Amber (Amy) Thysteine

"Fragments of the past can always be altered for any given situation. Memories aren't what define someone's true character; your actions in the here and now are the only things that matter."

Name: Amy Thysteine (Amber Styner name at birth)

Age: 18

Gender: female

Race: Human (Experimented on)

Height: 5' 5"

Weight: 127 lbs

Hair: (Sorta Bleached) Blonde

Eyes: Violet

Affiliation: Beacon 1st Year Student

Team: AMBR

Color: Amethyst

Appearance
Amy has long blonde hair that stops half-way down her back. She wears a purple school uniform-like outfit (that was gifted to her when she exited the hospital she stayed at when she was found). Her eyes are a shade of violet and match the gemstone (a Dust Crystal) in her scarf. Amy also wears long dark purple socks and a pair of leather shoes on her feet.

Personality
 As Amber: 

At first Amber wasn't the type of person who wanted to get close to people. After remembering one fearful memory, she's been reluctant to trust anyone. If she'd talk to you, the conversation wouldn't be very long and would only be about one of her tasks. She prefered to do everything by herself, missions, training, etc. because she just didn't know how to express herself. Her personality soon changed after being put on Team AMBR, because she learned to trust the members of the team after their first mission.

 As Amy: 

When you get to know her, Amy can be really nice. She's friendly to most people, especially her teammate Rina who thinks of her as a big sister, and can get really defensive when she's in danger. Sometimes she can get mad when Rina and Blaine end up joking around too much, but she still enjoys their company. When she's angry, Amy doesn't hold back any punches; she'll say exactly what she feels about the situation at hand. Her temper can get the best of her at times, but it's not as bad as before the team got together. Back then, her anger was a major distraction to her mentally and caused her fighting performance to drop greatly. It's not a big problem now, but it still happens.

Her nice nature, changes into something more fierce and serious when in a battle. Amy isn't the type of girl to play with her enemies, and likes to finish them off as quick as possible. She's not the one to get cocky and underestimate her opponent either (that's Blaine's job); any comments on her enemy come after they've been defeated.

When at Beacon, Amy likes to spend time reading a good book, or studying in the library (yes she's quite the nerd). Sometimes she'll be a part of Blaine's unusual tricks and pranks either as an accomplice, or as the target. If she's the one getting pranked, Amy will definitely use him for target practice.

Weapon & Abilities
Amy uses two hand held ring blades in combat called her "Crescent Graces". They can be thrown and will come back to her just like a boomerang. She can also use them in close ranged combat, slashing enemies with grace, while implementing a spinning motion here and there. Her battle style is similar to Cheria Barnes from Tales of Graces F.

Ring_blade.jpgLightning (Dust) Skills
Her bolts can vary in number and size depending on how they are cast. When she activates her Dust crystal, it glows as well as her hands and weapon. The ones from her palms are usually small most of the time and don't cause much damage, but they can be used for multiple quick attacks.

She can also summon stronger lightning attacks with her Dust crystal as well; by concentrating hard enough, she can create a circular violet glyph of her emblem on the ground, air, or walls to determine where these powerful bolts will strike. Perfoming attacks this way takes up a lot of time and energy to use, so this technique is barely used (especially on airborne enemies as they are harder to hit). These bolts also are not able to be redirected of her own will; they go whichever direction they were fired.

Because of her condition (backstory), her abilities are slightly stronger than any other person who uses Electric Elemental Dust by 5-15% and she rarely has to replace her crystal.

Aura/Semblance abilities
Since she cannot defend against an attack with Crescent Graces, Amy uses her Aura to lessed the impact of physical damage done to her like most people do. It appears pink in color.

With her Semblance, she can conjure up a tangible shield/barrier to protect herself. The barrier she creates is transparent and lavender in color, that is as round as a sphere in size, which envelopes the person she's using it on, and takes a lot of energy to maintain. It can be used to protect herself, or an ally as long as Amy herself is focused. It can increase in size, but the bigger it is makes it harder for her to keep it from breaking. She can change it's malleability at will as well, so it can be as solid as a wall for a defensive purpose, or bubble that's as squishy as a waterbed for a soft landing.

