Originally a perfectly normal, average version of Earth (aside from a few minor differences in technological & scientific advancements), there was no such thing as super powers or magic outside of television shows, movies, and video games. Everything that the world knew about reality and fiction would change forever in the wake of the Lacus-15 pandemic which ravaged the planet in the year 1988. During this pandemic, many scientists were tasked with a single objective: Find a cure or vaccine.

Thousands upon thousands of studies and tests were done by various groups. Of these numerous tests and studies, there was one study done by Miracle Corp. which noticed that there appeared to be a correlation between those most susceptible to coming down with the Lacus-15 virus. There was a gene which appeared to make individuals with it be especially susceptible to coming down with the virus, so the study sought to find out if gene therapy would in some way help prevent these individuals from coming down with the virus.

The study was conducted on an initial group of 300 individuals with the gene, 100 of whom were given a placebo "shot", another 100 were given a mix of the placebo and the gene therapy, while the final group of 100 were given only the gene therapy. The two groups which were both exposed to the gene therapy would later go on to get vaccinated as well on top of the gene therapy and it is possible that this mix yielded what the scientists would isolate as the cause for dramatic shift in what was possible in the world.

Children of individuals who partook in the test would randomly start exibiting the ability to "teleport" out of reality and into fictional universes. This phenomena was dubbed the transference anomaly, colloquially known as "linking" or "clipping." This phenomena is still being studied, but so far scientists studying these individuals believe that the transference anomaly is triggered by times of stress or during puberty.

Studies are still ongoing in terms of what fictional universes affected individuals are able to go to and what powers individuals have within them. So far, Miracle Corp. has noted that all affected individuals have, at the very least, the ability to teleport in and out of the fictional world. From there, there appears to be a 50-50 chance of an individual getting to retain any of the powers that they might have from the fictional world. It is slightly more common for individuals to come back with no additional powers, but studies are still ongoing. A running log of individuals with powers has been made and kept in case affected individuals who retain their powers use them for bad. For the sake of simplicity, powers have been categorized within just four categories, but it is possible (albeit relatively rare) for an individual to have multiple powers or powers which expand across all four categories.