IKAG Amelia Stubs

Should Amelia fail at her goal in her stories as much as Conner does? I think so, if the goal is to juggle 'maintaining order at school and keeping your reputation/respect' alongside 'suppressing your powerlevel'. Conner may help other people or bring a positive change but only unintentionally, or denying it altogether (with the middle-schoolers). In the same way, Amelia should be faced with challenges that force her to pick between 'powerlevel' and 'school order', with her attempts to hold onto both backfiring. The results and general pattern shouldn't be enough to paint Amelia as incompetent - merely struggling but with untapped potential. The reason she doesn't simply remove the limiters, so to speak, has to be core to her identity, a reason strong enough that it makes clear sense to the reader rather than being handwaved or coming off as a contrivance.

⦁	A story that shows how good Amelia is at handling diplomacy, basically how she manages to solve most problems that aren't fine-tuned to exploit her power-suppression. Also shows her weeb daydreams and general shojo/magical girl perspective of her life [down to the 'regular girl' vs 'alter ego' differences], inability to engage with her parents, amazing competence at handling workloads and general frustration at not being able to play sports. In the end a problem arises with a club leader or other student making trouble and being a jackass, so Amelia has to step in and push their shit in. Bingo, she's established as a character with her own aspirations and general story formula, and can be 'main character' material. Conner as a background character, the same way Amelia is a background character in the trade-chain story.

⦁	Tennis - ex-middle-school friend Hannah, captain of Tennis Club, trying to force Amelia into a match. Amelia attempts radio silence, then eventually considers just accepting the match and losing on purpose to get it over with. The only spectators allowed are the councillors, who are in on their colleague's facade. When Hannah eventually makes her feelings clear as Amelia is losing on purpose, she chooses to engage and remove the limiters. The risk of exposing herself isn't immense, as Hannah was already aware of Amelia's potential and doesn't seem keen to blab (especially keeping quiet on the results of the match). The two ex-friends end the day on more amicable terms.

⦁	Alternate Tennis take - still have Hannah acting out, but rather than asking for a match she's calling Amelia out as the 'weak link' in the council chain [compared to the other, popular councillors] and provoking her into a public spectacle, including putting posters and sandwich boards around school. It'd be easy enough to kick Hannah off her chair, but Amelia feels that would just cement her cause. She forces her colleagues to force her to play an exhibition match against Hannah, and struggles tempering her limiters. After beating Hannah Amelia tells her the school has no use for a club leader beaten by a 'mere' secretary. We see Hannah and Amelia being friends in middle-school (the latter indirectly encouraging the former to take up the sport in the first place), and taking diverging paths from there.

⦁	The precedent of a councillor being able to oust a club leader under the same conditions as a student challenger, could spell trouble if people get the idea that same councillor could beat many different clubs; in which case, why have the different club leaders to begin with?

⦁	A story that shows Amelia to be rudely inept at something she hasn't tried before, demonstrating her superpower of talent. In this case a lower-class student is being bullied by a club leader, so Amelia takes to the sport of the leader's choice specifically to humiliate them. [Cooking? Although Amelia is a weeb, she also really enjoys meat 'dishes' like hamburgers, bbq ribs, hot dogs, pork cutlets etc. In spite of - or maybe because of this - one of her weeb daydreams involves a younger or older brother that's a picky eater, having to be convinced to eat their vegetables.]

⦁	Amelia getting goaded into a challenge by a middle-schooler, pushing their metaphorical shit in, and then trash-talking them to their face [Komaru Naegi attitude]. Bucky probably has to step in to talk her down, if not Daughter or ironically Ella

⦁	A story that pushes Amelia to expose her secret outside her circle of friends, specifically to the club leaders. Results in rumors spreading, though they're dismissed as fabrications

⦁	Scooby Doo formula with the councillors. Supernatural monster whose motive and origin need to be investigated. The councillors have extraordinary powers that mitigate most threats (Ella's magic/'penalty game' power, Princess Daughter's psychic barriers and vague mind-reading, Bucky's speed, Frank's strength).

Amelia should come to the conclusion that high-school is full of vastly different, more capable and experimental people than middle-school, so she should feel encouraged to 'be herself' and assume people will be able to handle it. The fact that high-schoolers are no more capable of handling a high-school Amelia [albeit on the rusty side] than middle-schoolers are handling a middle-school Amelia, is a shock to the system that briefly returns Amelia back to the struggle
>suppress self
>wait a minute, everyone isn't in middle-school anymore, they're stronger and more talented, they should be able to handle me at my best now
>oh nevermind, they can't