![[Turquesa]](turquesa.jpg)
Gender: Female
First Appearance: "The Green"
Other Appearances: None
Turquesa is a member of a gargoyle clan based in a rain forest in Guatemala. Her clan protected the trees of the forest from anything that threatened them. To fulfill this duty, she, and her fellow clan members Zafiro, Obsidiana, and Jade were given magical crystals connected to a Mayan sun amulet that allowed them to remain flesh both day and night.
One day, while the four were on patrol, robbers invaded the Mayan temple that the Guatemalan clan called home, stole the sun amulet, and smashed the sleeping members of Turquesa's clan, reducing the clan to only the four crystal-wearing gargoyles. From that point on, two of the four would guard the temple while the other two patrolled the forest.
In 1996, the corporation Cyberbiotics made plans to construct a facility in the rain forest of the Guatemalan clan. To prevent this, the clan began committing acts of sabotage intended to discourage construction. However, the acting head of Cyberbiotics, Preston Vogel, hired mercenaries Jackal and Hyena, formerly of the Pack, to stop their destructive actions.
Soon after, Zafiro and Obsidiana returned from a sabotage run with Goliath, Angela, Elisa Maza, and Bronx, who were on their Avalon journey. Jade and Turquesa were wary of the travelers at first, but Zafiro and Obsidiana quickly convinced them that the Avalon travelers could be trusted. The Guatemalan clan explained their mission and history to the travelers at their Mayan temple home.
The next morning, Turquesa, Jade, and Obsidiana remained at the Mayan temple while Elisa accompanied Zafiro on patrol. While with him, she saw that he wouldn't even permit farmers to cut down trees for farmland to support their families. That night, she tried to convince Goliath and Angela not to go with Zafiro and Obsidiana on their sabotage run on Cyberbiotics, but they were not swayed. During the resulting battle, Jackal began to burn down the rain forest in a path to the Guatemalan clan's Mayan temple, and Turquesa's clan and the Avalon travelers stopped fighting Jackal to put out the fire.
The sun rose, and Jackal swooped down, hoping to disfigure Goliath and destroy the other Guatemalan gargoyles, including Turquesa's clan, whom he thought now slept during the day because Hyena had gone to New York City and, he assumed, destroyed the Mayan sun amulet that powered their crystals. The proof to him that this was so was that Obsidiana had turned to stone. Unknown to him, however, she had lost her crystal during the attempt to put out the fire. Turquesa, Zafiro, Jade, and Bronx, who had picked up Obsidiana's pendant, took down Jackal.
As a result of these events, Preston Vogel had Cyberbiotics give up its rain forest operation, and the 'Green' was safe once more. The next night, the Avalon travelers returned to Avalon, with Turquesa and Jade in tow. The two were to transplant samples of rain forest plants to Avalon to preserve those plant species, while Zafiro and Obsidiana remained to protect the jungle. Presumably, Turquesa and Jade returned soon afterwards. At present, the Guatemalan clan is probabaly still protecting their rain forest from any threat.
Turquesa has all the abilities and traits normally possessed by gargoyles, including claws, wings that enable her to glide, eyes that glow red when she is enraged, a prehensile tail, and strength significantly greater than that of the average human. She also can turn into an organic stone-like substance during the day, and she regenerates at a faster rate while she is in this "stone sleep." Thanks to a magical crystal pendant she wears, however, Turquesa does not turn to stone by day, and suffers no detrimental effects from her lack of stone sleep.