Andrew Wells's History
Sunnydale High
Andrew Wells, the younger brother of Tucker Wells, grew up in Sunnydale. His aunt was his legal guardian. Judging by the state of the Wells' house, he may have been from a low socioeconomic class.A "nerd," Andrew was the victim of bullying while growing up but became friends with fellow Sunnydale High School outcasts, Warren and Jonathan.
Inspired by his older brother, Andrew learned to summon and control demons and sent a pack of flying monkey demons to attack the school's production of Romeo and Juliet, apparently for no other reason than to amuse himself. His plans were presumably stopped by the Slayer, Buffy Summers, and her demon-fighting friends, the Scooby Gang. Although the Scoobies quickly forgot the incident, Andrew, Warren, and Jonathan went on to remember it fondly. Buffy later foiled Andrew's brother's plans when he trained a pack of hellhounds to attack the senior prom because he couldn't find a date.
The Trio
Andrew's demon summoning skills are essential to many of the Trio's plans.
About two years after Sunnydale High's destruction, Andrew, Warren, and Jonathan formed the Trio, a supervillain group dedicated to taking over Sunnydale. Together they engaged in petty crimes, such as robbing banks and museums. Andrew was a crucial member of the group because many of their endeavors relied upon his ability to summon and control various demons. Since Buffy was the protector of Sunnydale, the Trio secretly tested her abilities to collect information; Andrew's test involved getting three demons to attack her at her temporary job.
The Trio began to fall apart after they used the cerebral dampener on Warren's ex-girlfriend Katrina Silber, turning her into a willing sex slave; she came to her senses and accused them of rape, so Warren killed her to stop her from leaving. Andrew helped cover up the murder by summoning three Rwasundi demons and was impressed when the Trio got away with it. However, Buffy figured out their involvement and began to investigate their activities further. Andrew set a Glarghk Guhl Kashmas'nik on her to make her experience intense hallucinations.
Warren and Andrew began plotting together against Jonathan, hoping to rob an amusement park and let their friend take the blame. Buffy stopped their plan, although Warren escaped, leaving Andrew to be arrested with Jonathan, who made sure that Andrew knew Warren would not return for them. In his frustration at Buffy, Warren accidentally murdered Tara Maclay. Tara's girlfriend and powerful witch, the vengeful Willow Rosenberg, hunted Warren down and skinned him alive. She planned a similar fate for Andrew and Jonathan and attacked them at the prison, but they were rescued by the Scooby Gang. Fearful, Andrew suggested fleeing to Mexico before threatening Xander with a sword he acquired to defend himself from Willow. Jonathan, however, pulled his sword towards Andrew and convinced him to accede to his arbitration that they would go to jail after dealing with Willow.
When Willow trapped Buffy and her sister Dawn in a grave. Andrew and Jonathan reintroduced the idea of escaping to Mexico and hitched a ride there from a truck driver.
Working for the First
Andrew remained in Mexico for some months, living together in a small shack where they were repeatedly plagued by dreams of the Seal of Danzalthar, a Turok-Han, and Potential Slayers being killed. The First Evil approached Andrew in the guise of Warren and convinced Andrew to open the seal by killing Jonathan with a Dagger of Lex he bought specially from a demon weapon salesman. Though hesitant to kill his only remaining friend, Andrew agreed, as the First promised him that by doing so, the Trio would live as gods.
Andrew returned to Sunnydale along with Jonathan, who was keen on redeeming himself by assisting the Scooby Gang. As they dug up the hidden seal, Andrew murdered Jonathan in an attempt to open the seal. Since it didn't work, Andrew hesitantly attempted to slaughter a piglet to obtain its blood, but he was unable to catch it.
Redemption
Failing in that, Andrew went to a local butcher to buy pigs blood along with many other unrelated items but was soon discovered by Willow who, having reformed, tried to talk to him. A fearful Andrew tried to scare her by claiming to be powerful evil, only for Willow manipulate his fear and take him to Buffy's house where he was held hostage by the Scooby Gang; the pig blood he bought was used to feed Spike who was also under the influence of the First. Andrew was interrogated by Xander and Anya, who used both violence and psychological threats to find out why he was buying blood. Just as Andrew began to give answers, Spike was triggered by the First, making him storm dangerously out of his bonds, break into the room where Andrew was kept and bite him for several seconds before Buffy saved him. For several days, he was kept tied to a chair while the number of Potential Slayers rose, with Andrew showing enthusiasm in helping the gang.
