#sorry for giving amy so much lore im insane

[badnikbreaker]

amy rose grew up in an orphanage — she never met her parents, nor does she remember them, and isn’t sure if they abandoned her, were killed, etc.  she doesn’t feel any particular angst about it, and is happy with how they grew up.

she left the orphanage fairly young to chase after sonic at the behest of her tarot cards, though they were penpals for a few years prior to that.  it’s important to note that amy’s infatuation with sonic wasn’t built just due to him being a sort of celebrity, nor did they leave the orphanage just for a crush — most of the reason amy developed a crush on the hedgehog, especially early on, was because they wanted adventure and excitement and the chance to protect people!  it was a real example of “do i want to date him or do i want to BE him” and amy simply decided to do both.  they left the orphanage to seek out sonic, yes, but also because they wanted to go on adventures and save people!  it’s important to me that we highlight amy’s desire for freedom, her desire to explore the world, as much as we highlight her romance.

anyway — they keep up with several members of the orphanage, and have relationships with others through those folks.  so, have a list of some of amy’s NPCs, mostly from the orphanage.

highwind — a bird amy grew up with, as well as amy’s first crush.  highwind was in the orphanage because her mother had been deemed unfit due to emotional abuse; highwind came away from the relationship convinced that she was bad and stupid.  amy’s patience and good nature were really important for highwind’s recovery and ability to conceive of herself as good and strong.  highwind was adopted before amy left the orphanage, but they kept up.

currently, highwind is living in and overseeing the rebuilding of one of the settlements that was almost completely destroyed by the war.  most of the population of that settlement hates amy, as it was amy that made a call to pull troops out of the area — it was either letting the town fall so they could save the city, or losing both.  still, the choice resulted in a lot of deaths.  highwind defends amy when she comes up, which isn’t a popular take — but highwind does too much good work for most people to take major issue with her.

highwind is dating a townie in the settlement, a rabbit named oli.  oli lost her parents and sister during the war when amy pulled the troops, so she especially hates amy.  amy hasn’t seen highwind in a while.

bijou — a squirrel amy grew up with in the orphanage.  he was in the orphanage due to his parents having passed; he was initially put in the custody of his uncle, but his uncle would go on to abuse him.  bijou was written off by much of the orphanage staff due to being somewhat violent; amy took a lot of strikes from the kid growing up and only ever hit back once.  eventually, her patience helped, and he broke down sobbing in her arms one night while she brushed back his hair and promised it was okay now.  he’s doing much better now!

they grew apart over the years, but — bijou was a member of the resistence during the war, which amy didn’t learn until after; he knew they’d freak out and try to protect him.  amy feels a little resentment about the secret keeping, even if they understand logically why he did it.  it’s caused a little distance, though amy’s been trying to make time to visit him and catch up.

trinket — a fox that came to the orphanage a few months before amy did; amy doesn’t remember meeting her, obviously, since amy came in as a baby and trinket was already about four.  still, trinket took it upon herself to “raise” amy, since amy was the reason trinket was no longer the orphanage baby.  trinket was prone to self - protective violence; her mother visited the orphanage somewhat regularly to attempt to bring trinket home, though trinket always refused and more than once tried to attack her.  amy helped, and she remembers clearly the birthday where trinket’s mother came and brought her a present and — trinket held onto amy’s hand so hard amy bruised.  but she accepted the gift and said, “thank you,” even if she couldn’t look at her mother.

trinket never did forgive her mother — which amy’s assured her is fine, and that she doesn’t owe her that.  but her mother died in the war, and trinket has a lot of grief about the weird in - between state the bond was in when she died.  amy’s spent a lot of time with her since the war ended, whenever she could find time.  the fox is doing better now.

trinket has since started working at an orphanage much like the one she grew up in — lots of new orphans since the war — and met their new partner, dodge the chinchilla, a member of the resistence who later started volunteering once the war ended.  dodge and amy met briefly during the war, and have a lot of respect for each other.

tea — a galago and one of amy’s aqcuaintences from the orphanage, and a card game enthusiast.  like amy, they have no solid memories of their parents, who passed away when tea was still an infant.  while tea was not into tarot, their passion for card games did eventually assist amy in discovering and developing a passion for tarot readings.

nowadays, tea runs a game shop; everything from magic: the gathering to dnd to monopoly.  they’re very happy, and have been trying to get together with amy for the past few months, though obviously things go very frantic during the zombot invasion.  tea’s game shop was actually a sort of safehouse during said crisis, and they saved a lot of folks from turning or being injured.

tea’s got a regular at the shop who thinks amy is the coolest person ever, a mink named chem, and tea keeps trying to arrange a meeting.  

chester — one of the workers at the orphanage.  he died of natural causes shortly before the war.  he had several kids of his own and frequently pretended to be amy’s father to get her into waterparks / botanic gardens / other places he had a membership at for free.  amy loved him dearly, and while she didn’t consider him a father, she did very much see him as a part of her family.

his widowed husband, rome, still writes amy occasionally, and amy writes back when she can.

#amy : headcanon. #sorry for giving amy so much lore im insane #abuse ment /