Amy and Hartley

**Amy and Hartley** is the friendship pairing between Amy Madden and Hartley on ***The Villains of Valley View***. They have gone through a lot together already, and they always have each other's back. Despite being complete polar opposites to each other, they quickly found themselves to be two sides of the same coin and became best friends after Hartley learns the Maddens' secret. A core part of their friendship is Amy teaching Hartley some darker traits to protect herself with while Hartley teaches Amy how to embrace her kind-hearted nature that lies just below the "Havoc" surface.

## Ship Names

* **Hartmy** = (**Hart**/ley) and (A**/my**)
* **Amartley** = (**Am**/y) and (H/**artley**)
* **Hamy**= (**H**/artley) and (**Amy**)
* **MyHart** = (A**/my**) and (**Hart**/ley)
* **Amley** = (**Am**/y) and (Hart/**ley**)

## Amy and Hartley Moments

### Season 1

#### Finding Another Dimension

* Amy is reluctant to make friends with Hartley.
* Jake invites Hartley over to their house, to which Hartley gives Amy a Sunshine Club hat.
* Hartley reveals herself a fan of Starling, which was a low-point in Amy's eyes; this was made even worse when Hartley shows to her and Jake a meme she just made, of a frazzled Havoc after Starling bested her in battle.
* Amy accidentally exposes the Maddens superpower secret to Hartley by breaking a rock with her Sonic Powers. Hartley agrees to keep the secret to herself.
* Hartley respects Havoc's decision to stand up for her family against Onyx.
* Hartley offers to help Amy adjust to normal life by teaching her to be less bad. Amy agrees providing she can teach Hartley not to always be so nice.
* Amy and Hartley officially become friends.

#### Trust No One

* Amy is impressed that Hartley outsmarts her family and is so good at blackmail.
* Amy is surprised at how messy Hartley's bedroom is.

#### Belts, Bulls & Superfans

* Hartley helps Amy to find the perfect Mother's Day gift for Eva.
* Amy tells Hartley that she is such a good friend.
* Hartley helps Amy steal Surge's electron accelerator belt from Milo.
* Alongside Eva, Amy and Hartley both fight Milo together.

#### ColossaCon!

* Amy and Hartley share popcorn while watching a film with Jake.
* Amy is annoyed that Hartley liked the meme Jake made of Havoc when she lost to Starling.
* Amy calls Hartley lame for being one of Starlings fans.
* To stop Amy's revenge on Starling, Hartley offers to avoid going to ColossaCon, despite the fact that Starling is her favourite superhero.
* Amy knows that Hartley isn't serious when she threatens to tell the Madden's villain secret in order to stop Amy from going to ColossaCon.
* Hartley intends to keep an eye on Amy to ensure she doesn't go to ColossaCon. She brings crosswords, board games and charades for them to play together.
* Hartley indirectly calls Amy cute, as when Amy is handcuffed to the banister by Jake, Hartley jokes that she can still eat food, as long as she eats like 'a cute dog'.
* Amy manipulates Hartley into loosening her handcuffs so she can escape and go to ColossaCon.
* Amy finds it cute that Hartley went to ColossaCon dressed as Havoc.
* Amy confesses to Hartley that she hates having to relive her most humiliating moment every day and that it is making her feel like a joke.
* Hartley tries to convince Amy to stop her revenge on Starling by saying she doesn't want Amy to be taken away forever.
* Hartley tries to spare Amy's feelings by stopping her from discovering that the people dressed as Havoc are making fun of her.
* Hartley is proud of Amy for showing growth, by not going 'full Havoc' against Starling.

#### Super Secrets

* Hartley tells Jake that Amy is her BFF (Best-Friend-Forever), and they don't keep secrets from each other.
* Amy keeps messaging Hartley asking where she is because they were meant to hang out.

#### A Little Havoc

* Hartley is annoyed that Amy keeps littering.
* Hartley warns Amy that her bad behaviour has consequences.
* Hartley goes to Amy for help when her house becomes unavailable to mentor Scarlett in, because Celia has invited her friends over to play cards.
* Amy is delighted to hear that Scarlett is a fan of Havoc, which is something that worries Hartley.
* Hartley thinks that Havoc is a bad role model for Scarlett, which causes her and Amy to squabble.
* When Scarlett says Hartley isn't as cool as Amy, Amy defends Hartley by saying she is cool in a different way.
* Amy and Hartley wade through landfill together to try and find Colby (who is a doll), after Scarlett says she threw him in the trash.
* Amy apologises to Hartley for stealing Scarlett as a mentee and offers to be the one to fix the mess she made with Scarlett.
* Amy tells Scarlett that Hartley is a good influence to be around.

