Amalas Garde

## Amalas Lacroix Garde

**Amalas Garde** is the 16th and current queen of her country, Monterisso; She is an exceptionally skilled spy in the field of cover operations, espionage, deception and technologies, that she heavily took the country's brilliance in the field of covert operations and deception, making her the Queen of spies. She unknowingly an assassin as well.

She is the leading agent of the Black Velvet, as an agent, she goes by the codename as *Queen Lacroix*.

## Abilities

* **Master Spy**: Amalas was a dangerous secret agent highly skilled in espionage, stealth, disguise, infiltration, and demolitions. Her talents and years of experience have enabled her to reach a high ranking as a special agent of the Black Velvet. She is well versed in internal destabilization and was soon deemed a potential threat to global security because of this. She often resorts to seducing men/women to obtain her goals while working undercover, such as when she posed as an assistant to evaluate Melanie Dawkins for the Black Velvet. Amalas Garde's skills were so legendary that the SDC and the kingdom of Cordonia created a Advanced Lie Detector that they hoped she could not deceive. SDC council member Jack Brooker even stated that she was unaware Amalas was Panamoan due to her complete lack of an accent, stating she sounded perfectly Panamoan.

* **Master Martial Artist**: Though she claims that her expertise is centered about high tech, Amalas was one of the best fighters in the world, having been trained from a young age in the Monterissan Garde Family and the Black Velvet in her later life as a top operative. During her time in Black Velvet's training, she was seen using her martial arts to defeat a grown man by flipping him into the ground, proving how formidable she was even when she was young. She uses Aikido, Judo and kickboxing in her usual fighting style; Without being harmed in any attacks inflicted by the opponent.

* **Master Combatant**: Amalas is an exceptionally skilled combatant, whether armed or unarmed, she can take on a group of opponents with great precision and finesse, and easily took out Barthelemy Beaumont's henchmen with relative ease.

* **Peak Nevian Strength**: Amalas' physical strength was also at the peak of nevian potential, able to knock out the average man/woman with a few well placed strikes, and break a man's neck with a roundhouse kick.

* **Peak Nevian Durability**: Amalas' durability is also at peak levels. She cannot be fazed by normal unorthodox brawling, and was able to withstand impalement in her stomach.

* **Knife Proficiency**: Amalas is exceptionally skilled with a knife, even if it's a simple kitchen knife; Yet, she outmatched Olivia Nevrakis in knife throwing.

* **Master Acrobat**: Garde was highly skilled in incorporating gymnastics and acrobatics into her fighting style as she battles opponents.

* **Superhuman Agility**: She is agile enough to dodge rockets, a flurry of bladed weapons and even gunfire.

* **Indomitable Hacker**: Amalas is best known for possessing the unrivaled ability to hack into most computer systems without tripping any firewalls or security. She was able to utilize her expertise to crack the encrypted files that the Cordonian Quartet stole from Bradshaw's computer, and hack into security mainframes, gates and doors to create her own escape route.

* **Multilingualism:** Amalas Garde was fluent in Russian, Galactic Basic/English, French, German/Evalkan, Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin, and various other languages.

* **Gifted Intellect**: Amalas's intellect seemingly put her on par with Rachelle Palmer and Nick "Wolf" Bale. She possessed the ability to quickly process multiple information streams (e.g., threat assessment) and rapidly respond to changing tactical situations.

### Weaknesses

* **Infinity Blade**: As a Nevian Alpha, an Infinity Blade would be one of the weapons that can permanently kill evolved nevians like her.

* **Stomach blows**: Amalas, like all other women, is extremely vulnerable to stomach blows. But due to her advanced musculature and toned body, she can shrug off a decent amount of hard hitting stomach blows from similarly sized opponents; However, she is heavily resilient to far more smaller, thinner and much weaker female opponents.

## Trivia

### General

* She barely wears any make up except eyeliners.
* Despite being a queen, she is known for being flamboyant and flirtatious.
* She is actually a nice person, just because she is the Queen of Spies doesn't mean people can't trust her.
* She is fond of posting in the Galactic Hub.
* Revealed that the Black Velvet was created on the country Monterisso on Nexus Prime, not by the Galactic Republic. The gigantic interstellar republic only implemented it as a sub-division for their elite political and law enforcement divisions.