MichAndrea

"I was gone for a long time... but then Andrea brought me back."

- Michonne to Carl about Andrea.

MichAndrea is the femslash ship between Michonne Hawthorne and Andrea from the The Walking Dead fandom.

Season 3
It is revealed in season three that Andrea and Michonne (the hooded figure with pet Walkers that saved Andrea's life in the season 2 finale) have taken shelter at a game cooler. Michonne raids a pharmacy for medicine because of Andrea's sickness from influenza, and when she comes back, Andrea unsuccessfully tries to convince Michonne to leave her, saying she can handle herself. Andrea however is successful at convincing Michonne that they need to move out now and find a new place before walkers surround their current location. Andrea, Michonne, and her two pet Walkers make it out of the back entrance of the game building.

While traveling on the road, Andrea and Michonne come across a plume of smoke rising in the distance, going to investigate, they discover a crashed helicopter with "survivors". Andrea stays hidden in the bushes while Michonne investigates, until the arrival of The Governor, Philip Blake, and the Woodbury Residents. When Michonne's pet walkers start making noise and put Andrea in danger, she slices both of their heads off to prevent the men from detecting their presence. However, a person sneaks up behind them, and a man's voice is heard as he tells them to lower their weapons and turn around. As Andrea and Michonne comply, the man holding them at gunpoint is revealed to be Merle Dixon. Merle grins at them both, surprised to see Merle, Andrea passes out. Late in the car during their ride to Woodbury, Andrea, before going unconscious, calls out for Michonne in her sleep, Michonne reassures her that she's there.

After being rescued and waking up, Andrea and Michonne check up on each other before getting "interrogated" by The Governor and Merle. When they later explore the streets of Woodbury, Andrea is shown to like the place a lot while Michonne is strongly suspicious of it and doesn't trust any of the residents. She later tells Andrea that she doesn't trust this place, and it's not like what it seems. Andrea, however, tells her that they can make a life here, they have food, water, and they can actually survive in Woodbury unlike when they were outside. Michonne stays silent and leaves to go somewhere else.

When Andrea decides that she wants to stay in Woodbury, Michonne is shown to be sad for a moment before she scoffs and grabs her bag, coldly saying that Andrea would only weigh her down anyway. Her response seemed to hurt Andrea as she called out for Michonne and tried to run after her before Merle closed the gates.

When Michonne kills The Governor's daughter Penny, (who is a walker he kept out of an unhealthy way of coping with her death) he attacks her and tries to kill her. In self-defense, Michonne grabs a broken glass fragment and stabs into his eye. Andrea later discovers The Governor, who had been mutilated by Michonne, and draws her gun at the latter, but doesn't fire. She instead tells her to get out, Michonne looks at Andrea and slowly exists the room with an anguished expression on her face.

When Andrea discovers what Philip has done to her group and Michonne, she feels terrible and blames herself for what has happened. Later, she finds Michonne in the prison yard, the two talk for a bit and as Andrea gets ready to leave, Michonne looks away and tells her that she chose a warm bed over a friend.

When Andrea later gets abducted by Philip whilst trying to make it to the prison to alert Michonne and the group of his plan, she is forced to watch as Philip kills Milten. Milten gives Andrea a way out of the room, however ends up succumbing to the virus right after his death. When Milten turns into a Walker, she successfully kills him but gets bit in the process and passes out on the floor next to the exit. When Michonne arrives with Rick and the group, she holds Andrea and she smiles at her, Michonne cries as she sees Andrea's bite, but reassures her that she won't be going anywhere and she'll stay with her.

Months later after the battle of Woodbury, Michonne helps Rick out in the prison and says that she misses Andrea very much, she later says to Carl that when the outbreak started, she was lost and couldn't feel anything anymore, but Andrea brought her back.

In Michonne's flashback of her and Andrea, the two are seen sitting at a campfire together. Michonne calls this their "girl's night" and Andrea joyfully smiles at her.

Moments

 * Michonne often makes remarks about how much she misses Andrea throughout the series.
 * Whilst explaining to the Governor about Michonne and Andrea, Merle cheekily notes that they were "cuddling up" all winter.
 * Merle refers to Andrea during his talk with Rick in the forest as Michonne's girlfriend.

