Melani "Organic Intelligence (O.I)" Evasen

Miss Melani "Organic Intelligence (O.I)" Evasen, daughter of an unnamed Russ-Asian chemist and Polar States' President Matria Evasen, is the second Gular Royal introduced at the beginning of *Hidden Genome*: *Gen New*. Eighteen years old and a senior in Marevine Exchange School, Jayden is the top student there and best of the Gular Royals, beating out Jayden in intellectual knowledge but compensating with a vast and rich understanding of nuclear chemistry and environmental science in exchange for her ignorance in bionics, engineering, and firearms.

Melani is also known by her Custom Suit Warrior alias, Organic Intelligence\* (O.I.). Her primary function in the Royal Knights unit of CSW (and truly, for all of CSW in general) is to be a mobility-based hinderance specialized in aiding her comrades with quick restoratives and vital intel, while modifying environmental factors and de-buffing their opponents. She is possibly the quickest-thinking, fastest learning, and most adaptable of the in-field combatants of the Royal Knights. She takes barely any time at all to get a feel for her Custom Suit, but despite this quick ability to react, she steps down to allow Jayden "Blackout" Ross & Adaline "Vanguardia" Hunt to lead the Royal Knights.

Melani has a very tight-knit (but in her eyes somewhat tenuous) relationship with her Royal classmates, being childhood best friends with Adaline and a tutor to Ichento to get his grades up. She also has a very 'passionate' relationship with her Assigned Royal Beta Guard, Dyvone, with whom she is secretly dating all throughout *Gen New* and more or less is married to going into *Code of Life*. Secretly, she harbors a deep respect and gigantic crush on Jayden, loving both his mind and soul for being driven in such a noble direction, but also being helplessly dense to many situations and cues. She reveals this to him in *Code of Life* while riding on the back of the Gridcycle as they were escorting Haven Village refugees, kissing him twice as she asks him the same question she has asked him so many times before during their competitive bouts: "Are you sure? Don't do this unless you are." She understood Jayden perhaps best of all, and was perhaps the most devastated alongside Ichento when he sacrificed himself in an attempt to divert attention and allow for the wounded during the Hunter's Massacre to escape. However, due to Ichento's rage and fury at the loss, they ultimately lose more lives during this fight, and barely escape, with four deaths resulting from this mistake. She blames herself over Ichento in the aftermath, claiming she should have stopped him and made him check again, and this guilt ends up being her downfall, as a taunt from Temptress about Jayden knowing her feelings for him makes her freeze up before she can completely neutralize Temptress' powers, and as a result dies from a stab to the chest and a ripping of her head from her body.

\*Organic Intelligence was supposed to be a compliment to Jayden's proposal of theirs being a duo name, with hers being a representation for biological intellect's superiority over ever-progressing tech, and his, Artificial Network (A.N.), but when she devised the idea and inspiration for Blackout, he adopted that while she kept hers as a remnant of that idea.

*Hidden Genome: Gen New*

Debuting in *Gen New*, Melani shows herself to be somewhat meek and codependent on Dyvone, displaying their closeness as one of a remarkable strength of freindship. However, the true nature of their love and passion is known full well by the group, and they do their best to turn the blind eye, ear, and nose to the many events displaying this, to the point where both are thouroughly convinced for a good portion of the book that nobody save themselves knows about their true nature, and that the others believe their relationship to be simply a wholesome friendship.