Melissa Vaine

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*"I started writing because there was a huge gap in the literary world and I felt an urge to create something in the ether, just waiting to enter fictional existence."*
―Melissa Vaine[src]
**Melissa Quentin Vaine** (b. April 20, 1998) is the author of several *The Super Babies* books. She resides in New Mexico. Vaine is a good friend of D. Isaac Thomas, who authored the series. Melissa's writing skills have been called *"considerable"* by several fans of the series.

## 1998-2014: Childhood

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Born in 1998 in Yankton, South Dakota, Melissa was initially an only child. She attended Lincoln Elementary School in the state of South Dakota, where she would continually impress her teachers with early signs of literary talent.

In sixth grade, she learned about *The Super Babies Saga*, a series in its early developmental stages that was written by nine-year-old D. Isaac Thomas. The eleven-year-old developed a so-called "crush" on the series' very young protagonist, Master Intelligence, whose adulthood at that point was extremely mysterious. However, she had little contact with Thomas at that point and "moved on" from the to-be D.I.T. Literary Universe.

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In 2011, Melissa's parents divorced and she ended up with the Cillan family, which consisted of her stepfather Harold and a stepbrother named Joey, and a sister named Chloe. In junior high, she also became a cheerleader.

## 2015-present: Career

### Early Collaborations with D. Isaac Thomas

She began writing for the D.I.T. Literary Universe in early 2015. An inevitable challenge for all *Super Babies* authors is maintaining the consistency in stories written by various authors. For Melissa Vaine, the hardest part of maintaining the consistency is remembering what a character knows about other characters and certain situations at a specific moment in the D.I.T. timeline. Fortunately, Thomas, who is in charge of maintaining and monitoring the consistency in *The Super Babies* stories, is very familiar with his own details; therefore, he has been very helpful to Melissa. Indeed, there is no doubt these two have created a mutual bond. Upon graduating from high school in 2016, she found an apartment in New Mexico, where she resided while she attended college, intending to obtain a Bachelor's Degree.

### Co-Authoring the DLU

In November of 2017, Thomas approached Vaine with his ideas, which he had already been developing for months, about a sequel to the *Boys vs. Girls* trilogy, and promised he would pay her in the future, should she work as his co-writer on the book. The two continually used Chat Mods on Wikia and Instagram to work collaboratively on the novel, which was titled *Boys vs. Girls 2* and released shortly after her twentieth birthday in May of 2018. Shortly afterwards, she received her two-year degree and chose to keep going. Early in 2019, she mysteriously implied that she might be in South Dakota, despite still being in New Mexico, where she was feeling extremely lonely.

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On April 19, Melissa Vaine confirmed that she had been working on *Morgan* alongside D. Isaac Thomas this whole time, and they would be collaborating once again. She also confirmed the existence of Gale, a dog and supporting character, and Jeffrey Butch, an undead cowboy. She also became best friends with a girl named Julie.

### COVID-19 Pandemic and Graduation

She finally got her Bachelor's Degree in 2021, around the point she and Thomas released *Demolition One*. Her fourth collaboration project, *The Marauder*, was released to mixed reviews in May of 2022. She is currently collaborating on *Abercoln and the Quest for Neutrality*, *El Monstrou Horrible: Battle for the Colección de Monstruos*, *Superquack: Focal Point*, and *Vault of Ages: Cosmic War*.

## Private life

In many ways a female counterpart to her best friend, Melissa seems to be, at her core, a vastly obsessive and kind person. She also has an extremely witty sense of humor and an unbelievably close eye for detail. She is a natural leader, as shown by her actions after March of 2017. In 2020, she became less introverted — interestingly, similar to a trait Thomas developed at age seventeen, rather than twenty-one.

## Trivia

* Melissa Vaine and D. Isaac Thomas have a number of interesting similarities:
	+ Both of them have sandy blonde hair (which some argue is light brown) and are only an inch apart in height and a kilogram apart in weight (as of June 2018). Vaine was 5'9" and 68 kgs, whereas Thomas was 5'10" and 69 kgs. Vaine has jokingly compared her hair to Emma Watson before. Thomas has jokingly said their legs look like twins.
	+ Both of them have reported that the most frequent insults they have received from haters are volatile claims that they are allegedly opinionated and shortsighted.
	+ Both of them wrote *Boys vs. Girls 2* and are working on *Demolition One* and *Morgan* (as of June 2020).
	+ They both lost their fathers to divorce.
	+ Interestingly, they were both born on dates of the year signifying numbers that have obscene connotations. April 20, or "420", is often considered to have drug-related connotations because in the 1970s, California residents used it as a code to evade police whilst smoking marijuana. Whereas June 9, or "69", is often considered to have sexual connotations due to the sex position of the same name where two persons elope. Ironically, Vaine and Thomas are both sober and have unknown virginity statuses.
* Melissa is pansexual, which she has been very blunt about since 2016.
* D. Isaac Thomas thinks she is attractive.
* Her middle name was accidentally written with a "U" initial on both her Facebook profile and on D.I.T. Website, though it later confirmed her middle name is "Quentin".
* She may have been a model at some point but this isn't confirmed.

## Gallery

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## Quotes

*"Increase the light to decrease the shadow."*
―Melissa's (former) primary catchphrase

*"Yes, but belief is not the same thing as knowledge. If we try not to understand what we refuse to understand, we confine ourselves to a darkness of our own design."*
―Melissa

*"You can follow logic, or go to war against its entirety."*
―Melissa

*"I started writing because there was a huge gap in the literary world and I felt an urge to create something in the ether, just waiting to enter fictional existence."*
―Melissa

*"Oh, I guess you're not as dumb as you look. Then again, if you were, it'd be impossible for you to focus on the screen and type and breathe and spell and punctuate simultaneously..."*
―Melissa's retort to an arguably dimwitted User ID