Inque's origins and background remain largely undisclosed, but it is known that she was born into extreme poverty. Her precarious lifestyle eventually instilled in her an obsession with money, which ultimately became her raison d'être. She decided to take the easy way out and turned to the life of crime, At some point after that, she allowed herself to become a shapeshift biogenic mutant with ink powers, allegedly for an amount of money, Even to protect her daughter Deanna Clay.