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AMBER SWEET AS THE MONTH OF MAY!

{she's a rotten kind of cute}

Created on 2009-01-29 11:13:49 (#18280157), last updated 2009-09-21

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Name:	(~FA-LA-LA-LA!~) AMBER SWEET
Birthdate:	01-08
Location:	United States
Website:	GeneCo

Bio

AMBER SWEET
t h e p a t i e n t

Amber Sweet—queen of many faces, and equally as many personality shifts. From the calm, professional girl seen on posters for the poor and hopeless, to the vixen in leather crawling on the dirty cemented alleys for a hit of that glow, and the childish, temperamental little brat begging for Daddy's attention and money, Amber has done them all with relish.

Unlike the other Largo children, Amber is the only child without a completely damaged reputation. To the public, she is somewhat of a leader and an encouraging, sweet face to those struggling with addiction. And for her creation of the Zydrate Support Network, no one can accuse Amber of being entirely selfish. Despite her hypocrisies, she does use them for a good cause. She is capable of handling business manners shrewdly and efficiently, as shown by her quick claim of her father's company only moments after his death.

She is persevering to the very last—whether it is for selfish matters or not. Her own aspirations are a continual source of power to her, and everything she does is with those in mind. Never once did she give up or let her father refuse to let her have a debut performance as a singer, and even though it held disastrous results, she did not give up on her chance. This is both a blessing and a curse, when put into perspective with her Zydrate and surgery addictions. Always after another hit or a new look, Amber doesn't know when to stop—even if she is falling apart quite literally. When the tough gets going, Amber will step it up and put on her best face with dignity and pride for her name and impression to others.

The second the cameras stop rolling, however, Amber is much less like an angelic face for the masses. For one, she is constantly at odds with her brothers. Anything but ladylike, she will punch and insult them almost as crudely as they do her without even a second though to how she may be presenting herself. And even though she is not particularly keen on being present during great bloodshed, she does not exactly do anything to prevent it either—and in the case of "enemies", such as Mag (a threat to Amber career-wise), she is actually quite keen to see them offed or at the very least, maimed beyond recognition. She is prone to jealousy, and easily aggravated when it is mentioned, even casually in her presence. And like Luigi, she does have a temper that can be triggered by the right buttons, again such as competitive matters or being denied what she wants due to being spoiled all her life as Rotti's little princess.

Like many politicians of the world, Amber is quite the hypocrite. Her public and personal personas are so different and divergent from one another it is a miracle that she is able to keep them so separate. She may preach to her audiences at length, but in the end she does not practice what it is that has made them respect her, and leads exactly the opposite, morally and physically decadent life that she tries to warn and help people away from. She is not necessarily fake, as she does seem to care for the people she oversees (as shown when she auctions off her fallen face to the public to symbolize change in the company for everyone), and she does not seem to do these kinds of things with malice for her double life.

Amber is a continued bundle of contradictions, and rivaling her professionalism is also her childishness. In several scenes it is apparent that she has a very bratty mentality—to the point of looking ridiculous and worthy of behavior in a seven year old. Some examples include the tantrum she throws after a botched surgery, screaming and yelling to her father and blaming him irrationally for it, as well as a public argument with her brothers in front of Mag and Shilo. Though there is an easy explanation for it—as the final child, and the only relatively sane, normal one of the three, she may be crying out for attention. The only person she is “harming” or changing is herself, and this is a clear plea to be noticed by her father especially, and anyone else who is willing to notice her.

Perhaps subconsciously her constant demands are part of this childish mentality. Whether it is for a new surgery, Zydrate, or her very own opera, Amber will beg, plead, moan, whine, cry, manipulate, or seduce her way into getting what she wants. Depending on how mild the need, the less insistent she will be. She recognizes that different people have different wants, so she knows exactly what routine to use on which person. And as long as it works out in her favour, why should she care the method it was extracted? Especially in matters regarding her body, Amber doesn't seem to feel any shame in using her goods for material items. Upon further inspection however, one can see that without a perfect appearance, she is quite helpless and unsure of herself altogether. The many faces and literal masks seem to be hiding insecurities from within, and when that face falls, she runs as far away as possible to get the fix and come back strong.

She is possessive and easily attracted dangerously to substances—most easily seen in her "love affair" with Zydrate, surgery, and Graverobber. Once she finds herself a comfortable cycle, she cannot break it. Whether it is because she has no strength to do so, she is afraid of the consequences, or she simply does not care is uncertain, but grasp it has over her is extremely powerful.

For all her faults and double standards, Amber Sweet is not an intrinsically bad person. Metaphorically speaking, she does well in small doses, but there is nothing saccharine about an overdose with this girl.

PRE-OP
t h e s t o r y

Even though Carmela Largo, more commonly known as Amber Sweet, is as sweet as the month of May, she was born in January of 2030 as the final child and only daughter of Rotti Largo. He was the world's hero—monopolizing the field of genetic transplants that same year of her birth and making surgeries a fashion for the masses. He carved out a name for the entire Largo family, and Amber, then known as Carmela, was introduced into the spotlight well before she could even speak.

Amber grew up living the perfect life, surrounded by anything she could ever want and all the money she'd ever need access to. At the age of six, the soon-to-be most prominent soprano of the next two decades was given a contract with GeneCo, the one and only Blind Mag. Her mother being deceased, Amber's only maternal figure was Mag. And in the beginning, she did not mind Mag. In fact at one point she even idolized her, and it was from her that she realized she too wanted to be an opera singer to represent GeneCo someday.

