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Timeline:
1995: Shanna is born to Gerald and and Patricia O'Hara, a diamond miner and his wife who lived and worked near the jungles of Zaire, Africa. Shanna grows up and plays near the jungles where she is enraptured by the varied wildlife early on.
2001: A leopard that Patricia had raised turns dangerous and wild, escaping into the jungle. Fearing for it's safety, and afraid it will hurt their family, respectively, Patricia searches for the Leopard to retrieve it, while Gerald hunts it to put it down. Tragically, Patricia is accidentally shot and killed by Gerald in his attempt to protect his family. Shanna is traumatized, and the foundation is laid for her life-long hatred of guns.
2002: Despondant, and resenting her father terribly, Shanna is sent to America to live with her relatives.
2002-2013: Over the course of her education, Shanna's keen love and empathy for animals guides her to study to become a vetrinarian, garnering a joking reputation for liking animals more than she likes people. She also interest in competitive swimming and track and field, proving a capable and coordinated athlete. Intelligent and talented, Shanna graduates young and was offered work as a Zoologist at te Central Park Munincipal Zoo in New York City.
2014: Shanna acclimates well to her work, though she is privately increasingly saddened by the caged life of her charges. She grows particularly close to a leopard she names Julani. Sadly, Julani escaped her enclosure one day, and a panicked security guard shot and killed the animal. Her spirit wounded, Shanna readily accepted the offer to take Julani's now-orphaned cubs to a facility in Africa to raise them and prepare to re-acclimate them to the wild, among other animals. Shanna spends more time in the jungle than is strictly neccessary, feeling at home there.
2015: During her time in Africa, Shanna re-encounters her father, Gerald. Strained efforts are made to re-connect, with slow progress. During one visit, however, a criminal Mutant took Gerald and Shanna hostage, using his powers to force her cooperation, and escapes with them in an airplane. The plane eventually crash lands in the untamed wilds of the Savage Land. Her father is killed in the crash, and the Mutant escaped, leaving her alone in the unfamiliar wilds, until Shanna met the powerful 'wild man': Ka-Zar. Ka-Zar helped Shanna survive, and even pursue justice against her kidnapper. With no way home forthcoming, Shanna stays in the jungle with Ka-Zar.
2015-2020: Spending time, and sharing many adventures with Ka-Zar, Shanna learns how to survive and thrive in the jungle, becoming powerful, agile and fearsome in her own right, while she teaches him what she can of language and certain civilized ways. Her empathic bond with animals develops to the point of seemingly being able to command certain beasts close to her. In time, she realizes she is truly happy despite the danger of her life.
Shanna and Ka-Zar reveal their love for each other, and become Mates, with Shanna becoming the defacto Queen of the Savage Land tribes alongside her husband, supporting him and their people with passion and warmth; as well as defending the Savage Land from various threats and outsiders.
2020: When Ka-Zar's ties to the civilized world compel him to split his time between them and their home, Shanna joins him, supporting and aiding her husband at all times, feeling torn between curiosity and mistrust of her old world. She'll go where she's needed, but her heart belongs in the jungle.
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