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== Origin ==

Linda Harriman was born in Baltimore and grew up in the shadow of superheroes. Like millions of ordinary people during the Modern Age, she watched costumed beings reshape society from above — alien invasions leveling cities, psychic crises rewriting lives, superhuman battles destroying neighborhoods, and governments repeatedly bending laws around beings who operated beyond normal accountability.

Unlike most people, Linda never found superheroes inspiring.

She found them terrifying.

As a teenager, Linda survived a devastating metahuman conflict that destroyed part of her neighborhood and killed several members of her family. The heroes involved saved the city. They also accidentally ruined countless lives in the process. The event left Linda with a deep and permanent resentment toward superhumans and the culture surrounding them.

Years later, during a parahuman incident involving uncontrolled energy discharge, Linda herself manifested powers.

Ironically, her mutation emerged as the perfect counter to the thing she hated most.