Mel Metaxas

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Spice

### Residence

Usually Operates in Gotham City's "Old Gotham", "Gotham Square", "East End" and "Narrows" districts

## Physical Description

### Hair Color

Black (with purple and pink dyed proportions)

## Biography

### Mel Metraxas: 1991 - 2002

Melanie was born in Gamenin, Zandia. Due to the ongoing conflicts in Zandia, there are are little to no records documenting her childhood. According to Melanie, her father was a soldier, killed in an unknown conflict. Her mother was killed while she and Melanie were fleeing the site of a nighttime bombing. Melanie was on her own for several months as she journeyed across the wartorn countryside to seek out sanctuary on her uncle's farm.

### Mel Metraxas: 2002 - 2009

When she was eleven years old, Melanie came to the United States when she and her family were admitted into the country as war refugees. They settled in Gotham's Narrows. Due to Mel being bullied in school due to her thick Zandian accent, she became reclusive. Outside of home and school, she would be as cruel to the rest of the world as her schoolmates were to her.

Wanting as little interaction with others as possible, Mel wore dark clothes and makeup. She dyed her hair to be an inky mass that complimented her menacing persona. When her style did not deter bullies, Mel would respond violently — ensuring she would gain a reputation to further prevent future interaction.

### Mel Metraxas: 2009 - 2010

Months into her senior year of high school, Mel was kicked out of school after putting two of her bullies into the hospital. Mel began working at her uncle's leatherworking shop. It did not take long for her to learn that her uncle was paying the local Second Street Gang for protection and had also taken loans from their boss, the criminal known as Two-Face.

One morning, when Mel came to open up shop, she found her uncle, bloodied and battered, laying on the floor of the shop among the debris of broken furniture. Mel rushed her uncle to the hospital. En route, Mel's uncle said that the Black Light Tribe had been responsible for the attack. By the time Mel arrived at the hospital, her uncle was already dead.

Melanie went to the police to report what her uncle had told her, but the cops failed to find any evidence that implicated the Black Light Tribe street gang. When the police failed her, Melanie continued to run her uncle's shop but withheld payment to the Second Street Gang.

When the Double Dealers came to collect her dues, Melanie said she had set the money aside and was willing to pay, but demanded to speak to Two-Face before she turned the payment over. The goons were not interested in being bossed around, but they did take Mel to see their boss — though not before they beat her into submission and tossed her in the trunk of their car.

In audience of the coin-flipping criminal, Mel found herself staring down the dual barrels of a custom pistol. The mastermind demanded her protection money, but Mel did not flinch when she demanded services for her payment. Without pausing, Mel told the criminal that his goons failed to protect her uncle from the Black Light Tribe — but she was willing to overlook the failure if the Second Street Gang could give her vengeance instead.

It is hard to say whether Two-Face accepted the deal because of Melanie's salesmanship, to send a message to the Black Light Tribe not to mess with the Double Dealers' turf, or decided it entirely by a flip of his scarred coin; but Dent did take the deal. Within a week, Mel came home one night to find the half-hideous Harvey sitting in her apartment with a two bowling ball bags at his feet. Dent took the heads of two tribesmen to repay the debt of life he owed Mel.

After inspecting the luminescent painted faces, Mel thanked Dent and began to move to retrieve his payment from where she had hid it. However, Dent caught Mel's arm and told her not to bother, further explaining that she could keep the money as an employment bonus — explaining that he saw something in her that his men lacked.

### Mel Metraxas: 2010 - 2012

Mel began working with Two-Face as one of his street bosses, overseeing the protection racket in the Narrows. Two-Face more or less allowed her to run the operation as she saw fit and when she turned the Narrows into a piece of turf that generated more income than it had ever done before, she was promoted to lieutenant. Of course, her ascent was also aided by her romantic relationship with Two-Face.

### Spice: 2012 - Present

Shortly after Melanie began her relationship with Harvey, she became aware that his obsession with the number of two made him consider seeking out the company of a second lover — one to compliment his "handsome Harvey" half. Rather than let this be a source of conflict in her relationship, Mel took the initiative and dared to lead a crew of Double Dealers into the East End's Red Light District on several occasions to find Harvey a moll that the two could share.

This resulted in Melanie recruiting Wendy Delacey, a high-priced escort with a past in the criminal underground of London. Once tested and prepared, all that was left was to present the offer to Two-Face. Dressed in contrasting lingerie and adopting the names "Sugar" and "Spice", Mel and Wendy gave Two-Face a presentation that he would never forget.

Sugar and Spice have been constant companions and comrades-in-arms ever since. They are Two-Face's lovers, loyal lieutenants, liaisons, and lackeys-at-large.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Criminal Moll:** A survivor of a war-torn country, Spice became a refugee in Gotham where she was raised in the Narrows and became a quick study to the criminal underworld when she embraced an opportunity.
	+ ***Firearms:*** Having survived a warzone, Spice knows how to use guns. Despite her familiarity, she has little patience to make precision shots and prefers to use assault shotguns to make use of their combined buckshot and rapid-fire.
	+ ***Intimidation:*** Spice is skilled in presenting herself in a menacing or threatening manner to coerce people into doing her will.
	+ ***Leadership:*** Spice is well-respected among the Second Street Gang, having risen through the ranks and proven herself a capable leader. The rank and file of the gang and underbosses generally respect Spice and usually follow her commands without question.
	+ ***Martial Arts:*** Spice is not a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, but she makes up for it with her volatility and brutality.
	+ ***Streetwise:*** Spice is well-versed in the criminal underworlds of the Delaware Bay (Gotham, Blüdhaven, Metropolis, and Hub City). Rumor is that she is particularly adept in finding creative places and means to dispose of bodies.
	+ ***Weaponry:*** Never having been one to shy away from weapons or blood, Sugar has always been proficient in the use of handheld weaponry — everything from blades, blunt bludgeons, or improvised weapons (such as a broken bottle).
	+ ***Leatherworking:*** Spice is a talented leatherworker, having been taught the trade by her uncle. Though she retains his shop, it is not open for business and only kept for sentimental value and for Spice to work when she wants to be alone with her thoughts.

### Weaknesses

* **Bloodlust:** Spice is addicted to violence. She will eagerly indulge in violence when she is given the chance. Though she would not normally lash out violently when doing so would put herself or others in undo danger; if stressed to a breaking point, Spice might forget her place and indulge in a shocking display of brutality. The only ones truly safe from her direct violence, would be her loved ones... but they may become the victims to some particularly aggressive affection.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 0 — Abysmal / Nonexistent
* **Weaponry:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Expertise:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Range:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 47
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Mel found Wendy brutalized and left for dead in her apartment by Neon. She brought in the Double Dealers' street doctor to patch Wendy up and when Wendy regained consciousness, Mel promised her that if she joined the Second Street Gang they could promise she'd get her revenge against Neon two-fold. Wendy agreed and picked herself an outfit to impress Harvey Dent.

### Notes

* Spice is a character from the film *Batman Forever*.
* Her appearance is based on the actress Debi MAzar, who portrayed her in the film.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Spice

1. ↑ NFX: Sugar and Spice
2. ↑ NFX: Sugar and Spice