ÆRP is a mermaid (a catfish, technically). A dreamer from a distant world, she had only one vision: to walk on land and become a designer and model on Glacigeli, the frozen planet famed for being the galaxy's fashion capital. But when she finally gained her legs and arrived, she didn’t fit in. She looked and acted differently. Despite her best efforts and talent, the locals shut her out. However, she did not go unnoticed.

An illicit intergalactic experimentation directorate running psychic tests on Glacigeli’s lifeforms saw her heartbreak and isolation as an opportunity. Posing as fashion elites and allies, they lured her into their lab, subjecting her to brutal procedures. As a result, ÆRP eventually gained hydrokinesis, control over water itself.

The agency didn’t stop there. They erased her memory, began siphoning her powers and locked her in cryostasis inside a cave. Left behind as nothing more than a battery and potential weapon, she was essentially forgotten - save for the agents stationed behind to monitor and guard her, should they ever need to escalate their use for her. Over time, the cave became a legend to the locals, who whispered of a monster within, with some delegations even holding annual rituals to keep it at bay.

But ÆRP eventually woke up and her memory returned. Channeling her power across the stars, she sensed the Crew of the Orange Dreamsicle battling other psychic experiments on another planet and reached out telepathically. Their mission: to break her out, dismantle the remaining agents, and free Glacigeli. 

ÆRP has temporarily traded her sewing machine for something much sharper; a hammer forged from the planet’s own water, the molecules of which she’s crystallized into a weapon of pure retribution. With a new love found in Venus Deathtrap by her side, she knows one day she’ll make her runway debut on a kinder world. But today, the hammer’s comin’ down.