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Cara Winters (born Cara Stapleton) was born to Johnathan and Lily Stapleton in Millenium City, Michigan. When Cara was 5 months old a fire had started in her home, the blaze had destroyed the apartment building. Shifting through the wreckage one of responding firefighters, a man by the name of Shaun Winters was sure he wouldn't find any survivors of the family that once inhabited the home. Eventually the man came upon a room in one of the singed apartments, and quickly began hearing the sounds of a baby from the other side of the blocked door. After carefully breaking down the door of the small nursery the man came upon a baby girl. After alerting the other firefighters the girl was taken from the room to be checked out at a hospital. While looking around the room the man was bewildered, while the rest of the apartment building had been destroyed by the inferno, the nursery had been virtually untouched and could not figure out how the young infant survived. After discovering that the baby girl was not injured he so discovered that the fire had made her an orphan. After years of trying with no success Shaun and his wife Lorna had had no luck in conceiving a child. After a quick conversation the couple decided to adopt the young girl and raise her has their own.

Cara had a pretty normal childhood, scraped knees, pigtails, and mud pies were common place. She was a decent student and she quickly became interested in her high school newspaper. Through this, she discovered her passion for journalism and uncovering the truth. After graduating from high school Cara enrolled in university as a journalism major, and taking her next step toward her dream of becoming a top news investigative journalist.

One day while leaving the library and walking toward her car a couple of purple gang members attempted to mug the young woman. After running off she ended up running down an alley into a dead end. Cara the began to try to fight back but was easily overpowered. When she was about to lose hope that she would survive the encounter she began to feel the temperature in the alley get colder. When she held up her hands to defend herself from her attackers a wave of ice was projected from her hands and she froze all of her attackers solid stopping them in their tracks. The police soon arrived and had discovered what she had done. Cara was then referred to UNTIL, it was here that she learned that the fear she felt during the attack triggered her latent mutant abilities. She began to learn to control her newfound powers while simultaneously taking her journalism classes. It was her time investigating the happenings of Millennium City that first drew her interest of the idea of hero work. After learning to control her cryokinetic abilities, she decided to take up the fight against evil while simultaneously uncovering and reporting the truth about the world she lives in.

After she told her parents about her powers and her hero work, her parents decided to adopt and nurture another young mutant. Cara and Sadie quickly became best friends and sisters.