Metahum A Tragic Hero

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She was born to a loving family in the country. Where she lived happily until the age of nine, but at that point things changed, at age ten her Metahuman powers started to truly function and she caused a freak blizzard which destroyed her house, her village, and her life. Desperate to escape what she had done, she fled into the night encountering Killer snow she began her training and at age thirteen was fully trained in various combatant arts as well as the skills needed to control her powers. However, she realized that her beloved mentor was not the hero she'd made her out to be so she left her training behind and went back to her village where she found her family alive and her house rebuilt she apologized for what she had done and they

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