Amalia de León

**Amalia** is a character in *It Lives Within* and one of Main Character's love interests. She is first seen in *Chapter 1*.

## Appearance

Amalia has curly black hair and dark brown eyes. She wears a leather jacket over a scarlet blouse. When wearing her pajamas, her hair is pulled into a checkered bonnet.

## Personality

Amalia is ambitious and confident. She enjoys healthy competition and enjoys winning. She loves sports and is a black belt in kung fu. She's also very hardworking and studious, with a dream of becoming an immigration lawyer. She tends to be more realistic and practical than other characters and puts great value on preparing to succeed in life and not just focusing on the moment. While she supports Your Character in their quest against monsters, she feels that the fight against the Power will never end and would rather live her real life than fight forever.

## Chapters

It Lives Within

* Chapter 1: No Running
* Chapter 2: Familiar Faces
* Chapter 3: The Calm Before the Storm
* Chapter 4: Into the Earth
* Chapter 5: The Missing Link
* Chapter 6: Erased From Reality
* Chapter 7: Dead in the Water
* Chapter 9: Too Close to the Sun (determinant)
* Chapter 10: The Truth Never Hides For Long
* Chapter 11: Dance With the Devil
* Chapter 12: Chasing Phantoms
* Chapter 13: A Thousand Lies
* Chapter 14: Purification
* Chapter 15: Mirror to the Past
* Chapter 16: Kindred Spirits
* Chapter 17: To Be Human
* Chapter 18: Cabin Fever (determinant)
* Chapter 19: Three, Two, One, Fun (determinant)
* Chapter 20: No Way Home (determinant)
* Chapter 21: Vertigo Cave (determinant)
* Chapter 22: Home At Last (determinant)
* Chapter 23: It Lives (determinant)

## Relationships

### Main Character

Amalia is Your Character's oldest and closest friend. You have been best friends since elementary school and lived with Amalia's family after yours was killed by Power beasts in the woods. While your relationship is generally friendly, your choice throughout the book can either weaken or strengthen that friendship. Amalia is one of the main love interests.

## Abilities

Amalia is very athletic and strong. She participated in various sports throughout high school, principal among them being kung fu. She prefers to fight with staffs, as seen by the bo staff she uses in chapter 1 and the spear she uses once she obtains it in chapter 2. In addition to being an excellent martial artist and athlete, she's also smart and studious which is useful when studying the Power.

## Trivia

* Amalia is the first character who can leave the group and never come back. This happens if her relationship score is below 75 (her starting relationship score) by the end of Chapter 17 or the opener of Chapter 18, depending on whether you told the truth or not (which can be guaranteed to happen if Your Character chooses not to fix her college records).
	+ Her relationship score starts at 75, making her the easiest character to build a relationship with, due to her being the main character's best friend for a long time.
	+ Both her relationship score and Nerve score need to be equal to or greater than their starting values in order for her to survive and stay with the group.
* She is the first Choices character to be canonically demisexual. Despite this, an optional piece of dialogue in Chapter 11 has MC mention Amalia breaking up with her ex, and her ex is the same gender as the MC (much like other exclusively playersexual love interests in the Choices franchise).
* She's allergic to strawberries.