Melia Iordanou

## Melia Lordanou

**Melia Lordanou** is an upcoming character featured in **Danganronpa: Siren's Ark**, made by Voncreep. She is the **Ultimate Murder Mystery Novelist**.

## Profile

> Like many authors, Melia is often 'in her own world,' and away with her own thoughts. This often makes her come off as **[GAUCHE]** and distant, snapping in and out mid-conversation, often with a inappropriate remark. When she is invested in a topic, she's incredibly **[NOSY]**, ignoring the social boundaries of what should and shouldn't be asked. Despite being an undisputed genius of the murder mystery genre, able to create complex characters and gripping storylines, people who interact with Melia in person often can't understand how someone like her isn't as graceful with her spoken words as she is with her written ones.
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## Creation and Development

### Creation

Under the original name of the 'Castaway', Melia was always meant to appear in the game as a 'secret student' of sorts. In one of the first drafts for the game, Melia was the Ultimate Seamstress. Under this talent Melia would have designed the mascots costumes to hide her own existence. This plotline was later scrapped however as the creator found it to be 'incredibly stupid'.

Though Melia's beta design is similar to her final one, there are several notable differences. This includes a lighter skin tone, messier hair, and her wearing her cardigan over her shoulder in one design.

### Development

Following Itazura Akiyama's removal from the main cast to take up a more important role in the story, Melia was added in her place. Much like Itazura's role in the original prologue, Melia would work with Akio throughout the story.

## Appearance

Melia is a tall young adult with messy waist-length gray hair, freckles, and brownish-yellow eyes. Her bangs are cut unevenly with some strands longer than the others, and she has two sidebangs of uneven length which curl into her face. She wears a set of earrings; a silver one and a bronze one. Throughout the killing game she can also be seen wearing a bracelet with a silver dagger charm, and she can also be seen carrying around a brown shoulder bag.

Throughout the killing game Melia wears a modified school uniform. This consists of a white button-up shirt with a chest pocket holding two black pens, a black ribbon which is tied around the front of her collar, rolled up sleeves, and a triangular logo. Over this she wears a loose brown cardigan with several buttons undone. Melia also wears a light brown skirt which appears more pink along the upper half, meant to resemble dripping blood. In addition to this she wears a pair of baggy white socks; one which reaches below her knee, and one which reaches her knee, as well as a pair of brown sneakers with bow laces and white soles. She has a tattoo of the letter 'F' on the lower half of her right leg.

## Personality

Like many authors, Melia is often 'in her own world,' and away with her own thoughts. This often makes her come off as gauche and distant, snapping in and out mid-conversation, often with a inappropriate remark. When she is invested in a topic, she's incredibly nosy, ignoring the social boundaries of what should and shouldn't be asked. Despite being an undisputed genius of the murder mystery genre, able to create complex characters and gripping storylines, people who interact with Melia in person often can't understand how someone like her isn't as graceful with her spoken words as she is with her written ones.

## Talent and Abilities

### Ultimate Murder Mystery Novelist

Born in Corfu, Greece, Melia is the child of two homicide detectives and from a young age would hear the gory details of her parents' cases. This very clearly influenced the style of her writing, breaking into a genre known for "cosies" with a much more gritty and realistic depiction of murder but still finding great success with it.

## Trivia

* Melia was first foreshadowed in the original prologue release, when Akio Suzuki receives a blackmail letter. Among the names is 'Melia Isere' ('Melia is here').
* Melia was originally going to be Argentinian.
* Riku Yamamoto is a huge fan of Melia's work.
* Melia was originally referred to as the 'cast away', and would have shown up with amnesia.
* Melia's outfit contains six weapons that reference Clue.