Editing Erin Julia Cortes (section)

==Family & Background==

Erin was born in Santiago, Chile. Her mother is Siobhan Philbin who served upon the Mith and her father is Julio Cortes, a Starfleet lieutenant.

Her parents are a loving couple who raised their daughter to embrace her Irish and Latina sides.

Her father has a particular interest in Archery and the pair bonded through this. He trained Erin to become an expert archer and a decent swordsperson. Her happiest memories are running Robin hood programmes with her father on the holodeck.

At age 17, Erin met her first serious boyfriend. After a few months, he became controlling and, when she attempted to leave him, he became violent.

Grabbing her and trying to stop her from leaving him, he slapped her, she fell backwards and crashed through a glass table at her parents home.

After this, she swore she wanted to understand more about the human condition and why he acted like he did. Thus, developing a need to become a counsellor in order to help people through difficult times as her counsellor did for her.