Amelia Shorette (Portal Stone Quest)

Amelia is a baker, who after harboring the runaway princess chooses to leave with her on the quest rather than face the guards and her father.

## Abilities and Weaknesses

### Abilities

Baking, Horseback riding, Strength (hauling flour), Dagger throwing

## Biography

**Amelia** is the daughter of the Baker in the town of Keene in Akeela. She is very soft spoken and obedient, and is noted to work hard days away in the bakery for little pay and recognition- something that bothers her greatly. She is well acquainted with other villagers as well as some of the knights. When Maya enters the bakery, Amelia helps her hide and eventually, escape, after her father reports it to the guard. She is the one taking Maya to the physician, and seeing as she can no longer go home (and not particularly wanting to) due to helping the princess escape, she joins the quest. Once they reach Anna's house in the Thieves' forest, she starts training with Nina and Sophia. It is noted that due to working in the bakery, she had an impressive amount of strength but not precision. She also is responsible for making muffins which at one point put Maya to sleep. When the group reaches Captain Charlie's ship, she is intent on practicing her skills and bladework with the help of the pirates. On their quest to retrieve Nerissa's Pearl, she helps fight off the attacking sea creatures. She does end up taking a more fierce stance when Sophia is revealed to be injured. She argues with Parker to help them, and helps gets Sophia safely back to the ship. Amelia enjoys herself at the ball hosted at Queen Maureen's palace, admiring her gown which she notes to be worth more than her life. When the night of fun (and chaos) wraps up, Amelia considers writing a letter to her father telling him that she'll be home soon. However as she considers the adventures she's had compared to the life she's leaving behind, she tears up the letter and goes to bed.

### Early Life

Amelia is underpaid and overworked at her father's bakery in the village of Keene. She has spent years working under her father's unfair conditions, and feels very controlled. Frankly, when Maya came to her for help Amelia knew she wanted the chance to runaway.

## Appearance

Amelia is a very pretty girl with fair skin and some freckles. She is short at around 5’1. She has dark brown curly hair that she usually keeps tied back and out of her face. Her eyes are almond shaped and a dark coffee brown that looks like opals in the sunlight. She has dark brows, usually unintentionally furrowed. Although her resting face makes her look a bit angry, she’s really a cheerful person. She is often clothed in simple dresses, like what she would wear in the bakery. She almost always has a small apron of some sorts.

## Personality and Traits

Although initially quiet and shy, Amelia comes out of her shell more as the adventure goes on. She's intelligent and good at thinking quickly and improvising. She is an early riser due to her being a baker, but she comes to enjoy sleeping in later. She is surprisingly stronger than expected due to hauling flour and other heavy baked good, with the help of some training she gets much better at using blades. She isn't the violent type however, and though she likes to practice her skills she would rather have no use for them. She is a very gentle person and soft spoken, although when she's irritated she can get more stern. At first she has a very passive way of being, however the adventure builds her confidence and she becomes more of a fighter. At one point she decides she's never going back to her father, and doesn't bother reaching out to him. She was very overworked under her father's employment and hated it, despite loving the baking itself. She also loves animals, horses in particular. And seeing as how she managed to get the hair from the unicorn, she is deemed of being (at least to some extent) "Pure of Heart".

## Abilities and Other Skills

* **Baking** - Amelia is of course, a baker, being the daughter of one. She is first seen by Maya working, and is implied to have made most of what is sold in the bakery. In one of the chapter, with the help of Nina and Anna. she creates muffins that put Maya to sleep.
* **Strength** - From hauling flour and other heavy things around all the time it is revealed that Amelia is quite strong despite her size. She displays this while first dagger throwing, her knife sticking deeply in the target, but her aim is off.
* **Knife work** - Between Sophia's fighting lessons and already being skilled with a knife, Amelia is quite handy when it comes to blades.
* **Horseback riding** - She is noted to have a love for horses, and to be good at riding.

## Relationships

### Baker (father)

Although she works for her father, they don't have a close relationship. She mentions how she is underpaid and overworked despite her father owning the business. She is quick to disobey her father and run away from the bakery, suggesting she's wanted a chance to get away.

## Quotes

* "Considering the state of your attire, I'm going to guess it was either an arranged marriage, attempted murder, or just regular parent problems. No noblewoman would put themselves in such a state were it not a dire situation." - About Maya's wardrobe, Chapter 1.
* "Yeah well, the runaway princess stumbling into my bakery is probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me around here so I may as well enjoy it."
* "We have been walking for hours. Not to mention in the past day alone, Nina and I have been hunted, nearly arrested, and are likely outlaws in the kingdom. Now we're on a quest to find some rock thing that may not even exist because we can't go home."

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