Perenna

**Perenna** is a recurring character in Season 2 of *Black Lightning.* She is a powerful telepathic meta-human therapist who is helping Jennifer Pierce understand and control her powers better.

## Throughout the Series

### **Season 2**

Perenna was hired by Jefferson Pierce and Lynn Stewart at Gambi's suggestion to aid and counsel their daughter, Jennifer, and help her control her manifesting powers. Perenna decided to approach Jennifer randomly on the street in order to meet her without any expectations, using her powers to pull her into an illusionary world of Jen's own making. Despite assurances that Jennifer was safe and that her parents were involved, Jennifer demanded to be released, which Perenna complied with. Jennifer later contacted Perenna to try again. Meeting in the park, Perenna introduced her to an illusionary construct that took the form of a beauty salon, which Perenna says has been a place of community, information, and power among black women. As they began her training, Perenna built a box for Jennifer to put all her feelings in and asked her what material she would like it made out of. After demonstrating wood and rock, Jennifer settled on gold. During a later session, Perenna told Jennifer that it was not just about building a box to put her feelings in; she had to know *what* those feelings were. Perenna touched Jennifer and triggered a vision of Jennifer seemingly burning and screaming from the use of her powers.

Perenna continued to help Jen learn to control her powers, encouraging her even when she failed to contain her feelings in the mind box she had created.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Meta-Human Physiology:** Through unknown means, Perenna's DNA was altered and her cells supercharged, turning her into a meta-human and thereby allowing her access to impressive abilities which she is skilled in.
	+ **Telepathy:** Perenna has the psychic ability to read minds. She can also use her ability to bring others into a mental landscape, allowing her and the people she brings in to manipulate her surroundings at will.
		- **Mental detection:** Perenna can feel and detect the minds of others, as well as their intentions, emotions, and mental states.
		- **Psychic illusion:** She can project extremely realistic illusions in other people's heads and make them experience or even feel things that aren't actually real.
		- **Memory manipulation:** Perenna can search through memories to obtain specific information.
		- **Pain Inducement:** Perenna can induce excruciating mental pain inside people’s minds, as shown when she rendered two men incapacitated on the ground in pain.
		- **Empathy:** Perenna possesses limited empathic abilities, as she could read Jennifer's emotions and sense the pain she was enduring.

## Appearances

* **"The Book of Consequences:** Chapter Three: Master Lowry"
* **"The Book of Consequences:** Chapter Four: Translucent Freak"
* **"The Book of Blood:** Chapter Three: The Sange"
* **"The Book of Rebellion:** Chapter One: Exodus" (mentioned)
* **"The Book of Rebellion:** Chapter Two: Gift of Magi" (vision)
* **"The Book of Secrets:** Chapter One: Prodigal Son"
* **"The Book of Secrets:** Chapter Two: Just and Unjust"
* **"The Book of Secrets:** Chapter Three: Pillar of Fire"
* **"The Book of the Apocalypse:** Chapter One: The Alpha" (mentioned)
* **"The Book of the Apocalypse:** Chapter Two: The Omega"

#### Season 3

* **"The Book of War:** Chapter One: Homecoming" (mentioned)