MAJOR DEEJ UNIVERSE

Kyla Washington was an educated woman with a PhD in Medicine from the University of Abidjan (now known as the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny) located in the Republic of Ivory Coast.  In December 1999, a military coupe erupted in Ivory Coast.  As Kyla was trying to help shot and wounded civilians along a bridge, she was shot in the head, causing her to reel over the bridge and into the river below.  The river drained out into the Atlantic Ocean. Kyla, in a desperate attempt at survival, found four other bodies bound together with life vests (who'd seemed to have been shot while escaping out to sea and killed) and used them as a means of staying afloat.

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For days, she drifted out into the Atlantic Ocean until she was found by King Dolphin of the Atlantic Kingdom.  Kyla, barely alive, was then taken to the nearest of King Dolphin's new underwater cities and, as standard practice for nearly-dead bodies the king found floating about in the ocean, he began genetic and DNA experiments on her. Just as King Dolphin finished his DNA recombination of Kyla's human DNA and that of a Sea Urchin, the Soltan Star Empire invaded Earth.

 

Kyla, who had not be loaded with a synaptic control device at this time, was placed in a laboratory cell, where she remained for three months, but with a unique twist - she didn't know who she was.  The bullet wound, coupled with the trauma of nearly dying at sea and the results of the DNA experimentation caused Kyla to lose her memory.

 

At one point, the Soltans attacked the city that Kyla was imprisoned in.  King Dolphin and his Ningren warriors, along with his new super-powered Atlantic Guard team, showed up to fight the Soltans only to find Kyla already free and fighting the Soltans like a warrior born, flinging poisonous spikes and spines, killing the Soltans in waves, all the while evading being shot by using a set of water-propulsion boots King Dolphin had left in the same lab Kylas was in.  After King Dolphin and his forces arrived, the Soltans were soundly beaten causing the Soltans to retreat from attacking the city.

 

When King Dolphin went to talk with Kyla, she asked him if he was her king, which her replied solidly, 'yes'. The memory--lost Kyla then knelt before him and honored him as her king, asking that she be allowed to fight for the kingdom rather than be 'boxed up' for some crime or punishment that she had no idea she'd done.  After further discussion, King Dolphin realizes Kyla had indeed lost her memory and that she'd become a 'tabula rasa' (clean slate) for him to control and make his.

 

As such, King Dolphin 'pardoned' Kyla and placed her as one of the founding members of the Atlantic Guard team, calling her "Lady Urchin" as her new name. To this day, he has never placed a synaptic control device or remotely operated explosive in her head as King Dolphin has to all of his subjects.

 

For the next nearly two decades, Lady Urchin has fought alongside the Atlantic Guard as one of the most dedicated and dangerous members of the team.  She believes herself to be a hero of the Atlantic Kingdom and as such, prides herself in being an Atlantean citizen.

 

Over the years, she has also caught the eye of King Dolphin.  He has fawned over her more than any other female, and, in quiet discussion circles, it is said that King Dolphin is in love with Lady Urchin.  Whether if Lady Urchin feels the same way is unknown.

 

Today, Lady Urchin continues as a champion of the Atlantic Kingdom and deputy leader of the Atlantic Guard. King Dolphin still fawns over her, but again, her responses have been aloof, but not dismissive.  She has also been seen swimming about the Ivory Coast of late, almost as if she was trying to find something...or someone...there...