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Sep. 25th, 2013 09:39 pm Erin is the daughter of a diplomat and his lovely wife who thought she had the perfect life. They traveled together going to wherever her father was assigned and together painted the picture perfect family. She was happy with that life though because her parents acted very affectionate as it is good for diplomats as well as politicians to be seen as having strong family ties, her father also had ambitions of running for Congress and was more than happy to show off the then twelve year daughter he and his wife seemingly adored. That was until the events leading up to the formation of what is called "Sub Diego".
At the time of the incident that created Sub Diego Erin was twelve years old. She had been on a school trip to the San Diego zoo with her class. While not all of them were effected by the accident enough were hurt or injured in some way that made the event a real disaster. They were very lucky that not too many people died and rescue workers were able to get there quickly. Rescue workers at the scene who came from the heavily damage naval base were able to help get Erin out of one of the fissures in the water she had gotten tossed into. She had a dislocated shoulder and a mild level concussion from the fall she had during the accident.
During the days that followed the accident she had trouble with craving water all of the time. She couldn't go more than a few hours without needing a glass of water. At first her Mother thought it was an attention seeking habit since Erin's parents were frequently too busy to spend a great deal of one on one time with her. After a business associate of Erin's Father pointed out Erin was actually looking pretty ill her parents took her to the doctor. That was when they discovered that like many people in the accident Erin was starting to show traits of becoming a meta-human. Discovering she was no longer normal was a shock to the girl. She had recalled many instances of her parents voicing that they didn't quite trust meta-humans. That was putting it very mildly.
Her parents were and to this day still are a part of a narrow minded extremist political movement that believes meta-humans are dangerous since a majority of them become super villains or heavily destructive super heroes. They had Erin placed in a group home rather than keep any connection to her what so ever. It was during this time Erin met a few Atlanteans who were now living in Sub-Diego and began to educate her in reading, writing, and speaking Atlantean since they assumed Sub-Diego would become part of King Orin's kingdom. This was also around the same time Atlantis was taken over by one of the Titans of Myth and many Atlanteans ended up living in Sub-Diego. Arthur Curry, known as King Orin to many of his subjects, moved to Sub-Diego at this time to be with the refugees from Atlantis.
At this point in Erin's life she had just turned fourteen. Arthur was also at that point someone she thought was pretty awesome. She had not quite yet become world weary to adults and world leaders just yet. Arthur was doing right by Sub-Diego too even with their Mayor still being Carl Durham. Also at the time Erin was still living in a sort of group home that had been set up in Sub-Diego for children and teenagers who didn't have family within the Sub-Diego community.
When Arthur went back to Atlantis and others went to the newly formed nation called Avalon Erin found herself going to Avalon beside her friends she had made. She was a little angry that Arthur had just left Sub-Diego. He had to her been such a huge member of the community she had spent the last few years in. This year she had just turned sixteen and had just gotten her GED as well as becoming an emancipated minor. Avalon was an experiment for a few hundred Amazonians who had been left behind as well as some Atlanteans who were fed up with the state of affairs in Atlantis after Arthur's wife Queen Mera disappeared.
It took Erin about three months of living on Avalon before she found permanent work. It was just a few scare days after she turned seventeen. At this point she has begun to count down until she turns eighteen and no longer has to think about her parents or the government past paying taxes and working hard. She was hired on as an assistant for a minor government official as a sort of executive assistant. She was a very efficient person to have around the office. After the first several months working there she found herself transferred over by accident to the leader of Avalon. To be clear Erin had lived on Avalon for roughly six months at this point. In this universe Tula of Atlantis had been revived several years ago and due to her experience she was the logical choice for leading Avalon even if they are trying to create a democratic republic for the small young nation. They needed someone who would work for the people. This all took place very shortly before the events called Blackest Night.
She took to being Tula's assistant as best she could and tried to organize the office so that the leader of their small nation could take a break now and then. Sadly it was better said than done as Tula was very determined to keep working. Erin really wanted to try and help the leader of Avalon out. She had a bit of hero-worship going on for the leader of Avalon. Something about Tula made Erin want to do her best for her boss. This went into over drive when it was discovered Tula's husband Garth was alive.
