Name: Akasha "Lyncis" Castle
Age: 24
Species: Shifter
Shifter Animal: Lynx
Shifting Experience: Less than 1 year
Face Claim: Maryse Ouellet

Akasha Castle was born to a family in New York, she spent the majority of her childhood there and it was even the place she decided to attend college, after getting her degree she decided that she had, had enough of the city and made the decision to move out and find her own place in the world, that place she found, turned out to be Evermore City, Colorado, a place that would change her life forever. Her new apartment was nice, it was fully furnished and everyone in the building was friendly and helpful which made her settle down pretty quickly into her new place.

She enjoyed her first few days in the city, she managed to get a lot done including getting all of her things moved in and placed in their rightful home and even managed to arrange some companies to come round and sort her less necessities such as the internet and the television. She even managed to scout out the new city she would call home a little, attending a party in a bar not too far from her apartment. She still remembers that night now, from the guy who thought she was underage and asked for her ID and the strange things that started following the party.

That night after she returned home from the party was when everything started to turn strange. There were animals in her dreams, but they weren’t your fuzzy cute kinds of animals, these animals were vicious and savage and she couldn’t help but feel like they were really there when she was in the dreams, she would awake screaming in terror in the morning and pin the visions on the alcohol she had consumed at the party. What she couldn’t pin down, was the tattoo of the sun that had appeared on her arm, she hadn’t remembered getting it or why she even would, but she shrugged it off, there were worse things that could happen after a night out.

Akasha also managed to get herself a job within the first few weeks of her residence in Evermore, simply off her resume no less. It was only a clothing store but she felt proud of herself for being able to make some progress in her life and that she could do things by herself for once. This was when the dreams started to become a reality, she stared as she saw a lynx standing across the road from her, it was staring at her like it owned her and then turned and started running through the city. Akasha didn’t know why, but she followed it, something inside her told her she had to.

The lynx lead her to a block of houses in the east of the city with a field centering them as a sort of garden, in the garden she could see several figures and it looked like they were coming towards her, as they reached her the vision of the Lynx faded and she was left with strangers who were all staring at the tattoo on her wrist.

It didn’t take long for the clan of shifters to explain what was happening to her and though she didn’t want to believe it, she couldn’t deny that they had identical tattoos to her and could understand the visions she was having when they couldn’t see them. So she agreed to take the ritual, they warned her she’d die if she didn’t and she didn’t want to take that risk. Akasha passed out at the end of the ritual and there she saw the lynx once again, though this time she could understand it and what it was trying to tell her, it told her that their spirits were now merged, that a part of her now belonged to it and when she awoke, everything was clear to her.

Learning to shift has been difficult for Akasha so far, however she has found comfort in the support of her more experienced clan members, she still lives in her new apartment despite Grayson’s offer of a building rent free around the shifter territory, however she often makes her way to that part of the city to train and to practice. She is also learning to use her new found ability that being a shifter has granted her, however learning is a slow process and there’s only so much she can take before she needs a break. 

Positive: Caring, Sweet, and Sneaky

Negative: Hard-headed, Feisty, Bad Temper