Melanie Lemay

2016-12-22T16:04:54Z

184.176.99.183: /* Abstergo Entertainment CCO */

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{{Character Infobox
|image = AC4 Melanie Lemay render.png
|hideb = yes
|affiliates = [[Abstergo Entertainment]]<br>[[Templars]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''<br>''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''<br>''[[Question the Creed]]''
|voice = [[Cristina Rosato]]}}
'''Melanie Lemay''' is the Chief Creative Officer of [[Abstergo Entertainment]], a subsidiary of [[Abstergo Industries]], the [[Sample 17 Project]] Supervisor, and a member of the [[Templars|Templar Order]].

==Biography==
===Sample 17 Supervisor===
[[File:AC4 Olivier Melanie.png|thumb|left|250px|Melanie introducing the analyst to Olivier]]
On 29 October 2013, Melanie inducted a [[Abstergo Entertainment research analyst|new employee]] into the company, and introduced them to the company's CCO, [[Olivier Garneau]]. Afterwards, Melanie showed the employee to their Animus station and left them to explore [[Edward Kenway]]'s [[Genetic memory|genetic memories]].<ref name="AC4">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''</ref>

On 13 November 2013, Melanie unknowingly found a picture of Juno in a copy of Pirates of Nightmares. She started to ask the Abstergo Entertainment development team, however none of them knew what it was. The investigation into the image was then taken over by [[Laetitia England]].

Not long after this, Olivier went missing while en-route to a shareholder's meeting with Laetitia at Abstergo Industries, and Melanie was forced to assume control in his stead. Simultaneously, Melanie found herself dealing with a series of hacks across the company's servers, security systems, computers, and [[Animus#Animus Omega|Animi]]. All the evidence seemed to suggest that the recently inducted employee was responsible.<ref name="AC4" />

Eventually, the hacks escalated to such a level of severity, that Melanie was forced to isolate several members of the Sample 17 team in the [[Bunker]], a basement level of the [[Montreal]] facility, that would allow the researchers to continue their work without compromising the rest of the facility.<ref name="AC4" />

Eventually, the decision was made to detain the suspected hacker, and Melanie, escorted by armed security, made her way to the analyst's room. Inside, they saw [[John Standish]] from IT trying to poison their suspect, but he was shot and killed during the attempt.<ref name="AC4" />

Melanie later apologized for suspecting the analyst, reasoning that John had been solely responsible for the hacks all along. She then rewarded the analyst with a sneak-peek of the trailer for the company's latest product, the ''[[Pirates of Nightmares]]''.<ref name="AC4" />

After the death of John Standish, Melanie reported to Laetitia England. She told Laetitia how Standish was killed and asked if Laetitia had heard anything from Olivier since he disappeared.<ref name="AC4" />

===Abstergo Entertainment CCO===
After the disappearance of Olivier Garneau, Melanie took over as Chief Creative Officer of Abstergo Entertainment office in Montreal, and was inducted into the Templar Order.<ref name="ACRG">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''</ref>

On June 2014, Melanie focused on creating new games, especially about different [[Assassins]] and Templars through history, asking for opinions to the employees, among them [[Robert Fraser]]. While looking at Robert's progress on the [[Arno Dorian]] project, [[Aidan St. Claire]], Project Manager, handed her one of Robert's sketches, and she wittily left a posit on the sketch congratulating Robert for his work.<ref name="EH">''[[Assassin's Creed Unity: Abstergo Entertainment - Employee Handbook]]''</ref>

On 25 June, Melanie sent Robert an email telling him to stop playing "games of chance" like {{Wiki|Pharaoh}} since this would create tension within the employees and then encouraged him to find other ways to spend time with his colleagues.<ref name="EH" />

Sometime later, Aidan gave her Robert's psychological evaluation that was made to see if he had the [[Bleeding Effect]] and Melanie thanked him for keeping her informed. She as well asked him to watch Robert's behaviour closely.<ref name="EH" />

On 18 July, Melanie sent Robert some rough sketches for Arno's and [[Elise de la Serre|Elise]]'s figurines and asked him what he thought about them.<ref name="EH" />

On 29 July, Robert, after spending a week with Abstergo's psychiatrist [[Victoria Bibeau]], sent her a reapplication letter for Arno's project claiming that he was now in perfect conditions to continue his work. After speaking about it with Aidan, she decided to reapplicate Robert. Unexpectedly, some days later both Robert and Victoria started burning documents and deleting every file related to Arno Dorian. They also leaked the unsequenced memories to the Assassins before they were terminated.<ref name="EH" />

Melanie ordered Aidan to recover what was left from the files to give it to Templar initiate [[Percy Westcreek]] for him to review and to help him finish Arno's memories. Since Percy had the [[Eagle Vision]], Melanie would often give him some artifact for him to examine, like Arno's watch, the chalice from the [[Initiation into the Assassin Order|Assassin Order initiation]], and a [[Templar pin|Templar badge of office]].<ref name="EH" />

When Percy relived Arno's memories up to his encounter with [[Sages|Sage]] and [[Grand Master]] [[François-Thomas Germain]] on 21 January 1793 at [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]]'s execution, Melanie gave him a promotion within the Templar ranks as well as the title of Journeyman, which gave him access to to confidential information on the [[Isu]], their [[Pieces of Eden|technology]] and Abstergo's [[Phoenix Project]]. After Percy had finished reading the information, Melanie revealed him the true purpose of his project, finding Germain's remains before the Assassins.

