In 1980, Lunette Bruce was born to a pair of heroes in Lottsawheat County.
By the time her parents moved to Polar City one year later, they were sad to report that she, unlike them, had no special abilities of their own. Still, they loved her, and she was very smart ... not to mention terribly amusing.
In 1985, her little sister was born. To the surprise and delight of all, the baby exhibited fantastic shape-shifting abilities within her first few months. Finally, the Bruce family had their little hero. But all was not so rosy as that. The baby's abilities gave her a degenerative condition that could kill her if nothing was done.
Unfortunately, the Bruce family was not rich. All feared for the baby. And then help came from an unexpected place: A CEO and philanthropist known only as Murphy. He said, in exchange for giving him rights to enroll Lunette in a new program to make normal people into heroes, he would pay for the baby's medical expenses. They agreed.
And so, Lunette was handed over to Murphy's people. Her family came to visit her every so often. Each time she begged them to take her home. They would tell their imaginative and emotional daughter that they couldn't. However, she would be pleased to know that her little sister was doing great.
A year after she was signed over, the Bruce's adopted another child. Though he got to come and see her, the two never really connected.
In 1990, Lunette was returned to her family when they were transferred from Polar City to Arryd City. She came back to them with heavy guns in her chest, metal legs, metal spine, and the most amazing symbiotic metal mask. By age ten, Lunette Bruce had been lost only NoFace (her Murphy-coined nickname) remained. She didn't remember what happened, and couldn't relate any of her ordeals to her family. All they knew was that she had changed. But, at least she was a hero like them now, and her little sister's condition had been cured.
She was not pleasant in the years that followed. Often argumentative and distant, she was not at all what they had expected. She didn't get along with her siblings, and would treat them like strangers at times. She hung out with the wrong people in High School, and there was pervasive feeling of something being "not quite right" about her.
In 1999, she returned to Polar City for her last contracted upgrade. Bigger guns. Better parts.
The terrifying moment forgotten, she was released and sent to work for the Polar City League of Heroes. It was great for a while, then, true to form, things fell apart. Her seven year stay there ended in her blowing up the League Building. She was not aware that her best friend was inside and that, despite the pain she had been through at the hands of the league, her other closest friend would come to hate her for it for the rest of his life. Murphy had disappeared.
In 2006, she was shipped back to Arryd City, in an attempt to straighten her out. It didn't work very well. Shortly after her rehabilitation began, her memories of her days in Murphy's program came flooding back. They were massively unpleasant, to put it mildly.
And so, in 2007, after recovering her memories and accepting a free upgrade from the government, she was sent out to Europe to assist the Swedish heroes. This is where the story begins.
