Cammy Meele

Cammy Meele was the lazy flight attendant aboard Flight I-390 of iFly Airlines during the murder of Akbey Hicks.

Background
Meele studied abroad in Borginia at some point in her life, becoming fluent in the local language. She eventually became involved with an international smuggling ring, using her job as an air hostess at iFly Airlines to aid the crime group in the smuggling of priceless artifacts and the forging of documents. As a flight attendant, she was occasionally in charge of first class, but her laziness meant that the only real job to which she was entrusted was that of "Borginian stuff", due to her ability to speak and write the language.

Murder of Akbey Hicks

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During one flight, Meele was ordered to help Interpol agent Akbey Hicks in an investigation of the plane's cargo hold. When Hicks began to take pictures of the cargo hold, Meele panicked and pushed him off the elevated staircase to the floor far below, killing him. Meele proceeded to cover her tracks and pin the blame on Rhoda Teneiro, a fellow flight attendant. She did this mainly by planting Hicks's cellphone in Teneiro's locker and by using one of the suitcases that Tenerio had designed to transport the body. Unfortunately for her, whilst in the elevator, the plane underwent a period of high turbulence, and the suitcase burst open. The corpse fell out and his belongings were spread all over the elevator. Meele decided to make the elevator seem like the crime scene. She left the corpse as it was, cleaned out the suitcase, placed it in the gift shop and used a piggy bank from the gift shop cabinet to fabricate a murder weapon by smearing it in blood. She then planted Hicks's travel wallet on Miles Edgeworth, who had the misfortune to have been rendered unconscious by the turbulence in the lounge.

When Edgeworth got involved in the murder investigation, Meele temporarily aided him after finding out that Tenerio had lied about obtaining permission for Edgeworth to investigate the crime. Meele told Edgeworth that she had seen Hicks at 5 a.m. and spent most of her time with the prosecutor trying subtly to steer the suspicion onto Teneiro. Eventually, however, Edgeworth figured out that Meele was responsible not only for killing Hicks but also for aiding the smuggling ring. Meele was promptly arrested.

Personality
Meele appeared to be an extremely lazy woman at first glance, often falling asleep while being talked to and even nodding off while standing up. "Sleep bubbles" would appear whilst her long hair was drooped over her face. As well, Meele constantly carried a doll of her airline's mascot, Mr. Ifly, around with her. However, this was all an act to make herself seem harmless. The "sleep bubbles" were actually soap bubbles she was blowing underneath her hair. Meele was also a very possessive woman, becoming very jealous if another woman even so much as talked to her boyfriend, the plane's pilot.

Name

 * "Shiraoto" means "white noise" in Japanese, which may symbolise how she hears other people as she constantly falls asleep when they talk.


 * Her English name may be a pun on chamomile, which can be made into tea that is used by some people as a sleep aid.


 * The name "Cammy" could possibly be a reference to the character Cammy White from the Street Fighter franchise, also made by Capcom.

Development

 * Originally, when aggravated, Meele's long hair was to form into a large intimidating form, similar to that of the ghost of Dahlia Hawthorne.


 * Sketches show the plush toy she carries as being a teddy bear in some designs and a rabbit in others.


 * Humorously, during her breakdown animation, it is possible to see in one of the sprites her Mr. Ifly doll holding his hat whilst being flung around in her arms.


 * Meele holds the dubious honour of being the only partner character guilty of murder. She is also the only partner character that purposely tries to mislead the main character's investigation for their own ends.