Melanie Miller

* 2021
* 2015

> I’m *always* dying to talk about Link.
>
> Melanie Miller, The Anomaly - *The Office Files*

Melanie Miller is a worker at the Great Industries’ Main Office of high intelligence and even higher pranking skills. She works in the same office room as her closest friend Norm Al, and the two of them handle customer support calls for Great Industries. She is currently portrayed by Madison Dorris.

## Background

### Growing up in Miami

Melanie was born on May 3, 2003 as the third child and only daughter of Christine and Rick Miller. For all of her childhood, she lived in Miami, Florida with her brothers Daniel, Robbie, and the later born Tommy. Thanks to the generous amounts of money their grandma would give them, she and the latter two were able to buy the supplies to start pulling pranks from a young age. As time went on, they would eventually be infamously known as the T3, or *Terrible Three*, all across Miami. Because she was by far the smartest of the three, she was their unofficial leader (though the others would certainly debate this).

At some point in middle school, she actually skipped a grade on account of her high intelligence, though she initially struggled with this change. It was hard being a year younger than her new classmates, which initially only got harder upon starting ninth grade at Iridium High. Luckily for her, she would soon meet Norm Al after he temporarily moved to Miami, and the two almost immediately hit it off and became close friends. They essentially did everything together during High School, and were always by each other's sides through any situation. In Autumn 2019, she helped Norm through a particularly difficult time after he learned that his cousin was murdered at his own dinner party, and decided to accompany him to his funeral up in Ohio for emotional support. While there, Norm realized how much he missed being up north, and Melanie fell in love with the area, leading to them eventually deciding to move up north after they graduated.

### Starting at Great Industries

With the help of some of Norm's relatives in the area, the two moved to a city known as Scottsburg the following summer, eventually landing jobs at the main office of a prominent company called Great Industries as customer service agents. While there, they met and befriended a young woman named Ava Rage, and the three eventually would come to realize how insane the rest of their coworkers were and the declining performance of their boss Scott Great Jr. They would go on to form the secret group known as the *Great Minds*, who would meet up to discuss any odd-happenings at the office and what to do to essentially keep the company from failing from behind the scenes. At the annual holiday party in 2020, she and her two friends received cheap games from the bargain bin at Games on a Shelf from their moderate acquaintance Lincoln Venience during his poorly planned party, which to their horror led to Ava getting tackled by Mr. Great for insulting a game he liked. By the following summer, Melanie would earn her boss's trust enough to be elected as his personal consultant on various matters, which she and the others saw as the first major victory for the *Great Minds*.

### Agent 22's arrival at the Office

After Agent 22's arrival to the office on November 30, Melanie and Norm at some point heard about him as he somehow became a legend around the office, and they quickly grew eager to meet him. While walking through the main room of the office on December 4, she found a highlighter on the ground that went to the printer, which Agent 22 and Lincoln were repairing at the time. She picked it up and tossed it to him with excessive force, though he easily caught it regardless thanks to his quick reflexes. He quickly thanks her in a rather underwhelming way, but it was enough to get her excited. When they would later officially meet during a group meeting discussing the recent mystery surrounding the destruction of their boss's "precious" bowling trophy, she is surprised that he remembers her from that one brief interaction. She and Norm obsess over him throughout the meeting, much to Ava's dismay, and she ends up giving him the nickname Link. She initially is led to believe the Lincoln Venience was the one to blame for destroying the trophy like the others, but learns from Norm the next that Ava was the one behind the whole thing, which made her feel bad for unintentionally ignoring her the previous day. She does still express concern for "Link", worrying his continued pursuit of the investigation would drive him crazy.

The next day at work, she and Norm hang out with "Link" in the morning as he records Will attempting to toss a water bottle into the trash can.

## Quotes

* “It’s very essential!”
* “I wonder if he’s asking about… the incident?”
* “Wow, he noticed me! And I'm walking…”
* “I want to personally thank her for her contribution to society.”
* “I’m *always* dying to talk about Link.”
* “What’s next, are you going to get us Bottled Water as refreshments?”
* “Actually it was more of a malfunction than an invention.”
* “You’re the unsung hero of this office, even though most of us will never know you’re to thank.”
* “As a customer support agent, it's always important to support the customers… unless you don't care.”
* “Yeah, you’ve become something of a legend around here!”
* “Wait, how couldn’t you have known about this trophy? It’s *literally* the thing the Boss boasts about all the time.”
* “I can show you my fully detailed plans for it and even a neat little animation I made.”
* “Wait, your cousin was dead. Like, we went to his funeral and everything.”

## Appearances

\*She is technically in the episode but is off-screen, as was later confirmed and shown during *The Questioning*.

## Gallery

### *The Office Files* (2021 Series)

"Wow, he noticed me!"Norm, Melanie, and Agent 22"The cabinet's lookin' pretty fresh!"Melanie and Norm listening to their boss
### *Every Witch Way*

Melanie with two of her brothers, Tommy and Robbie, as kidsMelanie plotting revenge against a rival group of prankstersThe Millers working on a prankMelanie with Diego Rueda
## Trivia

* This character is meant to be an older version of the character of the same name from *Every Witch Way*.
* It is implied that she might have feelings for "Lincoln Spicuous".
* Melanie is one of the few characters in the series who's name isn't a pun.