The characters featured in the comic book series Mélusine.
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Titular Protagonist
Melusine (Mélusine) Anoukian
Melusine/Mélusine
- Academic Athlete: Given that she is The Ace, this is to be expected. Besides being very intelligent, she is also a very talented broom flyer.
- The Ace: She is pretty smart and excells in her school subjects. However, she's hardly a Teacher's pet, because her magic spells tend to work so well that they leave her professors badly injured and they have to dismiss class.
- Action Girl: A Badass Adorable witch who goes on adventures in every album and gets out of danger using her wits, magic abilities and broom-flying techniques.
- Allegedly Dateless: A common Running Gag in the series is her inability to find a boyfriend, despite her good looks and her being a witch prodigy.
- All-Loving Hero: Though she's proud of her witch heritage, she's often seen casting spells or preparing potions to help Cancrelune or the villagers who have confronted her.
- Ambiguously Absent Parent: Even though they were both introduced in the 26th album "In Black and pink", it remains unclear why she had never talked with them beforehand.
- Ambiguously Bi: She often daydreams of a Prince Charming or a handsome knight in a shining armor declaring his love for her. There was one page, however, where she compliments Ghotika's clothes and, although she was initially shocked by her friend's eagerness to pull them out in front of her (so she can give them to her to try them out), she quickly recovers and does the same.
- Animal Motifs: Cats, to a lesser extent. She once transformed into a green-and-balck stripped cat.
- Appeal to Tradition: When a seller entered the Castle to sell her a vacuum cleaner, she declined the offer (by throwing him from a window, presumably thinking he's dead), stating that nothing ever will have her change her traditional broomstick. It's only after the seller (who had survived the fall) explains to her that she should have put the vacuum cleaner in the plug that she started rethinking it - though it doesn't last too long, considering that she kept her broomstick ever after.
- Art Evolution: In the first albums, she was drawn with more childish features, but at the series progressed, she acquired a more adult body and face.
- Badass Adorable: A Cute Witch who tends to be sent on dangerous missions by her classmates. And arriving victorious.
- Badass Bookworm: Well-read and studious, and seriously dangerous to tick off.
- Badass Pacifist: She's against the the witch vs fairies war in the 26th volume, but that doesn't mean she won't get her hands dirty to prevent it from happening.
- Berserk Button: Guys hitting at her without her consent almost always end up being transformed into frogs.
- Beware the Nice Ones: A kind and helpful girl, who will hex you if you go too far.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The Redhead to Gothika's Brunette and Cancrelune's Blonde.
- Break the Cutie: When she finds out that her best friend committed suicide and ended in Hell in the 22th album.
- Character Development: In both Hocus Pocus and The Witch's Apprentice, she grows to love Mélisande and Malicella respectively, even though she despised them originally.
- Closet Geek: Told Ghotika once that she has grown over her love for princes and knights. Ghotika didn't believe her and she was right.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Acts like this towards Cancrelune and Mélisande.
- Crush Blush: Whenever she's around a man she finds attractive, she tends to blush.
- Cute Witch: Crosses between this and Hot Witch.
- Dub Name Change: She's renamed Mélisande in the Dutch translation.
- Dude Magnet: Every dude in this series find her attractive. EVERY. Which makes the fact that she's Allegedly Dateless even more ironic.
- Facepalm: She will do this whenever Cancrelune or Mélisande have done something stupid.
- Failure Montage: Yes, even being The Ace doesn't save her from a couple of these:
- She accepted a bet with Gothika that she could find a boyfriend before the sun set. She spent the rest of the day looking desperately for one, but to no avail.
- When she heard about a curse regarding a cliff that enchantes its visitors to fall and commit suicide, she attempted to save said visitors. The result was always the same: them ending up falling for one reason or the other.
- Fangirl: Of charming princes and daring knights. She often daydreams of being seduced by one of them.
- Fiery Redhead: She mostly counts as a Nice Girl, but when driven mad or hit by unwanted admirers, she won't hesitate to show her mean side (and possibly, cast a spell on them).
- Flight: With her broom. And she's an excellent rider too...
- Foil:
- To Cancrelune. To put it simply, Mélusine is everything Cancrelune isn't: whereas Mélusine is beautiful, talented and a witch prodigy, Cancrelune is ugly, clumsy and her spells usually backfire on her.
- To Mélisande. They may be both beautiful, but Mélusine is smart, whereas Mélisande is dumb.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Has two instances:
- The first case being when her cousin, Mélisande, turned into an Hot Witch after being bitten by the Master and she seduces Mélusine's boyfriend, the Werewolf, which outrages Mélusine and does whatever she can to turn her cousin back to normal.
- The second case being when a new student enrolls in her school and he turns out to be smarter than her.
