Melissa Oakham

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Personality

Dedicated and hard nosed

Has "big" hair<ref name=":0" /> which has been crimped.<ref name=":3" />

On the dance team, hockey team (center), and the soccer team. Really wanted Verona to join dance for some reason and kept sending people to pester her.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> She wasn't naturally talented, but her stubbornness led her to practice intensely until she was quite good.<ref>“Yeah,” Matthew said, his voice soft. “We took your friend home. We tried to talk to her, without giving too much away. She wasn’t willing to listen.”

“She’s kind of single-minded. I remember her not being really great at sports or dancing or anything, but she would practice like crazy and eventually get there. She was center on the hockey team, with Avery as right wing.” - Excerpt from Back Away 5.2</ref>

Instrumental in persuading stragglers to join Class_RankR.<ref name=":0" /> Takes liberties with her handwriting, but didn't get in trouble for it while Lucy did.<ref name=":1" /> Only got a couple of second-place likes on Class_RankR. Her avatar was her doing a ballet pose in full costume.<ref name=":2" /> Claims she never really fit in with the Dancers, was only included because of skill.<ref name=":6" />

Bested by Avery at basketball, and was bent over and panting afterwards.<ref name=":3" />

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Chronology

Before the Story

Did not like her cousins growing up

Story Start

Was in the same class as the Trio

Severely injured her ankle in gymnastics at the Wavy Tree, probably made worse by Nicolette Belanger's Omens watching the area.<ref>“Looks like it’s Melissa, from our class,” Verona commented. [...]“She hurt Melissa through her carelessness?” Avery asked.

“Hurt was set ta happen, see?” Alpeana said. “But the minging lass might’ve made tha situation worse, stickin’ tha particular nose into thins.” - Excerpt from Stolen Away 2.6</ref> Currently wearing a large leg brace, using crutches<ref>The tenor of conversation changed as they joined Melissa, who sat on the end of the bench closest to the door, crutches leaning against the wall beside her. Melissa’s foot was in a big black brace that extended from knee to foot. Lucy could remember seeing her ankle snap, as they’d watched the gymnastics team from the spirit world. - Excerpt from Out on a Limb 3.2</ref> and she spent a while on a lot of painkillers - enough to make her a bit groggy, but not enough to really stop the pain.<ref>“I don’t want to be a bother. But thanks. I think, uh, just for today, I’ll stay behind and recuperate. I’m going to swing by the front office and see if they have any painkillers.”

“They didn’t give you anything?” Alexa asked.

“They did but it makes me too groggy for school, so I took a half dose. It’s not really denting it.” - Excerpt from Out on a Limb 3.2</ref> She put on weight and stopped washing her hair.<ref>Melissa had changed, in the past four or five weeks. Not really eating right, or eating the way she had when she’d been doing dancing, gymnastics, and soccer, but as someone who was almost entirely sedentary now. Doing nothing except periodic hobbling, with crutches.

She’d put on a surprising amount of weight. She’d stopped taking care of her hair. She hadn’t even dressed up for tonight. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.3</ref>

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