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The earliest memory Salina would have was in 1982, when she was five years old. Her father, the renowned archaeologist Professor Asvathama Rajan Duran stood on the banks of the Ganges River. Despite the fact that it was the filthiest river in the world, she remembered asking him why everyone made a pilgrimage to the area. Professor Duran smiled as he ruffled his young daughter's hair. He explained it was because the Ganges was supposed to have abilities to cause remissions in the sins of mankind and heal them. Even at such a young age, Salina (born 1977 in West Bengal, India) wanted to know the 'whys' and the 'hows' of the world. Her professor father gave her that outlet: a single parent (his wife, Lydia Arturo Vasquez, passed away during childbirth), Professor Duran allowed Salina to accompany him on his many explorations of the unknown world. She celebrated her eighth birthday with an expedition with Richard Leaky; for her twelfth, she was present at the discovery of Nefertiti's tomb. Sadly, this would be the last expedition her father undertook, as he fell ill following this discovery. Professor Duran later retired to live at his estate, Kenwood Hall in Dartmouth, England. Salina attended the King's School, Canterbury until the age of eighteen. These were not her fondest years. She was consistently bullied during her first and second terms. Though an outcast, she managed to befriend two other youths, Jaslean Dhillon, and Deirdre Jones. But fate would not be kind. In the Spring of 1991 during one Friday night at a local roller-skating rink, their friendship was severely tested as a disc jockey was found murdered on the building's grounds. While initially innocent, pressing evidence proved otherwise as the trio were later deemed the only suspects in the subsequent ongoing investigation. Weeks passed before the case was solved; Deirdre confessed to the crime. Justice was served, but neither teen had fully recovered from the ordeal, nor would that be the last time fate would bring these three together. Salina did her best to move on beyond the experience, though it would further alienate her as a troublemaker. Things no less continued to down-spiral; the independent lifestyle that she had been accustomed to was taken away from her and Salina rebelled against it in every way she could. Taller than most girls her age, she was often noted least likely to succeed by her professors (despite consistently maintaining high marks) one of whom asked the question "What would your father think?" The prospect disturbed Salina very much and she withdrew even more from society. The death of her father in 1993 when she was sixteen was heartbreaking. She briefly considered leaving the school had she not been coaxed back by one of her professors, the Scottish James Sherman. The good professor reawakened Salina's love for adventure and archaeology in particular, taking all of the language classes that were offered to her. For a year she lived in Vancouver, BC, Canada with her two distant cousins, Preeya Jayani and Aneesha Lal. She briefly attended Oxford (a year and a half) before joining Professor Sherman on an expedition to Scotland unearthing the remains of Castle MacBeth. She soon embarked upon her own, taking up her father's position on the National Geographic Board of Directors. By the time she was twenty-one (1998), Salina had trotted the globe at least five times. Although she had inherited her father's vast estate in Dartmouth, she primarily made her home wherever adventure took her. It was in Aberdeen, Scotland that she would become privy to the legend of the "Deep Ones" for the first time (this knowledge would serve her well in the years to come with Ghostbusters: Doom Patrol) and an association with the Loch Ness Monster. This trek would in turn lead her to the Ogopogo, a creature of similar legend local to the region of Lake Okanagan, British Columbia…one by which she is personally connected. She was reported missing for two years (2000-2001) as she attempted to chart a small blip on the map depicting the Rio Roosevelt (nee River of Doubt). What happened during those two years is largely unknown and she prefers to keep it that way. By 2002, Salina worked with the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense based upon her findings (as well as those of her father's) over the years, but resigned in mid-2003 under protest when it was suggested that the Loch Ness Monster be placed in a zoo for study. Salina was more or less retired by the time she received the call to join up with the Ghostbusters: Doom Patrol, world-weary of what there is to offer her and content with her then job as a teacher in Ontario. The new threats that approached opened her eyes for the second time in her life. She proved to be just as much a kidder as the rest of the guys, and often butted heads with teammate Andrew Williams (older than her by a year) over the merits of life and death. She sees herself more or less as the big sister to the lunacies of her teammates, and more than once manages to take a dig at one of them. By early 2006, she was involved in a burgeoning relationship with Andrew Williams, one that was tragically cut short with the intervention of Adrik Thorsen. Andrew would quit the team in disgust, leaving a heartbroken Salina behind. The devastation caused by this attack and the mysterious disappearances of CJ and Brian led Salina to assume leadership of a second group of Ghostbusters: Doom Patrol. MISCELLANEOUS:
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