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Andromeda, princess of Aethiopa and wife of the hero Perseus. She is well known as the namesake for the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest one to our very own Milky Way and a constellation named after her. The daughter of King Cepehus and Queen Cassiopeia, the latter who boasted of her daughter's beauty being even fairer the Nereids, nymphs of the sea. This angered Poseidon as his wife Amphitrite was among those Nereids and slighted by this he had the innocent Andromeda chained to be sacrificed to the sea monster Cetus.\\\

* AmbiguouslyBrown: While her profile states that she's from Aethiopia which means "(land of) burnt-faces/the sunburned", it also points out that the Greeks did not necessarily mean what we understand as modern Ethiopia. So she's from a hotter climate and more tanned than most Greek Servants, but looks more like a GyaruGirl than a "black" African.

* ShownTheirWork: For someone that comes from Aethiopia ("burnt-face"), which is the Greeks' name for Northern Africa, Andromeda and her family are often portrayed as pretty white in most media. Here, she's properly tanned, though not as dark-skinned as fellow Northern Africans Ozymandias and Nitocris; going for brown over black was [[AuthorAppeal the artist's choice]].

To the princess's luck the hero Perseus came to her rescue and turned the sea monster to stone with the power of the Gorgon Medusa. Though promised to Phineus, Perseus used the head once again and turned him to stone. They later returned to Perseus home where he became king and her his queen. Her parents, husband, and the very monster that was supposed to devour her had been turned to constellations just as she was.

* CursedWithAwesome: She is cursed to be forever bound to chains attached to a rock, so she weaponized them.

* LoopholeAbuse: Her myth means her conceptual chains that follow her will always have a rock attached to the other end. Not only does this technically give her an endless arsenal of rocks to swing at enemies, but her myth also includes the part where "Cetus became a rock" (by Perseus turning it to stone with Gorgon's head), allowing Andromeda to pull ''Cetus'' out of the chain-portals and ride it like a beast of war.

* ChainedByFashion: She is forever bound to ethereal chains held by phantasmal Cetus mouths. She can move them freely and make them invisible, but they are always there and can't truly be removed, and they will always end up chained to a rock on the other side of the mouths no matter how many times she smashes them.

* LoopholeAbuse: Her myth means her conceptual chains that follow her will always have a rock attached to the other end. Not only does this technically give her an endless arsenal of rocks to swing at enemies, but her myth also includes the part where "Cetus became a rock" (by Perseus turning it to stone with Gorgon's head), allowing Andromeda as a Servant to pull ''Cetus'' out of the other end of the chain-portal and ride it like a beast of war.

* ScarfOfAsskicking: Wears one in her Third and Final Ascensions which she can change into from her First and Second Ascensions when unleashing her Noble Phantasm. It can fire a barrage of star-shaped projectiles or a streaming blast in the shape of her constellation.

* StellarName: Almost everyone involved in her myth was turned to a constellation: Perseus, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Cetus and herself. She even got a whole galaxy named after her.

* ChainedByFashion: She is forever bound to ethereal chains held by phantasmal Cetus mouths. She can move them freely and make them invisible, but they are always there and can't truly be removed.

* LoopholeAbuse: Her myth means her conceptual chains that follow her will always have a rock attached to the other end. Not only does she use this to swing said rock at enemies, but her myth also includes the part where "Cetus became a rock" (by Perseus turning it to stone with Gorgon's head), allowing Andromeda as a Servant to pull ''Cetus'' out of the other end of the chain-portal and ride it like a beast of war.

* DishingOutDirt: Since she is conceptually tied to her legend of being chained to rock, her chains can summon chunkfs of rocks and boulders from mouth like protrusion of her chains.

* MakingASplash: Some of her attacks feature her using water and her Noble Phantasm has her riding Cetus on the sea and swallowing her enemies before diving into the deep.

* ShownTheirWork: For someone that comes from Aethiopia ("burnt-face"), which is the Greeks' name for Northern Africa, Andromeda and her family are often portrayed as pretty white in most media. Here, she's properly tanned like fellow Northern Africans Ozymandias and Nitocris.

