Melanie Palmer

**Melanie Palmer (née Ospina)** is a registered character. She was created in January of 2020.

## Biography

Melanie Ospina was born on October 31st, 1994 in Los Santos, San Andreas to a Colombian Father and Mexican mother. Her childhood was mostly normal until October of 2001, at the peak of the Cartel and Yakuza gang war in Liberty City. Melanie’s parents were in Liberty City to visit a family member where they were brutally murdered by Yakuza goons. Melanie and her older brother, Antonio, were then subsequently adopted by their mom’s best friend Sandra and were raised until they were old enough to live on their own. Melanie for the most part stayed a law abiding citizen, however Antonio got entangled in Cartel affairs due to their cousin Valentina being a moderately high-ranking member in the gang.

Melanie stayed oblivious to her family’s involvement in the Cartel until one day in 2015, she decided to snoop on Valentina and discovered not only her connection to the Cartel, but also how her parents were killed by the Yakuza. Enraged, Melanie hijacked and almost compromised Valentina’s mission of kidnapping the daughter of her parents’ murderer. Due to the amount of rage that Melanie was able to channel in that moment without getting herself killed, Valentina decided to hire her as her personal bodyguard. After Valentina and Antonio get kidnapped by the Yakuza after their member’s daughter gets killed by Melanie, Melanie flies to Liberty City and rescues her brother and cousin, while also massacring at least 30 Yakuza members. As a result, Melanie rises through the ranks in the Cartel and is soon considered as powerful/influential as her brother and cousin. Valentina then starts bossing Melanie around considerably more, often irritating her.

Melanie grows even angrier at the constant mistreatment from her cousin, that she has plans to abandon the Cartel altogether. However, with her shelter and car being provided by the Cartel, she realizes she’ll have a considerable amount of trouble getting far. That is until she meets Blake Palmer in early 2020. She races against him for pink slips and loses her car to him, angering her older brother who initially provided the car for her. She realizes that with all the heat now on Blake, she has a chance to leave the Cartel quietly. She ultimately resigns completely in June of 2020 and starts a relationship with Blake within the same timeframe. In early 2021, Melanie gets pregnant with Blake’s twins and they decide to get married in June of that same year, where both she and Blake were ambushed at their own wedding by Luke Carter and his crew. She and her unborn twins survive the attack, but was left believing that her husband had perished, despite also being alive and in witness protection.

After Blake gets arrested for the murder of their attackers, Melanie finds out that her husband is still alive and they eventually reunite, just before the birth of their children. Melanie now lives with Blake and their two children in Pillbox Hill.

## Personality

Melanie is often very mellow and friendly, but can also be highly unpredictable. She has a quick-witted mouth and does not shy away from giving snarky comments to those who deserve them. She is stern but also maternal, being able to keep Blake in check while still making him happy. When upset, she tries to distance herself from any situation, but if that proves to be tough, she will not hesitate to fight back.

## FIB Database record

 **Status:** | Not a threat

 **Criminal Record**: | * 2016 - Criminal Possession of Weapon

* Has connections to the Colombian Cartel.
* Has massive breasts.

## Trivia

* Due to Melanie being a highly-trained bodyguard in her time in the Cartel, she has the potential to go head to head with some Overseer agents, making her a considerably high threat when provoked.