Amber Shadowstar

"Incomplete data leads to incorrect actions. Only by having the full story can one make proper choices."

### Status

Alive

Amber was a side character in Seaside Rumble 2, although a main character in Ride 2 and Rumble 3. The cousin of Kerath Shadowstar, she started out lightly investigating the Ba'al situation to figure out why the arena had been disappeared, and quickly fell deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole.

## Personality

"People are weird. At least computers make sense."

A willing shut in for most of the first semester (though she did occasionally spend a bit of time in the fringe's of the Prince's court), until she started seeking out more data about the Ba'al. Amber is a computer geek, and is always seeking more information before she makes a decision on things, as well as being convinced that everything makes some sort of logical sense; if it doesn't, you need more data. Then... a lot happened. People she wasn't able to protect, people exploded, people seduced, and it was like a flip was switched in Amber's mind. She still sought data... as much as she could reasonably get. That said, the data she sought was more the carnal variety than the Ba'al kind - not to say she didn't get both, once she fell in line with Sol=Firle.

## Biography

### Backstory

Her family played host to Kerath for a while after Kerath's family's accident, though she didn't connect her "bratty cousin" with the Kerath she encountered in the school, until he mentioned what happened to his dad and she figured it out. She spent a bit of time hanging around the fanclub of the Princegirls of the school, but for the most part was so antisocial that most of her dorm thought she was new when she finally started emerging to find information about the Ba'al who had erased the entire Vanguard stadium.

### Seaside Rumble 2

Amber's first appearance was actually as a non-named NPC participating in Kendar Rdan's Hard Light Duel Disk contest, where she (masquerading as a boy, since she was quite petite and a victim of minor self esteem issues) lost a duel to Sehr and his Burning Abyss deck.

Her first named appearance consisted of quite a bit of stalking of the Raiders to gather information. Her fascinated curiosity with the Ba'al and what had happened to the Arena had her looking around the school a lot, and once she overheard the Raiders talking about the Ba'al a couple times, she quickly found herself drawn to that area more often, despite being shy (and boggling when they called the High Ba'al, who were clearly alien monstrosities, gods). Finally, she ran into (literally) Akahito, and after giving her request on what she was seeking information about, he was willing to tell her. Logically minded, Amber could scarcely believe of a word of it, despite having had a Rdan Disk and understanding the Hard Light tech to a degree. It wasn't until Akahito called Jas out (who could manifest his monsters, thanks to Industria) and she ran into Muse (literally) that she started to understand they weren't just BSing her. Which possibly upset her further.

She met with the raiders a few more times, before she noticed a weird glow on the beach near Red one evening. She went to see Jas who was modifying his deck using alien magic (as she thought of it), before something even more logically impossible occurred. A girl, walking upside down in mid air, came to challenge Jas. Given that Jas couldn't duel, Amber stepped up in her place. While NoNoN was using a Warrior disk so damage she took was taken on her soul, the way the Priestess dueled reflected that soul damage - given that Amber didn't even believe in Souls at that point, she was utterly baffled by what even hurt, right up until she lost, the damage causing her to pass out... and unfortunately, the loss sealing Jas's fate.

When she finally woke up the next day, she met Akahito, who broke the news to her that Jas didn't make it after her loss, absolutely horrifying her that someone had died because she had lost a card game, protesting how illogical it was... but the protests were pretty weak, after what she had seen recently, and the pain she still felt in the core of her that she realized was in fact her soul. While having friends was a new experience to her in the school, she did continue to spend time with the other Raiders.

After several more unfortunate incidents of running into people, she actually knocked over a girl smaller than she was, who introduced herself as Charlotte - Amber pretty quickly figured out this was actually Lord, the Headmistress, when she was invited to Lord's office for some counseling, after the whole Jas situation. She finally had the rambling emotional breakdown she was needing, as well as Charlotte advising her to delete her records (that she had admitted to listening to dozens of times) - not just to keep them from spreading, but because her listening to it over and over again was unhealthy. She tried then to make a getaway, but Charlotte insisted on her staying and trying to relax more, noting that there was already one red on campus who had tried to suicide this semester, which froze Amber in her place.

