Amanda Chiaki

**Amanda Chiaki** is a major protagonist in the *Operation GEAR* series. She is the Frontier Brain of Roséridge City's Battle Tower, holding the title of **Salon Maiden**. Outside of this, she also works as a teacher. She is the sister of Matt Chiaki, with whom she shares a close relationship, and begins traveling with him at the same time as her superior and friend, Anabel Mistbloom.

Amanda was born with weak legs that necessitated her use of a wheelchair as a child, and was later blinded in an accident. In the present day, she is able to walk using a pair of prosthetic legs developed from Matt's research.

## History

Amanda Chiaki was born an unspecified number of years after her older brother, Matt. Due to neglect from their parents, they quickly grew close to each other and came to rely on each other for protection. Her need of a wheelchair due to her weak legs did not hold her back even at a young age, and she thrived as a student. They had some support from their grandfather, Sutter Chiaki, who encouraged them to study history and told them they could reach out to him whenever they needed anything despite their father Charon rejecting these offers.

One day, she and Matt were enlisted by their father into helping him with an experiment involving injecting electrical energy into a Rotom. They went along with it solely to keep the peace, though they were feigning any interest in actually taking part so Charon would not cut off their contact with Sutter. The experiment soon went wrong, resulting in an explosion that damaged Amanda's eyes. As a result, despite Matt's best efforts, she was rendered blind.

This event drove Matt to plan their escape, and Amanda fled Snowpoint City with him on Anton, his Rhyhorn. His miscalculation resulted in them nearly dying in the blizzards beyond the city, but they were saved by a traveler named Cyrus who, unbeknownst to them, was the leader of Team Galactic. Cyrus, sensing an opportunity to further his own agenda, manipulated Matt and Amanda into trusting him. While he exploited Matt's inventiveness with machines, Cyrus planned to enter Amanda as an experimental subject in Project Cortex, but Matt and Amanda's mother Fumika Chiaki - herself a Team Galactic Commander under the codename "Mercury" - leaked this information to Matt, inspiring him to escape from Sinnoh with Amanda.

With aid from Sutter, Amanda and Matt found an apartment to share in Rustboro City, far from the reach of their parents and Team Galactic. They enrolled in the Rustboro School, where Sutter was a professor. Again, Amanda thrived there both academically and socially. She also grew into her own as an extremely skilled Pokémon trainer, constructing a powerful team beginning with her companion Arcanine, who also acted as her guide outside of battles. After a number of years, Matt and Amanda went their separate ways for a time. At some point during this period, she traveled to Lapidaria and participated in the region's Battle Frontier, eventually becoming its champion. Rich Mistbloom earned the right to battle her for the title, and she easily defeated him using her Zoroark's powers of illusion to confuse and mislead his attacks.

Sometime after this, she resigned the title and moved to Johto after accepting the position as the Salon Maiden of Roséridge City's Battle Tower. She began living in a suite in the Battle Tower and became a close confidant to Anabel Mistbloom, Rich's widow and the commissioner of the Battle Frontier in Johto.

### *The Gardener of Gratitude*

Amanda makes several cameo appearances in *The Gardener of Gratitude*. Matt mentions having learned Braille so he could better communicate and connect with her, which led to his ability to read the Braille riddles during the Pilgrimage of the Pillars. Sutter's proposal to teach them Braille is also seen in a flashback to when they were younger and visited him in his office at the Rustboro School.

In *Blossoming Hope*, Matt returned to Amaranth City from La Ciudad Dorada accompanied by Sheena Carnet. They met up with Amanda in a restaurant in one of the city's luxury hotels, as Sheena wished to speak with them regarding Sutter's study of her people, the Tenganists.

### *The Angel of Reckoning*

Amanda first appeared in *Flying to an Unseeable Future*, where she was revealed to be temporarily teaching at Earl's Pokémon Academy in Violet City. She had an unexpected reunion with Matt, who had traveled there with Nekou Lalume, Olivia Mistbloom and Bunny Spruce at the behest of Dominic, a businessman with three children - a son, Monroe, and twin girls named Avril and Helena - in Amanda's class. Amanda mentioned that she did not disclose Matt's status as her brother to her students because she wished to earn their respect through her own efforts, and proposed a practice battle between herself and Matt as a way to inspire the students. However, when Zinzolin attacked the school with a group of protesters, she used her entire team to defeat him in relative short order. A few hours later, Amanda joined Matt and the rest of his group as they conducted research on Reshiram in the school's library.

In *The End of Innocence*, Falkner mentioned that he had become friends with Amanda during her time teaching in Violet City.

Amanda made a short appearance in *Winter of Discontent*, when Matt called her from Ecruteak City's Pokémon Center to request she send him some of his Pokémon she was taking care of. During their conversation, she mentioned that she had managed to make progress rehabilitating his Roggenrola, in the process evolving it into Boldore. She also revealed that she had obtained a new Pokémon for him that she would give him in Olivine City. When Matt asked about Anabel, Amanda told him that she was doing her best to help, but Anabel needed something else to recover from her depressed state. She tend ended the call, telling Matt that she had classwork to prepare.

## Pokémon

In addition to the following Pokémon that belong to her, Amanda is known to take care of Matt's Pokémon when they are not with him.

In Rotation

In *But We Can Call It Paradise*, Amanda received a Key Stone and Scizorite from Dr. Zager, thus allowing her to Mega Evolve Scizor.

Scizor's known moves are Bullet Punch, Bug Bite, Dual Wingbeat and Cross Poison, and her ability is Technician.

## Trivia

* Amanda's character is modeled on that of Nunnally vi Britannia, the blind, wheelchair-bound younger sister of main protagonist Lelouch in the *Code Geass* anime franchise.