Andi Lee is 33 years young with a birthday on March 20th. They hail from New York, New York and still live in New York, New York. They are a Tattooist and looks a bit like Ruby Rose.
Full Name:
Andi “AJ” Lee
Pronouns:
They/Her
Gender:
Nonbinary
Sexuality:
Queer
3 Positive Traits:
+ energetic + creative + motivated
3 Negative Traits:
- stubborn - sarcastic - flirt
Biography:
Andi was in the system from the moment they born, their birth mother didn’t even hold them.
Andi spent the first 11 years of their life bouncing from one foster home to another. They were always getting into fights with other kids from a very early age.
Andi has always known who they are or rather who they weren’t and they knew they weren’t a girl.
Andi got fostered by the Lee’s shortly after they turned 11. The Lee’s would be their last foster family.
For the first six months or so with the Lee’s, Andi was still getting themselves into trouble, more so at school than at home. Andrew and his wife Kathy, decided that it would be good for Andrew to start taking Andi to his shop with him after school, to give them something to do other than fight other kids from their school at the park.
Andi was reluctant about going to work with Andrew at first, why bother bonding with people that were only going to get sick of you and ship you off to another family? Andrew was determined though and encouraged Andi’s artistic side, first with getting them to try and copy designs before entrusting them with the responsibility of tracing designs up ready for him to tattoo. Andi was getting into less fights and looked forward to going to the shop after school and even started going in on the weekends sometimes.
When Andi was 12, they got into a particularly bad fight at school, one of the worst ones they’d had, Andrew had to close the shop and pick Andi up from school as Kathy couldn’t get away from work. Andrew had to take Andi back to the shop with him, he had a client booked in for the afternoon. At the shop Andrew decided enough was enough and that he needed to find out why Andi got into fights and why this one was so bad. Andi broke down in tears, terrified of being passed on to yet another family but Andrew was persistent, he and Kathy had been discussing approaching Andi about adopting them, Andi revealed that they weren’t a girl, they weren’t a boy either, they were just them and they’d been trying to get people at school to call them Andi saying it was a nickname but this kid was really horrible about it and kept calling them by the name on their birth certificate and stressing the girl aspect of it. After that Andrew understood why Andi struggled so much, that Andi was having to be someone they weren’t. He couldn’t change their gender on their birth certificate but he could make it so he and his wife called Andi just that, Andi. He could also go into the school and have the name on the register changed. Andi had the support that they never thought anyone would give them.
On Andi’s 13th birthday, they were presented with adoption papers. They were officially part of the Lee family.
Shortly after the adoption, Andi approached their parents and asked if they could make it so they could change their surname so it would also be Lee. It was her their mom who suggested that while they were at it, they get Andi’s name legally changed to Andi.
The only people that know Andi’s dead name are their parents.
Andi is incredibly close with their parents but especially their dad. After graduating high school, Andi began to work at his shop as his apprentice, their natural talent for art combined with what they had learnt about tattooing while helping out after school meant that they took it like a duck takes to water. It helped that they’d spent the last two years practicing how to setup the machines, break them down, clean them and had even tattooed on synthetic skin.
Tattoo conventions were one of their favourite things. It was a time for them and their dad to go be in their element together and have a weekend away. Tattoo conventions held a very special meaning to Andi, it was the first convention after they were adopted that their dad gave them their nickname ‘AJ’, “I know you’re not an Andrew, but you’re still my junior”. AJ is a name that only people incredibly close to Andi get to use.
From 18 to 25, Andi worked at their dads shop, building their own reputation, gaining awards from conventions around the country and even a few internationally, all the while saving to launch their own shop so that their dad could retire in a few years and they’d be able to take care of her family the way they had done for her.
Andi’s talent continually blossomed and soon they found themselves booking high profile clients. It started small at first but it boosted their reputation in a way they couldn’t have anticipated. They had to move shop location to a larger premises in order to hire some other artists and had a station specially dedication to their dad for when he decides to do a guest spot.
Andi has appeared in several tattoo publications, both as an artist and a model.
Andi is incredibly active. If they’re not at the shop, there’s a good chance their out skateboarding, boxing, playing basketball, soccer, rock climbing, anything and everything. Andi isn’t afraid of the unknown and is forever trying new things whenever the opportunity presents itself.