Amari Peters

Amari Renee Peters is thirteen-year-old girl, daughter of Renee Peters and younger sister to Quinton Peters. She is the main protagonist and narrator of the Supernatural Investigations series. She is a born magician and currently a junior agent for the Department Of Supernatural Investigations at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs.

Early Life
Amari Peters was born to Renee Peters and an unnamed man.

Renee Peters and Amari’s father separated. Amari’s father promised Amari for months that he would get her a bright red bike that they’d seen at Walmart for her birthday. Renee warned Amari not to get her hopes up, but Amari didn’t listen because she thought daddies didn’t lie to their daughters.

Amari’s father didn’t show up for her birthday. Renee called Amari’s father to ask where he was. They got into an argument on the phone. Renee accidentally hit the speaker button, allowing Amari to hear her father say “She probably ain’t even mine. Tell whoever her real daddy is to get her the stupid bike.”  Renee tried to say he didn't mean it but Amari ran to her room and cried.

After Renee fell asleep that night, Quinton Peters, Amari's older brother, brought Amari to his bedroom. They lay on his floor talking. He told her that he would always have Amari's back. When Christmas came, Quinton didn't get a single present but Amari got a brand new red bike.

Amari and Quinton often listened to albums together and snuck out onto the roof of their apartment building.

The Rec Center
Amari usually competes in swim meets at the rec center where Quinton volunteers. She considers swimming to be her hobby and enjoys splashing around with Quinton in the community rec center pool every summer.

The year that she goes to the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs is the first year that she does not go to the rec center and she says that she misses the pool. She notes that all of her friends were Quinton’s friends first. One of those friends includes Jayden, a boy that Quinton was tutoring. Amari and Jayden seem to have gotten along well and been close friends. She shared with him whatever food she had at the time.

Jefferson Academy
Amari is attending a middle school called Jefferson Academy, where she is bullied relentlessly for being a poor Black girl. The girls at the school have been harassing Amari since she first began attending Jefferson Academy. They sent her friend requests on social media only to leave nasty comments on her pages. The school gave the bullies written warnings, however this didn’t stop them from being cruel to Amari’s face.

While Amari is attending Jefferson Academy, her big brother Quinton goes missing in November. He was a graduate at Jefferson Academy as well.

After one of the girls, Emily Grant, makes jokes about Quinton being dead, Amari shoves her. Mrs. Grant insists on the school revoking her scholarship, claiming that Amari assaulted her daughter. The incident results in Principal Merritt revoking Amari’s scholarship, which he claims to be the smallest punishment he can offer. He suggests that Amari goes to counselling for her anger but Amari declines.

Appearance
Amari is a young Black girl with brown skin. She has black hair in an afro style. Her eyes are brown.

As a trainee (and Junior Agent) with the Supernatural Investigations department, Amari wears a gray suit with her moonstone badge pinned to the lapel. When she was a trainee, the moonstone badge was round and looks like a medal without the ribbon. It's the size of Amari's palm and it twinkles like a star. Once she became a Junior Agent, the badge changed to oval with the words "Department of Supernatural Investigations" engraved above the image of an evenly weighted balance. "Bureau of Supernatural Affairs" is etched across the bottom.

At the Welcome Social, Amari wore a white dress that looked like it was made of real clouds.

Renee Peters
Amari loves her mother though they don’t always get along. After Quinton went missing, Amari and Renee began to get into fights. Amari is very conscious of how little money the family has and is upset when Renee takes out a loan to go on a shopping spree for Amari after Amari tells her about being nominated for the summer camp Quinton went to. Whenever Renee needs to leave work because of Amari, Amari feels guilty because of it. Amari knows how hard her mom works and doesn’t want to cause trouble for her. The times that Amari has to hide things or lie to Renee because of the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs make her feel guilty.

Renee tells Amari that she wants her to be happy and safe. She insists that Amari getting a scholarship is the best way for Amari to get out in the big world and make a secure life for herself. Though Amari tells her that the scholarship isn’t guaranteed, Renee always believes in Amari’s ability to better her life.

Quinton Peters
Though Quinton is ten years older than Amari, they’re very close. Quinton has always supported Amari. He got her a red bicycle for Christmas after their dad bailed on his promise. It’s implied that he did this at the expense of getting his own presents for Christmas. Quinton and Amari used to lay on Quinton’s bedroom floor listening to music and talking. They used to go to the rec center and swim together. They would sneak up onto the roof of their apartment building even though Renee said it was too dangerous. Amari remembers all of this fondly.

Before she knew about the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, Amari used to think that Quinton was a super-secret spy like James Bond. He nominated her for the trainee program at the Bureau before he disappeared.

Quinton’s disappearance threw Amari’s life into chaos. She always believed that he was alive and she never stopped looking for him. She spent hours posting his picture on websites trying to spread the word and find him. It’s implied that Amari developed sudden behavioral problems at school.

Once she’s at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, Amari learns about her brother’s secret life and doubles down on her efforts to search for them. They eventually pay off and Amari rescues Quinton (and his partner, Maria Van Helsing). However, Quinton is in a coma and they aren’t sure when he’ll come out of it. Quinton tells her to live her life and not become obsessed with getting him out of the coma like she was with finding him. Amari promises that she’ll live.

Jayden
Jayden and Amari used to go to elementary school together. They kept in touch through the tutoring program at the rec center and live in the same apartment building. Because Jayden’s mom is more out of the picture than in it, Jayden often went hungry but Amari and Quinton shared what they had with him. Because of their kindness, Jayden tries to repay Amari by offering her money he got from the Wood Gang. Amari worries about Jayden dropping out of school and running with a gang, telling him that Quinton would be disappointed. Jayden believes in Amari and tells her that he expects her to run for president. She’s proud of him when he drops out of the gang and gets a legal job. Amari is the one who nominates Jayden for the trainee program at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs.

Elsie Rodriguez
Elsie Rodriguez is the first friend that Amari makes at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs. The girls share a room together and became fast friends the first night. Elsie tells Amari about VanQuish and agrees to help her search for them. Together they come up with and execute plans to gather information on VanQuish's whereabouts. Elsie often bounces invention ideas off of Amari and uses her as a guinea pig. In return, Amari uses Elsie to practice illusion spells on. Elsie makes sure that Amari isn't working too hard and that she goes out to have some fun. They both support and care deeply about each other and consider themselves to be best friends.

Beauregard Magnus
Magnus looks out for Amari from the moment that she arrives at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, waiting for her even though she was late. He says that this is because he owed Quinton a favor. He acts gruff but he sticks up for Amari repeatedly and fights for her to have fair treatment. He assures Amari that she doesn’t have to put herself into dangerous situations before she’s prepared, such as when the Bureau asks her to speak to Moreau. Magnus would rather Amari leave saving the world to the people whose job it is, but he’s very proud of her for getting back Maria Van Helsing and Quinton Peters.

Along with Melanie Fiona, Magnus is one of the agents responsible for overseeing the tryouts for the future Junior Agents in the Supernatural Investigations department. He does what he can to make the tryouts fair to Amari.

Amari constantly questions Magnus in an attempt to get information about Quinton from him. For the most part he takes this in good grace, though several times he tells her that certain information is classified. Amari thinks that he has a temper and sure can throw a tantrum but she does seem to respect him. When she finds out that Magnus and Fiona are on a date, she congratulates him and says that Fiona is way out of his league.