Born in Miami, FL in 1985 on a Mid-September evening, Elijah was the second child to Thomas and Elizabeth Raeburn, living in an upper-middle class home and neighborhood in the city. At age 11, in 1996, his mother was taken from them by a drunk driver one night. Leaving Thomas to care for both his children alone and working full time as a private lawyer. The family eventually had overcome the loss of their mother and loving wife and Elijah and his sister eventually graduated high-school and moved onto University life, Sarah majoring in Biology, while Elijah pursued what had always interested him as a hobby his life, Art.
While he had eventually dropped out in his sophomore year, he had met and formed a relationship with a woman named Yazmin Boone, majoring in Xenochemistry. Although they had gone their separate ways, with Elijah eventually working for his home city as a court room sketch artist. They had kept in touch through online means, becoming quite close.
Eventually in 2013, Yazmin had spoken to Elijah about her recent employment in the ARGENT branch of Millennium City, MI. Along with the opening for a paid, clinical trial for one of their projects, travel expenses covered and stipend included. Curiosity tempted, He had made the flight over and signed the necessary forms and waivers.
What he had signed up for, was testing the mutagenic effects of a reversed Qularr bioweapon illegally recovered by the company in their provoked attack in 2006. In about a week, Elijah had lost all distributed biological stability and reverted to a sapient, Unicellular 'soup'. Although unexpected to the ARGENT research team and Yazmin herself, Elijah had seem to come out of the ordeal neurologically and mentally sound.