She was nicknamed "Water Witch" by the Time Bureau, Ray Palmer, Nate Heywood and Zari Tomaz. She was killed a second time by Nora Darhk who took the Water Totem from her in the process. However, as a result of the Legends' machinations in Zambesi 1992 that saved the village in order to free Mallus, she grew up to become the defender of her village alongside Mari. The two sisters happily share the the mantle as well as the Anansi Totem.
Publication Information
- Legends : Kuasa
- Multiverse : Earth One
- Version : DC's Legends of Tomorrow
- Alter Ego :
- Known As :
- Type :
- Formerly Criminal
- Guardian of Zambesi Village
- Formerly Follower of Mallus
- Relative :
- Unnamed Ancestor
- Unnamed Great-great-grandmother
- Unnamed Great-grandmother
- Amaya Jiwe : Grandmother
- Unnamed Father
- Esi : Mother
- Mari McCabe : Sister
- Affiliation : Zambesi Village
- Gender : Female
- Origin : Zambesi Village, M'Changa Province of Zambesi
- Season : DC's Legends of Tomorrow
- First Appeareance : DC's Legends of Tomorrow Season 3 Episod 2 : Freakshow
- Last Appeareance :
- Number of Appeareance :
- Potrayer : Tracy Ifeachor
- Main View : Full Episod
Original Timeline
Kuasa was born in 1988 in the Zambesi Village, located in the M'Changa Province of Zambesi; when she was four years old, she was named the guardian of the Anansi Totem. She viewed her grandmother as her role model, however, after a local warlord, Benatu Eshu, attacked the village in his hunt for the totems of power after murdering Amaya, her mother fled with her baby sister and the totem, leaving Kuasa bitter and obsessed with retrieving it. Feeling the pressure to protect Zambesi as a duty to honor the dead, as she grew up Kuasa became a criminal forming alliance with dangerous people and obtaining power, men and resources in order to find her sister and the totem.
Pursuing the Anansi Totem
After the totem awakes and formed a bond with her sister, now named Mari McCabe, who went to visit Dr. Macalester, Kuasa was informed by the professor. Kuasa told Macalester that if she got Mari back with the totem, his next expedition would be fully funded. When Mari went to visit Macalester once more, Kuasa busted through Macalester's office with two armed men, threatening Mari to hand over the totem or she would get one of her men to kill her.
Stealing the Water Totem
Sometime later Mari returned to Africa alongside Professor Macalester to find out more about Eshu and how to stop him. Kuasa, who had been hospitalized by the poison Mari used to stop her, revealed that to counteract Eshu's Fire Totem, they had to retrieve the Water Totem. Kuasa told them she knew of its whereabouts, and would lead them to it with the provision that she could join them in the fight against Eshu.
Resurrection and finding Zari Tomaz
Sometime after her demise, Kuasa was resurrected by a woman, who identified herself as a servant of Mallus, who required her services. Kuasa was sent to operate in Seattle 2042, to apprehend a hacktivist named Zari Tomaz, to acquire an air totem, with her powers intact despite her former death. At first, she ambushed an A.R.G.U.S. vehicle which carried Zari and killed two A.R.G.U.S. soldiers only to find out she escaped. She tracked down Zari to her hiding place at her warehouse where she saw the Legends were also looking for her and tailed them until they led her to Zari in a bar.
Abilities
Anansi Totem : Most of Kuasa's powers came from the necklace, which allowed her to harness the life force of animals, in essence harnessing their abilities. Since accessing its power, the necklaces bonded with her, preventing it from being removed from her neck until she was bitten by Anansi.
- Superhuman speed : Through the spirit of the rhino, she became incredibly fast, so much that she can perform a stampede.
- Superhuman strength : Through the spirit of the gorilla she became incredibly strong, while through the spirit of the elephant she could step like a trunk over her enemies.
- Superhuman agility : Through the spirit of an unclear big cat, she became incredibly agile, able to leap great distances, and preform incredible acrobatic feats, as well as to bite through the human flesh or cut it with her claws with ease.
- Superhuman speed : Through the spirit of the cheetah, she becomes incredibly fast, so fast that even the Flash had a hard time catching her.
- Superhuman strength : Through the spirit of the elephant, gorilla, lion, or rhinoceros. she becomes incredibly strong. She was able to tip over whole water towers and crumble one of The Arrow's arrows in her hand. The strength she demonstrated proved great enough to challenge Damien Darhk's telekinetic power, as he struggled considerably to just barely repel her.
- Superhuman agility : Through the spirit of the tiger, she becomes incredibly agile, able to leap great distances, and preform incredible acrobatic feats.
