Cigua

== INTRODUCTION ==
A Honduran refugee turned American citizen who is in search information on the whereabouts of her family, with whom she was separated from as a child.
== ESSENTIAL INFO ==
Created and owned by Melody Werner. Designed by Dany Riv.
== BIOGRAPHY ==
Asunción Bienvenida was like many a young Honduran girl. Her family was underprivileged, a consequence of decades of "democracy-building" intervention by the CIA from America. In the power vacuum resultant of one such coup, cartels rose to power and Honduras became a narco state. And so, Asunción's parents understandably decided to escape somewhere safer to raise their child. Unfortunately, they were caught and detained attempting to cross the Mexican-American border, and their family separated into cages. Asunción cried until she could cry no more, and then wept in silence. After public outrage and a nominally more sympathetic, humanistic administration took over the American government, she was finally released and given full citizenship. But the thinly veiled arrogance and racism of the prior administration, long ignored due to its historical aspect, led to a culture wherein the maintaining of records for all those detained and deported for simply trying to escape a life of abject poverty and violence was nowhere near a priority--and in the fallout, Asunción would not be able to find her parents.
It was as if they had vanished completely.
Asunción is now a blossoming young woman, fresh out of the free public college she voted once to keep, as American as one can be. By day, she works in a cramped office space. By night, she's either busy dating the bartender she met on her twenty-first birthday or investigating what little paper trail she can suss out to see where her parents have disappeared off to.
== GEAR & ABILITIES ==
An incredibly adept engineer, she builds a hulking suit of armor that completely obscures her identity and gender.
== RELATIONSHIPS ==
Currently dating Nakala Solomon, who she lives with. They met on Asunción's twenty-first birthday, and immediately hit it off.
== SEE ALSO ==
SparQ
Slagtand
The Weeping Woman
Alma
Synergy
Syndrome
Mascara
Crucifer
Verj
Momoweb
Onda
Category:Heroes
Category:LGBTQ+
Category:Women
Category:Characters of Color