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About Andromeda.

Hero: The Bull
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Hero Name: Andromeda
Real Name Angelica Freeman / τ-34
Abilities: Unstoppable Telekinetic Might.

Look: Woman - Black - Fragile Hands - close-fitting clothing, simple costume.

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Labels
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Danger : 3
Freak : 1
Savior : -1
Superior : 1
Mundane : -1
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Influence
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Have Starting Influence on: Empyrean

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Team Moves
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List your team moves
When Andromeda shares a triumphant celebration with someone, make them her love or rival immediately to mark potential. If they are already her love or rival, take Influence over them and mark potential.

When Andromeda shares a vulnerability or weakness with someone, give them Influence and hold 2. Spend that hold to help them as if it were Team in the pool
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Advancement
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Write down any current advancements.

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Backstory
How did you first reveal your genius to your friends or family? By demonstrating that I'd taught myself magic.

Why did you decide to use your intellect for the benefit of others? Because it's b!$!!&~@ that all the good secrets are secret! Look, I know now that I shouldn't tell everyone **everything**, but it's still the best path.

What misfire taught you some sense of humility or responsibility? Making magical secrets Too Available.

Who helped you realize you need other people? I constantly need other people. I'm smart as hell but I only have two hands.

Why do you care about the team? They're so freaking interesting!

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*Any Other Abilities Unique to your Playbook

Bull Moves

In a china shop: When Andromeda directly engages a threat, she can cause significant collateral damage to her environment to choose an additional option. Even on a miss.

Physics? What physics?: When Andromeda unleashes her powers to barrel through an insurmountable barrier, roll +Danger instead of +Freak

Defender When Andromeda leaps to defend her Love or Rival in battle, roll +Danger instead of +Savior to defend them.

Been Reading the Files: : Andromeda's learned about the superhuman world through her handlers' resources and databases. When she first encounters an important superpowered phenomenon (my call), roll + Superior.

On a hit, tell the team one important detail you’ve learned from your studies. The GM will tell you what, if anything, seems different
from what you remember.
On a 10+, ask the GM a follow-up question; they will answer it honestly.
On a miss, the situation is well outside your base of knowledge; the GM will tell you why

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Back through 27 in the 'create a Yearbook' project

How about you drop that shield for a night and get out on the dance floor?" One hand snaps its fingers while the other gives Andromeda's shoulders a polite push in the direction of the dancers. She feels air on her exposed shoulders and arms, and realizes that her sheath -- even her need to tightly restrain her power -- is gone!

She spots Johnny in a loose paisley-print shirt and a brown vest grooving alongside other students, while she also sees the recently freed Gui.

It's a couple panicked breaths before Andromeda can even respond. "For... for how long?"

"Oh, right, time sequentialists. Here." A vintage wristwatch appears on Andromeda, set to a little after four in the morning.

"4:20? Does it have to specifically be that time?" Axolotl sighs deeply in disappointment and disappears from sight again. Andromeda spares a glance at the paradox pile, but her gaze doesn't stick, drifting nervously back to Gui. I can't really help with that anyways, right?

***

Andromeda, still in most of her Diana Ross/Vanna White sequined special, walks right up to Gui, but stops, her mouth hanging open as she realizes she has no idea what to say. I should have rehearsed this first like with Johnny "Gui, I... Axolotl stopped my powers. For tonight. Just tonight?"

Gui remains silent for a bit. "You know dis could be e misteke, right?" He says, getting to his feet, but offering her his hand. "I..." He starts, then frowns.

Andromeda tries to smile, misses, her eyes anxious. "I don't know what... We could dance, we could kiss, we could... I don't know- I don't know what... But it has to be tonight."

"You know what? It is not my plece to say what you should or should not do... you got one night and I am not going to spoil it."

Andromeda nods, carefully at first, then again, stronger as she remembers that it's safe. "Okay, and you want to go... You want to go too?" She smiles. [B]"Wait, first, can you tell me a joke? I want to laugh while it's safe too."

"I am not doing you e charity, Angelica." He says, pulling her away from the party. "E joke?... Well, you know I have de memory of an elephant. I remember going to e zoo and seeing an elephant."

She nods expectantly, "And then what happened?"

"Dat was it, but I know not everyone is for de pleasure of simple bad jokes." He shrugs. "It is an acquired teste."

Andromeda stares at Gui until the ticking of her watch stirs her from puzzlement. "I need to talk to Ava. And Jessie. Then I will be ready to go. You can go first if you would rather go alone. It's okay."

"I can wait for you." He says, looking back and craning his neck to find the girls. "I can see Jessie dere, by de punch teble."

"Is Ava there too?" Andromeda asks, her concern ebbing once she finds them. "Good. I will go to them, and then I will return, and then we will go."

