Melanie Keller

Melanie Keller is a young woman who is also a street artist. 
==Biography==
===Pre-Series===
Melanie became a notorious vigilante street artist, under the nickname "Ritz", where she would spray paint murals in protest of current affairs and crises she wanted to draw attention to. She often painted on public building, and her art always had QR codes to lead to her website and more details on the problems she was calling out.
Carl was embezzling from her fans with a con he was running by impersonating her. It left him a target of Luke Green, an apprentice of a CEO Melanie ousted, who mistook Carl for Ritz and killed him.
===NCIS Season 16===
Melanie's last mural, a dolphin on the side of a military bank to protest the endangerment of ocean life, was carved out of the wall and stolen for an illicit art gallery. NCIS was called in to investigate, and she was found shortly after Carl's activities were discovered and he was found dead in his apartment.
When Melanie was arrested, she gave a demonstration of her abilities with a canvas painting of Gibbs and Bishop. She and Bishop especially bonded, due to their shared artistic abilities and driving senses of passion for their careers. It was then Melanie described Carl's crimes, but she denied being Carl's killer.
As she was still the prime suspect, Melanie escaped, but she left behind Green's license place in invisible ink on her canvas portraits. Green was arrested, and Melanie met Bishop one more time to say goodbye.
==Personality==
Melanie is a young, driven, sentimental, compassionate artist, who decided a career in vigilantism would be more professionally and personally substantial. She closed herself off from most people, protecting her identity and info on her life to be put to her work, while staying the course of her causes.
When she bonded with Bishop, she showed herself as being as wise as her, but agreeing they both could learn from each other. They gained a mutual respect for one another, where Melanie felt safe finally being herself in front of Bishop so she might have genuine personal support for her life's ambitions.
==Physical Appearance==
Category:One-Off NCIS Characters
Category:Suspects in NCIS