Editing Menja

{{quote|Menja likes you.  I don’t.  You get one chance to prove me wrong.  Menja?  Who would you set her against?<br><br>Cricket.  Same reasoning.  Leah’s quick, Cricket’s quicker.|[[Hookwolf]] and Menja|[[Interlude 11e]]}}
{{Infobox character
|Image = MenjaBYScarfgirl.png
|imagecaption = Illustration by [http://scarfgirl.deviantart.com Scarfgirl] on DeviantArt
|name = Nessa Biermann
|alias = Menja<br>The giantess twins (With [[Fenja]])<ref>Unfair of me to confront him, but I’d felt I owed my family that- living and dead both.  I’d have asked about Dean, but Dean had been injured early enough that I couldn’t imagine that he’d been swept up in the setup or rendered a casualty that might have been avoided if someone like Kaiser or one of the giantess twins had lived. - [[Beacon 8.2]]</ref>
|gender = Female
|age = Twenty-something<ref name="7.1 eAge">There were other images as well, showing Max Anders with a gorgeous twenty-something blonde, and Max Anders with an older brunette woman at a coffee shop, their table strewn with what looked like paperwork.  I scrolled down to confirm my suspicions, the blonde appeared in another picture with her twin sister.  ''Fenja and Menja''. - [[Buzz 7.4]]</ref>
|family = [[Jessica Biermann]] (Twin Sister)<ref name="7.1 eAge" /><br>[[Heith]] (Cousin / Guardian)<ref name="18.y e1" /><br>[[Theo Anders]] (First cousin once removed)<ref name="18.y e1" />
|occupation =
|classification = [[Breaker]]<ref name="9.6 e3">Who else?  Menja was classified as a breaker, the spatial-warping effect that surrounded her made incoming attacks smaller even as she simultaneously made herself bigger.  The darts wouldn’t even be noticeable to her. - [[Sentinel 9.6]]</ref>
|alignment = [[Villain]]
|status = Unknown
|team = [[Fenrir's Chosen]]
|previous team = [[Empire Eighty-Eight]]
|base of operations = [[Boston]]<br>[[Brockton Bay]] (Formerly)
|web serial = [[Hive 5.1]]
|ward = [[Beacon 8.2]] (Mentioned)
}}'''Nessa Biermann''' was the twin sister of [[Jessica Biermann]], the cousin of [[Heith Anders]] and a member of the [[Empire Eighty-Eight]].

==Appearance==
Nessa was, in Taylor's words, a blonde with measurements like a Playboy model. As Menja, she wore Valkyrie-style armor that featured countless steel wings, as well as a closed-face helm.<ref name="5.1">[[Hive 5.1]]</ref> She also carried a spear.<ref name="9.6">[[Sentinel 9.6]]</ref> After she joined the [[Chosen]], she carried a shield in one hand and a spear in the other.<ref name="12.2">[[Plague 12.2]]</ref><ref name="9.6"/>

==Abilities and Powers==
Menja had the same power as [[Fenja|her siste]]<nowiki/>r,<ref name="5.1">[[Hive 5.1]]</ref> a [[breaker]] ability that allowed her to shrink incoming attacks proportionately to her size.<ref name="9.6 e3" /> When Fenja was first introduced, Taylor described her power as giving her the ability to "grow to be three stories tall", and become "a hundred times more durable"<ref name="5.1"/> or six times as tall and taking only a sixth of the damage alongside the benefits of being taller. She was also capable of becoming around six times as tall, a little shorter than [[Leviathan]]. She and her sister were considered strong enough to go toe-to-toe with [[Leviathan]].<ref name="8.4">[[Extermination 8.4]]</ref>
<!--==Abilities and Powers:==
Fenja's ability allows her to augment her bodies size, up to about 40 feet tall, augmenting her durability at the same time, she has the exact same power as her twin sister, [[Jessica Biermann|Fenja]].-->

==History==
===Background===
Raised by [[Heith]], [[Kaiser]]'s first wife.<ref name="18.y e1">“Hmm.”  Justin watched more PRT vans arrive.  They were spreading out, clearly anticipating Kayden’s artillery-level attacks, and they had the damn foam-bead nets they used for dealing with fliers.  “Theo, who’s your mom?”<br><br>“Heith.”<br><br>Justin sighed.  Heith was Fenja and Menja’s cousin and guardian, Kaiser’s first wife, killed in a turf war with the Teeth, back in the old days of Brockton Bay.  ''She has powers after all''.<br><br>Somehow, all of this would be easier if he could believe that Theo was illegitimate. - [[Interlude 18.y]]</ref>

=== Story Start===
She accompanied Kaiser to the meeting at [[Somer's Rock]].<ref name="5.1"/>

===Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]===
Post-Endbringer and the death of her sister and [[Kaiser]], she joined the [[Chosen]].<ref name="11e">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/interlude-11e/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11e]]</ref><ref name="9.6"/>

===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
Took command of the [[Chosen]] following Hookwolf's beguilement into the [[Nine]].<ref name="Cast2">'''Menja'''– Current leader of the group.  Menja lost her twin sister in the Endbringer attack, and now uses Fenja’s shield to complement her own favored spear.  Menja has the ability to grow to great heights while simultaneously reducing the severity of incoming damage by a proportionate amount.  Menja is a tall blonde who styles herself after a norse valkyrie, with ornate armor marked with wings, covering about as much skin as it reveals. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast (in depth)]</ref>

Menja was eventually forced to leave Brockton Bay, with the rest of the Chosen, due to pressure from outside Villain groups.<ref name="16.5">[[Monarch 16.5]]</ref>

She relocated her team to [[Boston]], recruiting Niflheim and Muspelheim along the way, there they interfered with the plans of Accord to such an extent that the arch villain was forced to seek [[Blasto|outside help]].<ref name="I19x">[[Interlude 19.x]]</ref>

===[[Gold Morning]]===
Collected by [[Khepri]] to use against [[Scion]].<ref>I put targets in front of him, and he took the bait.<br><br>A front line of the hardiest capes, decoys and projections to draw him in.  Then, while he was closer, I was free to move in the heavy hitters who ''weren’t'' upwardly mobile.<br><br>Lung, hulking out even before his power kicked in.  Menja, Chevalier.  A dozen capes I didn’t know. - [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> Given a formula to temporarily increase her size and strength.<ref>The tougher capes I had fell into two categories.  There were ones who could take the fight to Scion, like Alexandria or the late Ash Beast, and there were ones who couldn’t, like Lung, Menja and Chevalier.<br><br>There was a Vietnamese cape with a tinker ability who I hadn’t assigned to the tinker group.  He was like Lab Rat, but simpler in application.  Formulas to boost strength and size, turning regular people into hulking monsters.<br><br>I put him to work, dosing capes who weren’t reliant on armor or anything of the sort.  I left Chevalier alone, and left the Crawler-Breed hybrid be, but I dosed Lung and Menja. - [[Speck 30.5]]</ref>

==Chapter Appearances==
{{Appearance/Nessa Biermann Worm}}

== Trivia ==
*Fenja and Menja were mythical giants in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grottas%C3%B6ngr Song of Grótti], who gave their service to a king who squandered their gifts and so fell from power.
*While Nessa has been known to be a shortened version of '''Va'''nessa, Menja's civilian name is only ever given as Nessa.

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