Aqualass

Jane Windham (Older Sister)

Marcus Windham (Brother-In Law)

Francisco Marquez (Older Brother)

Antonio Marquez (Younger Brother)

The Network (Member)

## **History**

### **Lorena Marquez: 2000 - 2015**

Lorena was born shortly after Atlantis brought Sub-Diego into its society as an outpost and monitoring station. Her loving father is Santiago Marquez, a Tijuanan metahuman refugee-turned-community-leader. Her mother is Ondine, an Atlantean military intelligence officer. Following her birth, Lorene was mostly raised by my father. Her 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 Lorene does have a relationship with her. It's unconventional, but it works for them]

Unlike her father, Lorene 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 her education (Sub-Diego was not the cultural hotspot it is now). She ended up falling in love with human culture, but she was never blind to its negative aspects as she saw the effects of the metahuman scare in the early 2000's firsthand and lived with her father's lasting paranoia about humanity. Even at that young age, She became determined to do something about humanity's apparent need to hate others.

A month before her ninth birthday, she was in Coast City when she saw a televised broadcast with the Justice League of America announcing that Atlantis' king and queen would be joining their organization. Even then, she 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, she had a much different reaction. She 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. She saw this as an opportunity and with the rise of social media, She 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.

## **Powers, Abilities, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Atlantean-Metahuman Hybrid 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.

* **Aquatic Adaptation:**
* **Supernatural Athleticism:**
* **Supernatural Senses:**
* **Supernatural Speed:**
* **Supernatural Stamina:**
* **Supernatural Strength:**
* **Telepathy:**
* **Magic:**
	+ **Water Magic:**
		- **Hyrdokinetic Creature Creation:**
		- **Water Attacks:**

### **Abilities**

**Atlantean Training:**

* **Supernatural Combat:** Lorena is a highly-trained combatant and expert in Atlantean hand-to-hand combat. 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.
* **Weapon Proficiency:** Lorena possess proficiency, capabilities and knowledge in weapons, any implement or device that can be used with the intent to inflict damage or harm. She is also proficient in the use of spears, staves, tridents, and other polearms.
* **Omnilligualism:** 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.
* **Political Intuition:** 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.

**Computer Operation Intuition:** 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.

### **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.