Editing MeLaan

{{character
|image=MeLaan 2020 by Shuravf.jpg
|parents=[[TenSoon]]
|born=Seventh Generation
|abilities={{tag+|worldhopping}}
|aliases=Milan
|species=kandra
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|first appeared=[[The Hero of Ages]]
}}
{{update|mb7}}
{{quote
|"Here's a tip, kid. Save the wisecracks until your foe is dead. Like this. See how easy it is?" She kicked the corpse in the face.
|MeLaan{{book ref|mb5|11}}
}}

'''MeLaan''' is a [[kandra]] of the Seventh Generation.{{book ref|mb3|part=ars}}

== Appearance and Personality ==
{{image|MeLaan Broadsheet BG by Shuravf.jpg|side=left|width=250px|Pulling a gun from her thigh}}
{{quote
|Thy snoring is rather loud. It doth be like unto a hundred angry koloss in the middle of a rockslide. Lo, and it doth come near to waking the dead.
|MeLaan to [[Claude Aradel]]{{book ref|mb5|15}}
}}
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=== Pre Catacendre ===
MeLaan is the only kandra raised by [[TenSoon]] and is considered his adopted daughter/little sister.{{book ref|mb2|20}}{{wob ref|670}} She has a hero-worship crush on him, inspired by his gruffness and his adventurousness, which makes TenSoon somewhat uncomfortable.{{wob ref|7510}} MeLaan wears a willowy [[True Body]] made of wood. Its form is unnatural and exaggerated, as are many of the True Bodies of her generation.{{book ref|mb3|9}}

=== Post Catacendre ===
MeLaan often takes the form of a very tall (several inches taller than the notably tall Waxillium) and very busty woman named Milan. This True Body is made of a green crystal. However, she also has several  others, including one that is ostensibly designed for combat. The skeleton underneath is revealed to be made entirely of aluminum, with many useful implements hidden inside including a reinforced compartment for storage of the part of her that stores her consciousness, needles for stitching wounds, and a set of picks for opening locks. This metal body is very durable (A Feruchemist Brute punched her in the face and her hand essentially exploded).

At some point after the events involving the Bands of Mourning and the discovery of the South Scadrians, she began to favor a more androgynous form. This form is taller than even [[Wax]]; has short, blonde hair; and little hint of breasts. When with friends she keeps a relatively similar face, albeit less overtly feminine. She is sometimes seen wearing stylish blue trousers and a buttoned shirt in this form.{{book ref|mb7|11}}

Her favorite True Body is emerald.{{book ref|mb7|12}}

She occasionally changes her body out of her own will, and does not appear to care about the sex or gender she presents herself as, given how lightly she takes the idea of going to [[Kelesina Shores's party]] as a man.{{book ref|mb6|10}} Although this seems to have changed to an extent over the years, as she eventually came to prefer a far more androgynous form.{{book ref|mb7|11}}

Notably, her personality is much more free spirited than most kandra, and she gets along very well with Wayne, engaging in belching contests on occasion. She is also more lax about following the First Contract than other kandra, and is willing to kill humans if she has to.

== Attributes and Abilities ==
As a Kandra, she possesses the ability to shapeshift into various different forms around her True Body. She is also an immortal being, able to live for centuries, and survive wounds that would be fatal to most biological entities, she is also capable of turning off her pain receptors.{{book ref|mb6|24}} She is capable of reforming her body to unlock simple locks.{{book ref|bom|29}} And like all Kandra she can make her flesh go transparent in order to reveal her True Body.

She has various True Bodies made out of various materials, such as emerald and [[aluminum]]. She sometimes uses ones with hidden weapons, such as swords in her arms.{{book ref|mb6|16}} She can also store guns in her body, which she can pull out at will. Unlike most kandra, she doesn't necessarily follow the First Contract, and thus has little qualms about killing.

