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heart Temporary 1st Post:: For the Art Contest. heart
For anyone who has come to find info about Em for the purpose of drawing her for the art contest: blaugh heart Squee! I'm super excited, and extremely honored that you've decided to sketch the hedgegal. <333 I'll keep it brief, and try to be helpful for you.
Good Refs of (Completed TF) Em:
+RandomWaltz: RandomWaltz's image is a great ref for Em's more recent bodytype (she's filled in a little since coming in from the wild), her coloring, and a GREAT ref for the spines! Obviously they don't have to ever be that detailed, but wow, what a showing. ^_^
+EvionVixen" EvionVixen is another one that does a great job with Em. This is a faded/memory sort of image, so don't use the coloring scheme ^_^, but the anatomy is great.
+For Ref's of Em's other stages, her traditional stage art is great, or you can check the "Art Wealth" link to the gallery I have of Em art in the next post.
Em's Personality:
+Kind, good, fair, overly emotional, stubborn, prone to melancholy, overanalytical, funny, genuine, and nostalgic. ((In the thread, in 'playtime OOC mode', she's also manhungry and bossy. X3 For evidence of this, see any of the Antigra sketches in the gallery. *snerk*))
Basic Look of Her:
Her spines go down to about her hips- they're not on her legs or arms. Her color scheme is more brown than anything else- and the brown in her spines outweighs the white slightly. She usually wears shorts or a wrap-like skirt, and a bikini top, because it's easier to feed through the spines than a regular shirt. She's been looking for ways to wear 'older' clothing, though- so she's been trying to design more regular wear that would work.
She doesn't have earring holes- they closed up on her second change.
Her eyes are blue-grey. She still has the dark coloring of her eyebrows.
What Em's been Up to on the Island:
+*deep breath* Okay, Em was one of the first ones to come to the island- OOC I won her in the first flatsale (whee, go me... :3) and her boat the Wilhemina sunk near the island due to a horrid storm that also shipwrecked Sean Carrol, aka The Dude. She was in the boat in the first place because it had been left to her sister Mizzie and her by their grandfather two years before when he'd died. Then Mizzie died the next year of cancer, and Em found herself regretting that they'd never taken a trip on it while she was alive.
Sabin found her on the beach monitoring cameras, and took her to the labs where she was injected with a random serum chosen by Aubrey. (Possibly due to the spiky/uncontrollable nature of Em's bangs, which reminded Aubrey of a hedgehog- but hey, who knows. ^^) Then she spent some weeks on the island, talking with the others, and wondering when she'd get off the island, or meet "Moreau" the one who owned the place. During this time she became friends with several- and started to develop a crush of sorts for Sean.
She was called to meet Moreau one night in October, and had dinner in the mansion- only to watch a tape of Ambrose transforming, and to be told by Moreau what he was doing: and asked... to undergo the experiment willingly. She refused, until he said that his work would cure cancer. Thinking of her sister... Emelyn relented.
Thus, she slipped into one of her 'states'- where she locks herself in her duplex and writes and doesn't see anyone for days or weeks. Sean finally came to see her, see what was wrong- and she guiltily told him that she'd agreed to the experiments. Then she came the closest to telling him that she cared about him- but he rebuffed her, and she never spoke of it again.
Emelyn had the next injection willingly, going to the labs for the 'procedure'. It would take months for her to completely cast aside Moreau's lies- though they started to wear thin rather quickly. Her talks with Ambrose helped to solidify this- they became close after Sean and Greer- the two people they had been interested in, connected. Ambrose and Emelyn had a ...relationship of leftovers. Leftover interest from Sean and Greer... leftover loss of Angie... and Mizzie. They went to the Halloween party together, and they were good to each other for long talks, transformations, and then one passionate night. Then... Angelina came to the island, and Ambrose came to tell Emelyn goodbye.
...It didn't go very well.
