Lorena Marquez

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Aquagirl

### A Brief History On Sub-Diego

During the Manhattaning, the explosion that decimated Los Angeles caused California's already volatile fault lines to quake for months after the detonation. One of the worst earthquakes happened in San Diego County of the United States and in Tijuana, Mexico. There on Christmas morning, 1987, a good chunk of the coastline vanished under the sea and tidal waves from offshore. Earthquakes crashed against the shore, flooding much of the mainland for miles. Hundreds of thousands died. Some estimates are as high as a tenth of San Diego county's population of 2.7 million in 1987 were lost to the devastation and destruction. But fallout from the intrinsic explosion in Los Angeles had also, unknowingly, activated some people's dormant meta-genes.

A small group of about two hundred metahumans found themselves altered in the wake of what happened. Survival-based changes had left them seemingly deformed by human standards (whether immensely or whether with small inhuman traits like gills and webbed hands). Unable to return to the human society out of fear of what would happen to them, they created a small village off the coast of their city. They called this village beneath the waves Sub-Diego.

Those that could pass for human would venture onto shore to gather what the community needed at first, but eventually they became self-sufficient — especially after Atlantis discovered this little community and Atlanna offered them a place in Atlantean society.

Eventually, Atlantis would make use of their little community of Sub-Diego. When Atlantis made contact with the United Nations, they revealed they had built a visitor's center for drylanders and an outreach center for any metahumans with aquatic adaptations to make use of. Nowadays, the city is sort of an artificial island and resort destination. A third of it is above the waves and another third of it utilizes the breathable water technology to allow humans and Atlanteans to cohabitate.

### Lorena Marquez: 1996 - 2005

I was born shortly after Atlantis brought Sub-Diego into its society as an outpost and monitoring station. My loving father is Santiago Marquez, a Tijuanan metahuman refugee-turned-community-leader. My mother is Ondine, an Atlantean military intelligence officer. Following my birth, I was mostly raised by my father. My mother was reassigned elsewhere and she had little interest in settling down and raising a family. [Sidenote: The whole family thing was not for her. It may surprise you, but I do have a relationship with her. It's unconventional, but it works for us]

Unlike my father, I was able to pass for human and would often travel to the western coast of North America with other members of the Sub-Diego community to further my education (Sub-Diego was not the cultural hotspot it is now). I ended up falling in love with human culture, but I was never blind to its negative aspects as I saw the effects of the metahuman scare in the early 2000's firsthand and lived with my father's lasting paranoia about humanity. Even at that young age, I became determined to do something about humanity's apparent need to hate others.

### Lorena Marquez: 2005 - 2011

A month before my ninth birthday, I was in Coast City when I saw a televised broadcast with the Justice League of America announcing that Atlantis' king and queen would be joining their organization. Even then, I recognized it was a political stunt even then and did not think much else of it.

However, almost a year later, when Aqualad and Aquagirl joined the Titans, I had a much different reaction. I saw these two Atlantean youths becoming celebrities among the humans, not just for their powers or their political influence, but because of their personalities and style. I saw this as an opportunity and with the rise of social media, I began preparing myself for changing the hearts and minds of not just the surface's humans, but also those of the people below the sea, too.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Atlantean Physiology:** Lorena is the daughter of an Atlantean mother and a metahuman father in the Atlantean outpost of Sub-Diego. Though she shares many of the traits common to most Atlanteans, she also inherited unique traits from her metahuman father.
	+ ***Amphibious Nature:*** Lorena can breathe both water and air. When underwater, Lorena breathes by extracting oxygen from the water through the gills on her neck.
	+ ***Cold Resistance:*** Lorena's bloodstream is filled with an amino acid that keeps her body from freezing in the ocean depths. Her own temperature is naturally high.
	+ ***Enhanced Hearing:*** Lorena's hearing is several times more acute than human's.
	+ ***Enhanced Nightvision:*** Lorena's ability to see in the murky depths of the ocean gives her exceptional night vision while on land. She has excellent close range vision and she can see particularly well in low light.
	+ ***Enhanced Durability:*** Lorena's body is conditioned to survive the ocean depths. This makes her remarkably more resilient than the average human.
	+ ***Enhanced Stamina:*** Lorena does not tire quickly, particularly underwater. She can swim for hours at supersonic speeds without tiring or suffering from muscle fatigue. She is able to go two days without sleep.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength:*** Lorena can lift approximately 6 tons. This is classified by ARGUS as being in the Class IV Enhanced Strength category.
	+ ***Enhanced Swimming:*** Lorena can swim at supersonic speeds, maintaining cruising speeds between Mach 1 and Mac 2 with little effort for several hours.
	+ ***Telepathy:*** Lorena has a node in her brain allowing short-range telepathic reception and transmission to other minds with similar developments.
* **Computer Expert:** Not only Lorena well-versed in social media, but she is also an expert computer programmer and hacker. She is also highly capable of conducting vast amounts of research online — often with noting more than a smart phone.
* **Martial Arts:** Lorena is a highly-trained combatant and expert in Atlantean hand-to-hand combat. She is also proficient in the use of spears, staves, tridents, and other polearms. Her preferred fighting style utilizes hand-to-hand combat, mostly joint locks and other grappling maneuvers that allow her to use her opponent's strength and momentum against them. She also studied Vovinam, Krav Maga, and Capoeira and integrated those into her fighting style to both give her edge against Atlantean unfamiliar with these fighting styles and to allow her versatility outside of water.
* **Multilingual:** Lorena speaks Spanish, English, and Atlantean with high fluency and considers all three languages to be her native tongues. She also speaks Greek, Latin, Vietnamese, and Portuguese. She is also in the process of studying Stratan.
* **Politics:** Lorena has studied human and Atlantean politics intently. She is well-versed in the many different governments of the world, their world leaders, political affiliations, history, and stance on a number of social issues. She has also met many world leaders and is known for being a political activist.

### Weaknesses

* **Bleeding Heart:** Lorena can often become distracted from the goal at hand if she encounters innocents being mistreated.
* **Celebrity:** Lorena is a popular social media influencer and political activist, in addition to being a well-known heroine with a disclosed public identity. She is not well-suited to undercover operations.
* **Dehydration:** If Lorena does not immerse herself in water periodically, she will begin to suffer from severe dehydration. In particularly humid environments, she can go 48 hours without full hydration. In arid environments, she might dehydrate in less than 24 hours. In average dry land environments, she must hydrate regularly and submerge himself in water at least once per day.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Occult:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Weaponry:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Expertise:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Range:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 70
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Notes

* In the comics she gained her ability to breathe under water due to a serum created by a scientist Anton Geist.
* Her mother Ondine is a disgraced member of the Widowhood in *Aquaman* Vol 8 in the Post-Flashpoint continuity.

## Gallery

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## Network Files

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## Links and References

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