William Denver was a family man long before he was the villain King Kamehamayhem. He grew up going to a good school for heroes and graduated with honors. Two years after graduation he got married to Adele Travis, a pretty, nice girl only a year younger than him. They had two beautiful baby girls, and for years they lived happily in Hawaii.
He taught his younger daughter Lea how to swim before he taught her to walk, and she was surfing the smaller waves by the time she was six. His other daughter Lainei, older by a year, was more often found in the kitchen with her mother, learning to cook, and she was only ever fond of the water, never loving it like Lea did.
When his daughters were eight and nine, respectively, William started to spend more time with a very power conscious group. Before long, he was too was starting to discriminate, cutting ties with his sidekick acquaintances and only talking to civilians to keep up appearances.
The marriage went down the drain swiftly, and in less than a year Adele Denver became Adele Travis once more. A battle for custody over the children occurred, with both parties fighting to keep Lainei and completely ignoring Lea, saying the other could have her if they could retain custody of her sister.
Their reasons were different, but no less selfish. Adele had always favored Lainei, the perfect little girl, who preferred to tan on the beach rather than surf unlike her sister and never got filthy, also unlike Lea.
For a long time, William had favored Lea, who had a wild streak to match his own, but when his views on power changed and Lea remained powerless while Lainei gained a power that would make her an automatic hero he started to favor Lainei more.
The fight for custody lasted a long time, but in the end William got Lainei and Adele got Lea. The arrangements lasted for two years, until King Kamehamayhem caused a volcano to explode and was caught and put in jail by the Commander and Jetstream.
As soon as she had custody of both her children, Adele Travis moved the three of them to suburban, superhero filled Maxville, where she was sure both of her children would have a good influence and not be inclined to follow in the footsteps of their villain father.
Lea embraced Maxville somewhat tentatively- it took half an hour to walk to the beach the first time she tried it, and all the neighbors were overly cheerful and seemingly perfect. Her mother and sister fit in wonderfully, but the wild tomboy had trouble adjusting. The only upside was that no one knew who they really were and accepted the story that Adele's husband was dead.
Adele managed to get enough money to send first Lainei, and then Lea, to Sky High. Lainei became a hero easily, made a bunch of friends, and got perfect grades. Lea's freshman year went a little differently...
