Wigglerhood friend of hers, although honestly I'm not certain how an off-spectrum mutant becomes acquainted with the imperial heiress in the first place. Possibly they know each other through one of the others in their circle.

But he's a better strategist than she is, and there's a couple of hemoequalist religious cults that have decided he's the second coming of their prophet and I'm entirely unsure whether he actually buys into it or if he's just sympathetic toward their ideology and canny enough to lean into it to get them mobilized behind the Heritrix.