Appendix: Profiles
Codename: Porcelain
Real Name: Melinda Grant
Age: 25
Gender: Female

Appearance: As Melinda she has short black hair that reaches just below her chin. Most times you can't even tell if she has ears or not. Her hair is also golden blonde at the ends of both her bangs and at the ends of the rest of her hair. She prefers to keep her hair short, so it doesn't get in her face when she is working and get her employees to work around in her store. Melinda also has pale ice blue eyes that usually show a happy expression (towards customers only) or a angry stare. 

For build, Melinda is 5'10", and weighs 130 pounds. She often goes to her gym and does aerobics and Pilates to keep her figure nice and trim. For clothing, Melinda wears anything that is in style. She is very extravagant and loves to match, down to accessories.

Costume:
When Melinda uses her staff, she is transformed into another person, one whom calls herself Porcelain. As Porcelain she has long sky blue hair that reaches her lower back which is pulled back into a braid. Her eyes are a deep maroon color that typically form a blank dead pan stare. Her skin becomes pale white which accents her dark maroon sleeveless dress. The dress goes from her neck (like a turtleneck sweater) and goes down to her knees, which it fares out slightly. Porcelain has a sky blue sash that goes around her waist, to her back that forms a small bow. Her footwear she is wearing knee high dark maroon boots with a slight heel. The upper part of the boot that covers her knees has puffy sky blue lace. As for accessories Porcelain wears a silver bracelet on her right hand that has tiny dark maroon stars. Her staff, which she carries is sky blue with a dark maroon star on top of if. The staff itself 5 ft and when held it reaches the floor and goes up to Porcelain's shoulders.

Personality: Melinda doesn't like people. She thinks they are beneath her, but she works well with them, because she realizes that she can get what she wants from them, and ultimately make more money so she can buy more clothes. Melinda feels that she is most lovely person alive. Besides having atrocious angry outbursts when something crosses her, Melinda is very pleasant to be around. Her friendship is only skin deep though, and because of this Melinda doesn't many friends. 

As Porcelain, she becomes very calculating and focused on either getting money or destroying her competitors. She is very brash and often gets mad over very small things. This is because of the staff she carries which absorbs her anger and uses it for it's power. 

Main Power: A star shaped staff that manipulates Porcelain. The staff is the source of her ability to shoot short but high energy blasts at her opponent. 
Minor Power: None. 
Physical Combat Abilities: Porcelain has no combat abilities unless she is holding her staff. The star shaped staff gives her knowledge in gymnastics and the art of Kendo.
Strengths: Being focused on whatever goal she has in mind. She rarely gets distracted and gets the to the point of obsessive. Melinda also has great schmoozing abilities, when she can usually get a great deal on anything if she wants it. 
Weaknesses: Extremely vain and very obsessive over her looks and fashion. She often scares people when they don't wear the proper fashion and don't look what she thinks they should. Melinda has a severe anger problem and as Porcelain this anger feeds her staff. When anything is out of place (hair, face, clothes) on her she will often freeze for a few minutes and then go completely insane.

Background
Melinda grew up in a small French town with her parents living in their craft shop. Melinda being an only child was spoiled often and told by everyone how lovely she was. As growing up, Melinda had a dream like childhood being in all the parades as a 'princess' of one thing or as she got older being the 'queen' of another thing.

Craving more and more attention and a new change, Melinda quickly got bored of her huldrom and popular life in her small town and divulged herself reading about life in the big cities. One city she loved was Paris. She loved their fashion particularly. After high school, Melinda went there to try out for a modeling agency, only to get rejected numerous times because of her not so sparkling personality. Each defeat made her angrier so she finally went decided to go into business and make her own fashion store.

Getting money from her family and their full support she went through a community college and got a degree in Business. Eventually, after working a year in a small business Melinda got fed up with the field and decided to buy her own store. She realize that she need funds and didn't know how to achieve it. Going to her hometown she decided to ask some of the people there for money thinking that everyone loved her there. She found out that most people didn't remember her after her being gone for eight years.

Depressed, lonely and angry she went home to recollect her thoughts. While home, Melinda found a strange trunk in her parents store. Compelled to open it, Melinda found a lovely blue staff with a maroon star on it. Grasping it Melinda transformed into Porcelain and knew how to get the money she wanted. Turning back into Melinda, she went back to Paris and with the aid of the staff she started robbing stores and finally got enough money to make her store.  The staff that is possessing her, sent her to Tokyo Japan after a while, once it noticed a great power resonating their.  Expanding her business, Melinda made a huge business venture into a strange country.

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