Goldie Melville

> What's wrong, can't catch up? Don't worry, this'll be quick...
>
> Goldie Melville to Pierre Navarro

Goldie Melville is a character in Team OPRA's Story. She is a member of Team ALMD and a student at Shade Academy.

She first appears in "Backstage Romance" fighting against Team OPRA in the 40th Biannual Vytal Festival. While fighting Pierre Navarro in the forest biome, she is tricked into having a large branch fall on her before Pierre knocks her off of the arena. Afterwards she is seen eating curry with her team.

When the grimm and white fang invade Beacon Academy, she and her team help rescue other students from the vytal fairgrounds before being evacuated.

After the Fall of Beacon she returns to Shade Academy.

## Appearance

### Physical

Goldie is 5'4 and has a petite thin frame. She has sandy-fair skin with a round head shape, brown eyes and light brown hair that is curly and tied into a half up-half down hairdo with a lighter blonde ombre at the bottom. Being a canine faunus, she has a short dog's tail that is the same light brown colour as her hair.

### Attire

Goldie's original attire consists of a gold and white collared shirt and a pair of denim blue overall shorts with a brown pocket on the chest and brown pockets with silver buttons. She has red and white sneakers on her feet with white ankle socks and a blue anklet. Goldie wears a pair of dark grey knee pads. Around her waist, Goldie wears a brown leather belt with two sheaths for her weapons.

## Personality

Goldie is an overly-energetic and almost hyperactive girl. She is described to have almost infinite energy which is shown through her ability to seemingly run forever and circles around others. She is also shown to have a knack for teasing her enemies and prodding at them to annoy them as evident in her fight against Pierre.

## Background

Goldie was born as the middle child to two veteran hunters who operate in the countryside of middle-Sannas. Growing up, Goldie was taught to fight and survive in the wilderness by her elder siblings and parents while working for them to help travellers pass between the kingdoms of Vacuo and Vale.

At the age of 17, Goldie was accepted into Vacuo academy. During initiation she is partnered with Darko Budny after he saves her from a Deathstalker. She is later sorted into Team ALMD.

## Abilities and Powers

Goldie is an incredibly fast opponent. She is shown to out speed her opponents and whittle down their aura with swift medium to close ranged attacks from her weapons.

### Weakness

Because of her speed over power style of fighting, Goldie can be easily damaged by more heavier hitting opponents. She is also shown to be reckless and can easily get herself into trouble such as her fight with Pierre, who uses her reckless speed to make her run into a falling tree branch and take out a fair amount of her aura.

### Weapon

Goldie's weapons are called Ladyfingers. They are the Dual Attached Chain Kusarigamas (DACK). They are a pair of gold and brown chain kusarigamas that Goldie uses for mid to close ranged fighting. They are made from a gold metal with black handles that have brown leather grips. They are they attached by two silver chains from the bottom of the handles that Goldie uses to throw and retrieve.

### Semblance

Goldie's semblance is called *Double Jump*. With her semblance, Goldie can perform a second aerial jump when suspended in mid-air. This allows Goldie to regain her footing as well as reach certain heights.

## Relationships

### Aoi Hamasaki

Aoi and Goldie are shown to both be able to match one another's energy.

## Trivia

### Allusion

* Goldie alludes to the creature Okuri-inu from Japanese Mythology. Okuri-inu are said to closely follow those travelling mountain paths during the night.
	+ Goldie is a dog faunus.
	+ Her family are known to help travellers cross the continent of Sannus.

### Colour Naming Rule

* Goldie is an English name meaning 'Made of Gold', bringing the colour of the same name to mind.
* Melville is a Scottish-Irish last name meaning 'Devotee of St. Michael'.

### Miscellaneous

* Her weapons, Ladyfingers, are named after the confectionary sweetbread of the same name.
* Goldie's dog faunus trait resembles the tail of a Golden Retriever.