User blog comment:Artemis Panther/Coming in the Artemis Dimensionverse/@comment-24751588-20130626021058/@comment-16516632-20130626164250

Pietro was a mutant, but his powers were dormant. Originally, he could only run slightly faster than normal humans, but nothing close to super speed. Instead of going to college, he became an adventurer and eventually traveled to Tibet, where he found a tribe of monks that had been slaughtered. One monk that was still alive, told Pietro that the monstery allowed him to enter because it felt something special in him, so the monk gave Pietro the blue ring, which gave him his new costume, as well as his super speed.

Yes, yes he should.

Cool twist, but no. He's born to two human parents.