Amanda Young has appeared in Supernatural Horror RPG, Season 1.
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- Special Note: The events of the seven Saw films, as well as the Saw video games and sections of the Saw: Rebirth comic, are canon in this RPG. Some creative liberties have also been taken for storytelling purposes and to fill in some gaps with the Saw films. It is very strongly advised that you see all seven Saw films before reading this wiki if you haven't, since this wiki contains major spoilers for all of the films. Proceed at your own risk.
Amanda Young is a main character from the Saw film series (Saw, Saw II, Saw III, and Saw VI) and controlled by Jigsaw.
Character History[]
"What is the cure for cancer, Eric? The cure for death itself? The answer is immortality. By creating a legacy, by living a life worth remembering, you become immortal. Somehow, we find that the tables are turned." - Amanda Young
Early Life[]
Amanda Young was born on July 3rd, 1980 as the only child of a poor lower-class couple in a poor lower-class suburb of Downtown Los Angeles who abused Amanda physically and emotionally throughout her early years and Amanda also endured much bullying when she went to school. Sometime when Amanda was approaching her mid-teens she left from home to escape from her abusive parents who never even truly cared for her, and as she hung out with various delinquent teens who abused common street narcotics such as LSD and marijuana, Amanda beginning to experiment with these drugs. Amanda also developed habits for smoking and self-mutilation as a means of coping with her extreme emotional stress.
Dark Secret[]
Amanda witnessing the accidental death of Jill Tuck's unborn child following a botched robbery to procure narcotics with her acquaintance at the time, Cecil Adams.
Amanda had been a drug user throughout her teens and well into her twenties. Her frequent drug abuse made her a regular attendee at the Homeward Bound clinic, run by Jill Tuck, where she also became acquainted with a fellow drug user named Cecil Adams. Cecil often procured narcotics for Amanda, and on one fateful night in the Fall of 2003, the two planned to procure more drugs from Homeward Bound. As the clinic was closing for the night, Amanda stoodby and watched as Cecil robbed the clinic after holding Jill at knifepoint. Cecil returned a moment later with a stash of narcotics, but with terrible consequences that neither he or Amanda foresaw; Cecil accidentally slammed a door on the pregnant Jill's abdomen on the way out of the clinic, crushing and killing her unborn baby. Amanda was mortified and fled from the scene, unseen by nobody, as she lived with self-loathing over the knowledge that she caused the death of an unborn child due to her failure to quit her drug abuse.
Following the death of Jill Tuck's unborn child that Amanda was haunted by, she tried to remain sober and quit her drug abuse for good; she cut off all ties with her so-called friends and began to live on her own. She went on welfare to support herself while at the same time working various minimum wage jobs, such as working at a laundromat and retail stores, and one time she even worked at a daycare center helping to take care of small children, which was another personal means for her to cope with the accidental and wrongful death of Jill's baby. Despite Amanda's abusive past she was never truly violent at heart, but her world would be completely shattered, and in a strange way, would get better as well.
Rebirth[]
Amanda had eventually decided to quit her drug abuse for good, when she realized she owed her new drug dealer, Troy LaRose, a sizable amount of money. Troy was a repeat prison offender who had been in and out of prison most of his life for various offenses. She went over to his ramshackle apartment, where he angrily confronted her over her late payment. Amanda apologized, but she refused to pay him, stating that she was quitting drugs for good. Troy became enraged and vented his anger on Amanda. He proceeded to beat her, then bound and gagged her with silver duct tape and raped her. After he raped her, he undid her bonds, and threatened her with death if she ever told anyone about this. A devastated Amanda believed in Troy's threat and fled back home.
Amanda was in pain for several days following Troy's assault and rape, but she never reported him for fear that he would kill her if she did. She tried re-building her life, but little did she know just how much her life would truly change. One day as Amanda was returning home after going out for a walk, she was suddenly stopped by two detectives who arrested her when heroin had been found in her home. Amanda was confused, she had never done heroin and didn't know how the detectives had found it. The detectives revealed themselves to her as Eric Matthews and Allison Kerry, and Eric told Amanda he had found the heroin in her apartment when he obtained a warrant to search her home after learning of her from an informant who worked for him. Amanda was taken into custody and sentenced to serve several months in prison.
While in prison Amanda learned that Eric had planted the heroin and obtained a false conviction against her when he admitted to planting evidence to arrest several people for crimes they weren't guilty of. Kerry had also admitted she knew of this but did nothing to stop Eric. Eric and Kerry were both suspended from the force for a while and Amanda still remained in prison despite the false evidence and conviction.
Amanda overdosing on heroin, sometime not long before Jigsaw and his accomplice Mark Hoffman kidnapped and set her up for Jigsaw's test.
