Gabriella Erin Chase

She goes by Erin, only those she considers close can call her Gabby

November 17th, 1998

Seventeen

Female

Heterosexual _{but she definitely doesn't mind getting with a girl}

Single

Works at a diner

Erin stands at a slightly-above average height of five foot seven inches, inheriting her thin lanky frame from her mother. She has little muscle, and a high metabolism rate, so maintaining her shape is somewhat easy for Erin. She has an oval shaped face, her jaw somewhat sharp and her lips thin.

She has dirty blonde hair that is always tangled, reaching past her shoulder in messy waves. Her almond shaped, blue eyes are framed with dark blonde eyelashes, usually coated with clumps of old mascara. Erin doesn't care much for appearances. She tends to wear heavy eye makeup, which eventually smudges into a mess around her eyes with chapped lips and has somewhat dried skin. Erin also owns a lot of ripped and old clothes, her wardrobe mostly consisting of old denim shorts or skinny jeans, ripped tennis shoes or boots and a lot of long sleeved t-shirts. Erin probably only has one dress, stashed somewhere in the back of her closet, never to be seen. She prefers to save up her money for her eventual escape from the town rather than waste it on clothes she's sure she'd never wear.

Erin doesn't like following the rules. Growing up in a dysfunctional household with no strict parents (or parents that even cared, for that matter), Erin doesn't know how to follow orders. With Erin, you do it her way or its the highway. She's stubborn and can come across as anti-social, as she doesn't really care much for other people. Erin feels like she's entitled to live a good life because of how shitty her childhood was, making her quite selfish and self-important.

She will manipulate people for their money. She rarely feels sympathy, so she doesn't care if her small time scams or theft hurts anybody. However, if she feels like she's close to someone, it's quite possible that she'd be willing to die for them. But it can only happen if someone actively tries to build some sort of connection with her - really, she doesn't mind that she can potentially be the friend that nobody in the group really likes..

Erin isn't book-smart. She can understand the situation well and her manipulative nature means that she would use this skill to her advantage. She follows her gut instinct, and so far it hasn't let her down.

She fears rejection, so to avoid that Erin has built up walls to stop people from getting too close. She fears that if someone gets to know her, she'd scare them away. Erin also tries to avoid commitment with the same method, she refuses to let anyone too close to her, lest they abandon her as soon as she starts to care about them.

Originally born in Las Vegas, or more affectionally known as Sin City, Erin was born to two problematic gamblers. Her parents could barely afford their home, often having to move and rent various small aparments or housing, or even resorting to live inside the family car. Erin wasn't loved, she knew that. Her parents loved money way more than they loved her.

Often when her parents would run out of money to gamble, her mother would resort to prostitution to try and avoid the loan sharks and casino owners. That was Erin's life for the first seven years. Gambling, prostitution and alcohol was all that little Erin knew about. It wasn't rare for her mother or father to violently slap her around under the influence of alcohol, Erin growing to resent them with every passing day. When she was eight, her parents ran their first (and last) scam, earning enough money for the three to escape Vegas and run away to a small town where she still lives to this day.

With the money they got, Erin's parents bought a small home before going right back into gambling with their remaining money. By the time Erin was ten, it was rare for her to even see her parents, and she was absolutely fine with that. The girl decided to focus on her education, or as much as possible, until she could finally get a job and just get out of this town.

She counts the days till she turns eighteen, so she could grab what ever little money she's managed to save up with her job at the local diner so she could escape. It's only a matter of time before she's gone...

Does scamming people and smoking weed occasionally count?

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