Tesla Tarasova, the Electric Ghost, relates her secret origin to the gravely wounded Winter Soldier. After her father was killed by Bucky, she was taken by Father Hammer to The Orphanage, where children were trained to be killers for the Soviet cause. There she was taught to be cold and ruthless, with the test being that she had to slay a wounded friend—that day she became the ghost….
Now she holds cosmic power—and desires to show all men they can live without far. Continuing her story, after that grim day, she closed in on herself, honing her intellectual and antisocial gifts, to the point where she became defined by what was absent in her life. On graduation, she was sent to work for Warren Van Owen, recruiter of children for The Orphanage, and she became his lover. Van Owen then sent her to assassinate Father Hammer but she failed, and was nearly killed. She earned her way back into hammer’s graces by killing Van Owen, only later learning that he was a deep cover agent for SHIELD. She studied her scientist father’s research and came to be powered by cosmic radiation and adopting the philosophical principle of the phantom limb—that reality is subjective: it both exists and does not, feels and cannot be felt. She took revenge against all her enemies, finally killing Hammer and recruiting LMDs to her cause by her philosophy that we are nothing. She tells Bucky that his murder of her father was what put her where she is today: on the verge of limitless potential. She heals his wounds, then releases him from his pain—with a kiss….