Amanda Del Santo

= Amanda Del Santo =
Amanda Del Santo (formerly known as Amanda Kiryuin) , who is directly inspired by Satsuki Kiryuin from Kill la Kill, is one of the three protagonists in the Crimson Volumes and deuteragonist in OverShadowed. She is 18 years old in Volume One and is 14 when OverShadowed's events take place. Her birthday is February 29, 2034, (shut up, we know 2034 isn't a leap year) the most efficient with any type of weapon, and feared by most of her former Coalition members. She is lesbian and voiced by Georgalin Mitchell, whose voice acting career debuted in Season 1 of the Crimson animations.
This article contains very minor spoilers for the beginning of Crimson: Volume One, which are in Amanda's biography.
== Physical Appearance ==
Just like how Ame is based off Ryuko Matoi's appearance, the same thing applies to Amanda, being derived from Satsuki Kiryuin.
Amanda is a person of slim body type, with black straight hair with (kinda) v-shaped bangs covering her forehead. She also has blue eyes, and usually wears her classic cerulean blue sweater (under it is a tactical bulletproof vest) with armbands, very faded blue jeans (sometimes wears black jeans) and some black and white high-top skating shoes.
== Field Performance ==
Amanda proves her skill in everything that she does, remaining focused and calm in action and using whatever is in the environment around her to utilize it in her favor. She is best known for her excellence in firearms, shooting targets and quickly switching to the next one without any hesitation. Her reflexes are almost like lightning, quickly unholstering her pistol at moment's surprise, fine movements such as reloading are a breeze for her, even when the adrenaline is flowing. When situations turn unfavorable for Amanda, such as a gun jam, depleted ammo etc, she swiftly uses her modified Karambit knife to slash enemies. If she can't use her knife, there is always a item around Amanda she can use to either stun or kill someone, whether it be throwing sand at the eyes of a hostile to temporarily blind them for her to form a new plan or stabbing someone with a pencil to teach someone the power of literature. Amanda wastes no time dispatching hostiles, to her, a quick clean kill is preferable, if that isn't possible, she will get dirty.
Amanda's preferred method of approach is stealth, staying in the shadows and quietly killing targets.
=== Preferred Weapons ===
* AK74 rifle, Amanda shows much attachment to this rifle and will carry it with her into action, sometimes an M4A1 rifle will do.
* BLOC-17 (Glock-17) Amanda's go-to pistol, chambered in 9mm hollow-point rounds, it is always chambered, holstered and concealed for use at moment's notice.
* Karambit knife sheathed at her waist.
* Other hidden weapons on her person.
== Biography ==
Unlike Ame and Yua (and other young agents operating under Operation 34R98), Amanda didn't go through their hardships in life that forced them into becoming who they are now.
Amanda did not have a choice. 
The Coalition was in search of two of the best assassins they had, one that was female and one that was male. The reason for this being is that the Coalition wanted the two selected assassins to give birth to "the greatest tool in Coalition history," that tool would be a child. The Coalition soon found their best assassins, both who are unnamed as of now. Under the orders given by the Coalition, the male's task was to produce sperm and the female's task was to receive the sperm via intrauterine insemination, both assassins were placed in separate locations to avoid the two knowing who was the father and who was the mother, however this would not really matter because the female Coalition member was being discharged from combat permanently to live a "normal life" after she had given birth to "the tool."
Nine months later, the child was born and the female Coalition member was relieved of Coalition duties. When the Coalition received the child, the female assassin stated that she has named the child with a generic name: Amanda Del Santo. Coalition officials argued against it, but came to an agreement after a few minutes of discussion. A tag was assigned to Amanda, one that would later be tattooed on her shoulder when she grew older.
As Amanda grew older, she was being trained extensively in areas that would please the Coalition, although some trainings and procedures were either morally and ethically questionable or just totally immoral and unethical. She was shot without any armor to protect her, a one-time exercise that is done to teach new members what it feels to get shot for the first time (Mercenary League also does this to members of Operation 34R98, however they have body armor to protect them and to have an agent feel the impact and force of a bullet). Amanda was also tasked to extract information by separating both individuals away from each other and asking for desired information from person one and if the information from person two doesn't match, she would violently torture both of them until desired information was attained, a useful technique for getting accurate information.