#### The Two Jakes

* Amy and Hartley both help Eva at the Valley View High community job fair.
* Amy compliments Hartley's ability to lie on paper.
* Amy, Hartley, and Colby work together to help Eva have a successful job interview with Donna Plank, the owner of *FacciaGrande* face cream.
* Amy startles Hartley by revealing her vocal manipulation ability and briefly controlling what Hartley says. This was an ability that Hartley didn't know Amy had.
* Amy and Hartley hide together behind a table during Eva and Donna's face cream fight.
* Hartley helps Amy to evacuate the school so Jake could take down his evil clone which Vic created.

#### Battle For My Brother

* Hartley feels guilty for keeping Jake's secret from Amy, who is her best friend.
* Amy is angry and upset that Hartley has been keeping Jake's secret, thereby lying to her. Amy tells Hartley that she thought she was her real friend who had her back, but no longer thinks so.
* Hartley begins tearing up after Amy storms off.

#### Unleash the Chaos

* Hartley has been baking Amy batches of 'sorry-for-being-a-bad-friend' cookies in an effort to get Amy to forgive her for lying.
* Amy finally accepts Hartley's apology, admitting that she shouldn't have been so hard on her.
* Hartley bakes Amy a cake to celebrate their reconciliation.
* Hartley convinces Amy that forgiving somebody because of what they're doing for you is not really forgiveness.
* Hartley holds onto Amy while watching to see if Vic's machine can save Colby.
* Amy makes Hartley do all of her homework for her, which Hartley comments is 'normal'.

#### Havoc-Ween

* Hartley decorates the Madden's yard for Halloween and asks Amy if she likes it.
* Amy admits to her grandmother that she wants to go to Hartley's Halloween party to support Hartley.
* Amy thinks Hartley did a good job decorating the Halloween party.

* Amy and Hartley dress as each other's opposites for Halloween, expressing their difference in personality. Amy is dressed as a black cloud whereas Hartley is dressed as sunshine.

* Amy tells her grandmother that Hartley is her best friend and the only person she trusts. She also says Hartley is 'all she's got' aside from her family and so she 'needs her'.
* Amy plans to sacrifice herself by letting her grandmother body snatch her, to save Hartley.
* Amy checks if Hartley is alright after Amy's grandmother leaves Hartley's body.
* Amy apologises to Hartley for ruining her party. Hartley accepts her apology and claims that Amy is a true friend, since she was willing to sacrifice herself for Hartley.

#### Showdown at the Round Up

* Amy is annoyed that Hartley has been singing the same song for 3-days straight.
* Amy lets Hartley practise her audition in front of her and is amazed by how good of a singer she is.
* Amy admits to Hartley that she used to be the lead singer of a villain band.
* Hartley is disheartened to hear that Gem, who always beats Hartley in competitions, is also auditioning. Knowing how talented Hartley is, Amy encourages her to audition anyway, promising to be there to support her.
* Amy goes after Hartley to comfort her when she runs offstage upset.
* Amy gets revenge for Hartley by using her vocal manipulation to sabotage Gem's audition. This upsets Hartley as she wants to be able to beat Gem on her own.
* Amy convinces the band to give Hartley (and Gem) another audition. When they offer her the position instead, she turns them down as she doesn't want to hurt Hartley.
* Hartley defends Amy when she thinks Gem is spreading 'nasty rumours' about her.
* Amy acts extremely protective over Hartley, as she threatens Gem to never hurt Hartley again.
* Amy tells Hartley that she would never hurt her and that she should already know that.
* Hartley apologises to Amy for doubting her.
* Hartley thinks Amy has an amazing voice.
* At Hartley's suggestion, her and Amy form their own music group.
* Amy and Hartley sing a duet for the first time. They perform an acoustic cover of the band's song on the Madden's porch.

