Andrea "Andie" Grey

Basics:

Face Claim: Anne Hathaway

Name: Andrea "Andie" Elzabeth Grey

Age: 34

Gender: Female

Species: Blood Witch

Height: 5'7

Fashion: Overly tired Mom. Andie constantly wears oversized sweaters, jeans, t-shirts, and sweatpants. Only really bothering to dress up (and put a bra on for that matter) whenever she has to leave the house. Her hair is in a constant state of bed head that's merely been pulled up into a messy bun or ponytail. She cut her hair short after her son was born because she was tired of him yanking on her hair, and it's only just now hits to about her shoulders. She wears large glasses mostly whenever she's reading something, at her computer, or when she has drive.

Physical Description: Andie is tall and slim, takes great pride in managing to keep her baby weight off. She looks like she's in a constant state of exhaustion from dealing with her kids and staying up late to work. She's lucky if she gets six-seven hours of sleep. She has dark brown hair and large brown eyes. Full lips and a beaming smile. She's a beautiful woman and sometimes forgets it. She has porcelain skin and laugh lines in the corners of her eyes. Very faintly, if you manage to get her in a swimsuit, she has silvery scars on her lower stomach and hips from the stretch marks she received during her pregnancies.

On the outer part of her left forearm is a four-inch scar she received right out of high school after tripping and hitting her arm on a sharp piece of rock while out on a hike. On her right shoulder blade she has a small tattoo of a fox with two kits. On her left ring finger she has a matching Celtic knot of what her husband has on his ring finger. She still wears her wedding ring over it sometimes. 



-Personality-

Description:
Andie is a quiet woman normally, with a certain intelligence about her. She’d rather stick to herself and her family, just because she's wary of people she doesn't know. She speaks in a calm, soft voice, and is polite and friendly when the situation calls for it. When she is spoken too, she's rather open with her opinions when you're willing to listen. When she's with her husband it's a completely different story and is like she's possessed by a different woman altogether. She's loud, usually laughing, or firing off some sort of comeback at him. Conor challenges her, as well as pushes her buttons, in a way most people don't. Bringing out her adventurous streak, and the "true" Andie.

Andie is an incredibly intelligent woman who is both passionate and quite the silent force to be reckoned with. She's an incredibly hard worker and made sure she didn't have to rely on her parents when she had her daughter at such a young age. Kit was her responsibility and she was going to own up to the consequences. Having to grow up fast, gave her a new appreciation for her mom, as well as respect for hard work. She is first and foremost a protector and will do whatever she needs to defend her family from her father. She's a very competent witch and has great confidence in her abilities to keep her family safe. Even if she has to make her own sacrifices, she loves them all fiercely.

Given who her father is, Andie couldn't afford to be timid and did what had to be done in order to keep him happy. Suffering through his emotional abuse she did her best to protect her sister. Forcing herself to be this shell of a woman that was "perfect" in every way except for whenever she was around her sister or Conor. Andie has had to do somethings she's not proud of, namely turning a blind eye to the business her father is involved in and what he dragged her husband into. She hates him for it but did what was needed to keep her children unaware of what was going on, as well as helping Conor and being his support and whatever he needed her to be.

Habits/Hobbies:
Sticks her tongue out when she's in deep concentration. Sits on her butt and brings her legs up to her chest while she's hunched over while writing a good part in her book. Leaves sticky notes with ideas or parts of her books EVERYWHERE as well as in her notebooks so she doesn't forget something while chasing around her kids. Has a bad habit of forgetting about the need to sleep and will write all night if Conor lets her. She loves to sing when she does housework and used to sing her kids to sleep when they were little. Enjoys a good book, but has the bad habit of critiquing it and going on small tangents about how she'd make it better. Likes to write Conor little notes in their bathroom. Leaves a bowl of water out near the dog door on new moons for Kit and Conor. Loves the ocean, and has a bad habit of getting lost in Pinterest building her "sea vacation house".



History:

Andie was born the oldest daughter to a powerful witch family based out of Maine. Her father, David, is the leader of a giant Coven. Growing up, she was subjugated to emotional abuse from her father. Having to watch him abuse her mother and sister. Andie did her best to try and be perfect so it wouldn't give him a reason to be abusive, but it was difficult, and she often tried to direct his anger towards her to protect her sister Isolde. It didn't take long for Andie to realize her father was a bad man. Traveling with the jewelry business, they were rather wealthy, and aside from wanting a real father, she was wanting for nothing. That is...until she graduated high school.

Going on a hike one summer day she went into an area she didn't normally hike in and found a fox one day. It was a beautiful creature, surprisingly big, and she ended up watching it for a while before it had darted off on its own. She followed after it, straying from the path when she ended up tripping and falling. Cutting her forearm on a sharp piece of rock, she met another hiker around her age who stumbled upon her and helped tend to her arm and get her to the E.R. His name was Conor Grey, and Andie instantly took a liking to him. She thanked him for his help and the two had parted ways until they came across each other on the same hiking trail. Again...and again...and again. They talked mostly, Andie confessing her dad was not the greatest person and that she actually wanted to be a writer but her dad didn't approve. Conor was on a road trip from Oregon and had plans on going to school to be in law enforcement. The two certainly grew close, and she kept Conor her dirty little secret from her family, save for her sister for a while. 

