1.5.04
Melody Before and After
Melody Lilly, Jack Riel's girlfriend, is more his rebellion girlfriend than a true love. It is true that he loves her, but he probably believes it is more serious than it is. She is not from a wealthy or influential family (which does not please his parents, though they try not to mention it), she is much smarter than him, and she is a little kinkier than him - a little outside of his realm of comfortable. They are both students at Pittsbury Uni, and she picked up on him at one of his "Refinery" gigs.
She lives in the dorms with 3 roommates (though there are four girls in the room when the bloodsuckers strike, allowing for the police to believe that one of the burnt corpses is Melody's), and she has known one of them biblically. She is not really a "good" person at heart, in that it is easy for the vamps to truly and irrevokably sway her to their cause. That Riel does not recognize that she is unsavable is evidence of how poorly he knows her. She is also a bit of an amateur thief, and does not mind causing pain to others if it makes her life better.
After she is turned, her last true act of kindness is sparing Riel when they hit her family after the funeral. She truly enjoys her new power, and thrills in the hunt. She is able to evade death for so long both because of her intelligence, and because she is able to play Riel for mercy long enough to escape his deadliality.
She lives in the dorms with 3 roommates (though there are four girls in the room when the bloodsuckers strike, allowing for the police to believe that one of the burnt corpses is Melody's), and she has known one of them biblically. She is not really a "good" person at heart, in that it is easy for the vamps to truly and irrevokably sway her to their cause. That Riel does not recognize that she is unsavable is evidence of how poorly he knows her. She is also a bit of an amateur thief, and does not mind causing pain to others if it makes her life better.
After she is turned, her last true act of kindness is sparing Riel when they hit her family after the funeral. She truly enjoys her new power, and thrills in the hunt. She is able to evade death for so long both because of her intelligence, and because she is able to play Riel for mercy long enough to escape his deadliality.
// posted by Wray Davis @ 9:50 PM 
