Pre-Millenium City
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.)
Millennium City
She arrived in Millennium City in December 2012, making use of portal technology from her home dimension as a means of getting to this one. Originally, she was only doing this to help a friends get settled after a dimension hopping incident left them unable to go back home. She had never intended for this to become a permanent situation, but the more she visited Millennium City, the more she realized that she could do some good there. A little more than a year later, Osp set up base of operations within Millennium City. She was invited to join the Protectors of the World, a group of heroes who worked together to tackle events on a world wide scale. This invite came on the tail end of working an operation alongside Protector members Sparrowhawk and Harrier, and Honorary Protectors Knight Watch and Violet Mask. It marked a new chapter in her hero career, as it was the first time she'd ever been a part of a non-teen themed supergroup. Her tenure there was short lived, as the dual nature of handling responsibilities in two dimensions took up a great deal of her time.
Osp's adventures in Millennial Earth (a name that she and others fromm her home to used to refer to this dimension) soon caught the notice of one of Millennium City's most notorious vigilantes, who also operate under the name of Grey Osprey. This Osprey was a male, much older, though it was difficult to pin down an exact age. He was an urban legend, a vigilante who had a knack for murdering criminals. While PRIMUS had precious little information, they did know that he had a number of followers. Those who came into contact with Osprey and his group (and lived to tell the tale) called them Raptors.
Unable to keep her curiousity in check, she investigated Millennium's Osprey and his Raptors, which led to a series of interactions. Through the course of her investigations and her early confrontations with the Raptors, Osp eventually found out that the man was actually Richard Ellis, CEO of Centurion Enterprises and her father's Millennial Earth counterpart. He had lost his wife and daughter in the Qularr Invasion, had blamed their deaths on the heroes of the city. That incident had set him down a very dark, self destructive path. It explained why in nearly every encounter she had with the man he tried to sway her, to convince her to take up his cause. Osp's mission soon became to try and stop the Raptors, finding their most likely targets and hitting them first. Part of her drive was to save lives, because the criminals this other Osprey targeted were going to die if she didn't get to them first. The other part was that she hoped that maybe, just maybe, she could find a way to convince him to stop what he was doing. It was very difficult to remain objective, and more than once it came back to bite her.
Osp came into contact with several of the Raptors over the next year and a half, often with Zach Kern aka Kudzu in tow. Falcon, Richard Ellis's second in command, was the first to be incarcerated (which later proved to be an elaborate staged act). Soon after that, a speedster known as Shrike and an ex-military man designated Kestral were arrested. After that, things seemed to go quiet for a few months. It proved to be the calm before the storm.
Final Flight
Falcon, Shrike and Kestral were sprung from prison during a riot. It was clear that the Grey Osprey had not decided to retire. Whatever he had planned, it had to be big. Osp, with the help of the Harrier King, managed to narrow down two potential targets, involving VIPER and Scarlatti working together to move weapons into the West Side. She gathered together the Harrier King, Zach, and Ouul, figuring she would need the help. Despite the protests of her comrades, she went off to one location on her own (an office building) while the others took down a nearby warehouse.
Unbeknownst to any of them, the Raptors were waiting, and the ambush sprung the second they advanced toward the warehouse. While fighting between Kestral, Kite and another Raptor named Barn Owl raged, Osp worked her way through the office building. While she succeeded in saving a few lives by sending explosives meant to demolish the building into the lake, her inability to think objectively nearly killed her. Falcon detonated his power armor suit, with the intention of killing himself and Osp in the process. She was saved by the Grey Osprey, who shielded her at the last minute, a sacrifice that saved her life at the cost of his own. The next several months were spent in her home dimension recovering from the injuries she sustained. It took time for her to process with the guilt, knowing that her lack of sound judgement had led to Richard Ellis's death. Eventually, she came to terms with the loss. While she would never truly just 'get over' what had happened, she vowed that she would not let the tragedy dictate who she was.
Osprey to date has only returned to Millennium City a handful of times, focusing her attentions on assisting Zach Kern in guiding a new crop of teen heroes. Part trainer, part peer counselor, she intends to make sure the kids at Aegis House are well prepared to handle the rigors of hero work.
