Essence Hwang:: 2Face

What's in a name?:

     "Her birth name was Essence Hwang. Before the fire she'd been called either SE or Essie, or Water-Baby, depending on whether it was a family member or someone from school. But once the bandages were unwrapped she knew she had to either hide from the truth or get right up in its face. She changed her name to 2Face. People thought it was rude, like she was forcing them to look." -The Mayflower Project, p. 55

Physical Description:

     "She turned to the right, showing her left face: the smooth, olive skin, the unsettling juxtaposition of pale gray eye color beneath distinctly Asian eyelid. The strong chin, the too-pert nose.
     Then she turned the other way, revealing the burned, melted flesh. The eyelid drooped at the outside corner, making it seem the eye was eternally crying. Her cheek was like some aerial shot of a desert: pale ridges like sand dunes. Human caramel.
     The nose was untouched, but underneath her long black hair the right ear was nearly gone, a nub. The hearing in that side was an echo chamber, hollow.      Her straight black hair was an illusion in part, grown longer on the top so she could conceal the ear and the fact that her hairline on that side began two inches higher than it once did.
     But that was the only trick she allowed. She would not wear shades to hide the damaged eye. She would not wear a scarf to conceal the melted wax skin that extended down her neck as far as her collarbone." -The Mayflower Project, p. 53-54

Who is she?:

2Face is defined by her face, a stark contrast of beauty and disfigurement. After a fire, she decided to use this new image to define herself anew, and get into people's faces and force them to see what they don't want to. She eventually planned to reverse it with surgery, but the chance never came up. After Earth, she came to an early leadership, but was displaced by Wylson, pushed by Yago. Her ongoing 'civil war' with Yago, in which people are defined as Freaks or Normals, is as yet unresolved, and if anything will escalate.

Chapter by Chapter:

The Mayflower Project (2):
Chapters: 7, 16

Destination Unknown (5):
Chapters: 3, 5, 11, 12, 19

Them (5):
Chapters: 11, 14, 15, 24, 25

Nowhere Land (4):
Chapters: 2, 14, 17, 22

Mutation (3):
Chapters: 17, 20, 21

Breakdown (3):
Chapters: 16, 20, 27

Isolation (1):
Chapters: 15

Mother, May I? (5):
Chapters: P, 14-17

No Place Like Home (4):
Chapters: 10, 16, 18, 21

Lost and Found (6):
Chapters: 3-4, 6, 9, 21-22

Factoids:

Introduced?: The Mayflower Project, Chapter 7.
Family?: Dawn Schulz-Hwang, occupation unknown, died on the Mayflower; Father, Shy Hwang, ABC TV Producer.
Got berth?: Her father hit a nerve with a story about the Mayflower's hibernation technology, and dug deeper, and to keep him quiet, NASA gave his family three berths. Hers was #58.
Age?: 514, born in 1997.
Friends?: Enemy, Yago; Temporary Caretaker of Edward.