Menja

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Nessa Biermann is the twin sister of Jessica Biermann, the cousin of Heith Anders and a member of the Empire Eighty-Eight.

Appearance

Nessa is, in Taylor's words, a blonde with measurements like a Playboy model. As Menja, she wears Valkyrie-style armor that features countless steel wings, as well as closed-face helms.<ref name="5.1">Hive 5.1</ref> She also carried a spear.<ref name="9.6"/> 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

The same power as her sister,<ref name="5.1">Hive 5.1</ref> a breaker ability that allows her to shrink incoming attacks proportionately to her size.<ref name="9.6"/> When Fenja is first introduced, Taylor describes 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"/> When she was six times as tall, she was taller even than Leviathan and took only a sixth of the damage in addition to the benefits of being taller. She and her sister were considered strong enough to go toe-to-toe with Leviathan.<ref name="8.4">Extermination 8.4</ref>

History

Background

Raised by Heith.

Story Start

Accompanied Kaiser to the meeting at Somer's Rock.<ref name="5.1"/>

Post-Leviathan

Post-Endbringer and the death of her sister and Kaiser, she joined the Chosen.<ref name="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. - 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 outside help.<ref name="I19x">Interlude 19.x</ref>

Trivia

• Fenja and Menja were mythical giants in the 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 Vanessa, Menjas civilian name is only ever given as Nessa.

References

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