Melody

Melody is a Music Hunter and one of the bodyguards of Neon Nostrade that befriend Kurapika.

Appearance
Melody is short and stocky, her hair consisting of a large bald patch at the top of her head with long, straight, dark brown or maroon hair on the sides. Her front teeth are pronounced and protrude much like a rodent's. In public, Melody typically wears hats. Her clothes are simple and usually of earthy colors, though ocationally with pale pink accents. Her appearance before the Sonata changer her is unknown.

Personality
Melody seems to be a very kind person. She is typically of calm disposition.

Background
Melody is a professional Music Hunter. Her life changed as the result of one night of drinking with a friend. Having listened to a single movement of the flute solo part of the Sonata of Darkness —a piece supposedly composed by Satan himself, she was deformed. Her friend, who had played the piece to her, had his entire body severely mutated and died as a result. Subsequently, Melody gained supernatural hearing; she can hear things as quiets as heartbeats. Her goal is to find the sheet music for the Sonata and obliterate it, so that none suffer the same fate.

Abilities
Being a pro-Hunter,she has considerable prowess as she successfully retrieved an item as a test to be hired as Nostrad's bodyguard. Contrary to her petite appearance, she is agile able to fend off attacks from Tocino's Nen.

Enhanced Hearing
Melody, after listening to the Sonata of Darkness, acquired extrasensitive hearing and use this ability into many useful ways such as tracking. She can hear footsteps from about hundred meters away, and even determine the number of people and distinguish the footsteps of her target out of the crowd, in a city, for example. She can hear the heartbeats of others and is able tell their emotional states as a result as well whether they are lying or not. Her hearing also enables her to ascertain the other's skills from the sounds they make, such as knowing Killua as a former assassin from the silent steps he makes. She can play various instruments including piano and flute.

Nen
Nen Type: Emission

Melody makes her soothing aura flow out to people when she plays an instrument. Her special aura can heal others' fatigue, illness, and has a soothing effect.

Trivia

 * Melody was inspired by the character Nausicaä from Hayao Miyazaki's manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Ashitaka from the film Princess Mononoke.