Grace Rand

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- Grace.

Early Life

When she was two weeks old, Grace said her first sentence. When she was three months old, she could already walk. By the time of her first birthday, Grace could read and write. At age four she was ranked among the top five artists in New York. When she was six Grace tried to kill herself due to depression and had composed her first opera. When she was thirteen, Grace discovered that she was a mutant. She developed low-level telepathy, not being able to control minds but gaining the ability to read them at a short distance. She also gained teleportation and the ability to phase through solid matter to a certain degree.

She graduated M.I.T. at age fourteen and was in training to become an Olympic athlete when she was approached to join the Avenger's program. She welcomed the chance to expand her knowledge, and because her rivals were attempting to have her banned anyway. While the other members of the Avengers Academy were tortured by Norman Osborn to expand their powers, she never was. All he had to do was offer her the chance to learn things she never could otherwise. For this, her new instructors regard her with suspicion.

Avengers Academy

Following Norman Osborn's removal from power following Siege, the Avengers Academy was handed over to Hank Pym who took it upon himself to undo Osborn's cruel tutelage and encourage the students to be happier, better heroes.

Grace was consequently recruited to join the newly formed Avengers Academy alongside other young potential heroes Mettle (Ken Mack), Striker (Brandon Sharpe), Veil (Madeline Berry), Reptil (Humberto Lopez) and Hazmat (Jennifer Takeda). She and the rest of the class were led to believe they were among those most likely to become heroes, but they quickly uncovered files on them revealed they were most likely to become villains.

After viewing a documentary on Quicksilver's life, she guessed that he was never replaced by a Skrull like he claimed to the media, and uses this knowledge to blackmail him into teaching her everything he learned as part of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. She grew close to Quicksilver and was quick to defend him after Magneto paid a visit to the academy (in the course of an inquiry on Jocasta's murder) and argued with his son.

Whilst successful for the most part, Grace continued to behave in very much the same way, pursuing knowledge and physical prowess over human interaction, thus alienating herself from the others who came to view her as cold. When X-23 joined the academy the two girls found they shared a similar disposition and emotionless rationale, regarded as outcasts, but still trying to determine their own identities they became friends.

During the Avengers vs. X-Men conflict, when a Phoenix-empowered Emma Frost came to the academy to destroy Juston's Sentinel, Grace and Laura stood up to her and defended the other students.