- Has a Type: She quite often daydreams about falling in love with charming princes or knights in shining armor.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: When a villager woman confronted her and asked for a beauty potion to please her boyfriend, Mélusine took her by the hand and asked for said boyfriend. When she found him, she turned his girlfriend into various ugly monsters, each time asking her boyfriend if he still loved her and each time her boyfriend replying "yes, it's personality that matters". After she's done, she turns his girlfriend back to normal and calls her out for wanting a beauty potion, since she didn't really need it.
- Hot Witch: Crosses between this and Cute Witch.
- Hypocritical Humor: She once had a disagreement with her cousin Mélisande. Mélisande left to clear her head and Mélusine mused how pathetic fairy magic is. She then started having fun playing with Mélisande's magic wand and conjure pastries and cute furry animals. When Mélisande came back and caught her, Mélusine sheepishly tried to pass it off as scientific curiosity.
- Hypocrite: She refused to give a love potion to an extremely ugly woman, stating that you shouldn't interfere with nature. Never mind that she used it on previous pages to solve quarrels between "couples" or for scientific reasons.
- Informed Attractiveness: She's considered beautiful even In-Universe. Proof? Mélusine once brew a beauty potion that would turn her into the most beautiful creature in the world. When she tasted it, however, nothing changed, which either meant that her potion was a failure, or she was already the most beautiful creature in the world. And considering she's a Teen Genius and a talented witch, we know which one is true...
- Interspecies Romance: The Werewolf is the closest thing Mélusine has to a boyfriend, they have gone on dates and shared kisses, but because they can see each other once a month (and on condition the sky is clear), she's not interesting in moving their relationship to the next level.
- Irony: She can't find a boyfriend, despite her good looks and her being a witch prodigy. Often Played for Laughs.
- Just Friends: How she sees her relationship with the Werewolf. She does love him and they have even gone on dates and shared kisses, but the fact that she can see him only once a month makes her not want to move their relationship to the next level.
- Leg Focus: Really beautifully sculptured and the focus on many panels.
- Lethal Chef: The cooking classes in her school are the only ones she fails, much to her annoyance. Ironic, considering how good of a potion-maker she is.
- Love at First Sight: She tends to fall in love with a charming prince or knight upon laying her eyes on him.
- Mad Libs Catchphrase: "X and Coryza", whenever she's angry.
- Morphic Resonance: She once turned into a black-and-green stripped cat, resembling the colors of her usual clothes.
- Ms. Fanservice: She has a voluptuous body and is quite often drawn naked or in suggestive poses. Don't get carried away: she's more of a Reluctant Fanservice Girl.
- Mythical Motifs: A subtle one with Mélusine, the faie with whom she shares her name. This fact is used as a joke in an one-page gag where all her friends gift her the same present for her birthday: a book about Mélusine, the faie.
- Nice Girl: She's sometimes shown helping the villagers with their problems.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
- While she was flying with her broom, she noticed a man and a woman arguing passionately. Mistaken them for a struggling married couple, she casted a spell on them to make them fall in love and leaves, unaware that she ruined two happy families, as the woman and the man now refuse to see their mates and children.
- After being caught by a giant and listening to the problems a giant faces (such as eating large quantities of food every day to sustain themselves), she shrinks him to human size. She, however, forgets to shrink his weight, so now he's a human with the weight of a giant and that causes different problems.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Apparently, she's so smart that she managed to create a Sorcerer Stone herself! When her aunt warns her about the effects that this stone has to people and that it can turn them greedy, Mélusine reveals that she created it not to make money, but to fix the Master's tooth.
- Only Friend: To Cancrelune, who is shooed by everyone because of her lack of smart and clumsiness. Cancrelune even calls her that on the 22th album.
- Only Sane Woman: Considering that she lives in a castle inhabited by a Neat Freak ghost, a bloodthirsty vampire, an unintelligible Frankenstein-inspired servant, a violent werewolf, a Mad Scientist, her aunt is eccentric and her cousin ( later revealed, sister) and best friends are ditz, she can count as one.
- Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat: On the cover of the 7th album, Hocus Pocus, she is making a dragon appear out of the other end of a top hat.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's 119 years old and she acts like a teen.
- Redhead In Green: Her standard outfit is green hat, dress and shoes (with some black underneath) which compliment her red hair.
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Has no trouble getting undressed whenever she's alone. When, however, she finds that there are men who peep at her or is put in a situation where she has all of her clothes removed, she doesn't take it too well.
- Separated at Birth: Her and Mélisande are not cousins, but twins. Their father was a witch and their mother a faerie. Because such marriage was taboo between both communities, their mother pass as a witch. The birth of Mélisande was problematic because she look exactly like a faerie. To maintain the charade, she was given to adoption to the faeries.
- Shout-Out:
- Her name references the faie Mélusine, a woman who was cursed to have her legs turn into a serpent tail every Saturday when she tried to punish her father for abandoning her mother (who also bore the same curse).
