Melia Cristalli

Lady Melia, (メリア・カリスタリ神様 Meria Karisutari kami-sama) or Goddess Lady Melia Cristalli is an important character and entity within the KOSMOS and GalaxyFantasy worlds. She is known as the "Guardian of the KOSMOS Universe", the single true deity this world has.

Apocrypha
Lady Melia originates from the divine device Apocrypha, which triggered the big bang, that began the universe in which, KOSMOS and GALAXYFANTASY take place in. She is the embodiment of the Apocrypha's consciousness, its will, and the method to interact with the lower domain.

Lady Melia, in a sense is not a character in flesh but a divine consciousness that is able to live through many bodies. She, does not have an appearance of her own, as she does not need it, however the lower domain and thus, living beings can interpret her appearance and even give her a physical body.

Ancients
Originally, the consciousness was not assigned any gender, sex or any human attribute. The name, appearance and the current attributes known as Lady Melia was given by the Ancient Race, who created a physical receptacle for the consciousness. "for reference, see Timeline (Year A.T. 2000)"The technologies of Jewel Cores and Artifice were gathered for the consciousness to have a comfortable, and biologically immortal body. The technology, being at its early stages would mean that there are some improvements to be made, and thus the Ancients and Lady Melia agree to recreate a new body when the time comes.

The DNA donor for the first body, is known to be Ayo Destinée, one of the KOSMOS Project founders and original team members. She was known to be a prodigious scientist within the team and she was chosen to a basis for the first body of what would soon be Lady Melia.

As such, Ayo's following traits can be found on Lady Melia's first body:


 * White hair and very pale skin tone;
 * A rather short body;
 * The traits of the D-type subspecies within the Ancient race, which consists of a large, mermaid-like tail to live in aqueous environments.

Lady Melia was notoriously known to make short appearances in public, despite being heavily worshipped and being the Ancients' ruler. This was due to the fact that, Ayo's DNA carried over very specific gene impurities, which made her very weak and feeble. Lady Melia decided at one point, to seal herself until her presence is needed and when her new body will be ready."for reference, see Timeline (Year N.D. 15099)"After settling on NANUETTA-HF and through many years of improvements in various technologies, the Ancients recreated an improved Lady Melia's Artifice body, which became the current appearance she is widely known as. It is known that the DNA donor was Blanche Cristalli, formerly known as Blanche d'Altissia XLIII, was a banished Altissian princess that participated to the KOSMOS Project and founded the Cristalli Familia. This is also the time where Lady Melia was given her surname, which is Cristalli. This is explained by the fact that Blanche established her Cristalli familia at the time, and many of her descendants looked alike.

The creators and Blanche have informed Lady Melia that, the body was based on the Ancient type-B subspecies, without having the wings. It is possible however that she may be able to grow wings on her head, which is a typical trait of the B-type subspecies of the Ancient race.

The traits Lady Melia inherited from Blanche Cristalli are the following:


 * A large, swooping hair bang, and naturally curly hair;
 * Star-shaped pupils;
 * Particularly large hips, and chest;
 * Shark, pointy teeth across the mouth.

Lady Melia was even given the offer to have a twin sister at the time, which would be given the consciousness of the KOSMOS Mainframe, in order to terraform the planet, which was agreed upon. Lady Lilea is born, and both Lady Melia and Lilea got the opportunity to grow up together on NANUETTA-HF, despite Lady Melia's consciousness already being mature.

Appearance
Lady Melia, throughout the time has had many appearances, this is a list of all the major appearances known.



Pre-KOSMOS era
Canonically the first physical appearance of Lady Melia in the physical world. She bears the traits of Ayo Destinée, which includes the white hair and the green eyes. It was decided that she would have a big ahoge, which makes her unique.

Her Artifice body is codenamed RO99-PK1, 99 meaning that it's the 99th attempt at creating Lady Melia's Artifice host, PK1 designates the first version of Lady Melia's physical appearance. The codename can be found on the visual indications such as the headband, parts of her clothing, and it is tagged on the body itself on the neck and pelvic area.

At the period of Lady Melia's body creation, Artifices had a strict rule to wear a substantial amount of visual indications, in order to differentiate themselves from biological Ancients. Since Lady Melia's Artifice body was no different she had to wear them. As an apology from the Ancients, her headband was heavily modified to look like a tiara. The Jewel core can be found on it, sitting above another one with is stuck to her forehead.

She wears a more royal looking outfit which fits in the Ancient fashion from back then, with an orange leotard, that has a white robe and armwear on top, with a high amount of gold on them. She is also seen wearing colour matching green earrings, that bear the shape of the Apocrypha. This trend will be found much time after, when the Crystallinism religion is created.

