Amy Rose (Sonic Boom)

"Smart and confident, with acrobatic skills to match!"

- Sonic Boom Official Website

Amy Rose is one of the main characters in the Sonic Boom series. She is an anthropomorphic pink hedgehog and serves as her team's organizer and archeologist.

Concept and Creation
For the tone of Sonic Boom, Big Red Button Entertainment aimed for Amy to appear as a more "capable" character who would be appealing on her own and make her rise up from being one of the subordinate characters she tends to be in other games. As such, her design was made more "agile and graceful" to make her a strong, able-bodied female character, allowing her to perform difficult physical tasks and make them look easy.

Amy's clothes were adjusted to make her seem more like the adventuring type and emphasize her great combat skills with her piko hammer, unlike her main series counterpart.

Appearance
Amy is virtually identical to her main series counterpart, except that she appears slightly taller and thinner. For attire, Amy wears both her trademark red hairband and a red one piece top with a white collar, yellow buttons on the her left side and a lavender sarashi around her waist. She also wears white gloves with purple sports tape and golden ring bracelets around her wrists, purple stockings, and red-violet shoes with pink soles and toes, gray straps and pink plate with two yellow buttons on top, but she also lacks undergarments.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
In Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, Amy was out foiling another one of Dr. Eggman's evil plans with Sonic, Tails and Knuckles and eventually arrived on an new island. There, they find an ancient tomb sealed deep within the island where Amy and her friends come across a powerful villain from the Ancients named Lyric, who plans to power his army of war mongering robots with the Chaos Crystals to destroy everything organic and create a world of twisted metal and robots. To stop Lyric, Amy and her team have to work together and find the Chaos Crystals before Lyric.

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal
In Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal, Amy discovered a secret ancient language and manuscript detailing the history and whereabouts of a lost crystal of unlimited power. While taking a break from her research, she rescued Sticks from a rockslide with Sonic Tails and Knuckles. Ignoring Sticks' claims that an underground army would rise to destroy them, Amy returned to her research in some ruins with Knuckles, who she had stand guard outside. As she investigated the ruins, she met Lyric who wanted her knowledge to find the lost crystal and its power. Following the fight with Lyric, Amy contacted Sonic, only to be knocked out by Lyric with a device he put on her.

TV Series
When Sonic held try-outs for a new sidekick after firing Tails, Amy was one of the first enter. Despite having two attempts though, she was dismissed by Sonic. Later on, after Sonic had rehired Tails, Amy angrily demanded a callback when she noticed Knuckles had trouble with his own sidekick which made her try to become his sidekick.

One day while visiting Tails' house, Amy and her friends discovered that Sonic and Tails were letting Dr. Eggman, Orbot and Cubot stay here while their lair underwent repairs. While the others remained skeptical, Amy defended the doctor as she viewed Eggman's issue from his point-of-view. When Eggman proved to be an obnoxious roommate for Sonic and Tails, Amy held a "roommate meeting" and convinced the duo to give Eggman a chance. The next day however, where Sonic and Tails were exhausted from being kept up all night by Eggman, Amy and her friends learned from Eggman that he lied about his lair and his plan was to exhaust Sonic and Tails, and summoned Obliteratorbot to destroy them. However, the robot misunderstood Eggman's orders and instead began attacking his lair. Amy, her team and Eggman then went to the lair to stop Obliteratorbot upon Eggman's request, where Amy, Knuckles and Sticks distracted the robot long enough for the others to reach its kill switches, though they were too late to save the lair. Amy later gave company to Eggman to explore his feelings as a roommate, only for Eggman to run away.

Archie Comics
On a bright day on the beach, Amy came to help Sonic and Tails and Knuckles fight Dr. Eggman and his Giga-Mech, though when she came, she had to pull Knuckles out of the ground after he got stomped on. After chiding Knuckles, Amy organized her team's efforts and had them all attack the mech at critical points at her mark which brought the robot down and forced Eggman to retreat.

Shortly after Sticks arrived and told them that Tails' house had been robbed. Amy then came with Sticks and the gang to Tails' house, where they discovered that the house was gone: what Sticks meant to say was that Tails' whole house had been stolen, and she described the thief as a "cyborg rock golem" that rose from the ground and took the house with it. As they tried to figure out a plan to get Tails' house back, Amy had a hard time explaining the situation to Knuckles when Sticks seemingly caught the scent of the robot and they followed her. Though it turned out Sticks was only smelling the grass, the group still found the Rock-cyborg by following its footprints. Amy then began setting up an ambush for the Rock-cyborg with Knuckles to restore Tails' house to its original place, but once again had to deal with Knuckles' slow-wittedness. Having enough, Amy told him to what to do and to "actually think" for once. Once Sonic lured the Rock-cyborg to them, Amy and Knuckles attacked its legs while Tails and Sticks hit it from behind which made it fall and allowed Sonic to destroy it, thereby bringing Tails' house back on its foundation.

Personality
Amy is smart, independent, strong, and confident. She is a natural leader and organizer but tends to take charge of everyone around her, though it is just because she knows what others want before they do. She is sweet and has ballerina-like gracefulness, but also a capable and tough cookie.

Amy is most of the time the sensible member of her group of friends, and acts as the problem solver, who attempts to understand both sides of an argument, and when on a mission she tries to keep the team optimistic as much as she can. However, she also has a short temper and aggressive tendencies which easily flares up when dealing with Knuckles.

Powers and Abilities
Amy possesses a high level of agility and acrobatic skills which let her do physical feats that would normally be difficult for someone else, such as performing body flips and landing safely from a large fall with fluidity and grace where Sonic, Tails and Knuckles failed to. She is also a capable combatant and can hold her own in battle.

Amy has demonstrated strong leadership and organization capabilities, and is a quick thinker and tactician of considerable intelligence. She quickly came up with a plan of action to bring down Eggman's Giga-Mech while coordinating her team's efforts, and she was able to calculate how to bring down Tails' house safely from the Rock-cyborg when setting an ambush for it. Amy is also a history buff who has studied the legends and lore of her mysterious world and has useful knowledge of the ancient areas that she explores with her friends.

Piko Hammer
Amy's primary weapon and most prized possession is the piko hammer, a large pink and yellow hammer capable of dealing massive damage with no excessive efforts. She is highly adapt at wielding the piko hammer and is very powerful, graceful and fluid with it. She mainly uses its as a melee weapon in combat and can also use it acrobatic stunt, utilizing it as a hook to swing on bars. However, she is also able to use it as a long-range weapon by throwing it as a projectile with efficient accuracy.

Sticks the Badger
Amy is best friends with the wild girl Sticks the Badger. She helps Sticks adapt to civilization while Sticks is willing to go to extremes to protect Amy. The two are also shown to work well together in combat.

Sonic the Hedgehog
Like other versions of herself from other continuities, Amy is in love with Sonic the Hedgehog. However, she is not constantly fawning over Sonic, and actively keeps her crush on him a secret, even from Sonic himself.

Knuckles the Echidna
Knuckles the Echidna is one of Amy's teammates. While the two of them are friends, Amy is constantly annoyed and has her patience tested by Knuckles' slow-witted nature and how she has to explain everything to him, causing her to criticize him and even try to attack him in anger. She also does not think highly of Knuckles' intelligence, though she does know not to overstep her boundaries.

Trivia

 * Amy is said to make delicious cookies.