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    Osprey is...well...sort of an odd duck. She's downright OCD in some areas, though thankfully those areas happen to be in her civilian life and not hero line of work. It's hard to really throw her off guard with information that would normally freak someone out. She tends to take such information...and either ask questions (as in a lot of questions) or she just says something along the lines of 'now that's cool' and moves on. When pursuing something of interest, albeit a lead she's following or a topic she's googling, she tends to be pretty dogged in her search for answers. It's hard to get her to quit, and sometimes in her pursuit for answers she develops a bit of tunnel vision, losing situational awareness and easily opening herself up for ambush.
    She's currently coping with PTSD stemming from being captured by by a group of psychics. Most apparent sign of her condition would be anxiety in the presence of psychics and in certain social situations (such as clubs, raves, or members of the group that held her captive). She suffers flashbacks on occasion. So far her condition is mild (though with the course of RP this may change....we'll just have to see in that regard).

Archery

Martial Arts

Hacking

Investigating

Only Human After All

Tunnel Vision

PTSD

Bow

Trick Arrowheads

Shades

Neural Blockers

Utility Belt

Mini-tablet

Persona-Slide Teleportation Rig

Cloaking Device

Paris's Arrow

    Andrea Ellis was born on April 21st, 1992, in an alternate dimension, in a major metropolitan city in Rhode Island. Her parents, Richard Ellis and Rachel McCray-Ellis, were very wealthy, and as such she was born into a life of privilege. Despite that, she developed into a very grounded individual. Her father was perhaps the greatest influence in her life, even when frequent business trips took him away from his wife and daughter. Never once did Andie think to question just where her father was going or why he tended to show up home so late. She didn't find out why until after an alien invasion in 2002.

    When the first reports of invaders started hitting the airwaves, Richard's first thought was to get his family out of danger. He pulled Rachel and Andie along, pushing through throngs of fleeing evacuees, until he got them to the nearest shelter. One moment he was shoving them in the door, and when she turned around he was gone. It was the last time she saw him. He was killed in the first day of heavy fighting. Andie and her mother didn't find out until a few days later, when her uncle John delivered the news.

    It was a devastating blow, and much of the next few days was just a blur for her. She remembers people she had never met before coming and shaking her hand, offering condolences, telling her how her father was a good man. After the funeral, she shut herself in her dad's office so she could get away from it all. She saw his computer sitting there, logged in, and it was then she noticed something odd on his desktop, something she hadn't seen before. It took her the better part of the night to get into it, but when she did manage to crack it, she found out his secret.

    He was the Grey Osprey, a masked hero that had been operating since before she was born. All those late nights, those business trips, they all made sense now. And it made sense now why her father had gone back out into the city during the Invasion. He'd gone back to help other people. Her father had been a hero. And she was determined to do the same.

    Many years later, Osprey became an accomplished hero in her own right, no longer working in the shadow of her father's illustrious reputation. Much of what she learned, she learned through trial and error, and through sheer determination. She helped many people, and certainly made her fair share of mistakes. One such mistake left her with psychological damage, stemming from being captured by a notorious psychic and her minions. But she never imagined in her wildest dreams that her career would take her to another dimension entirely. (More detailed information on Osprey's backstory can be found on her Virtueverse page.)

    Protectors of the World: Osprey joined the Protectors in 2014. Her tenure there was brief.

    Teen Phalanx: Osprey was a member of Teen Phalanx from 2011 to 2013, serving as an officer in that group for nearly a year. She came to the group seeking change. Or more aptly, she was seeking to distance herself from her former teammates, whom she felt she had disappointed when she was under the sway of a notorious psychic from her home dimension. It took awhile for her to forge friendships in Teen Phalanx, especially since she was one of less than a handful of members that held a secret identity at that time. Eventually she did manage to make friends and grew to trust her new teammates. Without them, she likely would be in a much darker place today. She left the group a few months after they had settled into their new dimensional home in Millennium City. Her departure from the group was amicable, and she still maintains friendships with certain members from that group.

