Melaleuca Berger

**Overview**
History

## Melaleuca ‘Mel’ Berger

An image of Melaleuca on his first large-scale event. He is adorned with heavy amounts of foundation.

## Biographical information

### Relation(ship)s

* An unnamed man (Deceased)
* An unnamed baby (Deceased)

## Appearance

### Disabilities

* Autism (ASD)
* Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
* Epilepsy

## Voice Claims

### Singing (voice)

[other side of paradise by glass animals]

## Other information

### Aliases

* Mel
* Melanie

**Melaleuca Berger**, or ‘Mel’, is one of the main protagonists of Reign of Rapture, and is the main focus of the first two books in the main series BOOK01 and BOOK02. He is a twenty–eight year old Intersex person who is originally seen working for a modelling company that specialises specifically in filming and creating quite explicit advertisements, that usually show themes such as: *‘Smutty sex, Cigarettes, drugs and booze.’*

She is also sponsored by a wealthy drug company, who specialise in selling Gatsby’s golden pills, a powerful stimulant drug and class A drug, akin to that of cocaine. Though nobody questions such acts as it’s marketed as being just recreational.

## Appearance

**Melaleuca** is very tall with an incredibly lean body, and is one of the tallest humanoids throughout most of the series, standing at around 203.2 centimetres (6’8”ft) and weighing about 220lbs (or approximately 96 kilograms (kg)). She has short, curly hair dyed strawberry–blonde, lightly tanned skin, thin eyebrows, and oval shaped, teal–blue eyes that resemble that of the rolling tide that were blocked out by wide, large, white irises. His cheeks are also adorned with bright blue markings painted on permanently from his time spent at the local brothel, he covers those markings with a thick layer of foundation, along with parts of his decayed skin.

Her body is covered in scars, both old and new. One of his most notable scars was achieved though riling up his ex–boss, enough to get his head smashed with a bottle of gin; he now has small scars from the shards of glass and a large one on her scalp from the impact of the bottle. Another is his right hand is covered in burn a single, large scar from a boiling hot kettle.

There is also a scar covering the whole of his neck, this scar is also known as a “Death scar” as many rumour it also occurs when one returns from the afterlife. This scar wraps around a second mouth that he had also received when she was revived. He has stretch marks on his midsection due to going through pregnancy, though that child is now dead.

He doesn’t enjoy wearing long sleeved shirts and usually is seen wearing an obnoxious peach tank–top, one that is far to thin and frail to even touch, the shirt has a large, yellow star on the front. A deep cyan puffer jacket, with dark grey fur surrounding its hood created from wolf skin, low waisted, washed out, denim jeans that easily show of and extenuate his various thongs he wears, white socks that are go up to the calf of his leg and scuffed black converse with bright, coral–red accents, that he honestly could care less about as they are always covered in some sort of dirt or grime.

As for accessories he is usually seen with a pair of rose–tinted sunglasses, golden-studded earrings and a left hand covered in over-the-top rings of all precious metals.

Though, **Melaleuca** doesn’t always wear a shirt. During days when she feels the well–populated wastelands are too hot to handle, he will wear his regular cyan jacket, but with no tank-top underneath, revealing two top surgery scars. A surgery offered to her by the company,

## Personality

Perpetually sullen and impulsive, Melaleuca comes of originally to the readers as someone that is noted to be quite blunt and stern in nature. As he is infatuated with riling up those around him with petty, sarcastic remarks that hold no true meaning; though, doesn’t do so whilst his higher–ups are around, *She still wants to keep her job after all,* since Melaleuca is famous amongst those of all gender identities, being regarded as an idol by many of his fans.

Despite coming off as an arrogant prick, who’s only true motive is his selfish desires for both money and drugs. Melaleuca has an exceptionally low self–esteem, and thinks of himself as inferior to those around him. This is first noted to be an odd surprise by her close friend, Charlie, who riled him up by suggesting that ‘*He’d fall into a pitiful state of despair through the life she led as a, now ex, model.’* Despite even meeting Shane, a blood–relative of the original sin of pride, she still feels like her life does not equate to anything in the long–run.

He doesn’t act all venerable, though, he still has that same, harsh, cold, unforgiving stare that could kill a man if he looked at her in the incorrect way.

### Interests

Melaleuca seems not too interested in much, which is odd to many. Though he does show high amounts of enjoyment from gambling with anything he can get his hands on: including his life, Russian roulette is one of her favourite past times. Aside from gambling his life away, he quite enjoys hunting the weird and wild of the Tekketsu Ridge.

## Relationships

* **Shane Fehér** – He met Shane whilst smoking on the hood of her car. He appears after stalking him for a long period of time. He initially holds a dislike towards Shane whilst Shane seems to be quite protective, manipulation and obsessive.

Shane has also attempted to drag Melaleuca to HELL several times, noting that he thinks that corpselings, and by extension corpseling hybrids, are properties of HELL and shouldn’t have the ability to wonder the upper-territories. As said before, he is a master in all forms of manipulation; but his best ability was gaslighting.

* **Charlie Hugues** – The two are on good terms. They were friends before the main storyline of first two books occurred, happening through them working at companies that would often work together. It is also highly likely that Charlie had a crush on him for a better part of the series, but she seems to never act upon them.

* **Yuri Mikhailov** – He fell in love with Yuri during his time in the ‘Hybrid army’, though, he never got to pronounce his love for Yuri because of his untimely demise as his life was taken by a human Sargent. That event caused a young Melaleuca to hate humans for taking away her love, and for her to join the Hybrid resistance.

The night he found Yuri lying dead in their shared tent, was one of the worst nights he’d ever had. He described, how this event made everything worse after he had figured out his feelings for the boy.

## Trivia

* Melaleuca is a Scorpio and was born on the third of November at an unknown date. The date she was born on is the National day for Jellyfish.
* His hair has been damaged from dying her hair so many times,
* he cannot sing

The name **Melaleuca** comes from the word for a Tea tree oil, also known as ‘melaleuca oil’, is **an essential oil that comes from steaming the leaves of the Australian tea tree**.