Andromeda

> "They made me lose my faith in humanity. I never knew creatures so horrible could exist."
>
> ~Andromeda to **Candice Distler**, referring to **Darkstar**

## Summary

**Andromeda** is one of the two Main Protagonists of *Geminae Errantium*.

## History

Little is known of Andromeda's past, aside from that her mother was a Royal Socqreath and her father was a human. At some point, the Socqreath Homeworld was destroyed, and she was sent to Earth to survive.

Most of her past can be surmised from the first Volume, which is meant to be a backstory for both her and **Jackson Holland**. There, she is in **Weepmire** (A small village) and brought to an orphanage by **Amaya Kiyomasu** after some amount of time where she had been ridiculed.

She meets a number of fellow orphans, including **Tsunoi Eizan**, who seems to become her friend. When presented with the Trolley Problem, Andromeda chose to run over all of the dolls and action figures, to Kiyomasu's amusement and Tsunoi's suspicion. She then cradles one of the dolls while crying.

Later, Andromeda falls into a body of water while walking through Weepmire. Before she can drown, she is saved by Jack, and the two become friends.

Shortly afterwards, Darkstar attacks Weepmire with a single soldier, one that Jack and Kiyomasu barely defeat. Afterwards, Jack, Andromeda, Jack's mother, Tsunoi and Kiyomasu are taken to the Sciarhiel Capital, where they meet **King Phillip Rosenstock**, Jack's father, and the Royal Guard.

As they stay at the castle, it is attacked by Tsunoi from the inside, Tsunoi nearly killing Jack as Andromeda, awakening her Psychic Weapons, nearly kills Tsunoi in return. Andromeda is later seen crying, worried deeply about Jack, as she is taken to learn about her powers.

Shortly after, Darkstar attacks, Andromeda forced to let herself be captured by them when their leader, **Allen Davidson**, offers to heal Jack's wounds if she does so.

A few years later, Andromeda manages to escape, killing a few of Darkstar's prisoners and many of Darkstar's guards as she does so. She is sniped by one of the guards, and sent plummeting into the ocean below.

## Personality

Andromeda is a jaded, morose and largely antisocial individual, quick to anger and prone to using sheer violence to solve every last one of her problems. She seems to only care about Jack and herself, and she is shown not only to be fine with killing innocent civilians, but actively targeting anyone who hits on her, brutalizing them.

As the story progresses, Andromeda slowly grows out of this extremely horrifying behavior, becoming more social and less violent, though this at times breaks. She still seems to value Jack over all else, but does now care about her friends, as shown best when she goes to comfort Candice, as Candice did for her a while ago, without a fight between them ensuing.

## Appearance

Andromeda is a female of slightly above average height with a very curvaceous and shapely figure, and has light blue skin, blue hair and grey, crown-like horns. She tends to wear a black mesh tank top, a black jacket, black leather pants and boots, and black leather gloves. Later, she wears Huscil armor plates over her boots and lower legs.

## Relationships

**Jackson Holland:** Jack is Andromeda's romantic partner, who she views as the most important person and thing in the world. She loves him to an almost unhealthy degree, seeming early on to *only* care about Jack, with no real regard for anyone or anything else. She slowly grows out of this, loving Jack to a more healthy degree.

**Candice Distler:** Candice is for all intents and purposes Andromeda's best friend, being the first one she opens up to aside from Jack and the first person she actively comforts aside from Jack. Andromeda is often irritated by Candice's more lighthearted approach to things (ex., Candice wearing a Saint Patrick costume on Saint Patrick's Day) but doesn't seem to actively hate her for it. Andromeda was initially more antagonistic towards Candice, best exemplified by her attempting to kill Candice when suspecting her of wanting to kidnap her, but she grows out of this rather quickly.

**Amaya Kiyomasu:** Kiyomasu is technically Andromeda's adoptive father to a degree, though Andromeda seems to care very little for him, and is usually annoyed by him. She seems to have a level of distrust towards him, though this isn't confirmed.

