Melli Luxity

## Melli

### Relations

Willow Wisp (Girlfriend)
Ruth Galatine (Friend)

### Affiliation

FLOW
OPIA

## Physical description

### Eye color

Light Brown

Melli Luxity is an NPC in Reflection. She is played by Jay. She is a former idol from the Sylt Islands. Before joining FLOW, she ran a VR cafe in the Undercity of Fuse City.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Melli is a young woman with pale skin and fiery red hair that becomes a dark brown at the roots. In her idol costume, she wears a dark purple jacket with orange hexagonal patterns, some of which are filled in and some of which are not. She also wears a neon yellow headpiece that forms a curve that protrudes outwards.

### Personality

While upholding her idol persona, Melli presents herself as a naive, friendly girl who often has her head in the clouds. However, after years of being burned out by the brutal and unfair business practices of Fuse City's idol industry, Melli is, in truth, an incredibly jaded and easily irritated person.

While she doesn't often show it, Melli enjoys scary stories and displays of intense action.

## History

### Early Life

Melli was born in the Sylt Islands. At a young age, she developed a talent for singing, landing her a role in the advertisements of a local fruit company. Motivated by this early success, she decided to move to Fuse City to become a full-time musical idol, with the support of all of her friends and family back home. However, upon arriving in Fuse, Melli found herself constantly at odds with the various GEIST contractors, to the point that any possibility of becoming a popular idol fell through. Left with a shattered dream, she opened a VR cafe in the Undercity, still upholding her cheerful idol persona in an attempt to draw in customers and possibly another manager that would kickstart her idol career.

### Beachside Burn

Unfortunately, Melli's dream continued to fail to realize itself, and she was barely making enough money from her cafe to get by. As a result of taking continuous Burn by living in proximity to the Coda, Melli was contacted by the Court of Instrumentality, who offered her fame and money. After repeatedly denying their offers, she accepted. From then on, when she woke up, a sizable amount of money would appear at the front of her bed. In truth, she had stolen this money the previous night while possessed. While possessed, she also stole several Reflections after they had disappeared from OPIA and ended up in the Undercity.

Following the coffin incident, Melli was approached in her home by the agents of FLOW Wave Two, looking for missing Reflections and any possessed civilians. After taking Ace Galatine inside to inform him about her meetings with Ruth, she allowed Arg0s to scan her, revealing that she had accrued an incredibly dangerous ninety-eight Burn. Following this, Melli immediately began to be dragged into the Coda. Thinking quickly, Willow Wisp pushed Melli through a wall, and the two ended up in the Coda alone. Using Willow's other Reflection, the two regrouped with the rest of the team in a parallel, more pleasant version of the beach that Willow and Melli ended up in. Melli than relinquished the six Reflections she had collected, but asked to bind to one. After the FLOW agents agreed to allow her to do so, Melli bound to "Infinity Collider: Big Bang Breaker". After binding to it, she assisted FLOW in carrying out their plan to defeat a massive Demon they assumed to be the lynchpin keeping everyone in the Coda. After discovering that this Demon was not, in fact, their target, Melli assisted Ridill Arondite in holding off the Demon, until she sent Melli into the other beach to back up the FLOW agents there. After Ace slew the real lynchpin, Melli returned to Fuse City, where she fell unconscious.

Melli awoke in an OPIA hospital bed the following day, surrounded by armed GEIST soldiers. After Dr. Verona forced the soldiers out of the room, Melli was asked whether or not she wanted to follow through on becoming a FLOW agent. Most of the FLOW members present told Melli she was free to choose for herself, but Ace was firmly against it. Melli went home to reflect on her decision. Some hours later, Willow and Basil followed her home and, after a long conversation initiated with a headbutt, they managed to convince her to call her family and attempt to explain the truth about her situation, as well as commit to joining FLOW. She assisted FLOW on a mission the same day by dragging agents who were attempting to restrain a man infected with Codan disease into her Anima after nearly being hit by a car on a busy highway.