As a kandra, she has unknown hemalurgic blessings which grant her powers, form, and sapience. If these spikes are removed, she reverts back to her mistwraith state,{{book ref|mb6|26}} returning these to her would return her back to her kandra state.{{book ref|mb6|29}}

She is a [[Worldhopper]], and thus knows how to use Shadesmar to pass between worlds.{{book ref|mb7|11}}{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|6}}

== History ==
{{image|MeLann true body.jpg|side=right|width=300px|Showing her [[True Body]]}}
{{quote
|Life then was like life now, only you have better street food.
|MeLaan{{book ref|mb6|19}}
}}
=== The Final Empire ===
Before becoming a Kandra, she existed as a mistwraith for an unknown amount of time. But in the seventh century of the Lord Ruler's reign, she was granted form and sapience by Hemalurgic spikes, becoming a kandra of the Seventh Generation.{{book ref|mb3|62}} TenSoon was appointed as her "parent", and tasked with raising her as she developed.{{wob ref|7510}}

MeLaan attended TenSoon's judgement trial. After he was publicly imprisoned, she approached him and offered to help him escape. She also offered to retrieve the [[Blessing of Potency]] he took from [[OreSeur]]. She believed his claim that [[Vin]] was the [[Lord Ruler|Lord Ruler's]] heir, and that the kandra's [[First Contract]] had been transferred to her. She took the changes in the outside world –- the [[mist]]s that remained during the day and constant ashfall -– as signs and proof.

When TenSoon refused to rebel against the First and Second Generations, she accused him of abandoning his people. She was present at his sentencing, after which he escaped.

After [[KanPaar]] revolted against the first generation and imprisoned [[Sazed]], [[TenSoon]] returned to the [[Kandra Homeland]]. He found that [[Sazed]] had been taken prisoner with the help of MeLaan. MeLaan then fetched the keys and released the first generation, as well as securing bones for them to inhabit.{{book ref|mb3|78}}

=== Post Catacendre ===
Following the Catacendre, her loyalty shifted to Harmony, as she began to follow his orders and act as his hands in the world. It is not known what she did over the majority of the over three centuries between the Catacendre and her interactions with Wax and Wayne. 

MeLaan was the kandra who gave [[Waxillium Ladrian]] his earring; a hemalurgic spike to let Harmony communicate with him,{{wob ref|10004}} so that he could eventually come to act as Harmony's Sword.{{epigraph ref|sa4|29}}

==== Paalm's Madness ====

MeLaan once again met Wax at [[Lady ZoBell's party]]. She introduced herself as Milan, a slight mispronunciation of her real name. After seeming to flirt with Wax, she walked away.

After the party, she saved Wax from the [[Set]] agents who had ambushed him. She revealed that she was a kandra sent by [[Harmony]] to help him.{{book ref|mb5|11}}

Later, she met Wax, [[Wayne]], and [[Marasi]] at a tavern.  She went on to help them on their quest to defeat [[Bleeder]]. MeLaan impersonated one of Governor [[Replar Innate]]'s guards and saved Wax from Bleeder after the rogue kandra revealed herself.{{book ref|mb5|22}}

With Bleeder unmasked and on the run, MeLaan attempted to impersonate Governor Innate in her stead with the intent of placating the angry crowed.  While the crowd believed the ruse, MeLaan's natural inclinations to mimicry moved her away from the speech that Marasi planed and she ended up inflaming the crowd instead of calming the people down. Before a riot could break out, [[Aradel]] intervened. He arrested MeLaan and gained the support of the gathered citizenry by promising them justice.{{book ref|mb5|26}}     

MeLaan did not know about the true identity of Bleeder and was told only afterward. However she firmly believed that Harmony had done the right thing in not informing Wax of the true identity of his antagonist. After the defeat of Bleeder she continued to impersonate Governor Innate, "hanging" herself in her cell so that she did not have to falsely testify in a court of law.{{book ref|mb5|Epilogue}}

{{image|MeLaan Shuravf.jpg|side=left|width=300px|MeLaan dodging bullets during a gunfight}}

==== Search for ReLuur ====
MeLaan agreed to accompany Wax, Marasi, Wayne and [[Steris]] on their mission to [[New Seran]] in the hope of curing [[ReLuur]]'s insanity by restoring his spike.{{book ref|mb6|3}} ReLuur was injured looking into myths about [[The Bands of Mourning]]. Wax couldn’t find MeLaan during the fight, and later found her topless with Wayne in a compartment.{{book ref|mb6|9}}

When the group arrived in the city MeLaan shocked several of them by turning into a man, indicating that she was comfortable as either sex.{{book ref|mb6|10}} MeLaan aided Wax and Steris at [[Kelesina Shores]]'s ball, helping Wax escape from the scene after he was framed for Kelesina's murder.{{book ref|mb6|16}}  

