**Name:** Aliciana Mae Gonzalez

**Age:** 12

**Gender:** Female

**Physical Description:**
Aliciana stands at a diminutive 4'7", with fair brown skin, black hair, and light brown eyes. She is built lightly, mostly due to her age, and does not possess much strength or stamina. She is usually dressed in dark clothing, in order to hide her Emergent qualities. She might appear somewhat naive, as her education only went so far due to the arrival of the Emergence phenomenon. 

**Mundane Skills:**
- As Aliciana's parents were motel owners before the Emergence, she has some idea of low-level business management (as they entrusted certain aspects of administration to her).

- She has also developed some adeptness at haggling, as she has had to hitchhike her way through from Texas to Pennsylvania.

- She can handle several guns due to her father teaching her how to shoot from a tender age.

- She also possesses a working knowledge of Spanish; she can listen to a fluent speaker, but must reply in English.

**Supernatural:**
Her Emergent abilities manifest as a worm-like appendage that normally hides itself on the left side of her torso, burrowing into her flesh (this does not cause her any pain, however, and the 'worm' acts similarly to a symbiotic parasite). It can extend to a length of five meters, possesses rows of sharp, serrated teeth, and clad in skin of a material unknown to Aliciana herself, but seemingly impervious to blunt force or penetration from most small caliber arms; it remains to be seen whether it can withstand fire from larger guns, however.

The worm has also changed her constitution to the point in which Aliciana does not gain sustenance from anything that is not magically charged; she has to feed on Emergent plants and animals (or, indeed, other Emergent humans) in order to keep herself alive. After feeding, the worm changes color from a sleek black to a radiant gold; whether this has any ramifications other than making her life harder is still not certain.

**Character History:**
Originally from Houston, Texas, Aliciana lived a fairly uneventful life apart from the death of her mother at the age of three. Her father ran a small motel and taught her most of what she knows outside of school, including but not limited to shooting with small arms. 

At the original Emergence incident, her father Emerged as a pyrokinetic chimaera, prompting the government to take him away to Nellis and putting Aliciana into the care of social services, not knowing that she herself was an Emergent.

After being put into the dubious care of several foster families (which was not made better by her exclusivity as she attempted to hide her affliction), Aliciana decided to run away (after stealing a considerable amount of money from her then-foster family) to her aunt in Maine, hitchhiking her way across the country. Arriving in Haye, Pennsylvania, she found herself stranded in a small town with no real way to continue on due to her funds being spent.

She has found shelter in a (admittedly overcrowded) home run by the local Catholic church, going by the name of Erika Lopez in order to hide any connections to her father. There, she met the owner of a local op-shop, who was so impressed with Alicia's knowledge of bookkeeping and other such minor office errands that she was hired under the guise of an "apprentice". Through this, she has become something of a local face in the six months since arriving in Haye, with many seeing her as the cheerful little girl minding the register.

She initially spent her Emergence feeding on other Emergent humans in order to sustain herself (usually the elderly or children), all the while pretending to eat normal food (actual consumption of such often leads to her being weakened, and she must therefore vomit the food back up afterward). After the Emergence of plants and animals, she has begun feeding on those when possible.


**Psychological Profile:**
Aliciana is very guarded, mostly due to her being thrown around in different foster homes after her father's arrest. However, she also recognizes that her condition means that she needs to be dependent on another, hopefully more powerful, Emergent that does not bear the same cost that hers does. The overall effect is that Alicia is very slow to trust others, but once that is gained, she quickly attaches herself to a person - she is still just a child, after all.

The stress from essentially having to cannibalize other Emergents for nearly three months before she could resort to eating plants and animals has made Aliciana rather unstable, acting more violently and impulsively when she is hungry. The constant conflict between attempting to find an Emergent whom she can rely on and finding her next meal meant that Aliciana is always trying to determine whether the Emergent(s) she meets would be of more use as an ally or as meat.

**Possessions: **
- She has a small, 10kg roller suitcase in which she has packed most of her clothes.
- She owns a SIG Sauer P229 (as well as several magazines), usually tucked between her clothes inside her suitcase. 

**Relationships:**
- Corazon de Guzman – Her father's sister, currently residing in Maine. Aliciana's original aim after running away was to reach this woman and stay with her for the foreseeable future.

- Hernan Gonzalez – Father; it is unknown whether he is still alive or dead.

- Helen White - Employer and confidant. Helen knows what has happened to Alicia's father as well as her real name, although Alicia still keeps the fact that she is an Emergent herself a closely-guarded secret. Alicia sees her as something of a surrogate mother, having no memories of her own, and this affection is seemingly reciprocated. There are signs that Helen is considering adopting Alicia as her own daughter.