Behind The Scenes
"Well, the great thing about how the show works and what I love about it is that the characters do have dimension. I’m not going to directly answer that because that’s a spoiler, but I will say that there’s dimension. You haven’t seen all that she is.  There’s a range of possibilities, with what can happen next between them, because there’s dimension to who she is.  Although she has a self-protection that is fierce, and that has allowed her to survive and thrive, it is heartbreaking for her to leave, but she has to stay true to who she is.  She loves Andrea, so her responses to Andrea are not generally going to be explosive.  But, at the end of the day, she’s listening to her gut.  She wants this person to be with her and to stay with her, but she knows she can’t force it because she’s not a person to get forced into anything.  There’s no point in screaming at Andrea to make her do something. It really is Andrea’s choice. Michonne does not violate people’s freedoms, as she feels has been happening to her. There’s nothing more to do, but just to have you make that choice. It’s heartbreaking for her because she can feel that Andrea’s not going to leave with her. She has such amazing instincts that she can feel things coming a little bit before they do. But, she still has to present her with a simple choice and not violate her freedoms. As painful as that is, when you love someone, you want them to do want you want them to do, but there was no point in screaming at Andrea. That’s not how you accomplish anything, in her mind."

- Danai Gurira said about Michonne's actions towards Andrea in a 2012 Collider interview.

"I think when she saw Andrea, that first time, she saw a fighter. Andrea was fighting, tooth and nail, to survive, and Michonne could see that. If you’re a fighter, you recognize a fighter. She saw someone who she could really hang with. She’s not a liability. She’s going to fight to the end, just like me. I think that really attracted Michonne to Andrea, as a friend and as someone to ally with. I also think she was lonely. She’d been on her own with these walkers, and you start to want human company. With Andrea, she saw a woman that she could hang with and thought they’d make a great team. And then, they developed a closeness, as a result of that initial instinct response."
 * During an Interview for the characters of season three, Laurie Holden was asked about Michonne and Andrea's relationship and how they came to be. Her answer was that they were best friends and their relationship was a pure love of two strong women, and that she was glad the writers gave Andrea a friend and a cool girlfriend.
 * During a panel, when asked about Andrea and Michonne's relationship, Danai Gurira said that in Michonne's mind, Andrea chose a guy over her. Laurie Holden then adds that she [Andrea] didn't and she loves Michonne. Danai Gurira continues saying that Michonne did not want to "share" Andrea and wanted to keep her to herself.
 * During an interview, Danai Gurira and Laurie Holden talked about Michonne and Andrea's bond.

- Danai Gurira about Michonne's feelings towards Andrea.

"What I loved about this last episode was that it really gave us an opportunity to learn more about her. In the scene with Michonne and the Governor, where he gets up and walks behind her and he’s holding her sword, she’s like a coiled cobra. He’s holding her weapon and saying, “We can probably find a place for you.”  And then, when she strikes, it’s instantaneous.  We also learned more about Michonne’s relationship with Andrea and how she feels about Woodbury and her instincts.  When she was left at the gate with Andrea and they were talking about leaving, she was genuinely hurt.  I love that vulnerability that we saw in Michonne and the decisions that she makes, for what she needs to do.  I was really excited about exploring a little bit more about who Michonne is, with that episode.  It gave us a lot of good insights into who she is."

- Greg Nicotero about Michonne and Andrea.

"I’m very touched that she chose to save my life because she didn’t know me from Adam. She’s a warrior and an alpha female. We become the best of friends. I think we complement one another. We have each other’s backs. There’s a mutual respect and a genuine love between these two women that become the best of friends. Season 3 is quite a journey for this duo."

- Laurie Holden on Andrea and Michonne.

"Andrea loves Michonne!"

- Laurie Holden when the interviewer said that Andrea chose a man over Michonne. "There is so much love there [between Michonne and Andrea]."

- Danai Gurira at a Walking Dead interview.

"I think she [Michonne] was happier when it was just the two of them."

- Laurie Holden on Michonne and Andrea.

Fanon
MichAndrea is the most popular femslash ship within The Walking Dead fandom. It immediatly gained some attention from the fans, and grew at the third season went on. Although it has lost some attention since then due to Andrea being dead.

On AO3, MichAndrea is the most written ship for Andrea and the second most written for Michonne. It is also the most written femslash pairing in The Walking Dead (TV) tag.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * Laurie Holden (Andrea) retweeted MichAndrea fan art on Twitter and captioned it that she loved it.
 * Glen Mazzara (Executive Producer) tweeted to Laurie Holden after she had said that she might get eaten by a walker: "I hope Michonne can protect u".
 * Laurie described Michonne and Andrea as "Best friends for life and thereafter...".
 * The Walking Dead (Brasil) posted fanart of Michonne and Andrea holding hands.