Melaleuca Berger/history

Overview **History**

# **Plot**

melaleuca makes his first appearance during the original book, Dream sweet (in Sea Major). Where she climbs to the top roof of his car to smoke a cigarette and to ‘take a break’. Where he is approached by Shane Fehér, who talks obsessively about how he’s been watching her for a long time.

## Pre–Rapture Era

### The U.S Hybrid army (2150 – 2158)

*Main article(s): The U.S Hybrid Army, Military Experience Act*

Before his fame as an adult idol, Melaleuca was a Hybrid soldier, apart of the United States army’s Hybrid unit. Of where he was trained in hand–to–hand combat and gun use. Her environment is so very, very bad; he and her fellow soldiers were constantly abused by their human higher–ups in always including physical. They were beaten and bruised to their immobility if they disobeyed their Sargents commands, starved and dehydrated for days at a time, until the point of which they began to eat each other. And if the punishment called for it, chained them to their bed–posts and used them for the worst acts humanly possible, allowing them to be toyed with by their own soldiers and their humanoid Sargents.

Melaleuca was one of these victims, it was his most vivid memory of being a child-soldier, where he was around the age of seven where he was chained to his bedpost alone in his tent whilst the other soldiers could do whatever they could with him. This led to him almost being beaten to death.

Many aren’t that lucky, like his tent–mate, and close “friend”: Yuri Mikhailov, a Rabbit–hybrid of Russian decent, who was chocked to death by his own Sargent, Sargent *Alexander Smith*. He misses Yuri dearly as he never got to properly pronounce his love towards him. This led to him breaking–down and spiralling, he now had only hatred and loathing towards the higher–ups and those who cheered for their successes, of which they rode of their hybrid units doing.

He did meet Valpuri Elsher once, though they only had a single conversation with the Tiefling that he holds memory of; it was about the type of whiskey they would be drinking that night. It turns out, that same night, Valpuri ended up severely injured after being grazed by a stray bullet and she ended up being discharged, but not without a fight with the first lieutenant almost breaking out into a horrible fight that almost got her overpowered and killed.

### Melaleuca’s Subliminal Space

*Main article: ‘In a Field of guns, I found you.’ ~ One-shot*

Melaleuca is eternally tortured by his fear of guns and his time serving in the military. After what had happened at the fashion runway show, who wouldn’t? He originally had died during the shootout, due to a bullet–wound to his temple, instantly killing him. His body was never found, carried out and away by one of the human shooters and thrown into a vast open, river wrapped in layers of bubble–wrap. Of where he was in a coma–like state over the time of seven years.

His subliminal space, with the new fear, was described as a long, winding corridor that seemed to go on for eons. The walls were like that of the Ancient–Greek myth of the minotaur, covered in ancient symbolism that was covered with symbols and pillars. Though, you wouldn’t be able to tell what they were, since the walls were covered head–to–toe in heavy machinery, from guns to pistols to sniper–rifles. The floors were covered in tall grass and suspiciously red “poppies” that secreted a yellow, almost golden hallucinogenic drug. When inhaled or swallowed this drug will behave like L.S.D.

In the centre of the Labyrinth, was a small rose garden with a statue of a man in the centre, dressed regally in a heavy stone cape. He had long extended rabbit ears that were flats down on his back to make those who encounter it fall into a somber mood. The statue was covered in thick vines and layers upon layers of moss.

There was a single, stone park bench sat right in front of it.

#### Symbolism

* The drugs the flowers emit signify the life he begins to have after the subliminal space. Mimicking his life working with the drug company after his rebirth.
* The statue in the centre of the maze is of Yuri Mikhailov.