- She once sang "Someday my prince will come".
- Signature Headgear: Her iconic black-and-green hat.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: While she's in a relationship with the Werewolf, the fact that she can only see him once a month has resulted in her chasing after prince charmings or knights in shining armor.
- Sleeps in the Nude: Used to do so in the earlier albums, until she found out that a group of bedsheets ghosts stalked her in her sleep — including one that she used as a bedsheet. Ever since that, she wears some kind of nightgown.
- Teen Genius: Is talented, The Ace, top of her class, her spells and potions are guaranteed to work... You name it! It's very rare to find a hobby where she fails.
- Vitriolic Best Buds:
- With Cancrelune. While she does love her best friend, she's fed up by the fact that she never ever improves her magical abilities and continues to be a failure. Even though she's patient with her, sometimes she gets so angry that she doesn't restrict herself, like when she sent Cancrelune to the sun.
- With Ghotika, though this one isn't really that obvious. There was an arc, however, in one album where Ghotika mocked Mélusine that she couldn't find a boyfriend, which prompted Mélusine to go search for one.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: She transforms into a mermaid once while bathing, but the transformation doesn't last for long.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: She does act like your stereotypical teen for times to times, but she's shown to be studious, obedient and takes her training seriously.
- Wizards Live Longer: She's a 119-years-old witch.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: While she may get frustrated by Cancrelune and Mélisande's antics, she loves them and she's fully supportive of them.
- You Are What You Hate: She looks down on fairies and considers their magic to be cheap tricks, yet when Mélisande left to clear her mind after an argument, she took her magic wand and summoned sweets and various heroes from Disney Animated Canon movies. She tried to pass it off scientific curiosity.
Friends and Family Members
Cancrelune
Cancrelune
- A-Cup Angst: She has a notable flat chest. When Mélusine turns her beautiful so she can flirt with some boys, one of the first alterations she spots is her now-enlarged breats.
- Allegedly Dateless: While she has more luck in finding boyfriends than her friend, she's trouble keeping them due to her looks.
- All for Nothing: Even when she learns how to ride a broom or groove potions, by her next appearance/album she will have forgotten that and rush to Mélusine for help.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Due to her bad performance in anything regarding magic, her classmates and the school stuff regard her as an annoyance. Only Mélusine, Mélisande and to a lesser extent, Ghotika, can put up with her and even them have their moments.
- Amusing Injuries: It's a wonder Cancrelune hasn't had a serious concussion by now; crashing her broom constantly in every album.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The Blonde to Gothika's Brunette and Mélusine's Redhead.
- Break the Cutie: Though too Gonk to be considered "cute", her mistakenly thinking that she caused her best friend's death is too much to handle, that she commits suicide and ends in Hell.
- The Bus Came Back: In War Without Magic, Cancrelune comes back to the living as a ghost and helps Mélusine without being seen. After giving a smile to her from afar she leaves, presumably back to Hell.
- Butt-Monkey: Not an album passes without having her crashing her broom or her potions exploding in her face or having some other misfortune happening to her.
- Captain Crash: A prominent example.
- Character Catchphrase: "I am useless," whenever her spells don't work.
- Cosmic Plaything: She gets no respect from anyone or anything, being the butt of everyone' jokes or cruelties and even though Mélusine is her best and only friend, she too plays some pranks on her from time to time.
- Determinator: Her attempts may fall flat every time (or she succeeds, but forgets the things she learnt next time she appears) and that leads her to whine that she's useless, but she never gives up nonetheless.
- The Ditz: She's not academically competent, she isn't street-smart either, she falls behind her most talented friends, she can't cast a spell, she can't groove a potion, she can't ride her broom, you name it. She's basically a disaster.
- Dumb Blonde: Has blonde hair and is as smart as a bag of rocks.
- Establishing Character Moment: She's first introduced crashing with her broom and the reader can immediately guess everything about her instantly.
- Failure Montage: The comic series often shows a collection of scenes of Cancrelune failing at whatever (usually magical) task she's supposed to be doing.
- Fangirl: She shows a preference towards Prince Charmings and knights in shining armor, just like Mélusine.
- Fish out of Water: She's an Inept Mage who can't do a single spell and, to add salt to the wound, she's surrounded by two talented best friends and a dumb fairy, who at least can use magic.
- Flight: With her broom, but expect her to crush immediately on the ground even is she only hovers a few centimeters. In fact, she has acquired such a terrible reputation as a broom rider, that the other brooms immediately flee once they spot her.
- Foil: To Mélusine. To put it simply, Mélusine is everything Cancrelune isn't: whereas Mélusine is beautiful, talented and a witch prodigy, Cancrelune is ugly, clumsy and her spells usually backfire on her.
- Gonk: She's considered ugly, even In-Universe. In fact, in one party whose theme was to dress up as a disgusting and ugly creature, one monster dressed up as her!