After Amanda reached the age of 12, she would be sent on her first duo team assassination, one that she completed successfully with the help of Sylviana Kingston, both of whom were people who worked really well with each other in later missions, but when Amanda reaches the age of 14, her partner would be killed in action. Described by Amanda as "a mission that went horribly wrong," Amanda made a written statement that while assisting Sylvie in a mission, both of them were ambushed by Mercenary League and fought the agents in a gunfight that ended in Sylvie getting both her hands shot and later in the head, thus killing her. The Coalition, believed Amanda, for she was the top assassin who was in close connection with the person with charge of Coalition operations, Braulio Cortez. Since the "death" of Sylvie, Amanda was either tasked with a team of members or did missions on her own.
Amanda would later want out of the Coalition life because she started really questioning her actions when she turned 17, she knew they were never good to being with but she knew it was all she was good for. However, to leave the Coalition life, you either die in action or you die by the Coalition. Amanda knew she would never be able to get out until she was tasked with killing Mercenary League's top agent, Ame Soria, which she fails to do by knocking on the apartment door of Ame's sibling Yua Soria mistaking it for Ame's. This failure meant only one thing: a failed assassination means a failed assassin, which means that if a Coalition member fails to complete a task, they are disposed of. Amanda sees this as an opportunity to start doing good and gets into Mercenary League which she is able to get in after saving Ame from being raped by a Coalition member Amanda was working with, which after that, Amanda kills everyone that was teamed with her to kill Ame.
== Personality ==
Amanda, unlike Ame and Yua, is always bright and positive, forgiving people for mistakes and being kind to others. She is very cool and calm and she doesn't get angry that easily, often preferring to avoid confrontations from idiots to spare her the trouble. Amanda is willing to listen to others about their issues or help out to anyone in need, such as someone stuck on the side of the road or volunteering to help without asking for anything in return. While Amanda is not known for being sarcastic, she can be in rare situations. 
Amanda will also sometimes joke about the women she has slept with as well as the consequences of doing so, if you ask her what she loves most in life, she'll say "I love guns as much as I love women." She is not afraid to express her sexuality, although she isn't in movements for LGBTQ and racial equality, she does not take any form of prejudice lightly.
== Hobbies ==
Amanda is known for her expertise in guns, in her spare time at home, she will test her speed and firearm knowledge by timing how fast she can disassemble a firearm and put it back together again, when she is not doing that she will clean the trio's firearms, making sure they stay in an optimal state for as long as possible. Amanda also dwells in engineering, but the engineering that is known as automated defense. She has created devices and weapons that protect and monitor the perimeter around the Crimson house, such as suppressed turrets surveying the area hidden in the ground, radars that alert Amanda of something being detected and shooting anyone not recognized by her system, these systems do have exemptions of who can trespass the area, whether it be ML agents or a kid jumping the fence to retrieve a ball. Amanda can also take control of these weapons. When it comes to appearing normal, Amanda will often scroll and post on her social media accounts like Instagram (we should also state that Amanda looks like an iPhone user because you guessed it, she does own an iPhone).
Amanda used to smoke cigarettes but now drinks and smokes weed.
== Interactions with Others ==
=== Denise Castillos ===
Amanda and Denise are close friends, established how Denise greets her in Chapter 10 of OverShadowed, but after Denise insults Amanda in Chapter 12 about Amanda's trauma from Sylviana Kingston during an argument, Amanda's behavior implies that Denise and her are no longer friends, as she leaves the room without a trace or without saying anything
=== Ame Soria ===
Amanda and Ame used to have beef with each other, this is displayed various times throughout the beginning of Volume One, but later, Amanda and Ame see each other as secret lovers, Ame admitting that she also has feelings for Amanda as well. When the two are in action, they make a great match.
=== Yua Soria ===
Amanda admits that she is often scared of Yua, having trouble trusting her when they first meet, but the two get along well, despite Yua's menacing aurora. 
== Trivia ==
* Amanda was originally supposed to be 16 in OverShadowed and meet Sylvie at 14, however, the timeline dates were screwed up and Amanda was made 14 in OS by accident, making Sylvie an even worse person.
* While the Crimson girls know a variety of different languages, Amanda is the only one who cared to learn French. This is a TF2 reference.
* In OverShadowed chapter 10, Denise mentions Amanda was thrown out of a window at a bar in Italy during an AC contract. While this is only mentioned once, Amanda could also know Italian.
* Amanda is a victim of child predation and domestic violence.
* We really don't know why we want to say this, but examining how things went in Crimson: Opposites, Amanda is a top person.
* Amanda was meant to be a throwaway character in the TF2 storyline of Crimson, only serving to be a nuisance that bullies Ame and gets her ass handed to her by Yua and never be seen again, however things wouldn't be the same if she didn't make her way into Crimson :)
* Ame insults Amanda in the beginning of Crimson that she slept with "Monika," the senior class president of Alameda High, something that Amanda confirms as true.