Maigo (Tilly) Hudson (Character)

Maigo (Tilly) Hudson is an important main character of all five of the Nemesis Saga books, getting the biggest focus in Project Hyperion and acquiring the Mashintorum mecha known as Hyperion.

The original Maigo Tilly was a ten-year-old schoolgirl who was killed by her biological father, Alexander Tilly after she caught him standing over her mother's dead body, which he was also responsible for. Maigo's organs and DNA was taken by Zoomb's secret research facility, BioLance in charge of growing clones. It was there that her DNA was combined with that of Nemesis Prime's and the Nemesis Project was born.

In Project Nemesis and Project Maigo, she was seemingly inseparable from Nemesis and portrayed as nothing more than a voice or conscious at the back of Nemesis's mind. This was proven wrong at the end of Project Maigo, as Nemesis was pushed to the brink of death and expelled the now teenage looking Maigo, estimated to be 16. This was later to be revealed as a concept known as a Voice.

From there, Maigo was adopted by Jon Hudson and Ashley Collins, joining some of the FC-P's exploits with superhuman abilities gifted by Nemesis.

## Physical Appearance

Before being killed by her father, Maigo Tilly was a pretty standard ten-year-old girl. Her mother was Japanese and her father Caucasian, but her appearance mostly takes after her mother. She has black hair, brown eyes, and is of average height.

After being "resurrected" from Nemesis's presumed death, Maigo emerges as a presumed sixteen-year-old girl with the same appearance as her ten-year-old self, just aged up.

When Nemesis is being pulled from the test tube by Dr. Kendra, the mostly human body is described as six-feet tall. However, because this is the enhanced growth of Nemesis at work, it is impossible to know if Maigo's full grown height is six-feet or less

Maigo takes after Cooper's fashion choices, practicality over fashion. She prefers ponytails and clothes that don't impede her movements. Although her younger self was a fan of things like Hello-Kitty, so it is possible Maigo still has some love for more girly or feminine outfits, though it is never seen.

## Personality

Even as a child, Maigo was perceptive and empathetic. She was aware of her father's abusive and almost sociopathic nature towards her mother and knew that her mother never would've killed herself as her father claimed.

Despite the luxury she and her mother enjoyed, and the close bond they shared, Maigo did not live a happy life. This was compounded upon by her experiences as Nemesis, eating and killing people, making her somewhat closed off when she first becomes human again.

At first, she only really opens up to Hudson, who she shares a psychic bond with, as well as an emotional connection as he was one of the few that started rooting for Nemesis, even after she destroyed Boston. Maigo has a more deadpan sense of humor at first, but reacts amicably towards Hudson's dirtier jokes. Her humor eventually becomes more like her adoptive father's, rife with references and dirty jokes, though she is still more restrained and serious than Hudson.

During the events of Project 731 onwards, Maigo has a recurring fear that she will eventually turn back into Nemesis. Her growing height and muscles concerns her that a repeating pattern is starting to show itself. But towards the end of Project Legion, she finally accepts her strength and power as her own and "embraces the monster" unconcerned with what she might become. This mental block might have actually limited her strength, but because Maigo doesn't fight on a human scale all that often, it's difficult to tell.

Maigo is incredibly noble, willing to become Nemesis's Voice after she reawakens and begins rampaging in order to calm her down. Knowing how much she suffered just as a backseat driver during the first two books, it is remarkable that she nearly allows herself to be taken as a Voice again. The intervention of Katsu Endo is the only reason it did not happen.

Maigo, in addition to the father-daughter bond she shares with Hudson, has a pretty close familial relation to the rest of the main FC-P cast by Project Legion. Ashley Collins is her mother figure, though they aren't as close as her and Hudson. Mark Hawkins, Avril Joliet, Ted Watson, and Anne Cooper all serve as honorary aunts and uncles. However, arguably her closest relationship outside of Hudson, is Lilly, who she sees as a sister. Considering that both are inhuman, they can relate to each other on a very personal level about their fears and concerns regarding their unique conditions.

Maigo has a love for more classic media, such as Princess Bride, which she watched with Lilly, Collins, Joliet, and Cooper as apart of their girl's night. She also enjoys classic anime such as Ghost in the Shell and Akira.

Maigo has a great deal of sympathy for Nemesis and does not at all blame her for the horrible events that she went through as a result of the Gestorumque's actions. She was immensely grateful towards Katsu Endo who took her place as a Voice after Nemesis reawakened in Project 731, more viscous than ever without a Voice. She felt a great deal of sadness and remorse for Endo and Nemesis when they were presumed dead at the end of Project Legion.

Maigo also has a much darker side, filled with the rage she knew as Nemesis's Voice, sharing memories of the torture that Nemesis Prime endured. This causes her to lash out in multiple ways, like when she killed the BlackGuard soldiers in Project 731 or when she became enraged upon Hudson's disappearance as he was thought dead at the hands of Lovecraft. This may also be somewhat attributed to her Atlantean DNA which is presumed to cause more instability in the people who possess it.

## Powers and Abilities

**Inhuman DNA:** As a result of being genetically modified by Nemesis Prime's DNA, she is granted gifts that no other Voice is privy to. She also has some Atlantean DNA in her, possibly resulting in her more vicious and volatile nature from time to time.