Despite the successful creation of the body, it was not perfect. Several deficiencies from the DNA implementation were made, and some of the early growing pains of Jewel Core technology was showing. In this body, she has many more Jewels than the later bodies, two on the forehead, two on the chest (as seen on the concept art), then two on the back, one in the pelvic area, one in the lumbar area and both hands. This makes a total of 10 cores on the same body.

in KOSMOS
In the KOSMOS tetralogy saga, Lady Melia is seen to be an average-sized woman, she has notably that one big golden ahoge again, magenta hair and golden eyes, with star-shaped pupils. She has very wide hips and a large chest area. Her Jewel Cores are situated on her upper-chest, her upper-back, her pelvis, the lumbar area, both hands and her forehead. She is known to be the Artifice with the highest amount of Jewel Cores implemented with a total of 7 cores across her body. Her Artifice codename is R166-PK2.

This is her most notable appearance as she keeps it for a major span of the timeline, and it is the appearance that is inscribed within the Epic of Cristalli, which recesses all of Lady Melia's adventures at the conclusion of the KOSMOS saga. This book later on in the timeline, is the basis for the Cristallinism religion and is an anchor point for future civilisations to get an idea of how she looked like, back then.

In KOSMOS I however, she is seen to have the appearance of a pre-teenager, this is explained above as she only recently got a brand new body, and the newest features of Artifice technology allowed for bodies to start at a pre-teen phase, go through puberty and stop growth at adultery, which were included in Lady Melia's body. Despite the age situation, she still contains all of her flagship traits that will be known across the saga.

in GALAXYFANTASY
In GalaxyFantasy, Lady Melia is already known as the single Goddess of the Cristallinism religion. Her appearance depicted is the exact same as her appearance in the late episodes of the KOSMOS saga.

She appears in Seraphelle's unconscious, bearing the exact same appearance as Sera, mirrored. With the exception of the eyes and the core being golden and the tail not being present, she retains her own personality. Lady Melia notably takes over the control of Seraphelle's body when she is asked to, in order to use the full extent of the Apocrypha's powers, through the Apocrypha Flair.

Towards the conclusion of GalaxyFantasy, Lady Melia finally appears in the physical world. Her appearance is different from the last time she has been seen physically. This time, her hair has grown out, and turned all silky smooth and golden, while her body slightly shortened she kept the proportions the same. According to the students, she appears much more gracious than the books depicted her as. She is seen to wear a lot more jewelry and a more royal, divine attire. She explains that her appearance was influenced by both the Apocrypha itself and Seraphelle, whom reset herself so Lady Melia's consciousness and power could finally return to the Apocrypha.

It is unclear whether Lady Melia's appearance in GalaxyFantasy shares the same body as the one sealed prior to the KOSMOS saga's conclusion, or if this is a brand new body that she created herself.

Personality
Lady Melia is very distant and emotionless due to her status at first. She tends to become loose and show a more humane personality beneath, despite being omnipotent and omniscient she acts very ignorant and stupid, because not all the information she wants or needs is directly at her hands.

Patience
Patience is very strange with Lady Melia, while being a patient person herself because of being a divine entity that has a very different perspective of time, she often makes impatient remarks while interacting with mortals. This may be due to her strong temper that she built up during the KOSMOS saga.

Lady Melia however does not seem to be impatient whatsoever when Seraphelle promises her to find her a body, and even asks her to take her time because she can wait.

Ignorance
Lady Melia lost her touch with mortals at some point even before the events of KOSMOS. She fervently makes sure to not understand what mortals are about or their mannerisms that she finds weird. This also causes her to make very off-handed remarks that may shock many due to the brutal truth she may spit out.

Affection
Despite being purposefully ignorant about mortals, she still bears affection towards them. Sometimes she considers them as her children as much as she can call them the worst mistake she could have possibly created when disappointment comes, which is the essence of her personality.

She has shown to show immense affection towards her pseudo twin sister Lady Lilea whom they were set up to grow up together, she even drags her into her many adventures, even though the need of Lilea is not present. She also creates a very positive bond with Seraphelle as she lives in her unconscious, to the point of Sera letting Lady Melia take over at any time if she desires, however Lady Melia refuses out of respect towards Seraphelle and her body.

When Seraphelle resets her Jewel Core to let Lady Melia regain the Apocrypha, along with her powers, she grows a great sense of resent and guilt, even though Seraphelle made it clear that she no longer wanted to continue living, and if so, would bring more problems than if she was not. This prompts Lady Melia to give all of Sera's data back into her core after the reset, so she can retain her memories, personality and all of what made Seraphelle what she was in the process.

