Amber Nichols is a jaguar, born in a poor neighbourhood in Queens. She had always a dream to become a singer, and for years she worked hard to make her dreams come true, despite the hardship she was facing. It was a stroke of luck that she was discovered by a talent scout who had seen her perform. She ended up as a background singer of the soul group "The Marqed", but got herself promoted to one of the lead singers years later after impressing the rest of the group when subsituting for one of the other leads when they were sick, and since then, she is one of the lead singers of the band.

She toured around the world with this group, but on one fateful day in 2038, her life would be turned upside down with the rest of the world. She was performing in Amsterdam when the Wellspring War reached its peak and sent a huge magic surge through all the Wellsprings. Paris vanished from the surface of the Earth (later to be found back on Mars, surprisingly safe and sound), causing massive earthquakes in the entire region. The mages casted a shield around Amsterdam to save it from the Earthquake, but the dikes in the surrounding lands had failed, and the whole area flooded. The mages would fear that if they would release the shield (which they couldn't keep up forever, the city would drown, so they came with a desperate solution: they established a mer-transformation field, to make sure that everyone inside would survive the city being flooded. They didn't however, anticipate that this transformation would be permanent for everyone who was inside of the field when they established it. From this day, Amber became a mer-jaguar, and getting back home was quite a challenge. Nonetheless, The Marqued became a popular band below the surface of the water as well, touring to many underwater cities all across the world.

She's married to Sasha Van Ness, who's actually an Eduani from another planet. She was one of the few who knew his secret before First Contact Day.

The Yorktown story universe is by  Sabrina-taur