Suffice it to say, Em spiralled down into another one of her melancholy self-isolations. She didn't even come out for Christmas, or to forgive Ambrose even though he tried to still be a friend to her.
Then January came. The lockout. Not only did Emelyn find herself stranded in the jungle with everyone else- but she was wrapped around the one person she really didn't want to meet: Angie. The next few months were terse and horrible, living cold, wet, hungry and miserable in the "Ambrose and Angie" camp. It was then that she let herself realize that Moreau had betrayed her, and had never intended to do anything good for anyone. So when the lockout ended, and everyone finally started going back to their homes- Emelyn couldn't bear to traipse back into the village like everyone else- like some sort of wet, beaten dog.
So she stayed. She lived in a cave high on the mountain, and sustained herself on the wild. It was a freeing thing for a while- the first few months refreshed her and gave her purpose. It might have stayed that way, except she was attacked by Jamal, making her paranoid and frightened. She carried a makeshift knife with her everywhere, afterwards.
She was the one to find Aubrey after Zach had attacked her- she woke up frightened and near-feral, but ran to the labs to get help after she'd found Kaveri and Aubrey laying in the bloodied clearing. This threw her into another melancholy- and she stayed away from everyone for the next two weeks. When Aubrey was well again, she gave Emelyn a thank you: Reuben, a little lab dog that became her companion.
This lightened Em's life again for quite some time. She had someone to take care of, someone to love her. They were well in the wild for a long time- almost through the summer... until the lonliness finally caught up with Emelyn, and also her overanalytical mind. Enter the grand emotional breakdown. She wanted to go back to the village, but couldn't, because of her choice and her principles. She placed too heavy a weight on what had just been something to save her initially. She might have stayed out there forever- but Joliette attacked her, and Lucas brought her back to the village.
She was delirious and injured for some time- partially due to infection from her injuries, and also because she had a malfunctioning serum. When she transformed, there in Lucas' duplex, she went mad, and started to destroy everything around her- and herself. When she'd nearly chewed through her cheeks, she was transported to the labs where she spent several weeks making a recovery. She emerged weary, but free from the madness.
The months since then have found Emelyn teetering on a delicate edge. The Halloween party- her grand re-entrance into the village... was tainted and soured by the discovery of Sean's death.
She's put the goggles she used to wear on her dresser, not willing to be the child who used to wear them anymore. ...She doesn't feel innocent or childlike- not anymore. She's somewhat manic these days, not knowing what she wants or how to get it- so many emotions are beneath the surface, and she refuses to let them surface, so she coats it with a shiny happiness that is glittering and slick in its falseness. Emelyn White is letting her emotions consume her. I hope she finds some crawl into happiness...
Possible Great Scenes/Images to Draw (What I'd love to see):
+I would LOVE to see an image of Em in one of her melancholy states. She has them so often, damn her. XD Whether it's in her duplex or in the cave.
+Either/or/and: the passionate night between Em+Ambrose, & the FIGHT. >3
+Em and the Dude. ;_; The scene where he comforted her and then rebuffed her. (Bad boy. X3)
+Em and Reuben.
+Emelyn at Moreau's dinner table
+Em in more mature/non bikini+shorts outfits
+Anything at all! <333333
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Basic Emelyn, Prior to Island
Name: Emelyn Honor White, but everyone calls her Em.
Age: 22, as of Dec 17th, 2006
Hair: Waist-length brown, with just enough white/ash undertones to keep her from being able to dye her hair without her head turning Barney-purple.
Eyes: Blue/grey.
Other Features: Negligible, really. She's pretty in a very plain, understated way, but never goes through the trouble to look like anything fancy. Her hair is usually always messy, and she has very pale skin & a light spattering of freckles across the bridge of her nose- the only proof that she's ever seen the sunlight at all.
Occupation: She was a student, and a youth diplomat living overseas- but what she actually wants to do with her life is write.
