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Melody Pianissima, the Beautiful Pianist (Japanese: ピアン Pian) is the sixth Portrait Ghost Luigi meets and the third portrait ghost of Area 2. She is one of the twenty-one portrait ghosts that was freed by King Boo in Luigi's Mansion.
Melody was an expert pianist when she was alive, and was also very vain. She died at the age of 26 and now spends her afterlife endlessly playing her piano in the Conservatory, located on the first floor of the mansion. Melody has a passion for video games.
Information
Physical description
Melody has a heart-shaped head and has long blonde hair with two long bangs down each side. Her hair curves at the bottom of her hairstyle. She has bluish-greenish skin and large completely yellow eyes. She also has a small nose as well as slightly full lips.
Melody wears a long maroon dress with long sleeves. White frilly trim is on her sleeves and the bottom of her dress. She has a dark maroon belt with a white buckle at her waist and a dark maroon bow near her neck.
Powers and abilities
- Music Sheet Mimicry: Melody has the power to command music sheets to do her bidding, which she uses during her fight with Luigi.
- Expert Pianist skills: Melody is a virtuoso, a musician who is skilled with playing the piano. However, she somewhat loses these skills temporarily when she gets angry or confused.
- Poison Mushroom: While being captured, Melody will eventually drop a Poison Mushroom.
- Invisibility: When not attacking, Melody can become invisible.
Personality and traits
Melody has a bad temper, which is set off easily. If Luigi gets her question wrong about a song she played she bangs on the piano and yells at him since she had played a "beautiful piece" and Luigi has "insulted" it.
Shivers is very deeply smitten with her, but she spurns his affections and doesn't give him the time of day, much to his dismay.
History
When Luigi enters the Conservatory in the first floor of the mansion, he must make all the instruments play music by examining them with A or X (former for the GameCube original game and the latter for the 3DS remake); this will lure Melody out. She then will reveal herself and will play a classic song from a Mario game for Luigi, like the underwater theme from Super Mario Bros, and then ask a question about it. If Luigi answers wrong, she will get mad and disappear, and Luigi must try again.
Battle
If he answers right she will attack him by causing music sheets to fly at him. Sucking up the sheets causes Melody to stop playing the piano and clutch her head in frustration, making her vulnerable and showing her heart.
After some medium pulls from Melody, Luigi captures her and gains the key to the Dining Room. With another portrait ghost eliminated, Luigi continued the search for his brother Mario.
Gallery
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Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ピアン Pian |
From piano (the instrument has the same name in both English and Japanese) |
| Spanish | Sol Bemol Mayor | Major G-flat |
| French | Mélodie Pianissimo, La Belle Pianiste | Melody Pianissima, The Beauty Pianist |
| German | Melodia Pianissima | |
| Italian | Melody Pianissima, la bella pianista | Melody Pianissima, the beauty piano player |
Trivia
- Melody's first name is a musical term for the main line of music in a composition.
- Melody's last name comes from pianissimo, a musical notation meaning to play very softly. The feminine -a ending has replaced the last letter.
- Her name literally means "very soft melody".
- The music that Melody plays on the piano is either a level from Super Mario Bros. 3 or the "Underwater Theme" from Super Mario Bros., depending on what question she asks.
- There's a file in the game's code that has the Totaka Song played on the piano. This was most likely meant to be used as one of the possible songs that the player would have to guess during Melody's boss fight.[1]
- When the player is outside the conservatory, Melody can be heard playing a remix of the Luigi's Mansion's theme song that is used for outside rooms. Strangely, after Melody is captured, the song can still be heard.
- Before Melody was the main mini-boss in the Conservatory, there are pictures of ghosts there were originally supposed to be mini-bosses, but they did not made it to the final version of the game.
- Melody bares a slight resemblance to Rosalina.