***

Andromeda walks up to Ava and Jessie while they dance with her usual purpose and focus, but the small smile that spreads on her face whenever she lets herself bump into someone in the crowd betrays that something is changed.

"Ava, Jessie. An ultradimensional being is currently suppressing my powers." She looks at them expectantly.

Jessie's eyes go wide with immediate concern. "Oh no!"

Ava's eyes widen briefly as well, then puts a hand on Jessie to slow the arachnid controller's rising panic. "Hold on. Is this... a blessing?"

"It's just for tonight, most of tonight. I have a watch." Andromeda explains. "Gui and I are going to go... Go. Soon."

With a gasp, Jessie's hands fly to her mouth. Tiny squeaks escape through her fingers. Ava steps forward and adjusts Andromeda's dress, then runs a finger down her cheek. "Good for you."

Andromeda nods with a bit of a tremble, her eyes tracing the trajectory of Ava's finger. "I wanted to tell you."

Ava beams. "Thank you for sharing. We'll be able to talk all about it later, if you want to, you know, go see him." Jessie just giggles. Ava turns to her. "Any advice for her? After all, you're the only one of us who's had a penis."

Andromeda flinches hard, and immediately looks quizzically down at Jessie's crotch. "Did Axolotl do that? Spiders don't even have penises. Echidnas have four by some definitions."

Jessie blushes furiously, burying her face in her hands. Her giggle turns into a hysterical laugh. "Ava!!"

Ava has to take a moment to recover from her own laughter. "No! Don't you remember when Jessie switched bodies with Archie? It lasted a whole weekend."

Embarrassment burns in a sweep from the tips of Andromeda's ears down past her clavicles. "I am very sorry; I forgot." It sounds familiar though... Chronal divergence? Or forgetfulness when Jessie wasn't important to me? "Was it a... Good penis?" Her face scrunches in anxiety "We do not have to talk about penises."

"Oh my God!" Jessie playfully slaps Ava, then returns to hiding her embarrassment. Ava puts one arm around her then guides her to huddle up with Andromeda. Cheeks still flushed, Jessie doesn't make eye contact. "It was... good, I think. I can't believe you brought that up."

"I don't need to know more about your old pe- I do not require further details. I came because I do not know how long I will be with Gui tonight, and while my powers are safely suppressed I wanted to first..." Why did I waste so much time talking about penises and not thinking about how to ask this?

"Wanted to first what?" Jessie asks. Her body squirms a bit from the previous topic, but her face shows renewed concern.

Andromeda stays looking down at first, but then finds Ava's face. "Tomorrow if I hug you, either of you, there will be pain. I want- I don't want you to have to disable your pain receptors for that. Tonight I'd feel it too."

Ava without hesitation holds her arms out wide, urging her into an embrace. "Of course. Come here, girl."

As soon as Andromeda steps in, Ava hugs her tightly. Her skin is cool and smooth, and her soft hair tickles her neck and shoulders. Jessie turns it into a group hug, joining in by wrapping her arms around the both of them. "I love you guys. I'm so sad that Xai isn't here."

Andromeda fully gives in to the embrace, the fear that she will accidentally crush someone to powder falling away more easily than she'd dreamed; it's even okay that Jessie's there. Even the smell of her friends feels closer, more alive, not deadened by the rasp of her sheath, but thinking about those scents just makes Xaiara feel even more missing.

"Thank you. I was... I was afraid, but this helps. This helps. I wish Xaiara were here too, but I will get her back."

"We know," Ava says with a convincing sniff. "Enjoy this for what it is right now. When she's back, we'll figure out a way to do this again with her."

"Aww, that'll be great." Jessie agrees. She breaks the hug briefly to dab at her eyes. "My mascara's running. Wait. Why do I have mascara on?"

"Just go with it..." Ava says.

Andromeda barks out a quick laugh with a broad smile stretched beneath her glittering eyes. She glances down at her watch. "I should go. I don't know how long... Please tell Shayera? Because I will be home late. I should go."

Ava slowly releases the embrace. Jessie steps back too, sniffing softly.

"Go." Ava hangs on to Andromeda's hand for a moment. "Listen to your heart tonight, but don't do it so much that you get into your own way. Because humans can make simple things complicated." Then Ava winks at her with an encouraging smile.

Jessie does a small quick wave, then ducks forward to whisper a last piece of advice in Andromeda's ear. Andromeda gravely nods.

***

Okay, okay. Bug girl's right: This will be simple; just don't damage his testicles. "We should go," Andromeda says as she returns. "Do you still want to go?"

"I still want to do what you want to do." Gui replies, offering his hand.

She looks at his hand, at his face; Andromeda smiles. "Okay."