- Green-Eyed Monster: Although never outright stating or showing this, in her fantasies, she daydreams that Mélusine is the dumb one that falls behind her and wins the guys.
- Has a Type: Just like her best friend, she is also fascinated by the idea of running away with a Prince Charming or a Knight in Shining Armor. And she did once!
- Idiot Hero: For all her stupidity and clumsiness (and general bad luck), Cancrelune still means well and tries to improve herself and become an honorable witch.
- Inept Mage: The times where she casted a spell successfully can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
- Killed Off for Real: She commits suicide in the 22th album, after mistakenly thinking she led her best friend to death.
- The Klutz: She receives Amusing Injuries even when she doesn't ride a broomstick and she's not cute or hot enough (in fact, the exact opposite) to qualify as a Cute Clumsy Girl.
- Master of One Magic: She can't fly a single broom, nor cast a spell or groove a potion without it exploding, but she's surprisingly talented at sleight-of-hand tricks used by stage magicians.
- Meaningful Name: Her name in French literally means "Dunce-moon". Considering her idiotic nature, it totally fits her.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the 22th album, she wants to be helpful and invites a bunch of giant cockroaches to spent the winter on the Castle Mélusine resides. The cockroaches invade the Castle, forcing its previous inhabitants to leave and sleep in the snow.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Believe it or not, but there was an arc in one album where she was determined to make for once a proper potion. The final result? It exploded! But that was the purpose. Not that the other potions had a different result...
- Put on a Bus to Hell: In the 22th album, she commits suicide after mistakenly thinking she led her best friend to her death, and ends up in Hell, because suicide is a sin.
- Shot in the Ass: In the first album, she's mistaken for a duck and she's shot in the ass by a group of hunters.
- Signature Headgear: Her iconic black-and-blue hat.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Mélusine. Cancrelune's never-ending failures to improve her magical abilities sometimes drive Mélusine crazy, though they do love each other. Cancrelune even called her once "her only friend" as she was the only person who could put up with her hardships.
Gothika (Krapella)
Gothika/Krapella
- Always Second Best: She excels in school, though she falls behind her ace friend.
- Ambiguously Gay: She has never shown interest in pursuing a relationship like her friends and additionally, when Mélusine complimented her clothes, she undressed IN FRONT OF HER, so she could try them and see if they fitted her.
- Art Evolution: She wore a pair of black detached sleeves, but they disappeared gradually.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Has her rare moments of slapstick (such as when Mélusine transported herself into her house and ended up hitting her with a table), but they are not enough to tarnish her.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The Brunette to Cancrelune's Blonde and Mélusine's Redhead.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: While she's top of her class, she prefers going to parties and have fun instead of studying (which might explain why she's Always Second Best to Mélusine).
- Celibate Hero: Unlike Mélusine and Cancrelune, she doesn't show interest in pursuing a romantic relationship.
- Demoted to Extra: As Mélisande started having a bigger role as the series progressed, her own role started reducing to just cameos.
- Dub Name Change: She's renamed Gothika in the English translation.
- Goth: Her wardrobe.
- Flight: With her broom.
- Goth Girls Know Magic: A Goth witch who studies at a witches school
- Hot Witch: A Hot Goth witch, to be more specific. She wears the more revealing outfit of the cast.
- Leg Focus: Her miniskirt, thigh-high fishnet stockings and pumps help highlighting them.
- Meaningful Name: Gothika, in the English translation. A befitting name for a Goth witch.
- Ms. Fanservice: Not only she has notable curves, but she wears the most revealing clothes out of any character: black tube top, miniskirt, thigh-high fishnet stockings and pumps.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Has no trouble wearing such a revealing outfit even in winter and getting undressed when Mélusine complimented her outfit.
- Signature Headgear: Her iconic black hat.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: To a small extent, with Mélusine. Not a serious as Mélusine and Cancrelune's case, but there was an arc in one album where Ghotika teased Mélusine that she couldn't find a boyfriend, which prompted Mélusine to go search for one.
Aunt Adrazelle
Aunt Adrazelle
- Animal Motifs: The same animal she loves to cook — frogs.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: She loves to eat toad soup and drink a specific kind of coffee with such strong taste, that it makes her jump up and down. It says something when her taste in food is considered bizarre, even by witches' standards.
- Captain Crash: Had this tendency in the earlier albums, but in her case it was because she tended to forget that windows had glass in them nowadays and kept trying to fly through closed windows.
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: She enjoys meals like spider pâté and toad soup, accompanied by a strong coffee.
- Dark Is Not Evil: She's the closest thing to a stereotypical Wicked Witch, personality and appearance-wise, but she doesn't seek harm.
- Flight: With her broom.
- Freaky Is Cool: When Malicella is introduced to her, Mélusine, to make her behave, tells her to show respect to the elderly and Adrazelle lists all her terrifying powers, her spells, her potions and her culinary tastes. Malicella is impressed and wants to live with her.
