Melona

Melona
Queen's Blade Rebellion Unlimited White Triangle Melona as illustrated by F.S.
Protean Assassin Rebellion: Protean Trickster
Alternate Spelling	Merona
Profile
Gender	Female
Race	Slime
Occupation	Aide to the Swamp Witch (Intelligence gathering, assassinations)
Likes	Crustaceans
Dislikes	People who don't react to her. People calling her a monster.
Hobby	Playing pranks on everyone, friend or foe.
Appearance
Hair Color	Pink
Eye Color	Sky Blue
Height	Varied
Bust	Determined on a whim
Waist	Free
Hip	Adjustable

"Ehehe, I am you. Hey, were you surprised?"

Rebellion: "I'm a little different than I used to be. Kishishishi."

Unlimited: "Hey, let's be friends!"

Melona is one of the four servants of The Swamp Witch and her strongest minion. She is a shape-shifter who can instantly change her body's form on a whim. Skilled in obtaining information and carrying out assassinations, she was presumably ordered to bring chaos to the Queen's Blade tournament.

Appearance

Melona's body is soft, moist, and jiggly, but can immediately harden when necessary to aid in attack or defense. Though an amorphous being, her standard form is a well-endowed woman with pink-hued skin (in the anime, she has a luminescent glow), a lithe physique, and blue eyes with clover-shaped pupils (retained when she shape-shifts). She has long pink hair reaching down her back and shoulders, with bunny ears sprouting from the top. She is scantily-clad, wearing a small, transparent jacket covering only her shoulders, featuring eyed pauldrons and a collar bound by a heart emblem, along with a short pink dress at its bottom. She wears an equally-revealing blouse of the same color and density, plus short heels with eyes on them. The bangs framing her face end in slime-hands covering the nipple area of her otherwise fully-exposed chest.

Rebellion

Melona "redesigned" her existing wardrobe in Rebellion, with jacket sleeves now elbow-length and frilly, and her skirt floor-length. She also wears open-toed shoes. Her hair has a slightly different design, but the slime-hands still curve over her breasts.

Unlimited

Melona's design remains largely the same in Unlimited, with few, if any, differences from her original design.

Personality

Seductive and alluring, Melona revels in humiliating opponents and will not hesitate to kill them if given the opportunity. Despite her malevolent nature, she despises being called a monster and reacts with great hostility when put down as such (i.e., attempting to slowly strangle Leina to death for the same offense). However, she can be reasoned with and is willing to work with enemies as long as it serves her own ends. In Rebellion, Melona's knowledge and judgment increased after absorbing an ancient demon.

Abilities

Melona's abilities match her personality. She is composed entirely of pink, metamorphic slime that can assume any shape she desires, allowing her to sneak around and escape from danger. Her mimicry appears absolute, as her shapeshifting is not limited by shape or texture. She utilizes this power to confuse opponents. In addition to shapeshifting into another person's form, she can replicate their clothes, weapons, and armor. Plus, Melona can imitate the techniques of whoever she has transformed into, though not to the same degree of power. For example, as Tomoe, Melona used the former's "Warrior Priestess Kick" during a fight. While transformed, Melona retains her powerful breast milk abilities and amorphous quality. She also retains the same oddly-shaped pupils, but her eye color changes. Melona can also create and summon real weapons from her slime mass.

Most of the time, Melona's sword is an extension of her goo-arms wrapped around one of her real arms, securing the weapon in place. Her weapon retains the pink hue accenting her goo-hands, and at the base of the sword is an emblem resembling the one attached to the top of her jacket. Melona's amorphous makeup affords myriad benefits, primarily her swordsmanship, as the limitations of the human physique are null for a slime. She also possesses immunity to physical attacks, effortlessly countering them when struck.

Melona can absorb the flesh of small organisms around her, increasing her body's strength indefinitely, meaning she could eventually become invincible. Absorption seems to affect her mental state and intelligence, as the Queen's Blade website states that during the Rebel Arc her wisdom and judgment increased after assimilating an ancient demon. Melona can also deform and scatter into multiple smaller copies of herself to distract opponents or escape.

Melona's other main ability is her breast milk, which she deploys extensively. Utilizing the slime-arms covering her chest, Melona's breasts expand. She can then fire milk directly from her nipples by squeezing them. The milk varies in properties. When dispensed in sprays, it acts as a fast-acting corrosive agent able to burn through clothing and other non-organic matter (such as weapons and buildings), used to disorient and humiliate opponents, as the corrosive acid is otherwise harmless to their bodies. When fired in bullet-like bursts, they serve as high-velocity explosives. In Queen's Blade Rebellion: Zero, it is revealed that her milk contains regenerative properties, as she healed an injured Izumi with it.