Abilities
"This is a list of the observed abilities Lady Melia displays throughout the timeline of events that occur across the KOSMOS saga and GALAXYFANTASY seasons."Lady Melia seems to be omnipotent, without a clear limit to how powerful she can be and what she can do. Several of her abilities have shown to outright disobeys the laws of physics and time set by the universe. This may imply that Lady Melia is not affected by them, or can decide to not be.

General Abilities
 Phase Phenomenon Shifter:  special ability of the Apocrypha, which is to alternate the line of events in order to have the desired result. This ability Lady Melia has is completely against the idea of Free Will, which Lady Melia endorses. However it isn't the only feature of this ability, as it allows Lady Melia to completely bypass the universe's laws and rules and leads her to omnipotence.

 Immortality:  Lady Melia is immortal, her consciousness does not reset or does not reincarnate. She jumps between bodies in order to interact physically with the lower domain. She implies that at some point, she may not need a host created by mortals themselves but one she can create by her own hands.

 Interact with the Dead:  Lady Melia can interact with dead people. She explains the phenomenon by seeing one's spirit, which is the manifestation of their consciousness in the lower domain. Most of the times, these spirits gets to cycle through the Arcadian realm, in order for them to reincarnate later in the future. The spirits that interact with Melia usually are people that were close to her or happen to be in the right place at the right time.

 Portals:  gates that allow Lady Melia to access any place in the universe at any time, instantaneously. It is akin to what teleportation is, however Lady Melia's body is transferred to the Apocrypha device, which is then redirected to the desired position in space and time. This would also allow for time travel, however Lady Melia avoids it in order to not create timeline disturbances.

 Omniscience:  the Apocrypha holds all information and data relating to the universe, its past states and all the possible futures. This information is not necessarily transferred to the consciousness Lady Melia. She puts it like a library: any book in that library pertains to complete information about the universe, and finding the right book comes right away., but there is still some delay from Lady Melia wanting to know to when she gets to know what she wants or need.

in KOSMOS
Before awakening her Apocrypha powers, she is seen to be using a form of martial arts, a melee combat style that mostly utilises her legs. Lady Melia is also seen to have an incredible affinity with the explosive element within the Ether.

After her awakening, there are multiple techniques that she gets to name.

 Apocrypha Arcanes:  a set of techniques that make various uses of the Apocrypha's powers.


 * Elemental Release: technique that uses pure ether, which can then turned into elemental energy;
 * Dispel: allows Lady Melia to completely cure, curse or bless somebody via Ether Spells;
 * Apocrypha.Weapon.System: technique derived from Jewel Core technology, lets Lady Melia summon various weapons that can channel Ether power;
 * Chronostop: stops the flow of time, excluding herself or targeted individuals. This causes space and time to be frozen;
 * Phase Transition: transforms matter from a state into another, and can create devastating effects;
 * Sharp Perception: enhanced perception in the surroundings, she can also predict the immediate future thanks to it;
 * Benediction: bestows part of Lady Melia's powers onto another person for a limited use or time. The mortal's extent of power is based on its will;
 * One: ultimate technique that lets Lady Melia to rewrite laws of physics, retool the universe, its contents and concepts.

in GALAXYFANTASY
In GALAXYFANTASY, Lady Melia makes an appearance in the latter part of the story. She is seen to use more powerful versions of her KOSMOS techniques, while having a new assortment of techniques never seen before.

 Light:  makes use of light matter in various ways. It looks exactly like Lymée's Flair, without any limitations, unlike her.

 Ray of Judgement:  powerful and vertical column of light that can instantaneously take somebody out.

 Stardust:  enables light speed or very high speed manoeuvres, as well as doubling the ether output. Seraphelle is also seen using this technique, while Lady Melia takes over during her Apocrypha Activation phase.

 Ether Skating:  an evolution of her martial arts, that are now combined with ice skating techniques and gymnastics, with ether infused throughout the body. Seraphelle is also seen using an inferior version of that technique as a melee combat technique.

Trivia

 * Melia's last name in Japanese カリスタリ karisutari contains the character designer's last name Kari. This recalls to the times when Lady Melia used to be the creator's self-insert or sona, character previously known as Mellis or Miel.
 * In KOSMOS Episode I, Lady Melia's full name is Melia Cristalli d'Ether. The origins of the name Ether remains unknown, it may come from the fact that the Apocrypha uses Ether as power.
 * Lady Melia's first date was with the character Kyuubi Cometae, which later becomes a contact that continually reincarnates.
 * Technically speaking, at the times of GALAXYFANTASY events, Lady Melia would be 18 billion years old, which is the age of the universe. However there is a clear distinction between her consciousness' age and her physical incarnation's age., which the latter is unknown.
 * The name Melia originates from ancient Greek (μελία Melia), which means ash-tree and honey. It is also associated with nymphs associated with trees, or ash trees.