Melissa Duthé

> "My grammy told me that grief is a form of love, not entirely misplaced. It’s just the kind of love that we mean to say for someone who isn’t here anymore.”
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> Missy Duthé, OC 6, Challenge 5: The Independence Day Ball

## Melissa "Missy" Duthé

### Caste

Four (formerly), Three (as of the Selection)

### Hobbies

Wedding Planning, Bullet Journaling, Gardening, Veganism

## Selection Info

### Blog Link

ladymelissaduthe.tumblr.com

Melissa Cher "Missy" Duthe is a Selected during the  Sixth Selection OC. She made it to the Elite and was eliminated after Challenge Eight. During the Selection, she befriended and fell in love with Schreave Family ~~Invader~~ Friend, Jackson Graham.

## Personality and Skills

Missy has always been an open and well-mannered kind of person, no matter the circumstances she finds herself. Always having been a dreamer, her core values is hope, empathy, and optimism. She likes to refer to her life experiences and when she can: tries to think questions that interest her thoroughly. However, Missy can appear shallow and the quintessential dumb blonde. Though not the smartest, Missy’s genius as a person is that she’s very empathetic and knows how to customize things to just tailor fit people’s preferences. Missy’s strong sense of style and aesthetic is also beautiful to watch because, she truly believes in trying to make the world beautiful. She can be perceived as dumb because she just never dipped into more intellectual pursuits. What she lacks in intellectual skills she makes up in many other interpersonal skills. She’s quite knowledgeable on social graces, trying to make people feel better about themselves, and distracting other people from their train of thoughts, all of which are bound to a a softer emotional strength. No matter what, Missy Duthé will do her best to be reason why someone smiles.

## Appearance and Face Claim

Missy stands at 5'9", often bumped up to 6'3" when she's wearing her terribly high 6-inch platform heels. She has long light blonde hair that reaches her midback. It’s thick but smooth in texture, and usually naturally curls at its ends, and had always been worn long due to preference. Missy has large round light blue eyes, the constantly bright kind of eyes that is usually accompanies with a bright smile. With a small round face with a pointed chin. Missy kinda has the likeness of a pixie in her features like her upturned nose, her wide smile, and thin dusty rose colored lips.

Her Face Claim is Elle Fanning.

## History

### Pre-Selection

Melissa Cher Duthé is no stranger to the wedding altar, having attended over 92 weddings in her lifetime. What would you expect from a girl who’s a third-generation wedding planner? It’s in her genes.

Missy has a loving family, a successful business, and her pet pig, but there is something definitely missing from this Orleans native’s life... Love.

Giving people their fairytales is a promise Missy never fails to deliver. She believes that everyone deserves to find that fairytale, even her. Maybe, just maybe, she can find that fairytale through the Selection.

### The Selection

ladymelissaduthe.tumblr.com, everything's there NJKSDNKJSD

### Post-Selection

Miss Jackson 👀 + So Missy gets eliminated and Miss Jackson get to probably finally and oFFICIALLY date. She decides to go back to school too and complete her Business Management Degree.

## Relationships

### Family

* Parents: Beaumont "Beau" Duthé and Caroline "Carrie" Duthé (neé Button)
* Paternal Grandparents: Phillip Duthé and Melissa "Grammy" Duthé (neé Kennedy)

### Friends

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### Romantic Interests

#### Daniel Benoit

> "I thought I was gonna marry him. Almost did."
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> Missy Duthé talking about Daniel, OC 6, Challenge 5: The Independence Day Ball

NJKSNJDNK Daniel doesn't have rights.

He left her at the altar.

#### Jackson Graham 🥰

> "This wasn’t fireworks— but love songs and butterflies. It was all *entirely* Jackson."
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> Missy Duthé, internal monologue about Jackson, OC 6, Challenge 5: The Independence Day Ball

Miss Jackson 🥺🥺🥺🥺

## Quotes

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## Trivia and Notes

* Conceptualization Trivia:
	+ Missy's original name was "Caroline Duthé" and was supposed to have Ester Exposito as her face claim.
	+ Planning phases of Missy's character included the following crackhead ideas:
		- Being a runaway bride
		- Being a wedding singer
		- Being in an arranged marriage, and still getting left at the altar
		- ~~Having been in a car accident with Daniel and getting survivor's guilt #YIKES~~
* She used to do child beauty pageants when she was younger and was Little Miss Sunshine - Illéa when she was 7.
* Missy keeps a bullet journal and records what happens to her everyday on it.
	+ Interestingly, the flower that Jackson gave her after she helped him make his mother's birthday bouquet had been pressed and preserved in this journal.
* She has a pet pig named Pancake.
* Missy's love of gardening and plants came from her grandfather who used to be a farmer. Her grandfather's simple orange orchard eventually grew into one of the biggest commercially available orange brands in Illéa.
* Missy's and Jackson's children are named Dahlia and Elijah.
* Missy is Anya's fourth Original character and her first OC to not be a runner up during their Selection (BAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA)