MELANIE MARTINEZ WIKI

MELANIE MARTINEZ WIKI

Cry Baby

INFORMATION

BORN August, XXXX

ALSO KNOWN AS Melatonin (original name)

Lorelai (in disguise)

OCCUPATION Student (formerly)

SPECIES Human-Empath (formerly)

Empath-Hybrid (currently)

STATUS Alive (reborn)

CAUSE OF DEATH Unknown

FAMILY Lilith (spirit guide)

Dad †
Mom
Brother
Phillipe (pet)

RELATIONSHIPS Alphabet Boy (ex-boyfriend)

Johnny (ex-boyfriend)
Brandon (former crush)
Blue Boy (former crush)
Leo (school dance date and enemy)
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Ben (love interest)
Kelly (former enemy)
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The Principal † (former enemy)

FRIENDS Angelita (best friend)

Celeste
Magnolia
PORTALS (al… Empath Fleur Melanie Marti… Lilith

ACTOR Melanie Martinez

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Cry Baby (alternately spelled as Crybaby), also know
as "The Creature"[1] is an empath and the central
character of the Cry Baby universe. She is portrayed
by Melanie Martinez.

Being an empath, Cry Baby doesn't die, but rather

reincarnates. Physically, her bodies waste away with
time, but her soul stays intact, aside from its
memories of her previous life. She learns from
experiences shown throughout Melanie's songs,
oFcial music videos, storybooks, concert tours, and
other mediums. Essentially, she is an all-powerful
being transcending on an endless journey.

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Family

Cry Baby's family included her older brother, mother,

and father. Her father was involved in an aKair, which
caused her mother to become depressed and an
alcoholic. Her family pretended to be perfect when in
the company of others, causing Cry Baby to feel fake
and plastic ("Dollhouse"). Her dysfunctional family fell
apart even more when her mother killed her father
after Lnding out about his inLdelity ("Sippy Cup"). Cry
Baby also could not contact her mother while at
school (K-12) due to her mother being drunk and
passed out.

Personality & traits

Cry Baby was introduced as a young, sensitive girl,
living in a very problematic household. As a result of
her emotional nature, she was consistently mocked
and made fun of. In much of her beginnings, Cry Baby
was an insecure individual, who was prone to violent
temper tantrums. As the album progresses, Cry Baby
grows as an individual, gradually learning to overcome
her struggles with conLdence and learns what it
means to be a happy person.

In K-12, Cry Baby was revealed to be an empath

guided by Lilith (a spirit guide). When her eyes turn
black, it represents her being awakened to a higher
level of consciousness. Being an empath, Cry Baby
has displayed several magical abilities. According to
Lilith, Cry Baby has lived in several other bodies
before (having many past lives).

It is implied that Cry Baby is likely bisexual, because

she thought the love letter she received from Ben
was written by a girl and appeared mildly
disappointed when Leo, a boy, claimed to have
written it.

In Alternative Press magazine, Cry Baby was revealed

to be Taurus sun and Scorpio rising ( as shown in the
song Field Trip) . Her zodiac sign was described as
generous, dependable, down to earth, patient,
independent and persistent, but also as stubborn,
self-indulgent, lazy, materialistic, possessive and
frugal, which may mean she is a Gemini, a Sagittarius
or a Scorpio.

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Appearance

Cry Baby's iconic physical features in the storybook

are her brown hair in two twin-drill pigtails with bows
varying in color, and her brown eyes (they turn
completely black sometimes) and a gap between her
two front teeth. Similarly to other characters, her
clothing varies, although it is generally a dress with
shoes and pastel yellow socks. In music videos, she
has two-toned hair, one side colored and one side
black. The coloring and style vary between music
videos and scenes.

In K-12, Cry Baby wears a modiLed version of the K-12

Sleepaway School uniform: she has dyed the pink
dress purple and woven Wowers through the sleeves.
She also wears a Rococo-style dress in the school
play, as well as a swimsuit and a dress with a cake
skirt later on. The colored side of her hair mostly stays
as blonde, but changes occasionally to coral,
lavender, and orange. Like Melanie, Cry Baby also has
a gap between her front teeth.