Family: Other than 'distants' that she doesn't know well- none. She and her sister Mizzie were raised by their grandfather, but Grandpa John died two years ago, and Mizzie just died last year.
Basic Personality: Most people tend to like Em right away, because she's open, pleasant, intelligent, and knows how to read people- so she knows how to react to make them comfortable. She has bouts where she keeps to herself- her biggest 'flaws' are that she has a temper that is quick to flame (but luckily, also quick to cool), and there are times that she can think of herself as superior. (Which is why she wants to be a writer- besides loving it, it's a chance to work only for and by herself- no one to boss her around.) After everything she's been through, she still believes the world is essentially fair, and she never gives up hope.
Skills: (Figured I should outline them now, so it doesn't seem like I'm makin' 'em up out of the blue. ^_^ She speaks English, German, and American Sign Language, and can say the three phrases everyone needs to know to survive in a foreign country in a dozen or so other languages: Hello, How Much, and Where is the Bathroom? ^_~ She is very handy with little, delicate things- she has an eye for the miniature, and can fix things like jewelry clasps or weave a basket out of twigs- but can't fix something like a hinge or a door for the life of her. She writes quite well, and has lived on her own for long enough that she can take care of herself.
Background in Brief (and boxers! ...okay, shutting up now...): Alright, this will be brief, since I'm itching to start my intro rp.... so I'll come back and elaborate later. ^_^ She and her sister Mizzie (11 months younger than her, so they were more like best friends than sisters) were raised from a young age by their Grandpa John, after their parents passed away. She's always been fascinated w/ travel, and by adventure- when she was 11, she idolized Amelia Earhart, and her grandfather arranged for her to have a flight on a remodeled Lockheed, the same sort of plane Amelia flew in- and bought her a pair of old, leather aviators goggles and wool-lined strappers to calm her down. (She may have loved the idea of flight... but the thought of doing it herself scared her. ^_^) The strappers she long since outgrew- but keeps the goggles with her always. It was such an inspiring turning point in her life, that the next year she joined a youth diplomacy group and travelled around the world, going to school wherever she 'landed' and not staying in one place for very long. Mizzie came with her, and joined up mostly because Em was- but after a few years, she tired of it, and went back to live w/ Grandpa John in New England, to live their quiet, happy life of eating out at crab shacks and going out on his boat- the Wilhemina, named for his late wife, their grandmother. (Who they'd never met.) When Em turned 18, she was in Denmark when she recieved the news that Grandpa John had died of a heart attack very suddenly- and she flew back to the states to be with Mizzie, and so they could be together for a while. They weren't surprised that he'd left them everything- but had a good laugh over the fact that he'd split everything equally down the middle- one half to each sister.... but that the boat was in both of their names. (Em never liked boats- and had no desire to ever set foot on it, and laughed when Mizzie said they should take a tour together on it- just the two of them, cramped on the Wilhemina out on the open sea.) She told Mizzie that it was essentially her boat, she could do what she liked with it... and then went back to Europe. It wasn't much longer after that... that Mizzie was diagnosed with cancer, out of the blue. Em flew home- this time to STAY with her sister- but what seemed like a blink-of an eye, year and a half battle... ended in Emelyn being completely alone. ...She was devastated- nothing had ever prepared her for something like this- not even the death of her grandfather, even if that had been difficult, as well. Losing the person closest to her in the world... was the blackest moment of her life. After a long time of deep mourning, Em decided to take the Wilhemina out on a tour- it was what Mizzie had wanted, and being someone who loves symbolism, being alone for weeks upon weeks on the water seemed very appropriate to her. So she set out to find- something.
Name: Emelyn Honor White, but everyone calls her Em.
Age: 22, as of Dec 17th, 2006
Hair: Waist-length brown, with just enough white/ash undertones to keep her from being able to dye her hair without her head turning Barney-purple.
Eyes: Blue/grey.
