"Kid, I was there, too. With being paranoid about the secret identity thing. A lot of us were. I was seventeen when I got my powers. Some of my friends were even younger." He leaned against the wall near Danny, arms crossed. "That's the great thing about superteams. You don't have to pretend to be anything you're not. You can be your civilian self and your superhero self and stop pretending they're separate."

With the New Warriors, he was always able to be Nova and just Rich.