Lucia gave Jackson the map, which she enclosed in a necklace. Lucia would try to keep him away from water as much as possible, as she didn't want him to use his hydrokinesis at all, believing it would lead Manta to them. Jackson wasn't told anything about his father or his powers, even though he yearned to learn about his father and heritage. To keep Jackson a secret from his father, Lucia moved to New Mexico. Lucia then gave birth to Jackson, who quickly showed signs he had inherited his mother's Atlantean physiology.

When Lucia learnt of his true intentions, she was almost killed by Manta and fled to the surface world with the map.

Manta had only been with Lucia because she knew the location of the map which would show him where to find the Black Pearl, an artifact that would allow him to control the oceans with his mind. His father was Black Manta, although his mother didn't know this when she first met him. Jackson's mother hailed from the Atlantean Kingdom of Xebel and called herself Lucia Hyde while on the surface. Mera brought the boy to a surface couple, who raised him as their own in New Mexico.Īfter the events of Flashpoint and following the events of DC Rebirth, Jackson Hyde's origins are retold. Mera, fearing that the Xebelian’s or the Atlanteans would kill Jackson due to his suspected power to open the prison within the Bermuda Triangle, kidnapped him when she left Xebel. The experiments that were performed on Jackson gave him powers to manipulate water constructs, breathe underwater, and instantaneously grow webbed hands and feet. His mother was killed during the experimentation, while Jackson lived. After taking the mother to Xebel, the Xebelian’s performed experiments on Jackson and his mother in an attempt to discover a biological escape mechanism from their underwater prison. While pregnant with Jackson, his mother was attacked and apprehended by Xebelian outlaws in a lifeboat within the Bermuda Triangle. Like various DC comics characters over the years, Aqualad has gone through various changes.ĭuring the Modern Age, Jackson Hyde, originally named Kaldur'ahm, was born in Xebel, the underwater penal colony of Atlantis located in the Bermuda Triangle. This page is for the second Aqualad, Jackson Hyde.

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