User:MortisGladiator/Melissa Dureyies

First Lieutenant Melissa Dureyies was an ODST and later a member of SPARTAN as a Spartan-IV. Melissa served through much of the Human-Covenant War, and had brief contact with insurgent soldiers before the Covenant began their onslaught. She served a short time as a Marine before Jiralhanae warriors decimated her squad.

She would be planted in an ODST squad upon request, serving as second-in=command under Captain Stephen T. Hammer. During her time with the squad, she would develop a romantic relationship with the team's gunnery sergeant, Mathew Johnson Tezak. However, she would not get along well with the team's heavy weapon specialist, Eli Clarkson, a corporal with a quick tongue and pessimistic attitude.