Amy

* Original Style
* Updated Style
* Homecoming
* FCP Recruit

Amy is the 16-year-old, female protagonist of *Space Boy*. She is a bright and curious girl, whose synesthesia lets her taste other people's personalities. She was sent to Earth after her father lost his job at a mining colony in deep space.

## Appearance

Amy seems to be an average-sized teenage girl with red hair tied into teardrop-shaped ponytails. Her eyes are depicted as black, but sometimes gold.

Amy's signature outfit consists of a yellow shirt with a white, upside-down teardrop on it and navy blue pants that reach just below her knees. However, she spends a majority of the first "season" in her South Pines school uniform. Her school uniform consists of a cream shirt that is rolled up by the elbows, a yellow skirt a beige dress-like vest, a pair of light blue tights, and a tie that matches her skirt.

During homecoming, she is seen wearing a yellow ball gown that she bought earlier with Cassie at a thrift store.

## Personality

Amy is a bubbly, perceptive, and friendly person. She has a positive attitude and finds beauty in everyday things on Earth. Amy is known for her optimism, intuition, and smarts. She can sometimes be forgetful or procrastinate.

Due to the education practices in the mining colony, Amy excels in STEM and is placed in advanced classes for math, physics, geology, and chemistry once on Earth, but she falls behind in English, history, and biology, needing to take Freshman courses to catch up. Amy does not have any classes with people her age, which leads to her initial loneliness.

Amy tries to make friends wherever she goes, as shown by her relationship with the old couple at the reintegration facility, and how she is the first person to form a deep relationship with Oliver. She is committed to her friendships and is stubbornly kind to everyone, offering forgiveness quickly and not letting people push her away. This attitude allows her to maintain long and meaningful relationships, as shown with Jemmah.

Amy thinks her flavor is lilac or pomegranate, plain on the outside but with hidden sweetness within. Still, she isn't certain, claiming it is hard to figure out one's own flavor.

Amy has good lateral thinking skills, and good perception. She can pick up on when something isn’t right, and changes in another person’s feelings. This is shown when she starts to suspect Oliver has been off-world. She is also shown to be impulsive, quick thinking, and determined, able to make smart decisions on her feet. We see this during the dance, and after she was confronted by someone who threatened to break her net gear.

Despite having a naturally energetic personality, Amy is held down by her weakened physique and lessened stamina because of the changes in gravity on Earth compared to off-world. Even with this, she is capable enough to defend herself or flee from a dangerous situation.

Amy tends to bottle up her feelings while trying to help others because of her empathy and understanding. She is not quick to take sides in an argument and tends to try and help both parties heal. Amy regularly takes it upon herself to be responsible for the well-being of others, trying to help wherever possible. The things Amy says and does are often dictated by whether they will help or hurt the people around her, prioritizing their needs above her own.

## Abilities

Although she falls behind on English, Biology and History, Amy is an intelligent girl who is shown to be adept in logical fields, such as mathematics and some sciences relating to geology. This is because her education on the mining colony was focused on preparing her to become a geotechnical engineer. As a result, she placed on the 99th percentile of her age group and she takes senior math, physics, geology and chemistry classes.

One of Amy's unique features is her synesthesia, a condition where sensory inputs are crossed. Growing up on the mining colony, she associated people with flavors. Through this ability, she can tell how people are feeling. This contributes to her ability to empathize with other people.

Amy's synesthesia is referred to as "essence reading" by the Wanderer. She eventually learns how to use it to detect lies, as well as the modifications the Wanderer makes to people's minds (which manifest as their flavor being tainted by his, copper and iodine). She is also able to follow him from her dreams to the outskirts of Oliver's mind, which he describes as "soul walking."

Amy is shown to be quick-witted as she is able to come up with solutions within a matter of seconds. She is also able to learn new skills quickly as she learns how to use three decades worth of technology within a matter of weeks.

Amy also has some self-defense skills grafted onto her essence by the Wanderer, which allowed her to instinctively throw a drone through a window.

## Relationships

### Oliver

Amy's mysterious friend and love interest . When Amy first meets Oliver, he tells her about his idea of the Nothing. As their relationship grows, she helps him bring out his emotions. When Oliver starts ignoring her, she is hurt but determined to help him and find answers about why he is acting that way. She manages to figure out the mysteries surrounding him, which gets her in deep trouble.It is mentioned by Amy that when he held her hand her heart sped up.

### Jemmah

Amy's best friend from the mining colony. Jemmah grew up, got married and had kids while Amy was frozen and traveling to Earth. Amy was afraid to call her after emerging from cryogenic stasis, as it had been 30 years since they had last seen each other, but in the end their relationship had stood the test of time. Jemmah wishes she could be with Amy to comfort her and make everything alright.

### Amy's Parents

Amy loves her parents; and they love her too. She is their only child. Amy describes her father as being "like hot chocolate- sweet and full of gentle warmth." Amy's mother cares about her a lot, but isn't afraid to enforce rules: Amy describes her flavor as "minty".

### Cassie and David

Amy's first friends in Kokomo. They include her in activities and help her feel at home. When Cassie and David break up, Amy keeps being friends with both of them, not choosing sides. Amy helps Cassie feel better about herself and talks with David about how he's feeling.

### Zeph

Amy's friend. He has a crush on her, but Amy thinks of him as nothing more than a friend. Zeph asks her to go to homecoming with him and she agrees, thinking it would be fun, but she later discovers that how he really feels. Amy is sad to disappoint Zeph, but she truly does think of him as 'just a friend'

### Meisha

Meisha is Amy's friend and a member of the agriculture club. Amy and Meisha don't have much one-on-one interaction, but they get along well in agriculture club and during lunches.

### Dylan

Dylan is Amy's friend from the mining colony. Jemmah used to think he had a crush on her, but Amy thought he was more like a brother to her, not a love interest.

**Tammara and Schaefer**

Two of Amy's friends from the agricultural club.Tammie helps comfort Amy when she's down.When Tammie gets kidnapped Schaefer and Amy look all over but couldn't find her.When Amy gets captured by the FCP,Tammie is in the cell next to hers.