He, his brother Sean, and his father Esteban lived in Seattle from the day he was born. They'd been there for a few years prior to his birth, and he had a mother named Karen up until she left a few years after his birth. At the age of nine, he discovered he had telekinesis after an accident that caused his father's death caused him to attack a police officer with it. His big brother and father figure Sean Diaz took him running across country, now being in Beaver Creek, Oregon.