LeTonya Charles

Technique

LeTonya Charles

## Biography

### Early Life

LeTonya Charles was born on May 2nd, 1997 to Donna and Louis Charles. LeTonya’s young life was rough. Both of her parents were computer programmers working for a small tech firm in Dakota City. However, both were the victims of a mysterious murder that caused the collapse of the firm. LeTonya was moved to Metropolis to live with her aunt, Sarah.

LeTonya struggled to fit into the bigger city life, but she was enamored with superheroes, and developed eyes for Superman. After school, she would often stay with her aunt at STAR Labs to do her homework and keep out of trouble. One day, she caught a glimpse of Big Blue while he was there visiting Dr. Stone.

She became enamored, and started hanging out around Dr. Stone in an attempt to get closer to Superman. Silas saw right through this and instead introduced her to his son, Victor, a superhero. LeTonya immediately developed a crush on him, and Victor noticed and would tease her about it.

Her time at STAR Labs inspired her to become interested in becoming a computer engineer, so she convinced Sarah to send her to a preparatory academy, where she landed an internship at the tech firm and STAR Labs subsidiary TerrifiTech. While she worked at the Metropolis branch during the year, over the summer, she worked at the main site in Dakota City.

### Black Narcissus

LeTonya Charles was an intern at a TerrifiTech in Dakota City when the Bloodlines Parasites came to Earth. The mothership stationed itself over the top of the facility, leading several Parasites to target the facility. LeTonya barricaded herself in one of the laboratories, which happened to contain a Mother Box that Mister Terrific was testing.

When one of the parasites shattered the glass door of the room, the Box came to life and bonded with her. Possibly due to the Parasites' exobytes activating her metagene, the box merged with her, granting her vast knowledge and access to the internet from within her brain, transforming her into a human computer.

She defended the facility, and when Mister Terrific returned, he took her to the JSA Brownstone where Doctor MidNite ran tests on her, finding her bones seemed to be coated with pure titanium. LeTonya planned to continue living a normal life, but Holt saw an opportunity and wrote a recommendation for an even better prep school in Jump City. She was accepted and moved out, where secretly the Titans kept a close eye on her.

One day, LeTonya found herself the victim of a hostage situation from the super-criminal Adonis. She fought back against him, finding she could telepathically create cybernetic constructs. She fought Adonis and gained the attention of Cyborg, who nominated her for membership in 2013.

She was accepted, and briefly a Titan under the identity of “Black Narcissus” before the Death in the Family occurred, and the team shut down. In her brief time, she developed a friendship with Bumblebee. During the four years off, she moved to Happy Harbor and started studying at Ivy University under Doctor Ray Palmer and became part of his Challengers Team.

When the Justice League and Titans reopened, they offered her old spot back, but LeTonya wanted to graduate first. She got her degree in Software Engineering. A few months after her graduation ceremony, Mister Terrific contacted her to help him destroy the Brother Eye satellite. She assisted and successfully demolished it.

### Technique

After the OMAC Crisis, Mister Terrific disappeared from the public eye, and LeTonya helped his wife, Paula, in recovering TerrifiTech’s image after news of their assistance in creating OMAC came to light.

Curtis Metcalf was hired by Paula Holt to take over TerrifiTech, and LeTonya became his right-hand woman. Metcalf, also known as Hardware, took a liking to LeTonya, and they became superhero partners. LeTonya eventually dropped the name Black Narcissus, and became the hero known as Technique.

Black Lightning nominated her to join the Justice League in 2021.

## Notes

* LeTonya Charles is a composite character with Black Narcissus, Cyborgirl, and Variant.
* Her mother's name being Donna is a nod to Donna Morris, who had the identity of Black Narcissus in the comics.