* **Superhuman Enhancements:** Due to her unique genetics, she has immense strength, and speed. She has increased durability, but not to the point where bullets can't hurt her. It is unknown if she possesses any regenerative capabilities, but it is likely.
	+ **Strength:** Maigo is shown to be capable of going toe-to-toe with Ferox and Aeros, the latter of which being a twenty foot tall monstrous alien. She is also stated, by Jon Hudson, to be stronger than Lilly and is likely stronger than Crazy, both of which are also genetic hybrids and capable of amazing superhuman feats.
	+ **Speed:** Maigo was shown to be capable of taking on a group of special ops BlackGuard soldiers with no armor, no weapons, and no cover to speak of. She killed several of these men without getting shot even a single time, meaning that her speed eclipses what pro-level soldiers can react to.
	+ **Durability:** Maigo is never shown taking too much of a beating in the series, but because her bones and muscles can bear the strength and speed she exerts, it is easy to surmise that she has increased bone density and tensile strength in her tissue and muscles. Her durability also allows her to be immune to cold.
	+ **Accelerated Thought Process:** This one is also more of an inference, but in order to properly move at superhuman speed, Maigo's reaction time is likely heightened to some extent. This could also be partially responsible for her increased intelligence.
* **Increased Bloodlust(?):** Possibly because of her Atlantean DNA, Maigo is far more vicious than your average human girl, capable of killing several BalckGuard soldiers with little regret. However, this could also be a result of the soldiers hostility, allowing her to justify their deaths, as she does feel guilt over the people she ate and killed as Nemesis.
* **Mashintorum Compatibility:** When Hyperion (Mashintorum) was first discovered, it was revealed that he was sealed away behind a genetic lock of sorts. Maigo's human, Atlantean, and Gestorumque DNA was enough to bypass this lock and grant her access to Hyperion as his Voice. However, it is likely that once Hyperion was unsealed, he could be piloted by anyone.
* **Psychic Link:** Because of her adoptive father's (Jon Hudson) actions to assist Nemesis in earning her vengeance, Nemesis established a sort of psychic link with the man, this link was passed onto Maigo after she was expelled from Nemesis's body following the end of Project Maigo. The two of them share a mental landscape, that being Jon Hudson's home on Christmas morning when he was a child. And Maigo can read Jon's mind to some extent, though Jon appears unable to read her mind. This link, as reported by Jon Hudson and Maigo, had been fading between the events of Project Hyperion and Project Legion. Though it should be noted that Maigo can still invade any mental landscape Jon may find himself in, such as when he confronted his universe's Dread Hive Queen and she also can sense when his presence disappears from observable reality, such as when Crazy teleported himself and Jon to the Dread Dimension.
* **Altered Aging Speed:** Maigo grows very fast, to the point where she looks like a twenty-something in Project Hyperion. There is an initial concern that this aging will make her lifespan a great deal shorter, but it seems that after reaching her body's peak physical state, her growth slowed to a normal rate.
* **Voice Decay Resistance(?):** As shown in Project Legion by Katsu Endo, Voices who remain inside a Gestorumque too long begin to atrophy and integrate with their Kaiju on a deeper level. It is unknown if Maigo possesses a resistance to this decay due to her physiology, or if it was not see simply because she did not spend enough time as Nemesis's Voice.

**Above Average Intelligence:** According to Watson, Maigo is a quick study of basically anything computer related, picking up Watson's skill of hacking and getting close to his level within just a few years. It is unknown if this is a natural trait of Maigo's or if it can be attributed to her genetic modifications and it is unknown if this talent applies to other fields of study.

**Hacking:** As mentioned above, Maigo excelled at interacting with technology and even Watson, the FC-P's chief tech expert gave her high praise.

**Hand-To-Hand Combat Proficiency:** After spending several years as Nemesis's Voice, Maigo developed a strong array of battle instincts and muscle memory. Even without any formal training, she took down the BlackGuard handily. After becoming a Voice for Hyperion, Maigo was trained further in hand-to-hand combat, adopting a more agile form of fighting.

## Book Appearances

* Project Nemesis
* Project Maigo
* Project 731
* Project Hyperion
* Project Legion

## Trivia

* Maigo is one of the few characters yet to be referenced in another timeline or universe and it is unlikely that she will be seen again outside of a possible Project Nemesis Rebooted series.
* Maigo's ten-year-old self and her post Nemesis-self are possibly different people. The author himself states that the current Maigo carries the memories of her past self, but since her body is an entirely different one it is up for debate as to whether or not she is the same person. Jeremy Robinson believes that if there is such a thing as a soul, current Maigo is a different person, otherwise, she is the exact same. The different person theory could be inferred from a line in Project Maigo when Hudson was talking to her mind via Nemesis, where he said that she's not Nemesis or Maigo, in which she answered "I am new". The existence of "ghosts" as seen in Tether would seem to indicate that souls exist in the Robinsonverse, though, again, it is up for debate.
* Maigo's taste in media is influenced by Jeremy Robinson himself, who's favorite anime also include Akira and Ghost in the Shell.
* Apparently, Maigo had acquired interest in history besides anything computer related.