Character Name (Full Name): Melva Anne Murray
Nickname (What they are called): Mel
Birth Date/Place: August 18th in Minnesota
Character Role: Heroine

Physical Descriptions
Age: 14
Race: Human
Eye Color: Green-Yellow
Hair Color/Style: Brown with messy braids
Build (Height/Weight): She’s pretty short, just 5’1”, but not thin, more “compact”
Skin Tone: Medium
Style of Dress: Fun-colored contemporary
Characteristics/Mannerisms: She messes with her hair when she’s nervous, doesn’t get cold while running around, hates skirts, and is always fiddling with something when she has to sit still.

Personality Traits:
· Impatient
· Enthusiastic, loud, and prone to brashness
· Is frustrated easily

Background: She’s lived in the same place all her life, in one of the larger towns in southeastern Minnesota. Her parents were bearable until seventh grade, when they started putting more and more pressure on her to get good grades. As a result, she tends to avoid them, either by staying in her room or, as she has taken to doing since entering eighth grade, hiding out in the ancient tree-fort in the wooded back yard.

Internal Conflicts:
· She’s homesick, but doesn’t want to go home
· She thinks that if she left, her friends could live out their lives in peace
· She likes Ranger, but doesn’t believe in long-distance relationships
· She can’t deal with being relied on, so it is hard for her to live up to a prophecy’s words

External Conflicts:
· King Silenis, Filius, and… Donald? are trying to kill her ‘cause she’s a leaper
· She can’t get home

Occupation/Education: Student, going into 9th grade as soon as the summer break is over

Miscellaneous Notes: No magic but is a “leaper;” she is from real-time and can go from special places in the real world to Somnium. Leapers often are able to manipulate other magic, which is how they change places: they use the transportation-magic of others