Her attitude however was vastly improved from her time in Charlotte's flower garden, and though she was still bothered by Jas's death she wasn't blaming herself as hard for it. She had really felt she had turned a corner, right up until Akahito exploded in the arena. Not exactly literally, but not un-literally either - one instant he was there, the next he was gone and a smoking crater was where he once stood... along with an entire dueling platform. While listening to Muse and Kerath talk about that a couple days later, however, is when she came to the startling realization that Kerath was in fact her "bratty cousin" she recalled from being a little kid that her family had watched for a time after his mother's accident.

Shortly after, she got another call from Charlotte, to see how she was doing after the Akahito incident; although as soon as she stepped into Lord's office, she was assaulted by light headedness caused by the flowers Charlotte had filled the place with. Of course, Charlotte had ulterior motives in mind, and the flowers (being what Chyva's perfume is based off of) left her aroused, though she didn't know it, and confused. When Charlotte offered to kiss her, Amber was even more confused, stating she didn't even like girls like that, but Charlotte offered her an experiment of sorts. 1 kiss, to figure out if she truly did or not. The data-gathering part of Amber's mind couldn't argue with that, so she agreed... and quickly went back for a second.

Of course, Charlotte even couldn't have imagined what she awoke in Amber from that, who promptly began searching for more "Data" to learn on the subject of sexuality, starting with the obviously infatuated Owain. [...people are weird. And I might just be the **weirdest** of us all.] Especially since that, when she started dragging Owain out of the public eye to gather more data on what she liked... Rai joined them, and Amber let her in as well. What was Owain going to do, say no? Amber felt a little bad though the next day when Owain professed to being in love with her, and she was very much... not.

During the Season 2 Finale, she was part of a caravan of Red Duelists who were making their way from Red to the Main Building. This caravan, given the amount of duelists, got attacked by SaaZe. Tabooru went first, and won relatively cleanly. Hiro went next, and it didn't go nearly as well, as she stood in shock, crying without even realizing it as Hiro fell. Another duelist, Jason stepped forward and miraculously did a double-KO on SaaZe, leaving SaaZe's second host and Jason both fed to the Beast of the End. When yet another opponent appeared, an unexpected ally appeared. Sora, who had spoken to Amber days prior about being a hero to those in need, roared into the battle field, shattering SaaZe's Seal as Yuusha-Ou, the Knight of Justice, and made short work of the final opponent. They made it to the main building, and Owain was highly worried about her, given that she was compartmentalizing what was happening to them **hard**, acting like absolutely nothing was wrong and speaking in purely neutral tones - though after a bit of watching Maho's show, she seemed to snap out of it and started conversing normally once again.

She had a last manual duel with Owain as practice, before her carefully controlled emotions almost slipped, as NoNoN appeared. She wasn't there to fight, for now - Amber let her know her sister, Rai, was worried about her, but NoNoN let her know in no uncertain terms that if Amber left the main building, NoNoN would take it as a challenge.

While trying to contact Charlotte, she actually got a response, to summon her to Charlotte's side to help her. She took the staff elevator to the basement, where she was actually attacked by a teacher, Jasmine, who on beating Amber threw her into a locked room with a beaten up Charlotte. Eventually, she got saved when whatever had possessed Jasmine was defeated by Ryuko, who arrived to save the two of them. Of course, listening to Ryuko rant at Charlotte is when she came to realize that Charlotte wasn't *exactly* Lord, like she was under the impression of.

### Seaside Ride 2

Amber picked up Buddyfight relatively easily, with Kerath bankrolling her deck and Owain purchasing her a Core Deck Case. Hers manifested in an usual way, the case itself becoming a purple heart with a red core to match her hair, though the heartbreaker's core case was represented by the heart having a noticeable crack in its appearance.

One morning, Amber got a very firmly worded piece of advice from one of the few Lesser Ba'al she did not like to encounter - NoNoN - to not enter the Serpent's Get. Given that Sol=Firle was upset after Azure had spurned her, and Amber had been far from chaste the night before, it could lead to... complications. Amber took the advice and left, joking she didn't want to cross "with a goddess" off of her list just yet.

After hooking up with yet another partner (in this case, partners; Saitei and Rei, her cousin's "sisters") she came to realize she was stringing Owain along, since he was clearly in love with her and she was very much not. That didn't stop her from having some measure of jealousy when Cynthia began working quite openly in trying to poach Owain from her, including giving him a not subtle kiss on the forehead while she was watching from inside the Serpent's Get. She finally was at least a bit honest with him at that point, leaving with the phrase, "Do what you want. I'm not your boss."

