Andromeda

**Family** | Perseus (husband)
Kassiopeia (mother)

**Andromeda, Princess of Ethiopia** was the victim in A Replicated Quest (Case #16 of Graecita).

## Profile

Andromeda is the late 26-year-old princess of Ethiopia and wife of Perseus, who has black hair, black eyes and dark freckled skin. She wears a white, strapless African dress with gold and blue designs, matched with a golden tiara with a snake made out of blue gemstones and golden-goat necklace. She also wears a pair of Egyptian earrings, a golden bracelet and black elbow-pads.

## Murder details

In order to make it to the island quickly, Natalie decided to dive into the water with Mia holding on her waist. Natalie tried to start a conversation with Mia, but the latter wouldn’t respond and when Natalie decided to check on her, she was horrified when she noticed Mia’s face was going white. Natalie rose quickly to the surface where Mia started coughing water as Natalie was apologizing to her for being inconsiderate. After Mia was done coughing, she noticed a red trail on the water and pointed it out to Natalie who swam them both toward the source of the blood. They were horrified to see a dead woman tied up to a rock with half her body eaten off by what’s presumably is a sea monster. At first Natalie and Mia mistook the woman as Rozetta Pierre but soon they learned that it’s actually Andromeda, Princess of Ethiopia.

## Killer and motives

After finding all the clues they needed, they went to confront Kassiopeia for murdering her own daughter. This revelation made Natalie’s hairs curl as she could not believe anyone could murder their own child. Kassiopeia tried to deny comitting the murder, claiming she would never hurt her dearest daughter but when presented the evidence, she cried claiming it was either her or Andromeda. When questioned about what she meant, Kassiopeia revealed that many centuries ago, she had once boasted how Andromeda was more beautiful than the nereids, which of course angered the nymph who begged the god Poseidon to punish Kassiopeia and her beautiful daughter. Because of that Poseidon flooded Ethiopa and sent the monster Cetus to taunt their kingdom, only agreeing to make him go away if they sacrificed Andromeda. Andromeda agreed to being sacrificed, but luckily to her Perseus passed by and saved the princess and the kingdom by killing the monster and too her as his wife. Kassiopeia thought everything would be fine from now on, but instead the nereids she insulted kept dwelling in her nightmares which taunted her with after her resurrection. Kassiopeia tried to brush them off, but they started scaring her and she feared something bad might actually happen to her and when she spotted Cetus again following them as they sail to *Sarpedon*, she panicked. This when Kassiopeia figured out that Poseidon wanted her to Andromeda and as much as she didn’t want to do it, she went on a walk with her daughter and when she was not looking, she knocked her out and tied her up to a rock on the sea. It didn’t take long for Cetus to emerge and chop off half of Andromeda’s body with his teeth. Natalie and Mia took Kassiopeia to Perseus who was furious at his mother-in-law but did not have the heart to kill her, so instead he decided to exile her from her own kingdom, by leaving her in *Sarpedon* with the gorgons once he is done with killing Medusa.

## Case appearances

* A Replicated Quest (Case #16 of Graecita).

## Trivia

* Andromeda is a real-life figure in Greek Mythology.

## Gallery

Perseus, Andromeda’s husband.Kassiopeia, Andromeda’s mother and killer.