***

"How do we begin?" Andromeda asked, performing yet another visual sweep of Gui's dorm despite the lack of dangerous signifiers. "When I was repurposed," she gestures to her eyes, "They did not upload intimate instructions. I did receive a more generalized manual though when I was still going to be an astronaut."

"Dis is far from rocket science." He answers, closing the door behind them. "People have been doing it since ever, with no manuals." Back to her, Gui continues, looking into her eyes. "Stop worrying... we will go with our feelings, ok? If someting feels good, we continue and perhaps do someting more, if it feels wrong, we stop it or change it." Keeping their eyes locked, he puts his hands on her waist, then slides a hand on the small of her back and slowly pushes her closer to him. Gui takes care, though, not to startle Angelica. With no powers, she did feel somewhat frail in his hands.

Instinctively Andromeda tucks her hands away so they don't point towards him, then tries to find somewhere to put them. One ends up resting just above his elbow, the other pressed between their chests. Okay, okay. Here he is. She smiles. "It's okay if you want to use your powers to make me pretty, or if you already are."

Gui can't help but roll his eyes. "Oh shut up..." He says, but does it by himself. His other hand slides along her back until her neck and then he kisses her. Gui starts slowly, not to freak her out, limiting himself to her lips. Then, he presses, trying to goad her tongue into his mouth before doing the same, giving her the illusion that she is in control. Before parting their mouths, he gives her a small bite on her lip.

Andromeda's brows knit together in worried shock at his words, but then Gui kisses her, and she almost stops worrying. It's deeper, less... friendly than Johnny's, and when he bites her she looks down at his mouth in shock, only gradually realizing that he meant to do that... "Thank you. I... I really appreciate that. I know that this doesn't really change anything between us because we won't be able to have a physical relationship tomorrow, and you are barely interested in a relationship with me-" He kisses her again. "And if it won't include physical intimacy then a relationship with me is even less attractive, and I don't want you to think that I think that this means that any of this has changed, or that you're doing anything more than being very kind to me tonight, or that-" He kisses her again, longer, until he's pretty sure she won't keep killing the mood.

She stops, hands folded together, and smiles. "Thank you. This is nice."

"Ok, e correccion, I am not interested in e relacionship with anyone. Second, I am not doing you e fevor or e charity, so please stop tanking me as I am feeling like e holy hooker... And finally..." He takes his hands from her so he can take off his shirt. "You have one night... You plan on just talking?"

Andromeda flinches hard at the phrase 'holy hooker,' but manages to focus up and stare at at Gui's chest. "No. I... I don't have time to waste on... If I was Abeki, or Ne'veah, what would I do next?"

Gui smirks a bit. "Sorry, I do not gossip." That was true, but still letting her now what Abeki let him do to her was way beyond what someone inexperienced should do.

"You are too worried, Angelica, and I get it, ok? But do try to relax... Look, remember what I told you about my synestesia? Dat favors you, because as long as I can see you are feeling good, I will feel as well, so you do not need to worry about what you are doing to meke me feel good... Focus on your own feelings and pleasure and follow dem." He takes her hand and puts it on his chest. "Explore me." He says and kisses her again. His hands back on her waist, he reaches for her shoulder, slipping the remaining strap from it. "And I will explore you... Let's see what we will discover, ok?"

Make him see I'm feeling good, and he'll feel good. Make him see I'm feeling good, and he'll feel good. Make him see I'm feeling good, and he'll feel good.... Andromeda stills her breathing; she smiles. "We'll find something natural, like you said." She helps to take her dress off, a moment of gratitude filling her as it slithers off easily in its reduced state. I'll have to find the zipper later though to put it on. Should I look for it? No. Make him see I'm feeling good....

She can't help but look down at her own body, wanting to hide away... everything. All the hairs she hadn't shaved, the burn marks and blemishes from a hundred little accidents with her Sheath, her too skinny legs, and breasts, and butt, and hips, the way her bulk purchase underwear just made it all look worse. Why can't I look curvy like Abeki for him? Or strong like Shayera? Or sexy like Ava? Or captivating like Eliana? Or beautiful like Chloe in her green dress? Or even.. or even... She breathes two times, quickly. A third time. She smiles. Make him see I'm feeling good.

She puts a hand on his chest, traces a tattoo until it flickers away into something else. She breathes again, slower this time as she feels his heart beating. "I keep forgetting it's allowed to do this. Can I... I'm going to kiss you again? On your chest this time?"

"You do all you want, Angelica." He says, pulling her to his bed. Gui nests her to his side, one arm beneath her head, but leaving her free to move as she pleases. His other hand slides her back, butt and legs, pulling one leg on top of himself. As she kisses him, Gui caresses her side, his touch not light at all. He never thought any girl to be made of glass. Up and down, his hand moves. Every time it goes up, it reaches closer to her bra and every time it goes down, closer to her panties.

