Amelie Blanchett

> The world is full of cold and cruel people. When you are up against an enemy, you need to believe that if they have the opportunity to kill you... they will take it.
>
> Amelie Blanchett, to Iria Zanar Key

## DND Stats

### CHA:

14 (+2)

Amelie Blanchett is the character played by Dani Dee in the New World of Zhalt campaign. She is a gunslinging French woman, and the leader of The Escapade Connection.

## Appearance

Amelie is a woman of average height and of a curvaceous figure. She has long brown hair with a slight wave to it, steel blue eyes, and a pale complexion. She also has faint freckles along her cheeks and shoulders, a beauty mark near the bottom left corner of her mouth.

Her hair is usually put into an Edwardian hair style in order to compliment her equally Edwardian fashion. Amelie prefers dresses with long sleeves in order to hide her concealed pistol in a mechanical device that conveniently can drop the gun into her hand for quick action. She also has a gold-heart locket necklace. It was discovered privately by Mr. Pollux that the locket has a lock of light brown hair inside, tied up in a pink string. The initials inside are "R. V." with a date inscribed from almost two years ago at this point. She now also has a second necklace, a gift from Thade when they visited Shadowfell.

Due to one of the early cave missions, Amelie suffered burns and now has burn scars along her left shoulder, upper arm, across the left side of her chest and collarbone. She mindfully wears dresses and clothes now that may hide these scars from the public eye.

Only recently, she let her hair down to be more relaxed and at ease.

## Personality

Amelie can be a frigid individual that jumps between being hot and cold towards those around her. A lot of how Amelie carries herself is pretty methodical and systematic, scheduled and planned accordingly. She has a business-mentality in how she conducts herself in the presence of those she deems important to any of her personal endeavors, and as such, demonstrates her opportunistic tendencies.

Dedicated and strong-willed, when Amelie sets her sights on a vision, she is dutiful to see its completion. She genuinely cares for the lives and well-being of others and will prioritize the safety of others rather than a slim chance of success in a mission. She values honesty, however, with the current events of her life, Amelie understands that secrecy will keep herself and those she cares for safe. The times when Amelie is warm towards those she cares for, she is noted to be affectionate, loving, and motherly.

Amelie is a pessimist-realist, viewing the world as a cold, cruel place that, given an opportunity of its own with the people that live in it, will do anything to crush genuinely good-natured, naïve individuals. She has a terrible habit of being inflexible and stubborn against changing her regular routine. It's hard for her to relax, and far easier for her to fall into her role of giving out demands and orders for what she wants for the betterment of her team.

Amelie also has a terrible sense of humor, as it can come off as tasteless and downright bullying. She appears to have little understanding of how to maintain long term friendships due to her lack of experience with others growing up. She has a degree of recklessness and a boldness in her way of speaking to others, all as a means to put others in their place and to maintain some power in her own right. If anyone genuinely gets on her nerve or insults any of her friends and loved ones, she will have choice words.

## Relationships

### The Escapade Connection

Amelie is the leader of The Escapade Connection (formerly named Group E), working for the Voyagers Incorporated. Amelie has a lot of genuine care for her party, worried for each of them and stern about her plans in order to keep them all safe. As a family, she struggles and dances on the line between regarding them as business associates and dear family and friends.

#### Iria Zanar Key

Key was Amelie's very first partner through Cops and Robbers. Initially, Amelie did not care much for Key due to the fact that she did not want to work with another person. In her own mind, the work that she did for Cops and Robbers had to be solo since her personal ambitions were not the cleanest in how she executed her targets. She didn't want anyone to get in her way, but either way, Key became her partner, much to her disdain. And just as suspected, Key re-instated Amelie's sense of morality. With the more optimistic and pacifistic views of Key, Amelie went from forced cordial feelings to annoyance that she viewed the world as a place that was not as cold as Amelie believed it to be, especially within their line of work.

Over time, once they joined the Voyages Incorporated, Amelie came to see Key as less of a naïve young woman and more of someone that just wished to become a diplomat. Amelie held a regard and admiration for Key when she saw what she was willing to do to prove herself, and to see that maybe instead of raving about how terrible the world is, she should put more energy into believing in what is still good about the world. So, Amelie puts her belief of what is still good in her faith in Key.

