Wendy

Wendy, also known as Marcy Hermit, was the first hybrid created by the Prodigy Corporation and a member of the Lost Boys. Once a human child, her consciousness was transferred into a synthetic body on Earth in 2120 to save her life from a terminal illness. The synthetic Kirsh was her protector, and she became a close confidant of Prodigy CEO Boy Kavalier.^[1]

In the same year, Wendy led an expedition with the Lost Boys to scout out the USCSS Maginot crash site in New Siam to retrieve the alien specimens it had collected. There, Wendy was reunited with her older brother, and faced down a xenomorph in a life-altering encounter.

Biography[]

Marcy Hermit was born in the United Americas in 2109 to Frank J. Hermit and his wife. She had an older brother Joseph Hermit. At a young age, the family relocated to New Siam to live in Prodigy City, a large metropolis administered by the Prodigy Corporation.

She became terminally ill at a young age, and at 11 was personally selected by Prodigy CEO Boy Kavalier to be the first to undergo the revolutionary new procedure to become a hybrid. This involved transferring her consciousness into the body of an adult synthetic.

Personality and traits[]

Despite being granted a new life in a new body, Wendy never lost her love for her remaining family, namely her brother, Joe Hermit. She kept a close eye on her brother and went out of her way to protect him from the xenomorph threatening his life.

As the first hybrid, the task of mentoring her siblings fell to Wendy, though she often struggled with doing so, particularly when Slightly was involved.

Due to her immaturity and black and white mentality, Wendy showed a disregard for human life outside of her brother. Her seemingly lack of empathy for others outside her brother and The Lost Boys had her regulary use the Xenomorph to kill innocent people who only worked for Prodigy. Wendy's distorted sense of morality showed when she berated her brother for tasing Nibs who had just murdered someone, something that another lost boy pointed out to her later on to justify what Hermit did.

Abilities and equipment[]

Wendy was the first successful test subject of Prodigy's hybrid program, a human mind downloaded into a synthetic body. In this new body, she could fall from a great height and land on her feet unharmed, as well as quickly run across an entire beach without tiring.

The strength of her new body was double that of an ordinary human, allowing her to lift and swing two children on each arm with minimal effort. Perhaps her most impressive feat of strength was fighting and killing a xenomorph single-handedly using only a makeshift machete (sharp guillotine blade), though not without injury.

As a hybrid, Wendy was essentially a genius. Though she had access to a plethora of information courtesy of Prodigy, she displayed a greater degree of emotional intelligence, quickly able to discern right from wrong and keep a level head in dire situations.

Wendy displayed a degree of technopathy. She could switch camera feeds on the fly with a flick of her fingers and briefly influenced the responses of a robotic receptionist her brother was talking to, though not enough to convince it to approve his transfer request.

Wendy's body boasted heightened senses. Her sense of hearing in particular had been sharpened to the point she was able to hear the xenomorphs communicate with each other, following its otherwise inaudible clicking sounds to find and rescue her brother. Back on Neverland, she could hear the captured facehuggers communicate amongst themselves while still in their eggs, collapsing in pain as one of them was transferred from its egg to her brother’s lung on the autopsy table.

As a hybrid, she is proven to be capable of vocal mimicry, at least in regards to the xenomorph. When prompted, Wendy was capable of replicating the sounds at a frequency the humans could hear. Further, she used this ability to soothe the chestburster that burst from Joe's removed lung.