History
Edward Payne was the son of Phoebe Marrs and Michael Payne who was born with severe mental disabilities and couldn't remember one day to the next. When Phoebe wanted to live a normal life she ran off and married Michael, however her brother Desmond seemingly interferred and destroyed Michael's buisness and paid him to divorce her. After this she found herself pregnant and Desmond tried to get her to have an abortion but she secretly gave birth to Edward in Singapore and smuggled him back to the States, where he lived with carers, hidden from her brother. She visited her son regularly and one trip brought Namor and introduced him to Edward but he didn't recongize her.[1]