This realization developed more tender and caring feelings within Amelie towards Key, and even a sense of protectiveness over letting Key have her moments to shine. She sees a lot of her late husband's personality in Key, and she knows that those are traits that she initially set out to fight for, so the evils of the world won't destroy people like Key. At this point, Amelie feels a familial love for Key and wants to see her thrive to her fullest potential.

#### Thade Carrion

Amelie didn't think much of Thade when she first met him. She observed him for the clear assets that he had to offer to the team as becoming their physical pillar of strength.

During their first mission to get rid of a creepy scarecrow, Amelie was caught off guard when Thade discovered and tickled at her funny bone when he made a corny dad joke. It was endearing and definitely made her notice him a bit better. However, in that same vein, Amelie came to realize that Thade had an issue with prioritizing the lives of others before his own. When they were on the first cave mission, Amelie momentarily bumped heads with Thade when he insisted that she and Key go on ahead without him and to leave him to fend off monsters alone. She refused and fought with him. He got annoyed that she did so, but she was more peeved by his willingness to die. Soon after when there was a fire within the cave, and they were trapped behind a vine wall, Amelie tore through to free them. It worked but she suffered severe burns. After the fact, Thade healed her and left her to be on his own. Amelie approached him not too long after and confronted him on his behavior but thanked him for healing her. After this confrontation, she earned the nickname "Boss" from him.

Once they had reached an understanding, and after some more corny jokes and a dance, Amelie found herself feeling a sense of attraction to Thade. At first, it was strictly sexual in nature and the duo indulged in one another in order to explore this attraction. Amelie thought that these feelings of hers were going to stop after this little experience, but her feelings for him didn't go away; they grew from there, and developed romantic elements the more time she spent with him, and the more that she discovered who he really was.

Amelie discovered that they both lost beloveds and that the reason they both worked the jobs that they did was to avenge those deaths. In Thade, Amelie found understanding and protection. She finally knew she fell in love with him the moment they were in Shadowfell and he got her a new necklace that she now wears along with her locket. Her feelings had been growing all that time, but that was the moment it really dawned on her that she fell in love with the warm, protective, and corny man that Thade is.

#### Dio Caster

From the time that they met and to this current moment, Amelie immediately knew that Caster was a dependable and highly intelligent person. With their rationality and logical way of thinking, Amelie found a kinship right away with Caster. During the early missions, Caster was the one that Amelie viewed easily as an equal that she could plot and plan things out with.

However, when Amelie caught wind of the way that Caster took to tricking Key into becoming her guinea pig for testing out new potions, she was not all too pleased by that news.

Despite this, once it was straightened out, Amelie's feelings for Caster were unchanged. She still admired and has a deep respect for Caster and her work. In recent events as well, Amelie has notably found a sense of peace with the state of her friendship with Caster. Amelie feels that their likeness to one another makes for a deeper bond that they need not say too much to one another to understand each other. She feels that, naturally, Caster understands her the most, and although their friendship leaves for a lot of needed communication development, Amelie feels that once this happens, she and Caster will be inseparable.

Amelie also sees Caster with a similar endearment as how she felt towards her own daughter, no matter how brief and by the fact that Caster is far older than her.

##### Mr. Pollux

Upon first meeting him, Amelie was cautious of Mr. Pollux, but soon enough she received his company pretty well. At first, she had enjoyed his company and conversation, as she found his crass and crude nature to be amusing to her. His desire to kill does not escape her and she doesn't care much that he is so gung-ho about being a murderer. In a way, they bonded over the fact of killing and Amelie remained neutral if not accepting of this.

Unfortunately, despite having enjoyed him, the moment it was revealed that Mr. Pollux had seen, touched, and opened Amelie's locket, any positive feelings for him vanished in an instant. This, alongside the torture Caster feels having to share a body and mind with this person, Amelie has decided that her desire for Pollux is to be completely rid of him by any means necessary.

#### Asher Grimclaw

When Amelie met Asher, she was impressed by his prowess and monk-abilities. She was more relieved that Thade wouldn't have to be the only pillar of strength in the party. He seemed to be a bit stupid, but Amelie didn't think too much deeper on the matter. She was more concerned with having him feel welcomed and at home within their little group of adventurers.

During their time in Shadowfell though, Amelie came to the conclusion that he is very much a little kid in spirit, albeit a very mischievous one at that. With his sexual innuendos and threats to eat other living things, Amelie found a maternal instinct towards him that is both a bit doting of his stupidity and stern to see him shine as brightly as everyone on the team. There was genuine disappointment in Asher when he couldn't keep up in a fight in Shadowfell, but understanding that spoke of how she does want to see him get better and stronger.