It's after that when she tries to leave, having delayed her departure a little to watch Azure and Kendar's games in Buddyfight and Duel Monsters. On her way home, she's grabbed from behind, however. Four hands, that leach away her desire to protect herself before she can even try. 4 hands that begin to caress her after dragging her through the Seal, that feel her twisted desires to want to own Owain while still not tying herself down to him. Though she did make demands on keep herself and her twisted desires, she did succumb to the Pleasures of the Flesh, begging the Goddess for more. Of course, this did backfire to a degree - when you have something as exquisite as Sol's touch on your senses, your senses dull out for a week or so, which rather disappointed Sai and Rei later that night when she had to bow out because she really wasn't feeling anything from them at all. With her desires dampened to a degree, she was able to at least try to insist Owain stop buying her stuff and try to make a bit of distance between them - it really wasn't fair to him, since she didn't feel the same way he did.

After the Raiders returned from the future, Amber couldn't get in contact with Charlotte again, so went to her office to try to see if she was there. She got called up by the same looking person, but given that she wasn't instantly recognized, she knew that she was actually face to face with Lord, not Charlotte. This did build up Amber's resolve to get stronger in Duel Monsters, once Lord shared Aoi's theory that Charlotte might have been taken by the new enemies, like how Marchen had been turned into the Angel Taliel.

Amber also sparked an unusual friendship with Suenami Ryuko, who came to see how she was doing after Charlotte disappeared. Ryuko had worried about Amber after Charlotte had disappeared, but their friendship really sparked more from Amber (the nerd she is) being fascinated rather than repulsed by Ryuko's artifical arm, as well as a new potential research project with Ryuko's Sovereign gifted powers (since her investigation into Sayo was pretty much over with at this point)... as well as Amber realizing from the way Ryuko talked, as well as her being out of commission for so long that Ryuko just needs an actual friend.

### Seaside Rumble 3

Amber started the new school year with a promotion to yellow, most likely due to signing up for Lord's ritual courses (and showing Lord what Charlotte had taught her about the Headmaster, so to speak), with Rai as her roommate. Her deck had settled into a Cyberse Ritual-style deck; the deck Owain gifted her, and the Ritual plays Charlotte had taught her, so her deck was the reflection of her two most precious people.

On the first day, she encountered Muse, who let her know how much the Sayo collective disapproved of her continued resistance to put herself in any situation where she'd encounter Sol=Firle (nevermind the fact that the Goddess had *basically* raped her). In an attempt to appease Sayo for her friend's sake, she actually agreed to at least talk to Sol=Firle, though Sayo was pressuring her to actually take them on a date, since Sol=Firle had practically no actual experience in how to deal with human society, or humans in general.

When Amber met Sol=Firle, she began to understand why Sayo wanted that. Sol=Firle had very little understanding of anything, Amber even had to lightly explain that there were not small people in a box of her television. She also learned she had hurt the Goddess, because Sol=Firle couldn't understand why Amber was afraid of her, no matter how Amber tried to explain it. In the end, she agreed to take Sol=Firle out on a date to try to teach her about humanity, and left that day after a promise to return tomorrow with just a single kiss from each of them; though that was enough to require a change of underclothes, given what Sol=Firle is.

After getting a tip from Loptr about how Sol=Firle's Divine Territory worked (it depended on how much of them you could see) she dressed them both up (as well as herself) in a hoodie and long skirt and hats, to try to limit the amount of her aura would impact the general public, and took her to a park to simply observe humans, answering their questions as best she could and just trying to teach them about humanity. Towards the end, she determined she really wasn't afraid of them anymore, and when they gave her a Seal for privacy... well, her desires took another week vacation, after Sol=Firle had their way with them.

Amber was present when Asuka, possessed by the Angels, defeated Rebecca and removed her soul from her body, adding another onto the list of those Amber had seen fall before her, though she leans on Ryuko for some support when the Suenami sisters appeared on the scene.

