Andrea Kneesone

Andrea Kneeson is a member of the Azure Stars guild, being the fifth person to join alongside Lediga. She belongs to the thief class, specialising in stealing equipment, locating loot and immobilising enemies. She was once a normal village girl living near Ariogow, but her village was destroyed and family killed in a bandit raid, after which she lead the surviving children to the streets of Ariogow.

## Appearance

Andrea is short, petite and looks quite young for her age, Vector mistaking her for a "little girl" at first. Her build is petite with a flat chest, of which she is quite insecure, getting angry at anyone for poking fun at it. She has light brown hair and light brown eyes; common for Terrasians. Her hair is cut at shoulder-length, and she sports bangs as well, though generally doesn't really style her hair.

Dressing in a high-cut shirt and short pants, Sean suspected it was to aid mobility due to her class being thief, but it is a reminder to herself of her past living in the streets of Ariogow with nothing better to wear. She doesn't wear any protective gear besides gloves, but generally has a thin rope attached to her belt.

## Personality

A ‘cutesy’ girl, she is someone that can quickly get on someone’s nerves. She has a playful, ‘bouncy’ and giddy personality and likes to get involved in other people's’ business quite often. Seemingly an airhead, she is actually very clever and can outfox pretty much anyone she wants, and coupled with her extreme luck, she has used this gift to fool many people.

Similar to Sean, she too is quite lazy most of the time and only became an adventurer thanks to Lediga. Therefore she too prefers to avoid quests whenever possible. However, once she gets into the mood, there’s hardly anything that can stop her, for she possesses greater skills than appears on the surface. Having lived a good portion of her life in the slums as a thief, she has seen the worst in humans, and thus doesn’t really trust anyone other than Lediga.

She is also well-acquainted to all sorts of crimes and has been shown to sometimes enjoy killing, though she is not a bad person by any means and will not kill anyone she deems ‘good’. She has an incredible hatred for nobles and bandits, and was shown when she seemed to enjoy killing the bandits in Arc 5. Coupled with all that, she is quite outgoing yet prefers not to talk much about herself, leading to hardly anyone in the guild knowing anything about her.

Despite all of this, Andrea is remarkably selfless as shown with her protective attitude towards the children in Ariogow's slums and the ones from her village. She blamed herself for what happened to them as well has holding survivor's guilt for being the only member of her family to live. Yet, she looked after them till the end and was always willing to lay down her life for them. In spite of all this, thanks to Lediga she was able to move on, becoming an adventurer so she could save more kids like those.

She likes **fish, cooking** and **gossip.**

Her dislikes are **nobles** and

## Plot

### Arc 1

Andrea is first encountered in **Chapter 1**, she comments on the fact that Lediga is helping newbies again. She remains silent the rest of the time

She is seen again in **Chapter 2**, following Lediga when he proposes to Sean and Nat to come with them on their quest. During the battle of the goblin camp she stays mostly behind, as a Thief she is not built for combat, but nonetheless when the situation gets dire she makes good use of Bind to restrain goblins and bait some others away to give Nat some space.

Cookie only returns from he taunt in **Chapter 3** well after the forest fire and the flood where she attempts to Bind Finrod and attack Vector, seeing them both as enemies after the damage they dealt to the forest. After finally being convinced that they aren't, they all return to the city where Finrod extends his invitation to join the guild. However, Cookie is not impressed and flat out denies, stating the damage done to the forest. Finrod is points out her lack of concern for Lediga, Cookie replies that Lediga is only a temporary party member and Finrod makes a unsavoury comment about Cookie being a "party-jumper". She plans to attack Finrod but his aura makes her chose otherwise, Cookie finally figures out Finrod's true identity, or assumes she does, but doesn't reveal it, instead suddenly changing attitude and agreeing to join. When they mention wanting to clean the old castle and use it as a base Cookie mentions that she knows an Exorcist.

In **Chapter 4**, Finrod opens by saying that he is surprised to hear she knows an exorcist only for Cookie to correct herself saying she thinks it shouldn't be that hard to find. Drinks are served and Vector gets offended that Cookie is served alcohol, for which the latter almost chokes the life out of him in outrage. Once she lets Vector go, some of the party heads for the church while Nat and Cookie stay behind.

During **Chapter 5**, Cookie is scouting the castle and after the battle she reports that she didn't sense anything. Luuk states otherwise and Finrod decides they'll all sleep in there while the Exorcist clears out the castle.

In **Chapter 6**, Nat and Sean see Cookie again in the main hall, with everybody else. With the panic settling, Cookie decides she wants to get help from Finrod by opening the window but as soon as she does a horde of bats swirl in, during the rest of the battle Cookie is terrified and unable to do anything. During Area Cleanse ritual, Cookie runs around casting Bind on zombies.

Cookie's only appearance in the **Epilogue** is a quick bicker with Sean about who gets to seat on the couch.

## Equipment

**Leather gloves**

**Thin, steel rope**

**Twin steel daggers**

## Abilities

At first, it seemed like Andrea was simply an average thief with low combat abilities, but she has proven otherwise over time. Despite average strength and slightly above average endurance, her high agility and maxed out luck allow her to weave around her opponents, trapping and tricking them into making mistakes. She is also adept at fighting with a dagger, shown to take out bandits with incredible ease. Her primary role in the guild is as "disabling-support", due to her Thief abilities allowing her to disable opponents and remove them from a fight, but she can be quite good in one-on-one fights as well.

**Steal**

**Bind**

**Shadow Walk**

**Detect Treasure**

**Soundless Step**

**Basic Assassination Weaponry Control:** Level 8

**Basic Poison Techniques:** Level 7

## Trivia

* All the main characters represent a part of humanity, Andrea represents selflessness.
* A primary theme of the story is the contrast between Andrea and Findaris despite going through similar ordeals.
* According to the author, Andrea's personality is an **ESFJ-A,** on the **Myers–Briggs Personality Type Scale.**