While in prison she was also friends with a female inmate who obtained heroin from a weekly visitor and she secretly hid the heroin in her cell, and Amanda immediately became hooked. Upon Amanda's release she maintained contact with the heroin dealer, Donnie Greco, and obtained her heroin supply from him, when she overdosed and was checked into a rehab clinic at a hospital. Little did she know she was being watched.
"He... He Helped Me."[]
Amanda in the Jaw Splitter during her first test.
After her release from the hospital, Amanda maintained contact with Donnie and was about to obtain more heroin from him when a black-robed figure wearing a grotesque pig mask subdued them both and had them both sedated, and when Amanda awoke she found herself in a dark room, bound to an armchair by her wrists and wearing some hideous metal contraption in her mouth, when a television screen near her came to life with the creepy image of a clown-type puppet, that slowly turned to face her and spoke to her in a deep and Demonic voice, informing her of how the trap worked and how she had to escape, to cut into the stomach of her "dead cell mate" and obtain the key in time to unlock her trap, the Jaw Splitter (which functioned like a "reverse bear trap" as the puppet put it).
After the tape ended, Amanda ripped free from her bonds and went over to the "dead" Donnie, finding a scalpel near him and about the hack into his abdomen when he suddenly came alive, but it was too late as she began slicing and hacking into his abdomen and dug through his innards before finding the key in his stomach, barely unlocking the Jaw Splitter in time just as it went off. Amanda screamed and cried, when the puppet on the television set came slowly riding into the room to deliver a chilling message: "Congratulations, you are still alive. Most people are so ungrateful to be alive... but not you, not anymore."
Amanda after unlocking the Jaw Splitter and getting it off of her just in the nick of time as it activated, nearly killing her.
Amanda escaping from the room she was held captive in during her test.
After the puppet delivered it's chilling message, Amanda fled from the room into the afternoon daylight and immediately rushed over to the nearest police station, frantic and hysterical as she told the police there of her ordeal, but the cops stationed at the time, seeing her obvious trauma, rushed her into the emergency room at a nearby hospital, and while she was treated she learned from police that she was the latest victim and first survivor of The Jigsaw Killer. A few days later when she was more stable she gave her testimony to Detective David Tapp where she recalled her horrific experience. At the end of her difficult testimony, Amanda tearfully ended her recollection by saying "He... he helped me," implying that she had been helped by the killer rather than deliberately killed. Little did she know her new life was just beginning.
Amanda giving her testimony to Detective Tapp after surviving her ordeal with the Jaw Splitter.
After her testimony ended, Amanda returned to her apartment where Jigsaw was waiting for her, informing her of passing her test and for her to meet him when she was ready. Amanda didn't feel threatened by Jigsaw, she felt released, and later that day went to his warehouse hideout at 213 Stygian Street to meet him.
Amanda meeting her captor and savior for the first time in her apartment.
Amanda went to the old warehouse at 213 Stygian Street, where she met Jigsaw. Jigsaw introduced himself by his real name, John Kramer, and told Amanda about his work and how it was his mission to help teach people he viewed as ungrateful to appreciate their lives more. There was more to John however, for Amanda recognized him from Jill's clinic; he had been her husband and the father of their deceased child whom Amanda had accidentally caused the chain of events that led to his death. John demanded that Amanda give everything to him and put her old life behind her, Amanda reluctantly agreeing. Over the course of the next five months, Amanda assisted John with a complex test, along with his other accomplice, LAPD Lieutenant Forensic Detective Mark Hoffman, with whom she had a very uneasy partnership with. Amanda formed a difficult yet close relationship with John overtime, hiding her dark secret from him while forming a father and daughter-like bond with him, in her mind, trying to be the child he lost to him to atone for her transgression on the night of his child's death.
Amanda recruited by Jigsaw.
Adam And Dr. Gordon[]
Amanda's first assignment for John was to gather information on Adam Faulkner and Dr. Lawrence Gordon, with help from Hoffman. Adam was an amateur photographer and Dr. Gordon a neurosurgeon and oncologist at the Angel Of Mercy Hospital, where Amanda had started working at the pediatric clinic, helping sick and injured children there. While she worked, Amanda gathered as much information as she could on both Adam and Dr. Gordon, as John wanted to test the both of them. Amanda got the information on Dr. Gordon easily enough from the hospital's records, but getting the information on Adam was a little tougher, Amanda having to trace his whereabouts, but she did so, getting his address with help from Detective Hoffman. The test for the both of them was to go underway.
Amanda observing Adam for his abduction.
Amanda abducting Adam in his apartment, wearing her pig mask disguise.