- I Was Quite a Looker: We never see her, but if her (somewhat vulgar) stories are to be believed, she was hot in her youth.
- Nightmare Fetishist: She takes a liking towards grotesque or scary things.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's 542 years old and she acts like she's in her 50s.
- Secret-Keeper: She was the only one that knew that Mélusine and Mélisande were twins separated at birth, but had promised their parents not to tell anyone.
- Shout-Out: She shares the same age with Papa Smurf.
- Signature Headgear: A black hat and pilot goggles whenever she flies.
- Token Adult: The closest thing to a prominent adult character the series has, considering that the heroine and her group of friends act like teenagers.
- Trademark Favourite Food: Toad soup.
- Wicked Witch: More eccentric and freaky than wicked, to be precise. But she bears the appearance: ugly, old, pointy nose, loves to make pranks, etc.
- Wizards Live Longer: She's a 542-years-old witch.
Melisande (Mélisande)
Melisande/Mélisande
- Ambiguously Absent Parent: One would wonder about her ancestry, since she's the only fairy in a family full of witches. It was revealed in the 26th album, that she and Mélusine were twins Seperated At Birth, as the Interspecies Romance between their fairy mother and wizard father was forbidden and they had to find a way to hide her tracks.
- Ascended Extra: She was introduced in the 7th album, but has become a prominent character ever since then. She started appearing even more often after the death of Cancrelune.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: She has a habit of not really paying attention when others talk. Established by her fist conversation with her cousin:Mélusine: There's one thing I don't understand... why did you become a fairy godmother? Sorcery, it's not so difficult. It's open to everyone...
Mélisande: Hm? We're you talking to me?
Mélusine: No. To my hat.
Mélisande: It's not much for conversation, eh?
Mélusine: To you, Mélisande. Answer my question.
Mélisande: OK.
Mélusine: Well... then are you going to answer?
Mélisande: Hm. Did someone call me?
Mélusine: THE QUESTION.
Mélisande: Who's there?
Mélusine: Who?
Mélisande: Well, the question. - Badass Adorable: Not as a prominent case, like her cousin, but still one. This becomes ever more apparent after Cancrelune dies and she takes her place, which means that she goes on adventures with Mélusine and she gets to prove her worth and abilities.
- Ball of Light Transformation: She can turn into a small ball of light. It seems like this is a specialization of fairies.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: The rare moments she receives are not enough to tarnish her.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Not as strong as her cousin's, but she has traces of them.
- Big Eater: She loves summoning pastries and cakes.
- Black Sheep: Regarded as one due to being the only fairy in a family of witches.
- Book Dumb: She's just a spoon in a drawer, but has her innovative moments, particularly in Volume 24 "The Haunted Village", where she discovers the secret of said Haunted village.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Due to a combination of low intelligence, a distracted mind and Literal-Minded, Mélisande can't understand a simple greeting phrase and seems warped in her own universe.
- Dub Name Change: She's renamed Mélusine in the Dutch translation, as her cousin was already introduced with the name Mélisande.
- Establishing Character Moment: The first conversation she has with her cousin shows that she's not brighter lamp in the room.Mélusine: There's one thing I don't understand... why did you become a fairy godmother? Sorcery, it's not so difficult. It's open to everyone...
Mélisande: Hm? We're you talking to me?
Mélusine: No. To my hat.
Mélisande: It's not much for conversation, eh?
Mélusine: To you, Mélisande. Answer my question.
Mélisande: OK.
Mélusine: Well... then are you going to answer?
Mélisande: Hm. Did someone call me?
Mélusine: THE QUESTION.
Mélisande: Who's there?
Mélusine: Who?
Mélisande: Well, the question. - Fairy Sexy: She, a fairy, is just as gorgeous and shapely as her Hot Witch cousin.
- Flight: She levitates herself using her wings. She can also transform herself into a small ball of light when she needs to cover huge distance.
- Fish out of Water: She's a fairy in a family full of witches. Once it's revealed that she and Mélusine are twins Seperated At Birth and that their mom is a fairy, it stops being jarring.
- Foil: To Mélusine. They may be both beautiful, but Mélusine is smart, whereas Mélisande is dumb.
- Genki Girl: Almost always seen smiling.
- Hot Witch: Turned into one after the Master bit her, though it didn't last took long and returned to be a Fairy Sexy.
- Innocently Insensitive: She never means to be hurtful, but can accidentally cause quite a few hurt feelings because she's thoughtless.
- Leg Focus: Her and Mélusine look almost identical, so of course she would share the long legs of her cousin.
- Ms. Fanservice: What she lacks in intelligence, she has it in her body. Not only it resembles that of her already established Ms. Fanservice cousin, but she wears a pink shoulderless dress.
