"If you ever feel like something's missing,
Things you'll never understand,

Little white shadows sparkle and glisten,
Part of a system, a plan."

_{- Coldplay (White Shadows)}

Gentle - Courteous - Assertive - Curious - Patient - Intelligent - Friendly - Calm - Weak-willed - Feeble - Haughty - Passive - Quirky - Fussy/perfectionist - Disciplined

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Andromeda is a kind soul who lives a rather simple life with his apprentice, Kane. He cares for visitors and protects the Runestone, as his job requires. This burdens him with a sense of duty that keeps him trapped but fulfilled. He has a passion for learning and recording information, and a curiosity about anything he doesn't fully understand. In his spare time, he'll usually be seen writing down notes or conducting little experiments. 

He's an extremely observant person, and curious to boot. When he was young, he dedicated himself to learning as much as possible about his favourite topics - one of which was his own soul condition. It's something that made him such an extraordinary scholar. Instead of relying on secondhand knowledge, Andromeda learns and retains knowledge through his own observations and experiments. He isn't, however, the best at organising his thoughts - his notes are all out of order, hastily scrawled in spidery, wild cursive fit only for doctors.

Despite how messy his handwriting is, Andromeda is very fussy. He borders on toxic perfectionism - but only when it comes to his work and experiments. He will work for hours, even days on end, just to achieve his desires result, or, if that's not possible, figure out why. He has a very specific working order, a system, which makes it nearly impossible for him to work with an assistant. Additionally, he will not use materials that he doesn't approve of, even if they seem perfectly fine to everybody else. He wants to have everything just within reach, and he will, absolutely, make sure that everything is right before he conducts an experiment.

Because he stays and works nonstop without eating or sleeping, Andromeda is capable of doing a lot in a short span of time - however, he also tires himself out beyond what an ordinary person would be capable of. It's not uncommon to find Andromeda passed out asleep on his desk or on the floor, worn out from days with no rest. 

After spending years and years as the Runemaster with no way of ending his job, Andromeda has seen time pass like nobody else in the Arboretum has. He's endured the losses of friends, battles and collapses he wasn't allowed to prevent, people he wasn't allowed to save even though he could have. This test of time has made An weary and, unfortunately, rather numb to the woes of the common folk. He's absorbed himself in his work and closed himself away in the mountain, letting the people go on with their lives without him getting involved or attached.

Life as the Runemaster is far more emotionally straining than it is physically, but still An finds himself weak and tired, even when he sleeps. He forces himself to keep plugging away, though, which can cause him to get lost in monotony and turn him into an unfeeling machine. Kane is the beat cure for this - her unpredictable, playful nature keeps their days as lively as possible, and Kane will break An's cycle of monotony whenever she sees signs of it starting again. However, without his work, An would get lost in the loneliness and emotional strain that comes with being alive for an unnaturally long time. Performing his duties as Runemaster allows him to avoid focusing on the negatives and instead work towards a goal.

Andromeda is, as one would expect, very good at his job. The people like him and respect him, and when he goes into town he treats everybody with a polite kindness, though he doesn't get involved with them. Doing the same job for two hundred years made him the most accurate definition of an expert, to the point where he occasionally gets lost in his role and stops being 'Andromeda' to instead become the Runemaster archetype.

This happens because Andromeda is a weak-willed, compassionate person, and years of caring have taken their toll. He's very easy to manipulate and take advantage of because of the nature of his constitution. He doesn't like to argue, and has no problem being part of a system. He can easily convince himself he has to do something, and therefore, with the right  conditions and reasons, he won't even try to escape from a bad situation. He's very passive, and will simply accept his life rather than try and change it.

Hardworking, Andromeda doesn't stop to focus on the negatives of his life. He dismisses the circumstances of the Runemaster's lifestyle with a hopeless laugh - might as well accept it and do your best, he figures. He doesn't let himself procrastinate or drift into impulse, always keeping himself well-disciplined and focused. Unsurprisingly, Andromeda also has a tendency to hyperfocus and lose track of time, making him surprisingly oblivious despite his productive nature. 

Andromeda's picky nature makes it very difficult for him to rush. He generally spends his time working at a decent, but not slow, pace. He has patience for himself and the mistakes he makes, hardly becoming frustrated with a situation. He's a quick thinker and is very observant, and can usually solve problems at an effective rate. He doesn't stress himself out, and is very forgiving - occasionally to the point of disregarding his own feelings. His main talent is that he works consistently, with little to no rest, in order to avoid breaking his concentration. He holds a general, sometimes frustrating, nonchalance towards his own self-neglect.

Despite his lifestyle and near-permanent fatigue, Andromeda portrays a friendly, good-humored approach, and is not opposed to social interaction. Though he's not outwardly funny, he can be very unexpected with his humour, and even makes effective use of sarcasm - though never for malicious intent. He's very respectful, and will always approach strangers in a polite manner, even if he can be surprisingly mischievous when he wants to be.

A loving and devoted person, An would do anything to keep Kane safe - she's his longest friend and his only true confidante, and he fears losing her above all. But she is also a child, and that compels Andromeda to show his very devoted and patient side with her, exercising his nature as a caretaker. Though she isn't his child per se, he still cares for her as though she is, occasionally even forgetting who she used to be. He no longer needs to train her, as she was trained when he was and has an additional couple hundred years' experience, but he does his best to keep her mind refreshed by giving her little lessons from time to time.

Andromeda and Kane don't have a flawless relationship - over time, their differences have evolved into an unfortunate situation involving excessive co-dependence on one another. Without Kane, Andromeda fears what he might unravel into. She keeps his compassion alive, and his spirits up. However, he also bears the weight of having to deal with her unstable emotional state and frequent outbursts. This contributes to his ever-present fatigue, and also means he'll confuse her abuse with playfulness or sensitivity, and blindly defend her inappropriate behaviour towards him.

Andromeda's whole temperament changes depending on whether he's in a favourable or unfavourable situation. When he has an advantage, Andromeda is a master of using his power to the fullest. He's capable of a calm coldness seen only with people of the highest authority, a grace that allows him to think quickly and come up with complex arguments on the spot. His ability to hold up in social situations where he has an advantage allows him to temporarily dissociate from the moment, lost only in the duties he has to perform and the impression he gives.When at a disadvantage, however, he does a full character shift, and his anxious, nervous constitution shows its face. He knows when he's lost a fight, and will respond accordingly. 

His powers of observation make him very good at telling people off. An has the capability of finding all your little flaws and ways of thinking that lead up to those flaws, and then call you out on it. In general, however, he doesn't use this to get under peoples' skin, but rather to suggest they learn their place. Therefore, he's good at keeping his cool under heated circumstances. Taught to keep his emotion under control, he doesn't generally lose his composure until he's made to be completely helpless.