as "guards dogs". She later shared the USB to Theo, where the latter expressed some disappointment the list of the world's most dangerous people was held in a "cheap piece of plastic". Though Theo was alarmed that Hoskins had to take side roads to avoid the Hunters considering he wiped the data that implicated her, she retorted that Hunters became aware that a Division agent got into the bunker's secret entrance using a SHD Tech explosive, but not which agent. 
A little later, Keener had some doubts about the fight against the Hunters, then subsequently shared his plan by having a Hunter embedded into Black Tusk to undermine the Hunters. Hoskins was doubtful, not believing that anyone is that connected, though Keener corrected her that he's very well connected. 
When Keener was coming up for a base of operations to build up new recruits and train them, Hoskins had some doubts given his reputation. But all in all, it worked as many civilians who were rescued by Keener and Theo Parnell spoke praise of Rogue Agents. However, Hoskins had some concerns when it turned out Theo consummated with Maral McCarthy (the woman that Theo rescued twice in Lower Manhattan) and got the young woman pregnant. There, Hoskins reflects on her time as EMT involving child birth as she went through bad and worst cases, worrying that Theo might lose his girlfriend and his future child.
== Conversations with Theo Parnell ==
When Hoskins made it out of [Redacted] and went back to Keener's settlement in supposedly Brooklyn, she gave the USB drive that holds the Hunters roster to Theo Parnell. Theo was a bit disappointed at first due to the roster held within a small plastic thumb drive. Hoskins remarked how difficult it was for her in leaving [Redacted] as she had to take side-roads to avoid Cal's Hunters, which shocked Theo as he wiped the data and the Hunters shouldn't know of her presence. Hoskins mentioned that she used SHD Tech explosive to open up the secret room from the Hunter bunker and it didn't take a lot for the Hunters to figure out the intruder was a SHD Agent, they just don't know which SHD Agent.
Later on, Hoskins was approached by Theo about the secret room in that Hunter bunker. Hoskins talked about it and when asked if she made it further in there, Hoskins admitted that she couldn't that as she lacked the "Classified" security clearance. This prompted Theo to sarcastically congratulate her as the first person to be tech-blocked by ISAC in a Hunter bunker.
A little after, Hoskins was approached by Theo regarding her marriage and her son, which led to her correctly deducing that Theo has a crush on Maral McCarthy. Despite his denial at first and joking about his ego, Hoskins encouraged Theo to ask Maral out on a date, advising him to give her a moment of normal and kindness if he wants to have Maral as his girlfriend.
==Trivia==
*Melanie Hoskins is voiced by actress Katie Sackhoff of Battlestar Galactica fame. Although another voice actress takes the role of Hoskins in the Descent, First Rogue, and Shades of Red comms.
*The small town that Hoskins was in for her assignment could very possibly be Silver Creek, the setting of the cancelled Tom Clancy's The Division Heartland given its described being set in the middle of nowhere.
== Appearances ==
* Tom Clancy's The Division: Hearts on Fire
* Tom Clancy's The Division 2 (Voice only)
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