Melody Harmadale/Tropes

8Tropes that apply to Melody Harmadale, written as if it were a TV Tropes page.

## Characterization and background

* **Meaningful Name**: Her English name "Melody" is related to her special talent of singing.
* **Berserk Button**: She will glow bright fuchsia and transform into her Almighty Goddess Trump Card if she gets pissed off.
* **Suddenly SHOUTING!**: She often does this when her berserk button gets turned on.
* **Anger Equals Punishment**: Happens a lot of times.
* **Odd Name Out**: Her last name is "Harmadale" instead of "Daisy-Porter." Subverted in that this is an invention of the English dub, since her real/in-universe Japanese surname is "Deiji-Portuaa."
* **Child of Two Worlds**: She is half Daisy and half Porter.
* **Really 700 Years Old**: Despite being physically 12, she is over a thousand years old, and is seen as an adult in the series finale.
* **Nice Girl**: Melody is a sweet and loving girl who is always there to try and cheer somecreature up.up.
* **Last-Minute Baby Naming**: She was given her name as her mother was dying.
* **Impersonation**: In the *Serena Magica* chapter equivalent to "Heroes - Friend and Faux Alike!," James *disguises himself as Melody* while Jessie disguises herself as Serena, complete with fake Harmony Gems and fake Power Necklaces and her creating illusions of the other Magis also dining-and-dashing along with them, so Team Rocket can dine-and-dash at restaurants/food trucks without paying to get the Magis in trouble.
	+ The only ones who noticed were the Burst Magis and Elfreda (who were visiting Kalos), although it is unknown later on just *why* was the illusion was a trick.
* **Buried Alive**: She is crushed under the rubble after Behaver smashes down a building and steals her love in "Behaver," though she luckily gets better.
* **Death of a Child**: Melody passes away at the (metaphorical) hands of a witch, at the physical age of 12, though this isn't as extreme as Syren when she dies at *9*.
* **Standing Up For Others**:
	+ This is what she did on the day she got her Harmony Mark.
	+ When Black Hat taunts her about her deceased mother, she gets ***EXTREMELY*** angry, but then the spirit of her mother shows up and along with her mother's friends, helps her, Nina, and Nova not give in to the brainwashing, making this a downplayed example.
* **Not Growing Up Sucks**: She occasionally expresses frustration over the fact she has remained a child for almost 2,000 years and not aged past twelve, especially after her father dies. This is later averted in the series finale, when she finally becomes grown up.
* **No Ontological Inertia**: Averted. As shown with the fact she is still alive in *Allison Magica* (which is also due to her father's semi-immortality being genetic), the effects of the Light of Hope do not disappear even if it and/or its wielder are gone, as otherwise. Melody would have disappeared entirely.
* **Please Wake Up**: Kylie desperately tries to get her to wake up and begs her to wake up in "The End of the Princess," while shaking her lifeless body, but realizes that she can't deny it any longer when Katy and Sky tell her the cold, hard truth.
* **Shout-Out**: The scene of her entering the afterlife and reuniting with her parents, brothers, and friends is essentially a platonicized version of the ending scene of the 1997 movie *Tiatanic*, where Rose and Jack reunite in the afterlife.
* **Wise Beyond Her Years**: She is much more mature than most people her age, due to being chronologically much older despite physically being 12.
* **Tempting Fate**: In an unknown chapter, she confides to Melissa how she misses her parents and feels like she wants to die to join them. The very next episode, she dies.
* **Talented Singer**: Melody absolutely ***loves*** to sing. She is the one with the most songs sung in the series.
* **Choke Hold**: She dies after being strangled in a chokehold by a witch who is covered in tentacles, after she casts an anti-invulnerability spell on her.
* **Who Wants to Live Forever?**: While Melody's eternal life and eternal childhood may seem fun, as shown in *Katy Magica*, watching her friends and family die and not being able to join them in the afterlife eventually takes a huge toll on her. In an unknown chapter, she finally breaks down and admits to Melissa that she wishes she had died a long time ago, and is relieved when she finally joins her friends and family in the afterlife.