When she was caught lying after telling Asher how she values honesty, there was a rift that grew between them for a moment. When questioned about her honesty and how maybe they should keep a professional relationship instead of a familial one, Amelie felt unexpectedly hurt and stung by those words. She took it to heart, respected Asher's wishes, and went back to a business relationship. Though this now left her unsure of how to speak with Asher compared to how she speaks to the others. Her feelings for him haven't changed, but the awkwardness and uncertainty she feels in how she should properly address Asher still stands even now.

#### Hikaru Gado

Amelie met Hikaru alongside Key first and right away, she felt very familiar with who Hikaru appeared to be. With a noble background and proper manner of carrying himself, Amelie saw a lot of herself in Hikaru on the surface level. And as the latest edition to their party, Amelie received Hikaru warmly.

Amelie finds that the blatant honesty of Hikaru to admit that they are not a good person is a strong reason why she both likes Hikaru personally and sees the contrary nature of themself. She trusts Hikaru for this reason; a good person, in her eyes, acknowledges their faults. A truly evil person wouldn't even be able to see their wicked ways, let alone admit to it. For this, Amelie trusts and believes that she and Hikaru will become dear friends, what with their similar mindsets, caution of others, and the fact that they both lacked full life experiences while growing up.

Amelie has, however, exhibited some jealousy towards Hikaru in regards of Thade. Although she did it to herself by teasing Hikaru about his crush on Thade in front of Thade, Amelie did so as a playful jest and had no idea of the honest and true degree of jealousy she really had deep inside.

### The Morthros Family

The Morthros Family is a big Faerunian family name, and one with a long history of magic, heroes, and earned prestige. Amelie has a level of respect for this family, as they are not nobility without noble reason, but as they are still nobility, she is not too keen on getting heavily involved with them.

### Zudain Morthros

This may be the one and only Morthros that has Amelie's fullest respect, and even then, she loves teasing and messing with her boss. There's just something about his reactions that tickle Amelie's funny bone. Beyond that though, she truly does regard him the highest out of all the other Morthros she's met so far, and even looks up to him as an example leader.

### Diego Morthros

The very first time Amelie met Diego was very messy. An explosion in the middle of the night from one of his experiments, along with Amelie's natural dislike of nobility, made for a very grouchy Amelie. Ill-tempered and rude, Amelie gave him a piece of her mind right away and took his "peace offering" magical bullet without too much of a thank you. However, it did unsettle her how much he looked like her late husband.

Amelie was surprised to see Diego again as the speaker of The 5D's store, and decided to try to be kinder and actually apologize to him for her initially bitchy first impression. When this apology was attempted though, Diego told her of a potentially bad future for her, one that touched on too sore of a sensitive topic and she slapped him hard across the face. This solidified that Amelie likes Diego the least out of all of the 5D's. To her, he is tactless, insensitive, and a man that lacks hope for mankind's resilience to defy any pre-destiny.

### D'Angelo Morthros

Upon meeting D'Angelo, Amelie was not excited to see another Morthros at the orphanage she frequents to keep the children company. She does not trust this Morthros, but does not have a heavy dislike or liking of him.

### Dante Morthros

With their colorful first meeting, Dante used to be at the bottom of Amelie's "Morthros Shit List". At first, she felt bad for the man when she saw how the waiting staff and kitchen of Red Snapper was handling the mishap of his meal ticket being lost. She wanted to try to be more civil and generous in front of her friends and for her own conscience, so she paid for his meal. This was not to his liking, so Dante walked up to Amelie and called her a cunt for doing that. Amelie dogged him one while secretly getting her gun ready under her table if he made things escalate, but fortunately, that did not happen.

After this event, Amelie thought of Dante as an angry gremlin of a man with no redeeming qualities to his ugly temper and dislikable personality. But due to recent events in joining the Masked Hero, she found Dante to be very pleasant and nice, albeit she thought this of him when she didn't know that he was the one behind the mask. His thoroughness and pleasantries in a professional light made her immediately realize that she made the right choice with becoming a masked hero.

On her third meeting with Dante due to Key's disappearance, Amelie still saw Dante in a positive light and genuinely felt apologetic and sympathy for him when he seemed bothered by the situation. Deeply grateful for his help despite it all, Amelie realized his true identity as Dante the moment he stepped away to curse up a storm outside the room.

