Name: Emily Faulkner (aka Scarlett Elegance)
Age: 13
Height: 4’11
Lives with her step-sisters after her mother disappeared, and her father was too busy to take care of her.
Species: human, but secretly part fae
Gender: female
Hair: lengthy, wavy, and dark brown. It’s kept up with a large pink bow, fashioned out of a ribbon gifted to her cousin. When Emily was little, her hair was styled into high pigtails. Whenever Emily transforms, her hair is in a low, long ponytail. She still wears the bow ribbon. She always is.
Eyes: A blank canvas kind of grey, matching a milquetoast, overcast day. Whenever she turns into Scarlett Elegance or isn’t wearing her pouch necklace, they shine with a golden sheen.
Personality: Often called a buzzkill behind her back, Emily Faulkner is an oddly experienced girl. Secretly childish and tends to daydream. Any secrets she’s involved with are Iron-Clad. When it comes to things that seriously matters, she becomes surprisingly passionate about them. Others think that she’s unassuming under her reserved and mature guise. She gets embarassed pretty easily and tends to whine.
Emily is completely different from her step-sisters, which is who she lives with since her mother disappeared, and when her father was deemed too negligent. The three sisters find their former cousin to be incredibly boring. Which is why they all try to craft her in their own images. Lucy is constantly plotting Something about her prima ballerina past. Athena is forever trying to get her involved in some kind of school idol nonsense, while Caroline prefers to call her to assist something with science or fashion.
After the neglect Emily’s father left her with, she doesn’t know what to do with all the attention. It’s overwhelming. Once she began living with her step-sisters, one of the few things they gave her was their old clothing. Despite this, she doesn’t wear any of it. She prefers to wear her school uniform on any given day, since it lets her hide and blend in with the crowd.
Even if her mother disappeared when she was little, her influence on Emily still lives. She continues to act refined and with poise. Her mother wanted her to grow up to be a lady, and she would’ve had a very sophisticated upbringing.
However, this all pales in comparison (in Emily’s honest opinion) to Emily’s greatest little secret: moonlighting as the daring Scarlett Elegance, magical girl and spellcasting extraordinaire. Almost every night, she transforms with other-worldly fae magic, which she uses to combat the shadowy and malicious cult residing in the darkest depths of the tri-county school complex. It’s a thrill she’d never dream of having. The change between an invisible girl with a dour and doomed past to the lone, illustrious knight protecting the whole school – and even tri-county area – is one enchanting tale that Emily can’t ever share with anyone.
Emily is an unconventional leader whenever the situation calls for it. She tends to be agreeable and fair if she’s in a good mood. On the other hand, she’s easily shaken, impatient, and some form of irritated. Whenever she’s in a bad mood around other people, the person accompaining her takes over. Is strangely good at stopping arguments before they begin. Gains an ego after being Scarlett Elegance for a little while. She begins thinking of and calling herself “the child of folly, the moonlight of a superior entity,” like she’s some kind of high-class chuunibyou. And yet, she’s too shy to act like this around people.
Emily grew up very sheltered, so she’s always felt distant from others. Slightly curious about everything. Cannot fathom being in the center of attention and constantly worries about her secrets being revealed.
Body type: rather average, but moves with grace. Bascially inherited her mother’s poised mannerisms.
Background: Emily Faulkner is an eighth grade girl, left with minimal confidence and energy after all she’s been forced to leave behind. Since her mother disappeared under mysterious circumstances regarding a ring of mushrooms. Emily has denied it happening ever since. After this, her father (who hasn’t seen her since birth) was sent to live with her. However, he was very negligent due to being a workaholic, which Emily grew to hate. He was the complete opposite of her loving and affectionate mother. Neither of them knew that she was supposed to be looked after by her cousin, Noah, who promised her mother to. He was attending college at the time. After a couple years of being ignored (and once Noah graduated,) Emily finally left to live with her new step-sisters, Lucy, Athena, and Caroline. Despite a bad first impression, these three began taking advantage of her, even while she’s studying in the attic that became her room. It doesn’t help that the three sisters are ridiculously popular, not just at school, but as a trio of pop princesses. It’s not only intimidating, but it’s tiresome when it’s the only thing she hears about at school. Ever since their fateful breakthrough, ang3lic is all she hears whenever she eavesdrops. The relation between these four used to be better. Emily looked up to Lucy the most, the way her elegance and precision with everything, reminded her of her mother’s careful mannerisms. Lucy’s enchanting movements and practical profession as a prima ballerina made Emily want to follow in her pointed footsteps. And follow she did, for she matched Lucy’s most technical moves in record time. In elementary, Emily kept being compared to Lucy. At first, it was something she enjoyed, thinking that people were perceiving her the way she wanted. Time passed. Lives have ended. Once Emily’s mother disappeared, she stopped doing ballet all together. Nowadays, she’s only talked about as Lucy’s sad understudy, as Emily spends her time in middle school feeling that Lucy’s shadow has turned her invisible. The night she encountered her new stepsisters when she began living with them was, in a way, unforgettable. Emily felt a new kind of fear as she felt Lucy’s chilling, damning stare the second she entered the manor of the three sisters. She barely stepped through the door, and yet she felt insignificant. If Emily wasn’t gawking in fear, she would’ve dropped to her knees and apologized for even breathing in their direction. Later, once Emily relaxed and begin getting used to living in an attic, there was something attracting her to the window. Under the shining, silver light was a goldenrod pouch tied with a silky brown ribbon, glistening in the pure silver moonlight. This is the night that changes her life.