History VideoGame / LoveAndPies

* Amelia in ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'' usually remains hopeful throughout her investigations, but she suspects that Sebastian Corps, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt CEO]] of Global Megacorp, sabotaged the brakes of Esme's van. [[spoiler:Her suspicions fly out of the window when he tells her that he's her father, and she refuses to believe that he's the culprit. However, Esme warns her that she might be too optimistic for her won good because "[she] can't trust ANYONE. Everyone here has a secret."]]

* In ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'', Sebastian suggests that Amelia send her daughter Kate to boarding school, claiming that she'd do well there. Amelia objects because Kate's just four, but Sebastian claims that it's "never too early" for her to start. Esme, on the other hand, wishes that Sebastian was sent to boarding school when they were kids so she wouldn't have had to look at him during sports class.

* BefriendingTheEnemy: After Amelia discovers that [[spoiler:Edwina is her half-sister, she decides to invite her to the café for a hangout to know her as a sister rather than an enemy. Edwina rejects her activity ideas first, but slowly warms up to her and gives her relationship advice. By the end of the day, Edwina tries to be a good older sister to Amelia and hopes that Sebastian would improve his relationship with the latter.]]

* BefriendingTheEnemy: After Amelia discovers that Edwina [[spoiler:is her half-sister, she decides to invite her to the café for a hangout to know her as a sister rather than an enemy. Edwina rejects her activity ideas first, but slowly warms up to her and gives her relationship advice. By the end of the day, Edwina tries to be a good older sister to Amelia and hopes that Sebastian would improve his relationship with the latter.]]

* HalfSiblingAngst: [[spoiler:Edwina finds it hard to connect with Amelia after finding out that the former's father Sebastian married her former best friend Freya and had Amelia. Edwina also mentions a half-brother who's around Amelia's age, but they never bonded as much as siblings.]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Sam tells Amelia that Joe one dated Edwina, Amelia get worried that Joe might cheat on her for Edwina like what her ex-husband did to her. [[spoiler:When Amelia tells Edwina about her relationship worries, Edwina, who has [[DefrostingIceQueen just slowly warming up to her]], advises her that she should let go of her past because Joe is truly the one for her and she trusts him that he won't cheat on Amelia. While it's true that Joe dated Edwina, it was long before Amelia returned to Appleton, and it was just a short fling.]]

* DefrostingIceQueen: Edwina starts out arrogant and haughty towards Amelia, hoping to drive her mother Freya's café out of business, but over time, she can't help but ''miss'' the café because that's where she used to play with Freya. [[spoiler:When Amelia finds out that Edwina's actually her half-sister, she invites her over for some sisterly bonding. Edwina rejects her activity ideas at first, but she still watches her fix up the vegetable garden. Edwina then decides to sit with Amelia for the afternoon, and when she realizes that Amelia only thought bad about her, with her past relationship with Joe being the last straw, Edwina slowly warms up to Amelia and tries being a CoolBigSis to her by advising her that [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Joe is truly the one for her.]]]]

** Amelia divorced her husband (Kate's father) prior to the events of the game because he cheated on her, and he remains unseen. He also wasn't present for Kate's birth, and Sven and Angus visited her instead.

** Joe went on a date with Edwina, who is the same age as Amelia's mother, long before Amelia returned to Appleton. Amelia and Joe were in high school together. After Joe quit his job at Clean Bean Café, his twin brother and replacement, Sam, started dating Edwina.

** Edwina's father Sebastian gifts Amelia a cherub statue for her romantic date room, even if Yuka initially suspected that it was a trap. Amelia finds this strange, but she accepts it, anyway.

* CoolOldLady: Amelia's great-aunt Esme may be a kooky, [[DirtyOldWoman dirty-minded]] FortuneTeller who used to be a circus performer, but she's happy to help at the café. Her old age also doesn't stop her from [[GamerChick playing online games]] such as ''[[FictionalVideoGame Battle Dwarves]]'' with Kate.

* HalfSiblingAngst: [[spoiler:Edwina finds it hard to connect with Amelia after finding out that the former's father Sebastian married Freya and had the latter. Edwina also mentions a half-brother who's around Amelia's age, but they never bonded as much as siblings.]]

* LimitedWardrobe: Everyone wears the same clothes all throughout the game, and Kate notably wears her detective outfit on top of her dino costume.

* AmbidextrousSprite: Kate draws with both her left and right hands because her drawing animation gets flipped depending on where she is.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite her hatred for Amelia, Edwina misses Amelia's mother, Freya. She used to play with her at the patio of Windmill Café as a kid, and Freya used to call her [[AffectionateNickname "Weeny"]] because they were best friends. In fact, after she fell out with Freya, Edwina used to babysit Amelia when she was a child, and Freya's aunt Esme still calls Edwina "Weeny", having known her for a long time.\\

* IntergenerationalRivalry: Edwina is around Freya's age and they knew each other in school, but Edwina expresses her resentment towards Freya's daughter Amelia, wanting her to lose just like Freya. Amelia likewise stands up to Edwina's insults, hoping that she can save her mother's café.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Edwina used to be a NiceGirl in her childhood, playing with Freya and Sven and giving them flowers and presents, respectively. In fact, she was best friends with Freya growing up, but [[WeUsedToBeFriends had a falling out as adults]], which is why she's antagonistic towards Freya's daughter, Amelia.

** Sebastian's proposed changes to the Windmill Café posters show a sexualized Amelia lying seductively on top of an apple pie. Amelia and Betty both agree that the design doesn't suit the former.

** Amelia divorced her husband (Kate's father) prior to the events of the game because he cheated on her, and he remains unseen.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Sebastian Corps, CEO of Global {{Megacorp}}, is described by the Windmill Café patrons as a ruthless businessman. He doesn't care how he runs the company as long as he makes a profit, and he tries to manipulate the employees who resigned into returning to work for him. [[spoiler:When he offers Amelia "lessons" on how to run Windmill Café, he tries indoctrinating the rules he has for Clean Bean Café such as requiring payment from outside help such as Sven and changing the café's marketing strategy without Amelia's input. He then offers her to sign the documents to make Windmill Café part of the Global Megacorp brand.]]

** Amelia herself knows that her mother is alive because the latter called her a week after she ran away, but she doesn't know who her dad is. All she knows is that Freya never told her about him because people wouldn't be approving of their relationship, and that all that mattered to her was that she had Amelia. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} when Sebastian finally shows up at the café to tell Amelia personally that he is her father.]]

* FanDisservice: Amelia is disgusted at the thought of Joe once dating Edwina, the latter who's around Amelia's mother's age. She {{imagine|Spot}}s them [[BeachKiss kissing on the beach]] in their swimwear, but can't get the mental image of Edwina in a two-piece swimsuit out of her head.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite being a DirtyOldWoman who finds Edwina sexy, Esme calls the latter's father, Sebastian, a {{Slimeball}} for [[spoiler:dating Freya because even if they were both adults when they first dated, he's still 30 years older than her.]]

** Sebastian had always wanted to tell Amelia since the day she returned to Appleton that [[spoiler:he is her father, but he got worried about her mother when she went missing on the night of the arson.]]