**Name:** Emelina 'Eli' Ward

**Age:** 21

**Gender:** Female

**Physical Description:**

At around 5'2" in height, Emelina has always been short. In fact this is a fact that has always irritated her and as a result she can be rather touchy about her height. By no means skinny, Eli's has quite a boyish body with a general lack of curves. There are some that are there, of course, they are merely very subtle and rarely visible. Though not overall strong, she has decent arm strength and is reasonably acrobatic. It's quite surprising that she's in reasonably good shape considering her often frequent periods of time when she does not exercise. Eli's hair is an incredibly dark brown, so dark that it looks like it is black. It is mostly straight and long, falling down to around mid-back. However she often keeps it tied back in some way so that it is out of the way. She doesn't particularly care about its length, and will only bother getting it cut if really necessary. Her eyes are primarily a mud brown in colour, certainly nothing spectacular, however since the equinox blue specks have began to appear. These almost seem to glow however are generally only visible when you look at her eyes closely. Emelina tends to go for a casual, practical style of clothing in darker colours of blacks, blues and purples. In fact, she doesn't particularly care for how she appears to other people and probably never will. At the moment she has taken to always wearing a pair of simple sunglasses.


**Mundane Skills:**

- Science in general has been something she has always been good at, enjoying all three equally. She is studying Chemical Biology with the view of doing a graduate degree in Optometry when she is done, which would have been relatively soon. Eli has a natural science bend and is also quite adept at mathematics.

- Good at climbing, specifically rock climbing but this gives her the ability to scale most things with ease if she has the right equipment.

- Proficient at working in a shop and all the basic skills that come with that, such as using a cash register, helping customers and the like.

**Supernatural:**

At the time of the Equinox Emelina did not notice any difference to herself, nor did anything strange things occur. It was a short while after it, however, that she began to notice subtle differences. She began to see colours around her, subtle and almost as if they weren't there. They were barely discernible and it seemed like they could merely be a product of her imagination. However gradually these colours grew stronger and began to take form. Eli noticed that they only appeared to be around her fellow human beings, clinging to them like a second skin. It was still faint and but one singular colour. However it continued to go stronger, each person gaining more than just a single colour until it was practically all the Eli could see. The constant swarm of colours confused her and hurt her eyes, causing headaches and migraines due to her eyes not being used to it.

Emelina is yet to work out what the colours around people are, never mind what they mean. Though her body is gradually getting used to constantly seeing colours she has no further understanding of the ability. Of course she is certain that it does show her something about the person as that is easy enough to guess. However she does not know the significance of the various different colours each person has surrounding them never mind what each separate colour means. She isn't exactly sure how to go about learning this, either, and just hopes it is a thing that will come with time. The colours are gradually growing more defined and will only continue to do so, and it seems as though what they are telling her could be the gateway into something more.

**Character History:**

Emelina was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents ran a rather successful business together and as a result she grew up very well off. She was the youngest of four, with two older brothers and a slightly older twin sister. At a younger age Eli never had friends and tending to avoid people, not doing particularly well at a young age because she didn't try. She was brought up Agnostic and as a result has no religious ties and feels no need to be Christian.

Eli started trying more as she grew older in school proving herself to be rather intelligent and good at sciences, as was her twin sister. She enjoyed a lot of technical side of things and didn't have a preference for any of the three sciences. From around the age of ten things were quite tense in her household with there being a lot of arguments between her mother and father. This eventually was settled with a divorce after four years of arguments. However her father got the entire company, basically cheating her mother out of it, which forced them to move. So at the age of fourteen she first came to stay in Haye, Pennsylvania. Here they were in a less well off position, in a smaller home and trying to make something of a new life.

She continued to work hard at school, wanting to leave home as soon as possible due to not being particularly fond of her family. She lost contact with her father, not particularly close to him, though her twin visited him every holiday. She managed to get into the University of California to study Chemistry, hoping to do Optometry once she had finished that. Her twin sister also went to the same University. She was doing incredibly well.

However upon the Emergence her mother wanted to pull both her, and Jamie, out of college. While Eli did as her mother wished, mostly due to the beginning to notice colours here and there and worried about what it could mean, Jamie refused and stayed behind. Moving back to Haye she started working for her mother in the bookshop she now ran.

By now Emelina knows that she is an Emergent, something which she hides from an anti-emergent mother.

**Psychological Profile:**

Emelina never particularly liked people. It probably came in part to being brought up in a competitive environment were her parents always fought. She never made friends. This has only increased as she realised she was Emergent. She is cautious around people and tends to avoid interaction, partly because the colours surrounding people hurt her eyes. She's not exactly friendly and will often go for sarcasm and wit to try and get people not to like her. 

She's very intelligent and science minded but even so her newfound abilities frustrate her as she cannot work out what the different colours are. She was always rather cynical and her opinion of other humans has only decreased, though it was never particularly high, and she has gone for the method of avoiding people where possible. Just in case they somehow find out and hand her in. Of course the fact she works in a shop doesn't particularly help with that, but it's all she can do to make enough money to move out.

She keeps most of her emotions hidden away, not wanting to show the weakness that may cause her downfall. Of course she never particularly showed them as emotions were never a very positive thing in her family and she was brought up being told to not show them. The fact that her status as an Emergent is reasonably easy to hide does aid her, though she is still paranoid. Thankfully she has always been good at keeping secrets and lies with ease.

Emelina herself was reasonably freaked out by the return of magic, though she managed to keep a level head. She is sure that if she had not been an Emergent herself she certainly wouldn't be an advocate for their rights, as her sister is, but rather would have remained neutral - to save her own skin. She very much has the view of doing what she needs to to survive, no matter what damage it will cause to others.

**Possessions:**

- For now Eli lives at home with her mother and brother. The room itself is of an average size. It is sparsely furnished with her bed, some bookshelves, a desk with her laptop and a few more shelves for storage.

- She keeps at least on folding knife on her person at all times, just in case

**Occupation:**

Shop assistant in her mother's book shop, working Monday to Friday open hours.

**Relationships**

Jamie Ward - Twin sister. Eli has something of a love hate relationship with her twin sister. She is certainly the person she is closest to in the family, but that is most likely due to the two of them not actually living together. While Eli trusts Jamie she has no wish to confide anything important in. Jamie studies Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and refused to return home. As a result they mostly keep in contact via texting and the internet, at the moment.

Amelia Moran - Mother and boss. An ambitious woman who is harsh on her children, Eli doesn't get on with her mother at all and is currently not on the best of terms with her as it was her mother who pulled her out of college. Eli lives with her mother, but is looking to move out as soon as possible. Dislikes the Emergents.

Jonathan Ward - Father. Lives out of state and has done since divorcing Amelia. He hasn't been in Eli's life for a while and she was never close to him, unlike her twin. While she doesn't not like her father she doesn't particularly like him either.

Michael Ward - Older brother. Eli clashes a lot with Michael. He is incredibly ambitious and has started his own business which is gradually growing. He is so far successful and that is part of the reason for why they do not get on. Michael is a cold and calculating person, and he often visits home. Against Emergents.

Theodore Ward - Older brother. Co-worker. Quite a bright and friendly person, Theo can often be over the top and rather annoying. Eli gets on with him okay though she claims to be merely tolerating him rather than admitting to enjoying his company. He also works for their mother and lives at home.