WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Lovecraft Country Season 1, Episode 9, "Rewind 1921," which aired Sunday on HBO.
HBO's Lovecraft Country has left Tic and Leti in dire straits, needing as much help as they can get as the Sons of Adam -- or whatever remains -- comes after the Book of Names. Needing protection from Lancaster, they went to Christina who imbued Leti with invulnerability, while Tic ended up with a Super-Shoggoth as a watchdog by fiddling with missing spell pages.
Still, it's quite dangerous as they just can't trust her or the spells they're conjuring on their own because Tic's quite inexperienced with magic. However, that's set to change as the most powerful hero in the group has emerged: Aunt Hippolyta, aka Orynthia Blue.
Orynthia Blue's a comic book character Diana created; one she shaped to be a defender of the universe. Her dad, George, loved it and Hippolyta also kept her drawings close to her chest as it served as a reminder of when Diana was being inspired to grow her intellect and as an artist. However, when George died, things went off the rails, culminating in Hippolyta getting tossed through the multiverse at Hiram's observatory, ironically leaving Diana's comic behind.
That foreshadowed what's to come in the latest episode when Diana needs to be cured of the hex Lancaster placed on her. Christina reveals it's either Lancaster's body or the Book of Names they'll need to heal Diana, which finds Hippolyta taking a bold risk. She's back after jumping through various realities and indicates they can use the observatory to go back in time and get the tome. She has a key held in her body through two sockets, making it seem like she's part-human, part-machine.
When they get to the orrery, she takes it to a next level as she plugs into the device upon fixing it, acting as the "motherboard." Hippolyta then mentally traverses all the alternate worlds to find Tulsa in 1921 for them to jump to, and as she interfaces with the "multiverse machine," we see her withstanding electric shocks -- even levitating. As she keeps the portal open for Leti to come back with the Book, you can tell her body's changing, causing her to froth at the mouth as she keeps the rift open.
When everyone's home safe and sound, her hair's changed to blue, making it seem like Hippolyta's subconscious is tapped in Orynthia Blue, manifesting that physical look in real life. We know she was experimented on by mysterious humanoids so this could be the next part in her evolution after returning from Earth-504. This might be her true self, as her trip across the cosmos was to find her true identity, and seeing as she has a hold on space and time, Hippolyta may turn out to be a god slumbering in real life -- one who could undo Christina's sinister plans to achieve immortality.
Starring Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Aunjanue Ellis, Abbey Lee, Jada Harris, Wunmi Mosaku and Michael K. Williams, Lovecraft Country airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO.