The girl who grew up with Carol Danvers in her house, who came back from the Blip to find her mother had died in the five years, and who walked into a wall of static and came out different.
Monica Rambeau is the connective character of this part of the catalogue. Carol Danvers lived with her family, her mother Maria flew with her, and the five years Monica missed took the person she was closest to.
What the story does with her is deliberately unheroic. She acquires her abilities by walking into a grieving woman’s reality and being remade by it, which means her power and her sympathy for the person who caused it arrive together and cannot be separated.