TW: torture, rape, miscarriage, infant death

Miranda has been able to perceive the thoughts of others for as long as she can remember. As a result of always being acutely aware of what was going on in other people's heads, she grew up a massive people-pleaser; she always knew when someone was upset, and she always did what she could to make it better. 

Miranda's telepathy only got stronger (and more difficult to manage) as she got older, and it began causing problems in her life when she started school. She was easily distracted by the daydreams of other kids, and often last track of time completely, failing to get her own classwork done. As a result, she was misdiagnosed with ADHD in elementary school. By middle school, she was diagnosed with general anxiety and acute agoraphobia. 

Miranda had a breakdown in the middle of her sophomore year during a pep rally, and spent about a month in-patient in the psych ward getting intensive therapy, learning techniques to cope with her anxiety. Even after she was released, she ended up doing school online half the time so she didn't have to be around people so much. Miranda graduated high school early just to get out of having to go to school, and then took online courses for writing and coding with the aim of getting a job that required minimal human interaction. 

As an adult, she started working as a contractor writing code in the comfort of her own home. It was a nice, quiet life, and her only real source of human interaction was a regular trip to pickup groceries and the occasional visit to her parents' house. 

In her twenties, she was kidnapped by a group fixated on people with powers--to this day, she has no clue how they found out about her. For two years, she was experimented on and tortured, and forced to breed with another one of the prisoners there. They wanted to see what happened when two superpowered humans had a child. Would the child inherit their powers, or develop one uniquely their own? Miranda became pregnant twice during her time in the facility; the first baby was killed because he didn't have the genetic markers of someone with abilities, and she miscarried the second. In a lot of ways, losing the babies was the most traumatic part of the experience for her. 

Miranda was finally able to escape because the experiments had forced her to develop her power to the extent that she could control people with her mind. And she made sure that the people responsible for what she'd been through paid for it on her way out. 

Readjusting to normal life has been a slow process; she's not sure she'll ever fully recover.