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Last name: Akano 緋乃; meaning "scarlet, red"

First name: Yumi 優美; meaning "tenderness, beauty"

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Yumi was six years old when she regained memories of her past life.

All of her memories came to her slowly and then all at once, like puncturing a tiny hole in a balloon only for it to explode a moment later.

Yumi was laying down on her back on the hospital bed with her eyes closed. The machine she was attached to was steadily releasing a beep sound in the distance, echoing in her slumber.

Her eyelids clenched, she was grinding her teeth in her sleep.

She was remembering.

Beep.

She saw it. The moment Jean Grey got possessed.

Being an X-man, being a hero to the public, performing missions in the name of the government, it all was too surreal for her. But it beat being scorned and rejected by society any day.

Yes, it was a space mission that caused all of this. Jean was stuck behind repairing the NASA space aircraft when the solar flare slinked towards the X jet. Jean didn't think twice about sacrificing herself for the sake of her friends inside of the jet, her family, the only family she's ever known. So as she floared in the nothingness of space, Jean extended out her hand in a hurry, using her telekinesis, whatever was left of her energy to draw that cloud-like being towards her instead. It didn't resist, if anything it complied to her call. This force wanted her, Jean could feel it. It sensed Jean's unlimited potential while touching her subconscious. It craved her to the point where it didn't care what it wrecked in its way to reach her.

The crimson cloud surrounded the red haired telepath in a field that didn't contain air nor even gravity. It made her levitate around, controlling her every movement just before it rushed to enter her.

Jean screamed; she could feel her veins burning as the fire consumed and possessed every inch of her being, marking it as its own. She was thrashing, trying to withstand the heat around her whole body, clawing at her chest because it was burning her alive, coughing violently in a futile attempt to get it out.

Beep.

Jean lost control over herself in the suburban neighborhood.

All these years, she thought she'd lost both her parents in a horrific car accident, stripping her of any blood relatives. She was told so by the man who took her in. But the creature inside her broke down all those lies, it broke the psychic barriers that Professor Xavier, her caretaker had placed in her mind. She remembered what really happened. Her father was alive. He was there all this time and he gave her up because she was a 'freak'.

But more importantly, she remembered what caused that car accident; she was only a child, incapable of controlling her volatile psychic strength, and in a moment of confusion and disarray, her powers surged out, flipping their car upside down with both her and her parents in it.

Jean was eight years old when she last saw her dad, and in their reunion after ten years had passed, he did nothing but reject her all over again.

"You killed your mother. My whole world died that day of the accident, Jean. And you went with it."

It was happening. There was a sharp, slicing pain in her head. She was unwillingly about to unleash her anger on the father who'd abandoned her, but the X-men showed up.

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