* StoneWall: Her base HP at Lv.90 breaks 15k, her first skill has a good 3-turn Damage Cut, and her NP gives her a ''50%'' Def boost for the turn. Paired with her second skill that gives her Taunt, Guts, and extra NP Charge for 3 turns, Andromeda can shrug off a surprising amount of punishment so the rest of the team doesn't have to. The catch, however, is that Andromeda's ATK is quite low.

* DamselInDistress: One of the oldest examples. Her mother Cassiopeia bragged that Andromeda's beauty (or her own, DependingOnTheWriter) surpassed that of the Nereids. This did not amuse Poseidon whose wife was a Nereid, so he had Andromeda chained to a rock to be sacrificed to Cetus. Perseus's arrival put an end to that.

* DamselInDistress: One of the oldest examples. Her mother bragged that her (or Andromeda herself, DependingOnTheWriter) beauty surpassed that of the Nereids. This did not amuse Poseidon whose wife was a Nereid, so he had Andromeda chained to a rock to be sacrificed to Cetus. Perseus's arrival put an end to that.

* MakingASplash: Some of her attacks feature her using water and her Noble Phantasm has her riding Cetus on the sea and swallowing her enemies before diving into the deep..

* {{Stellafication}}: Almost everyone involved in her myth was turned to a constellation:Perseus, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Cetus and herself. She even got a whole galaxy named after her.
* StoneWall: Her base HP at Lv.90 breaks 15k, her first skill has a good 3-turn Damage Cut, and her NP gives her a ''50%'' Def boost for the turn. Paired with her second skill that gives her Taunt, Guts, and extra NP Charge for 3 turns, Andromeda can shrug off a surprising amount of punishment so the rest of the team doesn't have to. The catch, however, is that Andromea's ATK is quite low.

* Stellafication: Almost everyone involved in her myth was turned to a constellation:Perseus, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Cetus and herself. She even got a whole galaxy named after her.

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• DamselInDistress: One of the oldest examples. Her mother bragged that her (or Andromeda herself, DependingOnTheWriter) beauty surpassed that of the Nereids. This did not amuse Poseidon whose wife was a Nereid, so he had Andromeda chained to a rock to be sacrificed to Cetus. Perseus's arrival put an end to that.

• DamselInDistress: One of the oldest examples. Her mother bragged of her superior beauty which made Poseidon angry and had her chained to a rock to be sacrificed to Cetus. Perseus arrival pit an end to that.
* MonsterWhale: Cetus is this. A gigantic whale that swallows all and was sent as punishment for Cassiopeia 's hubris.

Andromeda, princess of Aethiopa and wife of the hero Perseus. She is well known as the namesake for the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest one to our very own Milky Way and a constellation named after her. The daughter of King Cepehus and Queen Cassiopeia, the latter who boasted of her daughter's beauty being even fairer the Nereids, nymphs of the sea. This angered Poseidon as his wife Amphitrite was among those Nereids and slighted by this he had the innocent Andromeda chained to be sacrificed to the sea monster Cetus.///

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* WalkingSpoiler: Not so much herself, but her connection to Tunguska Sanctuary, where the climactic confrontation with Koyanskaya occurs. [[spoiler:It has absolutely nothing to do with the land she was summoned in and everything to do with ''Koyanskaya herself'', as Dobrynya was her [[LukeIAmYourFather adoptive father]].]] It's major enough that if asked about Koyanskaya of Light or Koyanskaya of Dark in My Room before the player has cleared Tunguska Sanctuary, Nikitich will just stand there humming concernedly to herself and saying nothing, clearly trying '''''very hard''''' not to spoil the twist.

* GlassesDoSomethingUnusual: He gives your party set of glasses in the 2022 White Day Event that allow you to see the invisible enemies roaming the Singularity and make you more intelligent, with him also wearing them.

* TheDragonslayer: What she's most famous for, slaying the dragon Zmei Gorynych. Her third skill gives party-wide 3-turn Bonus Damage against Dragon enemies.