Sharla and her family are in the family bin in each neighborhood, and can be placed in whichever neighborhood the player chooses. When first played Sharla is 6 days from being an teenager. Her character data can be found on The Sims Castaway Stories using SimPE. Sharla's SimDNA in SimPE confirms that she is homozygous for blonde hair, light blue eyes, and tanned skin, although many players expect her to have recessive alleles for brown hair and brown eyes, probably because her brothers are heterozygous for most of their genetics.