Cherry Amana

* Gacha Life 2
* Black Sun Attire
* Cetra Form
* Corrupt Counterpart

### Allies

Locaster Helios, Yuna Hanamura, Shay Hanamura, Veena Lu, Hikage Ishuko, Soul Kawasaki, Windflower Amana, Nabi Haluška, Fēng Xu, Ashton Khanh (neutral), Shizuka Ikami (neutral), Hideko Inazuma (neutral) Damion Halloreen, Kahori, Lyria Emerith, Shiah Bereng, Colbalt Majmua

### Enemies

Crow Watanabe, Caius Astrada, Akuji Hasegawa, Cassian Packard, Shítǐ, Lilyflower Amana (Windflower’s corrupt counterpart), Max/Spike (Bolt’s corrupt counterpart)

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**Cherry Amana** is a major supporting character in *Challenge of The Shadows*. She is the older sister of Windflower Amana and a spell-caster and healer in training. She and her sister had to escape from their village after the Black Sun attacked it, forcing them into hiding for them not to get found and captured. She’s currently on an ongoing quest with her friend Locaster and his friends to make the demon gems whole again before the black vines destroy Azuren.

She and Windflower were recruited into Team Strelitzia after siblings Shay and Yuna Hanamura assisted them with fighting Black Sun ruses many months after being disbanded from Team Voltage. Cherry is the co healer of Team Strelitzia, getting help from Yuna if her healing isn't strong enough to heal others or if there are too many people with wounds. She focuses mainly on defensive spells though as a spellcaster and uses her sword defensively, switching to close combat if she really needs to.

## History

Cherry was the eldest daughter of Luna Amana, the finest archer in their home of Dawnbloom Village. She never got to meet her father ever since she was born, and her mother kept telling her that he left the family, showing little to no care for him. At a young age, Cherry was very interested in herbs and healing, even watching other people doing magic during a spell class.

Cherry was, as Luna would describe, an eager and kind child who wanted to learn new things. She noted that her sister was her whole world, wanting to protect her no matter what the circumstances were. However, Cherry was also shy and rather timid, not wanting to be the center of attention for a prolonged time. Noticing her rather shy demeanor, Luna decided to teach Cherry the basics of healing magic and became proficient at it. Cherry decided to secretly watch spell classes through the window to learn how to do spells because of her shyness.

Cherry eventually learned how to shrink objects and do basic healing, practicing every moment she got and becoming proficient at it. She also taught her sister, Windflower, a little of what she knew. One day, Cherry noticed how Windflower was practicing using a sword, and decided to help her by using a shrinking spell to shrink the sword to a good size for them. She even managed to customize the swords for the two of them, their names in Latin engraved on the blade of the swords.

Cherry would start to practice sword fighting in the training room with Windflower for days at a time and found enjoyment in practicing with her sister. One night, Cherry noticed that her mother was sneaking out of her bedroom and saw her telling Windflower about something. She did get caught, and later on, found out that their father was evil after he left the family.

Cherry also tried to spend time with Luna as well, begging her to show her how she would shoot targets using her bow. This led to her learning how to use the basics of a bow, but in fighting combat, she would mainly use her sword. She also tried to ask about what happened to their father multiple times, with Luna telling her over and over that he just left the family. This left Cherry feeling frustrated, not knowing what happened to her father.

However, things started to take a drastic turn when the Black Sun, a terrorist military group, invaded Dawnbloom Village in the early hours of the morning. Cherry was forced to flee, along with her sister, but was attacked by a Black Sun soldier. Luna managed to defend them, and after a lot of back and forth, told Cherry and Windflower to run from the village and never look back. Cherry didn’t want to leave her mother behind but listened to Luna as they ran from the only place they called home. She never saw her mother again after that, leaving her with some form of regret, wondering what would happen if she stayed and helped her fight.

When she was seven, Cherry was forced to hide from the Black Sun for the rest of her childhood and started to take on the role of a mother when caring for her younger sister. She would practice using the spells she knew and look for new herbs and plants when the soldiers were not patrolling the area. She and Wind both had very little amounts of gold from their rushed escape, only buying food when they had the chance to. Cherry, at one point, even tried testing plants if they were edible. This went on for many years until she woke up one day to realize her sister was gone. This made her panic, her first thought being if the Black Sun captured Windflower. She spent multiple days and months looking for her sister while hiding from the Black Sun to avoid being captured.

