Spencer's birthplace was Alvechurch, a large village in Worcestershire, England. His family owned a well-appointed cottage here, well out of sight of the concrete-and-smog jungle comprising the nearby metropolis of Birmingham; to all appearances, their home was peaceful and unremarkable. Behind the facade, this could not have been further from the truth. Both his parents were Evolved operatives of the Company, and furthermore, both took their intended mission very seriously— probably too much so. They came to view powered people such as themselves as the inevitable future of the world, and trusted that their genetic gift would be carried on in their children.
Thus, Spencer and his younger sister Summer were raised from birth to believe that they were the inheritors of an important legacy, and treated accordingly. Summer manifested the extraordinary power of laser emission when still at a young, precocious age to the unending delight of their parents, who believed that at this rate, their son could not possibly be far behind in showing signs of his own Evolved nature. However, as the years rolled onward, they saw… nothing from him. Primary and secondary school passed on by, and though he received decent grades and did well in sports throughout, he remained a completely average child in every sense that mattered. As puberty came and went for Spencer with nothing to show in all the years that followed, the Greaves slowly gave up on their eldest child.
By the time Spencer finished his A-Levels and graduated college, Summer had solidly cemented her status as the darling of the family, and Spencer by contrast was all but forgotten. When he applied to join the West Midlands Police, his parents barely took any notice. Perhaps to make up for his long-perceived deficiencies, he carved a reputation for himself as an extremely hard worker in his chosen career. Because of the complete and utter lack of financial assistance from his family, Spencer worked security gigs on the side when first starting out to make ends meet. With determination, he climbed his way up in rank, earning his inspector badge with pride and joining the small, elite number of authorised firearms officers (AFOs) in his force.
The revelation of the Evolved to the world in 2007 was, of course, not a shock to him; his entire household barring himself were members of this population. To make absolutely sure, Spencer acquired a SLC Test Kit once they were publicly available— two of them, as a matter of fact— and to nobody's surprise, they both returned negative results. He had told himself not to expect much, but this crushed his hopes and dreams once and for all; all this time, he had been unconsciously holding onto the shaky, tenuous possibility that he was simply a late bloomer. Despondently, he had no choice but to carry on with his mundane disappointment of a life. The implementation of a harsh Registration system in the UK and the spiraling changes his country underwent as a result brought him no joy: this was all merely a continuous reminder to him of what he had failed to become.
The years that followed were no reprieve for him. The Evolved were a constant topic of discussion on the streets and in the news, as the world watched the Second American Civil War and its aftermath on their televisions. His parents did not manage to escape from the manhunt that followed, and in 2014, both of them were indicted via war tribunal as former loyal employees of the Company, guilty of an impressive slew of human rights violations. They were given life sentences, and this is the last time that Spencer heard of them.
But there was change on the wind, a subtle, building force decades in the making. In late 2016, a man named Adam Monroe approached Spencer's sister Summer with an offer to join a clandestine organization named Shedda, having heard much of the family's exploits. Bitter about the fate of her parents, Summer was handily convinced to become an agent of Shedda's operations in the UK. She additionally recommended that her older brother Spencer be brought in as well, knowing that despite being Non-Evolved, he had all but worshipped the Evolved for his entire life and would doubtless make for a useful tool.
Given the nature of Shedda as it was explained to him, Spencer was only too ecstatic to accept.
Ever since then he has served his new employers with enthusiasm, leaving behind a promising career (he had been well on-track to receiving an eventual promotion to chief inspector) and relocating to Rochester, New York upon command. Within Coldbridge Financial Solutions, Shedda's cover organization, he has been set up as the company's director of security. Just as his parents once had before him, he takes his assigned duties extremely seriously, looking forward to the day when he can someday join the utopia of the rightful masters of the Earth. Perhaps even— should he play his cards right— as one of them.