#### Friend or Foe

* Amy was disgusted by Declan flirting with Hartley.
* Amy was upset that Hartley didn't tell her about Declan. She was even more upset when Hartley told her she was worried that Amy would 'ruin things' by not trusting Declan.
* Amy threatened to sue the lunch lady for short-changing Hartley.
* Amy is worried that people will take advantage of how kind-hearted and trusting Hartley is.
* Amy is worried about Hartley as she doesn't trust her crush, Declan.
* Hartley was upset that Amy violated Declan's privacy by going through his locker and accusing him of spying on other students.
* Hartley was annoyed at Amy for asking Celia to help her spy on Hartley's date with Declan. Amy defends herself by saying she only wants to protect Hartley.
* Hartley protects Amy when Declan asks invasive questions about her life. She tells him that her and Amy are life-long friends who met at the William sisters' tennis camp.
* Hartley appreciates that Amy is only trying to protect her but asks her to be a little more trusting in future.

#### Vials and Tribulations

* Amy convinces Hartley to risk being late to school so they can get last minute Fuchsia tickets together.
* Hartley and Amy are both given detention by Principal Tennyson.
* Knowing how upset Hartley is from receiving detention, Amy plans to use Vic's temporary memory erasure gas to make Principal Tennyson forget he gave Hartley detention.
* Hartley helps Amy to deal with the situation Vic is in.
* While under the influence of truth gas, Amy admits that she spent the entire night rifling through Hartley's house while she was sleeping.
* While Amy is under the influence of truth gas, Hartley helps Amy to keep the Madden family secret.
* Hartley covers Amy's mouth when she nearly reveals Colby's powers to Principal Tennyson.

#### A Superhero in Valley View

* Amy is annoyed that Hartley isn't listening to her.
* Hartley forces Amy to go with her to greet the lonely person at the Round-Up.
* Amy and Hartley sit together on the Madden's front porch while waiting for Jake and Starling to return from their date.
* Amy finds it creepy that Hartley is so excited about being best friends with Starling's frenemy.

#### We Don't Care

* Hartley is disappointed that Amy and her family are laughing at other people's misfortune.
* Hartley is excited to tell Amy that she wants to enter the Battle of the Bands contest with her.
* Amy and Hartley sit together in the Madden's living room while Celia tells the Madden's that she is going away for the weekend.
* Amy and Hartley each write a song about opposing themes. Hartley writes about stars and sunshine, whereas Amy writes about lies and death.
* Hartley thinks that the song 'Loud Like Me', which Amy performed with her villain band, is amazing. This compliment appears to make Amy happy.
* Amy and Hartley practise singing 'Loud Like Me' together in the Madden's living room.
* Hartley tries to calm Amy when she becomes frustrated by Gem talking down to them.
* When Gem tries to publicly humiliate Amy and Hartley at the Round-Up, Hartley notices Amy's pulsating neck vein.
* To stop her from going after Gem, Hartley holds Amy back by her arm.
* Amy destroys Hartley's phone when she uses her sonic powers to create an EMP (Electromagnetic pulse). Amy comforts Hartley over the loss of her phone by sympathetically rubbing her arm.
* Hartley call's her and Amy's band 'Happiness', which Amy amends to 'Happiness of Death'.
* At the Battle of the Bands contest, Amy and Hartley perform the song 'We Don't Care', which they wrote together.

* After their performance, Amy and Hartley share their first hug.
* Amy and Hartley hold hands while waiting for the winner of the contest to be announced. They share a second hug after being declared the winners.Amy and Hartley's first hug.Amy and Hartley holding hands.Amy and Hartley's second hug.

#### No Escape

* Amy is annoyed to see that Hartley found Declan.
* Throughout the episode, Amy appears to be protective of Hartley as she repeatedly mentions how much she dislikes Declan and doesn't trust him.
* Hartley tries to call Amy after Colby mentions they went to surprise her at an escape room.
* Amy tries to find enough phone signal to call Hartley but is unsuccessful.
* Amy defends Hartley against Oculon.
* When entering the 'escape room' building, Hartley calls out for Amy first.
* Amy recognises Hartley voice.
* Hartley blames herself for Amy and the Madden's getting captured as she didn't listen to Amy's warnings about Declan.
* Hartley defends Amy against Oculon when he claims Havoc (Amy) doesn't care about anyone but herself and isn't really Hartley's best friend.
* To save Amy and her family, Hartley shoots Declan with Vic's fusion blaster.
* Hartley doesn't want to lose Amy due to her facing Onyx alone. Amy appreciates that Hartley is trying to protect her.
* Amy congratulates Hartley on her first vaporisation.
* Amy admits to occasionally using her sonic hypnosis power to make Hartley buy her earrings.
* Hartley tries to stand up to Onyx herself to protect Amy and her family.
* Amy refers to Hartley as 'her girl'.