The admiration did not last very long, however. Surrounded only by her two quarrelsome and obscene brothers Luigi and Pavi, Amber eventually was conditioned into the selfish, greedy, and often times crude girl she is today. From Luigi she learned brashnesses and impatience, and from Pavi she was given the gift of vanity.

An unfortunate event transpired between her and Pavi, shaking her identity and driving her to beg her father for a different name, which she claimed would be for the stage. He gave in, and Carmela Largo was no more—it was Amber Sweet now.

Gone were the days when she could be civil to Mag—all that was left in her heart for that woman was jealousy and a desire to see her fall. Her relationship with her brothers was more strained than ever—especially with the two of them erupting into arguments over the future of GeneCo's successor. From then on, Amber was no longer the charming little princess of her youth, she was fully spoiled and she needed ways to break out and show her displeasures.

The thing she had grown up immersed in seemed like the simplest and easily accessible of options.

Surgery.

It started with a small request—she'd never really liked her nose. All it took was a "Please Daddy?" and she was on the operating table. The pain was unimaginable, but there was a cure for even that. Despite her father's reluctance for the addictive substance, she was given a prescription for--

Zydrate.

It was complete euphoria, being numbed from the pain and able to enjoy her new face. Being able to ignore everything clouding her mind in the complications of her family and her own insecurities about the future and the hag. When she finally looked in the mirror afterwards, she realized there was still much more to be done.

Amber Sweet is addicted to the knife.

From her late teens to her twenties and to the present, Amber's face or figure never stays the same for more than a day or two. Even hours after what may be the perfect surgery, she will be cut and changed and evolve into something better and different than the last. The overwhelming transformations are not entirely perfect, however. Rotti Largo was concerned for his daughter, enough to at least cease all prescriptions of Zyrate.

For a while, Amber managed to lure the Genterns and surGens into sneaking her some under the radar. But even then she realized the hits were no longer strong enough to numb her and take away the pain. She sought the only other answer she could think of—the illegal submarket of street Zydrate. No one dared discuss the matter directly, but there were always murmurs in hallways of the little glass vials taken directly from the dead with unimaginable effects on the psyche and aftermath of the surgeries.

And that is where Amber met the one and only Graverobber, paying him steadily for injections of Z before skipping off ecstatically. He didn't seem keen on asking questions, and she wouldn't have provided answers anyway. The transaction continued until finally she found herself without money for periods of time, and her father unwilling to reimburse her, she had to come up with a way to keep the cycle going. The surgeries had given her confidence and a momentarily perfect body—so why not use it? Amber was quite used to manipulating people around her, so it didn't take long to fall into the habit of playing games with Graverobber and seducing him for a hit.

At the age of 21, she decided to take her first serious attempt at making a name for something other than being Rotti Largo's chameleon of a daughter. Knowing full well the effects of Zydrate addiction, she created the Zydrate Support Network—for junkies and patients concerned with the after effects and possible addiction. For the next five years, her image to the public was kind, concerned, and intelligent in handling GeneCo matters. There were rumours about her continuous changes in appearance and how she was dealing with the pain, but for the most part, she was the most well-behaved and presentable of the Largo children.

By 2056, at 26, she was slipping up—missing her meetings and press conferences for more and more hits of Z. The line blurred between a need to make her body perfect, addiction to the knife, and addiction to the drug itself. But with Blind Mag finally leaving the company, one of the overshadowing issues in her life was making an opportunity for her to be the new voice of GeneCo. After all she had done, why did she not deserve this part?

Rotti eventually granted her a debut performance at Mag's final Genetic Opera. But finally she reached a devastating climax—all the surgeries, botched and perfect alike, had taken a toll on her skin, until her face fell off in a mortifying moment before all her audience. She was not the only one to suffer a loss, however. Mag took matters into her own hands and freed herself from GeneCo's grasp before being murdered. Her father—after leaving his last opinion of her—"disgusting, you are not my daughter"—collapsed. The man who revolutionized the world was gone, and the company will was signed, but left to no one.

Amber took matters into her own hands. Much to the initial dismay of Luigi and Pavi, she took over as new management of GeneCo. With their support, she auctioned her fallen face to charity as well to symbolize her dedication to changing the company. Before she could seat herself in the chair she had so often seen her father sitting in when she approached him for surgeries, Amber collapsed from what she assumed to be a withdrawal and woke up in Nuadoria.

RECORDS
t h e f i g u r e

STATS
LEGAL NAME Carmela Largo
ALSO KNOWN AS Amber Sweet
BORN January 8th, 2030
AGE 26-years-old
HAIR currently black
EYES currently milky blue
HEIGHT 5'8"
SKIN Pale

ITEMS
♪ one of her Pomeranian dogs (Grimmy)
♪ a vial of Zydrate (stolen from Graverobber)
♪ a few outfit & hair changes

TIMELINE
Post movie.

RELATIONSHIPS
✂ CANON.
Magdalene "Blind Mag" Defoe - ✗ a rival
Graverobber - ☠ an addiction

✂ NON-CANON.
None.

LINKS
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player: gunfuck.
game: absolute threshold.
review: concrit.
canon: repo! the genetic opera.

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