DOMINO

Neena Thurman was not born into a family so much as manufactured by a program. She was one of many children produced by Project Armageddon, a clandestine government breeding effort that used the precognitive mutant Beatrice as a surrogate to engineer the perfect weapon. The children fell one after another — no mutant gene, bodies that could not withstand the testing — until a single chalk-white girl remained: Domino, whose subconscious probability field the evaluators graded a failure because mere luck was not the weapon they had ordered.

Branded with the black patch over her left eye that every test subject carried, the discarded survivor was broken out by her own mother and deposited with Father Rudolpho Boschelli at Chicago's Church of the Sacred Heart. Years later, hunting for Beatrice and answers, Domino traced the supposedly shuttered project to a still-active base in Florida in Domino Vol. 2 #1–4 (2003) — and found a boy wearing the identical eye mark.

The boy was Lazarus, her half-brother, preserved from the same program and gifted with emotion-controlling power potent enough that the project's own files treated him, not Neena, as the true result of the Perfect Weapon program. Then the reunion turned into a shooting war: Beatrice arrived at the head of the Armajesuits, a fanatical order determined to kill Lazarus before his gift matured, and Domino was forced to shoot her own mother to keep her brother alive. She sheltered Lazarus at the same Chicago church that had raised her — and Beatrice, surviving, quietly abducted him from sanctuary anyway.