Sandy McRae

**Alisande Lucy McRae,** known as **Sandy,** is a major character of the book series Overworld: The Generation of Heroes, and a main member of the superhero team Team Overworld. When using the Parrot Talisman when activated, she becomes **Acanthis**, the Hero of Truth, fighting against the evil created by Mooroopna.

## Character Information

### Aliases

Sandy
Acanthis
User

### Likes

Her family, Friendly people, England, Rich materials or clothes

### Dislikes

Her mother's cruelty, Bullies, Being betrayed, Danger

## Social Information

### Affilations

Team Overworld
The Legion

### Occupation

Superhero
Member of Team Overworld
Student at Oakwood Sixth Form (currently)
Student at Summerville High School (formerly)

### Relatives

Edmund McRae (Father)
Clarice McRae (Mother)
Darla McRae/Mooroopna (Sister)
Kane McRae (Brother)
Oscar McRae (Brother)
Delilah McRae (Sister)
Nathaniel McRae/Asgorath † (Uncle)
Farah McRae (Aunt by Marriage)
 Oliver McRae/Bahamut (Cousin)
Nevaeh McRae (Aunt)
Kevin Weatherford (Uncle by Marriage)
Celia Weatherford (Cousin)
Roseanne Weatherford (Cousin)
Joseph Weatherford (Cousin)
Noelle McRae (Aunt)
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Marigold Cooper (Cousin)
George Cooper (Cousin)
Sylvia Cooper (Cousin)
Albert McRae † (Grandfather)
Gladys Truman (Grandmother)
George McRae † (Great-Grandfather)
Celia Leicester † (Great-Grandmother)
Charles Leicester † (Great-Great-Grandfather)
Helen Leicester † (Great-Great-Grandmother)

### Friends

Darla McRae/Mooroopna
Farah McRae/Neige LibertyOliver McRae/Bahamut (Favourite Cousin)
Lumina de Crucia/Moonbeam
Luke Ashford/Loutre Artistique
Harley McQueen/Chien Marron
Nicola Montorieà/Lapin Rose
Stacey Segrete/Diphieds
Britney Pink/Tigressa
Holly Cornelius/Pixiebell
Lizzie Lovemoon/Syrenna
Jane Barlowe/Vivace
Sally Pink/Xiongmao
Jessica (formerly)

### Enemies

Jessica
Mean Girls
Clarice McRae
Darla McRae/Mooroopna (formerly)

### Love Interests

Stacey Segrete/Diphieds (Girlfriend)
Jane Barlowe/Vivace (Ex-Girlfriend)

## Hero Information

### Powers and Abilities

Enhanced Strength and Speed
Flight (Parrot Talisman)
Coloured Light (Parrot Talisman)

## Appearance

### Civillan

#### Physical Appearance

Sandy is average height with lightly tanned skin and bright blue eyes. She has long brown wavy hair tied in two ponytails with purple scrunchies. She usually wears makeup, mostly pink blush and lipstick, and a pair of earrings.

#### Civillan Outfit

Sandy wears a loose aqua blue blouse with short, wide sleeves with the bottom of the shirt cut into a curvy pattern. She has denim coloured shorts and bright yellow sandals with a blue jewel around the top of her ankles. She also wears gold bangles around her wrist and an expensive curved gold necklace, and usually a pair of earrings. When she became the Parrot Talisman wearer, she wore the camouflaged talisman as a part of her earring collection.

### Hero Form

As Acanthis, Sandy has the same physical appearance apart from her eyes turning yellow and having purple sclerae. She wears a white body suit with lots of tiny purple dots - her left arm and leg are coloured red and her right arm and leg are coloured blue, and her calves are coloured yellow, as well as her waist in a zigzag pattern.On her chest there is a symbol with a red feather on the far left, a blue feather on the far right and in the middle are two purple lines curving upwards to the direction of the feather and a purple caret above them. She has a symmetrical white mask covered in purple dots and three feather on her head coloured Blue, White and Red. She has a wing-shaped white cape - which acts as a pair of wings - with blue and red lines outside and yellow stripes inside. She has the Air Javelin equipped on her back and the Parrot Talisman in its active form.

## Personality

Sandy is an innocent, pure and inquisitive person, and is described to have 'beyond intelligence'. She is quite naive, especially living in England, but her friends guide her and help pull her through. She is also loving and fun.

## Family History

### Early Ancestry

Sandy's known ancestry goes back to the late 1800s with her great-great-grandparents Charles and Helen Leicester. Not much is known about them, other than they helped their daughter Celia bring up her son Albert after his father died young.

