MEET ANDIE
Full Name → Anderson "Andie" Simone Jones
Age → 28
Birthday → October 3rd, 1996
Order & Type → fourth, solo
Gender & Pronouns → cis woman, she/her
Sexuality → lesbian
Occupation → associate at Dragon's Lair Comics and Fantasy, independent game developer
THEIR STORY
Anderson "Andie" Jones has always been the dreamer of the family. While some kids grew up wanting to be astronauts, veterinarians, or movie stars, Andie wanted to create worlds. She spent her childhood filling notebooks with comic strips, designing original characters, and convincing anyone who would listen to play games she'd invented using dice, index cards, and whatever toys happened to be nearby.
After high school, she left Ashford Valley to attend art school in Rhode Island (RISD), where she studied animation and digital media. It was everything she'd dreamed of and more. For the first time, she was surrounded by people who spoke the same creative language she did. She graduated with plans of breaking into the animation and video game industry, but reality proved more complicated. Between an incredibly competitive job market, contract work that never seemed to become permanent, and the pressure of turning a passion into a career, she eventually found herself back in Ashford Valley.
These days, Andie works as an associate at Dragon's Lair Comics and Fantasy in the neighboring city Allentown, where she's become known for running game nights, recommending graphic novels, and enthusiastically introducing customers to new fandoms. While the job wasn't part of her original plan, she genuinely loves it. It keeps her connected to the community while giving her the flexibility to focus on her real passion: creating games.
Most evenings can find her hunched over a drawing tablet, sketchbook, or laptop, working on character concepts, animations, and game prototypes. As an independent game developer, she's constantly building and rebuilding ideas, teaching herself new skills, and chasing the dream of releasing a game that's entirely her own. The problem is that Andie is often her own worst critic. She has dozens of unfinished projects scattered across hard drives and notebooks, each one abandoned the moment she starts wondering if it's good enough. Friends and family encourage her to share her work, but she constantly insists that her projects are "not ready yet." More than once, she's talked herself out of opportunities because she was convinced she needed more time.
Deep down, Andie struggles with self-confidence and often feels like she's fallen behind compared to where she thought she'd be by now. Despite those insecurities, she's kind, funny, endlessly curious, and impossible to keep down for long. She's the sort of person who remembers everyone's birthday, accidentally adopts every stray animal she meets, and can spend twenty minutes passionately explaining why a fictional character deserves justice.
