Amanda

Amanda is a female character who makes her featured and debut appearance in Final Fantasy Adventure. She is a slave of the Glaive Empire, and has partnered with Sumo on a few occasions during his journey. She uses a dagger as her weapon, and has the ability to cure Petrify.

Background
Originally an enslaved gladiator of the Glaive Empire, Amanda fights to free her brother Lester from a curse laid by the tyrant Davias as the former was transformed into a parrot.

Final Fantasy Adventure & Adventures of Mana
Originally from Menos, Amanda is captured and forced to fight exotic beasts alongside other gladiators in Glaive's area for the Dark Lord's entertainment.

Later on, after Sumo escapes from Glaive, she finally get to escape her prison cell and find her way back home to Menos. During her stay, she learns that her brother, Lester, has traveled to Jadd to play his harp, only to be captured by the city's ruler Davias. She briefly meets with Sumo again, unconscious from falling from Glaive's Airship. She reluctantly takes advantage of his condition by taking his pendant, hoping that Davias would accept it in exchange for freeing her brother. Unfortunately for her, Davias tranforms Lester into a parrot after grabbing the pendant, prompting the young maiden to venture into the Shifting Sands to ask Medusa for a tear to cure him.

Sumo then catch up with Amanda in the sandy cave where she confesses into taking his pendant. She then adds that the only way to break her brother's curse is to find the tears of a gorgon which can only be found here. The young knight then joins Amanda in her quest to find Medusa, enventually finding the monster at the very end of her lair.

After vanquishing Medusa, the demon professes that shall shed no tears for their sake, then vanishes leaving the area dry. As, Sumo tries to find alternatives to convince Davias to change her brother back to his former self, Amanda realizes that she has been bitten by Medusa during the fight, dooming herself to turn into a mindless gorgon. She then orders the young knight to finish her and take her tears instead. Sumo tries to reason with her by telling her that Cibba might know a way to cure her, but the curse is rapidly taking over Amanda's body, leaving him to slay her in the end. In her final speech, she urges Sumo to not let her death be in vain and to tell his brother that she loves her.

Taking a single blood-red tear from her cheek in a vial, the yound knight asks for forgiveness before leaving the premises and returning to Jadd.

Circle of Mana
Amanda makes a cameo appearance in several cards in Circle of Mana.

Echoes of Mana
Amanda appears as two playable character units in Echoes of Mana.
 * Amanda (unit)
 * Amanda (For Affection's Sake)

Etymology
Amanda means "lovable" or "worthy of love" in Latin.

Trivia

 * In the Japanese version, the tears that Sumo and Amanda are seeking is Medusa's blood.