Name:Erika Sutherland
Age: 18
Appearance:
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Personality: 
Arrogant, cynical, sarcastic, intellectual, extremely self centered as well as somewhat 'Fake'. With others she can put her 'Game face', meaning suddenly become a charming cultured young lady but she only bothers doing so with individuals she feels are 'Worth the trouble'. With friends, while she'll do what she can for them, she's not the kind to seek company often and you have to drag her out of her hole, even then she'll often act like 'The Mature One' and be the one staying out of plans that sound ridiculous or stupid, although she can be convinced to join. Alcohol however as that way of turning her personality around completely.

Background:
A privileged girl born in a family of doctors extremely well off in the suburbs, she had the dream life and was considered mostly the dream girl by her parents: Studious, mature and ambitious about her future, someone determined to be the youngest billionaire of America, Zuckerberg and his facebook just had to wait. As she found herself a talent in both mathematics and informatics, it only took an article in The Economist to give her a terrible idea. In the stock markets, billions are handled by computers with sophisticated programs, as to trade quicker than any human ever could, but sometimes funny things happened, a stock dropping 80% before going back to normal a few seconds after. The idea was simple: Make a program to detect the factors causing these micro events and be the one to buy 80% cheaper to then sell back a few milliseconds later, almost doubling her amount of money in seconds, repeat a few hundred times per day and be rich. 

She experimented a bit starting at 16 years old, her father saw this as her being willing to experiment with finance and was quite proud at first, giving her advices for judicious long term placements which she quickly disregarded. She kept her dealings, and the drain of all her money, a secret, her parents actually even decided to allow her control of the money they had saved for her studies seeing her as being mature enough to handle it, and while they were at it they boasted about the prodigal child to the neighbors and whatnot. She lost the money in a week and never told her parents.

They got a sign something was going wrong when they received a notice that their daughter (Who was apparently 21 year old), had made an 8 thousand dollar loan which was coming due. When they asked her she told them she knew nothing about it. When they started to get legal papers demanding to be payed back, they checked her account and found... nothing. Some other loans, her university funds, nothing.

They actually merely scolded her for hours, grounded her and handled the situation with their own money, making her promise to never to this again... something she promptly did days later and this time emptying her parent's credit cards as well, she actually came out on this saying not to worry that she only needed 2 thousand dollars and she'd be able to make what she had lost in a day if she could go to New York, the problem was obviously that the connection wasn't fast enough and thus she needed the micro seconds to be close to the trading floor would give her to outsmart thousands, if not millions of people and become rich.

Erika's parents told her that she had a gambling problem and that if she wished to stay, she'd have to go to a therapy and never touch a computer again until she left the house. She accepted, but left the very same night with her laptop and some clothes, stealing her dad's wallet and leaving a note that she'd be back once she managed to find all the money she had lost. It's been a year now and since she just celebrated her 18th birthday, the shelter's personal are worried that she'll leave exactly the same next year.

In the psychologist's words, it is suggested that Erika's problems come from her upbringing, with both parents working and putting so much value on career and material goods, sheltering her from outsiders, as much potential bullies as potential friends, this as made her unable to see any other definition of success other than accumulating material wealth. Friends, parties, birthdays, it's all meaningless to her and this needed to change. In a bold move, they decided for her birthday to remove her laptop. Of course she made a tantrum saying this was stealing her property, but they merely replied that she could call the police and be sent back to her parents like the runaway she was or leave the shelter, with absolutely no money or resources.

She went back to her room, her 'lair' as people in the shelter, who have lived with her for a year but barely know her, call it. Boredom oblige, she now has to make human contact, if only to keep her sanity, something the psychologists encourage greatly.