Thanks to Percy's swift work with Arno's memories and his abilities with the Eagle Vision, Melanie provided Percy with a trip on an Abstergo Entertainment private jet to examine the [[French Assassins]]' hideout underneath [[Sainte-Chapelle]], hoping that Percy's Eagle Vision would help him discover some secrets others might have missed.<ref name="EH" />

On November, a [[Helix research analyst|research analyst]] triggered a virus embedded in the memories of [[Shay Cormac]] stored in the [[Helix]], causing the entire facility to become compromised. In response, Melanie ordered an evacuation of the building, leaving [[Violet da Costa]] and [[Juhani Otso Berg]] in charge of restoring the systems and security. Melanie later called the research analyst to her office, telling them of Olivier's disappearance, and granting the analyst necessary security clearance to continue exploring Shay's genetic memories. After the research analyst finished analyzing Cormac's memories, Melanie and Violet were present when Berg gave the analyst a choice of joining the Templar Order or being killed.<ref name="ACRG" />

Around the same time Melanie was working on the Dvija A.I. project, but needed a digital version of [[Monima Das]] to finish. She also sought to work with [[MysoreTech]] to create virtual historical tours, concerts, and sporting events. [[Arend Schut Cunningham|Arend Schut]] was one possible figure to be featured in a virtual MMA fight.<ref name="ACRG" />

On 30 October 2015, Lemay had scheduled a conference with [[Isabelle Ardant]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''</ref>

==Personality and characteristics==
A fair, cheerful, and amiable woman, Melanie was quite good-natured and genuinely cared for those working under her. She argued several times with Olivier Garneau about the pressure that Abstergo Industries had put on them, and their high priority in locating the [[Observatory]]. Following Garneau's disappearance, Melanie was reluctant to use the full extent of her powers to isolate the Project team, noting that although she had the contractual right to detain them indefinitely, she would rather not.<ref name="AC4" />

She often became genuinely concerned when any of her employees were subjected to harm or duress, as demonstrated when the newly recruited research analyst ran into trouble in several instances.<ref name="AC4" />

She even argued with Olivier when he planned to over work the employees to find the Observatory.

However, she seemed to become less compassionate after joining the Templar Order, and seemed to have no qualms in letting Berg kill the research analyst if they refused to join the Templar Order. Nonetheless, she actively encouraged the research analyst to join the Order, believing that the Order would promise them a better life.

==Trivia==
*The name Melanie, as well as its French variant Mélanie, is derived from the [[Greece|Greek]] μελαινα (''melaina''), meaning "black, dark".
*Melanie referenced being married in the database article for ''[[Database: The Queen's Staircase|The Queen's Staircase]]'', saying that she saw them during her honeymoon in [[Nassau]].
**However, in a conversation recovered from Abstergo's servers, Melanie mentioned needing only one plane ticket in order to attend [[Alan Rikkin]]'s party "unless something exciting happens", implying that she was single.
*Melanie had a great-great-grandfather who fought in the [[American Civil War]]; he was noted to have met President [[Abraham Lincoln]] a few times.
*Her name was spelled "Mélanie" in ''[[Question the Creed]]''.
*Melanie has had contact with five members of the [[Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order|Inner Sanctum]], including [[Álvaro Gramática]], Laetitia England, Alan Rikkin, Isabelle Ardant, and Juhani Otso Berg.
*In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'', there is a document where Melanie mentions MMA fighters Guilherme Venancio and Luis Otavio Duris. These are the same fighters that were in [[São Paulo]], [[Brazil]] during the [[Modern times|modern day]] in ''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
Melanie Lemay - Early Concept Art.jpg|Early concept art of Melanie's appearance in ''Black Flag''
Melanie Lemay - Concept Art.jpg|Finalized concept art of Melanie's appearance in ''Black Flag''
ACRG Melanie Lemay - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of Melanie's appearance in ''Rogue''
AC4 Melanie Olivier Office Talk.png|Melanie speaking with Olivier in her office
AC4 Melanie Lemay.png|Melanie speaking with the research analyst
AC4 Melanie Olivier Meeting.png|Melanie meeting with Olivier
AC4 The Bunker 1.png|Melanie contacting the analyst in the bunker
AC4 The Bunker 6.png|Melanie and John in the Abstergo Cloud server corridor
AC4 Melanie Office.png|Melanie working in her office
ACRG-Melanie Violet.png|Melanie speaking with Violet
ACRG Melanie CCO Office.png|Melanie meeting the Helix analyst in her office
</gallery>

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