Safiya Abdella

Safiya Abdella or Mythos is a Syndicate Member under the American Syndicate of Heroes on the Dover City Team. She was formally a Desk Tech and stayed at the Headquarters, but after the Dover City HQ Attack she became an active hero.

History
Safiya Abdella is the daughter of Sudanese immigrants. She and her sisters were born in America but spoke Sudanese Arabic at home as well as learned English. Safiya was always a bookworm as a child, and would sneak books into her room and read them late at night after dark. She didn't come from a wealthy home and didn't plan to go to college, rather took up work at the Dover City Library from the age of 15 to 25. She was content working there for most of her life but hoped one day to run a book store of her own.

In that time, Safiya came to discover a book called the Book of Mythos. When opening this book, it allowed her to enter the minds of others and see "their story". She soon discovered this meant seeing the narrative a person tells themselves about their lives.

The book was used as a tool for empathy, and Safiya used it for many years to help wayward souls that she came across find clarity by helping them "complete their stories". When she was 25, she was recruited by the A.S.H., who had an interest in the Book of Mythos. When she agreed to meet and discuss the book with an A.S.H. officer, they were disappointed to hear the nature of the book, believing it could be a way to access hidden secrets from enemies. Safiya was rejected as a hero but recommended for the Desk Tech program.

Believing she could still help people as a tech, she joined the program and was assigned a position on the Dover City Team. She worked there two years before the departure of multiple heroes from the team resulted in her having to take up the role as hero Mythos.