One night, after her shift at the hospital finished, Amanda and Hoffman went to pick up John at his hideout at Wilson Steel, a derelict and inoperational steel mill that had served as their new hideout after his 213 Stygian Street warehouse hideout was condemned following a raid by Detectives David Tapp and Steven Sing, Sing dying from a trap rigged for protection. Her task was to capture Adam Faulkner for the test, while Hoffman would procure Dr. Gordon and John would be busy setting up the equipment inside the disgusting industrial bathroom in the sewers the three had discovered months earlier. In October 2005, five months after Amanda survived her ordeal and passed her test, the game was set to begin.
While John was busy setting up the bathroom trap itself and Hoffman went for Dr. Gordon, Amanda went to get Adam at the old apartment complex he lived at, having a brief run-in with him as he went out to a friend's concert gig. While he was away, she snuck into his apartment and waited for the right moment to strike. A few hours later, she had Adam and on her own, got him in time for the game.
The Game[]
Amanda dragging Adam into the bathroom.
She abducted Adam from his apartment and returned later that night to the bathroom, the test almost ready to start. John, in his corpse garb for the test, applied a few last-minute touches and Amanda chained Adam's ankle with a manacle and placed him inside the bathtub inside the bathroom. Hoffman by then was gone, having procured Dr. Gordon sometime earlier and he went to the Wilson Steel hideout to observe the progress via a video camera hidden behind a two-way mirror in the bathroom and the video sharing the same signal as the one Zep Hindle would be observing for his test.
Amanda setting up Adam's manacle.
Amanda setting up Adam in the bathtub.
She left the bathroom and killed the lights, shutting the door just as the test was starting. She went to the Wilson Steel hideout and from there monitored the progress that unfolded with Hoffman, seeing Adam and Dr. Gordon's ordeal. After the test was finished, with Adam and Dr. Gordon both wounded and Zep killed by Adam after almost killing Dr. Gordon, John got himself up from the bathroom floor after posing as the corpse and left Adam to die. Gordon himself would later be nursed back to health by John and made into an accessory for the trio, performing medical procedures on various test subjects over the year.
Amanda awaking from her nightmare with Adam, and deciding to return to the bathroom to spare him his suffering.
After Amanda and Hoffman drove to the sewer building to pick up John, she kept John company for the next day, who was resting after a long night of work. She drifted off to sleep, where she had a frightening nightmare of a ghostly and angry Adam appearing inside the hideout and demanding why she abducted him. Amanda awoke, in shock from the nightmare, and feeling absolutely horrible for abducting Adam and for John leaving him to die. She knew she couldn't let him suffer the slow and agonizing death of starvation.
Amanda returning to the industrial bathroom just a day after the bathroom game, finding a wounded Adam inside, along with Zep Hindle's corpse and Dr. Gordon's severed foot.
Amanda suffocating Adam with a plastic sheet over his face as a mercy killing after Jigsaw left him to die in the bathroom.
She returned later that night to kill Adam. She had felt awful about abducting both him and Dr. Gordon and having them both put through so much misery, but she felt powerless and weak to stand up to John and Hoffman, and refuse their orders. She re-entered the bathroom and went by Adam, who was in pain from the gunshot wound and being electrocuted after John had used a device to shock him. She told him she would free him, but instead she tightly wrapped a sheet of clear plastic wrap over his face and suffocated him to death with it. She felt terrible about killing him, but she didn't want him to suffer.
After granting Adam his mercy killing, she returned to Wilson Steel, and from there assisted John and Hoffman with their next test: David Tapp's test.
Tapp's Test[]
Detective David Tapp had narrowly survived being shot in his gut by Zep Hindle during Zep's test, after Tapp chased Zep into the city sewers after making it to the Gordons' apartment and hearing the gunshots there. Hoffman found Tapp's wounded and unconscious body when he and Amanda returned to the sewers to pick up John, and Hoffman had kept Tapp in an underground cell. John had wanted to give Tapp a test to begin with, something to test his obsessive personality and put his detective skills to their limit and to teach him the dangers of obsession. Tapp intervening with the previous game simply made it more convenient for his own game, already designed and planned for months in advance, to go underway even better.
Tapp's wound had been tended to and he was kept unconscious in the two weeks following the bathroom game, as Amanda helped John and Hoffman set up the traps for Tapp's game at the abandoned Whitehurst Asylum on the outskirts of Los Angeles. It had been a painstaking two weeks, with the building and testing of many traps and having to kidnap many subjects for the game that included some of Tapp's colleagues. It was also during this time that Amanda put her very first contraption to the test, the Shotgun Collar, a metal neck collar with shotgun shells rigged into bullet slots. Amanda had built several Shotgun Collars for Tapp's test and had also assisted in building other traps that included copies of her Jaw Splitter.
