However, on advice from Queen Maeve, Starlight is able to move past it and ignore him. The Deep uses this to mock her the day afterward. Buying into The Deep's ruse, Starlight submits to this blackmail. He then threatens Starlight with expulsion from The Seven if she does not perform oral sex on him. Starlight, appalled, begins to leave, but is told by The Deep tells Starlight that he is The Seven's #2, second only to Homelander in importance to the group. As The Deep initially appears charming and supportive of the newest team member, he begins to masturbate in front of her when Starlight reveals she had a 'crush' on him as a child. Taking Starlight on a tour of Vought Tower, the two eventually arrive in the conference room of The Seven. Following Lamplighters retirement from hero work, The Deep was chosen to host the debut of The Seven’s newest member and Lamplighter’s replacement, Starlight.

Over the years, The Deep became good friends with fellow heroes such as Lamplighter, another member of The Seven, but received habitually verbal abuse and hazing from other heroes such as Homelander and A-Train, due to their sense of superiority to both him and his powers. While backstage he “fingerbanged” Melissa and abandoned her right after while she was dressing herself, humiliating her. One year at a VH1 Educator Award Ceremony, The Deep had an encounter with a kindergarten teacher Melissa Dabrowski, who The Deep was suppose to award teacher of the year. Over the years, The Deep would sexually harass, humiliate, or assault most of the women he encountered as a way to feel less worthless, thinking they would do the same to him if they knew about his gills, a unique physical feature of his which gave him tremendous body dysmorphic disorder. However, despite (or perhaps, due to) his rising fame, his insecurities and shame would only escalate. Kevin eventually became a superhero known as The Deep, rising through fame and stardom as one of America’s greatest superheroes and a founding member to the world famous superhero team The Seven. Over time his body would continue to mutate, sprouting aquatic gills on his torso, a trait that Kevin was highly insecure about as he believed himself to be ugly and afraid that people would reject him. At first, he believed was going insane however, his mother deceived him, calling it a gift and that he was just born that way. Kevin first became aware of his aquatic telepathy at nine years of age, as he began hearing the thoughts of every aquatic animal he encountered, whether at a pet store, aquarium, beach, or Red Lobster. Kevin Moskowitz was born in the mid 80s and, like all superheroes, was experimented on at birth by Vought International with Compound V.

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