After escaping, she traveled with the party to the crashed ''[[Brunstell]]'', where she and Marasi found ReLuur's spike and liberated [[Allik Neverfar]].  Together the three of them reconvened with Wax and Wayne and escape on one of the ''Brunstell'''s ships called ''[[Wilg]]''. After Marasi was injured in the escape, MeLaan was able to graft a piece of Marasi's own flesh onto the wound to heal her.{{book ref|mb6|21}} 

After retrieving Steris, they went to the second site to retrieve the Bands of Mourning. MeLaan's invulnerability proved critical in reaching the temple where they were supposedly stored, as she was able to survive the damage of the many traps the [[Sovereign]] had left behind.{{book ref|mb6|23}}  However she was immobilized by [[Telsin]] on reaching the temple and losing her spikes, reverting to a [[mistwraith]].{{book ref|mb6|26}}  After the battle for the Bands, MeLaan's spikes were returned by Wayne, and her sentience was restored.{{book ref|mb6|29}} The Bands were left in her keeping to keep them from being used for political purposes or conquest.{{book ref|mb6|31}}

==== Worldhopping ====

After the events involving the Bands of Mourning, she began her relationship with Wayne in earnest, but had to be called away on missions by Harmony, sometimes disappearing for months at a time.{{book ref|mb7|1}}

At some point during this period, she began to favor a more androgynous form.{{book ref|mb7|11}}  

Six years later, Harmony gave her a mission of going to other worlds in the cosmere to help deal with the rising threat of [[Trell (Trellism)| Trell]]. Before she left, she broke up with Wayne.{{book ref|mb7|12}}

While in the Cognitive Realm, she met with a [[Sho Del]] named [[Jan Ven]], who ferried her across the interplanetary sea.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|6}} At some point during this boat ride, nineteen months after the detonation of the Set's harmonium bomb, she received a message from Harmony about Wayne's death, shortly before arriving on the shores of a currently unknown planet.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|6}}

== Relationships ==
=== TenSoon ===
TenSoon essentially raised MeLaan,{{book ref|mb2|20}}{{wob ref|7510}} and she is roughly considered to be his daughter or little sister.{{wob ref|670}} As a result of his gruffness and adventurousness, sometime before the Catacendre, she began to hero-worship him in a way that bordered on romantic attraction and made TenSoon very uncomfortable.{{wob ref|7510}} They still appear to be close after the Catacendre, with MeLaan noting he would be proud of she can still adopt difficult accents and asking Wax not to tell TenSoon that she had to kill people again, as kandra killing people upsets him.{{book ref|mb5|19}}{{book ref|mb5|11}}

=== VenDell ===
VenDell considers MeLaan to be his sister, and cares for her, though he wishes that she would act with more tact. They tend to make witty comments back and forth between each other.{{book ref|mb6|3}}{{book ref|mb6|4}}

=== Wayne ===
She is in a close relationship with Wayne, with him being attracted to her easy-going manner and free spirit,{{book ref|mb5|13}} and her admiring his skill in accents and disguises, considering him "wasted as a human."{{book ref|mb5|19}} After the events in the south, she began a romantic relationship with him, despite the warnings from her fellow Kandra about how differently humans experience time.{{book ref|mb7|12}}

The relationship wasn't as meaningful to her as it was to him, due to differences in how they experienced the passing of time, but she still treasured her time with him,{{book ref|mb7|12}} and greatly mourned his death.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|6}} She thought of it as a mere fling at first, but it was far more to her, as he made her forget what she was and made her forget what was the smart thing to do.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|6}} Six years into their relationship, MeLaan breaks up with Wayne because she has a mission from Harmony, and if she stayed it wouldn’t be because she wanted to but because she didn’t want to hurt him.{{book ref|mb7|13}}

Their relationship is sexual in nature, she claims that he gave her the best sex she's known.{{book ref|mb6|9}}{{book ref|mb7|12}} They are known to have engaged in bondage.{{book ref|mb7|37}} This has been confirmed as the honest truth, but that she lived a sheltered life so didn't have much to compare it to.{{wob ref|16018}}

=== Wax ===
She was the one who gave Wax the Hemalurgic spike earring in order to put him in contact with Harmony.{{wob ref|670}}{{expand}}

== Trivia ==
* In the original concept that evolved into ''[[ The Alloy of Law]]'', she was planned as the partner of Wayne, acting as his steed.{{wob ref|13936}}{{wob ref|4545}}
* She is planned to play a role in Era 3.{{wob ref|4827}}

== Notes ==
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