In PORTALS, Cry Baby is reincarnated as a celestial

being, seemingly from another planet. She has pink
skin, 2 pairs of blue eyes, dark purple lips, and green
hair that can vary in shades. She can be seen wearing
various nature-inspired clothing, such as the
mushroom shoes she wears in the "DEATH" music
video, or the vegetation-like drapes she wears over
herself during her setlist at Lollapalooza on March
18th, 2023. She has a pair of wings shortly after her
rebirth.

Life

Cry Baby

An illustration of a vintage frame from the storybook, showing Cry

Baby's cartoon portrait.

Not long after Cry Baby was born, her mother labeled
her as "a cry baby" because of her excessively loud
crying. Her brother then writes "Cry Baby" on her birth
certiLcate, taking his mother's comment literally. At
home, when Cry Baby's mother attempts to feed her,
she throws a tantrum and hallucinates her toys
coming after her. ("Cry Baby").

That night, Cry Baby is restless, but so is her mother,

who catches her husband with another woman. She
ties both of them up and stabs them to death,
presumably under the inWuence of alcohol. After Cry
Baby discovers her father and his mistress' bodies,
her mother drugs her to make her forget what she
saw. ("Sippy Cup").

Cry Baby later enters a relationship with a boy that

she meets at a carnival and she later referred to him
as Alphabet Boy. The relationship is very one-sided
and constantly causes Cry Baby to feel like she will
never "catch up to love." ("Carousel").

Cry Baby soon realizes that this relationship is toxic

and breaks up with him. She wishes to prove to him
how tough she is and becomes aggressive, attacking
her household items with a knife, hoping he can see
her. ("Alphabet Boy").

Cry Baby later meets another boy but is incredibly

nervous about interacting with him. She says many
embarrassing things, as hinted in the lines, "Uh-oh,
there it goes, I said too much, it overWowed/Why do I
always spill?". She is afraid to say that she loves him,
in case he is not at the same stage as her, or he does
not love her back ("Soap").

An illustration of a vintage frame from the storybook, showing Cry

Baby's cartoon portrait.

Cry Baby and the boy, named Johnny, get into a

relationship and Cry Baby decides to take their
relationship to the next level ("Training Wheels").

Cry Baby throws a birthday party, to which no one,

including Johnny, arrives. This causes her to
completely destroy her house in an insane rampage,
but she regrets it after. ("Pity Party").

Cry Baby breaks up with Johnny. Alone and insecure,

she goes shopping and an ice cream truck appears
outside of the store. The cashier seems to take this as
a bad omen and hands Cry Baby a bottle of poison as
she leaves. Cry Baby stops by the ice cream truck,
which is run by a wolf. This is most likely a metaphor
for disguised predators. The wolf drugs her ice cream
and drives oK with her. ("Tag, You're It").

The wolf orders Cry Baby to make him milk and

cookies at his lair. Now evidently insane, Cry Baby
uses the poison handed to her by the cashier and
poisons the cookies. ("Milk and Cookies").

After escaping, Cry Baby attempts to invite her friend

over. Her friend, Blue Boy, is in a relationship with a
girl Cry Baby calls "Basic Bitch". Cry Baby notes that
Blue Boy does not seem happy and decides to make
him like her; she is unsuccessful after Basic Bitch
wins him over with her breasts. ("Pacify Her").

Now aware that attractive bodies have a great eKect

on boys, Cry Baby begins to grow self-conscious.
After seeing many beauty ads on TV, she believes her
hair needs to be a diKerent color, she has to be
thinner, and she has to have bigger breasts in order to
be loved. However, after seeing Mrs. Potato Head's
horror story on TV, Cry Baby realizes that she is
perfect the way she is and there is nothing that she
needs to change. ("Mrs. Potato Head").

Later, Cry Baby decides to try smoking but Lnds one

of her mother's drinks in her room. Cry Baby drinks
the liquid which causes her to hallucinate people with
all-black eyes standing around her bed. Cry Baby
passes out and has a dream representing her self-
reWection and how she has learned to love herself
despite the fact that she goes a bit crazy sometimes.
("Mad Hatter").

