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The new backstory for (Latinx) Psylocke — as per Carlos Freytes — is as follows:

Kwannon Cortez was the daughter of a Guatemalan general who had his sights set on seizing power via military coup. Kwannon’s mother, Aiko, was a Japanese refugee who never spoke of her life before coming to Guatemala.

The night before General Cortez’ coup was to take place, he received word that his home, a fortress in its own right, had been visited by a league of assassins known as The Hand. The Guatemalan president, aware of the coup, employed The Hand to neutralize the treasonous General in exchange for silent shares of the nation’s petroleum holdings.

The Hand sacked the General’s home, dispensing with his elite private security detail with ease. They killed his servants and slaughtered the animals in his menagerie. But when they reached his wife and daughter, the ninjas laid down their weapons.

Aiko’s father was himself an elite Hand assassin. When Aiko learned of her father’s murderous ways, and that her fate was to follow in her father’s footsteps, she fled. Now, in a twist of fortune, the Hand had inadvertently found her.

When the ninjas broke through the barricaded door where mother and daughter were hiding, they found Aiko dead by her own blade, and the baby Kwannon in her mother’s arms, with her mother’s bloody hand print across her face, a sign to the Hand that this girl was to be spared, for she was one of their own. The Hand confronted General Cortez with an ultimatum. They left with Kwannon in tow.

Kwannon became the child prodigy of The Hand. By ten, she had assassinated more men in more ways than anyone who had preceded her in the Hand’s history. Her life would take a turn, however, when at the age of 12 she first found herself reading the thoughts of one of her marks. As she got older, her mutant powers of telepathy grew. Now, Kwannon was cursed to know that some of the men she was sworn to kill were innocent.

At 25, Kwannon faced her final mission as a member of the Hand: the assassination of the Guatemalan Generalissimo Cortez. Kwannon was a one-woman strike force, cutting through Cortez’ men with her katana. When she met Cortez, his thoughts flooded into her mind instantly. Kwannon learned that Cortez was her father, and that the ultimatum he had been offered two and a half decades before was to choose to live the rest of his days as a humble farmer with his daughter, or to relinquish his daughter to the Hand in exchange for his coup.

The emotional stew of rage, betrayal, and sadness reached a boiling point within Kwannon, until she could no longer contain it. Her psychic abilities erupted, manifesting a psionic katana from her hand. The general was killed by the blade of his own daughter’s mind.

Kwannon abandoned the Hand, traveling the world while searching for her own identity in a world rife with hostility against mutants. Her journey would take her to both sides of the philosophical struggle between Charles Xavier and Magneto. No matter where she ends up, one can be assured that the only allegiance Kwannon pledges is to herself.

The Latinx delegation has also provided a fan cast: Adria Arjona

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Green Arrow’s new backstory — as per Martin Sanchez — is as follows:

Olivar Reina was a bit of a wild child growing up. But it was hard for him not to be as he was the heir to Reina Industries, a billion dollar corporate dynasty. As a teen, he partied, crashed cars, got into fights, among other things. And after every time he would do something like this, he would always get the same lecture from his Guatemalan father, Roberto: “I worked hard to get us to where we are now. And you seem to be trying to ruin every bit of good faith I have built in this city. Every time you do something this stupid, you give us all a bad name.”

Unfortunately, everything his dad said would go in one ear and out the other, and Olivar would continue his ways into adulthood. One day while partying on his private boat in the Pacific Ocean, a storm hit, and while everyone else was perfectly safe, Olivar was knocked off his boat. He eventually landed on an island where he would have to hunt to survive. Remembering the archery skills his father insisted on teaching him (which he mostly ended up using as party tricks), Olivar decided to make a bow and arrows to aid him in his survival. 6 months into his isolation, he discovered on the other side of the island was a drug smuggling ring, and he took it upon himself to take it down.

After successfully stopping the bad guys, he used their radio to get into contact with the authorities so he could be rescued. Upon his return to Star City as a changed man, Olivar gave up his former ways, to an extent. He started fighting for social justice as the new head of Reina Industries, but that was not the only kind of fighting he would do. Quite enjoying the feeling he got when stopping those criminals, Olivar donned a green costume, inspired by legendary figure Robin Hood, and he took to the streets of Star City as the Emerald Archer, the Green Arrow.

The Latinx delegation has also provided a fancast: Josh Segarra, who technically already played a version of Green Arrow on the CW.

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