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Rayne made it home, falling into the arms of Shelly Knyte, who had been waiting for her arrival. Frantically little Ray covered her face and in panicked, and her muffled voice tried to explain to the nanny what she had just witnessed. Nothing the child said could be understood, but Shelly saw the little girl in the light and rushed the girl inside.
Within the large home, Shelly sat Rayne down in the kitchen and began to brush away the child�s tears. The infliction seems to be gone suddenly; the nanny would have assumed it was a trick if the child wasn�t shaken to the bone. To distract the girl until her parents came home, they began their scheduled activities, first violin, and harp lessons, then dance and edicts.
It was late, and Ray had fallen asleep before she was able to greet her parents that night. Shelly told James and Julia Dai about the incident after school. Rayne�s mother began to scream, but James was able to calm his wife before she woke their little girl. They asked the nanny to keep between them for now, and because of her love for Rayne, she did as she was told.
The first few months Rayne stayed home, taking the pills her parents gave to her. They told her that the pills were supplements. Her parents began talking a little louder about mutants, and Rayne began paying attention to what was going on outside those gates. Within a few days of being cooped up, she discovered that her bones only illuminated when she is exposed to direct sunlight.
Two months had passed, and Rayne locked herself in her room to hide her new disgusting features. Shelly stayed most of the day keeping little Rayne company and tutored Ray in what she was missing in school. Every day she would take the pills her parents gave her until she began to get severe stomach pains.
Shelly would slip in several current event lessons about mutants. On her own, she learned more than what she wanted about her parents. She found out that they took a strong stand against mutants, supported several anti-mutant organizations, and donated to several experimental mutant facilities.
After the fourth month of taking the mystery pills, she was unable to handle the chronic pain in her stomach and was taken to the hospital. They found out that the drugs Ray had been given had eaten her stomach and kidney severely that she would need surgery and a transplant.
Ray survived the surgeries, and the recovery went well, but she was left with ugly scars around her abdomen. Her parents watched her as if she had just become a science experiment. Once their daughter was fully recovered, they noticed that she was able to enjoy the sunlight without any signs of her powers.
This only lasted a couple of weeks. This time she noticed her eyes changing rapidly, like a kaleidoscope of bright reds, blues, greens peered back at her. As she screamed at her reflection, her parents came to her aid, but they just looked at her disappointedly.
Her parents were unable to find any other help for their daughter. Mrs. Dai must have given up altogether because one afternoon she called for Rayne to come to the kitchen. She made small talk with her child for a moment before pulling out a knife and stabbing Ray in the head. 
Within the gated community of Fishkill, New York, Rayne lived her childhood unaware of the mutant threat, debates for mutant rights and registration. Her school never mentioned mutants and what they could do, the only time the children her age would hear comments about mutants would be in hushed tones between the grown-ups.
Everyone Rayne knew in her little community were chauffeured to school in their parent�s BMWs, Mercedes, and limos. At 13, Ray was becoming more independent and restless within the confines of Van Wyck Meadows. She begged her parents to let her walk to school on her own, immediately their answer was no, but after a couple of months of constant pleading Mr. and Mrs. Dai caved to their daughter's request.
Rayne was able to convince several other parents to allow their children to walk with her. The group of youngsters met outside the gates and made their way to school; the young blonde had the time of her life with her friends out in the real world. The school day seem to creep by, Ray could barely concentrate on her class work, but once the final bell rang she was outside regrouping with her friends and classmates. Most of them had additional extracurricular after school; the group dispersed leaving just Ray and Theo, the boy from down the street she had a crush on for the better part of a year now.
The two walked, talking about whatever young teenagers talked about, as Rayne completely gushed over him. About a block away from their homes Theo had reached out and touched Rayne�s cheek, stopping her in her tracks, instantly she closed her eyes and puckered up. After a few insanely long moments of nothing happening, she opened her eyes to look upon the boy just dumbfounded as she was. When she asked what was wrong, all he could do is laughed and asked what was wrong with her face.
Almost immediately Rayne reached for her pocket mirror, and what she saw staring back at her sent running home mortified and frightened. Theo called out to the girl but she didn�t stop, hot tears built up and overflowed. The tiny mirror, broken on the ground, showed a perfect little blonde girl with a skeleton�s face. 
SPECTRUM EYES
PRECOGNITION
REAPER
SKELETON
BASICS
NAME: Rayne Dai NICKNAMES: Raynbow | RaynDear | Rayne-Roo | Ray ALIASES: Reaper DATE OF BIRTH: November 8th 1989 CURRENT RESIDENCE: New York, New York
PHYSICAL
PERSONALITY
FAMILY
RELATIONSHIPS
EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT
Rayne was pronounced dead upon arrival. A small funeral was held a few days after, the grave lies in the far east corner of her families graveyard, with a beautiful stain glass rose imbedded into white marble, with the usual remarks engraved on the stone.
But obviously it was all a lie, Rayne didn�t die on the kitchen floor or on the way to the hospital. Shelly Knyte, the family�s maid, picked the blood soaked, whimpering Rayne, and escaped the mansion. Rayne was placed in the hospital under an alias while she recovered, It�s unknown if the woman possessed a mediocre level healing factor or if it was sheer luck that forced the little girl to survive.
Ray suffered greatly emotionally, the damage to her Central Cortex rendered her fully colorblind, and her mutation was never fully able to develop properly. Her parents were completely aware of their daughter�s survival and promptly paid the maid to care for Rayne and keep her mouth shut about the incident. Shelly agreed to take the mutant into her small home with her young son, Justin.
With the disturbing wound and unsightly mutation, Rayne was homeschool for most of her life. Ray grew to severely miss her family, friends, and formal school. This caused her to resent her mutation, hate herself, and fall into a deep depression. Shelly, the former maid, barely had a grip on her own life, after the incident with Rayne she had a terrible time finding a job to support the two children. Justin became unruly and hateful towards Rayne for uprooting their lives, which only caused her to suffer more. Rayne would find out some years later why Justin�s misplaced hatred was always geared towards her.
Sixteen now, Justin introduced Rayne to marijuana, but within that year she decided it no longer had the desired effect. She needed something to help her forget the pain; a beautiful distraction is what she often asked for. Rayne�s life seem to go downhill from there, every night was a party with a new drug on the menu. There was times she woke up unsure of where she was at, this new life got her into more trouble, and gave her the attention she craved.
Rayne knew she wasn�t the only mutant, but she seems oblivious to the help she could have asked for, or the current events happening in the world. At this point, her powers were not able to evolve, she was still a skeleton by day, and her eyes constantly shifted colors like a kaleidoscope. She found out years later that the drugs had also played a key role in her powers intermission.
At this point, Shelly pleaded with Rayne�s parents to help their daughter back on the right path. They agreed that Rayne needed help, and gave her an allowance, to keep whatever recreational activities she was engaging in out of the public eye.
Soon after the money was given to her, Ray used it to buy a condo leaving behind the life she had with the Knytes�. Justin suddenly felt betrayed and lashed out at Rayne, every chance he got. She was unaware that around this time Justin was discovering his own mutations.
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