#amarys

Also known as: due to circumstances involving her trainer, Ogerpon has been in Carmine's custody for a while, so yay girl time yipeee :)))))

My favorite out of the BBA League, Amarys. I feel like she doesn't get enough admiration. I love that she has a nickname for your Mirai/Koraidon as Agias. She feels stiff and stilted, but like she's holding back SOOO many emotions that she loosens up whenever someone isn't looking at her.

And yeah her implied crush on Kieran is cute, she worries desperately over him and is in peril over her feelings for him. I relate so hard... The teenage experience is rough!! I get it! And the reactions to when you call him "your partner" is hilarious. "P-PARTNER?! Oh You Meant Like Class Partner. Cool."

Amarys' initial appearance.

Phoebe's initial appearance.

Our final match of the Round places two ladies who came from behind to win their debut matches!

With more vocal support than most, Amarys earned her win against Glacia for sure. She's the only person to have defeated a member of the Hoenn League, and now she's got the opportunity to do it again! Can the same support get her the win?

Like going in I thought Carmine was going to be an asshole the whole way through bc people were saying she was the wooorst ever. And then she turned out to literally just be A Teenage Girl. A normal teenage girl who is at most somewhat self absorbed and has a bit of a temper. She has flaws and makes mistakes like all teenagers do.

Is she worlds best sister? No! But she's faaaar from the worst or being abusive at all like some people claim. Like yeah she's kind of an ass in the beginning bc she hates tourists, but it doesn't take her that long to warm up to you and she isn't mean to you beyond that.

She doesn't pick up on Kieran's troubles right away bc his behaviour isn't that odd from her perspective. Like she literally says on TWO SEPERATE OCCASIONS something along the lines of "he just gets like that sometimes". As far as she knows, this is just how Kieran is, so it doesn't look concerning to her. And as an audiance these are obviously signs of deeper, lasting problems he's having, but she doesn't have the benefit of that external perspective. It's easy to miss the signs when it's always just been like that.

And by the time it fully explodes it's too late for her to help. Bc he's so far down the spiral that he will not listen to anything or anyone. She can't even talk to him at all without getting shut down by the time the Indigo Disk happens. Quite literally in a position where she can't do anything to help. So she avoids him bc then she's at least not actively pissing him off.

I also had a similar thing with Drayton were I thought he was an asshole who constantly aggravates Kieran at his lowest for his own amusement. Picking on him just for fun. When he... isn't that.

Like yeah he does kinda aggravate Kieran a bit by being snarky but Drayton is also just... like that. In general. It's not to poke specifically at kieran. If anything he's the only one who is actively trying to find a way to help Kieran get out of his spiral.

Like obviously the other BB E4 members care (especially Amarys) but only Amarys seems to have any intention of actually doing anything about it. Lacey is busy trying to keep everything from falling apart (and reining in Drayton) while Crispin just has absolutely no idea what to do about any of it at all.

And sure. Draytons methods aren't exactly ideal. But he's going for what he's the most confident will actually achieve anything at all.