The story of the family is known more in the next generation, Sandy's great-grandparents. At some point Celia met George McRae, and they were later engaged and soon married. Before the wedding, George travelled to America to invite a close friend living there to the wedding, when he came across the Talismans in his friend's boss' shop. As nobody had even looked at let alone bought it, he was given permission to take it home by the boss, but what he didn't realise was that he had taken it without being made guardian of the airidans, which caused grave illness and later his death; George gave Celia the Talismans, along with a white pearl brooch, as a wedding present - at some point after marriage she discovered the Airidans and had been told she would be cursed as she was not made their official guardian. A couple of years later, George's illness started to take effect and he died in 1921 aged only 29 years old - it was more tragic as Celia was pregnant at the time. Heartbroken and not knowing what to do, she moved back into her parents' home where she gave birth to her only child the same year, a son named Albert George - named after his grandfather and late father. Years later Celia's parents died on unknown dates.

### Mid Ancestry

Celia raised Albert with her parents' assistance until they died. She educated Albert about the Talismans and Airidans in order for his to take care of them and so she would not meet the same fate as her husband. When Albert reached the age of 18, he was officially made the Guardian of the Airidans and the Talismans were passed down onto him. Albert rarely used the Talismans but when he did he used them for good and helped others; he also had a good relationship with the Airidans. In 1960, Albert married Gladys Truman, whom he moved into his parents' old house with after marriage. The couple had four children: Nathaniel Albert in 1963, Edmund Arthur in 1971 and their twin daughters Nevaeh Patience and Noelle Constance in 1973. Celia was in her late 70s by the time all her grandchildren were born, and later moved in with Albert and Gladys to be with family and to have better care, meanwhile Albert prepared his eldest son and child Nathaniel for becoming the next guardian of the Talismans as he was beginning to fall ill like his father, however it was because he had cancer and could not treat it. Albert passed away in 1980 at the age of , and Nathaniel inherited the Talismans at age of 17. Celia continued to live with the family to support them, and she developed a special bond between her and her granddaughter Nevaeh, who she gave her pendant to when she was dying, explaining how she wanted it to become a Talisman like all the others but didn't know how to; Celia died in 1988 at the age of 90, and Nevaeh took onto wearing her pendant everyday.

During the 70s and 80s, Nathaniel used the Dragon Talisman to become Asgorath, the Hero of Strength, and became part of the secret service serving as a top agent - only senior members of the team knew his superhero identity, along with his brother Edmund, as he worked with Asgorath as a sidekick behind screens, helping to locate crimes and mafia bosses etc. As well as this, Nathaniel decided to have another sidekick, working alongside him as a hero, in which he anonymously chose Farah Marsten, an intern at the agency whom he thought had pure knowledge and talent; she then became Neige Liberty with the Arctic Wolf Talisman, the Hero of Freedom, and they became an incredibly successful duo, known to the world and brought attention to millions of people. As well as this, Nathaniel and Farah secretly revealed themselves to each other, and had a secret romance, which led to their engagement and marriage in 2000, and they had their only child, Oliver Nathaniel, on 20th April 2004. After Oliver's birth, Farah gave up being Neige Liberty in order to be a mother, and Nathaniel continued to be Asgorath but only on secret missions the public were never informed on.

#### Additional Information

Nevaeh was the first to get married out of all the siblings - she married Kevin Weatherford in 1993, and had three children: Celia Destiny in 1994, Roseanne Jubilee in 2002 and Joseph Albert in 2005. Noelle was next - she married James Cooper in 1997 and also had three children: Marigold Charity in 1997, George James in 2001 and Sylvia Jeanette in 2006. Edmund married Clarice Stevenson in 2001, and they had five children: Darla Clarice on 18th June 2002, Alisande 'Sandy' Lucy on 6th May 2004, Kane Edmund in 2011, Oscar Arthur in 2014 and Delilah Rose in 2015. Clarice also used Darla, as her eldest, to try and take the Talismans for her to reclaim them as she knew the family were in hold of them and had also married Edmund just so she should get them back.

### Modern Ancestry

The modern ancestry is that all the family members except Nathaniel (excluding Albert, George and the Leicesters) are alive. Nathaniel was killed in a helicopter crash in October 2020 during a secret mission. Later in the book finale Pixiebell uses Nature's Timeline to send Bahamut back in time to see his father to help defeat Mooroopna, where he speaks to him, as Asgorath, one last time, before leaving as the helicopter crashes.

## Trivia

* Sandy's full name was going to be Sandy, but was changed to Alisande.
* Sandy was not originally related to Oliver or Darla, but this was changed to add more lore to the book series.
* Sandy's hero name was originally Parrot Liberty, but this was changed as the Parrot Talisman was the Talisman of Wisdom, and the Arctic Wolf Talisman was made Talisman of Freedom.
	+ Parrot Liberty also had a different concept design - At first she had normal blue eyes and her costume had yellow forearms and shoulders, and her cape was fully blue, white and red. This was then changed to a design similar to Acanthis', except the cape was still the same and her hair was down.