At first, the Scoobies were openly hostile towards Andrew because he had murdered Jonathan, because of his alliance with Warren, and because of his annoying habits. Nevertheless, Andrew tried to make himself useful around the house by replacing Buffy's broken microwave, baking, and keeping a "big board" to track the First's plans. He was contacted by the First a second time in the form of Jonathan who ordered him to kill the Potential Slayers with a gun that was used by Willow when she was stalking Warren.
Unbeknownst to the First, Andrew was used by the Scooby Gang to gather information on the First by wearing a wire when meeting up with him which would allow Willow to hear the conversation on headphones. The First noticed this when he made it too obvious and reminded him of what he did to Jonathan. Andrew then stood up to him, promising to avenge Jonathan's murder.
Eventually, Andrew began documenting the Scoobies' adventures for future generations using a video camera. Although Xander, Anya, Spike, and Dawn were all happy to let him interview them, Buffy became angered by Andrew's attempt to turn everything into a story and she forced him to face up to the seriousness of his actions. She took him to Sunnydale High which was currently facing supernatural disturbances caused by the openings of the Seal of Danzalthar. Using the knife he used to kill Jonathan, Buffy made Andrew think his death would be necessary to close the seal. When a saddened Andrew finally accepted responsibility for Jonathan's murder, his tears of remorse put an end to the chaos caused by the seal.
Hoping for redemption, Andrew joined the Scoobies in the battle at the Hellmouth where he was certain he would die in battle. Armed with swords, he was partnered with Anya and stationed alongside her at a staircase in Sunnydale High in order to prevent any one of an army of Turok-Han vampires and Harbingers of Death from escaping. As Anya felt nervous, Andrew tried to comfort her with the thought of unicorns, candy canes and bunny rabbits, unintentionally bringing out a burst of fury in her by mentioning the latter. As she bravely fought off their attackers, Andrew barely tried to assault them. He was shocked and confused to survive the brutal fight while Anya died at the hands of a Bringer. At the end of the battle, Andrew confronted Xander over Anya's death, telling Xander that his former fiancé had died saving his life.
Watcher
Having earned the trust and friendship of the Scooby Gang, Andrew remained with them as they formed the Slayer Organization, a global organization which located and trained the thousands of Slayers recently activated by Willow. He and Violet starred in television recruitment adverts. Andrew received training as a Watcher from Rupert Giles, and was granted his own Slayer squad in the Slayer Organization Italy headquarters.
When Angel encountered a psychotic Slayer named Dana, Andrew was dispatched to the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart to handle the situation. There he was excited to reunite with Spike, revealing that he had been devastated by Spike's death and required therapy to get over it. Dana was eventually taken down by Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, but, when Angel tried to take her back to W&H, Andrew asserted that she belonged with the other Slayers. He also informed Angel that the Scooby Gang no longer considered Angel or his team trustworthy due to their takeover of Wolfram & Hart and that he was under direct orders from Buffy herself to bring Dana back with him by any means necessary. Respecting Buffy's orders, Angel relented and allowed Andrew to leave with Dana.
Months later, when Angel and Spike tried to track Buffy to Rome, they found Andrew instead. Buffy's true location was then secret and a decoy Slayer had been set up in Rome. Andrew informed the two vampires that Buffy was dating the Immortal, an old rival of theirs, a ruse set up by him because he thought it would be funny.
Rona transferred rebellious Slayer Simone Doffler to Andrew's squad in Italy, feeling that she would benefit from a less urban setting. Andrew and Simone were not compatible because they disagreed over whether Slayers should use guns. Simone eventually went rogue.
During a mission to Tokyo, Andrew used his knowledge of Japanese monster movies to direct a giant-sized Dawn in a battle against her mecha counterpart, a moment he claimed to have been preparing for his whole life.
When Soledad was activated as a Slayer, Andrew went to recruit her, but she was turned off by Buffy's pitch.
