She lost her older brother to the woods when she was just a girl, and then her parents to a sudden fire that consumed their house barely a month later. After a long stint talking to doctors and running away from her grandmother's house every time she got the chance, she realized that she didn't want any history to be forgotten. After that, it became her goal to remember everything she could, then later to find the truth in the forgotten. She would dig into the past and pull out the forgotten, she would carve the world into memory. For her parents, and for Sebastian, her brother.

She met Gabriel Torres in college, and she fell for him sooner than she meant to. Even though he tried courting her early on, she turned him down, wanting to focus on her work and life's goal before settling down, but the two continued to meet when they could. Eventually, she opened her heart up to him, and he pulled away, realizing the importance of what she was doing to herself. However, in that time, she realized how much she missed him and desired to have him by his side. When the semester ended, the first thing she did was march up to him and ask him out, eventually leading to the pair wedding.