"I passed your test already!"[]
Tapp's test was set to go underway, after much time had been spent fitting traps all around Whitehurst Asylum and procuring the subjects for Tapp's game, when John and Hoffman had decided that to further disorient Tapp and mislead him, that Amanda should be an inside player for his game. Amanda initially objected to this majorly, feeling it was unnecessary and that she already passed her test. After much pressure from both John and Hoffman, she eventually agreed to be an inside player for Tapp's test, albeit very reluctantly and not without protesting it.
Tapp's test finally went underway in mid-November, just two or so weeks after the bathroom game with Adam and Dr. Gordon. Tapp had been set for his test and Amanda was to do her part putting up an act to mislead him and pretend to be in a trap of her own that Tapp had to save her from. She pretended to have relapsed back into her drug habits, to further mislead Tapp.
When Tapp eventually found her, he found her strapped to a device John had called the Detox Chair, a chair heavily modified with restraints and syringes rigged to an antidote machine. Amanda pretended to be injected with a deadly toxin and it was Tapp's task to save her by routing the correct antidote vials for Amanda. If Tapp failed to route the vials properly, Amanda would hemorrhage internally and bleed to death. This however was another part of the act; Amanda was never ill the entire time and the syringes on her side were modified to never inject her with anything.
Tapp eventually "rescued" Amanda and led her away, but once he stumbled onto another section of the asylum, Amanda pretended to be kidnapped by a pig-masked figure inside the asylum (really Hoffman assisting with the game). Amanda followed Hoffman to a hidden section of the asylum where John also was, monitoring the remainder of Tapp's game with them. It was painstaking for her to watch, knowing that the fate of Melissa Sing, Steven Sing's widow, also dictated the fate of their son, Franklin. Amanda had hated Franklin being put in danger and unable to do anything about it.
When Tapp eventually finished his game, Amanda made sure that Franklin Sing was taken safely to a Los Angeles orphanage; Tapp had mistakenly killed Melissa Sing, who's own objective after she was saved from her game was to conduct the remainder of Tapp's game to win her son back. After Tapp's game was finished (and Tapp himself committed suicide shortly after being treated psychologically for his ordeal), Amanda assisted John and Hoffman with their next game, which was planned for Tapp's own son, Michael, for his corrupt style of journalism. Amanda helped set up some traps inside the abandoned warehouse locale where Michael Tapp's game was to be staged.
After Michael Tapp's test was over, Amanda assisted John and Hoffman with their next major test: Eric Matthews' test.
The Traphouse[]
John, Amanda and Hoffman spent the next few months preparing for Eric Matthews' test, at the suggestion of Hoffman. Eric was a detective in the city's police department who once had a respectable record, then began to abuse his power. Amanda had been framed and arrested by Eric for a false heroin charge and spent several months in prison for it. She had a deep hatred towards Matthews and often fantasized about revenge against him. Eric had been in the news again for more disorderly conduct, and the Jigsaw Trio saw it fit to test him.
Amanda showing her loyalty to John sometime shortly before the Traphouse ordeal.
The trio located an old house that they felt would be perfect to rig with several traps for more of John's test subjects, who also had been victims of Eric's disorderly conduct. They nicknamed the house "The Traphouse" due to the numerous traps they rigged inside it. John had owned the property for a while when he had a career in real estate, and he still had ownership of it, making it easy for him to employ it for the games. Making it even more convenient was that the house led to the sewer bathroom where Adam and Dr. Gordon's tests had been. Amanda had also agreed to be an inside player of sorts for Eric's test, pretending to be a victim of John's yet again when it reality she was really his accomplice. The test was set to go underway in April of 2006. Amanda and Hoffman would spend quite a lot of time rigging and setting the traps inside the house, and it was during this time that their already uneasy and somewhat difficult partnership would be tested further, the two not keeping it a secret that they disliked each other immensely. After Amanda and Hoffman eventually finished setting up the traps inside The Traphouse, the game was almost set to go in motion.
The duo had also taken the time to install video camera throughout the house to record the activity that would be occurring, as Eric's test would actually begin the next day; what Amanda was to do was survive with the other seven subjects, all of whom with the exception of Eric's teenage son Daniel were expendable, as Daniel was needed for Eric's test. Amanda abducted Daniel Matthews from his home, while Hoffman and Obadiah "Obi" Tate, who was being tested for being an arsonist and con artist, kidnapped the others, before Obi was rendered unconscious by a pig-masked Hoffman.
