Amber Hagoromo

*Amber Hagoromo* is one the main characters of Yu-Gi-Oh! ME. She is one of Yurie Totsumi's childhood best friends, and Melissa Meiry's younger sister. She is also a Leo Institute of Dueling graduate. She recently joined Saku Academy, now living in the same dorm as Yurie.

## Design

### Appearance

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Amber is a tanned young elven lady with pointy ears and yellow eyes. Her hair design is a cross between Emma Bessho and Lum Invader (the color coming primarily from the latter), with a base color of blue.

Her casual outfit consists of a long sleeved pink shirt and matching scarf with a vest overtop. She wears a teal skirt held up by a brown belt with a copper buckle. Underneath are black pantyhose covered by long black satin boots. Strapped to her left thigh is a brown deck box. She also has brown fingerless gloves on each hand.

### Personality

Amber is a smart, cunning, and calculating character. She is also a skilled duelist who prepares her deck before a Duel she engages in, or tries to learn about cards used in Duels she spectates. Through this knowledge, she can help Yurie to win her Duels more often by adding cards she knows that will work with her strategies best. As Yurie's best friend, she acts as a voice of reason and calls her out on her antics. Despite being a know-all character, she's a bubbly extrovert who enjoys eating candy, and she will partake in any fun activities. She enjoys reading, preferring mostly novels, but she also doesn't mind reading manga.

## Biography

### Early Life

Amber was the latest child of the family, unlike her sister, she's been always optimistic, but lacking backbone. As Melissa is distant and introvert, Amber has always felt lonely and alienated, which caused her sadness as she had no one to play with while the parents were busy. As an attempt of getting Melissa to interact with her, Amber suggested to teach her Duel Monsters, and subsequently duel. Both sisters dueled and had fun, but these times were short-lived, and Amber back to being alone again. So instead, she spent her time reading books to cope with the loneness.
Some time later, she met Yurie for the first time as her mother met Yui Totsumi in the Sakura Park. At first, Yurie was intimated, but after being offered a candy bar, Yurie becomes closer to Amber, and their friendship is formed since, Amber also taught Yurie how to duel, but this time around, their friendship started blossoming even further, they duel together, they play together, and laugh together...
In the Kindergarten, they met Kaido Tatsuaki, as he wanted to form a friend circle with girls, as he spent time with Yurie and Amber, the three children get to know each other better, and become friends.
Following the incident of scarring Melissa by trapping her in a Duel Dorm in hopes of awakening her Psychic power, Valerio Meiri and Mariah had a fall out and subsequently divorced, while Valerio kept Melissa in his custody, Mariah managed to keep Amber and move out to Miami City, therefore, Amber becomes lonely again, and she was unable to contact either Kaido or Yurie for a while.

### Finding Yurie

7 years later, Amber graduates from Leo Institute of Dueling, and decides to go back to Birta City with her mother. She changed her last name to Hagoromo to sever ties with Valerio once for all. She meets Kaido again, but not Yurie, at first they assumed she had been kidnapped as of the child kidnapping rumors circulated for quite some time, so they began searching for her. They finally found her, in the back alley, but she lost her sanity and beat up 2 bullies with an iron pipe because they taunted her for her parents' passing away, both Kaido and Amber dueled Yurie, brought her back to her senses as they defeated her. The three friends reunited once again.

### Saku Academy

3 years later, Amber and Kaido signed up to Saku Academy, the former meets Yurie again as she came in, and they had a reunion Duel, which went terribly as Yurie wasn't dueling well, Amber gave Yurie few cards to win later games, and they both hugged. Nozumi Midori signed up, and joined Yurie and Amber's dorm, as the three girls bonded together.

## Deck

Unlike the other characters, Amber has an uses different kinds of Decks, they're mostly Trap Cards and Dinosaur Normal Monsters focused.

### Amberzoic

"Amberzoic" is Amber's central Deck, using "Amberzoic Crystal" to generate advantage through the use of several Dinosaur Normal Monsters that represent different pre-historic animals.

Monsters

Normal Monsters

* Mammoth Graveyard
* Tomozaurus

Effect Monsters

* Panther Graveyard
* Amberzoic Crystal

Extra Deck

Evolute Monsters

* Amberzoic Sabertooth

Traps

* Fossilized Return
* Michizure
* Magic Cylinder

### Lent cards

Amber also possesses several cards she lends to Yurie to help her win. Most of such cards are popular and used staple cards in the OCG.

Spells

* Monster Reborn
* Twin Twisters

Traps

* Infinite Impermanance

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* Amber was originally a blonde girl that had no relation to Melissa whatsoever, while her dress design remained as unused as her early design, some elements were used in her current design.
	+ She would've been also based on Diaspro from Winx Club and Ran from Urusei Yatsura, but that was changed.