Being a still impressionable teenager in many ways Erin started to “ship” the married couple and found herself very happy for their reunion even if she didn't yet know Garth that well. For Erin it was just enough to see that Tula was happy. Shortly after Blackest Night Erin met Garth face to face as he was one of the ones who came back to life. Together they also ended up fighting the Aquaman villain Fisherman who was after some files in Tula's office. Erin will still admit she fought back using a stapler since the young secretary had never had to fight before that day. She also got to see magic used for the first time in her life. She finds it both fascinating and a little frightening due to the destructive potential she can see within it.
A few days following the attack by Fisherman Erin has as brief but memorable encounter with the newly risen from the dead Queen Hipplolyta who came to find out how the Amazonian residents of Avalon are fairing. To Hipploylta Erin seemed to be the very typical teenager when they first encountered each other. At first Hipployta had wondered if Erin was an adopted Sister to the Amazons, Erin quickly explained who she really was. While sometimes she still hates her parents for abandoning her Erin now views Sub-Diego as her home town. She even explained what she knew about how it came to be to the Amazonian Queen who had been dead for a few years before the events that made the new underwater city. The two struck up a brief friendship in which Erin was offered training since the Amazonian Queen thought Erin had spunk. Erin hasn't yet had a chance to go take the Queen up on that offer. Events on the island have kept the secretary busy.
It is actually here that Erin first really sees how other people react to Arthur. For a long time Erin had not really thought of him. Time-line wise this also happened very soon after Queen Hipployta visited the island. Sometimes people talked about Arthur and Atlantis so Erin has had time to learn about him. Tula was set on not exposing her secretary to Arthur's temper given that this meeting between Avalon and the King of Atlantis was going to be very explosive. Not only that but Tula was not sure if Avalon was going to be taken over by force due to Arthur's court making noise about unification following Blackest Night.
Erin herself didn't get to see much of this meeting. She got sent away to a back office after Mera went to meet Arthur for the first time since she came back. Arthur, Tula, and Mera worked out a trade agreement so that Avalon could remain independent of Atlantis. For now a minor crisis had been averted. Just after that the Titan's have their adventure in Hyper Time. Erin is never quite so sure what happened to Tula and Garth. Just that for a few days she had to field lots of frantic phone calls. Life for the people of Avalon was just very busy due to all of the fall out from Blackest Night. Erin thought she had never been more busy in her life. The events that happened right then all occurred within several weeks off each other.
It was only a few days after that first meeting that together and after the Hyper Time adventures ended that Arthur, Mera, Tula, Garth, and Erin went to go investigate the origins of the newest Fisherman. Garth had suspicions that something was up. Erin was brought along to help smooth anything over between the Atlantian Royalty, the leader of Avalon and her husband, and any local surface dwelling police department.
Erin wasn't sure what to make to Aquaman during this adventure. He was so different than the memories she had from when she was a kid. Frankly he was an impressive figure and as much as Tula seemed sometimes defensive about him from that meeting a few days before this. Part of Erin still had a great deal of respect for Aquaman. He seemed much more approachable than he had in the past. Not that they had time to talk during that little adventure.
Erin was too busy fighting off the strange creatures created by Gamemnae. It was never clear to Erin what that woman had wanted but Erin assumed it may have been a plot to eventually attack Atlantis directly. Erin had no doubt in her mind now that working for Tula as her assistant was going to be a fairly exciting job.
It is also after this adventure that Erin finds Tula is not so subtly encouraging her to try to go to college. At first Erin has some serious doubts about being able to go to school due to the fact she lacks stability when it comes to money. Erin also thinks that she wouldn't know what to do if she went to college.
Eventually Erin decides to start slowly touring different schools. Maybe eventually she will figure out what to do about the financial side of things. Even more importantly Erin is well aware she wants to know what kind of a degree she might want.
Her first pick to check out is the Gotham City University. Erin is impressed by just how well established the school is. The students seem friendly during her tour of the campus. Sadly in Erin's mind the athletics's department is lacking. Not enough pools for someone like her. During a break for lunch Erin meets a Gotham native around her age. She and Eddie strike up a fast friendship as they head into a local fast food joint so that Erin can get something to eat. A trio of low level criminals arrives at that point with an old freeze ray that got their hands on with the intention of holding up the restaurant. Due to quick thinking on both of their parts Erin and Eddie are able to stop the trio before anyone gets seriously hurt. Part of their success is due to the fact that Eddie is able to identify the freeze ray as an older model of one of Mr Freeze's weapons. While they are successful Erin hurts her arm during the scuffle when the freeze ray gets her. While it isn't nearly as bad as a full strength blast it still requires Erin to go to the Emergency room for a few hours.
