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Namorita was born in 1958 to Namora, half-human cousin of Atlantis's Prince Namor. Unknown to her husband Talan, Namora became pregnant via genetic manipulation by Atlantean scientist Vyrra, who implanted her with her own clone (infused with genes from Atlantis's greatest warriors) to become pregnant. Talan died when Namorita was three, and she and Namora relocated to Lemuria. Eventually Namora was poisoned by her rival, Llyra, when Namorita was still a pre-adolescent. Llyra assumed the throne of Lemuria soon after, and Namorita remained in her care, suspecting her of Namora's supposed death but unable to prove it.
When Namor reunited with the cousin he had not seen since her infancy, he entrusted her welfare to his longtime surface friend, Betty Prentiss. Under Prentiss's guidance, Namorita attended high school and college. Namorita eventually considered Betty to be her second mother and took her last name when she died. Namorita also acted as mentor to Wundarr, and briefly joined his spiritual movement, the Water Children. Namor was often overprotective of his little cousin and he offered her a job at his company, Oracle Inc. Recently, Nita shared co-rulership of Atlantis with Namor and Andromeda as part of the Council of Three.
While a student attending Empire State University, Nita found herself coincidentally at the site of the reborn Terrax. She was forced into action, and was soon joined by a group of other teen heroes. This group became the New Warriors. As a founding member of the team, she played an important part in their quest to "change the world". At one point, she even took over leadership duties of the team. Namorita had a very personal grudge against one Warrior villain, Sea Urchin, who was looting Atlantean property from the seabed. She came very close to killing him after an initial conflict in which he scalped her.
Nita has two great regrets from her time with the team. The first was the team's mission to Trans-Sabal. In this fictional nation, the Warriors found themselves involved in an armed insurrection, forced to choose sides. At one point, Nita was in a position to prevent one of the army leaders from being killed, but because of the situation (Aqueduct was aiming at Halladah who was aiming at Mezdbadah) she could not decide how to act, and allowed Halladah to be killed.
The second time Nita regrets to have messed up was during the "Poison Memories" crisis. Night Thrasher, Nita's former leader in the Warriors, had left the team and gotten on the wrong side of a gang called the Poison Memories. One night, Nita drank too much and wound up sleeping (unknowingly) with a member of that gang. He used his access to her apartment to steal all the personal data she had on the Warriors, and arranged the kidnappings of her teammate's family. In the course of the Mems' missions, Rage's Granny Staples was murdered, Firestar's father was shot, and Nova's younger brother had a finger cut off.
Namorita underwent great emotional turmoil after the Trans-Sabal and Poison Memories incidents. She had been experiencing emotional difficulty, and directly after the Poison Memories affair was over, left the team. She went to her home of Atlantis, and there learned that her emotional problems were the result of physical change: When the doctor had originally cloned Namora, he had spliced in genetic codes from ancient Atlantean warriors, the idea being to prevent Nita from undergoing the same difficulty of being a hybrid that her mother faced. However, those dormant Atlantean genes were re-activated by Nita's physical and emotional stress, and it caused her to transform into the blue-skinned Kymaera (which means "horrible creature").
This new look and primitive Atlantean attitude lasted until she underwent additional physical changes (such as secreting burning acid/ paralytic toxin, and the ability to become transparent). Nita temporarily reverted back to her pink-skinned form, and later became permanently blue-skinned.
From the first time they met, it was clear that Richard Rider and Nita had a certain rapport. This would bloom into a romantic relationship, although a somewhat strained one at that. When Nita initially turned into Kymaera, Rich was there for her, not caring about her change in appearance.
Nova and Nita continued their relationship, but it fell apart later when Nita began undergoing the next change in appearance/powers, and needed Rich's support, he turned away from her because of his own personal problems. She did not forgive him for this for a long time, and pursued a relationship with the Human Torch of the Fantastic Four.
Johnny Storm peripherally knew Namorita through her cousin's contact with the Fantastic Four. However, their relationship really began in the pages of the third Warriors series. The two dashing young heroes (and popular tabloid topics) began a very public relationship. After her team went inactive again after the third series failed, Nita became somewhat of a "tag-along" with Johnny's team. She would accompany them on a number of missions, but eventually the couple broke up. At one point, Johnny and Nita would meet up again in his own book, and he would invite her to come live with him. Nita had to turn him down because she saw that the two polar opposites (or two sides of the same coin) could not maintain that kind of relationship. They remained good friends.
During a televised raid by the New Warriors of a building in which Cobalt Man, Speedfreak, Coldheart and Nitro resided, Namorita followed after Nitro. Slamming him into a bus, Namorita taunted him, which made him let off a massive explosion that killed the New Warriors, all of the children at the nearby elementary school and almost all residents in the surrounding neighborhood where the fight took place.[1]
Class 75; Namorita can lift up to 75 tons when well hydrated.
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