One day, Cherry realized that her sister was in a special group, Team Voltage, a group that fights against any evil forces and saves people from harm. She was finally found by none other than her sister Windflower and after an awkward introduction, was allowed to join the group, becoming their next healer in place of Windflower.

She went on many many missions with the group, one of them involving a realm where her sister had an evil counterpart named Lily. But, the leader of the group, Bolt, one day disbanded the team after there was a huge argument between everyone in the group. This forced Cherry, Windflower, Soul, and Locaster to isolate themselves from the Black Sun as they slowly tried to take over the world.

## Appearance

Cherry is a young adult who is around 5’5, making her the shortest out of everyone in the group. She has pale skin with red and white hair tied in a braid with teal eyes.

Being a spellcaster, she carries two small pouches around her waist full of her herb supplies. She has a book that explains some of the herbs she has seen and what they do.

Her normal outfit includes a dark raspberry top and skirt with dark red highlights. She also wears a scarf hiding the necklace she made with Windflower when they were little kids. Cherry also wore two hair clips in her hair to keep her bangs in place. She wore high-knee white and raspberry boots.

### Black Sun Uniform

During her imprisonment in the Black Sun by Shizuka Ikami, she wore a black and gray uniform similar to her normal attire. However, on her top, there was a heavy piece of armor as a chest piece and had a long-sleeved shirt with gloves. Also, she wore gray leggings under her skirt to cover up her legs. Cherry was also forced to take off her hair clips and was stripped of her necklace, replacing her scarf with a short black one.

### Corrupted Counterpart

After Cherry and her friends finally encounters her corrupted counterpart, her appearance shifts from being mostly red hues to blue hues.

## Personality

As a child, Cherry was extremely shy towards the other villagers and children, not knowing what to say and scared about what they would think of her. But, she also had a kind heart. After learning the basics of healing magic, she would try to heal injured animals that she saw while out hunting for herbs in the nearby forest. That would sometimes lead her to get attacked. She also was suspicious of her mother for a while since she thought she was hiding something from her and Windflower.

After Luna’s sacrifice and her escaping the village, Cherry's personality started to shift from a shy and kind girl to a more traumatized and paranoid one because of her mother's sacrifice. She started to become mature at a young age, teaching how to fend for herself and her sister, but also became overly cautious and protective. As the Black Sun was still looking for them, she often had a paranoia that the Black Sun would eventually track her and her sister down, leading to the protective demeanor she has now over Windflower.

In the present, Cherry is a rather protective and slightly hostile individual, protecting her sister, and often acts defensive when talking about people she’s close with. She has shown this when Veena was talking about how Cherry was overprotective of her sister, and she argued back saying that she was doing it ever since she lost her mother years ago. Yet, despite her stubborn demeanor, she shows to have a more kind and caring side towards her friends. She tries her best to help all her friends in the group since she was a healer, but it sometimes leads to her making impulsive decisions.

Like Yuna, Cherry shows a particular interest in herbs. She often studies different kinds of herbs and carries a book that allows her to learn more about them and how to utilize them in different ways. Cherry has filled out this book ever since she and Wind was hiding from the Black Sun, using it as a survival technique back then.

## Abilities

**Herb Intellect:** Out of every member in the group besides Yuna, she knows which herbs to use for spells and which are for healing. However, this doesn’t mean she knows what every single herb in the world is, she only knows which ones she has seen before or has used in a spell.

**Enhanced Speed & Reflexes:** Despite being captured by the Black Sun, it did help her with her fighting skills. When Cherry gets mad about one of her enemies badly hurting her sister or friends, her speed and reflexes increase. This is only activated when she gets really angry, and it only goes away once she calms down. But there’s a chance for her to become reckless and not think about strategy at all when this happens. It's almost like a different version of her friend Locaster's berserk form.

**Enhanced Strength:** Cherry has shown to have a lot more strength in doing spells and while in a fight. She can last much longer while holding a spell than her sister. She has also shown to be able to throw people a few meters away from her, like when she fought the guards while helping her friends escape from Akuji Hasegawa and Cassian Packard in Lyakon. However, she does still get weak from overuse.

**Hand to Hand Combat:** Once again, her imprisonment in the Black Sun helped with Cherry's fighting. Even though uses more defensive spells, she knows a little bit of hand to hand combat in case she fights head on with an enemy. or loses her sword during a battle. One of the times she has used this was in an alternate scene when she was fighting Akuji head on.

