I wrote down Melanie's relations to other characters using your sheet, [@Aeolian]. Hope that's okay.

If anything doesn't ring true for you, just let me know. I'm open to suggestions. I also haven't any clue what Melanie and Dante's relationship would have looked like. I could use some suggestions here, [@Laertes].

So far Mel's sheet is missing "best friend" and "partnership" in terms of labels. I am okay with this but if anyone has ideas to claim those labels, feel free to share them with me. She doesn't necessarily need to have had either with PCs though.

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[center][h1][color=black]MELANIE CAVILL[/color][/h1]
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[i]"The universe is indifferent. It doesn't care about our stupid little plans or our fragile little hearts."[/i]

[color=black][b]M E L A N I E . C A V I L L 
"The Tinkerer"[/b][/color]
[i][color=silver]Melanie's relationship to herself is mostly positive. She has no crippling insecurities and rarely feels the need to overcompensate for something, although her focus on always keeping busy and achieving the next thing might be interpreted as such. She has always had a deep love for tinkering and building things and has to this day kept that hobby as her main free time activity. Alongside tinkering, she finds D&D and gaming relaxing, both things that keep her mind thinking and running instead of shutting it down. Slowing down her thoughts seems to be something she is incapable of. Melanie has a healthy sense of self and pride. She doesn't feel the need to compete often as she doesn't strive for external validation. She finds a lot of safety in the fact that she had always known who she is and what she likes. This leads to her being rather slow to accept confusing feelings. The idea of indulging in romantic or deep connection is frequently being pushed back into a corner of her mind. If such thoughts occur, she tends to overindulge in her tinkering to an extent of losing sleep. If something scares her, it is loss of control. And what quicker way to lose control of oneself than to engage in romantic behavior?[/color][/i]


[color=yellow]⚜[/color] Acquaintances || ☯ Neutral || [color=00aeef]☮[/color] Friends || [color=green]♫[/color] Best Friends || [color=ec008c]♥[/color] Crush || [color=92278f]⚤[/color] Boyfriend/Girlfriend || [color=ed1c24]☠[/color] Disliked[/center]

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[color=00aeef]☮[/color] [color=black][b]M E I R . A M O S . M A G G I D[/b][/color] [color=00aeef]☮[/color] [@Salsa Verde]
[color=silver]Meir was a friend to Melanie. Their shared interst in academics meant they understood each other's passions on a different level than others could. Though he was closer to Sara, Meir and Mel got along just fine and would hang out occasionally. This continued when they both got accepted into MIT. They started to lose contact gradually when they stopped sharing classes with each other and eventually it fizzled out after graduating from MIT. Mel knows he is a teacher at MIT and Meir knows Mel is an engineer. But since she moved to Manchester after graduation, they both didn't manage to uphold communication.[/color]

[color=yellow]⚜[/color] ☯ [color=black][b]W I L L I A M . B I S H O P[/b][/color] ☯ [color=yellow]⚜[/color] [@Gisk] 
[color=silver]Melanie didn't really know William Bishop. She knew what everyone knew about him: He was a musician and he performed in front of the school sometimes. That was it. He did attend one session of [i]Dungeons and Dragons[/i] during High School. And he was a pretty decent player, Mel would have been okay with him coming back but he never did. Does that make him an acquaintance? Mel didn't really think about him after graduating from Ritman High. She doesn't even know he made it in the music industry.[/color]

[color=00aeef]☮[/color] [color=black][b]S A R A . Z H O U[/b][/color] [color=00aeef]☮[/color] [@banjoanjo]
[color=silver]Sara and Meir being as close as they were meant that Mel automatically got to know Sara through her friendship with Meir. They formed somewhat of a friend group, the three of them, hanging out on occassion, though Sara and Meir always had a closer bond to each other than to Mel. They shared an academic passion and thrive that lead to them naturally becoming friends. Melanie admired the way Sara went at a problem and [i]got it [b]done[/b]![/i] Just pure efficiency. From Melanie's perspective, Sara seemed to have a foot in every extra-curricular known to mankind at one point. She may have asked Melanie to join the science decathlon once or twice - God knows she has the wits for it - but Mel wasn't one to join any school clubs, the D&D club being that rare exception. After High School, contact fizzled out as neither of them was very good at keeping in contact when there was no regular activity they shared.[/color]

[color=yellow]⚜[/color] ☯ [color=black][b]J A C K . D A N I E L . W I L K E R S O N[/b][/color] ☯ [color=yellow]⚜[/color] [@nodogs]
[color=silver]Melanie had multiple run-ins with Jack during their High School days. Mostly this was when Mel came out of her solitude cave and joined some of the sporty types in a game of soccer or basketball or whatever else they were playing that season. She never joined any team, but she would play ball with them occasionally and it just so happened that sometimes Jack could be found hanging around, too. During those rare moments they circled the same people, Jack and Mel would not share many words. Some teachers would nudge Melanie to help Jack with school work, probably in an attempt to get Jack to care more, but the one time Melanie gave in and actually offered to meet up for something like tutoring, Jack declined. And Mel never asked again. Though she never shook the feeling that there was much more lying under that brooding surface than what Jack showed. After High School, Mel only saw Jack once more. During one of Melanie's family visits to Delton, she drove past Ms. Sullivan’s house and saw Jack cleaning windows.[/color]