**Sechsgrad:** Though Andromeda doesn't seem to care too much for Sechsgrad, he seems to take an odd interest in her.

## Story

### Darkstar Arc

#### School Sub-Arc

An unspecified amount of time after she escapes Darkstar, Andromeda is seen running from a group of soldiers led by **Richard Robinson**. Jack manages to save her from them with a mostly diplomatic solution, as he takes her to a hospital. There they catch up and strengthen their bond, having grown to love each each other over the years they were forced to be apart, and meet a mailman who was struggling with his job and came to give them a letter that invited them to a school. They wish him and his family luck as Andromeda is then checked out of the hospital.

Jack and Andromeda walk to the school together, continuing to talk, as they then come across Candice and **Kasper Maibaum**, Candice's boyfriend. They start to forge a friendship as Candice notes that she likes Andromeda's horns, the same kind of horns Candice has, something that confuses Andromeda as the four then enter the school and hear **Adriaan van Kooji**'s speech, Andromeda becoming suspicious of the computing teacher, **Asaka Kazuyuki**.

Andromeda and the others then trained against **Fiora Distler** (Candice's mother) and **Bertram Bartrop**, the one who revolutionized light-based technology. They don't do all that well against either, though it's Fiora they especially have immense difficulties against.

Later, they go an a field trip to **Rinnagua**, a hotspot for various deals in that sector of the galaxy. She and Candice reject a man's creepy attempted advances towards them as Andromeda and Jack not much later end up encountering **Hask'Torba**, who explains his goals and species to the two as they then engage him in combat. He quickly outclasses them, but chooses to escape anyways, as they follow him to a casino and battle him there. However, before they can do much more, Hask is bisected and left for dead by **Sanjuro Akibara**, a member of the **Galactic Defense Force**. They then all return to New Earth.

Later, the group decide to go to Kasper's mansion, as Candice goes to comfort Andromeda. However, Andromeda suspects Candice of actually being there to capture her, something Candice reluctantly confirms. Before she can explain further, Andromeda suddenly attacks her, cutting her arm off as a brief battle ensues. Andromeda emerges the victor, and almost kills Candice, but is stopped by **Copernicus**' Royal Guard as she and Candice are taken back to Copernicus' castle.

Andromeda is then rescued by Jack, and the two try to escape, ending up coming face to face with Copernicus, who briefly exposits a bit of lore surrounding the Socqreath before easily quashing Andromeda's attacks when she tries to attack them. Candice pleas for Copernicus to let her live, and Copernicus, being Candice's father, reluctantly agrees, letting them all go.

Andromeda and the others are present when two transfer students, **Shunsuke Vaquero** and **Indra**, enter the school, Indra quickly distancing himself from everyone while Shunsuke makes friends with the group. They train against Fiora for a bit before getting a distress signal from **Rachel De Villepin**, **Grimwald De Villepin**'s daughter, that she was being attacked by Darkstar.

Andromeda is present when **Maxwell de Fidellis** attacks the school. They are barely able to hold him off long enough for Kooji to send a holographic missile at Max with his pad, destroying him.

Later, Andromeda and the rest go to meet **Romuald Compere**, who Andromeda becomes angry towards, leading to her and Jack getting beaten up by Romuald. They wake up in a hospital as Jack then ends up confronting **Stefano de Fidellis**, Max's brother, who nearly kills Jack before Andromeda saves him and kills Stefano. They are then confronted by Sanjuro, who starts mocking Andromeda as he attacks her, only being driven off by Kiyomasu, who Andromeda doesn't seem to much appreciate for saving her. He then tells her that it was Kazuyuki that they were really looking for.

Andromeda goes to confront Kasper about this, telling him about Kazuyuki's crimes, Kasper retorting that Kazuyuki was dead. Andromeda then tries to kill Kasper, who runs away and is hospitalized. Candice, furious at Andromeda and concerned for Kasper, runs away too. Andromeda finds her fighting **Cygnus**, as she, Jack and Shunsuke join in, barely defeating him with Kiyomasu's help. She and the others rest for the remainder of the Arc.

#### Shazarak Sub-Arc

Andromeda and Jack watch the news, learning of Kazuyuki's treachery and the deaths of Kooji and Fiora. They worry about Candice, Kasper and Bertram, before hearing screaming outside and going out to see **Erzomaur**, who battles with them for a little while before defeating them both and capturing them, taking them to the **Black Earl**, where they are taken to a cell by Shazarak.

