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Project AETHER
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Ongoing, First published Oct 13, 2025
Sold to HYDRA at the age of three. Frozen, experimented on, and reshaped into a weapon of war.
For over a century, Eleonora Ilka Isa Junge existed only to obey.

Gifted with control over the elements - Fire, Earth, Water, Air - and infused with the Aether itself, she became HYDRA's most powerful secret. Each decade she was thawed only to fight, train, or kill, her mind shackled by a control chip and her freedom stripped away.

But when a mission to eliminate the Avengers goes wrong, Eleonora's world fractures. Taken in by the very heroes she was meant to destroy, her memories begin to return - and with them, a storm she can no longer contain.

As the Aether stirs, she discovers her true origin: she is one of the Five Lights, ancient siblings born from the elemental forces of creation. Her powers were never man-made - they were divine. And now, to restore balance, Eleonora must journey across realms, facing the siblings she lost and the monsters that made her.

From the burning depths of Muspelheim to the silent oceans of Atlantis, Eleonora must confront her past, her rage, and the truth of who she was meant to be.

But as her power grows, so does the danger - for HYDRA still hunts her, and the balance she seeks may cost her the humanity she's finally begun to reclaim.
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