Melanie

Official artwork of Melanie

Melanie Gentlestein is a young girl who is the daughter of the evil genius Harry Gentlestein. Her first debut was in The Dalshire Blackout.

## Appearance

Melanie is a young-looking girl with delicate features. Her most memorable feature is her extremely long brown hair, which almost touches the ground. She also prefers using strictly orange clothing, as seen with her button-up coat, pants and hat. Besides that, she also wears brown shoes.

## Personality

Even at the young age of 15, Melanie is extremely shy, expressing difficulty to talk to people that she barely knows. She also suffers from depression and anxiety, making the previous task even harder, all the while she's usually afraid of something going wrong and pondering her life. Besides that, she has a speech impediment, most specifically stuttering, making her have some trouble pronouncing certain words, while she often repeats others. Surprisingly enough, she does not suffer from self-esteem issues, only disliking her speech impediment, which she wishes she didn't have so she could talk properly. She's also easily afraid of thunder, which causes her to panic even at the lightest strike.

## Powers and Abilities

Melanie does not have any powers at all. In fact, she is probably the weakest character out of the cast, completely unfit for battle and not even wishing to partake in it. However, despite that and her impediment, she has a way with words, which allows her to convince the enemies to lower their guard, while making allies feel more confident.

## Faults and Weaknesses

Being a weak person unfit for battle, Melanie is also probably the most fragile one of the cast, and she's very easily pushed around. However, she still tries her best to not let herself fall for the enemies' lure in bringing her to the bad side.

## In-game

### The Dalshire Blackout

Melanie's only appearance is in The Dalshire Blackout.

Once the protagonists arrive at Harry's Mansion at the end of the game, they meet Harry, alongside his daughter Melanie. Although the billionaire attempts to feign innocence regarding the blackout, Melanie quickly brings it all tumbling down once she spills the beans and confesses her father is the culprit, much to the displeasure of Harry. After the villain explains his true intents, he makes Melanie follow him.

Later on, Harry traps the heroes in the freezer room in an attempt to freeze them to death. Melanie, however, finds a way to unlock the door and free them all, which lets the protagonists know that, unlike her father, Melanie is not evil in the slightest, and wishes to help them. She also indirectly helps open a way forward when she unlocks a necessary door to progress through the mansion, leaving the rest to the heroes.

After the battle against the Mansionator, Melanie reunites with everyone as they all march to the final fight against Harry. However, she can't bring herself to confront her own father and stays behind.

Once Harry absorbs the electricity he gathered and transforms into Electro Harry, he wipes out the party with a powerful electric attack. However, Agent ESP steps in alongside many friends, Melanie included, to provide a distraction while Hikari ressucitates her fallen comrades. Melanie explains that Harry is invincible due to the generators that he set up in the roof, which makes Agent ESP formulate a plan to destroy them all so that beating Harry is possible. She tags up with ESP to destroy the third generator and, although she can't fight, she can give some confidence to the agent to make him more powerful, or convince her father to not attack as hard.

During the final battle against Electro Harry, Melanie is neutralized by a static shock alongside everyone else but the main party. Hikari can save her during the fight, which will make her help out in the form of heals, and she always targets whoever has the least HP of the four.

Once Harry is stopped, Melanie attempts to convince him to stop being evil, but the most she can manage is to make her father treat her better. Before the heroes leave, she promises that she'll watch over her father to make sure he won't try any other funny business.

## Trivia

* Alice based Melanie on herself when she was 15 years old, shown from how they all share the same traits, such as shyness, depression, long hair, love for videogames, etc.