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#62 - Sasha Bordeaux
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Once the bodyguard of Bruce Wayne, Sasha Bordeaux split her time and services with Checkmate as well. However, something seems to have changed - the woman that was Sasha is gone, replaced with the relatively terse and ultimately emotionless automaton that wanders the holding facility of Zonn Zorr like a phantom wraith.

What secrets she holds,
no one can say for sure, save
Jessica Midnight.

Agent Haiku is a cold, distant, isolated being that wanders the halls of Z'onn Z'orr like the specter of Checkmate's dismal, murky past. But beyond that, Sasha seems to hold certain keys to certain moments that might be of great importance. The only hurdle to understanding is, of course, the fact that her mind is an intricately-designed metal puzzle, with blocks and firewalls and indecipherable cryptic hints preventing easy revelation. Sasha was once a human being; she had a past prior to her induction into Checkmate and her conversion into... this. And the more that Sasha reveals, the more it becomes clear that this rabbit hole goes deep.

At the end of 2022, that rabbit hole revealed untold depths unplumbed - Sasha had been involved in the capture of at least five of the agents of Checkmate that make-up our player character base. Sasha's efforts, manipulated perhaps by the new Black King, saw our team's coming-together. But more frighteningly, that gathering involved capturing and kidnapping the PCs. Sasha now has proven herself to be something of double agent. Maybe. It's hard to say, as much of Sasha's story is a riddle even to herself. The only way to Sasha's heart, to dig deep to the truth of the matter is through two things: Jessica Midnight, as discovered by Rosetta, and haikus, as discovered by Bloodfruit.

Early on in the campaign, Bloodfruit went to Sasha several times. I think she was really on the verge of coming to her own breakthroughs with that mystery, but at the same time, Sasha was on the verge of breakthroughs herself in terms of personality. What makes this so exceptionally interesting is the absolute canyon of life experience between the two. Hell, Sasha is made of Bloodfruit's weakness, but Bloodfruit demonstrated such courage and curiosity by returning to this enigmatic figure hidden in the depths of Z'onn Z'orr. Of course, time has passed, and Bloodfruit has come back with different priorities, but I certainly would love to see this relationship resume, as I think it was, ultimately, the absolute odd couple pairing, foils contrasting in interesting ways.

In the meantime, a steel specter surveys her domain as the warden of Z'onn Z'orr's holding facility, the secrets of her past including but not limited to the party's own origins in this, the Final Crisis.

#61 has appeared in multiple locations in the campaign, but was surprisingly undrafted!