Fanon:Amy's Backstory (extended version by Smith ghast4)

This is Amy Stark. Back in 5th grade, she used to live a normal life as a typical smart young girl would in New York City. She had an older brother named Lazarus (or "Laz" for short), age 20, who's into metal music, playing guitar, and fitting aesthetically with the metal lifestyle, such as piercings and dyed hair with shaved sides. They all lived their lives normally, until one fateful day...

It was April 14, 2021, and Amy planned to join her friends in her birthday party at a pizzeria after school. Laz had to drive her there via his car. But on the way there, suddenly a truck ran the red light in front of the car. "LAZ, LOOK OUT!!!" Amy screamed as the truck caused him to swerve the car off the road and hit a tree, scaring a deer nearby (are they really any deer in New York City?).

Amy was knocked out for 15 minutes before waking up. When she woke up, Amy tried to move but her legs were paralyzed as she doesn't see her brother anywhere as she can see the car they were on, on fire as the tree was getting burned by it as well. She yelled "LAZ?" as she picks up her brother's phone. She puts 9-1-1 before having the ambulance take her to a hospital.

Amy got into her wheelchair for the first time ever. She went to the doctor and asked "Do you think my brother will be okay?" but the doctor was upset as Amy realized that something bad was with Laz. "Oh, I am sorry. I have bad news. He had died during the crash!" causing Amy to start crying over her brother's death. She cried "Laz..." as she realized she lost her brother during the crash.

Amy stayed in the hospital for 4 months, throughout the summer, to recover from her injuries, and she is confined to her wheelchair for the rest of her life. During her stay at the hospital, her parents end up in a massive argument about whether or not Laz was responsible enough to drive before his fatal accident, resulting in the parents divorcing. Amy's dad stayed in New York while she and her mom moved to Rackleff, Maine.

Amy brought her brother's guitar and immediately adopted his metal music and fashion, buying new clothes and leaving all of her old clothes behind at her old home. She was also not interested in dating boys, wanting to date a fellow girl instead. Then on her first day of 6th grade, Friday the 3rd of September (NOT "Septuary", people, get it right!), she found a perfect match when noticing a girl having a bad birthday. That girl...is Dee Dee.

To be continued in the Big Nate episode "Six-tween Candles"....