The two then meet **Feralaxadeg**, **Rato** and **Scrap**, who seem to have given up on all hope of escaping the Black Earl, and beg the two of them to do the same. They refuse, and begin to train for a while, before Andromeda manages to break down the wall and hug Jack. They then go on to start a desperate escape from the Shazarak, dealing with a number of them as they go.

The two are then encountered again by Feralaxadeg, who reveals his plan to blow up the ship, as he is cut down by **Proto**, who easily defeats both Andromeda and Jack but is briefly held back by Rato, long enough for Andromeda, Jack and Scrap to escape the Black Earl, as it explodes violently, killing almost everyone inside.

#### Vs. The Wicked Prodigy

Andromeda finds Jack near-death after a battle with the mysterious **Wicked Prodigy**, and takes him to a hospital where the matter is discussed among the heroes. During the discussion, however, Jack, having been somewhat healed, escapes to fight the Prodigy again. Andromeda follows after him and saves him during a second battle with the Prodigy, who, for reasons unknown, retreats.

## Powers and Abilities

**Socqreath Physiology**: Andromeda is a Socqreath, a humanoid class alien species with the ability to produce offspring with any other humanoid class alien species, and ensure the Socqreath gene is dominant. Socqreath can also interface with Psychic Aura, which is compared to the Cosmic Microwave Background and to Ether. Socqreath also have high speed regeneration.

* **Psychic Weapons**: All Socqreath can manifest Psychic Weapons, which are usually only visible as small ripples to humans and as transparent glowing orange shapes to Socqreath. Andromeda's Psychic Weapons are crude hands, which she uses to catch projectiles and twist opponents around. The claws of the Psychic Wepaons also can cut. Socqreath can make their Psychic Weapons stronger and access higher percentages, as well as learn abilities related to the Psychic Weapons. Andromeda has not displayed any abilities beside standard. Andromeda can use her Psychic Weapons to boost herself into the air.
	+ **Immense Strength**: Andromeda's Psychic Weapons can protect her from a missile and rip/cut apart Shazarak, as well as lift a ladder large enough to hit the Wicked Prodigy, who at the time was flying in the air.

**Incredible Durability**: Andromeda is able to survive and at times get back up from hits capable of toppling buildings.

**Incredible Speed**: Andromeda is able to react to characters capable of easily dodging, blocking and catching bullets, and her Psychic Weapons, like all Socqreath's...are made of light.

## Equipment

**Sword:** Andromeda has at times used a sword.

**Gun:** Andromeda has at times used a gun.

## Affect

Andromeda is one of the Main Protagonists of the series, and thus is one of the main focuses. She is part of most of the major conflicts of the story and has a number of allies and enemies. She doesn't seem to currently have an archnemesis.

## References

### Number of Chapter References:

270

All Volumes.

## Trivia

1. Andromeda and to a lesser extent the Socqreath in general are visually inspired by **Acxa** from *Voltron: Legendary Defender*. The rest of her inspiration is from **Lucy** from *Elfen Lied*.
	1. Unlike Lucy, who arguably stays a villain from start to finish, Andromeda genuinely and clearly develops into at least an antihero over the course of the story.
	2. Despite Andromeda herself taking large inspiration from Lucy, most of the Socqreath actually take more inspiration from the **Sternritter**, the main villain group of *BLEACH*'s *Thousand Year Blood War Arc*.
2. Andromeda is also the name of a famous princess from Greek mythology, who was captured by a monster named CetUs before being rescued.
	1. The Socqreath royals in the Prologue are named **Cepheus** and **Cassiopeia**, who share names with the parents of the Greek Andromeda.
		1. Andromeda is heavily implied to be the daughter of Cassiopeia, which would make their only known son, **Atlas**, Andromeda's older brother. It is currently unknown whether or not Atlas survived, as Andromeda is implied to be the only member of her family that survived the destruction of the Socqreath Homeworld, aside from her biological human father who was killed much later by Kazuyuki for unspecified reasons.
	2. The name was also chosen to reference the **Andromeda Galaxy**, a real galaxy that will collide with the **Milky Way Galaxy** in 5 billion years.
	3. Andromeda's family's surname is unknown.