Warning! Spoilers ahead for Future State: Aquaman #2 by Brandon Thomas and Daniel Sampere!
Aquawoman has a ridiculous power that would make Aquaman proud. Andy Curry's more prominent presence in DC's future is welcoming for a myriad of reasons, as she's replaced Aquaman in the Justice League, which is a breath of fresh air - or fresh water. It's good to shake things up a bit. But more to the point, Aquawoman possesses a power that not only surpasses her father's but does so in the most ridiculous way imaginable. This accomplishes two things. One, it reveals important characteristics about her: She's unaware of just how powerful she is to the point where she can achieve the unthinkable without even trying. Two, Aquawoman's inherent abilities later place her in a rather unwelcome, albeit amusing predicament for the reader that plagues her for six years.
At the beginning of Future State: Aquaman #2 written by Brandon Thomas with art by Daniel Sampere, Andy and the new Aquaman, Jackson Hyde, have already been swept into the Confluence, an interdimensional nexus where the two heroes must swim through the One Great Ocean to reach distant planets and galaxies. During their six-year entrapment, Andy and Jackson are separated from one another, an unfortunate development that leads to Aquawoman actually losing her leg. It's a rather shockingly disturbing scene. Andy cries out to her mother and pleads the universe to not let her die while she bleeds out.
And then a startlingly capable fish that wields the power of transfiguration actually becomes the portion of Aquawoman's leg that she lost, saving her life. She's just as surprised as the reader because she wasn't even trying to actually achieve anything. She was just understandably terrified and didn't want to die. But she subconsciously tapped into an ability that is apparently proprietary to her and not her family. Unlike her father who can only communicate with fish and can't actually make them do anything, Aquawoman can.
Aquawoman inadvertently coercing a fish to become her leg creates some complications for her. The fish's family isn't too keen about this strange state of affairs and are not shy in articulating their dismay and distaste of her, whom they refer to as a Conductor. Unfortunately for Aquawoman, these fish follow her throughout the entirety of her time in the Confluence. They not only try to demean and demoralize her (some of their attempts are rather effective) but actively unleash creatures against her.
The fact that Aquaman's daughter is aware she can control marine life, but doesn't stop these relentless fish from making her life a living hell for six years says a few things about her. One, she possibly doesn't actually know how to leverage this power at will, which makes her power more compelling and her character flawed. Two, she can access this power but chooses not to do so. This could mean that she is either afraid of or views mind control as an unethical technique. That, or she feels incredibly guilty for literally keeping a fish prisoner, which, she kind of is because insanely enough, the fish still has a mind of its own and talks to her. Wow. This, however, begs an even more important question than anything explored above: Will these fish become Aquawoman's sidekick? It's possible. Her legs have always been covered.