Melog

**Melog** is a magical being who is from the alien planet Krytis. It is the feline companion of Catra.

It is the sole survivor of an entire species, after an attack by Horde Prime after the First Ones were excavating magic from their planet. It imprinted on Catra when it encountered the Best Friends Squad, (in Shot In The Dark) finally joining the Rebellion.

## Appearance

Melog is a burgundy-colored creature with blue energy emanating from its head along with its eyes that possess a similar shade with no pupils or iris. The energy emitted resembles a mane and tail. Melog can shapeshift to other forms but retains the same colors. When it first appeared, Melog was in a humanoid form until it found Catra, with whom Melog adopted a cat-like form with a blue, transparent mane and tail as its current appearance.

Melog's mane and tail change shape to resemble puffed up fur, and turn red along with eyes and mouth when it is afraid, defensive, or angry. Since imprinting on Catra it now mirrors her emotions. For instance, Melog reveals Catra's feelings for Adora by licking Adora's face affectionately.

## Plot

### Past

Melog lived on its home planet Krytis, presumably with other members of its species in a thriving environment when Horde Prime attacked. It somehow drove him off with its magic, but Melog was the only survivor of its kind from the encounter. After the attack, it lived alone in an abandoned ruin until the Best Friends Squad befriended it.

### Season Five

Catra was the one who found Melog and figured out quickly that it responded to emotions. The magical creature imprinted on her, becoming her animal companion. Catra was then able to understand its language (which to others just sounds like echoey moaning, growling, and crooning).

Following the party's subsequent return to Etheria, Melog served the Princesses in covert operations with its cloaking abilities to sneak past the armada, despite initially showing several seconds of hostility towards Netossa when she attacked Catra (before learning of Catra's shift in allegiance), snarling at her. Melog assisted in the mission to the Fright Zone to rescue Scorpia and helped protect Catra. When Shadow Weaver and Castaspella returned to inform the friends of their discoveries, Melog growls at the former, sensing its mistress's animosity for the sorceress.

Melog helped the crew infiltrate Mystacor and let Adora accept the fail-safe before returning to base. It briefly broke off from the group with Catra after their quest for the failsafe and, after Catra spoke to Adora, Melog used its cloaking abilities to spirit her away. While running, however, Melog tries to convince Catra to go back, but Catra was convinced that Adora did not need her while strongly applying her feelings for Adora. It was then Melog cloaked her as a clone walked by. They followed him and found that Prime was hacking into the planet. Fearing for Adora's safety as Prime begins to connect to the Heart, Catra returns with Melog to the rebel base only to learn from Shadow Weaver that Adora had already left. Melog then helped fight the forces of the Horde with Catra and presumably accompanied the Best Friend Squad when they left to reintroduce magic to the universe.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Shape-shifting**: Melog is seemingly able to change into different forms, retaining its color scheme. This includes taking the appearance of another individual. It is not clear if this is genuine shapeshifting or illusion magic (see below).
* **Illusion**: Melog is able to conjure incredibly vivid illusions, being able to alter its entire surroundings.
* **Invisibility**: Melog is able to turn itself and others invisible; as this is done via illusion magic, rather than bending light, anything it turns invisible is typically able to see anything else it has turned invisible.
* **Telekinesis**: Melog has at least some telekinetic power, able to levitate an apple from the ground to a tree branch.
* **Teleportation:** On occasion, during battle, Melog is seen to disappear at one point, reappearing instantly at another.

## Relationships

### Catra

Melog trusts Catra so much that it even imprinted on her after they first met in Krytis. Melog can feel Catra's emotions, and when Catra gets angry, Melog does too. It is very protective of Catra and cares for her a lot. It seems that it trusts Catra partly because she is also feline in nature. This could explain why Catra is the only one that understands Melog. Melog constantly reflects Catra's feelings and is fiercely loyal to her, showing signs of aggression when she is threatened, such as when Netossa netted her, and snarling at Shadow Weaver when Catra questions her fiercely.

### Adora

Melog shows great love towards Adora, mirroring Catra’s feelings.

## Trivia

* "Melog" is golem spelled backwards.
* In the 1985 TV show, Catra had a pink lion named Clawdeen. ND tweeted that because *Steven Universe* had a very similar pink lion, "we made them more alien-like and merged them with Melog, a shapeshifting one-off monster from the original."
* Show creator ND Stevenson revealed in an article: "[Melog] was initially voiced by one of our editor’s cats, Mingus. We did have to dub over it, unfortunately, but now it’s the voice of our sound effects guy’s cat."