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Vital Information
Andromeda Selwyn is a Pure-Blood witch of Puerto Rican, New Zealander, and English descent. She is the eldest daughter of Orfeus Selwyn and Thelxinoë Urquart.

Life Before ...
"It wasn't me. It was the spirits."

- Andromeda Selwyn

"I will not play these games with you anymore. This is over!"

- Cassia Selwyn

Andromeda grew up much like her father had. She was born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire and raised in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire. Her father Ofeus had taken up work in the Shawfield region. Her mother Thelxinoë was ecstatic to leave Peterhead, she frequently grows restless settled in one location. Andromeda's grandparents, Thelxinoë's mother Lauraisia Johnson and Orfeus' father Elphias Selwyn both come from Pure-Blood families. Their families were involved with a then unknown possession cult. Cassia and Orfeus were the first children born of cult members, their marriage was arranged soon after their gender's were confirmed.

Thelxinoë is a unique woman. She was raised as a vegetarian, but during all five of her pregnancies she craved meat, specifically pork. The sight, smell and taste will always remind Thelxinoë of motherhood. Orfeus was the sweetest father-to-be. He treated her as if she were a fragile, and priceless object. Thelxinoë did not want to lose that sense of affection. Over a period of six years Thelxinoë and Ofeus had five children, three of which survived. Thelxinoë suffered emotionally after losing her first two children; Carius (a tragic stillbirth) and Agave (who unfortunately died a neonatal death after only three days of life). Cassia was terrified all through her pregnancies with Creon, Andromeda, and Antigone. She worried she would carry them to term only to lose them, if they survived that long. Cassia clung to her surviving children forming a strong attachment to her middle daughter. From the ages of 7 through 10, Andromeda began to grow apart from her mother. Andromeda was always at her mother's side since the day she was born. Even after Antigone was born Andromeda still wedged her way in.

The separation between her and her mother was internally devastating for Andromeda. Her mother was her closest friend. Andromeda was closer to both her parents than either of her siblings, she felt closer to her mother in her youth, and has grown to favor her father much more.

The Gift
She began seeing spirits when she was six. They gathered in large numbers in public, and then at her home around her little sister Antigone. Sometimes she saw them crowded around her father.

Andromeda frequently witnessed spirits around her mother as well, who claimed she could not see or feel them, which terrified Andromeda. When she saw them literally flee her older brother Creon it made her curious what it was he did that made them run from him. By the age of ten Andromeda already had multiple encounters different ghosts in two different homes. When she was younger the apparitions she saw were beautiful, and frightening. As she grew up seeing the spirits more frequently she began to notice the signs that one was near. Her first use of magic was her ability to keep them away from her family, mostly from her mother and her little sister. These spirits no one else had been able to see or feel Andromeda believed were trying to bring harm to her family, she forced herself to find ways to drive them out of her home.

Her mother and father quickly became fed up with her "bad dreams", they scolded her for endlessly going on about the "nightmares" she had. The wild stories they believed she must have been making up, the lies about spirits that only she could see, for her random disappearances at any time of the day or night. How whenever she came into contact with them she would black out, only to wake up in strange places with no memory of how she got there. Her parents thought Andromeda was acting out for attention. Her father thought he understood why Andromeda would feel ignored, he had an older sister, and at one point in his life he felt the same way. He wished that his daughter was not so dramatic about her place in the family.

After her mother and father spoke with each of their parents about the problems they were having with Andromeda, her grandparents had something special sent to their granddaughter. a 'gift'. Andromeda was give a necklace with a Glowing Gem capable of releasing the spirit in possession of her body. Andromeda no longer blacked out when she made contact with a spirit, she was instead trapped. After being released for the first time since receiving her grandparents 'gift' she ran home, took off the necklace and tossed it in a drawer. Andromeda never wanted to wear that necklace again, the feeling of being a passenger in her own body was terrible. All she wanted to do was forget. She was not her usual self for days after the fact. Once she felt the presence of another spirit in the house, that familiar chill under her skin, she put the necklace back on, and promised to never take it off.

Ravenclaw
As parents Thelxinoë and Orfeus made the decision to force their children to attend Beauxbâtons. Creon graduated in 2025, Antigone began her first year in 2026. Andromeda attended as well, until her fourth year. Apparently Andromeda has "a behavioral problem" beloved to stem from issues in her home-life. Her parents remained uninformed due to Andromeda's constant interfering, her ingenious use of strangers, and magic to fill the role of parental units. By Andromeda's own admission she never felt her parents needed to be involved because she had not done anything wrong. She served all of her punishments for her disruption with no complaints. While negative reinforcement did not prevent her from making the same choices, nevertheless she restrained herself, in class at least. Unfortunately Andromeda was caught over four dozen times pulling pranks on students, and faculty alike. She was even caught in a compromising situation with a fellow student, and ultimately she was expelled because of it.

Andromeda was sorted into Ravenclaw upon her arrival to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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Personality
Andromeda can be an overwhelming personality type, and rather intimidating when she feels the need to be. She thinks that she caters to her bad side, and she feels the same about everyone else in the world. She does not believe in the "benefit of the doubt", and she rarely puts the needs of another person before the wants/needs of herself. The people considered to be her "family" by blood or by choice thus far in life are the only exception. Andromeda is the type of person to hold pure malevolence lying beneath the surface of her smoldering narrowed eyes.

She is not a difficult person to find; she is the girl in the Transfiguration Courtyard tying nooses in rope, or at the West Tower Battlements sharpening her potions knife.

Appearance
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Andromeda has a heart shaped face, and dark, brown black hair, it is curly but she often straightens it. She has her father's rich, glowing light brown skin, and her mother's deep, dark brown eyes. She thinks her eyes are too far apart, but most people say they are in proportion to the rest of her face. She has thin lips, and yet she is still able to form the most beautiful smile, or a serious pout when she wants to.

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