Andromeda Fedorova Emelianenka

Born to an unlikely couple of a Greek physician for a mother and a Russian mixed martial artist/sambo instructor for a father, Andromeda's parents first knew each other when the latter had his ankle injury treated by the former when he was participating in a MMA tournament that was being held in Greece, some three years before Andromeda was born. Due to her mixed heritage, the girl's parents decided to give her a first name of Greek origin - Andromeda, which meant "the ruler of men" in Greek, named after the princess from Greek mythology, while keeping her Russian last name and patronymic name. But little would Andromeda's father know, that his daughter and her mother would indeed have ties to Greek mythology.

As it would turn out, that Andromeda's mother is a descendant of the Amazons, the fabled warrior women from Greek myths, long since thought of as nothing more than a myth, although unknown to the books of history, it would turn out that the nation of warrior women did exist in the days of Classical Antiquity, but due to the loss of any coherent historical records on the existence of the Amazons, they would come to be relegated as stuff of myths and legends, like everything else that had existed in the bygone Age of Mythology, such as monsters, gods and magic.

Based on popular speculation, it would be theorized that the Amazonian nation itself gradually dissolved following the decline of the ancient Hellenic states, but far from becoming extinct, the Amazons themselves scattered to various corners of the world after the end of the Age of Mythology, assimilating themselves into the female population of successor states in the region, and over time their descendants would find themselves in various parts of the world, their lineage being passed on as they had in the ancient myths, with the way of the Amazons being passed down from mother to daughter.

Due to Andromeda's Amazonian heritage, as dictated by Amazonian customs she would find herself being separated from her non-Amazon relatives shortly after her birth, being taken to the ancestral homeland of the Amazons; Themiscyra - which didn't decline, but rather was hidden away from the rest of the world during the end of the Age of Mythology via a powerful dimensional-displacement spell cast by the combined effort of several Olympians under the direction of Zeus - with previously-scattered descendants of the Amazons now returning to their ancestral land to take residence and reestablish their presence on the world scene. It was there that Andromeda would be placed under the care and tutelage of her fellow Amazons, who would proceed to train and educate the girl in the ways of the Amazons.

Shortly after her 16th birthday, it would be decided by Andromeda's mother and her fellow Amazonian instructors that the fledging warrior has learned everything she needed to learn in the ways of the Amazon, and from there further training to complete her initiation as a warrior would mean having to find a place to apply the basics of what she'd learned in her time in Themiscyra. And so it would come to be, after nearly a decade that Andromeda would once again set foot into the outside world beyond Themiscyra's borders, and fate would arrange that she would find one place where she could begin the next phase of her initiation into becoming an Amazon Warrior.