Despite these frightening abilities, Melona is not without weaknesses. It is possible to temporarily disable her by landing a very powerful attack, and during the crucial moment, one can snatch away her mass. This diminishes her size and power until she becomes too small, forcing her to retreat until she can regenerate enough slime. Melona's milk can also be blocked before it's fired (Leina does this at the end of episode one of the Queen's Blade anime), causing her to implode with explosive results, though this is risky.

Melona tends to smile before attacking, which turns into a vicious, wide grin where her eyes shine yellow. A paralyzing effect follows, used against Tomoe in the fight against the Giant Snake. Melona has a highly-developed sense of smell, recognizing individuals by scent alone. In her first meeting with Leina, after the latter ran away from home, Melona initially mistook her for Claudette since Leina had Claudette's scent on her.

Queen's Blade Parameters

Attack: 2

Defense: 1

Potential: 5

Technique: 5

Reach: 4

Agility: 3

Rebellion Parameters

Bravery: 4

Popularity: 2

Resourcefulness: 5

Leadership: 3

Potential: 2

Experience: 4

Story

Prior to Queen's Blade

(From the Queen's Blade site)

Melona is one of the faithful partners of the Swamp Witch. She is a shapeshifter that can instantly alter her body's shape and was trained in espionage and assassination. She was sent to Queen's Blade under orders to cause confusion.

With a very childish nature, she likes playing cruel pranks and acting and speaking as if she would devour people. Instead of choosing the more rational way to accomplish missions, she has fun devising ways to scare opponents the most.

Her body is soft like jelly, but she can harden it instantly when attacking or defending. She may also replicate shields to look like they're made by skillful blacksmiths, or replicate her opponent's weapons to the slightest detail.

Melona is a frightening monster beyond human knowledge. She can raise her stamina indefinitely by absorbing the bodies of little creatures around her, until she eventually becomes invincible.

Prologue

(From her back cover)

The sound is getting louder. It sounds like someone is coming into the swamp. The person is trying not to make a sound... but hee hee, it's so obvious. The closer the person gets, the more I can hear branches break or water splash. I wait patiently until the person comes near... and suddenly, appear in front of her.

Ha ha ha! She's so surprised! The look on her face is hilarious! I guess anyone would be surprised if, suddenly, in this creepy swamp, a person who looked exactly like you jumped out in front of you.

But she immediately recovers from the surprise and takes a fighting stance.

"I guess you have some backbone. Although I don't have any bones! Ha ha ha! That's a good one! It's so funny, right? Ha ha!"

As she looks appalled and distracted by my stupid babbling, I melt the small animals in the swamp and take them in. My body grows bigger. The bigger I get, the more invincible I am!

"So what would you like me to look like? A soldier in bikini armor, a bunny girl, the Captain of the Royal Guard, a dwarf princess, a dragon, anything you want. There's nothing I can't transform into!"

Sure enough, can Melona fight and win against this courageous opponent?

They won't know that unless they fight.

Rebellion

(From her profile)

Melona is one of the faithful partners of the Swamp Witch. She is a shapeshifter that can instantly alter her body's shape and was trained in espionage and assassination.

Melona is a frightening monster beyond human knowledge. She can raise her stamina indefinitely by absorbing the bodies of little creatures around her, until she eventually becomes invincible.

Although she originally had a very childlike personality, her knowledge and judgment increased after absorbing a certain ancient demon.

To achieve the ideal world of the Marshland Witch and take the world aback with her own ability, Melona planned the huge conspiracy that shook the world.

Trivia

• She is voiced by Rie Kugimiya (Japanese) and Darla Chaney (English).
• She is endowed with the only breast milk abilities in the anime.
• In the Queen's Blade: Rebellion anime, she wears the same outfit instead of changing it like in the game book.
• Melona has shown to be quite sadistic, as in Melancholy: Airi's Double Cross, she subjects Airi to three days of tickle torture as "revenge" for the painful punishments she herself went through. She takes great joy in watching her suffer, even teasing that she could end her torture early if she admitted she "couldn't take anymore," but Airi foolhardily told her that this was "nothing" and that she'll endure it.
• Melona once used her shape-shifting ability to mimic Menace's mannerisms while traveling with Airi.

Gallery

For this character's gallery, visit: Melona/Gallery

Drama CD

Queen's Blade Drama CDs Translation- Melona Character Drama