Melissa Shield

Melissa Shield (メリッサ・シールド) is a Quirkless girl and the daughter of scientist David Shield. She appears in My Hero Academia: Two Heroes.

Appearance
Melissa is a young woman with straight blonde hair long enough to stretch down her back. She has deep sky blue eyes and a pair of red, oval frame eyeglasses. Melissa normally wears a white dress shirt with orange plaid trim sleeves, underneath a red vest with an orange plaid bow tie at the collar. Accompanying this are knee length khaki pants, salmon plaid leggings, and boots. She also sports a watch on her left wrist.

Personality
Melissa is a kind and very intelligent girl who maintains a positive attitude despite being Quirkless. It also seems that she is very humble about her creations. In addition, she cares deeply for her father and wants to reunite him with his old friend All Might.

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
While schools in Japan are on vacation, Melissa Shield sends an email to U.A. Teacher and No.1 Hero: All Might. In her message, she asks All Might to come and visit her father on I-Island for an upcoming expo. She hopes that All Might will reunite with her father and she expresses that she can't wait to see his reaction.

All Might
Melissa first met All Might when he came to pick up a new costume from her father, and seeing how it protected him and hearing how her father was a hero to All Might inspired her to become a support engineer. Later on she becomes familiar with All Might enough to refer to him as "Uncle Might" when she invites him to I-Island in email.

David Shield
It is noted by Izuku Midoriya that Melissa highly respects her father, seeing as how she wants to become like him: someone who indirectly saves people by helping heroes with support items. Upon learning about how David helps All Might save people with his inventions, she becomes inspired by this and tries her best to become a support engineer herself. Her love for her father is also shown when she tries to save him and when she instantly forgives him, even after learning that he was the one who planned the villains' attack.

Izuku Midoriya
Shortly after his arrival on I-Island, Melissa was quick to take note of Izuku's appearance, describing aspects such as his hero costume and the scars on his hand. She later toured him around the I-Island Expo at the request of her father, and the two quickly bonded over their similar interests in heroes and support tech. After observing Izuku's performance in the faux villain course, Melissa gave him the Full Gauntlet in order to help handle his usage of One For All. She also revealed to Izuku that she is Quirkless, and that she shares a goal similar to him in wanting to save people's lives, indicating she considers him a good friend by that point.

Trivia

 * Melissa refers to All Might as "Uncle Might". It is most likely due to the closeness the that he and her father share.
 * According to Melissa, she had given up on being a hero a while ago. Instead, she wants to be like her father who saves people’s lives, but saves them indirectly.

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