Jo made me promise to announce that it is my fault that the character limit has been raised to nine.
It's my fault. There. I said it.
This is Kasira "Kassi" Khan-Carrelli, daughter of (the new) Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, and her "second-best-friend" Bruno Carrelli. She's a lifelong geek, born and raised, and as such is highly active in cosplay, D&D, video games, comics, collecting, writing fanfic, etc. In addition, she's also the independent registered hero known as Wonder! Actually, she's the independent registered hero known as Wonder Girl, but now that she's 25 she's decided that's really juvenile and she updated her codename on her registration this year. No one cares; she's still Wonder Girl to everyone.
She grew up in Jersey City, a little bit away from everyone else, but she went to school with the likes of Peggy Rogers and Cal Barton, and if you're in the mid-twenties area you were probably in school with her. I have some ideas for connections with other characters already: )
Peggy Rogers: Super bestie! Teamups galore! She's going to be texting you first thing to ask if she can move in.
Janis Jones: Kassi's been employed by you at Marlo's Comics since 2010! She's a fiercely dedicated employee, but if she's on call she's gotta run and save the world.
Cliff Bishop: Heyyyy I heard you were gonna start work at Marlo's Comics? Meet your coworker!!
Vic Altman: Kassi was a Defender for a brief stint (she also did time with Heroes for Hire and most prominently the Lady Liberators!!!), and she's someone you can finally play D&D with.
Phil McCoy: Yo I heard you were a geek, and you likely were a schoolmate of Kassi's - she's only a year older than you! Come join the D&D group that's definitely going to happen.
Pella Castle: Kassi dated you last year, for a couple of months. You were attracted to each other because you're both Muslim, but let's face it - you have no idea what a "comic convention" is for and you're ten years older. Kassi's parents were VERY concerned about you, you've got a motorcycle and tattoos and your dad was in prison for lots of murder. You broke up over different interests, and also the fact that Kassi doesn't want to have sex until she's fully committed/monogamous and/or married.
Annabel Nelson: Hey geekasaurus let's be video game friends. Mash buttons all night long.
Caylie Gwynn: Kassi's a fellow fanfic writer and while she (usually) doesn't read your more explicit stuff she's a big fan of your Avengers fanfic and maybe you've been commenting back and forth to each other as fanfic writers sharing love.
Matt Natchios: Hey sup buddy! Kassi's jurisdiction is Staten Island, and I hear you frequent Manhattan, but there's no reason why we can't arrange a way for Wonder to have met Khonshu, or arrange a future meeting.
Luka Romanov: Childhood buddies through Peggy? Also, your dad employs Kassi's dad! Bruno's a scientist with Stark Industries and works on truly revolutionary plastics, polymers, and other synthetic substances with remarkable properties.
That's by no means a full list of ideas and if you've got stuff, throw it at me, but I thought I'd lead off because new characters can be daunting.
Right now, Kassi lives above a Staten Island landromat in a one-bedroom apartment with a cat and way too much stuff. She's going to move to New Avalon by the start of October.