Melona

Melona
The Protean Assassin
Real Name:
Gender:	Female
Color:	Pink
Element:	N/A
Type:	Mimicry
Series:	Queen's Blade
First appearance:	Queen's Blade: The Exiled Warrior (manga), Queen's Blade: Wandering Warrior EP 1

Melona (メローナ Alternatively called Merona or Mellowna) is one of the three servants of the Swamp Witch and is a recurring character in the Queen's Blade franchise. In the anime adaptation and PSP game, she is voiced by Rie Kugimiya in the Japanese version and Lisa Ortiz in the English dub.

Character Overview

Melona first appears in the franchise with her own artbook, detailing her to be a versatile character. She is a shapeshifter who can change the shape of her body freely and instantly. She is skilled in obtaining information and assassination. It is assumed that she was ordered to bring about chaos to the Queen's Blade tournament.

Appearance

Compared to other Queen's Blade contestants, Melona sticks out like a sore thumb. Her body is soft, moist, and jiggly, but when neccessary it can harden immediately to aid in attacking or defending. Of course, even then, Melona might copy the design of a master craftsman, or create a weapon that is exactly the same shape as her opponents. Details such as these are important to her. Though an amorphous being, her most commonly seen form is that of a well-endowed woman with a pink hue on her skin (in the anime, she is given a luminescent glow), a lithe physique and blue eyes with clover-shaped pupils. She has long pink hair that reaches past her shoulders, featuring a pair of bunny ears. She is scantly-clad, wearing only a very small pink transparent jacket that only covers her shoulders featuring eye-like pauldrons and a collar bound by a heart-shaped emblem with wings and a pink dress. She wears an equally revealing blouse of the same color and density and wears a pair of pink shoes with a pair of eyes. The bangs of her hair that frame her face form into a pair of hands that cover her otherwise fully-exposed breasts.

Personality

She is childish and likes to play malicious tricks. She can be very condescending. Even during an assignment, she would rather do surprising instead of something effective. Melona is a chilling monster beyond human imagination, depicted as a manipulative character with a sadistic disposition. Seductive and alluring, she revels in humiliating her opponents and will not hesitate to motion to rape or kill them if given an opportune moment. Despite her malevolent nature, she does not like being called a monster.

Special Abilities

Melona prior to taking shape

Melona's abilities on the battlefield match her personality. Melona is entirely composed of a pink-colored metamorphic slime that can take on any shape desired. This allows her to sneak about and escape from danger. Her mimicry appears to be almost absolute as her shapeshifting is not limited to shape or texture and she uses this power to full effect by confusing her opponents. She can also form genuine weapons from her mass, allowing her to cross blades with the other contestants. Due to being made of slime, Melona is immune to physical attacks and can easily counterattack if struck. She also has the ability to take in flesh of small organisms around her, increasing her body strength indefinitely. Eventually, she could become an invincible existence.

Melona's other ability is her breast milk, which she uses almost extensively. By using the goo arms on her breasts, Melona fires the milk directly from her nipples by squeezing with varying properties. When fired in sprays, it acts as a fast-acting corrosive agent that burns through clothing and other non-organic matter. This is used to disorient and humiliate her opponents as the corrosive is otherwise harmless to their body. When fired in bursts like bullets, they act as high-velocity explosives. Despite these frightening abilities, Melona is not without her weaknesses. It is possible to temporarily disable her by landing a very powerful attack on her, and during the time period, one can snatch away her mass, diminishing her size and power until she becomes miniscule, forcing her into retreat until she can regenerate her slime back. Melona's milk can also be blocked before its fired, causing her to implode with explosive results, though this is rather risky.

