- Born in Coalinga, California
- Pretty much normal life of a kid living in and near "Cowschwitz"
- 2001: A few close friends die in the 9-11 attacks. Shay after that has a psychological fear of flying. Never mind that she's never been up in a plane yet at this point.
- 2002: In junior high, she was a runner in track and field, and then found the Internet and online videos of parkour, and got hooked
- Despite being very free spirited, she still does well enough through school and is decent in the math & sciences fields (thanks Dad!)
- 2003-2005: Eventually gathers enough interest in parkour to run local free-running group, mostly junior high and high schoolers, some adults even join.
- 2006: Gets first job working at Harris Ranch, but the system and small town is driving her crazy. Unable to go anywhere else of significance, she does an act of teenage rebellion but it results in a stampede of the cattle at the ranch. She loses her job as a result (not to mention, SO GROUNDED FOR LIFE).
- Sneaks out of the house to go to the mall, but having no money, shoplifts a shiny bracelet. She's spotted by the authorities and runs. Chase ensues takes her into a dead-end but she manifests her ability which allows her to supernaturally climb up the 3-story building sides and "get away"…
- Only the sheriff who knows her parents and all comes knocking at the door and she gets off "light". She's sentenced to a hundred hours community service instead of juvenile hall for the trouble.
- Her parents want her to go to college nearby, and so pressure her to apply. But, this causes her to want to run away instead of go to school.
- She behaves in this punishment period, though, as she discovers her Advanced ability. Secretly, she tests it out in the comfort of home, does as much research as can be done about genetics as possible. The parents think she's doing research about her future classes and educational institutions, but she's really looking up anything she can find about other Advanced people.
- 2008: In this search, she finds out about modeling agencies in Los Angeles and convinces Jake to take her to LA so she can get "easy money" while she's doing whatever else. She's 18 by now. He does generally on principle agree given his own freewheeling lifestyle. She goes to find the modeling agency she saw an ad for, but it turns out to be a scam and kidnapping racket.
- They bring her out to Vegas, but in the middle of the plane change as they were headed to New York or wherever else, they lose her in transit as she uses her ability to get away. Unbeknownst to her, it's like Ocean's Eleven - there's always someone watching.
- Someone claiming to be from the Linderman Group approaches her and offer aid, but only just enough to set up. They've done their research about her. They know about her ability, and say they'll keep it under wraps… for now. In exchange for her future cooperation, she can chill in Vegas on their dime. She takes the offer because really? Recession, duh.
- Not one to be a layabout though, she gets going as a street performer doing her parkour thing. She eventually gets a little group together called Urban Guerrillaz where they're basically buskers. She passes off a few tricks of her ability as "street magic". This allows her to "practice" her ability, but also do things in the public eye. She's not very savvy on the whole keeping quiet thing quite yet.
- July 22, 2009: Eclipse makes her lose her ability for that time. It does mess up her performance and she's injured when she drops off a couple stories after doing a wall crawl and does break a couple bones. It's a lesson in more humility, as much as it is in forced patience and rehabbing.
- July 23, 2009: She finally contacts her parents again, but she doesn't tell them about her Advanced status. She just puts their minds "at ease" about being ok. Finally unable to keep her secret, she tells Jake about her Advanced status. Jake is skeptical about it, but believes her after a visit to Vegas and her showing him what she can do. He goes back to CA a little more shaken up and mindblown, but promising to keep the secret.
- 2011: Linderman re-emerges. She has no idea about this yet - and they haven't met at all.
- 2012: Still has no Advanced friends (:() but there's not enough time in the day to go looking around for them. She'll live.
