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Early Years[]
Jessica Miriam "Jess" Drew (born April, 1947) was the daughter and only child of Oxford University professor and geneticist Jonathan Drew and his wife, Miriam Drew whom Jessica was named after. The former of which was secretly a member of Hydra. Shortly after she turned one years old her parents moved from their home in England to a small cottage in the outskirts of Wundagore Mountain in in the small nation of Transia. For that is where her father's research partner at the time, a man named Herbert Wyndham, who would later in the future become known as the High Evolutionary, found large deposits of uranium in the area. Which gave the partners the financial resources they needed to build a secret research facility to keep working on their controversial studies of evolution, genetics, and cell regeneration, which had been outlawed in the proper academic world. Though Miriam and young Jessica knew none of this, and simply lived their lives. Which was good for the next three years, until Jessica became ill, in fact poisoned actually by her long term exposure to the uranium so abundant and prevalent in the land.
Faced with the impending death of his daughter, and not willing to just sit by and doing nothing, Jonathan being an expert on the regenerative and immunological properties of arachnid blood injected Jessica with an untested serum composed of the blood of several uncommon species of spiders, in hopes of stopping the tissue damage caused by the poisoning, and immunizing her against the uranium radiation already in her blood. He then sealed her within a genetic accelerator created by Wyndham to accelerate the process. But instead of speeding up the process the opposite happened, and it only seemed to work at a very slow rate. Thus Jessica ended up in stasis for decades, while the chamber holding her kept her aging rate greatly slowed, while she received her life saving treatments. Being watched over by her parents, but as the decades continued passing and they got older Jonathan contacted an associate of his within HYDRA named Otto Vermis and asked him to watch over Jessica. If only to better understand exactly what sort of process the young Drew was going through. Which when she awakened in the early 2000's was fully cured, proving the treatments were successful. But the process also left Jessica with a mutated physiology and several spider-related abilities. Seeing this Otto didn't hesitated and moved to trained Jessica as a HYDRA assassin, the young girl not putting up any resistance at all, despite now being a grown woman. Since she had little life experience, and also as another side effect of the treatments Jessica had developed total amnesia, not remembering anything of her life before waking up, not even her own name. Thus she found herself as a agent of HYDRA.