Mera (person)

Princess Mera of Xebel in Dimension Aqua was the wife of Aquaman and Queen of Atlantis.

## Mera

### Aliases

Princess Mera (formerly), Queen Mera, Queen of Atlantis

### Relatives

Aquaman (husband), Aquababy (son, dead), A.J. (son), Hila (twin sister), King of Xebel (father)

### Affiliation

Xebel (formerly), Aquaman Family, Atlantis

### Occupation

Princess (formerly), Assassin (formerly), Queen of Poseidonis

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Xebel, Dimension Aqua, Bermuda Triangle, Earth, Sol system, Space Sector 2814

## History

Some eons after the fall of Atlantis, Xebel distanced itself to form its own undersea community, one that developed a warlike xenophobia towards their neighboring kingdom and the surface world. Xebel warred with Atlantis for centuries until they were eventually beaten and sentenced to life imprisonment within Dimension Aqua, located within the Bermuda Triangle.

From then on, royalty within their hierarchy treated their long-standing hatred of Atlanteans as the basis of their myths and the very reason of being of their race for generations to come.

### Early Years

Twin princesses, Mera and Hila, were born to the current King of Xebel. They were trained in combat and in Hydro-kinesis.

### Adulthood

A millennia after their confinement, the king of Xebel sent his daughter Mera out into the world in order to find and assassinate the future king, Orin of Atlantis. Instead, Mera fell in love with him, becoming his queen and bride as he took the throne.

Supposedly, Mera was once an undersea queen in an alien otherworldly dimension commonly referred to as Dimension Aqua. Several years ago, a criminal named Leron seized control of the kingdom and deposed Queen Mera. Exiled from her kingdom, Mera fled Dimension Aqua for the Earth dimension whereupon she met the Atlantean sea-king, Aquaman. Aquaman and his sidekick, Aqualad, vowed to assist Mera in any way possible. Leron pursued Mera to Earth and managed to capture her along with Aquaman. He brought them back to Dimension Aqua where they were imprisoned. Aided by the water sprite known as Quisp, Aquaman managed to free Mera and defeat Leron. However, rather than return to the throne to her kingdom, Mera elected to return to Atlantis with Aquaman.

As Mera continued to share in adventures with the sea-king, the two began to fall in love. The two were soon wed and Mera lived with Aquaman at the Atlantean Royal Palace.

Before long, Mera gave birth to Aquaman's son, whom they named Arthur Curry, Jr., aka, Aquababy.

Less than two years later, Mera suffered the greatest tragedy in her life. Aquaman's nemesis Black Manta kidnapped Arthur Curry, Jr. and confined inside of a translucent tank filled with poison. The child lapsed into a coma and Mera embarked upon an ambitious crusade to save him. She found the means to return to Dimension Aqua and fought against the tyrant Leron in order to learn the location of a special healing device. She discovered that Leron had taken all of Mera's possessions and cast them away into the Great Pit. Mera braved the pit and fought against elemental monsters in order to retrieve the device. Her quest proved successful, but as she returned home to Atlantis, she found that she was too late. Arthur Curry, Jr. had died.

This ultimately led Mera to suffer a nervous breakdown. She abandoned her husband Aquaman, blaming his "weak genes" for Arthur, Jr.'s death. It was her belief that had her son been born of a man from her dimension, then he would have been strong enough to survive Black Manta's attack. Their marriage dissolved, Aquaman left Atlantis, but Mera stayed behind. Her mental stated continued to deteriorate until finally, one of the interim rulers, Lord Wexus had her committed to the AHARD-1 hospital center. She remained there for several months until such time that Aquaman returned to repel an invasion force of giant jellyfish. Aquaman tried to make peace with Mera, but she savagely attacked him. While attempting to defend himself, Aquaman accidentally pushed Mera too hard, impaling her upon an upturned piece of metal. Believing her dead, Aquaman had her placed inside a coffin and taken to the royal palace. However, as Mera is not native to this dimension, her vital organs are not located in the same position as a normal human's. She in fact survived being impaled and rose from her coffin. With nothing more to say to Aquaman, Mera left the Earth realm and returned to Dimension Aqua.

### Dracula

Taking advantage of Mera's grief for her husband's death, Vlad Dracula approached her when she was on land. She was easily seduced because of the combination of the nosferatu's sexual aura and her increased libido (induced by her grief). After her orgasms dissolve her will, Dracula is able full entrance to bite her. Mera rises later on to serve Dracula as his new concubine.

### Blackest Night

Mera was almost chosen by a black lantern ring during her transformation into a nosferatu, but Dracula prevented it from happening. As a vampyr, Mera was able to do away with a few undead lanterns. She and fellow nosferatu, Lori Lemaris, were able to deal plenty of damage to Dracula's enemy.

Mera was chosen as the deputy for the Red Lantern Corps during the Blackest Night and after the battle Carol Ferris was able to use her ring's power to keep Mera alive long enough for Saint Walker to remove the destructive effects of the Red Ring from her body with his Blue Lantern Ring. Afterwards she is happily reunited with her husband who was one of the people resurrected by the power of the White Lantern Corps.

### Brightest Day

During the events of the Brightest Day Mera and Aquaman rekindled their love and the two began to work together, notably saving a group of children from abduction, but they are confused as Aquaman can summon zombie version of marine wildlife. Soon after she is forced to reveal to Aquaman her true history, that she was originally sent to kill him.

### 30th/31st Century

Mera serves the Vampyr King as his concubine while her sister acts as a commander to his underwater forces.

## Attributes

### Powers

**Vampirism**

* **Transmutation**: Mera can change in a being of pure water or take the form of any marine animal, but with her normal intelligence.
* **Magick Aptitude**: Like all nosferatu, Mera has a natural aptitude for magic rivaling her *H. magi* ancestors.
	+ **Haemokinesis**: Mera can flex the extent of their water manipulating abilities to control the blood flow within another person's being. Either painfully extracting the life's fluid from their bodies under duress of force if she were so inclined or twisting individual anatomies to such an extent to cause excruciating agony.
* **Power Retention**: Mera retains all of her previous abilities tied to her *Homo aquensis* physiology.

**Xebelian (*Homo aquensis*) Physiology**: Mera shares most of the same biophysical augmentations and physiology as that of an Atlantean and are colloquially considered as such. However, compared to Atlanteans, their physiology is still different enough to be distinguished between one another.

* **Amphibious Nature**: Though not overtly visible, Mera possesses a set of gills, which allows her to extract oxygen from the surrounding environment enabling her to breathe underwater. Mera can also breathe in an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere, but only for limited periods of time.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Because her species live in some of the deepest parts of the ocean, Mera's body are capable of moving with ease even with 1086 (approximately over half a ton) pounds of pressure applied to them. They possess muscle density ten times that of a human being.
* **Superhuman Durability**: Mera can withstand the pressure of the ocean with ease, their skin is considered nearly bullet-proof, and they are naturally resistant against heat and energy.
* **Enhanced Senses**: Mera possesses natural senses attuned for living in the ocean, granting her a natural advantage on land.
	+ **Enhanced Hearing**: Her hearing is more acute than an ordinary human.
	+ **Enhanced Vision**: Her vision allows them to see in the dark depths of the ocean.
	+ **Enhanced Sense of Smell**: She possesses a keener sense of smell compared to ordinary humans.
* **Superhuman Speed**: They are capable of moving, reacting, running and swimming at superhuman speeds.
* **Superhuman Agility**: Xebelians perfect balance, bodily coordination, and/or perfect equilibrium to a point far in excess to that of a normal human being on Earth, their bodies being able to coordinate easily while under the pressure of the ocean.
* **Superhuman Stamina**: Xebelians have the ability to maintain continuous physical actions for an undefined period longer than an ordinary human.

**Additional Powers**

* **Dimensional Travel**: Mera has the ability to travel between her native world of Dimension Aqua and the Earth realm. Her aptitude with this power has not always been consistent, and there have been occasions when Mera has been forced to find an alternate recourse for crossing the barriers.
* **Hydro-kinesis**: Mera possesses the ability to increase the density of water within her immediate vicinity for a wide variety of effects. This ability allows her to create "hard water" objects, reshaping volumes of water into simple geometric shapes. Mera commonly uses this power to create water missiles, which she projects towards a selected target.
* **Marine Telepathy**: Mera possesses a limited degree of telepathy, which allows her to communicate with other aquatic peoples. Unlike Aquaman however, Mera cannot use this ability to communicate with lower order marine life.

### Abilities

* **Diving**
* **Swimming**
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)**
* **Leadership**

### Weaknesses

* **Transmutation Curse vulnerability:** Like their H. magi ancestors, *H. aquensis* are vulnerability to curses.
	+ **Vampyrism Vulnerability:** Like their H. magi ancestors, *H. aquensis* are vulnerable to the catalysts (like the enzymes in most nosferatu saliva) that change someone into nosferatu.
	+ **Red Curse Vulnerability:** Like their *H. magi* ancestors, *H. aquesis* are vulnerable to the Red Curse that causes an infected to change into the spirit animal (totem) during the full moon.
		- Lycanthrope

* **Vulnerability to Lead**: Exposure to lead will rob Mera of her hard-water powers.

### Other Characteristics

* **Mental Disorder**: Throughout her adult life, Mera has had to deal with bouts of mental instability. This began after suffering a nervous breakdown following the death of her son and continued for many years. She was remanded to the care of the Atlantis Health and Rehabilitation Department and remained a patient at one of their facilities until finally returning to her native dimension. It has also been suggested that prolonged exposure to this reality may have altered Mera's brain chemistry, exacerbating her prolonged mental health issues.
* Xebellians possess a bigger apatite.
* The most notable difference in physiology is the basis of their hydro-kinesis ability, in which is linked to a Xebelian's metabolic system. Xebelians also grow at twice the rate compared to humans.