Amy isn't limited to making barriers only; she can also make a weaker 2D shield, either a circle or square shape, that can withstand only a few hits before breaking. This shield can be moved at her own will, so it can become a platform to ride on, and even move it to quickly help out an ally covering their blind spot. I guess you can say it's similar to teenage Gwen Tennison's abilities in Ben 10 Alien Force (Small example I found). The only problem is that Amy cannot use her shielding and lightning powers at the same time; it causes way too much strain on her physically and mentally. So if she's focusing on protecting a teammate, Amy has to rely on her own skills to dodge and attack effectively.

 Basic Abilities : Her normal abilities are basic agility and speed. She can jump high and propell even higher by making platforms with her aura abilities to jump, or just step up on. She doesn't have much in the strength department, but she's more distant combative and defensive (also adds a mage to the team if you wanna think like an RPG).

Backstory
A girl, missing about 7 years of past memories, finds herself with strange abilities that are similar to Dust. She is found in the depths of a Dust mine unconscious and is taken to a hospital. The Doctors there say that her body is infused with Dust probably from too much exposure to it (Doctors can't tell anything conclusive about her). One memory that always comes back to her is about a man in a white lab coat, whom she cannot remember clearly.

It is apparent that she has potential to be a great huntress, thought an instructor at a well-known school, so Amy gets offered a scholarship to Beacon one year after she was found for a few reasons: to give her a place to stay, hone her skills, and to find out about her past. She completed one year of training before being officially enrolled into the school. Then Amy gets assigned to join a team for a change after working solo on small missions. She meets and makes friends with three other students: Miles Marron, Blaine Azuria, and Rina Rouge. The four of them make up Team AMBR and they are dedicated to unlock the secrets of Amy's past.

Secrets revealed:  On a mission where Amy got separated from the team, she was aided by Altross Royale, member of Team RAVN. He informs her of her true identity, Amber Styner, a human experimented on as a means of seeing how far the extent is when a human uses Dust. He explains her that they both can't recall their memories as a side effect of the testing. He then says to Amy that her genes are considered to be unstable and could end her life if she isn't careful with her powers.

Altross then says that he is not her enemy, but he cannot disobey his orders from the professor who experimented on them; he isn't allowed to say his name either. When Amy tells her friends this fact, they treat her no differently than they used to. She may be just an experiment, but she's still a girl, a human girl with real feelings.

Amy's Themes
Normal Theme: Lightning's Theme FFXIII



Battle Theme: My Sword Shall Open The Way Tales of Xillia



Amy's Emblem
Amy's emblem is a cresent moon with a lightning bolt on it (designed on MS paint). The moon represents the shape of her weapons, references her barrier powers, and has a meaning revolving around her memories. The cresent represents the many things she knows, and the black area is all the memories she has lost. The lightning bolt is a reference to her offensive abilities as well as the effectiveness of her normal attacks. The whole image itself can even be seen as a "beauty can also be powerful" message.

The places Amy's emblem are on would be the outer sides of her main outfit's socks, a paper cover on her favorite book, a ribbon on her swimsuit, and on a pair of earmuffs used for missions in cold weather.

Extras

 * Her name is supposed to be a play on words as a reference to the gem Amethyst (Amy Thysteine).
 * Opposite of Rina within Team AMBR's "Solar System" motiff, Amy represents the moon in her attacks and emblem.
 * I had just realized this within my writings: her attitude, love for studying, and concept of friendship all lead up to being similar to the unicorn (now alicorn) Twilight Sparkle. Weird Brony Sub-conscience. XD
 * Although her name is Amber, an orange gem, her color is Amethyst, a purple gem.
 * Amber has missed 7 whole years after being experimented on. She was the 4th test subject of the professor who worked on her.


 * Amy worked solo for a while at Beacon only taking on small tasks like apprehending robbers and such.
 * When coming up with her weapon name, Crescent Graces, I wasn't thinking of Tales of Graces.


 * Rina was the one who gave Amber the nickname Amy. Amber didn't like it at first, but it grew on her as did their friendship.


 * Amy is the younger sister of Altross in the technical sense that they were experimented on by the same person.


 * Her fighting style is similar to Cheria Barnes from Tales of Graces F, except she doesn't have an ability to heal allies; just mainly uses her lightning based artes and physical artes. English Dub example with all spells (including Indignation, PS3 exclusive spell, and All 4 mystic artes). This example includes  mostly  her physical artes.