1940-1946
In 1940 the Minutemen were formed, a group of masked heroes that fought crime. Miles away I was born Julie Gradot, my mother a French immigrant died at the point I took my first breaths. My father was a French American much like myself. He had joined a local gang and died in a shootout with the police. A bullet to the head. I was five years old when he died.
That local gang he worked for sold me to a "director" in the area. I don't remember much of that time but I do remember my rescuer the one that I still call mother. She was dressed in an all black costume with the only color being her skin and her red belt. My first Mother that I ever got to know.
She took me to her home where her girlfriend Gretchen was waiting. I learned in my two years with them that my Mother was Silhouette the vigilante. I remember this time as the happiest point in my life. Mommy was a Nurse I have memories of a park and many more fun times I loved her too.
Things changed when September of 1946 came around the house was a tense place. I knew this,it wasn't a good feeling. October revealed why the house had a gray cloud over it. Newspapers had a pictures of Mother kissing Mommy Mother had her costume on. Mother seemed more worried than Mommy. I didn't worry Mother is a hero nothing can defeat her. I was wrong.
In November I found out that mother was kicked out of the Minutemen. Nite owl still came over though they exchanged files and folders. They seem to be good friends. Mother decided to move the family to a krumy motel. I got the whole neighboring room to myself. After weeks of living there one night there was a bunch of crashing and screaming from my Mothers' room.
I looked into their room and saw them, my mothers that had raised me for two years the real first parental figures in my life were gone. I was found the next morning by the cleaning lady along side my dead mothers. They put me in a orphanage in Queens. It was finding my mothers' bodies that set me on the road I am now. The roll I was meant to play. I was six years old and my destiny was set in stone.