His father was raised in an orphanage in the USA, his real parents are unknown. He was a good pupil, and he wanted to care people, maybe because of his own loneliness, so he went to learn anthropology on the University. During his study, he was object of some unknown government agency’s experiment, with some of his teammates, on voluntary base. They get some money, and the agency gave them various chemicals, and expected the appearance some psychic ability. After the injection his father was able to create limited astral projections, but after a few minutes he always collapsed, got tetanus, so they threw him out from the experiment.
A few months after he got serious nightmares, and because of that he needed to hold over a year in the university, while regenerating with the help of a psychologist.
After graduation he went abroad, to work at tribe cultures. At last he docked in Australia, and lived months with an aboriginal tribe. During a tribal ceremony his nightmares and tetanus broke free… the tribe’s medicine-man had the power to help him, and to teach him how to handle his power over the dreamtime. Then they sent him back to the cities, to carry and to spread the knowledge…
A half year later he met a young woman, who has Japanese heritage, they fell in love, and soon they got married. After a few years Dorothy was born. She was only 1 year old when Vance came, while after another 3 year their little bro, Lucian was born, too. They had a real good childhood, got a lot of sunshine, ocean, and lovely parents. Their father taught them about the Dreamtime, the people around them, their mother and grandparents taught them discipline and various martial arts. Almost every year his fathers went back to the abo tribe for a month, and brought the children with him. There he learned the language, and everything about the Dreamtime, and Australia; and -at last but not least- met Gateway, whom with Vance became friends.
Vance was about 10 years old when they moved to the USA, because his mother got a new, highly paid job as a leading cybernetist. They were in the air, when Vance became ill, and got a severe tetanus like his father during the experiments. There were no doctor, so they turned back to Darwin, but by the time they finally landed, he was technically dead. But a few minutes after he woke up, and remembered nothing about the incident. A few weeks of monitoring he went home, and they left Australia, again.
Not long after the moving his powers began to awake, in the form of strange dreams. His father was afraid that will come, and he was right. At beginning it caused no problems, but later –when became stronger- they had to move to the countryside, far from the Big Apple, with great garden, because the 440 yard range of his sleep-inducing power was quite big. Vance had to take the elementary school’s last years as a private student, until his powers stabilized, and he didn’t put the whole school into deep sleep with an accidental burst…
In the end of the 2nd year of the high school he was freed from the private learning, and could go among ‘normal’ people, because till this he could rule his powers, not only the sleep inducing, but the senses and the ability to walk the Dreamtime's tracks which are invisible to everyone but the choosen. This was the time when he met with Boom-Boom when they studied in the same high school. Tabitha is younger than Vance more than a year, but her mood and her style catched Vance's attention, and it was enough to began a friendship. After a year Tabitha left the school, and went to the Xavier Institute, and they were limited to mails and phone.
After the high-school graduation Vance's family moved back to New York, and then they renewed their relationship. Vance entered a medical university, during the 5 year he began his career as a masked hero, on the side of a few other young hero.