Mind Wasp

Public Info


Kagiso Adamini is a tall mulatto woman with the characteristic honey-yellow sclera of a valued Hive Inc. employee and the nipped waist of an operations manager. She was born in 2027, the daughter of a minor South African official killed in the Zu revolution of 2028. Since 2059, she has been operations manager of the Johannesburg branch of Hive Inc.

A thorough search will reveal that she was a troubled youth and had several brushes with the law, these incidents tapered off in adulthood and Kagiso has had no further trouble between 2050 and 2063.

In October 2063, Kagiso (who was operating under the alias Mind Wasp) was convicted of arranging the kidnapping of rival Hive manager Sato Katsumi by American super-villain The Creep and attempting to flee prosecution in the United States. She was discovered to be enhancing her impressive communication and negotiation skills using mind-reading. Because all of her known offensive powers rely on line of sight, the Zu government allowed her to be sealed in a specially designed automated vault in Johannesburg. The vault was paid for by Hive Inc and is considered part of Kagiso's work-release program. Ironically, the cell strongly resembles the conditions under which Kagiso held Sato Katsumi during her kidnapping.

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History
Note: The position of "production manager" at Hive Inc. is a corporate secret: not publicly known.

As the orphaned child of mixed parentage in South Africa, Kagiso grew up looked down on by nearly everyone. While many Hive operations managers have significantly limited telepathic powers, Kay was a mind-reader before becoming a hive employee. While most people were polite to her face, Kagiso knew the real thoughts behind the attempts at politeness and grew to hate the "hypocrisy" of niceness more than open hate and disdain. However, she also learned to tell people what they wanted to hear. Unfortunately, telling people what they want to hear with no regard for the truth is called fraud (especially if you profit from your lies). Kagiso's ability to tell people what they wanted to hear served her well when she met Takahashi Hiroko, Zu's first Hive operations manager: despite her troubled childhood Kagiso became one of Hive Inc's earliest Johannesburg employees in 2057.

Under Hiroko's tutelage, Kagiso honed her ability to relate to others, learning how to exceed people's expectations (as opposed to simply acting on what they thought or expected) and how and when to say no. When Hiroko was promoted to production manager of Algiers in 2059, the Founder named Kagiso as the new operations manager.

Operations at the Johannesburg branch continued smoothly from 2059 to 2063, when the branch production manager requested reassignment, the first such request from an production manager in Hive Inc. history. Rather than uproot both production managers to enact the change, the entire production units of Johannesburg and Tokyo were exchanged in August 2063.