Amber Shine

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## General

Amber Shine is a character in *The Story*, serving as the main female character until Season 3. She's an airheaded girl who loves all things cute and sparkly while dreaming of one day being a famous pop idol. Despite her childlike innocence, she's been known to have violent, aggressive tendencies that make her rather dangerous when angry. However, this trait was dropped in later Seasons, leaving her as a clumsy ditz bumbling her way through life with a smile.

## Personality

Amber is the epitome of a sparkly girly girl. I've always compared her to the Peppy personality of characters in Animal Crossing because she's just like them- an energetic girl who loves cute things and wants to be a famous pop idol. She's obsessed with things like fashion and her beloved lip gloss, believing them to be two things that will set her on the path to success. Unfortunately, she's not very bright, but has been known to have rather intelligent moments over the years. She often talks like a stereotypical blonde, saying "ohmigosh" and "like" constantly. Her general unawareness of any given situation makes her the perfect target for Zack and his schemes. For whatever reason, he seems to *really* dislike her.

In Season 1 and Season 2, she was the main female character and so she took up something of a dual role between a sparkly airhead and a volatile, aggressive woman. While she was always acting cute and harmless, any insult that got thrown her way would transform her into a raging inferno of hostility that would obliterate anyone unfortunate enough to get in her way. In the beginning of Season 3, she had a breakdown in *Breakdown Road*, lasting through *The Acting Bug*. After this, she shifted away from her aggressive tendencies in favor of her airheaded nature and Sarah took over as the resident dangerous woman.

## Appearance

Amber is a woman of average height with a curvy physique. In fan drawings, she has shoulder-length brown hair that curls a bit at the ends, but in the novel she's drawn as having shorter hair that flips on either side. Her outfit consists of a baby-blue t-shirt with green hems, blue shorts, and black shoes. In fan drawings, she could be seen with a skirt on instead.

Her redesign has her with the same shoulder-length hair but trades her outfit for a cream sweater, a dark floral-print skirt, and some brown boots. She also sometimes wears a pink backpack.

## History

### *Conception*

Amber was originally based off a friend from school of the same name. She became my friend in 7th grade after we started talking in an art class. One day, while I was coloring one of the stories prior to this one, she sat next to me and randomly doodled a little stick figure of herself onto one of the pages. This is where she acquired her signature hairstyle. I decided to add her in as a character in the next story and she's been a part of things ever since. She made her official debut in *The New Rivals* where she was cute and girly but also rather aggressive, then went on to become a main character in *The Story* from start to finish. She started out as a cutesy, airheaded girl with a rather short fuse, but when Sarah was introduced in Season 3 and better fit the aggressive woman trope, she dropped the violent tendencies and was left as just a cute airhead.

### *Origins*

Following her random insertion into *The Dream*, Amber became a character in the following short story, *The Christmas Kart Battle.* Here, she participated in the kart battle with everyone else, but otherwise went without any introduction whatsoever. In the story that followed, *The New Rivals*, she participated in a kart race before joining Nathan on his mission to save his friends from Dr. Wicked, the big villain. She was vital to the plot as, when Nathan was knocked unconscious, she used some sort of power to annihilate all of the enemies and hurry to the rescue of the others. Unfortunately, the group was too late and Dr. Wicked used a mind-altering beam to turn Nathan's friends evil, thereby ending the Elite Team series of short stories. With Penelope gone, Amber was now the sole female lead which gave her many chances to shine when *The Story* began shortly after.

### *In the novel*

For whatever reason, Zack seems to really enjoy attacking and harassing her. One of the main focuses of the novel is that he will occasionally swoop in to do something to her, often with the intention of killing her. Her airheaded nature leads to her either getting blown up or unintentionally avoiding every single thing he tries to throw at her, leading to his defeat. Thankfully, when Sarah was added in Season 3, she drew his attention more than Amber, though Amber still got caught up in a trap or two every now and again. She has been shown to be quite the spaz and is rather incompetent at everything she does. She can't bake, she can't drive, she can't have a job. All of these things result in some sort of nuclear apocalyspe. Despite Nathan forbidding her from doing most things, she always seems to find a way to get behind the wheel or doing something she otherwise would get in a lot of trouble for.

## List of Crimes

* **Assaulting a police officer -** When she was found in possession of non-Zakko boxes and sentenced to jail time during *Night of the FBI*, she attacked the Federal Box Inspector.
* **Robbery -** Once robbed a lipgloss store in broad daylight.
* **Wearing gym attire -** When going to the gym became illegal in *Non-Specific Nonsense,* she was arrested for putting on gym clothes.

## Trivia

* While often depicted as airheaded and clumsy, *Amber's Secret* in Season 2 revealed that she actually is a skilled martial artist. Though this was never seen again, it's hinted that she hides her true self behind this adorable, innocent persona.
* For whatever reason, she is unable to play any games that have candy in them, such as Candy Crush or CandyLand (though she is forced to play CandyLand in *Non-Specific Nonsense*). This was actually based on a dream I had where she told me this and I later made it an official thing in the novel.

## Gallery

Amber appearing in The Christmas Kart Battle.Amber using a strange power to defeat her enemies in The New Rivals.Amber as she appears in the novel.Amber's Season 1 character portrait.An Amber biology lesson.Amber gardening while Zack lurks behind her.Amber posing for the frisbee event during the island quest arc.Amber thrown in prison after committing bag fraud.Amber arriving at a store.Amber crawling on the floor.Amber in the kitchen.Amber posing with some roses.Amber's levels of anger.Amber's original design.Amber's redesigned outfit.Amber hates people.Amber doesn't want to.For Amber, every day feels like heaven.