Melody Pianissima

Melody Pianissima is a deceased pianist whose spirit persists in the mortal realm, intent on mastering her skills at the piano, playing video games, and eating lots of food. As a vain and prideful rich girl, she takes music very seriously and is quick to lash out if she feels that her art is being disrespected. She enjoys adapting Nintendo video game soundtracks into piano sheet music.

Melody was a pianist who died at the age of twenty-six but whose spirit persisted in the mortal world as a ghost. She retains her proud and haughty personality in the afterlife and spends her time practicing and composing music for the piano. Melody is a glutton, and she leverages her bottomless stomach to eat in excess, always keeping a plate of dessert nearby so she can snack between songs. When someone disrespects her music, Melody throws a fit, revealing her surly and combative disposition. She loves playing video games, especially old Nintendo ones from before the turn of the millennium.

Melody was born in the early 1900s to a rich family who eagerly fostered her talent for playing the piano. Melody never worked a day in her life, and she was used to getting exactly what she wanted, resulting in feelings of entitlement and standoffishness whenever her skills went unrecognized. Melody died tragically while her piano was being moved between floors, the exceptionally large instrument slipping free from the movers' hands and crashing down to crush her at the bottom of the stairwell. She was too busy talking to her relatives at the time to notice it, arguing with them over how unjust it was that she was being relocated from a central place in the foyer to the isolated conservatory. What followed next was a cavalcade of finger-pointing and blame-shifting, and Melody was never properly put to rest as a result.

In the early 1990s, the Pianissima family mansion was decommissioned, and Melody's spirit rose from the dead. She wandered about listlessly until she came across a wealthy household whose basement was full to the brim with what were all the latest video games at the time. After everyone in the house went to bed, she'd immerse herself in their games for hours every night but was eventually run out of the house when someone came to investigate the noise and saw a game controller being handled in midair. Despite that, her love for games was cemented, and Melody went from house to house stealing food, playing video games, and adapting the songs she liked from them into songs she could play on the piano. Melody still exhibits this behavior today, content with scavenging through the pantries of the rich to find desserts to eat. Her existence as a ghost is still largely relegated to being a local legend, but whenever she repeatedly intrudes inside certain homes, she overhears mumbling about a certain "Professor E. Gadd" who could supposedly solve the community's apparent ghost problem. Melody pays little credence to the possibility of a ghost hunter in her mind.

Melody, being a ghost, floats off of the ground, and her hips merge into a long, flowing tail that curves upwards behind her. She has light blue skin, long blonde hair with parted bangs, glowing pupil-less yellow eyes, and plump lips. Melody wears a long maroon dress with frilly cuffs and a belt wrapped around her waist. Her figure is heavy, appearing to weigh at least two hundred and ninety pounds, but her appearance doesn't inhibit her mobility, nor does it embarrass her. Melody can make herself more or less translucent at will to avoid being seen.