[color=yellow]⚜[/color] [color=black][b]O L E A N D E R . O K O N E D O[/b][/color] [color=yellow]⚜[/color][@Aeolian]
[color=silver]Melanie always thought Oleandar was a rather cute individual and she could see a lot of potential in him. He seemed like someone really good to cuddle with, watch movies with and do all those friendship and romantic things Mel never experienced during High School. In that way, she kind of envied him a little. But naturally, she didn't let herself think about that. And Oleander always seemed a little too insecure to really embrace the things that made him wonderful to be around. Due to Melanie not really being able to manage those emotions and just being prone to solitude, they never became the friends they probably could have been if she just put some more effort into it. Oleander turned out to be the person that hugged Melanie most, outside of her closest friends and family. And she enjoyed that. In an attempt to do [i]something[/i] to initiate a friendship, she asked Oleander to join the D&D club once but it was declined. It probably would have been better to ask him to the movies but Melanie wasn't that emotionally smart back then.[/color]

☯ [color=black][b]M A R C O . V A L E N S I[/b][/color] ☯ [@udonoodles]
[color=silver]Melanie didn't know Marco but she knew his music. On occassion, she would get keys to unoccupied classrooms so she could work on her subjects in peace. One of those rooms was right next to the music room. Melanie always enjoyed hearing Marco play, it was a welcome background sound for when she studied. But at some point, Marco started to show up to the music room less often until he finally stopped coming altogether. Mel never talked to Marco and the only reason she could put a face to the music was that Marco had performed in front of school regularly. She vaguely knows that he had some health stuff going on but that is the extent of it.[/color] 

☯ [color=black][b]D A N T E . I B A R R A[/b][/color] ☯ [@Laertes]
[color=silver]TBA[/color]

?? [color=ec008c]♥[/color] [color=00aeef]☮[/color] [color=yellow]⚜[/color] [color=black][b]N A T A L I E . M I L L E R[/b][/color] [color=yellow]⚜[/color] [color=00aeef]☮[/color] [color=ec008c]♥[/color] ?? [@Prisk]
[color=silver]There is always that one person during High School, isn't there? For Melanie that was Natalie Miller. It started out as a convience agreement. Melanie disliked group projects, she needed all the work to be up to her standards and couldn't handle dealing with other students when it came to her academic success. Natalie disliked doing schoolwork and didn't care as much for her academic standing. They soon formed a lose convinience-based "friendship" where they would partner up for group projects so Melanie could do the work and just give Natalie the required information to seem plausible in front of the teachers. Whenever teachers thought Natalie used, paid, or even blackmailed Mel, they both backed up the same story. It was really beneficial to both sides. Though there was this little thing where Natalie's "friends" (why did she hang out with them!?) would occasionally get bored of their usual targets and find Melanie an interesting torture subject. It never lasted long though and the more benefits Natalie got out of their acquaintance ("friendship"?), the more those plastics left Melanie alone. They went on to get along quite well, at least whenever those other "friends" weren't around. During the years, some sort of physical attraction developed. It all found its climax when the two of them had a fling right before the end of High School. After High School, Melanie would google Natalie's name and browse her Instagram once or twice a year out of curiosity where Natalie was at but other than that, Melanie didn't think about her too often.[/color]

☯ [color=black][b]S A M U E L . S A B I S T O N[/b][/color] ☯ [@Rockette]
[color=silver]Melanie can't say she ever knew Samuel. He sat at the back of class, never bothered her directly and they didn't really run in the same circles. She knew he was a pained individual with troubling emotions by the way he presented himself and seemed to not care. Those who didn't care in loud silence always had something going on. So she stayed away from him. Emotions really weren't her thing, be it those openly displayed or those deeply buried and burned.[/color]

[color=ed1c24]☠[/color] [color=black][b]T R Y S T A N . K I E L . Z A R A G O Z A . S A L A Z A R[/b][/color] [color=ed1c24]☠[/color] [@The Man Emperor]
[color=silver]There was something about this person that Melanie disliked, though she couldn't quite place it. At first, she just thought it was another smart kid who would be at the end of the plastic's mercy and then go on to make something of himself after school. But Melanie noticed that something was different about this boy. Not only did he seem to assemble a group around himself - which was fine; people stuck together in high school for protection, she knew this much - but he seemed to have a keen understanding of the intricate web of social relations that Mel had only ever seen displayed by those who abused that knowledge to bully others. Though she never talked to Trystan, she heard things said about him. Pairing those things with her gut feeling, Melanie stayed away from him. She would still be wary of him upon meeting him again.[/color]
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