One day where she was supposed to meet Conor for a late afternoon hike, she came across that same large red fox, only it hadn't noticed her. She followed it for a bit until it stopped and then watched with mild intrigue and horror as it shifted from a fox into Conor himself. She was shocked at first, one because she realized he was a werefox, and two, he was buck ass naked and standing right in front of her. She reacted better then he thought she would, and after some pants were put on, she reveled that she was a witch and that his secret was safe with her. With the big secrets out of the way, Conor and Andie's relationship took a different turn. Becoming far more intimate with one another and getting to the point the two were nearly inseparable. Eventually her father found out about them, and forbid Andie from ever seeing Conor again as he was not of witch blood. Her father seeing him as an inferior race. Andie did her first rebellious thing she'd ever done then, and didn't do as her father asked. She continued to see Conor and soon quickly realized she was pregnant. After breaking that to her parents, her father was enraged. Wanting Andie to have an abortion, and to leave Conor for once and for all, but she refused. Especially when Conor made it clear he wasn't going anywhere and told her he was pretty damn sure she was his mate. A flood of emotions flooded Andie, knowing she loved Conor as well, but didn't want her father to do anything that could harm him. Her next rebellious thing, and probably either the stupidest or smartest thing she'd ever decided to do happened. 

After making sure Conor understood the possible consequence and danger of what she wanted to do, and it was something he gave his full consent too, Andie did a forbidden spell that would make it so if anything happened to Conor, she'd essentially be useless to her father. Infuriated with her, her father had no choice but to accept Conor into the coven. Turning him into his very own enforcer. Conor and Andie were married shortly after and then brought their daughter, Caitriona, or Kit as Conor called her, into the world. Andie did her best to keep Kit unaware of what her grandfather and father did. Wanting to keep her innocent for as long as she could. It was difficult for her to watch Kit go through the dangerous trials to test if she had magic that David put her through. When it was revealed Kit had taken after Conor and was a werefox, Andie couldn't help but sigh in her relief, but also feel for her daughter as her grandfather wanted nothing to do with her. She was thankful to her sister Isolde however, who loved Kit almost as much as Andie did. Her mother tried to be involved as much as she could as well. 

Andie was forced to do somethings she didn't want to do, but to protect her family she did what was asked. Years went on, until Andie found out she was pregnant for a second time. After telling Conor, a few days later he was given a job that that he refused to do. They were in danger, from the dark things her father did with the coven, and they were forced to leave. Only Isolde knew about Andie's pregnancy, and had given her sister a necklace for them to stay in contact with. Knowing they were very likely to never see each other again, as Andie would have to put an anti tracking spell on them. They left with the bare essentials. Only what they really needed, and it nearly destroyed Andie to have to put Kit through it, but they had no choice. Nine months later they welcomed their son, Elijah into the world, and for the last three years the Grey's have been moving around. Andie spending half her time homeschooling Kit and writing her book, while working on the anti tracking spell. 

With the spell finally complete, and feeling like they can finally settle down without fear of moving again, Conor has taken his family to his home town of Xander's Cross for them to hopefully stay. 

Family/Friends:
Conor Grey - Husband
Caitriona "Kit" Grey - Daughter (16)
Elijah Lucien Grey - Son (3)

@isolde - Sister
David Thornton - Father
Caitriona Thornton - Mother
@lucien - Brother-in-law

Neighborhood: Gardenview


Secret: Andie made her husband Conor Grey her familiar in order to save him from any harm her father might have caused him during the time she found out she was pregnant with her daughter. While having a familiar is practically an expectation in the Coven of the Thorn, it is forbidden to make any human or other sentient creature a familiar. The spell Andie cast to make Conor her familiar tied their two souls together. If it wasn’t for the fact Conor claimed her as his mate and the fact she truly loved him, the spell might have gone a more dangerous turn. In return for a boost in magical power and Conors assistance, the spell did have its consequences. Literally soul mates, Andie and Conor can sense each other’s emotions and feel each other’s pain, albeit a slightly fainter version. The closer they are to one another the stronger the sense is. If the two are separated over a long distance and depending on how long they’ve been apart, It literally feels like a piece of their soul is missing, not only do they miss one another but there is an ache that will get worse and worse until they’re together again. Separation anxiety is an all time high so to speak. If anything happens to Andie that is fatal, Conor and her both die. If anything fatally happens to Conor, there is a 50/50 chance Andie will die or she will become essentially a empty shell with no soul. She’d lose a great deal of magic energy she’d never be able to recover from, rendering her essentially useless.