Fan CastingAqualad (HBO Max TV Series)

Jackson Hyde’s adoptive parents raised him to fear and prevent water.They do this to stop him from learning of his true identity and discovering what his actual heritage is.Jackson is first revealed to possess powers after the events of Brightest Day bring a group of heroes to a White Lantern Battery in New Mexico. As the battery calls out to the heroes, Jackson’s tattoos begin to glow and his powers begin to manifest. Along with a power-set, he learns that he possesses webbed hands and gills. Soon enough he learns he is the son of Black Manta and that Mera had brought him to his adoptive father to keep him safe from harm. Finally, he learns of a chest that is to be opened only after the truth had been exposed.With the chest opened, he finds out that his parents were captured and tortured by the Xebel and that the King had ordered him to be experimented on. He ordered the experimentation because he was the first outsider born in Xebel and the King believed him to be the key to ending their exile.