Name: Drea

Gender: Female

Age: 19

Animal: Panther

Appearance: Drea is about 5'7" in height with a slender, lean build. She has jet black hair and striking golden eyes. She prefers to wear clothes that doesn't restrict her mobility, and as a result, she tends to dress in sleeveless shirts with short pants. Drea never wears makeup, but she has dark lining around the edges of her eyes that make it seem like she's wearing a bit of eyeliner.

Attributes: When she transforms, Drea gains the tail and claws of a panther. Other non-physical traits that she has include sharpened senses of hearing and smell. She is also a fast runner and extremely agile with quick reflexes.

Bio: When Drea was a small child, her parents warned her about the animal anomalies and that she should stay away from them because they were cursed. Because of this, she always tried to deny the little voice in her mind that said she was different. She dreaded to find out that she was one of [i]them[/i]. Sadly, that's exactly what happened.

On her 12th birthday, Drea was playing hide-and-seek with a few of her friends. She always won that game because she could her them coming from a great distance away and would change hiding spots long before anyone checked where she was last (but she never told her friends that). While she was hiding in a tree during one of these games, she felt an odd tingling wash over her body. When it passed, at first she didn't know what happened. Everything seemed fine, so she quickly forgot about it. Suddenly, Drea heard her friends approaching in the distance. She needed to get higher up in the tree or they would see her. She reached up to grab the next branch above her, then froze. Her fingernails were long and pointed like claws. Startled, she stepped back with her foot and missed the branch, yelping as she plummeted from the tree. As she fell, Drea twisted to hit the ground on her knees and forearms. She got up shakily and examined herself for injuries, and that was when she saw the tail. Drea clapped a hand over her mouth to stifle a gasp. She heard someone call her name. Her friends were getting closer; they must have heard her scream when she fell. She couldn't let them see her in her current state, so she fled until she learned how to hide her beast-like characteristics.

Since that incident, Drea had successfully kept her animal side hidden from the rest of the village, even her own parents. That is, until a few days ago. She was out in the forest, hunting food for her family. She had her tail and claws out - her senses were heightened the most when she was transformed - and was hyper-focused on a rabbit that she was targeting, so she didn't notice the man come up behind her. He noticed her though and with that, her secret was exposed. When Drea went back to Iren later, she was met with an armed mob. She was forced into exile in the forest, where she currently remains.