K-12

Cry Baby is sent to start her education at a boarding

school called K-12 Sleepaway School along with her
best friend, Angelita. On the bus ride to school, where
she is sitting with Angelita, Cry Baby is bullied by the
other students for the gap between her two front
teeth ("Wheels on the Bus"). She and Angelita are both
revealed to have powers that turn their eyes
completely black (Cry Baby may have gained her
powers through the drink she drank in "Mad Hatter").
The girls use their powers to prank some of their
fellow students, but when the bus driver becomes
distracted by the students who are misbehaving and
swerves into a lake, they lift the bus out of the water
and into the sky, before landing it at the school.

Cry Baby and Angelita arrive late to Ms. Daphne's

class and are scolded by her. The rest of the students
recite Ms. Daphne's rule about tardiness: "when the
bell rings, you must be in your assigned seat". During
class, Cry Baby and a boy named Brandon become
friends, but Kelly, Brandon's girlfriend. believes Cry
Baby and Brandon are "Wirting" and writes a
disturbing letter for Cry Baby saying "You at Recess"
accompanied by a stick person laying next to a
tombstone. At naptime, Cry Baby shows Angelita the
letter. Cry Baby expresses her worries that she has no
chance at winning since she doesn't know how to
Lght, to which Angelita suggests that she uses her
powers. Cry Baby refuses, stating that it would be
cheating. At recess, Brandon decides to play with
Angelita and Cry Baby, prompting Kelly to become
aggressive to Cry Baby and even cuts her with a
knife; Cry Baby levitates and attempts to strangle
Kelly with her braids. As this is happening, Ms.
Daphne sees what is happening and stops the Lght
("Class Fight").

Cry Baby and Kelly are sent to The Principal's oFce.

While they are waiting to see him, Cry Baby Lnds out
from another kid waiting in the principal's oFce that
the Principal forces the students to take pills in order
to control them and stop them from leaving the
school. Angered, Cry Baby uses her powers to call him
on the phone anonymously and insults him, calling
him out on everything he has done wrong. Cry Baby
uses her powers to poison him and escapes from the
oFce. Meanwhile, Ms. Daphne Lnds the passed out
Principal and orders the Bunny Doctors to cure him.

Cry Baby is late for class, and as punishment Ms.

Penelope turns Cry Baby into a puppet and forces her
to dance but then accidentally drops her, breaking the
doll. ("Show & Tell"). Ms. Penelope takes Cry Baby into
the Nurse's OFce and Angelita, who is on her way to
class, sees Cry Baby and turns her back into a human.
The nurses attempt to keep the duo restrained and
under control ("Nurse's OSce") until an angelic spirit
guide named Lilith frees Cry Baby and Angelita.

In drama class, Cry Baby is placed in a sexist role for

the school play, and she tells the teacher that she
hates this role, instead wishing to play a strong role
such as a Llm director or the President of the United
States. The teacher, Mr. Cornwell, dismisses her
concerns and calls in the guards to capture her when
she attempts to leave. Cry Baby is forced to play the
role, although the events take a turn when she
presses a hot clothes iron to another student's face.
She then warns the students in the auditorium that
they are being brainwashed, and uses her powers to
defeat the guards and free the students. The
students rush to the Principal's OFce at Cry Baby's
order and begin tearing him apart, killing him ("Drama
Club"). Cry Baby and Angelita bury the body, then leave
to play tennis with their friend Celeste, who was
revealed to have the same powers as the girls during
"Wheels On The Bus".

Cry Baby and the other students end up heading to

swimming class, but Cry Baby notes that the school's
provided swimsuits for girls are too skimpy; she and
her friends end up not engaging in the class
("Strawberry Shortcake"). Cry Baby then has a dream in
which she is speaking to Lilith, telling her that she
doesn't want to be part of this world.

At lunchtime, Kelly and her friends attempt to rope

Cry Baby into spreading rumors with them, but Cry
Baby leaves and ends up meeting Magnolia, a girl who
has the same powers as her and her friends ("Lunchbox
Friends"). Cry Baby and her friends soon discover that
Fleur, a friend of Kelly, has the same abilities as them,
and they set up a food Lght in an attempt to separate
her from the group. After seeing that Fleur is leaving
with Kelly, Cry Baby follows her to the bathroom,
where she realizes that Fleur is bulimic, likely partially
due to pressure from Kelly to maintain a speciLc Lgure
in order to remain friends with her ("Orange Juice"). Cry
Baby tells Fleur that "everyone is deserving of love",
and the two become friends. Leo, the Principal's son,
stops the food Lght and asks who is responsible for
the situation. Kelly informs him that Cry Baby was the
one who started it, resulting in her being sent to
detention. In detention, the nurses give the students
medication through syringes to brainwash them into
doing more schoolwork. Cry Baby manages to
hypnotize Leo into letting her go free ("Detention").

