Melanie King Headcanon’s

A: Melanie first got into the paranormal as a young teen. She used to explore abandoned places for fun, and one day she decided to cheek out, ironically, an abandoned hospital. Inside she couldn’t shake the feeling that she was being watched, and she would’ve sworn that she kept seeing shadows out of the corner of her eyes. She didn’t have any “real” experiences that day, but the paranoia she felt stuck with her so much that it kick started an interest in the paranormal. It’s a shame she didn’t notice all the spiderwebs….

B: Speaking of Melanie’s younger years: She skateboarded a lot as a teen, and even won a few pretty big competitions for her skills. She doesn’t skateboard a lot as an adult because her interest waned for other things, but she did show Georgie her skills once, shortly after they first met, actually.

C: Melanie has a new hair color almost every time she appears in the series. She dyes her hair all the time, usually in unnatural colors, but sometimes she’ll go brunette or blonde just to do something off from the usual blue or purple or pink. (Her natural hair color is black.)

D: Melanie loves snakes and rats. She’s had pet rat’s all throughout her childhood, and after the apocalypse she rewards herself for making it through by adopting a milk snake. Her name is Kitty and she’s kept far away from the actual cat.

E: She went to college to get a degree in video production but ended up dropping out when “Ghost Hunt UK” took off.

F: She’s so bad about leaning back in chairs. It makes people very anxious (Especially Georgie) when she sits in rolly chairs around them because there’s at least a 20% chance that’s going to tilt over.

G: She’s short. She’s 5'5 with very large combat boots on. She’s 5'3 without them.

H: If you don’t count Jon’s cheating eye powers then she speaks the most languages out of the cast. She speaks: English, French, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. She really likes to travel and wants to have as many national languages in her toolbelt as she can so she can communicate easily when she goes. She, admittedly, does not have the patience for translator apps that are often wrong.

I: Her cane has a cat design on it, and many of the cats look like The Admiral. Georgie helped her pick it out.

J: She listened to “Evil Friends” by Portugal The Man a LOT after joining The Institute.