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3. Got it.

4. I spent a long time on that. Just saying. But I have a feeling Jelo won't like it, even though I removed the Pacman-style eyes.

Anyway, Melody Emerald's backstory, here we go! At least this is the best I can do.

Melody Emerald always loved nature, flora and fauna. Because of her cheerful, kind and caring personality, everyone in the Emerald Kingdom loved her, and she quickly became one of the most popular emerald gemstones in the Emerald Kingdom. Seeing how she is loved by majority of her kingdom, she dreamed to be crowned queen so that she can be recognized not just by the Emerald Kingdom, but by all other kingdoms in Gemstonia as well.

As a result, Melody becomes more hardworking as she is determined to become queen, taking extreme measures to ensure that her popularity is intact. She becomes more content with herself as she becomes more and more popular among Gemstonia, and starts to become more confident that she can become queen. One day, the current queen of the Emerald Kingdom declared that she is retiring due to her old age, and that she is looking for a new teenage emerald to take over her title, declaring that the one who plants the most impressive-looking tree shall earn it.

Seeing this as a golden opportunity, Melody sets her priorities to her biggest project, by spending hours each day on planting a tree that will be the biggest for Gemstonia to see. As her tree towers over all others, she looks at it and is impressed with her results, already craving to be queen. While Melody ends up planting the biggest tree, the current queen did not choose her. Instead, she chose Emma Emerald, whose tree is the second biggest, but is also the most beautiful-looking. Melody is appalled by the queen's decision and openly objects, saying that it is unfair since Emma's tree isn't nearly as impressive as hers and that she (Melody) should have won instead. The queen replied that she chose Emma because the latter did not plant her tree just to become queen, but it's because she cared for it, and said that Emma's tree shall represent the foundation of the Emerald Kingdom for another 1000 years. Melody's open objection causes her to lose a portion of her popularity, which causes her to be angry and bitter about it, to the point where she is determined to get her revenge.

The same night, Melody gathered a few supplies from the Ruby Kingdom, determined to burn down Emma's tree. She manages to do so, but Emma Emerald eventually finds out and is angered about it. As Melody has broken one of the golden rules of the Emerald Kingdom, which does not tolerate the destruction of nature, she is sentenced not only to be turned into a human-gemstone hybrid by royal wizards from the Amethyst Kingdom, but is also declared no longer to be a part of the Emerald Kingdom. As the votes were unanimous across the kingdoms of Gemstonia, Melody was sent to exile, while Emma remained as the new queen of the Emerald Kingdom.

So that's Melody's backstory. I might make it a point that being turned into a human-gemstone hybrid means that that gemstone is no longer a part of Gemstonia, similar to Corolla and Onyx. As for how she met Re-Peat Boss, I can say that Re-Peat Boss sees that Melody is the perfect ally for his latest scheme against Richard and his friends, and convinces her to work for him by offering her machines that she can use to get back at Emma if the plan works.