* **Hair-Trigger Temper**: Despite her normal Nice Girl nature, if somecreature presses one of her Berserk Buttons, she will ***LOSE IT**.*
* **Little Miss Snarker**: Downplayed, but she sometimes snarks at her brothers when they act like idiots.
* **Waking Up Elsewhere**: In the equivalent of "A Towering Takeover," after Team Flare knocks out her, Serena, Nanette, Jim, Bailey, Twilight, Madoka, Cherry Miles, Bloom, Nova, Kyubey, and Elizabeth (though the last one isn't absurdly powerful like the others mentioned), using Celosia's Drapion's Confuse Ray and takes all of them captive while also taking their Power Necklaces, phones, and Harmony Gems, Melody is confused when she wakes up at Prism Tower and sees that she is stuck to a wall with her hands and feet bound in anti-magic restraints.
* **Bad\*bleep\* In Distress**: Despite how powerful she is, Melody still sometimes gets this.
	+ In "Behaver," her love gets stolen and she gets crushed under the rubble after Behaver angrily destroys yet another building.
	+ In "A Towering Takeover," along with the other high-aptitude Magis and Elizabeth, Melody is taken captive at Prism Tower by Team Flare, stuck to a wall with anti-magic restraints and after they also steal their Power Necklaces, phones, and Harmony Gems, since there is absolutely *no way t*hat Team Flare is going to let someone as powerful as Melody run around unchecked.
	+ In the equivalent of "Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony!", she and the other Magis get trapped in an anti-magic cage and are forced to watch the "ceremony."
	+ In "Melody's Concert: Queen Vera's Attack", Queen Vera and her minions, with approval from the AoTA, sabotage her concert and kill her and her Pokémon by stealing their souls, much to the *absolute horror* of all the Magis and the concert-goers.
* **Involuntary Dance**: Shown once in *Amber Magica*, where after she shows up, Anabelle's magic purification song via her microphone not only makes the monster dance involuntarily as it's being purified, but also makes the other Magis all gleefully dance and sing along involuntarily (though it doesn't harm them).
* **Full-Name Ultimatum**: ***"MELODY DAISY-PORTER HARMADALE!/DEIJI-PORTUAA AKAMI!!!!!"***
* **Family-Unfriendly Death**: She meets her end after getting strangled by a witch and being left gasping for air.
* **Food Slap**: In the equivalent of the chapter where Chloe and Elizabeth (and possibly Nova) transform for the first time after the battle when Melody ends up unintentionally rubbing in the fact she can transform whenever she wants, her father opens a bottle of melon soda and splashes it in her face to shut her up, though Madoka and the two/three quickly stop things from getting out of hand.
* **Locked in the Dungeon**: 500 years before *Allison Magica*, Melody was presumably apprehended by the guards at Zephyr Heights for being a Human who was trespassing on Pegasus territory and locked in the dungeon in the castle.
* **Naked On Arrival**: Subverted. She *is* technically naked when created, but she also is wrapped in a blanket to cover her. She even keeps this blanket and cherishes it.
* **Edible Theme Naming**: When she steals her love, Behaver decreatureizingly describes her love as tasting like a decadent slice of Moomoo cheesecake, essentially reducing her to the value of edible food.
* **Convicted By Public Opinion**: The Pegasi public, having been raised with society's prejudice and having not been around when magic existed, simply do not believe her and dismiss her as ridiculous no matter how many times she tries to tell them that magic used to be real and that creaturekind once lived in harmony, so she has stopped trying. Initially, the only ones who listen to her at all are Allison, Amber, and Sunny, and even she initially dismisses them at first since she thinks they're not going to listen.
* **Killed Off For Real**: While she does have a Disney Death near the end of EM and gets revived, she dies for real in "The End of the Princess." Despite having the full capability to, neither the Magic of Friendship, the Shinju-sama, nor the Light of Hope revive her for unknown reasons, though it could be because they do not want her to suffer any longer.
* **Immortal Killer**: The witch removing Melody's invulnerability allows her to strangle her to death. The chapter this occurs in also serves as a ***WHAM EPISODE*** for this reason.

