Melany Ortiz

* Season 3/4
* Season 5

Melany Martell (née Ortiz) is a secondary character in the End of Days, being introduced in Season 4

## Biography

### Pre-End of Days

Melany Ortiz was born to unknown parents in New Albuquerque. Because of this, Melany grew up in the foster care of various regions and bunkers, constantly rejected by families saying that she was not good enough to be loved. One of these families resided in Bunker 17, the Mariota family.

As she got older, the abuse became physical. Various parents would hit and slap her, which led Melany to escape to the island of Hispaniola. There, she learned about her powers of Darkness manipulation - able to summon various objects from darkness, create opaque fogs to cover entire lands. Eventually sneaking her way to the Desert Badlands, Melany made herself a fortune by offering her services as an interrogator, which led to contact with some of the foster families, and she made it her goal to kill any of those who wronged her in the past.

This drew attention from Marvel, the leader of the swamp army, who eventually asked for her services to aid in the war. The first two seasons, Melany had been attacking the badlands, reporting back to the swamp when necessary.

### Season 3

Melany makes her first appearance at the end of Season 3, as Marvel and her spend a romantic moment together before he heads to the Plains, and she makes her way to the Desert Badlands to wipe out the resistance. Accompanied by Jess, Melany and her squad manages to finish off the last of the desert rebels who were not already killed by the Ashen. The only survivor, Peter Mullarke, escapes to the Plains.

Melany's appearance in Season 3 ends with her and Jess making their way back to the Swamp after the news of Yuri Aldane-Harris' resurrection circulates.

### Season 4

Similar to her first appearance in Season 3, Melany begins Season 4 with speaking with Marvel in his room about the swamp king's ressurection, and his uneasiness with Yuri taking over as swamp king. She spends a rather wild night with Marvel, and the two of them wake up, determine to take the Plains before Yuri could drown it. Melany and Marvel head out with Jess and a number of jungle soldiers to take on the bunker.

The group manages to surprise the Main Cast, as Melany manages to injure Marcus Mariota at the beginning of the battle, rendering him useless. She faces off with Morgan Aldane as the two of them trade sharp insults and attacks. Melany eventually helps Marvel on the outside of the bunker, taking on Amina Stryker and LaMelo Ball. Marvel saves her life when he kills LaMelo, but this results in Marvel's death. Melany, not being able to have a moment to grieve, escapes with Jess back to the swamp.

Summoned to Yuri's throne room, Melany is nearly drowned, until Yuri stops, claiming that she was useless to him dead. Fearing that Yuri's intentions could eventually lead to her death, Melany and Jess spend the next day reading up on mage history, and discovers a group known as The Circle, who previously defeated Yuri before. Deciding to seek out another descendant of a member of the Circle, Melany and Jess head to the Jungle Tip, paying a visit to the Martell clan.

Kidnapped by bannermen upon their arrival to the Tip, they are summoned to the throne room of Lord Oberyn Martell, asking them their intentions, while taking a great interest in Melany. Melany and Jess are invited to dinner with Oberyn and other officials of the Tip, where Melany reveals her darkness powers, and Oberyn's longing after her increases even more, as they gain the Tip's help in the war against Yuri. After spending the evening speaking with other officials, Melany and Oberyn make their way to the royal chambers, and consummate their attraction, with Melany even encouraging they go a second round.

Heading to bed soon after, Melany receives a nightmare from Yuri about his intentions with her - Yuri wants to have a descendant born from Melany, due to her rare and powerful abilities. Confiding in this dream with Jess, she decides to make contact with Morgan about the Tip's help in the war.

After training the Tip Soldiers in battle, Melany and Oberyn planned to spend the evening together, as Oberyn attempted to propose to her before they were interrupted by an assassin. Melany, Jess and Oberyn's right hand man, Dont'a Hightower spend a night in a bunker, where Oberyn and Melany share a few romantic moments, as he confirms his proposal to her.

Mobilizing to the Desert, the Jungle Tip easily defeats the Swamp soldiers in the desert, where Melany takes out a number of soldiers. Noticing Yuri's hurricance, Melany and the rest of the Jungle Tip start making their way to the plains.