Outside Milan, Andrew located Nisha, one of Simone's lieutenants, so he and Buffy went on a mission to retrieve her. They rescued her from the nest of a Ragna demon, which Nisha revealed had been created by Andrew, who, in order to capture Simone, had bred the extinct species back into existence. Buffy and Andrew finally confronted Simone, who demanded a trade: Andrew for the Ragna demon. Simone explained that she wanted revenge on Andrew for his authority and annoying habits, but Buffy refused to give up her friend and Andrew's Slayer squad showed up to rescue their Watcher. Buffy later forgave Andrew for creating the Ragna, reaffirming that he was a member of the Scooby family.
Andrew, glad to hear from Buffy that he is officially considered a Scooby.
Later, Andrew's Slayer cell was forced to retreat alongside Buffy's to Tibet, when Twilight began tracking down the Scoobies through their magic use. Andrew took up his role as documentariam again to study Willow and the Slayers who had to learn to suppress their magic. Andrew was able to correctly deduce that there was a spy in their midst, who turned out to be Amy disguised as a cat.
He assisted in the all-out warfare between Twilight's armed forces and Buffy's, but became one of Twilight's captives along with Faith and Giles. In self-defense, Andrew donned a composite superhero armor. When Twilight (Angel) and Buffy ascended to a different dimension, and their home dimension became overrun with extra-dimensional demons, Andrew and Warren, who had been resurrected albeit skinless, squabbled for ownership of the armor. When one of the Placenturian demons lunged at them, Andrew pulled Warren behind him and took a deep and potentially fatal wound as a result, leaving Warren to protect him.
San Francisco
After the Twilight crisis was averted, Andrew gathered what remaining Slayers he could and started a disaster relief organization. Months after magic was cut off from Earth, Andrew attended Buffy's housewarming party at her new apartment in San Francisco along with the other former Scoobies.
During these events, Spike, having heard of the incoming threat of the Siphon, turned to Andrew for help in protecting Buffy from him. However, Spike never expected Andrew to do what he did: during the housewarming party, Andrew gave Buffy a spiked drink, and when she passed out drunk, Andrew created a new Buffybot using Warren's notes and technology, proceeding to transfer Buffy's mind into the Buffybot's body while sending the real Buffy's body to live a normal life in Mill Valley
However, Andrew failed to program the Buffybot with the ability to mimic human functions such as digesting food, menstruating, and maintaining a good balance of Ph in its blood, leading it, still unaware of its nature, to mistakenly believe she was pregnant. However, the truth came out to both her and Spike when her right arm was ripped off in a battle with a nest of zompires.
Buffy and Spike furiously confronted Andrew over what he put the former through, being particularly outraged that he didn't bother to tell the real Buffy anything. The three subsequently took Spike's ship to retrieve Buffy's body, only to discover that it had been captured by Simone. However, Andrew had placed a tracking device on the body, allowing them to follow it. Andrew subsequently apologized to Buffy and admitted that it was a bad plan; Buffy was still irked at Andrew, but softened a bit when he stated he also did so to give Buffy's body the life she could have had if she had not spent all those years slaying.
Return of magic
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In the following year, after the rules of magic had been wiped clean, Andrew stole the Vampyr book and fled to the Sunnydale crater. The Scoobies, believing him to intend to resurrect Warren, went after him. In reality, however, Andrew intended to use the new rules of magic to resurrect Jonathan and Tara.
This coincided with the presence of a Soul Glutton demon that began to grow on the force of Tara's pure resurrected soul. Willow managed to find Andrew, and he revealed that he felt alone in the Buffy gang; he knew the others did not trust him, and he believed that he "deserved it" for having been a part of Tara's death. By resurrecting Tara, he hoped to put his perceived guilt right and regain the trust of the Scoobies. Willow convinced Andrew to stop the spell, and later she and Buffy apologized for having caused him to feel left out. Buffy procured Andrew's assurance that he understood why his past actions were wrong and that he would not do it again, and offered him her forgiveness.
Back in his Oakland home, Andrew communicated with a holographic projection of Jonathan's personality, and expressed his learning about the importance of consent. He asked if this Jonathan would like Andrew to build him a new, robot body — to which Jonathan replied: "Hell yes!"