## Magic Abilities

**Healing:** Cherry can heal wounds using her magic. So far in her training, she can heal scrapes, cuts, and deep wounds depending on how big they are. The larger the wound, the more focus it takes and the longer it takes to heal completely. She can also heal anyone in a certain radius if she concentrates hard enough.

**Potion Making:** Cherry has shown to sometimes make potions on the fly or beforehand as a safety measure in case her spells fail, as seen when she made a healing potion when her magic wasn’t working very well. She even tries to experiment and create potions without knowing what they do. Cherry was the one that made the base of a potion to stop her sister's evil counterpart from taking over Wind's body completely.

**Spirit Magic:** After a conversation with Locaster about her magic reacting to the darkness vines, the two of them made a theory that her magic might be combined with spirit magic. She was told that a piece of the wind gem plus healing magic created spirit magic. Cherry has tried multiple times to try to destroy the darkness vine that Polaris had in a jar, but failed. It was only until the darkness vine morphed into a big breathing plant that she finally was able to use her magic to destroy it. However, this is a big risk because it takes up almost all of her energy, depending on the size of the darkness root.

**Teleportation Spell:** Cherry has the spell that allows her to teleport: However, she can only teleport a certain radius and cannot spam the spell, which would result in fatigue-like symptoms and dizziness. She did try to teach this spell to her sister Wind one time, but it ended up with Wind teleporting really far away to who knows where.

**Perception Spell:** During her time studying, Cherry learns a perception spell that can help her detect anyone in a certain radius. To work the spell, she must concentrate intensely to find anyone she's detecting, or the spell will break. She has proven to be vulnerable when performing the spell because of the intense focus it requires. Cherry has also tried to use this spell to help her friend Locaster when he uses the perception spell himself as an "upgrade" of some sort. This most of the time doesn't really help and it makes Cherry feel a bit awkward afterwards.

**Shrinking Spell** *(Latvian:* *miniaturizēt***):** Cherry can shrink objects to the size she so desires by using a dew leaf and reciting a chant. However, she must crush the dew leaf and place it or throw it in the direction of the person or object. She only used this spell once when she was a kid, using it to customize two swords for her and Wind.

**Invisibility Spell:** Cherry has a spell that allows her to turn invisible if she eats a small handful of birch bark. When making physical contact with an object or person, she can turn them and herself invisible. However, this spell requires extreme concentration and requires her to use it until the threat is no longer in sight, and her time to be invisible heavily depends on the strength of her body.

**Temporary Barrier** *(Latvian: barjera)***:** Cherry can create a temporary barrier around her or another person that can last multiple hits at once. However, the amount of durability the barrier can handle depends on her strength. Cherry has used her barrier spell on many occasions, one example being when she was helping her friends fight Sheba, Blyeth's evil counterpart.

**Crystalization Magic (future):** During a future unnamed fight between team Strelitzia and an unnamed enemy, Cherry, who became exhausted throughout the battle, tried to protect her friend Locaster. Locaster at that moment couldn't move because of his injuries, and was trying to heal them using his small amount of healing magic. The two of them at speeds I can't describe made contact with a magic blast from the enemy, with Cherry standing in front of Locaster. The impact made a huge dust storm around them for a few moments, and Locaster worried about his friend since he wasn't able to hear or see her at all. But it suddenly led to shock because that was when Cherry unlocked her cetra form, with white and pale yellow crystals formed on her arms up to her elbows, deflecting the attack and not injuring Locaster and Cherry at all. Her crystalization magic after that is unknown, since this is a battle much later in the story and because Cherry just unlocked this power.

## Equipment

**Sword:** Cherry when she was a little kid, decided to personalize two Dawnbloom swords for her and her sister Windflower. This was a medium-sized weapon she used to fight in most of her battles. She usually switches between using spells and using her sword in different scenarios.

**Crimson Bow:** Though she rarely uses it, she does know how to use a bow. The only times she has used it was when she was trying to hunt animals when she was hiding from the Black Sun.

## Weaknesses

**Overuse:** Just like other demons and magic users, one of her main weaknesses is the overuse of her magic, either her healing powers or spells. Since her bigger or longer spells take more energy, if she uses them for too long she will become very dizzy and even collapse from exhaustion.