- Mystical White Hair: She's a fairy with white hair.
- Nice Girl: She may be as sharp as a spoon, but she always wears her heart on her sleeve.
- Pink Means Feminine: Comes from being a fairy. She wears a pink dress and a cone-shaped hat in the same color and she's the girliest character thus far.
- Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat: On the cover of the 7th album, Hocus Pocus, she is making a rabbit appear out of a top hat.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's 119 years old and she acts like a teenager.
- Separated at Birth: Her and Mélusine are not cousins, but twins. Their father was a witch and their mother a faerie. Because such marriage was taboo between both communities, their mother passed as a witch. The birth of Mélisande was problematic because she look exactly like a faerie. To maintain the charade, she was given to adoption to the faeries.
- Shout-Out:
- Her name alludes to Melisande, a princess whose hair grew twice as long after it was cut. The only thing they share in common is their names.
- When practicing magic, she tends to use the phrase "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo!".
- Several of her appearances include allusions to classic Disney movies.
- Signature Headgear: Her iconic cone-shaped pink hat.
- Supreme Chef: In addition to her cupcakes, Mélisande can conjure any food at will with her magic.
- Sweet Tooth: Justified. It's hinted a couple of times that that she needs sugar for her brain to function, and the reason why she's such a ditz is because she's often low on sugar.
- Trademark Favourite Food: Pastries. And sweets, in general. She uses her magic wand to create them quite frequently.
- Wicked Witch: The Master's bite eventually started turning her into one. Mélusine reversed it.
Pirouline
Pirouline
- Big Beautiful Woman: Her Big Eater tendencies have turned her obese, but since she shares the same soft characteristics with her half-sister, Mélusine, she can't be considered half-ugly.
- Big Eater: In order to cope with her unsuccessful romances. And a Bratty child.
- Really 700 Years Old: Given that her half-sister is 119 years old, Pirouline, who is double her age, is 238 years old and acts like a middle-aged woman.
- Struggling Single Mother: Not only she has trouble maintaining her relationship, but her daughter is an insufferable Bratty Half-Pint.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She looks EXACTLY like Mélusine, from her red hair down to her green outfit. Except that she's heavier.
- Weight Woe: When we first meet her, she's noticeably obese, as a result of her Big Eater tendencies. When she reappears, she has lost a lot of weight and she's as thin as her half-sister. Then Mélusine uses a spell to reverse everything back to normal and it turns out that Pirouline used a spell to slim her waistline, as she's reversed back to her original weight.
- Wizards Live Longer: Given that her half-sister is 119 years old, Pirouline, who is double her age (and weight), must be 238 years old.
Malicella
Malicela
- Black Magician Girl: Desperately wants to be one, but because she hasn't practiced, she can't count as a threat.
- Bratty Half-Pint: She's unpleasant to be around, throws a tantrum whenever someone doesn't obey her, is rude to whoever she meets, casts her spells at them without her consent (she's a pretty talented witch, we will give her that, she just doesn't know how to undo her magic) and is all in all unbearable. No wonder her mother leaves her alone for months.
- Friendless Background: When she uses an aging spell to Mélusine, Cancrelune, Mélisande, the Master, Madam and Winston to turn them into pre-teens, she grows happy and exclaims that's her first time having friends of her age. Considering how much a Bratty Half-Pint she is, this comes to no surprise to Mélusine.
- Hurt Foot Hop: She loves to to stomp on people's feet just for the fun of it. Victims include Mélusine, Cancrelune, Dr. Kartoffeln and the Master. Only "survivor" is Madam, who has Fog Feet, to Malicella's dismay.
- I Meant to Do That: She often pretends after-the-fact that the results of her Wild Magic, however random, were exactly what she meant to do.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's 112 years old and acts like a pre-teen.
- Sadist: She likes pulling pranks and annoying the heck of people just for the fun of it.
- Wild Magic: Because of her young age, the effects of her spells, whether transformation or summoning, are rather random. She also has no clue how to revert her enchantments, and starts asking Mélusine to teach her how to control her magic.
- Wizards Live Longer: She's a 112-years-old witch.
Kaspar
Kaspar Anoukian
- Interspecies Romance: He, a wizard, is married to a fairy.
- Meaningful Name: His name alludes to one of the Three Magis who brought presents to infant Jesus.
- Mystical White Hair: It certainly can't be from old age. After all, Mélisande must have inherited them from someone.
- Strong Family Resemblance: It's pretty clear from whom Mélisande inherited her white hair.
Sigrid
Sigrid Anoukian
- Interspecies Romance: She, a fairy, is married to a wizard.
- Leg Focus: The black dress she wore for a family photo had a nice cut highlighting them.
- Ms. Fanservice: In the inner cover of the 26th album, she's seen posing for the family photo, wearing a black dress that highlights her curvaceous body.