Other Features: Negligible, really. She's pretty in a very plain, understated way, but never goes through the trouble to look like anything fancy. Her hair is usually always messy, and she has very pale skin & a light spattering of freckles across the bridge of her nose- the only proof that she's ever seen the sunlight at all.
Occupation: She was a student, and a youth diplomat living overseas- but what she actually wants to do with her life is write.
Family: Other than 'distants' that she doesn't know well- none. She and her sister Mizzie were raised by their grandfather, but Grandpa John died two years ago, and Mizzie just died last year.
Basic Personality: Most people tend to like Em right away, because she's open, pleasant, intelligent, and knows how to read people- so she knows how to react to make them comfortable. She has bouts where she keeps to herself- her biggest 'flaws' are that she has a temper that is quick to flame (but luckily, also quick to cool), and there are times that she can think of herself as superior. (Which is why she wants to be a writer- besides loving it, it's a chance to work only for and by herself- no one to boss her around.) After everything she's been through, she still believes the world is essentially fair, and she never gives up hope.
Skills: (Figured I should outline them now, so it doesn't seem like I'm makin' 'em up out of the blue. ^_^ She speaks English, German, and American Sign Language, and can say the three phrases everyone needs to know to survive in a foreign country in a dozen or so other languages: Hello, How Much, and Where is the Bathroom? ^_~ She is very handy with little, delicate things- she has an eye for the miniature, and can fix things like jewelry clasps or weave a basket out of twigs- but can't fix something like a hinge or a door for the life of her. She writes quite well, and has lived on her own for long enough that she can take care of herself.
Background in Brief (and boxers! ...okay, shutting up now...): Alright, this will be brief, since I'm itching to start my intro rp.... so I'll come back and elaborate later. ^_^ She and her sister Mizzie (11 months younger than her, so they were more like best friends than sisters) were raised from a young age by their Grandpa John, after their parents passed away. She's always been fascinated w/ travel, and by adventure- when she was 11, she idolized Amelia Earhart, and her grandfather arranged for her to have a flight on a remodeled Lockheed, the same sort of plane Amelia flew in- and bought her a pair of old, leather aviators goggles and wool-lined strappers to calm her down. (She may have loved the idea of flight... but the thought of doing it herself scared her. ^_^) The strappers she long since outgrew- but keeps the goggles with her always. It was such an inspiring turning point in her life, that the next year she joined a youth diplomacy group and travelled around the world, going to school wherever she 'landed' and not staying in one place for very long. Mizzie came with her, and joined up mostly because Em was- but after a few years, she tired of it, and went back to live w/ Grandpa John in New England, to live their quiet, happy life of eating out at crab shacks and going out on his boat- the Wilhemina, named for his late wife, their grandmother. (Who they'd never met.) When Em turned 18, she was in Denmark when she recieved the news that Grandpa John had died of a heart attack very suddenly- and she flew back to the states to be with Mizzie, and so they could be together for a while. They weren't surprised that he'd left them everything- but had a good laugh over the fact that he'd split everything equally down the middle- one half to each sister.... but that the boat was in both of their names. (Em never liked boats- and had no desire to ever set foot on it, and laughed when Mizzie said they should take a tour together on it- just the two of them, cramped on the Wilhemina out on the open sea.) She told Mizzie that it was essentially her boat, she could do what she liked with it... and then went back to Europe. It wasn't much longer after that... that Mizzie was diagnosed with cancer, out of the blue. Em flew home- this time to STAY with her sister- but what seemed like a blink-of an eye, year and a half battle... ended in Emelyn being completely alone. ...She was devastated- nothing had ever prepared her for something like this- not even the death of her grandfather, even if that had been difficult, as well. Losing the person closest to her in the world... was the blackest moment of her life. After a long time of deep mourning, Em decided to take the Wilhemina out on a tour- it was what Mizzie had wanted, and being someone who loves symbolism, being alone for weeks upon weeks on the water seemed very appropriate to her. So she set out to find- something.