**Overprotectiveness:** After losing her mother, she has become overprotective of her little sister Windflower. Cherry is constantly with her 24/7 so that she is protected from harm in any shape or form. And when the two of them are separated, she worries about her so much that she loses focus and panics. Nervous about losing the last connection to her family. However, currently in the story she let go a little bit of her overprotectiveness and was able to stay calm about her sister's safety when Wind stayed behind with Yuna and Shay to protect the shard box back in Myria.

**PTSD:** Cherry is prone to having horrible flashbacks of when she was captured by the Black Sun whenever they are mentioned or when she sees someone in a situation reminding her of her capture. She would also gets flashbacks from when her mother sacrificed herself to save her and her sister. Cherry would sometimes get to the point where she would have a full on panic attack and would likely pass out from the trauma she had to endure back then.

**Easy to Anger:** Cherry's main weak point is her anger; She has shown to get angered or offended during a conversation about her sister or in a big argument. Cherry has to try to stay calm and resolve the argument when Bolt was threatening to disband Team Voltage many years ago. Cherry also got very angry when Veena told her that she was overprotective of Windflower, leading to an argument. Cherry also can lose her temper around enemies when they harm her friends or sister. She however is slowly but surely learning to control her anger so that she doesn't spiral out of control in a fight or argument.

## Relationships

### Windflower Amana

Cherry and Windflower have had a sisterly sibling bond, taking care of and trying to protect each other till the very end. They even fight in a duo just like Yuna and Shay , with Cherry using her sword, and Windflower using her magic. The two of them eventually made a discovery that they can use their swords together in a wind spin attack in a fight.

Ever since they had to escape from their village, Cherry and Wind had to rely on each other to survive. This was when Cherry taught Wind more basic spells she can use along with her magic. One of them would go out safely for herbs for food, while the other would protect the cave they were sheltered in and keep a lookout for Black Sun members. Cherry was the one that went out the most out of the two of them.

However, in some cases they would sometimes argue with it each other because of their very different point of views from when they were little. Cherry was the one that kept trying to save Wind every time she would get badly hurt or captured. She didn't even know she was fighting her own sister when she was captured by the Black Sun one time, unknowingly blaming Wind about her imprisonment and how she was weak. This did cause a small crack in their relationship, and it would only get bigger as time passed.

### Luna Amana

Cherry had a close bond with her mother, as she was taught how to do basic healing from her in the first place. Luna was also the one to encourage her into spell casting when she noticed her watching spell classes from the window. Many years before the events of the story, Cherry somewhat felt like Luna was hiding something after she found out her father was evil, but shrugged it off. She did feel a bit conflicted after finding out that Luna forbid Windflower to never use the duplication spell ever again, not knowing who to side with because of how much she cared about her mother and her sister.

During the main events of the roleplay, Cherry recalls Luna’s words she told her about her father, making her wonder about who her father was. Cherry kept trying to forget what happened to Luna and the sacrifice she made to save her and Windflower, but every little thing mentioned about the Black Sun would trigger that flashback moment. To make things worse, her memories of being captured by Shizuka Ikami of the Black Sun would also trigger if it was mentioned as well.

### Kazimieras Easton

When Cherry was born, she never had the opportunity to meet her father. All she knew from her mother was that he was an evil man that left the family for an unknown reason.

However, in an alternate offscreen scene during her friends fight against Cassian Packard and Akuji Hasegawa, she had to fight against Kazimieras, who was wearing a cloak during that time. Cherry didn't even know, or realized that it was her father until she was pinned down by him. But after finding out he was a part of the Black Sun, it made her panic so much that she almost passed out. After the fight she was so emotionally and physically exhausted since she hasn't seen her father for almost her entire life.

### Soul Kawasaki

Prior to Team Voltage's was disbandment, Cherry and Soul had a somewhat on and off friendship with each other because of how opposite his personality was to hers and Wind's. Soul would also refuse to be healed by her when he would get hurt in a battle. It was only until after he admitted that he liked her sister was when they started to have a close friendship.

The three of them made a trio during missions with fighting, with Cherry healing, and her sister and Soul fighting together as the offense. While they were isolated from the others, they still were close friends but had a wedge in between them because of Cherry's growing overprotectiveness towards her sister. They still cared for each other though, like when Cherry was worried about Soul when he didn't come back from visiting Ashton in Lyakon.