Erin found out during that trip that Eddie didn't care she was a meta-human. It was a shock to find out she could make friends with someone who was both unpowered and unafraid of people who are just so vastly different. It was an eye opening experience for Erin and going forward from that Erin is now less apprehensive about interacting with people who come off as totally normal.
At the time of the incident that created Sub Diego Erin was twelve years old. She had been on a school trip to the San Diego zoo with her class. While not all of them were effected by the accident enough were hurt or injured in some way that made the event a real disaster. They were very lucky that not too many people died and rescue workers were able to get there quickly. Rescue workers at the scene who came from the heavily damage naval base were able to help get Erin out of one of the fissures in the water she had gotten tossed into. She had a dislocated shoulder and a mild level concussion from the fall she had during the accident.
During the days that followed the accident she had trouble with craving water all of the time. She couldn't go more than a few hours without needing a glass of water. At first her Mother thought it was an attention seeking habit since Erin's parents were frequently too busy to spend a great deal of one on one time with her. After a business associate of Erin's Father pointed out Erin was actually looking pretty ill her parents took her to the doctor. That was when they discovered that like many people in the accident Erin was starting to show traits of becoming a meta-human. Discovering she was no longer normal was a shock to the girl. She had recalled many instances of her parents voicing that they didn't quite trust meta-humans. That was putting it very mildly.
Her parents were and to this day still are a part of a narrow minded extremist political movement that believes meta-humans are dangerous since a majority of them become super villains or heavily destructive super heroes. They had Erin placed in a group home rather than keep any connection to her what so ever. It was during this time Erin met a few Atlanteans who were now living in Sub-Diego and began to educate her in reading, writing, and speaking Atlantean since they assumed Sub-Diego would become part of King Orin's kingdom. This was also around the same time Atlantis was taken over by one of the Titans of Myth and many Atlanteans ended up living in Sub-Diego. Arthur Curry, known as King Orin to many of his subjects, moved to Sub-Diego at this time to be with the refugees from Atlantis.
At this point in Erin's life she had just turned fourteen. Arthur was also at that point someone she thought was pretty awesome. She had not quite yet become world weary to adults and world leaders just yet. Arthur was doing right by Sub-Diego too even with their Mayor still being Carl Durham. Also at the time Erin was still living in a sort of group home that had been set up in Sub-Diego for children and teenagers who didn't have family within the Sub-Diego community.
When Arthur went back to Atlantis and others went to the newly formed nation called Avalon Erin found herself going to Avalon beside her friends she had made. She was a little angry that Arthur had just left Sub-Diego. He had to her been such a huge member of the community she had spent the last few years in. This year she had just turned sixteen and had just gotten her GED as well as becoming an emancipated minor. Avalon was an experiment for a few hundred Amazonians who had been left behind as well as some Atlanteans who were fed up with the state of affairs in Atlantis after Arthur's wife Queen Mera disappeared.
It took Erin about three months of living on Avalon before she found permanent work. It was just a few scare days after she turned seventeen. At this point she has begun to count down until she turns eighteen and no longer has to think about her parents or the government past paying taxes and working hard. She was hired on as an assistant for a minor government official as a sort of executive assistant. She was a very efficient person to have around the office. After the first several months working there she found herself transferred over by accident to the leader of Avalon. To be clear Erin had lived on Avalon for roughly six months at this point. In this universe Tula of Atlantis had been revived several years ago and due to her experience she was the logical choice for leading Avalon even if they are trying to create a democratic republic for the small young nation. They needed someone who would work for the people. This all took place very shortly before the events called Blackest Night.
She took to being Tula's assistant as best she could and tried to organize the office so that the leader of their small nation could take a break now and then. Sadly it was better said than done as Tula was very determined to keep working. Erin really wanted to try and help the leader of Avalon out. She had a bit of hero-worship going on for the leader of Avalon. Something about Tula made Erin want to do her best for her boss. This went into over drive when it was discovered Tula's husband Garth was alive.
Being a still impressionable teenager in many ways Erin started to “ship” the married couple and found herself very happy for their reunion even if she didn't yet know Garth that well. For Erin it was just enough to see that Tula was happy. Shortly after Blackest Night Erin met Garth face to face as he was one of the ones who came back to life. Together they also ended up fighting the Aquaman villain Fisherman who was after some files in Tula's office. Erin will still admit she fought back using a stapler since the young secretary had never had to fight before that day. She also got to see magic used for the first time in her life. She finds it both fascinating and a little frightening due to the destructive potential she can see within it.
