- "When she starts crying because she's outgrowing that machine and it's digging into her body?"
"Then I'll build her a new one."
"And a new one and a new one after that. It weighs as much as she does." - ―Lily Mazursky and Edward Mazursky[src]
Nina Mazursky's Respirator was a device used to aid Nina Mazursky's breathing.
History[]
Nina Mazursky was born with pulmonary complications, and her condition was considered terminal. Her father, a renowned scientist, created a mechanical device to pump her lungs, which saved her life. Despite Edward's efforts to save her, Nina's mother, Lily Mazursky, considered keeping her too cruel, abandoning her daughter and divorcing her father when she was still a toddler.
However, Nina's health began to deteriorate, and her father was forced to build her heavier versions of the respirator, and willing to take any risk to save her, Edward attempted to alleviate her condition by injecting her with fish DNA. Despite the warnings of his colleagues, the effects proved successful, transforming her into an amphibious metahuman. As Nina had become only able to breathe water, Edward left the respirator behind to build her a water tank.[1]