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Noriko Ashida was born in Japan (possibly in Tokyo where her family still lives). She was close to her brother, Keitaro, but she ran away from home when she was thirteen-years-old, after her powers manifested; she claimed that her father "doesn't believe in mutants." How she came to the United States is unknown, but she was living homeless on the streets of New York when, four years later, she went up to the X-Mansion gates - only to be turned away by student Julian Keller for being homeless