Amara Calen
'Be serious, now. We can't afford to waste time on pointless jokes.'
Nicknames
Amy
Role
Masked Joker
Which Masks do they possess?
Elegant Harlequin
Age
23
Gender
Female
Physical Description
Amara has dark brown hair which turns lighter in sunlight. She holds herself with confidence and a purpose, often seen with journal in hand. Her long hair is often held back, though at times it comes loose, a disturbance quickly fixed with a hair tie that she keeps around her wrist. She has a superior look in her eye, as if, for whatever reason (upbringing, knowledge, money, status) she's better than you, though she can mask that with a light smile or by changing it to a distracted look.
As far as clothes, Amara wears formal clothes most of the time, generally warm colors around brown and red that work well with her brown hair and eyes. On the rare occasion where she wears casual clothes, they consist of a nice T-shirt, fitted jeans, and a shawl or cardigan.
Personality
As a journalist, the owner of a newspaper company, Amara has a strict personality and always works hard toward her goals, making sure others do what they are supposed to and that everything works perfectly. She expects perfection but accepts slight mistakes, so long as they don't delay the job in any significant fashion. In journalism and media, the people who get the information first and present it get the publicity and pay. The more immediately current the information, the better. And of course, pay rates will reflect that: people who do great and timely work will obviously get paid more than those who do less, herself included.
She's a hard working person who will track down a lead as best she can and do whatever it takes to keep a lead solely for her company if she thinks it necessary. Her close associates are influenced by this energy and strive to work harder, a few of them wishing to compete with her just to finally triumph while others simply love putting their skills to the test and others simply wanting the money from a well-done job. She's true to her word and brutally honest at times, not caring for others' feelings so long as it will improve their work. And if they think the tasks she devotes her life to are simply a joke, then she has no qualms about firing them. Well, unless they work hard anyway.
While she used to not be able to express herself well, she has grown more adept at masking her emotions, putting on an acceptable facade of whatever emotion is needed for the job, whether it be happiness, admiration, anger, sorrow, feebleness, superiority, confusion, knowledge, or anything else, she attempts and often succeeds. Her myriad experiences allow her to express a variety of emotions, and the things she learns from Karim (her mask) certainly help as well.
She views everything objectively, making sure to keep her real emotions out of it, either using fake emotions as a screen or simply becoming dispassionate. She dislikes making mistakes and takes care that her own personal feelings come into play for her company's dealings, including pay. She weighs each person's accomplishments fairly, including her own, before coming to a decision and seeks others' help if need be. She takes every little thing seriously and works to further herself, her company, and everyone she is connected to.
As for her time with the Masked, she views it as a way to meet her other goals, those of revenge and maybe more. She respects her teammates and works with them to complete their missions, putting their abilities beside her own when determining strategies. She appreciates the help that Liesel has given her in her time of need, and tries to help her by completing the tasks she's given. Amara's own work is used to gain information to help Liesel and the Masked, as well as to cover up information at times as needed, to the best of her abilities. The reach of Itex is strong, and she's nowhere near infallible, but hopefully the information she can conceal will help them when the time comes.
Skill(s)/Abilities
Amazing memory, which helps a lot with her business.
She's rather smart and is dedicated to her work.
Her business has been around for a while, giving her some connections.
She learned fencing at a young age.
She can play a few different instruments.
History
Amara grew up in a rich family, the daughter of a skilled lawyer and prominent businessman. Her mind grew quickly due to tutors and whatever innate ability she had, and she entered school in the fifth grade at age 8, in hopes of becoming a lawyer like her mother. Shortly after, her father went away on a 'business trip' and never returned. Her mother never revealed the truth of what happened, whether it was another woman, death, or maybe something else. Whatever the case, she failed to notice that anything was strange until much later, a testament to her ignorance of the world and its workings.
In high school, she thrived until one day, for whatever reason, her closest friend committed suicide. She couldn't handle the sudden loss and retreated from everything that reminded her of her friend, knowing that even a simple thing might bring back the horrible feelings. She stopped going to school and stayed at home, going out from time to time simply to stop herself from going insane from the quiet and her own thoughts. It was during one of these outings that she spotted something sparkling on the ground and went toward it to find a golden mask. Coincidentally, or maybe not, it was on that same outing that she happened to bump into a woman (she called herself Liesel) who took an interest in her and her mask.
Amara began talking with Liesel more often, helped through her depression through the fanciful talks about masks and Itex. Talks that she found out were not so fanciful after all, when the mask she had found truly did transform her, though she had little knowledge of Itex. But Liesel taught her a lot, persuading Amara to help them in their battle against Itex, and some of her strict personality rubbed off onto Amara, preparing her for the days to come.
Around the time of Amara's depression, her mother found something interesting in the courts of law: there had been many strange cases, where evidence simply appeared or maybe disappeared and was never questioned. Charges had been dropped with no reason. Some trials and their records seemed... almost incomplete. And so she began to investigate, but she delved too far, and Itex took care of her.
After her mother's death, Amara investigated on her own. Her mother's notes brought her to the conclusion of Itex, though she was smart enough not to investigate, instead bringing the information to Liesel and offering whatever help she could provide to uncover the truth and bring Itex down. To get revenge. And so Amara re-entered school, to seek a different way to uncover truth: the media. She completed her classes, entering college and graduating with a Journalism degree at the age of 20. Using her parents' money and the help of a few friends and colleagues from college, she started up a newspaper company, News From Throme. She started with small stories and began publishing over the internet as well as in print but began increasing her scope and publicity, until it became a rather well-known paper across Throme, even if it was not quite a big name.
It is with this company that she hopes to combat Itex, bringing justice upon those not reached by the law, and if this wasn't enough, there was always the Masked and Liesel. But she pays attention to her company, doing her best to keep the most skilled people and to bring in the best stories as quickly as possible. She has a merit-based pay system that works rather well in keeping things moving and bringing stories in quickly. And as her own boss, she's able to set her own hours, doing work for the Masked in her spare time or investigating Itex leads as Karim. All in all, it's a rather nice system for her, and she hopes with all her soul to bring Itex down once and for all.
Attitudes
TBA once they come into contact.
Other
Nothing at this moment.