### Season 2

#### Villain Number One

* After the events of the last episode, Amy wants to become the villain leader, but Hartley, as well as the rest of the family, try to convince her not to.
	+ Amy pretends not to, but actually does.
* Amy, Hartley and Jake fight Onyx's emotional support monster.
* Amy admits to Hartley that after their reaction to Amy wanting to be the villain leader, she felt that she had to prove to the family, and herself, that she wasn't weak, Hartley comforting her.
* Hartley is able to notice that Amy is acting a little off.
	+ The hair twirling, the attitude, the weird behavior in general.
	+ She tries to warn the family multiple times that something's off about Amy, none of them listening.
* Hartley realizes that Amy has been trapped by her impostor, and goes to find Amy, bringing a little help with her.
* Amy apologizes again that she lied to them about not being the villain leader.

#### Overnight Success

* They compete in the annual Battle of the Bands for the second time, and are both determined to beat Gem, the two having different ideas of this.
* They rename their band from "Happiness of Death" to "Mad Hart."
* They perform together for the second time after We Don't Care.

#### The Haunted Jukebox

* Amy and Hartley are both transported to Monster Town.

#### The Return

* Hartley goes to the school to paint a mural for the Sunshine Club, and asks Amy to go with her, but she declines.
* Amy is able to realize that Hartley (actually Shadow) isn't actually Hartley, but an impostor.

## Characteristics

### Similarities

* They are both girls.
* They both go to Valley View High School.
* They are both good at blackmail.
* They are both musically talented.
* They both claim to be afraid of Celia.
* They both have character development throughout the seasons, with Amy learning how to be kinder and more helpful, while Hartley learns how to stand up for herself and have a new respect for supervillains.
* They both are in a band, "Happiness of Death", later renamed "Mad Hart".
* They are both empathetic at heart.
* They both are (fr)enemies with Gem.
* They were both transported to Monster Town.

### Differences

* Amy has superpowers, while Hartley doesn't.
* Amy is a brunette, while Hartley has black hair.
* Amy, from personal experience, hates the superhero Starling whom Hartley fawns over.
* Hartley hates hearing the word 'steal', whereas Amy uses it often.
* Amy can whistle whereas Hartley can't.
* Amy lives with her mother and father plus other siblings while Hartley only lives with her grandmother.
* Hartley is a "Swiftie" (Taylor Swift fan) whereas Amy is not.
* Hartley is positive both on the inside and the outside, while Amy can be empathetic at heart, but only sometimes shows it.
* Amy isn't a big fan of pottery, whereas Hartley enjoys it.
* The Sunshine Club:
	+ Hartley is a member of the Sunshine Club, whereas Amy isn't.
	+ Hartley likes being in the Sunshine Club, whereas Amy doesn't really care about it, and likes to mock it.
	+ Hartley has pictures of the Sunshine Club, whereas Amy doesn't.
* Hartley likes to clean up trash, whereas Amy likes to create trash.
* Amy likes to bend the rules and manipulate to get her way, while Hartley likes to follow the rules.
* Amy doesn't have a problem with telling someone the hard truth, while Hartley tries to be polite.

## Trivia

* The name of their singing duo is "Happiness of Death."
	+ As of Overnight Success, the name of the singing duo is now "Mad Hart."
* Both tend to favor platform footwear.
* The actresses who play Amy and Hartley (Isabella Pappas and Kayden Muller-Janssen) are best friends in real life.
* Isabella, who portrays Amy, uses the ship name "Hartmy."  Kayden, who portrays Hartley, also uses the ship name "Hartmy."
* On social media, both Isabella and Kayden have stated that they ship Amy and Hartley together.

## References

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TikTok, “Isabella Pappas on TikTok,” *TikTok*, 2022. https://www.tiktok.com/@izpaps/video/7161355652667854086
2. ↑ [2] TikTok, "Mixedvillage on TikTok", TikTok, 2022. https://www.tiktok.com/@mixedvillage/video/7171544455294520619