Basic Trope: A healing specialist who is female and kind-hearted.
- Straight: Melody is a kind-hearted priestess and healer who fights with a staff or bow and is contrasted with Tom.
- Exaggerated: Melody is a complete pacifist who has no attacks at all, only healing spells.
- Downplayed: Melody is a primarly a healer but carries a sword for self-defense and is more likely to berate Tom for his injuries because she carries about him so much.
- Justified:
- Personality Powers are a rule of the universe.
- Melody is too weak or unskilled to wield anything heavy and too frail to fight but still wants to help others. She does this by studying healing magic and encouraging her team.
- Inverted:
- The White Magician Girl is an outspoken, Hot-Blooded Tsundere who whacks the hero with her staff when she's angry.
- Black Magician Girl
- The Medic is a cranky old man.
- Gender Inverted: Melody, an Action Girl, is accompanied by Christopher, a Non-Action Guy with Healing Hands who she allows to come because he can heal and she can't.
- Subverted:
- 1.) Despite her gentle nature, Melody is a powerful Warrior Monk and kung-fu expert.
- 2.) Melody is a feminine healer who's the hero's Love Interest... but her gentle exterior hides a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
- 3.) Melody's gentle and sweet...until something horrible happens to her and she snaps. The emotional turbulence makes her magic dangerous.
- 4.) Melody is a sweet, feminine mage...a Dark Mage, that is.
- 5.) Melody is kind-hearted, supportive... and overprotective of her friends to the point where it's honestly a little scary. Her idea of "defensive" magic involves unleashing a torrent of divine wrath on anything that so much as gives the rest of the party a mean look.
- Double Subverted:
- 1.) ...and she also happens to be the best healer anyway.
- 2.) She discovers that Good Feels Good and decides to make the gentle exterior her interior.
- 3.) She recovers from the Heroic BSoD with the Power of Love and friendship.
- 4.) After vaporizing monsters, she pulls out a med kit and demonstrates expert first-aid.
- 5.) Because Revive Kills Zombie, the "divine wrath" doesn't harm the living, and so Melody comes off as a well-meaning and harmless zealot who heals everyone around her.
- Parodied: The White Magician Girl is an obnoxious and petty person who constantly bludgeons people with her staff and then heals them just because they annoy her and she's easily annoyed. People fawn over her anyway, because she's an avatar of a goddess of healing, who is also a jerk to other gods.
- Zig Zagged: When Melody first appears, she's a to-the-trope White Magician Girl. Then after a story event, she becomes a Black Magician Girl who spams Meteor Shower. But wait! Her healing spells are still the best amongst the party members, and using it is more practical to win battles than Meteor Shower. Then after another story event, her magic goes away and she is forced to fight physically just like anyone else... but then, she is still one of the better healers (this time without magic), and a kind person. Then she gets her powers back and returns to a pure healing role, just in time for Zombie Apocalypse, and The Team discovers that Revive Kills Zombie.
- Averted:
- The sole healer in the party is Albrecht The Paladin, who uses a sword and is noticeably male.
- Melody has healing powers but is also a rude and curse spewing fighter.
- Enforced: "Without someone who is dedicated to healing him, The Hero of this story won't stand a chance against those heavy-hitting monsters. While we're at it, let's make her his gentle and compassionate Love Interest for the Periphery Demographic. "
- Lampshaded: "No, please, have mercy on m...wait, you're a female, and you're wearing a medic's robe? False alarm, guys, she's just a healer. She's not gonna kill us...why are we all suddenly covered in hideous tumors?"
- Invoked: Melody is the Team Mom and so she decides to become a white magician girl to heal her friends' wounds and otherwise take care of them.
- Exploited: When recruiting an adventurer team, Bob appeals to Melody's compassionate nature and his need for a skilled healer.
- Defied: Heal Thyself.
- Discussed: The Hero, hoping to learn more about his crush, asks Melody about her choice of weapon. She explains that the Magic Staff is useful for healing and, if she needs to defend herself, it follows her dogma of doing no harm. "I'd rather heal than hurt."
- Conversed: "Ever notice how in these RPGs, there's usually that meek and gentle healer girl who ends up with The Hero?"
- Deconstructed:
- 1) To be a White Magician Girl, one need to endure a lot of both physical and mental training. It's not easy to act calm and heal people in the middle of battle. Few people endured this training, and those that do are almost always Stepford Smilers.
- 2) Melody would much rather have taken a more physical role, but because of her society's limited roles for women, White Magician Girl is the only way she's allowed to participate at all. She's bitter about this, and it interferes with the calm and compassion required for the job.
- Reconstructed:
- 1) Only honestly gentle and caring people are eligible for the position (potentially by way of Personality Powers) and only Plucky Girls graduate from the training. Stepford Smilers are viewed as risky because their mask might break at a bad time.
- 2) Melody realizes that her role is one of the (if not the) most important on the battlefield, and she changes society by using this fact to her advantage. She invokes Doctor's Orders in a manner that is both perfectly in line with how society thinks she should act and impossible to argue with. Soon, the gentle and supportive healer is the de-facto leader.
- Implied: The party is ambushed and Melody is immediately shot first.
- Played For Drama: Melody's healing powers rely on love...but, it's a two-way street. Without love in her life, her power causes her pain, making her cold and distant from others. For this reason, all White Magician Girls are paired with a warrior she is romantically compatible with in the hopes that they will become a Battle Couple. Melody and her partner engage in Belligerent Sexual Tension or the Masochism Tango.
- Played For Laughs: Melody's a patient woman, but even she gets a little annoyed at being called on to heal every papercut and stubbed toe her teammates invariably end up with.
Hurry back to the White Magician Girl main page and heal The Team.
