#ch:emmefitzgerald

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OUT OF CHARACTER

NAME/ALIAS: Rai

AGE: 28 years old

PRONOUNS: She/her

IN CHARACTER – BASICS

FIRST/LAST NAME: Emmeline ‘Emme’ Fitzgerald 

AGE: Died 37 (170 years old)

PRONOUNS: She/her

OCCUPATION (MUSE, ARTIST, ETC.): Muse, Former Novelist

FACE CLAIM: Sarah Gadon

3 POSITIVE TRAITS: Nurturing, Patient, Clever

3 NEGATIVE TRAITS: Vengeful, Arrogant, Manipulative

IN CHARACTER – DETAILS (OPTIONAL)

ADDITIONAL DETAILS (This can be about their personality or general background.):

Emmeline was the first daughter of an English Baron and as for most women in her time, all that was expected of her was to marry and to marry well. She was wed to a Marquis Blackthorn, quite a step up for little Emme Fitzgerald, and outwardly she presented with an aura of happiness, contentment. And yet she had a secret - Emme had a passion for words, and she began penning novels under the pseudonym E. F. Beaumont from the young age of eighteen. These were not your traditional love stories no, she wrote mystery novels, of killers and hidden treasures and thieves in the night - things a pretty little English Rose shouldn’t even think about much less know.

Emme’s life was the envy of many, a kind if distant husband, a rich, bountiful estate, and three little angels she called her own. Brave Edward, sweet Nicholas, and her spitfire of a daughter, little “Lottie” Blackthorn. Her novels also sold splendidly, and though she never got the credit she deserved, she was truly happy, content. Then, seemingly one after the other, tragedy struck her life. She lost her eldest Edward to a duel gone wrong, she lost Nicholas to an incurable illness, and when all that was left to her was her fiery Lottie, she was to be wed to a man whose cruelty was as vast as his pockets were deep. All her husband saw was an opportunity when he looked at Lottie’s betrothed, all Emme could see was the eventual cause of her death. Emme knew she had to act and she made a plan to escape with Lottie on a ship to the Americas, but just as they were at the pier, hired goons had captured them and in the struggle, both mother and daughter were killed. 

Emme woke later on, bloodied and bruised, her corpse tossed into an alleyway and left to rot. Freezing and frightened and mourning the loss of her last child, Emme boarded the next boat to America and left the world she knew behind. She arrived in New York with nothing to her name, but Emme carved a life for herself with her own two hands. She found sanctuary in a brothel, earning money by bedding man after man and penning missives and documents for the illiterate madame. Emme continued to write, sometimes hours on end, as if in a trance, penning novel after novel, story after story. Then, one day, she met a man - an author, like herself - who recognized her for what she truly was, a Muse. He whisked her away and married her and they had two beautiful children, twins Andres and Angelique. Due to their bond, her husband, once just a middling writer, became one of the most celebrated novelists in New York. Emme was happy for him but continued to write on the side, penning her mystery novels under the new pen name C. N. Edwards, after her children. It did not take long for Emme’s success under her pseudonym to eclipse that of her husband’s and in his envy, he falsely claimed to the public that he was the true writer. Emme was utterly livid and she stole her children away, her husband’s act of betrayal severing their bond. A few months later, Emme learns he committed suicide after losing all of his inspiration.

As Emme’s children grew, they became artists themselves. Her son became a playwright and her daughter a classical soprano. Emme knew however that she could only bond with one child and she was faced with a terrible decision. Andres, being the older, kinder one of the two, offered that Emme bond with Angelique, to help launch his sister’s career and for her to become a star. With a heavy heart, Emme agreed and soon Angelique was head-lining all shows on the New York scene while Andres continued to work tirelessly, desperately on his own craft. Soon, however he began to develop feelings of bitterness, resentment, insecurity. Near hopelessness, Andres turns to the black market, taking muse blood in secret in order to spark inspiration, not knowing that it’ll eventually lead to his death. Slowly, little by little, Andres began having small successes here and there, his work often a hit and miss with the public. It became a vicious cycle - the earnings he got from his successful plays used to buy muse blood and further increase his debt.

Then one night, as the brood of three were heading over to watch the staging of one of Andres’ plays, the family was ambushed by a couple of thugs, hired by Andres’ dealer after going months without paying his debt. Andres tells them to run, that he’ll hold them off, but Emme and Angelique refuse to leave him. In the struggle, both of her children are killed and Emme severely wounded.

Only Angelique wakes up once more, chosen to be a muse like her mother.

Emme and Angelique live together in a small apartment in present day New York. Angelique has bonded with a talented violinist, who is also her wife, and she continues to teach and perform music at Juilliard. Emme’s last bonded artist, a sweet, elderly poet, just passed 2 years ago and she’s in no hurry to look for another. Then, one night, when Emme comes home late after work, she finds Angelique missing. There are no clues, no evidence of foul play. She reports it to the police immediately and a man hunt ensues, but in the end the detective in charge deems it a cold case. Emme is transformed by her grief, losing one too many children, and she swears to find the person who took her daughter to make him pay, by any means necessary.