She went to Saitei and Rei's rooms the next day, having lost a bet with the Xyz 2-3 bullies, and while they tried to make some moves on her, she let them know she had gotten numbed from her time with Sol=Firle previously. So after dressing her up in a maid costume and taking pictures, they moved on to the next item in their agenda... which was to try to give her a Negative Number. She refused, remembering the weirdness from Jasmine, and when they invoked Zerachiel's name she panicked. And surprising herself, did something she'd never even think about especially in this situation, and prayed for assistance... from the Pleasures. *[...Pleasures, my Goddess. I'm being attacked by ones who might try to keep me from you, who want to erase us all from existence.... Please, I'll do whatever you want me to do, be whatever you want me to be to you, but please help me, Pleasures of the Flesh!] she mentally screamed, imaging the twins as they were in the grass the day before.* The results were instantaneous, as Rei (who had pinned her to the ground) is instantly overwhelmed with pleasure, rolling off of Amber. She dueled Saitei, and managed to defeat Negative Number 50 before running off. With one more prayer, she tripped and fell into their bed, at the Serpent's Get.

She saw Ryuko there later that day, and told her what had happened; Ryuko had predicted correctly that Kerath would send out the word that Amber was in fact the one who attacked them with a Negative Number, and suggested Amber stay put at the Get for a bit - especially since part of her "reward" for the Pleasure's aid was a lip mark on her neck, signifying her as a Priestess of the Pleasures of the Flesh.

Some time into her self imposed exile, she was surprised by waking up to a much full figured form than usual, blindfolded, in bed with her - and the voice of the Pleasures silenced. Amber, despite all she had been through recently with Sol=Firle couldn't help but be mildly entranced by the woman's beauty, but she still tried to insist she leave. Of course, that stopped once the woman revealed she was Charlotte. Charlotte tried to get Amber to leave with her, but Amber refused, taking on the deck built with the feelings of her most precious people... including Charlotte. She managed to win against Luxuria, though Charlotte was displeased by it. Amber did agree to a deal though - if she fell to a Negative Number holder, or an Angel, Luxuria would get the rights to her, and Luxuria would tell her some secrets along the way. Though, Amber did refuse to seal the deal with a kiss - not to this Charlotte, she felt it was a betrayal to the one who she regarded as her precious person. This wasn't Charlotte, after all - this was Luxuria.

Elizabeth got her a new phone attached to her number, and she started texting everyone she knew was safe that she'd be coming back. Her time hiding was done. The scary part for her was in a spat of texting silly, lovesick Owain, she got a text that just read "help" - and no response came from him after, and his phone was "out of service". Additionally, when she went to school the next day - he wasn't anywhere to be found. She didn't have too long to dwell on her worry, when the arena erupted in an aura of heartache and pain... and several chairs began to melt... when Azure lost her damn mind over a text message. She dampened the sensations of Amy and Tabooru to let them handle it easier, and got the arena mostly evacuated until Rinku broke her out of it. She stayed at Azure's side until Midori appeared, and then a call from Chyva got the blank eyed voice of Pain to leave the arena.

After a night in the Get, she went downstairs to encounter Four, who promptly challenged her to a duel. She lost, and was panicked because at the end, Four summoned a monster she called a "Unknown Numbers 0" - it wasn't a negative number, but... well, Four did imply she'd be visited soon, since she had lost, causing Amber to fear even more. When she was quailing in Loptr's presence, Charlotte pulled her out of reality to claim her end of the bargain, though Amber protested, citing it as unfair. She continued to resist, citing that she didn't want this - this did cause Luxuria pause, after seeing what had become of Jibril she didn't want to take Amber unwillingly. Amber demands a third option, one not involving trickery, and Luxuria agrees; If Amber loses, she goes to Luxuria willingly, and if she wins Luxuria will give up her claim from the duel with Four - but only this time, and if Amber loses ever again, she'll have to go willingly then, too, without further resisting. Amber agrees, and once again overcomes Luxuria with her Cyberse Ritual deck.

