Amity

**Amity** is a supporting protagonist in the *Divine Comedy*.

She is a lazy, callous, yet tough and resourceful engineer who serves as Sir Pentious's assistant. Like Pentious, Amity was taken into Hotel Purgatory as a patient though she mainly joined if it meant helping Pentious build machinery that would aid in alleviating her boredom.

## History

### Background

Amity's background is unknown though she stated that she used to live in the Bronx, had an older sister, and had run ins with "bad people". It is implied that her family would repair getaway vehicles for criminals and be paid for it. Her death is also not disclosed either but she does indicate that it involved an explosion.

Either way, after her death, Amity was condemned to Hell and placed within the Sloth Circle, becoming a possum-like sinner where she spent the majority of her unlife either lazing about or accepting tasks that required mechanical repairs. Though she was lethargic, her skills and expertise were undeniable, even by other Sloth sinners. She began a period of research and invention, where she specialized in gear drives and hydraulics.

At some point, Amity met Sir Pentious and was enlisted in his service, but according to Amity she only took the job if it meant that she would see the machines she helped him build alleviate her utter boredom. After being "dragged" into the hotel with Pentious, Amity became both a patient as well as the hotel's mechanic, where she can normally be found inside the garage or in Pentious's lab. She would called into to repair the vehicles or the hotel's inner working system.

## Personality

Amity is described as being mellow, lethargic, and callous. She doesn't enjoy working which contradicts the fact that is seen repairing the equipment in the hotel or helping Pentious in his schemes involving some device.

Aside from her lethargic personality, she typically also has a very abrasive nature, in that she enjoys teasing or outright insulting those around her. While some of this is lighthearted and, in many cases, simply a way for her to pass the time, she seems to enjoy the constant putting down of her preferred targets: Sir Pentious or Baxter. The two provide constant sources of irritation for her, Pentious with his either overly complex or seriously under-thought plans and Baxter's boisterous uppity behavior.

Despite her aloof and abrasive personality, Amity does have a moral compass and can even be compassionate in some regard. She is friendly and generous to Crymini, is amused by Charlie's bubbly and outgoing personality, and teases Vaggie simply for the fun of it. She even developed a daughter-father relationship of sorts with Husk. She has also shown a level concern and affection towards animals such as her feeding and petting Fat Nuggets or laying around with KeeKee the hotel's resident cat.

## Trivia

* Amity was the one who taught Crymini how to pick locks.
* Amity states that it was a pain for her parents to try and hide the sweets in their house as it became plain that no matter how complex or expensive the pantry lock was, Amity could best it within minutes.
* The writer describes the relationship between Husk and Amity as being similar to Ron and April from *Parks and Rec*.
* A running gag is that Amity is often bribed by some the characters into convincing her to fix something for them. Morever, the reason why they ask Amity and not Pentious is because, in Vaggie's words, "she won't turn the fridge into a war machine that shoots freeze rays out of the ice box."