Re: [LATER]
Most wake in this place with no memories of themselves, among those of their unit — each named for the countries of old. My arrival among those here now, and the arrival of some few others, was an exception to this pattern. We are . . . remnants, perhaps, of units past, freed by the same events that eventually woke your existence and Vade's from their slumber.
When those of Hydra now first met me, I doubt there was anything at all human in my appearance, save only the most vaguely defined outlines. You would have to ask one of the others for a description; I had no eyes then, or any sense properly resembling sight; nor did I have a voice. I had only a name and the memory of a message to listen to those of my unit, neither of which I was able or inclined to communicate.
My first truly self-aware thoughts came with the form you see me in now, in the wake of Vade's memories. And it was only in contrast to those memories that I could define the bounds of the lack I have felt in both forms.