Melissa Stingers

Melissa Stingers, nicknamed Fitz, was a member of Antithesis. With the call sign "The Wheels", Melissa gained a deep-seated loathing of epithets especially her own due to its constant Velcro unstrapping sound that it makes in her head. She acted as Antithesis' transportation expert in charge of sudden entrances and escapes. She was also their lead scientist and ultimately proposed the organization's final plan. Quick-witted, silver-tongued, and equipped with a thick cockney accent, Melissa is a tricky figure to pin down. Her concerns about epithets come from a genuine place of compassion for others, making her a purist to Antithesis' ideas.
== Powers ==
Melissa's epithet fundamentally is very basic, as it allows her to effectively take something apart and put it back together. This initially manifested in the literal creation of Velcro straps to attach things together. As she explored the limits of her epithet, however, Melissa was able to apply more abstract concepts to this power.
Her primary ability uses Melissa's understanding of quantum physics and spacetime to open and close portals. These can transport people across vast spacial distances, and Melissa can both create and destroy them seemingly at will. However, once created the portals are notably stationary.
The greatest feat of her power, however, is the ability to break epithets down into their more fundamental words. This is less in a literal spelling sense and more in the connotation, or in other words it's more about the ideas that come together to create the idea behind the word. For example, the epithet "bubble" could be split into "water" and "soap". When she applies herself Melissa is able to break an epithet apart in this way into smaller components and then reassemble their pieces. She's done this to create the bubble boys that act as Antithesis' grunts.
== Destruction Bench Agreement ==
=== Episode 79 ===
The Wheels used her portals to transport the players along with The Boss into a museum. This acted as a cover while Antithesis heisted some special items, framing the DBA contestants as the criminals. Xavier Sunderliss quickly came and proved the party's innocence, instead contracting them to help the police track down the real criminals. In the end The Wheels, along with The Second and The Boss, were found atop a building where a fight broke out. In the end, The Wheels managed to push her other unconscious teammates through one last portal before epithet cuffs were placed on her and she was taken into custody. There, she was interrogated briefly, with the party finding out three things:
* The Wheels' name, to some extent, was "Fitz Stingers".
* Fitz doesn't like epithets
* The organization's name is Antithesis.
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=== Episode 93 ===
Weeks since her arrest, Fitz is still being interrogated by the police. Little to no knew information has been gained, and even with the contracting of another set of DBA participants no progress had been made in getting her to talk. However, this was interrupted by Jumbo Shrimp's sudden arrival, subsequent arrest, and subsequent jailbreak of himself and Fitz. They didn't get far before meeting up with The Boss, who immediately told Jumbo Shrimp off for saving Fitz when the plan was to let them rot in prison. He then ended up shooting the two with a strange device, which knocked Fitz unconscious immediately.
When she woke up, Fitz saw her friend Jumbo Shrimp unconscious and warped by the device he was attacked with. Seeing as she'd been betrayed by her previous organization, Fitz finally spills the beans about Antithesis' plan. Essentially, they were going to use Fitz' own epithet to accumulate component epithets and eventually create one on the power level of a god. From there, the user could remove all epithets in the world other than those necessary for folks to live with a snap of their fingers. However, the appearance of a mysterious hooded figure in the organization has apparently corrupted its original goal, and it's begun to change The Boss for the worse. It was also discovered by Altis that after that last encounter, Fitz' epithet had seemingly disappeared, which she was surprisingly happy about. 
Fitz then showed the police to Antithesis' hideout, where they quickly discovered the identity of the hooded figure: Adam Watcher, a former DBA contestant. After Adam's escape, Fitz revealed both her real name as Melissa Stingers, and that The Boss' name is Jay Faulconer. She also said she would cooperate with the police and eventually serve her time for her crimes committed while a part of Antithesis.
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== Trivia ==
* Melissa's nickname "Fitz" comes from her frequent flinching at the sounds of Velcro either from her epithet or outside.
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