Melody Pierce

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## Melody Pierce

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## Fangan Info

### Artists

StephenW313

**Melody Pierce** is a main character featured in **Danganronpa V4 Rocky Restarts**, created by **StephenW313**. She is known as the **Ultimate Ghost Hunter**.

## Appearance

Melody is a very short young woman that stands at 3'7" with light skin, dark brown hair tied up into a messy bun; with two curly sidebangs resting along the sides of her face, and light blue eyes. Melody wears a dotted purple dress shirt; with gold buttons, one half untucked, the top button undone, and a nametag with her name on it. Overtop the shoulders of her shirt are visible straps of a backpack. In addition Melody wears a pencil skirt with a radio clipped onto one of the sides, a pair of black stockings, and a pair of blueish-purple heels. In addition to this Melody wears a pair of fingerless arm warmers, as well as a golden cross necklace.

During the early weeks of the killing game Melody wore a light greyish-blue sweater, as well as a utility belt holding all sorts of ghost hunting equipment.

## History

### Background

Melody comes from a lineage of ghost hunters.

During Melody's second year of eighth grade, Melody experienced her 'first ever paranormal incident'. As she was walking to her maths class she heard a static sound from a walke-talkie, and after going to the source of the sound she was locked in the darkness by several laughing spirits. Unable to leave the room or sleep, Melody was trapped inside the janitor's closet for the rest of the school day, until she was let out the next day by the same demons.

### The Ultimate Camp

Melody was one of sixteen students who was invited to stay at the Ultimate Camp, an American-based resort which was intended to stimulate the typical Ultimate Academy environment. After the group arrived everyone went their separate ways; introducing themselves to each other while exploring the camp grounds. Soon after their arrival; everyone regroups at the nearby diner, under the misguided impression they'd be meeting the camp's counsellors. In their place, however, Monokuma; a monochrome stuffed bear introduces himself to the camp's leader. The group is left stunned after Monokuma reveals that the group is there to participate in a mutual killing game; where the only way they would be able to leave is to get away with murder.

In the early days of the killing game Melody is a frequent target of bullying from Norah, as well as some occasional comments from the other participants. At the time of Glenn's murder Melody was apart of the group that sleptover together.

### Outfit Change and the Second Motive

After the death of Glenn and Autumn, a loud horn draws everyone out from their rooms where Monokuma stands along the path. Without any knowledge of what was happening; the group was forced to follow Monokuma to the interview room, where upon entry sleeping gas fills the room and renders everyone unconscious. As the group returns to consciousness in their rooms, they wake up to discover all of their outfits had been changed while they were asleep, with Melody losing her toolbelt, something that she found inconvenient.

Soon Monokuma announces the second motive to the participants. This motive involved each characters personal secrets, and the threat that they would be leaked to whoever it would affect most. In the coming days the bullying Melody faced for her talent and height would ramp up, with now several including Norah and Jesse being more involved. Over the next couple of days Melody would open up about her experiences with the supernatural, and what inspired her to start her show.

### Emily's Birthday and Fate

Later on in the week Emily tearfully confides in Kim her worries about dying before her birthday, which at the time was just a few days away. Throughout the week Kim and Emily spent time together, and in attempt to lift Emily's spirits and ease her worries, Kim tries to involve everyone in a surprise birthday party.

As the participants meet in an abandoned building in the woods, with the exception of just a few, everyone in attendance decides to pitch it for Emily's party. After spending some of the Monocoins she had earned throughout the week, Melody offers a set of balloons to the group. Shortly after the items are placed on the table, Victor regains a memory related to decorating. Receiving ideas about what his talent could be, Melody's suggestion and comments on set designing causes a chain event of teasing and bullying to occur. As she stood in silence, Norah, Victor, Alexander, and Jesse direct mean-spirited comments to Melody, calling her talent and show 'fake'. These comments deeply upset Melody after receiving similar comments throughout the week, leading for her to break her silence and hide in the cabin's bathroom, soon followed by Marie who tried to comfort her.

During the party Melody stays in the upstairs bedroom, sparking a conversation with Julien about an entity that had been bothering him. As the room goes silent Emily sits down by the table and is presented with a cake, sitting by it as everyone else sang and cheered for her. Just as she was about to blow out the candle however, the room is thrown into darkness as the lights go out. A mix of confusion and panic spreads among the group, and Dennis offers to check the generator.

Before he can however, an alarm clock in the upstairs drawers rings out throughout the building. Startled by the sound and Julien's screaming, Melody is quick to jump in and attempt to shut the alarm off, at first recognising it as a 'buzzing ghost' that she'd heard during the previous nights at the cabin. When Melody opened the drawer in attempt to turn it off, a bright orange light glowed from the upstairs room and screams erupt. Drenched in gasoline, Melody sprinted down the stairs covered in flames; she quickly left the main building. In her final moments alive Melody screams out for help, and though Kim attempts to find something in the cabin, it is already too late by the time she returns. The body discovery announcement soon sounds out.

## Personality

Melody can be best described as excitable, driven and drawn in by a high passion for the paranormal. The creator of popular TV show 'Melody's Paranormal Hunt', Melody has been on the lookout for ghosts and demons ever since her childhood. The ambiguity surrounding her talent and show's authenticity; paired together with her shorter-than-average stature, leaves Melody as a frequent target of bullying. Having grown used to peoples criticisms Melody has developed somewhat of a self-critical part to herself, used to the thought of people finding her 'ugly'. On the other hand, she is flustered easily when Kim compliments her on her looks, seemingly unused to the act.

During her time at the Ultimate Camp Melody opens up to the other students about her experiences, wanting to befriend the other participants. Just before her death she begins to open up more to Julien, and is willing to help him with a paranormal problem he was experiencing. She also shows no embarrassment over her secret, revealed during the second week's motive, revealing she had been held back for 3 years, likely reflecting on her current academic success.

## Talent and Abilities

### Ultimate Ghost Hunter

Scouted as the current years Ultimate Ghost Hunter, Melody has been practising her craft every day since her early childhood. Having developed her skills throughout her life, Melody has grown to become a highly successful person, running her own TV show 'Melody's Paranormal Hunt', which has been ongoing for several seasons by the time of her attendance at the Ultimate Camp. Throughout the game she shares her experiences with demons and ghosts, and displays an extensive knowledge on the paranormal, carrying around equipment such as an EMF reader, a flashlight, and a set of walkie-talkies.

Although not a licenced exorcist, Melody is shown to be confident in her abilities, and was willing to rid of the spirit following Julien. Though, she is never shown to exorcise any demons, as she is soon killed.

## Creation and Development

In the original outline for the game, Melody's fate was completely different to the finalized release. In the initial script, Melody's death was still intended to be a 'live-death', which featured the usage of a secondary motive where wild monsters would roam the camp at night. In this case, Melody was going to be strung up to a tree and left out by the killer to be killed by the monsters. In this script, Emily's birthday, and the abandoned house plotline did not exist.

## Trivia

* Due to the games cancellation, a class trial for Melody was never held. It was revealed by the creator that she would've been murdered by Dennis.
* She is the shortest character in the game.

## References

1. ↑ https://docs.google.com/document/d/15XV4gVhPaGSr5ACEhkiJI-AL4TtAinvwb0KHFkJs2QI/edit