The various governments around the world reacted with alarm to the appearance of enhanced individuals.

Some countries have required all enhanced to register with the police, and the more oppressive regimes have either jailed or persecuted them, or enlisted them into their armies.

This drove many underground, explaining how most choose not to reveal their identities, using masks to protect themselves. Indeed, that is the path that you have chosen yourself, as you're afraid of the consequences of people finding out that you are really: