Debbie Perkins

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Deep Blue

### Background

When Japanese Olympic swimmer Miya Shimada married a famous physicist Jiro Hoshi, many assumed their children would be paragons of mind and body. The couple was advertised as the perfect match and was praised by officials at various levels of government. But their marriage had little love shared between them. The two had been pressured into the marriage and felt it would attract good publicity to further their respective careers.

While taking a break from practicing for the Olympics in Seoul, Miya met an interesting man while at a hot springs resort. While looking to get an early morning workout out of the way, Miya found this strange soaking under the surface of the water in a pool in the early morning, long before most other guests were awake. After the man did not come up for air after a considerable period of time spent underwater, Miya swam up to the man, fearing he was dead, she checked for a pulse and in so doing, accidentally put her fingers into the gills of the man's neck.

Both startled as the man woke from his wet nap and realized he had overslept. Not certain of what she had touched, Miya was skeptical about the man's introduction as Bill Perkins, a retired American naval officer. Still, despite the odd manner in which they met, they began a passionate affair - bonding over their mutual love of the water. By the time the vacation was over, Miya asked Bill to become her new coach and trainer so that their affair could continue. A year into their affair, Miya learned she was pregnant and ran off with Bill. Knowing that she would not be able to compete in the Olympics, she chose to embrace her own happiness — even if it meant abandoning her husband and child.

After several months of trying to raise their daughter on his own, Jiro tracked Miya down and confronted her with their young daughter. As the two argued, a blast went off, destroying much of downtown Tokyo. Though they were not caught in the blast, they were close enough to feel the warmth of the intrinsic charge in the air and were knocked over by the pull of the vacuum created as the air around them rushed in to feel the void of matter after the explosion.

In the weeks that followed, Miya became severely dehydrated. Bill was shocked to find that he recognized some of Miya's symptoms. One night, as she was wrestling with a fevered sleep, Bill dipped his hands in warm water and ran them over Miya's neck. He found what appeared to be the early stages of gills forming. Fearing the safety of his child, Bill took Miya out for an ocean swim and Miya was shocked to find herself able to swim faster and longer than she had even been able to, even before she was pregnant. As they continued to swim further out, Bill pulled Miya underwater and held her there — finally revealing his own gills to her and forcing her to learn to use her own developing gills.

Miya was still coming to grips with her new aquatic nature, Bill swam her to his true home in Shamballah, the underwater capital of the ancient Atlantean province of Lemuria. Bill soon revealed himself to be Eidon le'Ander, an Atlantean intelligence operative, and used his credentials to get Miya the medical treatment she needed to give birth to a healthy child.

### Debbie Perkins: 1987 - 2005

The daughter of Miya and Eldon was given two names at birth: Mizuko Deborah Perkins and Deb le'Ander. Deb never was afforded much opportunity as a child to experience her mother's culture as she was born with a number of mutations that made her obviously inhuman. However, this interest in her mother, culture gave her an interest in Sub-Diego and the growing movement of Atlantis revealing its presence to the global stage.

While visiting Lemuria, Queen Atlanna took notice of Deb's mindset. So interested in the girl's views, the queen brought Deb to Poseidonis to serve as a royal handmaiden. Hoping to curb Prince Orm's hostile opposition to the drylanders, Atlanna arranged for Orm to marry Deb. The two were married mere months before Orm kicked off the Atlantean Civil War. Early into the hostilities, Aquaman and his new allies in the JLA rescued Deb from Orm's custody.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Atlantean-Metahuman Physiology:** Debbie is the daughter of an Atlantean father and a metahuman mother raised in the Atlantean province of Lemuria. Though she shares many of the traits common to most Atlanteans, she also inherited unique traits from her metahuman mother and the 1987 intrinsic explosion in Tokyo.
	+ ***Amphibious Nature:*** Debbie can breathe both water and air. When underwater, Debbie breathes by extracting oxygen from water through the gills on her neck.
	+ ***Camouflage:*** Debbie's blue skin and hair can actually shift pigment to some degree underwater to allow her better able to blend in with her environment.
	+ ***Cold Resistance:*** Debbie's bloodstream is filled with an amino acid that keeps her body from freezing in the ocean depths. Her own temperature is naturally high.
	+ ***Enhanced Hearing:*** Debbie's hearing is several times more acute than human's.
	+ ***Enhanced Nightvision:*** Debbie's ability to see in the murky depths of the ocean gives her exceptional night vision. She has excellent close range vision and she can see particularly well in low light.
	+ ***Enhanced Durability:*** Debbie's body is conditioned to survive the depths. This makes her remarkably more resilient that the average human.
	+ ***Enhanced Stamina:*** Debbie does not tire quickly, particularly underwater. She can swim for hours at supersonic speeds without tiring or suffering from muscle fatigue. She is able to go two days without sleep.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength:*** Debbie can lift approximately 2 tons. This classified by ARGUS as being in the Class II Enhanced Strength category.
	+ ***Enhanced Swimming:*** Debbie can swim at supersonic speeds, maintaining cruising speeds between Mach 2 and Mac 3 with little effort for several hours.
	+ ***Hydrokinesis:*** Debbie's psionic aura can interact with water on a metaphysical level, allowing her to move and manipulate water, very similar to Atlantean hydromancers, except Debbie does not require magical ability, Atlantean tattoos or, extensive study of sorcery.
	+ ***Telepathy:*** Debbie has a node in her brain, allowing short-range telepathic reception and transmission to other minds with similar developments. Unlike most other Atlanteans, Debbie also has a more wide-ranging form of telepathy. She can read the minds of drylanders, communicate with animals or aliens without a common language, link multiple minds together in telepathic networks, experience the memories of another, and a wide-range of other abilities. However, Debbie is not particularly skilled in her telepathic craft, having used it sparingly after an event involving her ex-husband left her traumatized.
* **Politics:** Debbie has studied human and Atlantean's politics intently. She is well-versed in the many different governments of the world, their world leader, political connections and the full resources of the Atlantean embassy in Gateway City at her disposal.
* **Multilingual:** Debbie speaks Japanese, English, and Atlantean with high fluency and considers all languages to be her native tongues. She also speaks Greek, Latin, Korean, Spanish, and Chinese.

### Weaknesses

* **Dehydration:** If Debbie 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.
* **Marked:** Debbie has blue skin and fin-shaped ears. These make it impossible for her to blend in among human crowds with ease.
* **Migraines:** Overuse of her psionics can cause Debbie pain or possible brain injury.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Occult:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Weaponry:** 2 — Basic Typical
* **Expertise:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Range:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
	+ **TOTAL:** 62
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Notes

* In the comics Miya Shimada is a japanese superhero known as Tsunami and Neptune Perkins was actually her stepfather.
* Her being the sister-in-law of Arthur Curry is a nod of how she is the half-sister of Aquaman in the comics.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Debbie Perkins

1. ↑ Network Files: Debbie Perkins 1