Synopsis

In the anime adaptation, Melona appears in the first episode battling the main protagonist, Leina Vance. She nearly kills her but Leina's ally, Risty, ambushes Melona, forcing her to retreat. She later appears spying on Leina and her sister, Elina before finally making her move to attack just as the warrior sets out with her new armor. Causing havoc with her breast milk, she lays ruin to a good portion of the castle and fights Leina. Knowing that regular physical attacks won't work, Leina devises for an alternate method; she coaxes Melona into an anger fit before throwing her sword at her feet, causing the ground to split apart and disrupting her balance as her goo hands reflexively squeeze her breasts, harmlessly showering herself with her own milk. Taking this chance, Leina immediately glomps Melona, squeezing her breasts against her armor which blocks the flow of her milk and causing them to expand, exploding violently upon reaching an excessive bust size.

Melona isn't seen again for a while until she reforms and reappears in the fifth episode where she attempts to take Leina, who is being held by her fellow Swamp Witch servant, Menace, but her advance is rejected with a threat and leaves again for a while. Melona appears once more in a filler episode where she, Menace and another Swamp Witch servant, Airi are seen in the nether regions bathing together, but are ambushed and defeated by the half angel, Nanael.

Melona appears in the season finale as most of the Queen's Blade contestants appear gather for one epic battle as Leina and various allies do battle with the Swamp Witch's servants. Melona battles Leina by herself, constantly shifting into the Leina's allies and relatives to throw her off, but is assisted by a few other allies to help Leina. When the battle comes to a head after being bifurcated by Tomoe, she reforms as Leina as she gets her second wind. Although she is able to push her into a corner, Leina makes a comeback and unleashes the 'Dragon Tail' attack, defeating her as she collapses into a purely liquid state. Reforming and backed into a corner, she takes drastic measures and summons a giant naga creature wielding a shield and sword (the shield containing Melona's face). The creature is able to push back the other contestants and before the battle can end, it is abruptly destroyed by a mysterious power, deemed to be against the rules.

Melona appears once more in the first episode of the second season. Frustrated by her failures to defeat the human contestants, she takes it upon herself to immediately challenge the current Queen's Blade champion, Aldra, to battle. Though gaining the upper head thanks to her regenerative capabilities, she is soundly defeated when Aldra unleashes her demon eye, sealing her in a block of magical amber which incapacitates her for most of the season. In a duel between Nanael and Airi, Nanael's holy milk spills on Melona's prison, weakening it and allowing her to crack and ooze her way free, taking one glance at the captured Menace before taking her leave.

Melona finds Nanael and proposes a temporary alliance to defeat Aldra, although she secretly conspires to steal her milk in order to defeat Aldra. She succeeds in snatching it and sneaking away as Rana, who was staying with Airi early on when Cattelya was captured. At the penultimate episode, Melona once more confronts Aldra by ambushing her via surprise constriction, attempting to pour the milk on her, but is almost immediately repelled. She then summons demonic bats to eat away at her body, leaving her as a hand-sized lump of slime that quickly revives as a miniature Melona. However, this was a diversion as she had sent a piece of herself to dump the milk from above, scoring a direct hit. Having weakened her enough, Melona narrowly escapes as Aldra had aimed another blast at her, leaving her with half her small slime left. Ironically, this act helped her arch enemy, Leina later on in the fight.

Melona appears in the OVA continuation as she is seen being tortured by the Swamp Witch as punishment for her past failures, summoning fakes of the Queen's Blade contestants to slash and impale her. She is later released however, but decides to finally defect from her former master, waiting for Airi to show up and convince her, although her attempts are denied by Airi's unconditional loyalty at first, but finally convinces her.

In the following episode, Melona and Airi have been summoned by Menace, although this is met with mixed reactions as Airi suspects something amiss as Melona is treated luxuriously in the palace. It is later revealed that Melona had been summoned by Menace to follow her servitude again, causing some infighting between the three. The episode ends as Melona and Airi decide to leave Menace to her rule in peace.

Gallery

Normal Form

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Shapeshifting

Triva

• Melona is one of the few characters to display the rare instance of bleeding as see in the third episode of the third season.