After kidnapping the test subjects, Amanda's role as the inside player for the Traphouse games went underway. Amanda had injected herself with an antitoxin prior to the games actually starting, to make her immune to the sarin nerve gas that was being pumped inside the house. Other antitodes were available to the rest of the players, hidden around the old house, and one was hidden inside the safe in the starting room. The combination to the safe was written in colored numbers on the backs of the players' necks, the correct combination in the order of the rainbow's colors.
Amanda during the Traphouse ordeal, where she was an inside player.
When the Traphouse games finally started, it didn't take long for the prisoners to start dying in gruesome and painful ways, as they either failed their objectives in their traps or were killed by traps rigged around the house. One of the prisoners even died from the nerve gas. Amanda's main objective was to stay alive and make sure Daniel made it out alive, and by the end of the ordeal, Amanda and Daniel were the only two left alive.
Amanda struggling in the Syringe Pit after being thrown in it.
Xavier Chavez, a violent and confrontational drug dealer who threw Amanda into his trap that had been a pit of thousands of dirty and used syringes, pursued the two into the sewers, desperate to find their numbers after learning about the color-coded safe combination. The sewer entrance was hidden under a trapdoor under the safe inside the starting room. Amanda and Daniel eventually came across the bathroom, which served as the tomb for Adam Faulkner and Zep Hindle, the decomposed corpses of the two men inside the bathroom. Xavier eventually arrived inside the bathroom, confronting a frightened Amanda and a seemingly-dead Daniel, who appeared to have passed out from the nerve gas. Amanda pleaded with Xavier not to kill her, telling him that she could help him learn his number.
Instead of accepting Amanda's help, Xavier instead used a hunting knife found in the Traphouse and cut into the back of his neck, cutting out a piece of skin with the number on it. He pocketed the gory flap of skin, then moved in to kill Amanda, when suddenly Daniel emerged and slashed Xavier's throat with the same pistol-grip hacksaw that Dr. Lawrence Gordon had used to saw off his foot. Xavier quickly expired. Amanda led Daniel out of the bathroom and sewer and back to the Traphouse. Daniel passed out from exhaustion and shock, and Amanda, having known the combination to the safe, opened it and used the antitode on Daniel to save his life. She left the Traphouse with Daniel's unconscious body and took him to John's Wilson Steel hideout.
She bound him with rope and gave him an oxygen mask with an oxygen tank to help him breathe, then locked him inside a safe in the room that served as John's workshop. With the footage of the Traphouse ordeal recorded by the cameras installed around the interior of the house and Daniel procured and alive, Eric's test was ready to go underway.
Eric Matthews' Test[]
Amanda, John and Hoffman carefully went over some last-minute details for Eric Matthews' test, namely getting the pre-recorded footage set and making sure the unconscious Daniel had his oxygen inside the safe to keep him alive. With some traps rigged on the staircase leading up to John's makeshift workshop ready, and John himself ready, the trio set their plans in motion to abduct an informant named Michael Marks, who had worked for Eric and obtained information for the cop that allowed him to get away with his false arrests.
Michael was abducted by Hoffman, who with help from Amanda and her medical knowledge she learned while at Angel Of Mercy, performed an eye surgery on him and implanted a key behind it, the key being for his trap, the Venus Flytrap Death Mask. Amanda and Hoffman brought the unconscious Michael to his torture chamber, where he had the Death Mask rigged around him and he was trapped inside an old room somewhere in the city sewers. Michael awoke and learned of his predicament from a VHS tape featuring Billy that John had made earlier. Michael failed to cut out his eye in time to retrieve the key and was killed by the Death Mask.
When Michael's corpse was discovered by asbestos cleaners in the sewers, Detective Eric Matthews was called in to investigate the scene, and it was on the Death Mask itself that the police were able to track down Jigsaw's location: Wilson Steel. Wilson Steel only had one steel mill in Downtown L.A. and it had been inoperational for many years. Eric, along with his partner Detective Kerry and others, assembled a SWAT team and they all set for Wilson Steel. All of them were completely unaware of Amanda and Hoffman's involvement with Jigsaw.
"Eric Matthews learned nothing from his test..."[]
Amanda had arrived at the Traphouse around the same time Eric and his SWAT team arrived at Wilson Steel. She had kept track of John's test for Eric by listening in on a walkie-talkie that was hidden in John's desk, listening to Eric's test. Initially, Eric, though very confrontational, played by John's rules. After a while though, he began to lose his temper and violently beat the ailing John. In fear of his life, John agreed to take Eric to the house. Fortunately for Amanda and her mentor, the two had gone over every possible outcome of Eric's test, including him failing, which he did. The plan for Amanda to hide in the disgusting sewer bathroom and subdue Eric when he arrived went into motion, Amanda shutting off her walkie-talkie, heading for the bathroom with the corpses of Adam Faulkner, Zep Hindle and Xavier Chavez, and donning her black robe with the pig mask.