## Appearance

* **Multicolored Hair**: Her hair is both purple and cyan. As an adult, however, the purple part is now dark blue.
* **Patchwork Kids**: She has purple hair that fades to cyan, resembling the hair colors of both of her parents. She also has two of the same Elemental types (Fairy and Fighting) from her parents.
* **Pink Means Feminine**: Her Puella Magi theme color is pink, despite her not wearing much pink in civilian form.
* **Purple is Powerful**: Has half-purple hair in civilian form, wears purple clothes, and is a very powerful Magi (though it is safe to assume she not as powerful in the rewritten timeline), though not quite as strong as Katrina and her descendants.

## Abilities

* **Parental Powers**: Melody is both a Fairy and Fighting Elemental, one from each of her parents.
* **Light 'Em Up**: Melody is additionally a Light Elemental, and can fire light-based attacks.
* **The Ace**: She is quite a *very* powerful Magi and has very high raw power, although Katrina and her descendants are still more powerful than her. In the rewritten timeline, she is not as powerful due to not being created by the Light of Hope.
* **Heart Beat-Down**: Downplayed. She is not a Love Elemental, although she does have a heart motif.
* **Power Gives You Wings**: She has big pink fairy wings in Puella Magi form.
* **The Heart**: She shows remarkable skill in calming others down, especially with her singing.
* **The Force is Strong With This One**: In "Behaver," Melody yields so much love that when Behaver steals it all, she expresses excitement (even describing in detail that the massive amount of love "tastes" like a decadent dessert and saying it's all hers) at how much love she's getting from one single person and then once she's "used up" as if she were a used soda bottle, she leaves her to fall into a coma from having so much love stolen and doesn't care that she gets crushed under the rubble of a building she destroys. However, it is implied that Dragonet would yield even more love if she vacuumed it up, though she refuses to do so.
* **Immortality Begins At Twenty**: Melody inherits her father's genetic semi-immortality, though due to a genetic error, she prematurely stopped growing at 12. However, this does also grant her the ability to live forever as long as nothing happens to her, but she unfortunately dies for real in "The End of the Princess." In the rewritten timeline, however, due to all Chosen Ones being semi-immortal from the start, Arcturus never established his family's semi-immortality, and thus Melody can finally become an adult.

## Relationships

* **The Smurfette Principle**: She is the only girl out of 21 children.
* **Missing Mom**: Her mother died right after she was born. She lives with her father due to this... and she will get furious at any villains who dare insult her late mother.
* **Massive Numbered Siblings**: Melody has 20 brothers, who are all adults while she is only 12.
* **Dying Declaration of Love**: A platonic example in "The End of the Princess," just before she dies to a witch, she says that she loves all the Magis (but especially Katy, Sky and Evelyn).
	+ "...I am so sorry... I love you all, especially you three, Evelyn, Katy and Sky..."
* **Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other**: Is often annoyed by and insults her brothers, but it is made clear that she does love them, such as when she immediately goes and hugs Horus after he is de-witched in Part B of the equivalent of "The Guardians' Unovian Crisis," and when she hugs all her brothers when she arrives in the afterlife in "The End of the Princess" Despite her father being an enormous jerk and starting a war that traumatized her, she also can't help but still love him.
* **Heterosexual Life-Partners**: With Tart in *Tart Magica* and Gemma in *Rosie Magica*.
* **Always a Child to a Parent**: Not exactly her parent, but in *Katy Magica*, Melissa sometimes treats Melody like a little kid and tucks her in at night despite her experience and chronological age.
* **Loony Fan**: Amber is this to Melody in *Allison Magica*. The *second* she finds out that she was alive when magic was around and was actually created by magic, she literally screams in excitement, starts fangirling, and repeatedly begs her for her autograph.
* **Wonder Child**: Melody was created out of thin air by the Light of Hope as a gift for her parents since Victoria was dying, although unlike Owlremi/Alondra, Mira(ge), Tsukiko, and Honoko before becoming humans, she is not literally made *of* magic and thus still has to eat, drink, breathe, and sleep like anycreature else, unlike them who are made up of magic and don't need to do any of those things until they become real humans. Averted in the series finale, however.
* **Can't Live With 'Em, Can't Live Without 'Em**: She loves her father dearly, but is depressed and traumatized at how he is borderline evil and started a war as well as killed her mother's friends. A few times, she has attempted to run away from him and find better parents to live with, but always comes back because she doesn't have the heart to leave her only parent.
* **Secret-Keeper**: In *Katy Magica*, only Melissa knows of Melody's true feelings that she usually keeps tightly under lock and key.
* **That Was The Reward**: In the second chapter of *Cherry Magica 3*, Rogal magically builds her a giant pink castle as a gift to try and cheer her up from their father's Heroic Sacrifice a few weeks prior. However, she rejects the gift and destroys it, which despite her brother's normally stoic nature, devastates him so much that he witches out and she has to apologize after he is purified.
	+ As a compromise, he instead decides to build her a tiny pink castle figurine.