### Calm Before The Storm

Melli continued to spend time with Willow frequently. On one occasion, she attempted to hang out with her, Circuit, and Colt, but Willow was followed by a flood of paparazzi looking for information regarding Willow's alleged death and rebirth. As a result, they had to escape out a back entrance in Melli's cafe. A few days later, Willow managed to take Melli on an actual date, in which they went "ghost hunting", searching for various urban legends around the Undercity alongside Colt and Circuit. After encountering L0V3R C0LD, she helped the group kill a Demon that had found itself stuck in the concrete.

### The Court of Death

Alongside The Rangers and Charybdis, Melli assisted in defending Station One and the elevator into the Coda from a joint attack by the Demonic Court of Death and GEIST. Before Willow headed into the Coda to retrieve Basil, she gave Melli a kiss, which left her extremely flustered. During the conflict, Melli skillfully pushed back an army of GEIST simulacrums using her Reflection and ESP. After the forward team returned from the third layer with Ruth in hand, Melli joined Charybdis, Lugh, and Aura Pridwyn in defending Upwind's arm from the Court of Death's final push.

Following the partial destruction of OPIA, Willow moved in with Melli during reconstruction. She underwent a training camp in the Sylt Islands during this time. Once OPIA resumed activity, Melli officially joined FLOW as a member of Wave Three, participating in a mission out in the desert.

### Act Two

Willow and Melli arrived at OPIA together for the orientation of Wave Three. After reuniting with Ridill, Mic, Cam, and Basil, Melli joined the group in getting a first look at the new dorms, where she decided to double check the walls for soundproofing. After this, she joined Willow as a member of the Gate of Dreams. She then joined the rest of her Gate in combatting a massive Demonic invasion. Before the attack began, she gave Willow a kiss. Once the assault began, she used her Reflection and ESP to corral a horde of possessed civilians. She eventually teleported them within her Anima to keep them from contracting further Burn as a result of Logic's machines. After the battle, she spent some time at her cafe with Willow. The following morning, she hosted Ridill as she regained orientation after not sleeping for two days. Before Ridill and Willow left for a meeting at OPIA, she told Willow to watch out for rabid fans.

At OPIA picture day, Melli met up with Ace for the first time in months, where she told him that he was wrong and she was a good fit at FLOW. The next day, she attended a meeting of the Gate of Dreams regarding the upcoming global mission. She was deployed to the Sylt Islands alongside Aura and was unable to return to Fuse City quickly due to Satyr being kidnapped by Compulsion. After returning by ordinary means, she visited Willow and gave her action figures of herself and Melli to try and cheer her up. After recieving video footage of Colt's kidnapping, Melli watched it with Willow.

## Abilities

Outside of combat, Melli is highly skilled at acting and putting on personas. Due to her previous career as an idol, she is also presumably skilled at singing and dancing.

### Reflection

Melli is a Reflection user. Her Reflection is "Infinity Collider: Big Bang Breaker". This Reflection manifests as an incredibly durable shield with the ability to convert the energy from incoming attacks into fuel to empower the ESP of its wielder and their allies.

### ESP

Melli is an ESPer. Her ESP manifests as a variety of "Manifestation-type" ESP based on the conceptualization of the world as a "theme park". In other terms, Melli's ESP derives from the idea that the world is overly suffused with artificial and ultimately fleeting sources of distraction and entertainment. In terms of powers, Melli is able to summon a variety of physical matter relating to beaches and amusement parks. Additionally, she is able to transport herself and others into a pocket dimension created by her Anima, which manifests as a small, sandy island with various attractions.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Beachside Burn
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chasing Ghosts
3. ↑ Dear Sweetest Me
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Neon Sparks
5. ↑ Bedside Manners
6. ↑ Night Ride
7. ↑ Tumbling Down
8. ↑ For Today
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 For Tomorrow
10. ↑ Crossing Threads
11. ↑ Dying Flame
12. ↑ I'm Still Alive
13. ↑ Take Your Time
14. ↑ Through The Gate
15. ↑ Uneasy Future