Gwenna (Reality Z-25 31-H): Difference between revisions

|romantic_partner(s)=[[Kaza (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Kaza]]<br><small>(husband)</small><br>[[Jung-La]]<br>Steve Wolcott<br><small>(jerk ex-boyfriend)</small><br>[[Lenore|Lenore Peabody]]<br>Nyota<br>Various other polyamorous partners

|parents= [[Miranda Davis]]<br><small>(mother)</small><br>[[Danielle Davis]]<br><small>(stepmother)</small><br>[[George Davis]]<br> <small>(father, deceased)</small><br>[[Martha Elsworth]]<br><small>(mother-in-law)</small><br>[[The Black Owl]]<br><small>(father-in-law, deceased)</small>

Gwenna was a generous, heroic individual. She was easy to get along with, and although she was committed to her nudist lifestyle, was entirely willing to wear clothes around other people for their own comfort. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Serpent Sorceress (comic story)|The Serpent Sorceress]]'')

She became a “bored socialite”, kept busy by such pastimes as attending the fashion week in [[Paris (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Paris]]. Feeling dissatisfied, she returned to her studies, signing up for an anthropology course “on a whim”. When her professor heard rumours of a “real-life ape-man” and mounted an expedition, she decided to join, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Matter of Image (comic story)|A Matter of Image]]'') thereafter finding a new life in [[the Naked Jungle]] as the “mate” of [[Kaza (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Kaza]], who had already been “Jungle Lord” for some time by the time she joined him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Serpent Sorceress (comic story)|The Serpent Sorceress]]'')

[[File:Kaza and Gwenna flashback in Ruthless Ro-Man.png|thumb|right|Gwenna during [[Ro-Man]]'s attempted invasion of [[Earth (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Earth]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ruthless Ro-Man (comic story)|Ruthless Ro-Man]]'')]]By a “few years” ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ruthless Ro-Man (comic story)|Ruthless Ro-Man]]'') before 2010, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Serpent Sorceress (comic story)|The Serpent Sorceress]]'') [[Ro-Man]]'s alien invasion force happened to land in [[the Naked Jungle]]. Since they knew better than anyone, Gwenna and [[Kaza (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Kaza]] ended up participating in the effort to fight off [[Ro-Man]]'s attempted invasion of the planet, alongside such superheroes as [[Dynamo]], [[Samson]], [[Flame Girl]], [[Blue Beetle]] and [[Zanzibar the Magician]]. Ultimately, however, it was [[Stardust the Super-Wizard (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Stardust the Super-Wizard]]'s intervention which was instrumental in turning the battle around and repelling the invaders. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ruthless Ro-Man (comic story)|Ruthless Ro-Man]]'')

[[File:Clothed Gwenna in The Serpent Sorceress.png|thumb|left|A clothed Gwenna in the [[Commissioner (The Serpent Sorceress)|Commissioner]]'s car. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Serpent Sorceress (comic story)|The Serpent Sorceress]]'')]]After the assassin let slip that Kaza was headed into a trap at the Temple, the three drove in the Commissioner's car to the [[Natari]] village, where Gwenna, reunited with her friend [[Gana]], they learned that the Serpent Cult had already announced to the villagers that they would sacrifice Kaza to [[the Serpent Lord]] that very evening. Recruiting Gana's finest warriors, they surrounded the Temple, but the situation ended up being resolved with minimal bloodshed when the Serpent Lord was revealed to be a very real, but non-supernatural, giant snake whom Wimberly shot at reflexively, breaking Nerlana's telepathic control on it and causing it to eat her instead of Kaza. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Serpent Sorceress (comic story)|The Serpent Sorceress]]'')

[[File:Gwenna catches up with old friends.png|thumb|right|300px|Gwenna catches up with [[Deena Hancock|Deena]] and [[Fred Hancock|Fred]] at [[the Adventurers Club]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ruthless Ro-Man (comic story)|Ruthless Ro-Man]]'')

[[File:Gwenna versus possessed Deena.png|thumb|left|300px|Gwenna fights the possessed [[Deena Hancock]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ruthless Ro-Man (comic story)|Ruthless Ro-Man]]'')]]After trouncing the possessed Deena, Gwenna goaded Ro-Man into living her body; as they'd planned, Dynamo then used his own energy powers to disrupt Ro-Man's gaseous form before he could possess Gwenna, trapping him inside his own discarded helmet. In the aftermath, Gwenna assured Kaza that despite the dangers, she wouldn't trade her adventurous life for the world, and seeing how ordinary Deena had turned out had only reinforced that view. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ruthless Ro-Man (comic story)|Ruthless Ro-Man]]'')

[[File:Kaza and Gwenna see airships.png|thumb|right|300px|Gwenna and [[Kaza (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Kaza]] catch sight of [[the Skull (Reality Z-25 31-H)|the Skull]]'s airships. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Danger, the Diamond, and the Dowager (comic story)|The Danger, the Diamond, and the Dowager]]'')]]Some time later, [[Catherine Maxwell]], alias [[Nula]], sent word that she was returning to [[the Naked Jungle]]. The [[Commissioner Smedley|Commissioner]] welcomed her at the air strip with [[Wimberly]], and [[Kaza (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Kaza]] and Gwenna also made a surprise appearance, amused to meet their predecessor as hero of the Burandan jungle and to learn about the Commissioner's adventurous past. Everyone went back to Kaza and Gwenna's treehouse for tea, where Nula revealed that she had come to [[Buranda]] to return [[Solomon's Diamond]] to the [[Koranzi]], and not simply to see old friends again. The following night, the village was set aflame by three airships commanded by terrorist [[the Skull (Reality Z-25 31-H)|the Skull]]; Kaza and Gwenna, who had been having a hard time going to sleep due to Kaza's anxieties about the Diamond, which he had felt possessed some supernatural power, went out on their balcony as they heard the airships flying over, but were then held at gunpoint by the Skull himself. He took them prisoners, claiming that they would bear witness to his “great triumph”. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Danger, the Diamond, and the Dowager (comic story)|The Danger, the Diamond, and the Dowager]]'') While he had Kaza placed in the hold of the tank he was using to travel through the jungle, he took Gwenna in his cabin with him, allowing him to gloat to her at length about his plan. He revealed to her that the Diamond was actually the [[Philosopher's Stone (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Philosopher's Stone]], the key to wondrous powers of immortality and the creation of gold; after awakening its power, he hoped to use it to allow his cult to take over the world and effect the white-supremacist “social reordering” of which he dreamed.  

[[File:Kaza and Gwenna in Nula! Naked and Alone!.png|thumb|left|300px|Gwenna and [[Kaza (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Kaza]] escape from [[the Skull (Reality Z-25 31-H)|the Skull]]'s tank. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Nula! Naked and Alone! (comic story)|Nula! Naked and Alone!]]'')]]However, soon after he finished explaining all this, also letting slip that his current hideout was the “old [[Kaitaran Temple]]”, Kaza managed to get the drop on his guards and knock them out. Hearing the commotion, Gwenna took the Skull by surprise with a kick to the jaw and knocked him out. As the tank veered out of control and into a tree, the jungle-dwellers hopped to safety and made their own way to the Temple, where the Skull's agents [[Professor Morag]] and Mitchell had just taken their prisoners who had survived the fire, including Nula, [[Commissioner Smedley|Smedley]], [[George Wimberley|Wimberley]] and [[Kiana]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Nula! Naked and Alone! (comic story)|Nula! Naked and Alone!]]'')