Amanda hid in the bathtub and Eric eventually arrived. He approached the bathtub, when a pig-masked and black-robed Amanda suddenly rose from the bathtub and stabbed Eric in the leg with a syringe loaded with a sedative. Eric fell unconscious and Amanda manacled his right foot to a pipe nearby the toilet. Amanda had also left her own personally recorded taped message for the corrupt cop, not hiding her voice, as Eric had failed his test and was expected to die in the bathroom.
On the tape, Eric learned of Amanda's involvement with John and how she would continue his work after he eventually died from his cancer. After the message finished, Amanda appeared at the bathroom's open sliding door, staring at her manacled nemesis. "Game Over," Amanda stated, as she slid the bathroom door shut and trapped Eric inside. Amanda got her gear ready and was about to leave, when to her shock, Eric got out of the bathroom, having smashed his manacled foot with a broken toilet tank lid as an alternative to sawing off his foot. Eric was looking for his son Daniel, who by then was being taken to a hospital after being discovered inside the safe at John's Wilson Steel hideout.
Eric eventually found Amanda and began to savagely beat her, the entire time demanding where Daniel was. Feeling bad that Daniel had such an angry and violent man for a father, she refused to tell Eric where Daniel was, which only caused the cop to beat her more severely. She then kicked at his destroyed right foot, and was about to leave when an agonized Eric shouted after her, "You're not Jigsaw, bitch!"
Amanda fleeing after her fight with Eric Matthews in the sewer tunnel.
Amanda badly bruised and battered after Eric Matthews' assault on her.
Amanda took the insult to heart, and turned back to kill Eric, when she decided that he wasn't worth the time nor the effort. She left him for dead inside the dark and dank sewer tunnels and exited, locating Eric's police van with a badly beaten and battered John. Amanda drove off to their other hideout, an old and abandoned meat plant in the industrial district of Downtown L.A. and the building having been another property John owned. After treating John's injuries at the meat plant, Amanda resumed her work and was set to continue her service to John, along with Hoffman, only when she didn't quite meet John's expectations, months later.
Vengeance[]
Amanda was set to continue John's legacy following Eric Matthews' test, but instead of using her own games to teach people the value of life, as John believed he did, Amanda instead used her traps to seek vengeance against her rivals, and felt that nobody changed for the better from John's work; Eric Matthews was the same violent-tempered and impatient person that he had always been, evidenced to her during her fight with him in the sewer tunnels, and Xavier Chavez had only become a worse individual during the Traphouse ordeal, resulting in the deaths of two of the prisoners.
In October 2006, Amanda selected her first two victims: Troy LaRose and Detective Allison Kerry. She long hated Troy ever since he raped her after she refused to pay him for drugs that she purchased from him, and hated Kerry for her having helped Eric to get away with his disorderly conduct which resulted in Amanda losing ten months of her life. Amanda already had Troy and Kerry's traps; Troy's trap was the Body Chains, consisting of several chainrings hooked into his skin. The trap was simple, and Amanda didn't have difficulty with the chains that were to be apart of his test.
Amanda seriously considered killing Troy, but hesitantly opted not to go for it, as she set up the trap inside a classroom at Bousman Elementary School, where Amanda had been a student as a child. Hoffman was busy procuring Troy himself, and when he returned, Amanda left, Amanda trusting Hoffman to properly set the trap up. Amanda would later learn that Troy didn't make it out of the trap alive, blown to bits by a bomb Hoffman constructed as a part of the trap.
Kerry's trap was a grotesque device called the Angel Harness, which would rip open her ribcage if she failed to free herself using the key that had been tossed into a nearby jar of acid. The Angel Harness took months of design, building and testing, but with time, effort, patience and help from her two partners in crime, the trap worked to her liking, and she was able to get it set up in the city sewers with help from Hoffman, who then went to kidnap Kerry. Hoffman helped Amanda to set Kerry's body inside the contraption, and then he left to resume his police duties, while Amanda stayed behind to survey the test. Kerry awoke shortly afterwards.
Amanda present at the torture-murder of Allison Kerry, witnessing the grisly aftermath.
Despite putting herself through some grueling pain from snatching the key from the acid jar, the key didn't work on Kerry's lock. An angry and vengeful Amanda Young was the last thing that Kerry would ever see, the Angel Harness activating and ripping her ribcage wide open, spilling out her innards. Amanda was surprised to see that Kerry hadn't escaped from the trap despite undoing the lock, but she assumed the trap hadn't functioned properly like she initially thought. She didn't care either way, having gotten revenge on two enemies of her's, people she had deemed unworthy and undeserving of life.
