Okay, if she doesn have powers, why is she on a team of superhumans?
A lot of it has to do with the strength of her character. Y’see, Jasmine was raped by her father when she was 15 years old. She spent two years in hiding, during which time she came to live with a knife instructor named Rocky, who trained her to use the knives. At the end of that time, she left Rocky to be with her father again, who was sick. However, when her father tried to rape her again, Jasmine, in defending herself, killed him with her new skills. She served the duration of her teenage years was spent in a juvenile facility, where lawyers constantly appealed for her early release, while she received letters from young girls and older women who admired her action. After she received over eight thousand letters from rape, incest, and domestic violence victims, her sentence was commuted, releasing her when she was 19 years old. After her release, she did the last thing anyone expected: joined the police force. It was this act which clinched Jill Burke’s decision to invite her to joi
