#btw the gay loser she reverse adopts into being her dad is julian chimante

[enigma-the-anomaly]

tell us more about meliss dtr pls pls

aight!

not sure where to start tbh… uhh basically she’s an alternate version of Elisa. She is a version that is much more bloodthirsty and a lot more ballsy. Aka, Elisa if she had snapped and killed everyone in her original universe.

I’ve posted about Elisa’s original universe, where she is basically an NPC who’s aware that she’s an NPC. Melisa’s original universe is like that as well, but in hers Melisa lost it and went on a killing spree. And I mean everyone surrounding the area that melisa lives is dead, and due to that universe being especially reliant on its main characters with everything and everyone else having no impact other than set dressing, Melisa effectively neutered that universe. Murder is so drastic for a universe that is literally just a trashy tv series that it practically malfunctions, and despite status quo usually restoring after every episode, Melisa’s actions were so unexpected and unprepared for that everything didn’t just go back to normal. The characters were built for love triangles and homecoming court, not serial killers. So the people Melisa killed cannot come back and more cannot just show up because no one was supposed to hurt them. They can’t recover from death because they were never supposed to have their lives threatened like that, ever. So Melisa is alone.

One thing about Elisa is a desire for control and power, because they never had that. Melisa is the same, and gets that control and power from murder. So while Melisa has gotten all the control she wants, she has no one to talk to and nothing to do. So, when a portal appears, and a bunch of people tumble out of it, she’s excited.

of course, since she lost her mind and isolation didn’t do her any favors, she is uh. Not Normal About Anything. She doesn’t even think twice about murder. And in all honesty, she’s afraid to lose her control, even though the control she has is over a dead world. So she’s scared to talk to these people.

Lucky for her, the exiting of this portal was particularly intense, and scattered most of the people going through it. And, what do you know? One of em looks just like Melisa (except for slightly different clothes, Melisa having sharper teeth and slightly longer hair, and the slash direction of her facial scar is flipped). And after leaving the portal with force comparable to being shot out of a cannon, this lookalike is unconscious. Cue the one-sided non-consensual princess and the pauper/parent trap.

As for why everyone else didn’t catch on, this takes place in Season 2 of DTR, and it’s been 2 years since most of the Troupe (<- group name for the main ensemble of DTR) have seen Elisa, and they only reunited with them recently before landing in Mel’s universe. So while the prominent facial scar being flipped is hard to excuse (and Elisa’s main gripe at the troupe for not noticing), everything else was kinda probable. Longer hair? Elisa grew it out. Sharper teeth? Her teeth must grow sharper over time. Ripped up clothes? Force of being launched out of the portal ripped it. Missing Roberta la mochila? Lost it when exiting portal.

Melisa does a great job at impersonating Elisa, mainly through staying quiet and going with what others say about her. The Troupe ends up assuming any weird behavior is due to a concussion, and grief over Roberta.

Elisa manages to catch up to the Troupe while they’re in a pirate-centric universe. In fact, she ends up in a parallel pirate universe with alternate versions of the Troupe, and the alternate Troupe and pirates sail into the other pirate universe to help Elisa. Elisa reveals Melisa’s scheme dramatically, and Melisa freaks and stabs Elisa. But Elisa gets stabbed where her appendix would be, and she got her appendix removed a while back, so other than the actual stab wound itself (which wasn’t that deep due to the onslaught of people who were able to intervene on the ship), Elisa ended up mostly okay, no organ damage or anything.

As for Melisa, they get locked up in the brig. But Elisa finds herself intrigued by this alternate version of themself. They basically say, “I want to study you” and convinces the Troupe to try to rehabilitate her. Eventually, much much much later, Mel and El do become close enough to consider each other siblings!

also, Melisa is not her birth name. She has the same name as Elisa, but kinda dissociated herself from the name because she didn’t really need a name after being completely alone in her world. So when Elisa calls her “murder-lisa” then finally “Melisa,” she actually accepts it.

Soooo ye! :P