Emilia Lockhart
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Creator: Mageheart
Roleplay: Second Chances
Nickname: Emi
Full Name: Emilia “Emi” Lockhart
Special Ability: She can possess anyone – or anything – she touches. Possessing a person allows her to tap into their full range of their abilities; she can use their powers if she figures out, can understand languages that she doesn't know if they know it, and can control every physical part of their body.
However, possessing other people does have its risks. If the person has a strong will, they can regain control of their body. This usually happens gradually, so Emi typically has time to return to her own unconscious body. If unable to, she becomes stuck in their body until she can hop to another one or her own.
Gender: Female, she/her.
Age: 18
Appearance: Emi has short, dark brown hair that she usually keeps tucked underneath a beanie. It's usually combed over to one side of her head. She has dark brown eyes, and slightly tanned skin. Her outfits usually border on the unpopular side – over-sized flannel shirts, a black leather jacket with a skull embroidered in white thread on the right over her chest. She also frequently wears jeans and combat boots.
Personality: Emi is known for putting people off. In fact, it's what she excels at. Whether it's by cracking jokes, pranking those she considers herself close to, or saying incredibly dark things, she's usually irritating someone. She can intimidate and be ominous when she needs to be, but she often finds more fun in messing with people.
Despite all of this, Emi genuinely cares for a select group of people, and will do whatever it takes to protect them – even if it means putting her life on the line.
...Again.
Brief History: Emi doesn't know much about her earlier years. She knows that she was born on August 17th, 2001, that her parents were very kind people – though this is more speculation than fact – and that she was born somewhere in the northeast of the United States. She knows that her parents died when she was around three, that she was in foster care until the age of thirteen, and that she ran away a week after her thirteenth birthday with only a bag of clothes, her guitar and the few bucks she had scrounged up by doing yard work in her neighborhood.
The past four years were spent hitchhiking and traveling across New England. Most of that time had been spent in homeless shelters, with Emi using her guitar to make some money here and there. She didn't like to stay in one place for too long – it wasn't that she didn't want to be caught, necessarily, but she didn't like having enough time to think about going back. If she did, she would have to accept that she really did like her old home, and had only left out of a sense of obligation.
But the past year was different – she spent it in New York City. She would have moved on after a few months, but she met someone there that made her want to stay. Her friendship with Juliet Clarke was what both of them would call more of an acquaintanceship. Neither one of them intended to meet or keep meeting, but they had a habit of ending up in the same places at the same times.
Then an actual friendship started to bloom.
Juliet had invited her to the movies the night that she died. Not as a date – they barely knew each other. But it was a start to a friendship, and Emi decided to go. The two of them were walking across a crosswalk after the movie ended. The light had been red. Emi hadn't felt the least bit of nervousness heading across that crosswalk; she was used to the city.
But then someone sped past the red light. Emi caught a glimpse of his head down – looking at a text on his phone – right before she found herself pushing Juliet, who had been about to get hit by the car, out of the way.
And she got hit instead.
Her death was nearly instantaneous – just long enough for her to feel a sharp, unbearable pain all over.
She died on August 22nd, 2019, just a day before she would wake up in the deserts of Arium.
Talents: Emi has many useful skills, and most of them are skills that shouldn't be questioned. She has an incredibly good singing voice, though she'll rarely use it outside of the occasional performance. She knows how to play guitar just as well. Those are some of the less questionable things. She also knows how to pickpocket, pick lockets, and how to perform a few card tricks.
Other: Emi never learned how to swim, so large bodies of water tend to frighten her – and, now that she's already died once, the thought of drowning in one has become even more terrifying.