Some time later, Andrew attended a witch coven party, having been invited by an old demonology student of his, Julie. He had heard of a potion meant to create a new body, but Julie explained the potion likely just made you self-reflect and accept yourself. However, when Andrew drank the potion, the potion gave him a superhero body and the courage to come out as gay. The effects of the potion wore off when its purpose was fulfilled, after Andrew kissed his romantic interest, in front of all the Scoobies. Without the courage imparted to him by the potion, Andrew fled.
Xander and Buffy then went to Andrew's house to confront him. Xander apologized, believing his overzealous support of Andrew's coming out had unsettled him, but Andrew admitted he found Xander's reaction comforting; the realization of his sexual orientation was a big deal to him, but, excepting Xander, none of the Scoobies had expressed any reaction. He then explained the reason he fled was because he believed Clive wouldn't be interested in him without the altered body the potion gave him. When Buffy pointed out he was falling into the same pattern of running away he'd used for so many years and was resigning himself to "familiar pain" rather than allowing himself a chance of happiness, Andrew argued that he didn't deserve happiness because of his history of mistakes. Buffy, however, unambiguously told him he deserves happiness and demanded he takes this chance.
Andrew and Clive apparently did not pursue an exclusive relationship, for reasons as of yet unknown. Andrew continued to spend his time trying to find a body for the holographic Jonathan and using Grindr to look for dates. Andrew seemed to be hitting dead ends on the resurrection front until the demon by the name the Sculptor came to Andrew's house and offered him a deal: a body for Jonathan, in exchange for Andrew stealing Buffy's scythe. Jonathan pressured Andrew to take the deal, saying it was an opportunity to make up for his past sins. Ultimately, however, Andrew chose to double-cross the Sculptor and stay true to Buffy, although it meant the eventual death of Jonathan's body without the Sculptor's magic maintaining it. He argued that the holographic-turned-flesh Jonathan was not the real Jonathan and that stealing from Buffy could not put his past sins right. Furious at what he perceived as a betrayal, Jonathan fled.
After D'Hoffryn was able to take the power of the rest of the Magic Council, he was able to restore Jonathan to a human body, with Jonathan and D'Hoffryn attempting to turn Andrew against the other Scoobies by showing him the private thoughts and doubts of the rest of the group, as well as Clive's own private thoughts on his inadequacies as a person. Hurt, Andrew planned to move to Mykonos, but not before confronting Clive about what had been said. Clive revealed that, despite expressing the truth, his comments were taken out of context, and asked if Andrew should consider whether whoever showed him that information has his best interests at heart.This convinced Andrew to soon return to the Scooby Gang, who had been just reunited to face and defeat D'Hoffryn.
[b]Living abroad
Some time later, San Francisco suffered a magical attack in form of a tsunami led by the Shenlong dragon. In response to the national state of fear and violence, the government began the creation of the Supernatural Crisis Act, and Andrew was certain that the mob would run out of magic targets and go after the magic practitioners. He informed the Scooby Gang he was going seek refuge in Italy while he could, where he still had friends, and the Scoobies should do the same. They refused, deciding to stay to deal with the crisis, but Andrew promised to look for alternatives to their escape while he was away.
One year later, Andrew had been consulting with various world governments on managing the supernatural, making "so much money" from this. He also kept in touch with Riley, with whom he often worked together. With the upcoming battle of the Reckoning, Buffy called Andrew back to San Francisco asking for his help. Andrew arrived with technological gadgets for the Slayer army at Willow's empowerment center: in-ear receivers and collar microphones to be used in the battle and an equipped van for Giles to communicate with them. Andrew also showed his licensed gun and offered to fight, but Giles denied it, explaining that it was imperative that Andrew survived to restore the Watchers Council in his absence. Buffy declared that knowing Andrew would keep up the fight in her death gave her strength.
With the apocalypse averted, Andrew attended a barbecue at Dawn and Xander's home with Xander, Dawn, Joyce, Willow, Faith, Giles, Angel, and Spike. Andrew discussed with Giles about the Council having a fight song and played Scrabble with him. As Buffy looked on, she reflected: "The trouble with changing the world is... worth it."
