Asha Widukind

Asha Mariana Widukind was a member of World Mission and the League in 2016 and participated in the Battle of Florida. Born 21st January 1992 in Vienna, Austria, Asha lived an eclectic and confused life. She travelled to Boston in the hopes of learning more about her powers and subsequently was recruited several months later by Mr Bubbles into World Mission at the age of 24.

**Early Life**

Becoming emancipated from her parents at the age of 16 and moving to Italy (Udine), Asha would later move to Paris (France) at 18 and Germany (Munich) at 19. Asha's shade-summoning powers first developed at the age of 16 when the centipede shade made contact with her, but her capabilities improved drastically living in Munich. Asha returned to Austria and worked for several years as a repossession agent/debt collector, aided by her shade and ability to animate objects.

Asha struggled for many years after the age of 18 due to her ability to hear the voices of inanimate objects, including their distress, pain, wants and opinions. Despite having related super powers, Asha was incorrectly diagnosed with schizophrenia and regularly struggled in forming close relationships due to her associated frustrations and perceived 'craziness'. Asha would make friends with particularly outcast power users through her teenage and young adult life, finding it difficult to relate with non-powered people.

**Rise of Grimskull**

Asha was a member of World Mission and subsequently a member of the short-lived League. She was involved in numerous battles against the followers of Grimskull. It is noteworthy that, like Asha, Grimskull had a connection with The Imprint. Asha would lose her connection with the Imprint following the Battle of Munich. For a short period of time Asha would have no powers, as her link with her centipede shade, and as such the Imprint, was severed. Due to the events leading to the Battle of Florida, wherein a version of Gilgamesh (later Grimskull) was abducted from the 1500s, seemingly killed, before returning to life with a French accent, Asha was granted a new set of powers. For only several days Asha would have weather powers before once again losing her powers, this time due to the death of Grimskull.

**Death of Grimskull**

In a combination of grief and stress from the experiences of battling the rise of Grimskull, including the death of team member Jacob, Asha soon renounced any future involvement with those remaining in the League, and similarly repeated her position with the formation of Armored Core. Having been declared the heir of Jacob's inheritance, including his $1,000,000 (which had been given to each member of the later League) Asha returned to live with her family for several years.

Asha quickly commenced an expedited law degree after the Battle of Florida, following previous online studies, completing her degree less than a month before being pressured into the State V Mann court case of 2018. Asha formed co-council with then President Lyndon Jackson in the historic trial against Irwin Mann, a previous member of the League. Asha was present in-court when the conspiracy between Irwin Mann and Faust Geiger to assassinate the president transpired. Asha was witnessed at the time as facepalming and muttering something under her breath in German.

In the following years Asha would become a human rights lawyer and an advocate against the overly severe treatment of former superheroes and villains by the United States government. Asha would also marry and have one child, a boy named Jacob after the deceased League member.

**Powers**

Shade summoning (centipede shade), object animation and communication. Later the capacity to become insubstantial.

The above powers were replaced with weather manipulation, including flight.

**Family**

Mother, father, older brother (Austrian military), younger sister.

**Appearances**

MnM episodes 1-19 (all), Post-Campaign episode (court case).

**Current Status**

Alive, human rights lawyer, living in Austria, married with one child, age 41 in the year 2033

**Trivia**

* Asha required the sound of ABBA to fall asleep to every night until she lost her connection to the Imprint age 24, 2016
* Asha was regularly haunted by the voices of confused and distressed objects, impacting her mental wellbeing
* Asha murdered Holly in the Imprint during the events of the Battle of Munich, fearing she would become another Grimskull
* Asha once hid a loaded handgun in an airport pot plant in a rushed travel to Ukraine with the League
* Asha had was genuinely concerned about fellow World Mission superhero Wize being a date rapist
* Asha essentially caused the formation of the League after trying to punch Queen after a stressful mission during Grimskull's rise, forcing an impromptu exist from World Mission
* Asha once drove the League's RV 99 miles per hour on a long stretch of night time highway, before realising the speedometer was reading miles and not kilometers
* Asha once impressed Obama by referencing him in a largely ad libbed speech about America during a live CNN interview
* Okay yes, maybe the weakest member of the League

**Quotes**

* "You're the only one I don't hate." (to Jacob)
* "Could you stop me if ever I act too crazy?" (to Jacob)
* "I... I love you." (to Jacob just before his first death)
* "\*sighs\*" (generally whenever life was hard)
* "I'm not crazy!"
* "Grimskull did 9/11."
* "Wait, Deathpan did 9/11?"
* "So you should be called 'the Lieutenant'." (to the General)