    Web-Spinner's Amazing Friends: Osprey joined Web-Spinner's Amazing Friends in 2009. This group was home to teen heroes, some of whom were also legacy heroes like herself. While Osprey had done a bit of hero work before, it had mostly been small time events. Her time with Web's group really helped her to cut her teeth on hero work. While she was always a pretty confident person, her teammates helped her to realize that even though she didn't have powers, she could do just as much good as her super powered teammates. She left the group in 2011, leaving rather abruptly, without really saying anything to anybody to explain why.

    House of Heroes: Osprey never officially joined the House of Heroes, but the Web-Spinner crew always had a close association with this group of heroes. If the House of Heroes were to be likened to the Justice League, then the Webs crew would be their Teen Titans. Osprey's uncle was the leader of the House of Heroes until events involving Osp in 2011 forced him to retire from his hero career. Since then, she has kept her distance from members of the group, feeling that she was responsible for his early retirement.

    Zach Kern: Osp came to trust Zach after, on more than one occasion, he proved to not only be discreet but also considerate when helping others. He was one of the first people in Teen Phalanx she revealed her identity to. When she had to come face to face again with the psychic that had held her captive and brainwashed her, he was among the few people she trusted enough to take with her. Had it not been for him and others on that team, she would not have made it through the ordeal.

    Ouul: This magically inclined young man is one of Osprey's best friends. He's very secretive and keeps his emotions under tight control. Osp trusts him implicitly, as he's demonstrated more than once that he's a person worth of extending such trust. The two of them have both disclosed a number of secrets about their pasts to each other, including secret identities.

    Oscar Breiner-Shawe: It's hard not to be friends with Oscar. He's an extremely likeable guy, and one of the first people to really go out of their way to make Osprey feel welcome when she arrived at Teen Phalanx. He, as well as many other Phalanx members, were brought to this dimension due to a strange malady. He eventually moved to New York with his husband and children, or so Osprey last heard.

    Combustion Gal: Cady and Osp used to go to school together, and were both members of Web-Spinner's Amazing Friends at one time. While the pair used to be pretty close, there's some distance between them now. Time will tell if they will mend their friendship.

    The Demon Hunter: The Demon Hunter, or DH as most of his colleagues call him, is Ravenwing's father. John and DH have never seen eye to eye, but Osprey gets along with him fairly well. She doesn't necessarily agree with his tactics, but she doesn't see him as quite the monster that her uncle makes him out to be.

    Scarlet Centurion: The Scarlet Centurion is actually Osprey's uncle, John Ellis. John had always been a help to the hero community, even before he created and donned the Centurion power armor. Some of his first inventions were the gadgets and trick arrowheads he supplied his brother, the original Grey Osprey. After Richard's death, he became much more active with the hero community, eventually becoming a hero himself. When Osprey first met Centurion, she had no idea it was her uncle under the armor. When she found out, she found that she had a lot more in common with him than she thought. They both were looking for the same thing: a way to honor Richard Ellis, the best way they knew how. John was forced into early retirement, after clashing with a brainwashed Osprey. She delivered catastrophic damage to his power armor that resulted in nerve damage.

    Ravenwing: Raven came to be a part of the Web-Spinner crew, hailing from a doomed future. Whatever tragedies happened there left her pretty traumatized. Despite this, Osp managed to befriend her. It was Raven that rescued her from a notorious psychic. The two saw each other infrequently after that, usually with one or both of them occupied with something or other. At one point, Raven even joined Teen Phalanx, though the tenure was brief. The two continue to maintain a long distance friendship.

    Web-Spinner: Webs was the first hero she met. She and Liz became friends pretty much right off the bat. It wasn't long before Osp was asked to join her group. Despite the friendship and trust that they shared, a rift formed between them in 2011. Of course, leaving the Webs crew abruptly, without saying anything to in the group would be cause for that. After nearly 2 years of avoidance, eventually Osp and Liz reconnected. Things are on much less tense terms now between them.

The Grey Osprey

Falcon

Shrike

Kestrel