Amanda Elwood

Amanda Kay "Mandy" Elwood (b. July 1997) is a Seeker and former ward of Auldhouse. The second child of Scott and Brenda Elwood, Amanda possesses the abilities of inhuman strength and agility.

Physical appearance
Amanda is a thin girl with shoulder-length curly brown hair and narrow blue-green eyes. She wears meticulous makeup. She dresses almost exclusively in black, and has a preference for band tees. Amanda has her mother's narrow eyes, narrow upturned nose and thin lips. She is considered to be a spitting image of her mother.

Etymology
Amanda is, in part, a feminine form of Amandus. However, it was not used during the Middle Ages. In the 17th century it was recreated by authors and poets, who based it directly on Latin "amanda", meaning "lovable, worthy of love".

Kay is a short form of Katherine and other names beginning with "K".

Elwood is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and can derive from a locational name, or from an Olde English pre-7th Century personal name. As a locational surname, it derives from the place called Ellwood in Gloucestershire. The place name means "the elder wood", derived from the Olde English "ellern", meaning "elder tree", with "wudu", meaning "wood". Elwood may also be derived from the Olde English personal name "Aelfweald", which is composed of the elements "aelf", meaning "elf", and "weald", meaning "rule", and is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 in its Latinized form as "Aluuoldus" and "Alfuuold".