During the battle at Yuri's Sea, Melany is able to transfigure herself into a ursula-like darkness witch, as she is able to contain Yuri's attacks, until the rest of the mages were able to assemble, and take down Yuri. This awakening results in Melany being weakened after the attack. In the aftermath, Melany confirms the alliance between the Tip and the Desert. She accompanies Oberyn, Jess and the rest of the Tip to the Swamp Clan City, where Melany consoles Jess over the loss of Dont'a.

### Season 5

At the beginning of Season 5, Melany accompanies Oberyn to Morgan's coronation ceremony. However, after going to check their travel arrangements, Melany is robbed an ambushed by Eddard Fiars and Yuri's Knuckle. She eventually makes her way back to the swamp palace, as Oberyn deals with her attackers.

#### Two-Year Timeskip

After the two year timeskip, Melany and Oberyn are married, though initially struggle with conceiving an heir. However, Melany's first appearance after the timeskip is when she shares with her husband that she is three months pregnant, as the two of them happily share a tender moment in celebration.

## Appearance

Melany is Latina, which contributes to her slightly more tanned skin tone. Having brown hair with blond tips. Standing taller than average height with a lean build, Melany is considered to be one of the most beautiful women in the entire world, her appearance having attracted three powerful men in the course of the storyline. While she wears standard attire in battle, when she needs to dress up, Melany is not afraid to go all-out with her appearance.

## Skills

* **Erebokinesis:** One of the rarest mage abilities in the entire world, Melany possesses the ability to manipulate darkness, which she uses to form weapons to attack with, anything from daggers to grenades. She also uses this ability to create shields, summon human-like shadows, and crowd entire areas with darkness. When awakened, Melany has the ability to transform herself into a powerful darkness witch, which is able to weaken one of the strongest mages known, Yuri.

* **Strategist:** Melany is able to come up with battle patterns, which is seen when she is able to train the soldiers of the Tip.

* **Leadership:** Often one to take charge, Melany displays strong leadership qualities, which are extremely prevalent in her interactions with Tip officials, as she is able to make decisions in difficult meetings, often assisting Oberyn with running the Tip.

## Personality

Originally introduced as a villain, Melany is known for being cunning and devious, a part of her that was exaggerated when she was with Marvel. However as her story progresses, Melany has shown more of her intuition and leadership skills as she has taken on more of an anti-hero role since turning her back on the Swamp Clan. For the people that Melany cares the most about, this is shown in her ability of wanting to protect them from harm, like any sensible human.

## Relationships

### Marvel

Melany and Marvel's relationship can be described as a colleagues-with-benefits type relationship; the two of them mainly used each other to obtain physical pleasure, though there was a few hints of an emotional connection between the two. Allied to the Swamp solely for Marvel, his death shakes her faith in the Swamp, one of the factors that leads to her turning her back on Yuri.

### Oberyn Martell

Melany meets Oberyn when her and Jess arrive in the Tip, and a connection was immediately formed between the two. Their relationship is not only sexual, but also romantic in nature, as the two of them have discussed the possibility of Melany ruling the Tip alongside Oberyn. As of the Season 5 timeskip, Melany and Oberyn are married, and expecting a child

### Jess

Jess and Melany share a sister-like relationship, as the two of them face everything together. Melany is a bit protective over Jess, as she doesn't want her friend to be harmed. However, Melany wants to make sure Jess is happy as well, despite everything the two women face together.

### Yuri Aldane-Harris

Melany and Yuri have a very negative relationship towards each other, as Yuri nearly drowns Melany during their first interaction, and then wants to use her to have his descendant to the throne.

### Morgan Aldane

Melany and Morgan's first interaction comes during the Battle of the Plains Bunker, as the two trade harsh insults, and even harsher attacks. However, over time, the two mages realize that the need each other's help to try and defeat Yuri, and form an alliance. While the two aren't exactly on the friendliest of terms, they are willing to put their grievances aside to take on Yuri.

## Victims

* Various former Foster Family Members
* Several Desert Rebel Soldiers
* Unnamed Plains Bunker Members
* Several Jungle Soldiers
* Yuri Aldane-Harris (with Morgan Aldane, Willow Harris and Faikrath)

## Trivia

* Melany was originally going to be just a villain, but her motivations changed, which Emilia feels shows more dimension than being just a secondary villain
* Her faceclaim is Ana de Armas
* Her theme song is Stop the Devil by Dead Posey

### Name Etymology

* Melany: Means darkness, which relates to her powers
* Ortiz: Spanish last name meaning brave and strong