Mahogany Johnson

First in her class at the naval academy, Mahogany Johnson was a much sought-after prospect before the FBI finally recruited her. She quickly proved to be a gifted field agent and won the respect of her peers and superiors. When it got out that she was transgender, Mahogany stuck to her truth and kept on living. She knew she was more than just her parts or the sum of them. While some at the bureau embraced her without question, the rest just stayed out of her way. (Those that didn't got to talk to HR.)

She may have lost a little of that respect, and her relationships with some coworkers may have gotten needlessly complicated. But Mahogany took it all in stride and got further stuck into her work. Most of it was fairly mundane, but her bosses occasionally assigned her the oddest back-of-the-drawer files like cattle mutilations and peculiar disappearances. Mahogany still treated each one with the same professionalism she would a high-profile kidnapping. She closed every case she worked. But something else was happening, too. With each bizarre case, Agent Johnson started to sense more and more that something was not quite right in the world.

Eventually Mahogany’s work ethic and intuition caught the attention of a small man named Leon Smalls. He represented an obscure think tank in upstate New York called the Institute and wanted to recruit Mahogany into something he called "the Good Work." Smalls pulled back the curtain on the world for Mahogany, and she could now see with her own eyes what she’d suspected but could never confirm or understand. She left the bureau behind and became one of the lead handlers in the Institute’s "Special Unit," investigating mysteries of the weird and macabre.