Cry Baby discovers an anonymous note in her locker,

containing a poem from another student confessing
their feelings to her. She and her friends discuss a
plan to take down Leo and escape the school,
unaware that Leo is watching through security
cameras. In biology class, the teacher, who is working
with Leo, Wirts with Angelita and invites her to stay
after class. After class, he gives Angelita a poisoned
lollipop that shrinks her. He attempts to dissect her,
but Cry Baby hears Angelita's pleas for help. She
enters the room and uses her powers to throw him
into the wall. She turns Angelita back to her normal
size, and the latter attacks the teacher with a knife,
presumably killing him ("Teacher's Pet").

Cry Baby and Angelita steal some of Ms. Daphne's

drugs and decide to practice their powers on a bunny
sculpture. That night in the dorm, Cry Baby cannot
sleep due to worry about the note. To clear her mind,
she goes to dance in the hall before returning to bed.
As she goes to sleep, she hugs the note she was
given ("High School Sweethearts").

Leo asks Cry Baby to the school dance, to which she

accepts, while thinking "keep your friends close and
your enemies closer". He claims to be the one who
wrote the love note. At the dance, Cry Baby realizes
that she had messed up the plan to escape the
school by accepting Leo's oKer. Her friends express
disappointment in her, and she storms oK to the
bathroom. A ghost appears in the mirror, telling Cry
Baby, "Don't beat yourself up" when she is mad at
herself for ruining the plan. Leo makes an
announcement to the students that he knew what
Cry Baby had been planning, and forces all of the
students to dance for hours. Cry Baby, who is
disguised as a woman named Lorelai, locks Leo in a
closet and frees everyone from the spell. She warns
the students to leave the school, and all except Kelly
Wed downstairs to the exit ("Recess").

Cry Baby then meets Ben, who confesses to her that

he was the one who put the note in her locker.
Together, they create a plan to use a bubble to make
the school Woat away and disappear. Once this is
done, they both jump out of the balcony to escape.
After the school disappears, Cry Baby kisses Ben on
the cheek. Lilith appears again with the gate to return
home. Magnolia, Fleur, Celeste, and Ben are the Lrst
ones to leave. As Angelita was about to go through
the gate, she stops and asks Cry Baby if she's coming
or not. Cry Baby looks back in shock.

PORTALS

Through unknown events, Cry Baby's physical body

has died from unknown causes after the events of K-
12. However, due to her being an empath, her soul has
reincarnated into an otherworldly being's body. No
additional information is currently provided.

Powers & abilities

Main Article: Empath

As an empath in the Cry Baby universe, Cry Baby is

shown to have magic/psychic powers, where her
eyes turn black when she uses them. This is shown
multiple times throughout Cry Baby and K-12. Unlike
her friend Angelita, Cry Baby doesn't like to take
advantage of her skills for her own beneLt. Below is a
list of powers that Cry Baby has displayed thus far:

Telekinesis: Like all empaths, Cry Baby has

demonstrated to use her telekinesis to
manipulate objects with her mind's force. This is
Lrst demonstrated in "Pacify Her", when Cry Baby
levitates a chessboard and throws it at Basic
Bitch. This ability is also shown in multiple scenes
of K-12, such as when Cry Baby causes the bus to
hit a bump which makes Jason fall over, when
she lifts the bus out of the water and into the air,
and when she uses her braids to choke Kelly.

Mental Disintegration: At the end of "The

Principal", Cry Baby raises her arms and dispels
the members of the courtroom, with a small cloud
of pink smoke surrounding them as they
disappear. She later used this same power to
make Kelly disappear at the end of Orange Juice,
as well as the ending of K-12.

Mental Reintegration: At the end of "Teacher's

Pet", Cry Baby turns Angelita back to her normal
size, with a small cloud of pink smoke
surrounding her after that, also sharing this ability
with Angelita.

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