Amanda Houston (The Traveler)

Amanda Houston is the deuteragonist of The Traveler. She becomes the partner of Justin Raflamme at the start of Chapter 2 and ends up becoming romantically involved with him.

Amanda Houston is a programmer working for a very profitable gaming company called United Games. She entered the virtual reality game along with Justin and other employees to test its game development. However, a massive bugs occurred, causing the machine that connected her and other participants to malfunction and ended all of them having their memories being erased and sent back to their toddler age where they were raised by A.I. that acted as their parents and "lived" in this world for a long time when in reality, they had been connecting to the virtual reality game for just 3 days before they were rescued. Like other employees, the bug failed to erase their identities, but they too were unable to aware that they were inside a virtual world.

Personality
Amanda Houston is a serious fighter who focuses on her jobs and objectives given by her higher officers. She has no problem in killing anyone who attempts to stop her from reaching her goals. She is also not as calm as Justin, and she is easy to be provoked and often violently attacks her enemies with her laser sword and even go as far as sadistically cutting heads from the corpses of her enemies and claims them as her trophies.

Despite being fairy violent, Amanda also has a bright side. She actually cares for people who are close to her or on her side. When in combat, she seems to be very concerned about her teammates' safety. She also expresses her guilt, and feels saddened when one of her teammates are killed in action. Amanda also seemingly shows a level of self-awareness, as she tells Justin that she suspects that the world they live in are not real because she sometimes could see the moon distorts and her suspicion are proved to be true in the later game.

In real life, Amanda is quite arrogant as stated in a journal written by Leslie Clancy which can be found on a tree in Ottoman Forest. The journal says that Amanda usually thinks that she is better than everybody else in the company that she works for due to her high intelligence. Despite that, she is still charming and manages to befriend with many employees in the company due to her intelligence and her great programming skill. Leslie says in the journal that she dislikes sexual jokes, which suggests her bad relationship with Justin prior to their entry to the game as another journal states that Justin angered a female employee when he made a sexual joke. However, she is still forgiving, and both Justin and her have decided to put their past relationship behind to establish a new relation.