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Adesina

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Adesina
Biographical Information
Real Name Adesina Pond
Aliases Morpho Girl
Gender Female
Class Joker-ace
Wild Card Traits Dwarfism, telepathy, empathy, winged flight
Social Information
Place of Birth Africa
Occupation Student
Event Participant Charlie Parker High School Jazz Competition
Base of Operations New York City, United States, formerly Kisengani, Congo
Relatives Amplifier (uncle) Bubbles (mother)
Allies Fire Boy, Ghost, Segway
Origin
First Appearance Suicide Kings

Adesina is a minor character in the Wild Cards series of books.

History[]

Adesina was an African child who had been injected with the wild card virus as part of a program to create aces loyal to the People's Paradise of Africa. The lab workers that injected her mistook her transformation as a black queen and discarded her with all the dead children in a pit at Kisengani. In her larval state Adesina's telepathy reached half a world away to Bubbles lying comatose in New Orleans, intruding into her dreams and helping her to awaken.

Bubbles made the trip to Kisengani to find Adesina, and rescued her from the pit, before taking her to safety at a liberated compound within the city.

Wild Card Traits[]

In her larval stage, Adesina created a subconscious telepathic link between herself in Africa and Bubbles in New Orleans. The visions of Adesina's plight returned when Bubbles was asleep.

After hatching, Adesina's joker body allows her to skitter along the ground in a multi-legged gallop, and she has also demonstrated short distance flight. By touching her forelegs to the face of another person she can project and receive emotions, sometimes resulting in a brief sense of sadness when she breaks contact.

A second metamorphosis catapulted Adesina into adolescence, giving her a more human appearance along with much stronger wings and a fully developed flight capability. The wings became extraordinarily tough in the process, and Adesina can use them to shield herself from harm.

Appearance[]

After she drew the joker, Adesina shrunk and withdrew into a cocoon. When she emerged she was reduced to the size of a small dog, and had a human face in an insect-like body with wings.

The effects of the Talas incident triggered Adesina to metamorphose again, this time from a ten year old into an adolescent girl with fully developed human limbs, an extra pair small of insect appendages below her human arms, two antennae, and set of large blue butterfly wings. In this form she has obsidian black skin, amber eyes, antennae, and dreadlocks.

Personality[]

Adesina is an optimistic girl, and her wild card is advantageous when trying to build new friendships.

Selected Reading[]

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