Andrew Collins

Andrew was born into a bad neighborhood of Miami, were gangs ruled the streets and the police rarely appeared. It was this beautiful locale that helped shape Andrew as he grew up. In the beginning it was difficult, being a suckling babe amongst the violence and crimes was not an easy thing. Eventually though the shouts of couples, the gunshots, the barking dogs, all of the sounds of a crime infested streets, slowly blended into the background until ti became commonplace. He went out to play with the other children and did not fear the gang that ruled the area, they never bothered his family, except when they had to pay for protection. As he grew up he spent most of his time in the run-down public school, on their computers that had existed back when the world was young. While most of the other kids were out playing with each other, Andrew spent his time with the computers, poking around the internet and the computer itself with his free time.

School was always easy for Andrew, he did not have to put that much work into studying and homework to get the top grades in his class. The easier he sailed through the work, the faster he was able to get back to the computers he had grown fascinated with. He did not completely ignore the world around him however, he kept contact with his friends and the occasional gang member that stopped to chat. When he started to near puberty he realized that he needed a source of income to help support his family, and himself.

He started doing normal minimum wage stuff, working at fast food joints, grocery stores, any job he could get a hand of. though it was clear that those jobs weren't going to pay the bills, nor the alcoholism is of his mother. Andrew started to look into shadier areas of work, setting up different credit card phishing scams, and trying to stay under the radar with his work. At first he was unable to get a decent source of income from it, but over time he was able to develop a better system and different means of getting into the bank accounts. He made sure to take smaller amounts of money to keep under the radar before moving on, slowly acquire the money he desperately needed.

Andrew was able to do this for a few years to earn a comfortable living for him and his mother, who was drunk half the time and generally left him alone. Soon he was able to buy his own computer, his own internet, able to set up an even better system for things. The trouble started when the local gang came knocking on his door. They were very interested in how he was able to afford such nice things recently, when he had not been working any jobs.

One day though, Andrew stuck his nose where it didn't belong. He went through encoded files from one of his latest jobs, and he stumbled across a file he just simply couldn't open. There was no information on the encoding anywhere online, there wasn't even suggestions on the type of file it was. It was just there. He labored for weeks over this one, stupid, little file that just refused to open for his prying eyes. Then, after nearly a month of hard work, the file opened before him. It was the last time he saw things normally ever again. After not emerging from his home for another two weeks, staying connected nearly all the time to the computer and the file. There was a knock on his door, and a woman on the other side. She was from the Free Council, and she was there to help.

Physical Description
Andrew


 * Age: 18
 * Height: 6' 2"
 * Weight: 186 lb

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