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Candice Wilkins was far from the first member of her family to display unique skills and powers. Her great grandfather was one of the first of her family to display powers under the moniker the Crimson Bolt. A speedster that sometimes ended up on the wrong side of the law for standing out against corrupt and sometimes racist individuals in positions of power. His children likewise took up the mantle, at least at first. Candice's grandfather donned the cape as the hero and later anti-hero Basalt. The treatment of his father slowly pushed him towards less noble ends employing his enhanced strength in brutal fashion before finally crossing the line, recklessly causing thousands in property damage and accidentally responsible for the death of a young couple, an act he later surrendered himself to the authorities for. Her great aunt however ended up abusing her powers as the Ebon Flare, Eventually being arrested and tried for numerous counts of arson and armed robbery.

The next in line, her father, took up the mantle of the hero again as Boomer. A heavy set super strength meta, with a twist, he had the unique ability to bolster other powered individuals around him. He eventually married the heroine, Blessed Grace. Her mother, other than possessing flight had the ability to draw pain and injury into herself. Frequently ending up hospitalized due to her willingness to sacrifice her own health to help others. The pair soon after marrying moved to Millennium City after the destruction of old Detroit to lend their talent there in the aftermath. Currently retired they still use those abilities in a civilian capacity, her mother as a nurse at Mercy and father has a small construction company that employs several other powered individuals.

And finally we come to Candice and her siblings, Marcus and Cassidy. Her twin brothers are both heroes in their own right fighting alongside one another as Meteor and Cloudchaser. The former possessing supersonic levels of flight and the ability to cover his skin in a dense stone-like shell, while the other possessing the ability to manipulate wind and to a lesser degree the weather. The twins both left home prior to Candice coming of age and discovering her own abilities, in a rather awkward manner. Her power first manifesting on a first date shortly before her school's homecoming. Her then boyfriend unknown to her had developed powers of his own, and at that first kiss she suddenly burst into a form of blinding light, rendering the boy temporarily blind along with most of the witnesses to it. After that incident it was a good many months before she finally began to learn just what her powers entailed.