- Pink Means Feminine: Mélusine finds her wearing a pink dress and cone hate, when she discovers she's a fairy.
- Strong Family Resemblance: It's pretty clear from whom Mélusine inherited her red hair.
Residents of the Castle
The Master
Count Gonzaga Hernyvanz
- Awful Wedded Life: Depending on the album, his marriage with Madam is either this or an Unholy Matrimony.
- Animal Motifs: Bats. It should be expected from a vampire.
- Bloodlust: He's mostly harmless, but he can be sometimes driven by his thirst for blood.
- Blue Oni, Red Oni: He gets carried away by his lust for blood, while his wife is collected and rational.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Downplayed. He's pretty affable and courteous most of the time, but he's not at all above attacking people when his cravings for blood get the better of him.
- Interspecies Romance: He, a vampire, is married to a ghost.
- Like an Old Married Couple: He and Madam tend to bicker quite a lot, because... that's what they are. Of course, there are moments that showcase that Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other, like when Mélusine used a spell to make all the ghosts in the Castle disappear (and this included Madam herself) and the Master grew sad after as the days passed and asked Mélusine to bring her back.
- Unholy Matrimony: Depending on the album, his marriage with Madam is either this or an Awful Wedded Life.
Madam
Duchess Aymee Döperzonn
- Awful Wedded Life: Depending on the album, her marriage with Monsieur is either this or an Unholy Matrimony.
- Blue Oni, Red Oni: She's collected and rational, while her husband gets carried away by his lust for blood.
- Control Freak: Due to her extensive desire of everything being clean, she comes across as a slave driver to Mélusine.
- Ethereal White Dress: As a ghost, her only outfit is a flowing sleeveless white dress.
- Fog Feet: No feet are seen coming out of her aristocratic dress.
- Interspecies Romance: She, a ghost, is married to a vampire.
- Like an Old Married Couple: She and Monsieur tend to bicker quite a lot, because... that's what they are. Of course, there are moments that showcase that Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other, like when Mélusine used a spell to make all the ghosts in the Castle disappear (and this included Madame herself) and Monsieur grew sad after as the days passed and asked Mélusine to bring her back.
- Neat Freak: She's obsessed with cleanness and quite often bosses Mélusine around.
- Not So Stoic: She knows how to control herself but when something bugs her, IT truly bugs her.
- Proper Lady: Has an obsession with cleanness and is well-behaved for most of the time (unlike her Bloodlust husband).
- The Stoic: She carries a stoned face most of the times.
- Unholy Matrimony: Depending on the album, her marriage with Monsieur is either this or an Awful Wedded Life.
Winston
Winston
- Comically Missing the Point: Mélusine once told him for his tendency to hunt down cats and devouring them, for cats are innocent creatures. Cancrelune, who was nearby, added that this isn't the case for black cats. Winston then grabbed black painting and hunted down cats to paint them black and justify his hunting.
- Frankenstein's Monster: His main inspiration appearance-wise. He bears the grey skin-color, broad forehead and stature and inability to talk.
- Hulk Speak: On the rare occasions he actually speaks instead of just grunting, he uses this.
- Shout-Out: He resembles both Lynch and Frankestein's Monster, appearance-wise.
- The Stoic: He barely changes the expression on his face.
- Trademark Favourite Food: Cats. He's seen hunting them down to eat them.
Doctor Kartoffeln
Doctor Kartoffeln
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Mélusine finds him and his inventions insufferable. As a result, she started enjoying her school lessons, as she could find a way to get away from him for a while. Until he enrolled as a teacher.
- Last-Name Basis: Almost always referred with his last name.
- Mad Scientist: It runs down in the family, as his grandfather built Winston.
- Shorter Means Smarter: A Mad Scientist with a peculiar short height.
The Mummy
The Mummy
- Abhorrent Admirer: He obstinately tries to woo Mélusine. She's seriously annoyed by him.
- The Cameo: Made some before disappearing with no justification.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He was a semi-prominent recurring character in the early albums, but was soon reduced to only background cameos, before vanishing altogether.
- Mummy: A stereotypical one, with bandages.
- No Name Given: It's unclear if he even has one.
School Staff
Mister Haaselblatt
Mister Haaselblatt
- Amusing Injuries: He's been crushed, burned, squashed and even eaten alive at one point, yet he always reappear unharmed.
- Asshole Victim: Suffers from Amusing Injuries from Mélusine's spells, but he's such a Mean Teacher that the majority of the times, he deserves them.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: The Short one to Purulóvskovar's Big and Charles' Thin.
- Butt-Monkey: The biggest one, after Cancrelune. He's usually at the receiving end of Mélusine's spells, mainly because he always asks her to cast something dangerous and she always succeeds. Other times, it's also due to bad luck.
- Fat Bastard: A short plumpy man who tends to insult his students, by calling them "losers".
