Melanie Cruentus

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**Melanie Cruentus** (メラニー クルーエンタス *Meranii Kuruuentasu*) is one of the Shining Generals of the Diamond Kingdom She utilizes Ink Magic.

## Biography

Melanie's family is one of researchers and has roots in the Spade Kingdom, with them leaving due to finding themselves under great oppression from both the state and many of the people. Her family was forced to wander in the wilderness and after a lot of time, they managed to reach the Diamong Kingdom where they managed to settle. She was born in the Diamond Kingdom but despite that, she was being mocked by some of her neighbors due to her family not being true Diamond citizens and because of her birthmark, something that made her not have any friends during her childhood, a fact that didn't bother her much as she had company in the many books in her house and her snake, Snow. Her mother told her that according to a legend passed in her family, her ancestors protected once a kind of magical snakes and where bestowed with a blessing and during the centuries, members of the family would manifest that mark and be able to understand the snakes and be able to use their poison freely, with that story making Melanie appreciate Snow even more.

Her life would take a drastic turn for the better at her fifteen where after she got her grimoire, a tournament occured where her prodigious power allowed her to easily win, with her being accepted and trained to become one of the Shining Generals.

## Appearance

Melanie has the appearance of a beautiful, voluptuous and curvaceous young woman with light red eyes and long white hair that almost reaches her feet. She wears a red dress with gold star markings and a gold head ornament with a flower motif that has three small, red gems hanging from it while her golden earrings have four and a necklace with pearl orbs and a single red gem on the middle, with her earrings and necklace having a flower motif too while she wears four golden bracelets on each wrist. She has a red star shaped mark on her neck from birth while she tends to have a white snake as pet around it.

## Personality

Melanie is a serious and calm, almost to the point of being considered apathetic by most, woman in her social life that loves to write, with her works tending to be either romance or tragic tales, while she tends to talk in a poetic way. Anything that prevents her from writing, like meetings and battles, bores her to death, with her preferring to end meetings quickly while in her battles, she tends to imagine the situation as a piece of work and describes the events in it accordingly. She loves her snake, with her having it since she was little and considers it a replacement for her family and it being harmed is one of the few things that can anger her, the other being her works or way she describes things being ridiculed.

While she loves having fans, she isn't so fond of meeting and talkiing with them much, mostly because she is socially awkward, however, she will try to sit and listen to them silently in order to get inspiration for any new story. While she gives the image of an elegant woman, she is in fact extremely lazy, with her room being a mess and she barely moves away from her office in order to either write or try to do so, however, she will join festivities with a faint heart both to eat delicious things and to empty her mind.

When it comes to her duty, she is serious and calm and analytic and when it comes to her unit, she is quite chill and forgiving. Her relationship with her fellow Shining Generals can be described as good at maximum, with her tolerating almost all of them except a few who she respects for their personality, power or both.

## Battle Prowess

### Natural Abilities

**Immense Magic Power**: As one of the Shining Generals, Melanie possesses incredible amounts of mana, with her being able to use many of her spells without exhausting herself.

**Great Magic Control**: Another reason Melanie was assigned into the Shining Generals aside the amount she has is her control over it, with her being able to quickly form rune arrays for unique effects.

### Magic

* Ink Magic: Melanie uses this magic attribute to generate and manipulate ink.

* **Ink Blade** (インクブレード *Inku Burēdo*): With an open grimoire, Melanie gathers ink in her hand and unleashes a crescent wave of ink.

* **Draft Rewrite** (草稿書き直す *SōkōKōtei Kakinaosu*): With an open grimoire, Melanie touches a text made of ink and can rewrite a text.

* **Flowing Inspiration** (流れるインスピレーション *Nagareru Insupirēshon*): With an open grimoire, Melanie extends her hand and unleashes a wave of ink meant to inflict pressure. Those struck find their movements being slower due to the ink's weight and sticky nature.

* **Ink Rain** (インクレイン *Inku Rein*): With an open grimoire, Melanie creates an orb of ink on her hand and throws it up, with it becoming a cloud that throws droplets of ink and due to the high density of ink and the momentum it gathers as it falls from the sky, each droplet has enough force to break through anything on its path.

* **Literature Goddess** (文学女神 *Bungaku Megami*): With an open grimoire, Melanie is enveloped by ink which is absorbed into her body, with her becoming pitch black in color. As long as it is active, she can control her body's shape while her spells become stronger. However, she can maintain it only for fifteen minutes as she becomes an existence close to mana while human and that endangers her life while she may lose body parts.