John, with intel from Hoffman, had learned of Amanda "abusing the power" that he had bestowed upon her, was displeased with Amanda's "abuse of power." He was upset that she had used her games for revenge, but instead of confronting her, he decided to secretly re-test her.
"I can't do this..."[]
Amanda during her secret re-test from John.
Amanda tending to the ailing Jigsaw on his deathbed, during his final moments of life.
Amanda's test would involve her kidnapping Lynn Denlon, a doctor who worked at the Angel Of Mercy Hospital where Amanda also worked. Lynn was chosen to be tested by John for being neglectful to her family and cheating on her husband, and Amanda felt hatred towards Lynn as she felt she was ungrateful for her own life and didn't do her job well, having seen that Lynn failed to act to treat an injured young boy at the hospital. After Amanda's shift ended, she donned a black sweater and a pig mask, and kidnapped Lynn.
Amanda intimidating Lynn after Lynn awakes following her kidnapping.
Amanda bringing the kidnapped Dr. Lynn Denlon to Jigsaw.
After Lynn was kidnapped and taken to the meat plant hideout, Amanda introduced her to John, on his deathbed and barely alive by this point. Lynn was told by John that she was being tested, and that the rules of her game were to obey the rules and keep John alive until another test subject passed his test.
This other subject was a man named Jeff Denlon, a father and divorced husband who had been grieving over the death of his young son, Dylan, after Dylan died in a road accident. Jeff's test was to have him forgive his three enemies, all of whom were trapped and could only escape if Jeff decided to free them. If Jeff passed his test and Lynn had succeeded in keeping John alive by the time Jeff's test finished, then Lynn was free to go. Jeff, his daughter Corbett and Jeff's three enemies had all been kidnapped by Hoffman the previous day and set up where they were supposed to be for their tests.
Amanda rigging the Shotgun Collar around the neck of Lynn Denlon.
Amanda had placed a trap of her own around Lynn, the Shotgun Collar, a metal neck collar with shotgun shells rigged into bullet slots. The Shotgun Collar operated electronically, and if Lynn went out of the thirty-foot range programmed into the collar or John flatlined (his heart rate was linked to the collar), the hammers would activate and fire the shells at Lynn's head.
Amanda growing agitated and jealous of Lynn, following John's brain surgery and Amanda assuming John is taking more of a liking to Lynn.
Amanda was quite hostile towards Lynn, not keeping her own personal disliking for the doctor a secret. Amanda however was fairly obedient at first, even assisting Lynn during a makeshift brain surgery on John.
Amanda rifling through her cutting box to prepare for self-mutilation to cope with her stress.
Amanda in a self-mutilation ceremony of sorts before cutting herself.
Downfall[]
Amanda's emotional nature however got the better of her as the ordeal went on; John seemed to take more of a liking to Lynn, which personally insulted Amanda, seeing as John didn't even know Lynn and was seemingly ungrateful for what Amanda had done for him up to this point. Amanda had also seen that Jeff had failed his test, all three of his rivals having died. Amanda was breaking down by this point, having felt guilty for Jeff's young daughter, Corbett, having to suffer without a way out for herself to win. Jeff didn't seem to change for the better, and Amanda felt that John's test didn't succeed in changing people. Amanda became so unhinged that she even went back to self-mutilation, mutilating her thighs with a buck knife after John's brain surgery.
Amanda only became more on-edge when she saw John and Lynn growing closer together and even had a bit of a violent scuffle with Lynn inside John's infirmary. When a desperate Lynn fought with her before holding her at knifepoint with a scalpel, after Amanda checked on her to ensure she was following the rules. Lynn tore the key Amanda had around her neck to free herself from the Shotgun Collar, but the key didn't work for the collar, it worked for Corbett's room inside Gideon.
Amanda reading the contents of the letter from "John," realizing that Hoffman has blackmailed her into betraying her mentor.
But Amanda would be fully pushed all the way to the edge after reading the contents of a letter John told her to read, Amanda learning from the letter that Hoffman knew that she caused the death of Gideon Tuck Kramer with Cecil Adams and demanding that she kill Lynn Denlon, otherwise he would tell John of her secret that she kept hidden from him the entire time. Terrified of John finding out and unable to bear the thought, Amanda reluctantly went along with Hoffman's demands from the letter.
Amanda warning Corbett not to trust Hoffman when he comes to "save" her, after being blackmailed with her letter.
Amanda reaching her breaking point with Jigsaw and Lynn.
"Don't trust the one who saves you."[]
Terrified of John finding out and unable to bear the thought, Amanda reluctantly went along with Hoffman's demands from the letter. But before doing so, she dropped by the room where Corbett was being held, and tearfully warned the young girl not to trust Hoffman when he came for her. With her ace in the hole to nail Hoffman after the events that were about to transpire, Amanda headed back for John's infirmary.
