Ami's History
Ami was the guitarist/vocalist for the band The Home Sick Pilots and later the chosen conduit for the Old James House.
Living in Santo Manos, Ami had founded a band alongside his friends and fellow orphans Buzz and Rip. After attending a show for their rival band, the Nuclear Bastards, that was broken up by the cops, the group fled to the pier and discussed how to one-up the competition with Ami suggesting they go to the haunted Old James House to put on a performance. This idea was put on hold when the Nuclear Bastards arrived and a brief confrontation occurred, after which Ami ran off on her own due to a disagreement over rumors about her mother's death.
Distraught, Ami went to the Old James House to prove its suitability as a venue. She was instead found to be acceptable by the House and was invested by it to retrieve the seven missing ghosts that had been stolen from the property. To aid her in this, she was gifted ghostly powers by the House and its denizens. Her first mission saw her seek to acquire the horseshoe that contained Old Man James's spirit, but she met resistance as the woman acting as his host was unable to give up the object of her own free will. The woman was then possessed by Old Man James and there was a brief battle before Ami was able to break the possession. Finally free of the spirit, the woman thanked Ami and leaped from the roof they were on to her death.
Ami continued to obtain the other missing ghosts over a period of days, unknowing that her band and the Nuclear Bastards had attempted to free her with unpleasant results. On a mission to retrieve The Clock from a Dead End Video, Ami was ambushed by the Cassette. Her attempts to defend herself were ultimately fruitless and TFT pushed her to the brink, at which point she was saved by Buzz (now possessed by Old Man James) coming to her rescue. Her rescuers managed to hold off TFT long enough for Ami to grab The Clock and Buzz to carry her to seeming safety.
After briefly reconnecting with Buzz, the trio were ambushed by the forces of System Disrupt. Seeing no chance for all three to escape, Old Man James abandoned Buzz and whisked Ami back to the house through a portal. Ami was furious with the spirit's decision to abandon her friend and railed against her captors until they agreed to help her free him, although her efforts also inadvertently freed Meg from her imprisonment in the basement. Utilizing all of the powers of the spirits she had retrieved, Ami fully animated The Old James House just in time for System Disrupt and The Cassette to arrive.
System Disrupt quickly fled from this unexpected awakening and Ami led the House in hot pursuit. TFT went berserk in the chase and began attacking the House, the resulting fight causing immense destruction to the town around them. Ami was eventually able to literally disarm the malicious ghost and went to save her friends from the crashed van they were in. Only Buzz chose to take shelter in the House with both Rip and Meg choosing to stay with System Disrupt.
Utilizing Ami's preoccupation with her rescue, TFT had integrated the pier's ferris wheel into its body and went on the attack again, tearing a swath of destruction through the beach side and forcing the House into the water. Ami panicked and determined she could not win and so she utilized the immense strength of the House to drag TFT into the ocean where it's physical form would begin to degrade although this maneuver would likely result in her and the House's death.
Ami did not die there however, and had instead been riding the rails with Buzz for three months in an attempt to keep a low profile after she had used her powers to pull them out of the depths. Despite their best efforts, the House continued to pursue them from beneath the waves while subtly manipulating their movements so they could never truly leave sight of the shore line. While the pair were tending to a wound Buzz had gotten, Old Man James appeared to them and attempted to abduct Ami once again. Buzz was able to dissuade the apparition from that course of action and he retreated back to his home.
Their respite was short lived, as Li'l Marky decided he would bring the pair back himself. Ami and Buzz were then confronted by Marky's flesh golem, which he had built out of Neo-Nazis that had attempted to steal his vessel, in a bar. Although she initially attempted to convince the juvenile spirt to let the abomination fall apart, Ami was forced to use what little remained of her power to break Marky's control over the corpses. Unfortunately, she did not do this fast enough and the animate mass of corpses was reported on the news, drawing the attention of a frenzied Meg piloting the Nuclear Bastard.
Seeing the report of the crazed Mech hurtling straight for her position, Ami was left with little choice but to return to the House to both protect herself and the area around her. Buzz objected to this idea, but was overruled as Rip arrived from his adventure with the last member of System Disrupt, Trish. The reunion of the Home Sick Pilots didn't last long, as Meg and the Mecha was hot on Rip's trail. At the beginning of the engagement, it looked as though the House and the Nuclear Bastard were evenly matched, although Ami sensed they would lose the upper hand eventually. Desperate to turn the situation around, Old Man James repossessed Buzz and took Rip to go retrieve the final missing ghost.
Weakened by the loss of the patriarch, Ami and the House kept fighting against the Nuclear Bastard, even as the military intervened and attempted to end things only to discover the two massive conglomerations of ghost could not be harmed by conventional weaponry. The battle would last for days as the haunted robot and house beat each other up and down the West Coast.
Eventually, Ami and the house were worn down due to Meg's relentless fury. Ami's life was saved as Rip, now possessed by Juliette, returned with a broken Buzz and Old James in chains. Juliette's attempt to destroy the anchors for the other ghosts failed and instead Old James used his control of the other ghosts to ensnare her and take full control of his House. Now at full power, the House consumed the Nuclear Bastard and trapped the Home Sick Pilots within its walls. Content that his family was finally reunited, Old James marched back to Santo Manos and returned the House to its foundations.
Trapped inside the haunted house, Ami and the others desperately searched within the tunnels beneath the House for Meg. Once they finally found her, Ami revealed their plan to detonate the still intact reactor of the Nuclear Bastard to destroy the House and dissipate all of the Ghosts, including themselves as they had all died months ago due to blood loss and starvation. Meg activated the bomb only for Old James to attempt to contain the detonation. He failed, as the six other ghosts of the house rebelled against him and aided in powering the final detonation. Ami's spirit was finally dispersed as the reactor detonated and allowing her to rest. The explosion, in addition to destroying the house, also released an untold number of ghosts into America and started a new age for the country as those with unfinished business stayed around.