- Cosmic Plaything: His only role in the story is to fall victim to Mélusine's magic showcases.
- Last-Name Basis: Almost always referred with his last name.
- Nice Mean And In Between: The Mean to Purulóvskovar's In-Between and Charles' Nice.
- Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat: He pulls a rabbit out of his wizard hat. It's actually Mélusine in a magical disguise doing a "terror exercise", and it certainly works at horrifying him.
- Sadist Teacher: He acquired a torture chamber in the new school, to make sure that even the inadmissible Cancrelune would take her classes seriously.
Mister Purulóvskovar
Mister Purulóvskovar
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: The Big one to Haaselblatt's short and Charles' thin.
- Cool Teacher: He might be unpleasant to be around, but oh boy, does he have an interesting design!
- Large Ham: Comes with having No Indoor Voice.
- Last-Name Basis: Almost always referred with his last name.
- Nice Mean And In Between: The In-Between to Haaselblatt's Mean and Charles' Nice. He isn't such a Mean Teacher, but he tends to yell to his student quite a lot.
- No Indoor Voice: He tends to yell. Quite a lot.
- Stern Teacher: He does yell, but he doesn't appear to such a Sadist Teacher as Haaselblatt.
Mister Charles Rimbaut
Mister Charles Rimbaut
- A Day in the Limelight: Album 14 The Devil's Cuisine mostly focuses on his culinary classes.
- Aerith and Bob: He has a pretty normal name, at least compared to Haaselblatt and Purulóvskovar.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: The Thin one to Haaselblatt's short and Purulóvskovar's big.
- Chef of Iron: As nice he might be, he's also demonstrated to be frighteningly skilled with his cooking knives, once putting Mélusine in a Knife Outline.
- Chick Magnet: To demonstrate that food can be used to seduce hearts, he feeds some of his female students and they instantly fall for him.
- Cool Teacher: Friendly, laid-back and chill. And quite popular with the ladies.
- Nice Guy: He has never raised his voice or insulted his students.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The Nice to Haaselblatt's Mean and Purulóvskovar's In-Between. As stated above, he's the resident Nice Guy of the group.
- The Team Normal: He doesn't appear to be a wizard or a magic creature, like Haaselblatt or Purulóvskovar.
Other characters
The pastor
The pastor
- Anti-Magic: He once captures Mélusine inside a circle of ash, which neutralizes all of her magical powers and acts as an invisible barrier. Problem: she still has her witch's broom with her, and just uses it to sweep the ash.
- Burn the Witch!: He always tries to subject Mélusine into this, to no avail.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He is seen less and less as the series moves on.
- Fat Bastard: A noticeably round man, whose main target in life is to catch Mélusine and burn her.
- Hypocrite: He has sometimes recourse to some anti-witch tricks that can seem very similar to standard sorcery at a glance, on his quest to burn Mélusine. This has backfired on him at least once, with the superstitious villagers tying him up at the stake instead of Mélusine.
- No Name Given: It's unclear what's his name.
- The Team Normal: One of the few (maybe the only) recurring character(s) who is neither a wizard nor any kind of magical creature.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Even after Mélusine sent snow to lift their spirits for Christmas, he still wants to burn her.
- The Witch Hunter: How he acts most of the times.
The Werewolf
The Werewolf
Click here to see him in his human form.
A... well werewolf and the closest thing Mélusine has to a boyfriend. His true form is of a weak and pathetic little man and would rather she did not see him as such. As a result, the see each other once a month and on condition the sky is clear.
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: As a werewolf, he wears a bow and a vest.
- Beast Man: A Wolf Man.
- Interspecies Romance: He's the closest thing Mélusine has to a boyfriend, they have gone on dates and shared kisses, but because they can see each other once a month (and on condition the sky is clear), she's not interested in moving their relationship to the next level.
- Lovable Nerd: A Nice Guy who is always there for Mélusine to comfort her and cheer her up. Although this is more evident in his human form (never mind they have never interacted).
- Nerd Action Hero: He has shown interest in fighting monsters and loves to prank the passengers. While he's a Wolf Man, of course.
- Nerd Glasses: His human form — and his DONKEY — wears a pair of them.
- Nice Guy: He's always there to comfort and cheer up Mélusine.
- One example was when Mélusine made a deal with Gothika that she could find a boyfriend for the ball before the sun set. After a series of Failure Montage, she gives up, believing she has lost, only for him to show up. After spending a time together, Mélusine decides that she doesn't need to prove anything to Gothika.
- Another example was when he agreed with Madam to help Mélusine in her chores, so she could be done quickly and go on their date. Granted, he thought he was tasked to go on quests and fight monsters, but it still counts.
- No Name Given: He has never been referred as anything else rather than "The Werewolf".
- Stereotypical Nerd: His human form is one, accompanied by a slim and weak posture, front teeth and Nerd Glasses.
- Wolf Man: Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