She was approached by Aoi to help Lord with some paperwork later, given that Amber had been bonding with Lord as well - their shared grief over Charlotte leaving (as well as Amber's knowledge of Lord's weak points from Charlotte) led them to having a thing as well, so when Lord's Official Girlfriend approached, Amber was a bit nervous at first - despite knowing that Aoi was also sleeping with her cousin. Well, of course, Aoi also wanted to distract Lord from overworking, so when Lord first spotted them with the elevator opening, Aoi and Amber were heavily making out, breaking Lord's will in seconds. In the aftermath, Aoi kind of suggested that Amber pursue Ryuko, who Amber had admitted had been hitting on her - she was apparently Ryuko's first crush that anyone knew of. When she was near Tabooru the next morning, she felt eyes on her, and having been told Tabooru had won against Samael (who Luxuria had warned her about) she decided she needed to make distance from Tab, using texting Ryuko to meet up with her as an excuse. She didn't make it that far before another Angel - Parciel, who used to be Tilia, took her out of reality. Objecting over how popular she was, the duel was interupted before it began with, of all things, Four penetrating into Parciel's angelic void, and pushing Amber out of it... right into Ryuko's arms, given that she appeared right where she had said she had been coming from in her text, and Ryuko had rushed there upon getting undeliverable text replies. After her rescue, Ryuko takes a terrified Amber to her room, where Amber went from fearful girl, to counsellor, to teaching Ryuko that she can be appreciated as a woman regardless of her mechanical arm, with her sense sharing letting Ryuko know just how Amber felt about her.

While catching breakfast the next day, she gets the attention of Samael, who is stalking Tabooru. Samael creates a gate to the Void in her doorway for her, but she retreats, going back to the cafeteria instead; however, anything she tries to say about Samael just dies on the air - she's not permitted to speak of it. Finally with resignation she does go to confront Samael after sharing her sheer terror with Tabooru through Sol's gifts, since she can't even hear the Pleasures in the state she's in. She tried, she really did; but even her luck had to run out, eventually. It was short and brutal, and she could not overcome Samael. She collapses in tears, until they're soothed away in her agreed upon surrender in Luxuria's arms, until it wasn't truly Amber that was even left - it was Eriel.

"Amber"'s next conscious thought came, naked in Ryuko's dorm room, when her swimming mind tried to come to grips with what had just happened after Ryuko had defeated Eriel to save her - at first, she figured it was a dream, but Ryuko didn't allow her that comforting lie. In a rush, all that Eriel had done came through her mind, especially what had happened to Anzod, and *Amber's mind broke.* As Eriel had warned Ryuko, she might even be a bit suicidal knowing all Eriel had done, and Amber confirmed it by asking Ryuko to stay with her, because she didn't know what she'd do if Ryuko didn't. Especially since part of her mind was telling her she deserved to die. Her mental anguish was so acute that when Ryuko used Caritas's power to relieve her of some of her pain, the backlash of anguish (even through Caritas's 1/4th backlash) left Ryuko vomiting in the bathroom while calling for Lord's support.

She awoke again later, with Lord and Ryuko both asleep in her bed, and stared blankly into space until Lord woke up and tried to talk her out of her depression some. It was only mildly successful, with Amber filled with so much self loathing over what she had done as Eriel. When Ryuko awoke, and asked how Amber was, she summed it up with *"Thankful and terrified and hating myself and glad to be here all in a confused jumble inside my head."* Lord was actually the first one to break through Amber's self hatred, by pointing out that her situation was very similar to Loptr, who got a fresh start - Loptr wasn't necessarily responsible for what The Devourer did, since it was a driving Purpose, not Loptr's own will. Similarly, Eriel's twisted will was different than Amber's. In the end, Amber and Ryuko agreed to actually start dating, while Amber expressed wanting to knock it off with the sleeping around with everything that moves routine, and Lord left to go do the paperwork to move Amber to Ryuko's room - as well as give them a bit of time to themselves, since Amber had requested Ryuko help her to "feel alive again, feel the blood moving through me."

As Amber tries to readjust to being mortal and a student again, she gets an offer to vent from her former roommate, Rai - the follower of Sol=Firle can share emotions like Amber used to, so it wasn't a bad idea. She even offered Amber a duel to get her mind off things... which right before it began, Ryuko charged in and interrupted it. With Industria's help, she had sensed Death in the area. Calling Samael out, the 4 began a tag; the corrupted Rai and Samael against Ryuko and a terrifed Amber. The duel was a long drawn out brawl, which required Ryuko doing much of the work since early plays by Amber left her field crippled and out of resources. But Ryuko did, and Amber finally fired off again; the combination of Ryuko's Clearwing Fast Dragon and Amber's Firewall Dragon sealing the deal. Amber received a Key, and as a bonus Samael removed the voice from the back of Amber's head, that told her she didn't deserve to live; she had managed to mostly ignore it, but it still dragged her down and slowed her recovery. Samael then offered another deal; if Amber could help her eliminate Parciel, Samael would stop actively hunting the Champions until the Endgame. Additionally, Samael offered Amber a measure of Death's gift, like Tabooru had; a Power, Death's Due, and Unknown Number 0: Hopeless Spider Shark. Unlike the Negative Numbers, this had no mental corruption attached, so Amber reluctantly accepted.

Amber gathered her nerve, and summoned Parciel, and laid out her gambit. Essentially using the Quillbolt Hedgehog clause - Samael wanted Parciel gone, and didn't want to deal with Tilia either, so make a deal that if Parciel lost her wings, Tilia would cease to exist when she eventually died, rather than going to the afterlife for Samael to deal with. Amber knew Mirai's life was forfeit if Parciel didn't cooperate, and let the Angel know that as well. She phrased Samael's deal in such a way that if Parciel gave up her wings like this, she'd be a hero - because it would prevent Samael from killing more of their friends. They dueled, without stakes, and Amber quite handily won, and God fulfilled their wish.

She finally got Ryuko to go to apologize to the Pleasures, although she didn't like it - but it was enough to get the threat of Vii off of them, so it was what it had to be. Amber also agreed once more to become Sol's priestess and spend time with her on the weekends, though admitted she was planning on becoming significantly less promiscuous in her prayer sending. Sol was okay with this, stating that as long as it was just them and Ryuko, she would be pleased being "the only other one to experience her true love." For that's the emotion Amber finally felt towards someone, that she never had let herself feel before - she really did love Ryuko, not just for saving her but for everything that made the younger Suenami sister her.

During the raid on Suzuki to save Muse, Amber did discover that - although Samael had claimed her gift came without strings, it was still the blade of Death. During a duel with Saitei, she was backed against a wall, and forced to use the power Samael gave her perspective Fours - Death's Due, to summon her Unknown Number 0: Hopeless Spider Shark. With it, she defeated Saitei... but the cost of slaying a foe with Death's card should have been obvious. Saitei began to die before her eyes. So she begged and pleaded with Samael, and came to a deal; she gave up half her life span for Saitei, so she wouldn't have the weight of killing her cousin's "sister" with a power she was too arrogant to assume bad things about. Additionally, by bringing herself that much closer to Samael's domain, she agreed to no longer attempt to slay those defeated by Unknown Numbers; hers, Tabooru's, or Amber's. While giving up half of her own life seemed a sharp price, it was worth it - for Rei and Kerath, she had to make sure Saitei survived... and half her life would still be more than Owain and Anzod got, combined. That said, she did told herself to never, *ever* tell Ryuko about this.

Which lasted right up until Ryuko grilled her on it. She confessed under Ryuko's insistent prodding, sobbing and crying out apologies, holding on to Ryuko like she was afraid that Ryuko would leave her in disgust. She didn't, of course - after counseling her to not tell Sai, she did admit to being mad at Amber - but also proud of her selflessness, giving up so much to prevent Sai from dying due to her being duped.

Immediately prior to the finale, Amber received a new card from Rebecca, along with the rest of the keyholders; Data Storm Dragon, since as she put it "all good Paladins need a Dragon to summon".

She was confident in their chances in the Endgame rush, right up until her love used the first key, and watched Ryuko and her new Crystron Speedroid hybrid card took on her angelic doppleganger. Unfortunately, Ryuko didn't pull off the miracle this time, and Eriel defeated Ryuko - and she vanished. Amber didn't cry out, just collapsed, eyes blank in grief as the person she loved more than anyone else ceased to exist before her eyes. Even Tabooru following up by defeating Eriel couldn't recover her broken spirit, and half the reason she continued on was that Kerath basically forced her to.

On the 4th door, Mary had stepped forth to find Samael as their opponent; though the Train duelist could pump out incredible numbers, she wasn't fast enough, and Samael assembled an even greater power, wiping the tall girl out; and of course, when you lose to Death, there's only one result. Amber stepped forward than instantly - she was the only who hadn't dueled who was Chosen by Death, and figured if things didn't work out - well, she'd get to join Ryuko sooner rather than later anyway, all that was left in her heart was despair. That said, she proved why Samael had chosen her - she was stronger now than before, and wiped Samael out in a heartbeat, all the while her face was blank, her old forced compartmentalization in full force to keep her from just completely falling apart after Ryuko's death. With this victory, they were assured to face off with God herself.

### Post Seaside

After Azure changed history, Amber never had a chance to meet Ryuko. Eventually, she did end up marrying the half blind idiot Owain, after he finally convinced her to tie the knot with her, and when a pro Buddyfight League finally started, she took that up since her skills in Duel Monsters never quite progressed as far as they had without her life constantly on the line in Season 3.

## Abilities

While Amber didn't have any inherent power, she did gain several powers through her bonds to higher powers through the series, between Sol=Firle, temporarily becoming an Angel, and a gift from Death herself.

### Priestess of Sol=Firle

She was chosen for a time as a priestess of Sol=Firle, as well as the deity's "girlfriend" (to try and teach her about the outside world). As all priestesses, she had a few abilities; subconsciously attracted others, and could share, enhance, or dampen sensations and emotions with others. She had the ability to "send prayers" to her Goddess in the bedroom, which tended to increase the pleasure of everyone involved.

### Four

As one of Samael's chosen, she received both a duel power and card from Samael: the card being Unknown Number 0: The Hopeless Spider Shark. She learned the hard way that winning a duel with Death's power was deadly to her opponent, though that deadliness was resolved after Amber willingly sacrificed half her remaining lifespan to Saitei to prevent the other girl's death. During a Duel, Samael's gift gave her an accompanying power:

**Death's Due**: Once per duel, during either player's turn, Amber could perform an Xyz Summon of a "Hopeless" monster using any two monsters in her Graveyard as materials, but the materials would be banished as soon as they were no longer attached to the summoned monster.

## Relationships

### Charlotte Desirae Lord

When clarifying which version of this character Amber had a bond with, the answer is a resounding "yes". Amber first met Charlotte for mandatory counseling after she inadvertently was unable to prevent Jas's death, which only got worse after Akahito exploded in the arena in front of her. Her first counseling session involved a walk through Charlotte's flower field to calm her, the second involved a more direct dose to seduce her. This was successful, and awakened a desire for more "data" these new sensations provided: In real terms, she became more than a bit of a nymphomaniac thanks to Charlotte's attention. When Charlotte (the future-version of Lord) vanished, Amber bonded with Lord (the present time version) over their shared missing of Charlotte - the fact that Amber knew all of Lord's "weak points" already from her extensive experience with Charlotte helped them "bond".

### Owain Key

Owain literally ran into Amber a bit before her first bit of counselling, and they were decent enough friends - Owain was smitten practically at first sight, and Amber didn't really know what to do with it until Charlotte seduced her. Shortly after, Amber began to branch out to experience more things; first on her list was a meeting with both Owain and Rai, sending plenty of prayers to Rai's goddess. Owain was head over heels in love with Amber, who he referred to as an angel (ironically enough), though Amber was... very much not in love with Owain. She admitted as such, and admitted she'd keep using him, and he was okay with that. Their relationship (such as it was) continued up until Luxuria removed Owain from existence to weaken Amber's resolve to stay as a mortal, since Owain was one of her "two most precious people".

### Kerath Shadowstar

Amber didn't recognize Kerath at first, since it was a long time before when they had met - when she heard him talking about "his old ghost" who died recently though, she put two and two together and realize he meant her Uncle Vincent. The two of them bonded, and he helped bankroll her Buddyfight deck (probably would have funded more, but Owain kept spending loads of cash on her already). She even acted as a good host to his school friends, Saitei and Rei during break from school (which is to say she was sleeping with them as often as anyone). During Rumble 3 their bond became even tighter, due to their respective bonds with the Suenami sisters.

### Sol=Firle

Her bond to Sol=Firle was... awkward, since she first met the binary High Ba'al by essentially being raped by them. She went out of her way to avoid the Serpent's Get when she had been recently sexed up after, especially after Owain got turned into a Leftover by them - thankfully Sol=Firle's Leftovers could recover, unlike Loptr's. Eventually, Sayo talked her into helping tutor Sol=Firle's endless childishness and naivety, and she became Sol's first ever "girlfriend". After a rescue through the Seal from danger, she also became a priestess of the Goddess.

### Samael

Samael's attention on Amber at first was at a request from Luxuria - first sending her Four to defeat Amber, then doing it herself after Amber weaseled out of her first loss to Death's minion. When she was saved by Ryuko, Samael cursed her, a voice in the back of her head telling her incessantly that she didn't deserve to live after what she had done. However, she impressed Samael with her resolve, and when she and Ryuko emerged victorious in a tag duel Samael decided Amber (along with Tabooru) would be a potential new Four, worthy of Samael's Unknown Number card and Death's Due power.

### Tabooru Supun

She was friends with Tabooru through her entire time in the Academy - when she first started socializing, he was in Red with her and they both promoted to Yellow for the next year (though Tabooru through his legendary tier skill and Amber through using Rituals and sleeping with the Headmaster). They also ended up close after they were both "chosen" by Samael as potential new Fours, both receiving the Death's Due skill - Tabooru also avenged Ryuko's death to Eriel, though by that point Amber was so broken emotionally she didn't react.

### Robin Key

Amber was a good friend of the "songbird" as she called him, mostly due to him being the brother of her "precious person" Owain. She helped hook him up with Sakuya and Amy, and along with Owain did her best to help him recover after he nearly died in a concert he threw for everyone - though they saw much less of each other when school started back up, as Robin wasn't attending the Academy.

### Anzod

Her fellow Nerd, during the end of their first year they got to be friends as reds with tech obsessions, though admittedly Anzod was more into hardware and Amber was into Software - even their decks were counterparts, with him using Cyber Dragons and her using Cyberdark Dragons. She didn't notice much in the second year when he stopped showing up very often to class, though this is likely what led Eriel to seeking him out.

### Suenami Ryuko

Her friendship with Ryuko was a strange one - they met a few times during the break while she learned Buddyfight, and she pretty quickly determined that Ryuko needed a friend. She also was surprised when Ryuko seemed so sad when Amber mentioned being Sol=Firle's girlfriend, realizing that Ryuko might actually like her. Ryuko was the first person she called when she was in danger on multiple occasions - when she got evac'd to the Serpent's Get, or when Samael started paying more attention to her. She also was Ryuko's first lover, and made Ryuko promise that if something happened to her that she would save Amber - which against all odds, Ryuko did. They started formally dating after Amber was saved from Eriel, as Amber decided she was settling down to a "one mortal kind of girl" (her bond with Sol=Firle was a seperate matter) and the two of them teamed up to defeat Samael as well. During the finale, Ryuko's death (especially given that it was to the Angel with her own face) completely broke Amber emotionally, and everything else she was seen doing up to and including her duel against Samael was flat, monotonous, and very much a case of "going through the motions" - after Mary was killed by Samael, it was likely she challenged Death because she would have welcomed losing as much as winning. Thankfully, Azure reset continuity after defeating God, for if that timeline had continued on she likely would have asked Samael to give the rest of her lifespan to Saitei (whom she had almost killed in the Suzuki raid) and drop out of life, with no one particularly left to live for.

## Decks

### Seaside Rumble

Amber through Rumble season 2 played a Cyberdark deck utilizing Heavy Metal Raiders and Desperado Barrel Dragon, and had mixed results - there's a reason she was in Red, after all. After Loptr's defeat, Owain bought her a Cyberse Code Talker deck that she used exclusively in Rumble 3, aside from one disastrous duel she attempted a different deck to outsmart Death's powers. Due to her bonds with Charlotte, she tended to include the somewhat inefficient Ritual Engine in her deck.

### Seaside Ride

In Buddyfight, Amber used an effective Star Dragon World Jackknife deck. She didn't play much of Vanguard, though Owain did buy her a Link Joker deck based on Chaos Breaker Dragon that she played a bit for relaxation in the Serpent's Get.

### Custom Cards

Discounting Eriel's cards, Amber had these custom cards: her prize for making it to the final gauntlet, and her gift from Samael:

Data Storm Dragon

Unknown Number 0: The Hopeless Spider Shark