Tefé Holland
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance |
(The Sprout) Swamp Thing #65 (October 1987) (Tefé Holland) Swamp Thing #90 (December 1989) |
| Created by |
(The Sprout) Rick Veitch (Tefé Holland) Doug Wheeler Pat Broderick |
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| Alter ego | |
| Notable aliases | The Sprout, Mary Conway |
Tefé Holland is a fictional character, a DC Comics universe leading and supporting character. The character is the daughter of Swamp Thing and Abby Arcane Holland. She first appears as the Sprout in Swamp Thing #65 (1987). She is later born in Swamp Thing #90 (1989) as Tefé, named after the Brazilian city of Tefé, home of the Parliament of Trees.
Tefé was originally a floating spirit called Sprout, who tried to find a body from a recently deceased person, was eventually given a body through Abby Holland having a baby, which was conceived through the Swamp Thing possessing John Constantine and having sex with her. Due to Constantine having the demon Negral's blood in his veins at this time, Tefe is also part demon. She eventually became an Earth elemental like her father, beginning a line of human Earth elementals as a new Swamp Thing in Swamp Thing, Vol. 3, having all of her father's powers, but retaining a human appearance. She no longer has these powers.
Believing Alec Holland, the Earth Elemental known as Swamp Thing, to be dead, the collective consciousness of nature known as the Green created a new protector in the form of a young sprout. When the Green discovered that Holland was still alive, they ordered this now-redundant Sprout executed. A reprieve came in the form of hellbound magician John Constantine. Alec inhabited Constantine's body to impregnate his human wife, Abigail Arcane Cable Holland, with the seed of this Sprout. Cloaked in the flesh and blood of an infant child, this first human Elemental was given the name Tefé with the ability to manipulate both vegetation and flesh on an elemental scale.
The Swamp Thing (Alec Holland) and Abby Holland hoped that their child would be a better elemental, one able to mend the rift between the two worlds. The happiest days of Abby's life were when she was pregnant with her. They named her after the river that flows from the Parliament of Tree's grove. But something went wrong. The Parliament, composed of retired Earth elementals, seemed to go crazy. They wanted to convince Tefé that her true mission was to punish humans for crimes against nature. Swamp Thing did not allow it, but a part of Tefé truly believed her destiny was to destroy the human race. Frightened and confused, she disappeared shortly thereafter. For more than a year, Abby had no idea where she was. Because of this, Swamp Thing and Abby decided to separate.
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