Andromeda stiffens, instinctively flinching away from Gui as her heartrate spikes. "Don't- You shouldn't- I'm not-" She lets out a breath as she remembers that surprising her won't hurt him tonight. "I need more time? Just a little more time?" She stares at her hand, willing it to unclench, and puts it deliberately back on his stomach. A whisper of calm enters her eyes as she just feels his warm skin, feels the slight movements as he breathes. In the corner of her vision, her time ticks down..

"Angelica, do you trust me?"

Andromeda flinches, smiles. "Yes." She pauses. "To do what?"

"Look, every one is different, but from my experience, normally e girl with little to no experience will teke e lot of time to be eble to relax with e guy, specially if dere is some bagage..." He says, trying not to scare her. "Dey do not rush through de beses... I am ok for us just to kiss, one hundred ok, but if you want more, den I need you to trust me, so I can guide you dere."

She pulls her bra up over her head. "I have to be better than that." She looks Gui square in the face, hands clenched at her sides to keep from covering herself. Her eyes flicker to stare at something in the corner of her vision. "I don't have time to-" She stops, horrified, staring at Axolotl's wristwatch. "It's running backwards..." Gui might as well not exist as she quickly recalculates how much time she has if her deadline isn't standing still, is actively rushing at her! The numbers in her HUD fade from a comfortable green to an accusing amber. "How long will it take to perform sex? Just once? I don't have time to waste."

He raises his eyebrows. "Sex is not someting you rush on your first time, Angelica... it will just feel painful."

Her brows crease in confusion, but she nods in agreement. "It will just hurt me though, correct?"

"Sex should be about pleasure, conneccion, happiness..." He says, frowning. "If you want just to do it, as if crossing e check list, den you have chosen de wrong guy. I am not going to force myself into you and cause you pain, no matter how much you tink you want it."

Her eyes fiery, Andromeda breathes in heavily, thin chest working overtime as she tries to just breathe out everything she's feeling. "You're not a checklist. I just.. I'm not stupid. I know if I rush things I'm going to have a bad time. But I can't wait; it is not an option; I'm not going to have a good time. At least with this I'd get you to feel something!

"Before you saved me, I'd stopped wanting anything. Everything that I wanted was just another tool They could use to control me, and all I could do to stop that was to just not want. You made me want more. That wanting more is still the most amazing thing I've ever felt. Can't you let me make you feel something too?"

"But if you feel pain, dat is literally all I will feel." He says, offering a sympathetic smile. "Eider your powers screw us, or mine do... Since we know we do not have much time, hear me out... we will go bese by bese. You took of your bra, so let's say we are at second. We do not rush e ting. Once you tink you are ready, you let me know and I will move us up at e pece I feel you will enjoy... if we get dere, great, if not, we at least enjoyed ourselves as much as we could. Deal?"

Her gaze flickers between Gui and the edge of her vision, mouth thinning with calculations. "Can we start with you?"

"You can certainly try to beat me in my g'eme, Angelica..." He answers with a mischievous smile, kissing her again.

While he understood her sole goal, Gui was very practical in how to reach it. If she was worried about time, there was for sure not enough to teach a girl who probably never seen a dick before how to handle it properly. No, but he was done wasting time talking and explaining. Oh, she would see him getting off, if that was so important for her, but she would be melting while doing so, or his name wasn't Guillaume....

***

Andromeda gets up, still breathing heavily, and quickly makes her escape, first to the bathroom, and then to the door [smaller]"Thank you. That was very good. I did not think that I was going to..." she wavers. [smaller]"I have to go."

***

The walk to her room was already habit, eyes down, opened only enough to confirm that the furniture hadn't moved, and that the bugs hadn't broken the truce.

"Shayera? Can I talk to you?"/ As her eyes adjust it becomes clear that her temporary roommate is nowhere to be found. "Oh."

She hesitates for a moment then fishes out her phone, bringing it up to her mouth, before using her thumbs to type instead with a small smile.

Me: I have returned to our dorm, and you are not here. Are you okay? I would like it if you sent me a message, so that I would know when you will not be present.
Me: I know that you are self-sufficient, and probably all is well, but I feel a responsibility to keep you safe as I hope Bronwyn is keeping Xaiara safe.
Me: I temporarily have no access to my power, so I will not be searching until the morning, but I hope I will know where you are by then.

She fumbles with her dress again, before giving up and forcefully flinging herself onto her bed. It'll be like Cinderella or I'll rip it apart in my sleep. Win-win.

She closes her eyes, but the countdown still lights up the corner of her vision. I can wait it out. Not long left. Objectives are sufficiently achieved given conditions on the ground. Sam made it so I can't hug Xaiara, and Shayera's not her. She wouldn't even feel the same.