- Camouflage : Through the spirit of the chameleon, she becomes essentially invisible, being able to blend herself in with her surroundings.
- Wall climbing : Kuasa can gain the wall crawling abilities of a spider, defying gravity.
- Flight : Kuasa can access the spirit of the eagle, gaining the ability to fly.
- Superhuman smelling : Through the spirit of the wolf, Kuasa can lock onto a target's scent, by first getting a sample of it. From this, she can determine if the target is within a wide area and likewise track the target down.
- Superhuman hearing : Through the spirit of the owl, Kuasa has very acute ears, able to hear quiet conversations from great distances.
- Underwater breathing and fast swimming : Through the spirits of the fish, the dolphin, the crocodile and the octopus, Kuasa is able to effectively fight and function underwater, the skills she used while fightning.
- Animal communication / Zoopathy : As a totem represents the tribesmen' connection to their ancestral animals, Kuasa is able to communicate with the animals that live anywhere, unless she is stripped of her necklace.
- Animal empathy / communication : By manifesting the spirit of the tyranosaurus-rex, Kuasa can communicate with other t-rexes and understand their emotions and body language.
- Avatar projections : Kuasa can manifest solid energy constructs of the various animals of nature that are able to physically intact with the world, acting as soldiers to aid her.
- Night vision : Through the spirit of a nighthawk, she can see in the dark.
- Superhuman agility : Through the spirit of the dolphin, Kuasa becomes extremely fast and agile in water.
- Superhuman strength : Through the spirit of the gorilla, rhinoceros, elephant, and dinosaurs she becomes incredibly strong. While harnessing the spirit of the lion, she is shown able to unleash powerful clawing-strikes that can launch an armored foe far away.
- Thermal insulation : Through the spirit of the seal, Kuasa is unfazed by freezing temperatures.
- Totem connection : The totem connects to other totems when in the presence of them.
- Underwater breathing : Though the spirit of the dolphin she can breath underwater.
- Wall crawling : By manifesting the spirit of the spider, Kuasa can defy gravity and crawl along walls and ceilings, defying gravity.
- Master hand-to-hand combatant : Despite being surprised by Sara Lance, who had League of Assassins training, with her signature weapons, she managed to overpower her with ease to the point that Sara needed Mick Rory to cause a distraction to escape. She uses a fluid style of fighting, able to evade incoming attacks and counter them. She also was able to defeat several pirates with ease during the battle against Mallus's forces.
- Occult knowledge : As the designed wielder of the Anansi Totem, Kuasa has a great knowledge of its supernatural powers as well as the other totems powers and the general nature of mysticism and how it works. She also was shown to have the ability to resurrect and control the dead ancestors of Zambesi, but lost this magic after the venom of the spider was injected directly into her bloodstream.
- Time stone : Kuasa used a mystical stone allowing her the powers of teleportation and time travel.
- Anansi Totem : Kuasa briefly bonded with this necklace to summon the ashe and use animal powers, but later lose it due to the bite of Anansi. However, as a result of the Legends' machinations in Zambesi 1992 that saved the village in order to free Mallus, she wielded the Anansi Totem, sharing it with her sister.
- Water Totem : After Kuasa briefly gain this necklace, she gained the ability to summon and manipulate water. When she was destroyed with it and later resurrected, she retain the powers of the totem without it, thanks to Mallus. but she was killed again by Nora and took Water Totem in the process.After the death of mallus the water totem was returned to Kuasa along with all the other totems.
- Fire Totem : After the death of mallus the fire totem was returned to Kuasa along with all the other totems.
- Earth Totem : After the death of mallus the earth totem was returned to Kuasa along with all the other totems.
- Death Totem : After the death of mallus the death totem was returned to Kuasa along with all the other totems.
Unnamed Woman : Amaya Jiwe's Ancestor
- Voice Actress : Joy Richardson
When Amaya and Zari drank tea made from a special root from her village, Amaya and Zari walk through the dreamscape, and Amaya says that she can feel her Totem but it's different. Zari's Totem glows, and the woman appears. She says that the longer the Dahrks have the Totem, the more it's corrupted. The Woman tells Amaya that she must get Kuasa back, and soon Amaya will need her.
The first Totem bearers imprisoned a great evil, Mallus. He can't enter the real world, but time doesn't exist in the timescape. The more time is broken, the closer Mallus comes to breaking free. If the Legends don't stop the villains from creating Anachronisms, Mallus will go free. She realizes that Nora has claimed the Totem's power and disappears.
Abilities
- Anansi Totem : All of her powers come from her necklace, which allow her to harness the life force of animals, in essence harnessing their abilities. However, she is never seen using the totem.
- Anansi Totem : She can bond with this necklace to summon the ashe and use animal powers.
