Melissa Seamist

Melissa Seamist is an infamous kleptomaniac mage known throughout Gensou Island. She's well-known not because of her feats, but mostly because she's not good at stealing, no matter how many times she does it. Melissa is also part of the Incident-Solving Gang along with Raymoo Cowrei, her best friend since chickhood.

Early Chickhood
Melissa's egg was found on the streets of the Penguin Village. Because it was completely safe from yokai, someone was able to retrieve it before anything bad could've happened. That someone was called Kayle Kurosawa, the main protector of the village. She was only able to bring the egg inside to an orphanage so it could safely incubate, since she was forced to be occupied in her duties almost everyday. Every now and then she visited the orphanage to see how Melissa's egg was doing. Much to her relief, Melissa hatched into a healthy, yet very grumpy khanz chick.

Melissa lived most of her chickhood at the Penguin Village orphanage. Because she was the only khanz penguin she knew of in her life, she wasn't aware of any khanz penguin customs that exist, thus she was pretty different from a regular khanz penguin, aside from the eyes. She tended to steal a lot of stuff from her peers, or at least attempted to. She got caught almost every time, but since she wasn't stealing anything grand (it was only stationary or sometimes bits of food), she only had to go into the timeout corner for it. A merchant penguin, however, noticed Melissa stealing an apple from him and had let her keep it, much to her surprise. She had never forgotten that moment, mostly because the apple she ate was that bad and that she got into a huge fit about it.



Nothing much else happened for Melissa as the days had gone by, but one night, she thought she had saw a Ghost outside when she wasn't able to sleep. Because she was a bad chick, she left the establishment to chase it. She kept her cover while chasing the unfamiliar ghost through the alleyways, but she was stopped by a large figure with long horns and a furry tail. "What's a small chick like you doing out in the middle of the night!?" Melissa, not knowing how to talk at the time, merely scoffed at the figure's question and tried to walk past it. "Don't you know its dangerous for a penguin, let alone a young penguin to be around here?" She was really stubborn. No matter how many times the figure told Melissa how dangerous it is to be around alone at night, she would keep trying to walk past it. "Anyway, aren't your parents around here somewhere? They must be worried about you." Who knew that'd absolutely break her. Melissa started to uncontrollably sob at the mention of parents. Although she managed to live just fine at the orphanage, she never thought about having a parental figure watch over her and take her to places. That was when the figure realized this was a chick she knew about ever since she was an egg. It revealed itself to be Kayle, the penguin who saved Melissa's egg and took it into the orphanage. Kayle reassured her till she stopped crying and fell asleep in her flippers. She brought Melissa back to the orphanage, feeling guilty about the fact that she wasn't able to adopt her, but had very high hopes that someone else will.

Practically a day later, Melissa saw the same ghost from the night before. However, it was in broad daylight and within the establishment. Curious on why it had come back so soon, she went to take a closer look, but not close enough for her to be noticed. The ghost was blabbering to one of the caretakers to adopt a chick, but the caretaker was practically shivering in their boots at the mere sight of the ghost. That was, until Melissa waddled out of the corner and to the two. That's when the caretaker's fearfulness turned to absolute worrying."Me-me-melissa! What are you doing here?" She averted her eyes to the ghost, and they both exchanged gazes. On such a rare occurrence, Melissa cracked a large smile at the ghost, who then smiled back at her. The caretaker, who was silently witnessing this, ended up feeling more relieved and calm. They realized the ghost was probably not that bad of an apparition after all. "Hmm, Melissa, was it? I'll take you in as one of my own." The caretaker was surprised by the ghost's quick decision, they weren't even sure if it was serious about it. "A-are you sure?" They whispered into its ear. "Yes. I made up my mind before I even came into this establishment." The ghost then explained that it had overheard a conversation last night about Melissa not having any parents while she was out in the village. Melissa nodded to the caretaker affirming that it was the truth. The caretaker then agreed to the decision and arranged the papers. Melissa had officially been adopted.

Personality
Melissa is very extroverted and enjoys socializing with just about anyone. Despite this, she has a lot of enemies due to her reputation backed by her thievery. She also has a bad habit of lying to others even when she tries to do it with good intention. Her rather brash personality doesn't really help with it either. Her short temper had mellowed out much more during the years, however, as she used to be a very grumpy chick due to her khanz genetics. This doesn't stop her from being extremely rowdy at times, though. Melissa is always willing to show off how strong her magic is and will accept just about any fight she's offered.

Arsenal and Ability

 * Magic - Melissa has learnt how to use magic ever since she was a young chick, which makes her very proficient in using it. She specializes in using light as a powerful projectile.
 * Light Blaster - She uses this to greatly enhance the power of her magic projectiles. Any light fed into it gets amplified by mirrors inside and she can release that energy with the press of a button. Her signature move, known as the Master Spark, is fired at full capacity and is a wide beam of scorching light. Although she enjoys showing this move off, it takes a lot of energy to actually charge it, so its rarely seen.
 * Broom Staff - Melissa uses this to fly around for quick travel and when she's away from it she can call it back up to 24 meters.
 * Fish - As a Khanz Penguin, she has a fish of her own and uses it to fish-slap others whether its for fun or if its for an emergency.
 * Fish Wand - She had this when she was a chick. It's a star wand stuffed into a fish.

Trivia

 * She parodies Marisa Kirisame from Touhou.