Mel Anna

* School Uniform
* Magical girl

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**Mel Anna** is a minor character in Persona Record Series and one of the main protagonist of The Forces of Grim. She is a Magical Girl who lives by her daily divinations which she tells every morning. If the fortune's good, she's very optimistic. If it's bad, she'll lock herself in her room and won't even go out to hunt Witches. She loves fortune-telling, but as her predictions always come true, she's forbidden to do it by other Magical Girls.

## Background

Mel wasn't a big fan of fortune-telling actually. However, she just happened to read one day that she will be in trouble and the lucky item, an umbrella, would save her. She was indeed about to be hit by a falling object as she was returning an umbrella, and opening it managed to save her. She was surprised by the effectiveness and wanted to learn the art to help others.

Unfortunately, what she learned was not exactly accurate, and some of her school mates even made fun of her. One case had a group of them ignoring her advice and insist on buying crepes after school, and they got harassed that day by a delinquent who was notorious citywide due to crepes.

Mel wanted to help people but realized she can only go so far from books, and Kyubey took the opportunity to get her to contract. She wished to have the ability to read fortunes at 100% accuracy, and realized she can do it using her own method when she lay her hands on her tarot cards.

Until one day, she met Yachiyo as she was running from a car that was controlled by a witch that brought her to Mizuno ward. Yachiyo saves her, but Mel was frightful at first since she remembered Kanagi warning her not to get close to the west and to minimize contact with Puella Magis belonging to the west since many look down on people from the East side of town due to class discrimination. Luckily the soothing atmosphere and kind personality of Yachiyo has calmed Mel down and she thinks she is in luck since the Puella Magi she encountered is kind. However, Mel begins to panic when she realizes she is a long distance away from home which is safe and worried that she might really die on the way back. Seeing her worry, Yachiyo comforts the girl with soothing words and invites her to her place. Mel accepts the offer with some worry, but she understood Yachiyo's intentions once they reach her place and Yachiyo tells her to treat this as her home.

Her readings advised her to stay home, so Yachiyo's offer to let Mel stay for the day is giving her a lifesaving shelter. Overwhelmed by gratitude and at Yachiyo's trust of her readings, Mel requests to join her team. While Yachiyo is fine with this, she worries about unnecessary misunderstandings since Mel is from the East, so she calls Kanagi and informs her of the situation. Kanagi gives her permission and thinks that joining Yachiyo will be good experience for Mel. From this day on, Mel became part of the Yachiyo team. She gets along with Yachiyo, Mifuyu, Tsuruno and Momoko very quickly.

One day, Mel does a reading that tells her today will be the luckiest day of her life. Yachiyo says she thought Mel promised that she wouldn't do readings anymore as her predictions always come true, especially if it's a bad result. Momoko chimes in that if it's just a lucky day for her then there should be no problem with it, and Tsuruno adds if it's a bad one they will everything they can to avoid it. Time passed at sunset with the group about ready to enter the barrier of another Witch. On the phone Tsuruno informs Yachiyo that because Banbanzai has a big reservation for a group of people, she will be unable to help them take down the Witch. The group decides to move on to fight a Witch that came from Daito Ward, having moved through Kosho, Chuo and Mizuna Wards in the past and finally being found in Shinsei Ward. Momoko thinks it's perfect since there's been a shortage of grief seeds and enter the barrier. Inside, Yachiyo works on fighting off Familiars in order to lure the Witch away to let Mifuyu escape with an injured Mel with Momoko clearing a path for them. Momoko objects to Yachiyo taking it on alone, but she assures her that she'll be fine as she's been a magical girl for a long time. While Yachiyo confronts the Witch, Momoko clears some Familiars away and urges Mel and Mifuyu to run but stop when they see Yachiyo cornered and struggling to fight it off. Mel turns back and rushes to Yachiyo's aid in spite of her injuries and attacks to protect her. After they escaped, The group concerned over Mel's condition and her soul gem, having no grief seeds and being unable to get one from the Witch as it fled. Yachiyo begs for Mel to stay with them as she was going to go hunt down that Witch and get its grief seed now as it'd the only way to save her. Mel tells her not to leave as she already knows what will happen to her, and Yachiyo tells her to stop talking like that. She goes on about Mel's reading that this was suppose to be a lucky day when it's actually the worse but Mel tells her that's not true. Right after that, Mel's soul gem becomes fully dark and breaks, turning into a grief seed and eventually turn her into a witch.

## Appearance

Mel is a teenage with green eyes and long green hair, which she ties into a ponytail.

### Magical girl

As a Magical girl, She wore an off-the-shoulder white blouse with green stars and a green border on the hem, with a green ribbon on the back and chest, over a black and white turtleneck. Both her arms were clad in long white gloves with green ribbons tied at both wrists. She wore long black leggings and silver crisscrossed flat sandals. On her head was a transparent headband with seven yellow diamonds. Her Soul gem is Green leaf and Stuck in her chest accessory. She used Deck of Tarot cards as a weapon.

## Personality

Mel is very hyper and cheerful, with a strong focus on fortune telling. She is rather stubborn and easily frustrated when someone doesn't believe her predictions. However, Mel is a person who likes to help others and is always ready to give advice on fortune telling.

## Abilities

Mel's ability is Future Guidance, which can make predictions for the future of others come true.

## Doppel Description

"The Doppel of disclosure. Its form is a fortune teller. The master of this emotion is both client and contractor. She believes her Doppel, which predicts one’s destiny in perfect clarity, to be her true inner power, and she does not deny any of the destinies it predicts. This Doppel is connected to its master’s wrist and back, and constantly measures her pulse in order to synchronize with it. By fully synchronizing their movements and senses, the two of them can predict an utterly unshakable destiny. The result of the prediction is displayed in the Doppel’s eye, and is determined by the type and direction of the tarot card shown within its pupil. Barring a truly extraordinary effort, it’s impossible for the master and Doppel to escape from a destiny they’ve predicted."

## Relationship

### Yachiyo Nanami

Mel's Magical girl senior. Mel was always fond of predicting Yachiyo, until the results of that prediction came true. Even when Mel was injured in battle, Yachiyo was surrounded by witches, she went to protect Yachiyo despite her injury, and her soul gem was to the limit until she became a witch.

### Kanae Yukino

Mel's friend. Mel was always enjoying Kanae, and Kanae had to suffer from such things on a regular basis.

### Shinjiro Aragaki

A Persona-User. Mel was always messing around with him.

### Madeline Darke

Grim Reaper in training. Mel was always encouraging and trying to get Madeline back to cheer up. Mel often saw her as her big sister.

### Mika Sato

Mel always saw Mika as like a Mother always Careing for her, as if she were another side of Yachiyo.

### Ciel Phantomhive

Friends of different centuries of Mel. Mel always teased him for what she thought he had a secret crush on Madeline.

## Trivia

* Mel‘s tarot card predictions are always 100% accurate.
* The characters of her last name mean "safe" or "cheap" (安) and "name" (名) respectively.
* Etteilla was the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette, a French occultist who was the first to popularise tarot divination to a wide audience in 1785, and therefore the first professional tarot occultist known to history who made his living by card divination. It is the inverse of his name.

## Gallery

Daito Academy School UniformMel Mifuyu Tsuruno and YachiyoWinter ClothesMagical girl formMel and KanaeMel's Doppel (Etteilla)Halloween OutfitMel Kanae Momoko and Kanagi