n a m e
Ezra Shapiro
n i c k n a m e
none, but feel free to figure something out.
s p e c i e s
shifter, a Canaan Dog called Shalom [pic]
a g e
twenty
g e n d e r
male
d e s c r i p t i o n
coming
p e r s o n a l i t y
coming
f a v o r i te co l o r
emerald green
f a m i l y
Yavin Shapiro- father- 55
Deborah Klein- mother- 52
Levi- brother- 17
Hannah- sister- 18
h i s t o r y
Ezra was born on September 24 in the coastal city of Tel Aviv, Israel. His family seemed pretty average; a religious, lower middle-class Jewish family of five, who got along well with each other, had no major quarrels or cases of domestic violence. His mother was a high school teacher and his father was into photography. Overall, there was nothing about them that seemed out of the ordinary. This changed abruptly, however; when Ezra was six years old he was attacked by a Shifter, an event which had nearly killed him.
The shifter had been a large and somewhat aggressive white Canaan dog, described as having a torn ear and a left eye that appeared to be missing. People had frequently seen the dog wandering around through the city, rummaging around in rubbish bins and barking at cyclists, but it hadn't actually attacked anyone before Ezra so people had mostly ignored it. The boy spent about a month in icu trying to recover from the wounds he received, and still carries some of the scars along his waist and around his throat.
Ezra didn't know he'd been "transformed" into a shifter until he was about twelve years old. To be precise, it was the day right after he'd turned twelve. He'd found out quite by accident, and had nearly fainted when he did. It was at night... he'd gone to the bathroom to brush his teeth, but when he looked into the bathroom mirror, where his reflection usually was there was now a white, shorthaired dog blinking back at him, complete with large, pointed ears and a sharp, black-nosed snout. Probably the entire city heard him scream.
Needless to say, his as well as his family's lives changed from that night on. They almost didn't believe him until he'd physically shifted into his animal form. They were scared, Ezra even more so- they didn't know what was going on, and were terrified of what society was going to think, or what was going to happen when people found out. So they decided to keep Ezra's "condition" secret as best they could, but they knew it was going to come out eventually. It was bound to, seeing as Ezra's reflection wasn't that of Ezra and so gave his secret away whenever he walked past a mirror.
Ezra managed to hide it well enough for some time, but after two years the news was out and spread faster than wild fire. It started first as a rumour in his school, then it spread out through his neighbourhood, and soon after through most of the city. At school he got avoided by the kids who were too frightened of him to get near, and bullied by those who were trying to look brave by getting near.
When Ezra was fifteen, the family emigrated to New York, where they lived in a small rented apartment in Brooklyn, hoping to start a new life abroad where society wouldn't point a finger. They all made peace with the fact that Ezra was a shapeshifter, and sometimes even forgot about it; it didn't matter what Ezra was, he was still the same person as far as they were concerned. His mother got another job as a biology teacher at the local public high school, while his father carried on working as a professional photographer. Ezra became increasingly interested in photography and, after collecting his savings in a bundle, bought himself an old second-hand film camera. His father showed him the ropes, how to work with the camera, how to develope his own film and different equipment one could use, and so on, and Ezra took it up as a hobby.
They moved to Cascade City four years later, when Ezra was nineteen, his sister seventeen and his brother sixteen. Now twenty years old, Ezra spends most of his time meandering through Cascade, trainhopping from city to city when he can and trying to earn a living as a freelance photographer.
OOC n i c k n a m e
Silenti or Nik the Entertainer
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