Andrea Atom

Andrea Atom is a brilliant young woman. She almost has to be, considering her parents. Still, Andrea has always been her father’s daughter and admires him more than any man she has ever known. Since she was thirteen and her mother passed away, Andrea has tried to look after her father, and she is the one to remind him of the mundane and routine matters that sometimes escape his attention. Forced to grow up fast, she’s remarkably mature and levelheaded, but perhaps a bit too stubborn and headstrong for her own good.
Andrea has always had a friendly rivalry with her father’s ward Jack, a playful, teasing relationship that might have blossomed into something romantic, had she not met Mentac. When she first encountered the brooding mentalist during her freshman year at the Hanover Institute of Technology, Andrea was drawn to him. She discovered Mentac possessed actual psychic powers and convinced him to meet and work with her father while she continues to try and draw the dour young man out of his shell. Andrea is the only one who can get Mentac to crack a smile most of the time.
Although some see Andrea Atom as just her father’s glorified lab assistant, she is quite a skilled scientist and technician in her own right. Although she has a lifetime of physical training and has picked up a variety of odd skills here and there, perhaps her greatest abilities are her unfailing faith in the people she trusts and the tendency of her family’s enemies to underestimate her—always to their regret.