Mandy Dauntless

"It's like they always say: I ain't afraid of no ghost!"

- Mandy, when asked for a catchphrase

Amandine Dauntless (better known by her nickname, "Mandy") is the daughter of the Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear. She is part of the staff at Ever After High, more specifically an assistant teacher, helping with Heroics 101 and Hero Training class-ics under Professor Charming and Professor Knight.

She's a PhD student, and seeks to learn from her experiences at EAH to write her thesis on the supernatural: ghosts, demons, ''mansters and ghouls! ''She's always keen to talk to demonic and dark fairytale characters; knowing all about the things that go bump in the night helps her bump back when she has to.

Born with a medical (or magical?) inability to recognize danger, Mandy follows in her father's fearless footsteps and is a trained paranormal investigator. However, unlike her father, she's shown no desire to understand what 'fear' is, as she thinks it's much better off without it.

She's always accompanied by her pet hellhound, Kirby (short for "Kereberos").

Personality
Mandy's, well, fearless. She's never been afraid of social conventions, people, or ghosts.

However, not being afraid means she's never self-conscious. She can be rude and snappy, often telling people when they've talked too much, or interrupting them as they speak.

Still, it's clear how compassionate she is. Like her father, she always seeks a peaceful solution in every paranormal encounter she makes. Her diplomacy and innate kindness has won her the trust of multiple supernatural entities, and many come around to help when she needs them. One of them, Kirby her dog, is always at her side.

She has an inventor's heart - much like her mother, who patented many tools used in ghost hunting. P.K.E Meters, Proton Packs, E.M.P recorders, they've built them all, and Mandy has improved on their designs to be more lightweight with time. She loves tinkering with machinery, but has little patience to explain her inventions or how they work to others.

Her trademark invention is a lens in her glasses. It flips down to see ghosts and looks through fairy glamours - hence her habit of interrupting conversations to follow what appears to be thin air, and wandering away to her next adventure.

Home
The current Boy without Fear lives in a palace once haunted by devils from the infinite inferno. He sent them back from whence they came by beating them with some sick card tricks and some rad righteous bowling moves.

His wife and sons are the public face to his business, which specialises in securing, containing, or destroying supernatural entities. Over the generations they have fought devils, gods, myths and monsters. Every so often, they punch a ghost.

They also have a large, green portal to the, well, the "ghost zone" active in their basement. A fourteen year old boy may or may not have fallen into it once and came out with white hair.

Fairytale
"Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear" or "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was" is a Grimms fairytale, considered by some to be one of the earliest postmodern fairytales, showing a hero stumble his way to victory as opposed to fighting for a happily ever after. It's often mistakenly classified as a hero fairytale, but is a different thing entirely.

How does Mandy come into this?
Mandy's the last descendant of the first Boy without Fear. Her family have been fighting monsters for generations, and all have a unique inability to process fear. They love danger and the thrill of the hunt, and Mandy is no different.

She's been raised to hunt ghosts all her life, and does it as a hobby.

Appearance
Mandy has dark grey-black hair, sharp features, and tanned red skin. She's willowy and tall, accentuated by her preference for pencil skirts. Being myopic, she needs glasses, but the lens of her good eye is replaceable by round lenses that flip into place to see all manner of spooky scary things.

She like outfits and wisp and billow like the sheets of a ghost. Her accessories include chains, and motifs from her story: black cats, skeletons, and coffins. Kirby the hellhound will usually wear collars to match her outfits. {| class="article-table" !Art !Outfits
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Default
Her usual outfit. She's suaully seen with billowy sleeves, a tummy sash, and two hissing cats on her skirt. She accesorises with chains on her necklace and her boots.

Kirby wears a chain link collar.
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Through the Woods
Mandy's invite to the Blue Moon Forest Fest came as a prize in a raffle. She has a capelet with skull clasps and bones along the hem, and bone clasps on her boots. Her handkerchief dress is accentuated with a chain-link belt.

Kirby wears a dog tag shaped like Scooby Doo's.
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Date Night
Mandy wears a smart lapel jacket and an accessory shaped like a sternum-and-ribcage.

Kirby wears a similar accessory for a collar.
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Trivia

 * Mandy's one of Death's many godchildren, largely because her father figured: "Why the hell not?"
 * Death appears to her as a skeleton with a strong Jamaican accent,  'mon.
 * A traditional chant the Dauntless family uses when they fight ghosts? "Yumo guigwai faidi zao!"
 * She's looking for friends! Just ask! :3c
 * Mandy's sort of a love letter to early-millennial supernatural cartoons. And, well, Scooby Doo.