"Fix me, motherfucker!"[]
Jeff was making his way to the store room, when an angry Amanda confronted both John and Lynn, toting a pistol Hoffman procured for her from the LAPD's armory. John begged for Amanda to unlock Lynn's collar and let her go, but Amanda refused. Amanda let her anger pour out, criticizing John's methods and his hypocrisy, claiming that what he did was no different from murder.
Amanda also admitted to being a murderer for her murder of Adam Faulkner, and mentioned that Eric Matthews didn't learn anything from his test - strongly implying that she killed him. John still begged with Amanda and tried reasoning with her, when Amanda shot Lynn in the back, just as Jeff arrived, armed with a pistol that Hoffman had left for him for his test.
Amanda after being shot by Jeff Denlon after failing her secret re-test from John and shooting Jeff's wife, Lynn.
Amanda dead from her bullet wound.
Jeff shot Amanda in the neck, Amanda bleeding profusely from her neck wound and falling down. As she bled, John revealed that he had been testing her the entire time, to see if she could follow his rules, Amanda having failed to do so. Amanda was completely shocked upon learning of John's secret test for her and moreso when he accused her of having unwinnable traps and games, but she was too weak to respond. Amanda collapsed and died from her wound, while Jeff confronted John.
John asked for Jeff to consider forgiving him, when Jeff instead took a hold of a nearby skilsaw and sawed John's throat open with it. John flatlined and Lynn's Shotgun Collar activated, killing her. A shocked and mentally damaged Jeff played John's "insurance policy" tape for him, where he learned of Corbett's fate. Jeff would be shot just moments later by FBI Special Agent Peter Strahm, who barged into the infirmary but would be locked inside immediately afterwards.
Role in Horror RPG Series 3, Season One[]
Resurrection[]
Two years after Amanda was buried, a mystical Crow came by her grave in a Los Angeles cemetery and resurrected her from the dead. Amanda's tortured past full of abuse as well as her present enemies that included Hoffman and Jeff in addition to her past enemies which also included her abusive parents made her a candidate for The Crow to resurrect her to claim vengeance against those who wronged her in the past. Amanda was resurrected and reborn as The Crow, and using her newfound powers from The Crow and her engineering knowledge she inherited from John, she would see to it that she'd get her revenge and use her powers to their fullest potential.
Regular Appearance[]
Amanda stands five feet three inches tall and weighs one hundred seven pounds. She has an average body type that is slightly thin yet also toned. She has green eyes and her dark brown hair is usually long, but when she first joined John, she cut it short and from there it evolved into a strange little choppy "Emo" hairstyle; Amanda kept this hairstyle until after the Traphouse incident, and from there let her hair grow longer. She had her longer hair up to her death, but since being resurrected by The Crow, she's cut it shorter again, identical to her Traphouse hairstyle.
Amanda's attire varies greatly, but she typically wears street clothes of all colors. When she kidnaps her test subjects or John's subjects, she wears a red or black robe with a gruesome pig mask. Currently, Amanda's main attire seems to consist of black pants with a long-sleeved black overshirt with a red satin tank top of sorts underneath, black platform boots and a black leather jacket. One of the most distinctive and recognizable features Amanda now sports is the gothic black and white make-up she wears ever since being resurrected by The Crow. Amanda has a distinctive tattoo of a cougar on her upper-left shoulder blade.
Amanda also has a scar on the left side of her neck from where Jeff Denlon's bullet struck her, and sports several scars on her arms and legs from when she has self-mutilated in the past.
Trademark Gear[]
Amanda often carries chloroform and syringes filled with sedatives on her when she kidnaps her or John's test subjects, to make kidnapping them easier. Her weapons vary, but she opts to wield handguns and knives. Amanda's primary weapons though are her brand of death traps, which are unique from the other Jigsaw Killers in that they sport a distinctively more elegant appearance - as beautiful-looking as they are disturbing and horrific.
Amanda employs both winnable and inescapable traps, but under certain circumstances; for people she views as deserving of a second chance at life and have committed forgivable offenses, she makes their tests rather easy to win, but for people who've committed unforgivable offenses (such as rape or child molestation), she makes their tests unwinnable.
The Crow[]
While not really a piece of gear per say, Amanda always has The Crow around her as a means of allowing her to walk between the realms of the living and the dead, and granting her her new powers that include immortality and immunity to all forms of conventional damage and harm, as well as greatly enhancing her agility and flexibility to a superhuman level. The Crow however has to be protected at all times, since it can be harmed or killed, and in the event it dies, Amanda will become a mortal human again and left open for a fatal injury.
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