Overall, Amelie has mixed feelings of this man. On one hand she cannot stand his crassness but on the other hand, she finds his good nature to be his most redeemable quality and refuses to shortchange him on it. Clearly, he is a good person, and Amelie can see that.

### Dario Morthros

This is the Morthros that Amelie has had the most pleasant first impression and interaction with. She regards him with a respectable regard based upon getting honest and clear answers from him when she asked about the reason why she sees the Morthros boys at the orphanage as often as she does. Not to mention that she is genuinely impressed and taken by his knowledge of plants and nature.

### Domingo Morthros

Domingo is another Morthros that she didn't have a downright awful first interaction with. She was still a bit startled by him since he has a physical likeness to her late husband. She finds his eccentric personality to be endearing and that he is too much of a cinnamon roll for her to genuinely dislike him. She hopes all the best for him out of all of the other 5D's.

### Xavier Morthros III

Amelie finds XJ3 to be the least abrasive of the Morthros and actually fancies his establishment quite often with her party. She respects XJ3 as a fellow business owner and finds that he is the most down-to-earth and grounded compared to a good amount of his family.

### Scarlett & Sapphire

Amelie finds these two young ladies to be pretty annoying due to the way they talk.

### Blanchett LLC

Amelie used to admire and hold great pride for her family's lineage of gun manufacturing, however, due to recent events she only wants to see either a downfall of the family company or to hand it off to someone less corrupt than her father.

### Family

#### Unnamed Mother

Amelie remembers her mother fonder and fonder as she got older.

### Enemies

#### Alderic Regis Blanchett

Amelie used to be very close with her father. As of recently though, Amelie developed a personal vendetta against her father.

### Other

#### Albert Nicholas Lambert

Albert and Amelie have a very respectful business relationship. As someone who had also been betrayed and used by her father, Amelie knew that if anyone would have her back and with promise of proper compensation in the end, Amelie believes in Albert being on her side.

## History

### Early Life

Amelie was born in Timorta, Faerun, to her mother and father, Alderic Regis Blanchett. At some point, the family moved to the Zhalt Archipelagos.

### Married Life

Amelie fell in love and married an unnamed man at one point. With this man, she had a baby girl with him. Their whereabouts are unknown, though it is insinuated that both her husband and daughter may be dead.

### Blue Period

Not much is known about the Blue Period at this time, however, there was mention that Amelie was ill for quite some time before she returned to the public eye.

### Current Day

After returning to the public eye, Amelie moved from the Zhalt Archipelagos to Shadowmorn, Yggdrasil. She almost immediately joined Cops and Robbers when she saw the opportunity to bounty hunt criminals that work closely with her father. This is an act of vengeance against her father, and as such, she has a bad habit of bringing in the "dead or alive" bounties in dead rather than alive. This was concerning to her boss, Zudain Morthros. As such, he hired Iria Key Zanar to be partnered with Amelie, and to make sure Amelie doesn't kill anymore targets.

Amelie also joined Voyagers Inc. with Key and many others in order to pick up more missions that will serve to better the world around them.

## Abilities

### Physical Abilities

As a gunslinger, Amelie's choice in weaponry is a pistol and a magically enhanced rifle (enhanced by Dr. Dio Caster).

Amelie also uses a whip and shortsword, although rarely, when she isn't hiding away with her firearms.

### Magical Abilities

Amelie is not a mage, however, like the rest of the world, she has been gifted with Mage Initiate. Her spells fall under the cleric spells list, namely *Cure Wounds, Spare the Dying,* and *Thaumaturgy.*

## Trivia

* Dani Dee has gone on record to say that Amelie's originally planned name was "Calliope". The reason being that Dani, "liked the name at the time". She was inspired by the French 2001 film, "Amelie", giving her the name for her character.

* On record, Amelie has the most friendly fires out of every other player character in the campaign, bar none.
* Amelie's character and personality was inspired by Dr. King Schultz from "Django Unchained" and the French nun and philosopher, Heloise.
* Amelie's favorite bird is the Bumblebee Hummingbird, because it's one of the few animals who's scientific name has the name "Heloise" involved.
* Amelie's favorite insect are butterflies.
* Amelie's go-to morning drink is a hazelnut cappuccino.
* Alcohol of choice is scotch.
* Amelie's Myers-Briggs personality type is ESTJ.