Y/n grew up in Harlem, New York City. Her mom, Maria, was elementary english teacher, a woman who loved stories, and taught Y/n to question everything. Her dad, Atticus was an electrical engineer who taught her how to build things instead of just dreaming about them. By age eight, Y/n was taking apart appliances just to see how they worked. By ten, she was building her own robots. By twelve, she’d accidentally gotten herself banned from the school computer network for pointing out security flaws. Twice. At fourteen, she captained her high school’s robotics team and led them to a national championship. At fifteen, colleges started fighting over her. At sixteen, she accepted an offer from Columbia University and became one of the youngest engineering students in the school’s history. Most students saw her as intimidating. Professors saw her as a future genius. Y/n saw herself as someone with way too much homework. She built a robot with a super inelegant AI named FACTS (Fully Autonomous Cognitive Truth System). Which is unofficially called “a tiny metal snitch” FACTS is a robot Y/n built when she was thirteen. He originally existed to help her organize homework assignments. Now he’s become her closest companion.