* **Horizon Blackening Ink Blade** (地平線暗くなるインクブレード *Chiheisen Kurakunaru Inku Burēdo*): With an open grimoire and after taking control of surrounding mana via Nabu, Melanie gathers a lot of ink in her hand and unleashes a giant and wide crescent wave of ink.

* Creation Magic: Melanie uses this form of magic to shape objects and entities from ink.

* **Literature Defenders** (文学擁護者 *Bungaku Yōgo-sha*): With an open grimoire, Melanie creates a handful of heavy armored knights made of ink.

* **Author's Block** (作家のブロック *Sakka no Burokku*): With an open grimoire, Melanie extends her hand and creates a big book of ink whose high density allows it to block attacks.

* **Literature Goddess' Fiction** (文学女神のフィクション *Bungaku Megami no Fikushon*): With an open grimoire and after taking control of surrounding mana via Nabu, Melanie creates a dome of ink and while active, she can shape from it various beings and constructs.

* Curse Magic: Melanie uses this form of magic to include additional effects to her spells.

* **Written History** (書かれた歴史 *Kaka reta Rekishi*): With an open grimoire and after drawing an intricate rune array in a scroll with ink, Melanie allows the enemy to touch the paper in some form, with the contact activating the spell. The enemy is washed in ink and a rune array is formed over their body and as long as it is active, she can control the enemy by writing on the scroll, being able to control their actions. The spell is undone by Melanie's will or if the scroll is destroyed.

* **Literature Goddess' Tragedy** (文学女神の悲劇 *Bungaku Megami no Higeki*): With an open grimoire and after injecting herself with Snow's poison, Melanie is enveloped by an ink hydra with red eyes that has the same mark as her on each of its foreheads. Anyone bitten by it will be afflicted by toxic ink that causes gradual pain.

* Reinforcement Magic: Melanie uses this form of magic to increase her physical abilities.

* Mana Skin: Melanie creates a coating of mana that protects her.

* Leg Strength Boost: Melanie concentrates magic in her legs and increases her leg strength, boosting her running speed and jumping distance.

## Equipment

* Grimoire: Melanie possesses a grimoire that contains various ink-based magic spells. The grimoire has a silver diamond in the middle.
* **Bracelet Magic Tool**: Melanie has a bracelet Magic Tool that boosts her body's functions such as detoxification, healing etc. which she needs due to the unhealthy way she lives daily.
* **Necklace Magic Tool**: Melanie has a necklace Magic Tool that can create a personal barrier that protects her. The item works once per day and the effect can be strengthened by Melanie feeding it mana.
* **Scroll**: Melanie carries with her a scroll with a Rune Array on it to use in combat.
* **Nabu**: A crystal orb covered with Rune Arrays inscribed on it. One of the many Sovereign Arms given to the Shining Generals, with it having the power to become a barrier than engulfs a big area and gives Melanie the power to control the mana inside it, with it being akin to Mana Zone.

## Relationships

* **Snow**: Melanie always treated Snow as her best and only friend, with her increased appreciation making her treat him like another member of her family after she learned that their meeting was fate. While she listens to his advises, she sometimes protests like a child when he tries to act as the voice of reason.

* Antoni Cruser: Melanie treats Antoni with respect, with her respecting both his honorable along with his loyal personality and his power, with even her sitting and opening her ears to listen what he has to say.

* Catrina Cavalrain: Melanie considers Catrina a boorish woman unfit to be in the Shining Generals for her personality alone, with her believing a Shining General woman must be more serious and well mannered in contrast to what she is showing. Melanie doesn't have a problem in letting her opinion out, regardless of what Catrina will do or say.

* Tynged Perun: Melanie likes Tynged's serious and strict personality, with her being another person who she can listen to without a problem.

* Mishil Seok: Mishil is another person Melanie respects because of her serious and competent nature and considers her what a woman of Shining Generals should be but past that, she senses there are things troubling her and would love to be a listener to them.

## Trivia

* Melanie Cruentus' appearance is based on Durga from *Fate/Grand Order*.
* Melanie means black, a reference to her magic, while Cruentus means bloody, a reference to her tragic works.
* Nabu (Akkadian: cuneiform: 𒀭𒀝 Nabû Syriac: ܢܵܒܼܘܼ\ܢܒܼܘܿ\ܢܵܒܼܘܿ Nāvū or Nvō or Nāvō) is the ancient Mesopotamian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom.