Amelia Direheart

Official Art by thesleepypencil

## History

Amelia Direheart was born to a Roma traveller couple in the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1891. Little is known about her life during this point as her childhood memories are somewhat clouded with the passage of time. It is however known that she was an only child and her parents adored her, taking her on adventures and giving her much affection. Her mother was a Blessed of Saul'Sakir and her father of Roma descent, meaning she inherited both the ethnic characteristics of a Blessed as well as the cultural traditions of the Roma traveller community.

In 1896, after going out to play with some lambs in a nearby field, Amelia found her family wagon had been set alight, and was now a blazing inferno. She cried out for her mother and father, but received no answer, no matter how loud and long she called out. Eventually as the rain began to put out the fire and all that was left smouldering wreckage, Amelia rescued what possessions she could and travelled to the nearest city. Eventually after days of walking, she arrived exhausted at the capital city of Budapest, and was found nearly half-dead by a convent of nuns who took her in.

It is not fully known how she ended up in Great Britain from here, however she did not stay with the convent long before being adopted by a Damietta Direheart and moved to London. She was quickly enrolled in St Michael's Academy, a school sponsored by Parthenon which gave her the knowledge and training to eventually be a Parthenon intelligence officer. Due to her accent, spontaneous antics, often over-the-top behaviour, Amelia was somewhat of an outcast for many years. Eventually she was able to normalise her behaviour somewhat and make a group of friends.

After graduation she was assigned to Parthenon squad 'Omicron' as a martial combat specialist. This however didn't last long as her spontaneous manner was deemed too much of a detriment to missions by the squad captain, leading to her dismissal. She would bounce between different squads, often getting kicked out or being placed as an auxiliary. This particularly hurt Amelia's self-confidence and worth, leading to eventually disassociate with the squad system and act as a solo-operative for Parthenon.

In 1916 Amelia was assigned to Squad Athena alongside Tiber Solhymne and Luisa Varasso, and deployed to the Western front of the war. Their mission was to investigate the sudden disappearance of allied soldiers from trenches, in some cases entire platoons had gone missing without a trace. With very little evidence to go on, Amelia and her squad-mates interviewed the soldiers, discovering that many had heard singing at night around the time that many of the troops had gone missing. From this they deduced that a 'Siren' might be responsible for the vanishings. After witnessing a British infantryman being seemingly caught by the 'Siren song', and receiving information on an underground structure in 'no-man's land', Squad Athena decided to investigate. They soon found themselves moving through the wasteland beyond the trenches and into an abandoned facility, discovering the secret of the Siren within.

After the Fall of Parthenon in 1916 at the hands of the Inquisition and British Union of Fascists, Amelia joined up with her younger sister, Penny Direheart and her squad, Zeta. She and squad Zeta have made it their mission to free her older brother Agamemnon Direheart who had mantled the god Apargoth in order to prevent him from ascending to the multiverse.

## Personal

Due to her being a Blessed of Saul'Sakir, Amelia is able to somewhat bend and manipulate space-time subconsciously. It also means she has a spontaneous personality which often appears to lack a level of seriousness one might expect from normal people in everyday and extreme situations. Her ability to manipulate space-time is rarely strategically helpful, as she cannot fully control it, it manifests when she is trying to express herself. An example of this being acquiring objects from seemingly nowhere, such as a hair brush when she had not previously had one. This has led to many situations where observers may believe she an Orphic magic user, however Amelia possess no Orphic abilities herself, rather only those given by her Blessed status.