A few days following the attack by Fisherman Erin has as brief but memorable encounter with the newly risen from the dead Queen Hipplolyta who came to find out how the Amazonian residents of Avalon are fairing. To Hipploylta Erin seemed to be the very typical teenager when they first encountered each other. At first Hipployta had wondered if Erin was an adopted Sister to the Amazons, Erin quickly explained who she really was. While sometimes she still hates her parents for abandoning her Erin now views Sub-Diego as her home town. She even explained what she knew about how it came to be to the Amazonian Queen who had been dead for a few years before the events that made the new underwater city. The two struck up a brief friendship in which Erin was offered training since the Amazonian Queen thought Erin had spunk. Erin hasn't yet had a chance to go take the Queen up on that offer. Events on the island have kept the secretary busy.
It is actually here that Erin first really sees how other people react to Arthur. For a long time Erin had not really thought of him. Time-line wise this also happened very soon after Queen Hipployta visited the island. Sometimes people talked about Arthur and Atlantis so Erin has had time to learn about him. Tula was set on not exposing her secretary to Arthur's temper given that this meeting between Avalon and the King of Atlantis was going to be very explosive. Not only that but Tula was not sure if Avalon was going to be taken over by force due to Arthur's court making noise about unification following Blackest Night.
Erin herself didn't get to see much of this meeting. She got sent away to a back office after Mera went to meet Arthur for the first time since she came back. Arthur, Tula, and Mera worked out a trade agreement so that Avalon could remain independent of Atlantis. For now a minor crisis had been averted. Just after that the Titan's have their adventure in Hyper Time. Erin is never quite so sure what happened to Tula and Garth. Just that for a few days she had to field lots of frantic phone calls. Life for the people of Avalon was just very busy due to all of the fall out from Blackest Night. Erin thought she had never been more busy in her life. The events that happened right then all occurred within several weeks off each other.
It was only a few days after that first meeting that together and after the Hyper Time adventures ended that Arthur, Mera, Tula, Garth, and Erin went to go investigate the origins of the newest Fisherman. Garth had suspicions that something was up. Erin was brought along to help smooth anything over between the Atlantian Royalty, the leader of Avalon and her husband, and any local surface dwelling police department.
Erin wasn't sure what to make to Aquaman during this adventure. He was so different than the memories she had from when she was a kid. Frankly he was an impressive figure and as much as Tula seemed sometimes defensive about him from that meeting a few days before this. Part of Erin still had a great deal of respect for Aquaman. He seemed much more approachable than he had in the past. Not that they had time to talk during that little adventure.
Erin was too busy fighting off the strange creatures created by Gamemnae. It was never clear to Erin what that woman had wanted but Erin assumed it may have been a plot to eventually attack Atlantis directly. Erin had no doubt in her mind now that working for Tula as her assistant was going to be a fairly exciting job.
It is also after this adventure that Erin finds Tula is not so subtly encouraging her to try to go to college. At first Erin has some serious doubts about being able to go to school due to the fact she lacks stability when it comes to money. Erin also thinks that she wouldn't know what to do if she went to college.
Eventually Erin decides to start slowly touring different schools. Maybe eventually she will figure out what to do about the financial side of things. Even more importantly Erin is well aware she wants to know what kind of a degree she might want.
Her first pick to check out is the Gotham City University. Erin is impressed by just how well established the school is. The students seem friendly during her tour of the campus. Sadly in Erin's mind the athletics's department is lacking. Not enough pools for someone like her. During a break for lunch Erin meets a Gotham native around her age. She and Eddie strike up a fast friendship as they head into a local fast food joint so that Erin can get something to eat. A trio of low level criminals arrives at that point with an old freeze ray that got their hands on with the intention of holding up the restaurant. Due to quick thinking on both of their parts Erin and Eddie are able to stop the trio before anyone gets seriously hurt. Part of their success is due to the fact that Eddie is able to identify the freeze ray as an older model of one of Mr Freeze's weapons. While they are successful Erin hurts her arm during the scuffle when the freeze ray gets her. While it isn't nearly as bad as a full strength blast it still requires Erin to go to the Emergency room for a few hours.
Erin found out during that trip that Eddie didn't care she was a meta-human. It was a shock to find out she could make friends with someone who was both unpowered and unafraid of people who are just so vastly different. It was an eye opening experience for Erin and going forward from that Erin is now less apprehensive about interacting with people who come off as totally normal.
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