She only found out what really happend to him during Locaster and the other's fight against Cassian Packard and Akuji Hasegawa, where Cassian told Locaster in his own way that he was killed.

Cherry, who was hiding during that time, had to keep her feelings in so that she wouldn't get caught. After freeing them and escaping together was when she finally had time to grieve for her old friend, but she had to do it secretly with Locaster so that her sister doesn't find out. She was secretly scared about Wind's reaction if she told her that Soul died.

### Locaster Helios

Locaster was the first person to trust Cherry when she first joined the group Team Voltage many years ago. The two of them had each other's backs in a fight whenever they were about to be sneak attacked by either the Black Sun or an enemy. They would also relate to each other due to them having a sort of similiar past and childhood. Cherry and Locaster's friendship was strained a little bit though after the team leader Bolt disbanded the team, forcing them all to isolate themselves from each other. Out of everyone in the group minus Soul and Wind, Cherry cared about Loc the most when he gets hurt after a fight.

When Cherry found out that her healing magic was actually combined with spirit magic and that the theory she and Locaster made was true, Locaster was the first one to see Cherry when she collapsed after overusing her healing magic to destroy the out of control darkness vine. In that time Locaster looked like he genuinely cared about Cherry, shaking her side when he thought she died, and was relived when he saw her breathing was normal.

After helping Locaster and the others escape from Lyakon, Cherry kept worrying about him when she noticed that his cheerful personality was gone and tried multiple times to figure out what was wrong. But it always ended up in an awkward silence between the two, their friendship starting to crack because of this. Cherry much much later actually found out from the others that he was forced to eat a drug laced brownie in order to save Ashton. It made her extremely angry inside and she promised herself to make her healing magic stronger so no one would end up similar to her friend.

### Shizuka Ikami

Even though Shizuka and Cherry are now neutral with each other, back then Cherry thought of Shizuka as an enemy. The reason being is because she was the one that captured Cherry during a fight and forced her to become a Black Sun member. Shizuka also seemed to hate Cherry with a passion during her imprisonment, going very hard on her during training and even forced her in a fight with a high ranked soldier on the first day of her capture.

Shizuka did send Cherry on her first alone mission many months later, but Cherry at that point was VERY unlike her usual happy and kind personality. She didn't even realize that she fighting her sister Wind until a flower shard user named Sakura broke them up and snapped her out of it. That was where Cherry's PTSD at the Black Sun started, and her long term grudge against Shizuka. It also didn't help that Locaster wanted Shizuka to join the group.

Cherry for multiple days and weeks straight up ignored Shizuka, with Shizuka ignoring her back. It was only until they were forced to fight together was when Cherry's grudge against her started to lower a little bit. Currently she doesn't hate Shizuka as much as she did before, but they do sometimes argue back and forth sometimes.

## Trivia

* Cherry fangirls over Yuna Hanamura when she watches her make potions, wanting to learn spells and make potions from her.
* Cherry describes her teleporting as fast as a lightning bolt sometimes. She mentions that she used to puke because of how fast teleporting was when she first learned the spell.
* miniaturizēt means miniturize in Latvian
* Despite being half Polish and half Latvian, she's more on her father Kazi's side, who is Latvian
* Cherry's original age used to be fifteen before it was changed to nineteen.
* She rarely kept her hair down, mostly because it would get in her face and might be a hassle while doing spells.
* Cherry is left handed when using a sword. But uses her right hand for spells and either or both hands for healing/spirit magic.
* Cereza, Cherry's alternate ego, was going to be the twin sister of Wind (aka Arcana) instead of Cherry looking different than Wind.
* Cherry's father decided to be a Black Sun member for some unknown reason, but never came back to his family the day that Cherry was born.
* The chants in some of the spells Cherry uses are in Latvian, her language
* Cherry is more of a defensive fighter than an offensive fighter even though she has a sword. But she does occasionally use offensive moves if she's forced to.
* Cereza, Cherry's alternate name, means cherry in Spanish.
* Cherry is the only one in the group that hasn’t used any of the demon gem’s powers.
* How Cherry is able to do her spirit magic is still currently unknown in the story, but the others said that there is a chance she is part Cetra.
	+ Before Cherry and her sister found out about their spirit magic; the others and even their enemies, they found her aura sort of weird. Like, it was different than a demon shard user's aura, but was a bit off from a human aura.
	+ later in the story, Cherry finds out somehow that their mother Luna was actually half cetra.