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Emmy loves any and everything nature. Everything from plants and animals to rocks and mud, Emmy loves to leave the city and go camping whenever she gets the chance. Emmy is also known to love pranks. If there is anything that people in the Barnyard know about Emmy it's that she loves to play lighthearted jokes on people, and what's more, she loves when those pranks are played back at her. Emmy's other likes include soft blankets, bad jokes, and conspiracy theories.
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One of Emmy's biggest dislikes is loud noises. Having lived in New York for a good amount of time, she has learned to deal with it, but the vibrations that sudden, loud noises cause in the ground often make her feel uneasy even if she is not actively using her powers. Emmy does not mind cold weather, but she hates snow. She also has a fear of deep water. She enjoys sticking her feet in the ocean occasionally, but anything that she can't stand in makes her nervous. Her dislikes also include flying, restrictive clothing, and complicated technology.
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Emmy absolutely loves camping and hiking. She needs no excuse to be out in nature, get her hands and feet dirty, and sweat. Emmy also spends a good amount of time sculpting and doing pottery. The feeling of clay on her hands is exciting for her and the shaping and molding of that clay is almost a natural talent. Emmy's only other hobby is that she collects gems and semi-precious stones. Her collection lines almost an entire bookshelf with shining, bright colors.
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OUTGOING || CHARISMATIC || MISCHIEVOUS || CURIOUS || LOYAL

There is a reason why people gravitate toward Emmy. She has a way with words that makes people want to tell her everything; however, she also has a reputation for being extraordinarily trustworthy and loyal and rarely speaks ill of another person. Emmy's emotions tend to be contagious to those around her. When she is happy -which she normally is- people are drawn to feel that same joy. She loves to play pranks and tell bad jokes to any and everyone, and even the most coldhearted person can't help smiling at Emmy's contagious laughter. Due to her overwhelming charisma, Emmy feels a sense of duty in keeping everyone around her happy and hopeful even when she is not feeling the same way. This means that when she is unable to cheer someone up or spark hope in someone, she feels as though she is a failure, and she often fixates on such an event for days on end. This sense of duty also causes Emmy to bottle up her negative emotions. Although she is a naturally bubbly person, she has spells of sadness and anger like a normal human; however, she often hides this from even those who are closest to her because she knows that her emotions are contagious.

Emmy may seem like a bit of an annoying airhead when she asks people a million questions about their lives; however, she is simply curious, and she absolutely loves hearing people talk. She could listen to someone talk for hours about their life and not be bored. What's more, she has an astounding memory and can retain little details about people that many would miss. This means that she knows many intricate details about many people, but she would never use these little details against someone. This is why many people trust her so much, and a lot of people in the Barnyard know that they can come to her when they need someone to talk to. This is another reason people are drawn to Emmy's personality. She makes everyone she talks to feel special and important. When she casually mentions that gerbil named Fluff that you mentioned once, it makes you feel interesting and like you are an important person to Emmy.

Despite her deep love of people, Emmy also likes her "alone" time. She usually wakes up everyday with the sun and sits on her fire escape. Here, she practices her favorite aspect of her power. With her hand or foot on the bricks of the Barnyard she calms her mind, tunes out all sounds and sight, and focuses on the building. Within fifteen minutes of this meditation, she can feel every vibration in the building. She can hear the way people move in their sleep, she can tell when the early risers wake up and walk around their room, and, if she knows someone well enough, she can pick out their vibration above everyone else's. She sometimes gets lost in this trance-like state and can spend hours on end alone feeling the vibrations of the building and the city. This is her form meditation that she practices every day, and few people know that she does it.

Emmy did not have a glamorous life growing up. Her parents were deadbeats who forced Emmy and her twin older brothers to take care of their four younger siblings. They lived in a shady mobile home park in Nevada -a short bus ride to Las Vegas- where Emmy and her older brothers became surrogate parents for their younger siblings while their parents were out drinking and gambling what little money they had away. None of the Blackburn children really knew their parents much at all. This gave Emmy a gritty outlook, but for her siblings' sake, she always put on a happy face.

In truth, Emmy's ability to feel vibrations in the earth manifested itself at a very young age -so young that she can't remember a time she didn't have such an ability-, but Emmy never told anyone since she thought it was something that was normal for everyone. She was twelve when she realized that she came from a different lineage than the rest of her siblings. Her ability to manipulate the earth became apparent entirely on accident. She was walking home at night with one her younger siblings who had been performing at a school play when they were both pushed into an alleyway by an older man. Emmy was more terrified than she had ever been thinking that she and her little brother would be kidnapped or killed when suddenly the ground shook violently and a wall of jagged spikes rose from the ground between the man and Emmy. She was confused and scared but she grabbed her brother and sprinted the rest of the way home. Emmy told the story to her older brothers, and her mother happened to hear, yelling something about how she "knew that earth-bending ass would create something terrible". Emmy and her siblings quickly realized what this meant. Emmy had inherited powers from her biological father.

Emmy's brothers insisted that she go to the academy. A decent and free education was something that no other Blackburn child could get. So, despite her protests, Emmy was shipped off to the academy. Emmy's older brothers never finished high school, and instead they opted to drop out and start working at a local mechanic's shop who had taken the boys under their wing. They felt the need to save up money to pull their siblings out of the gutter. Emmy thought many times about dropping out of the program to do the same; however, her brothers constantly reminded her that getting a decent education would benefit the family more than anything else. Her teachers at the academy pushed Emmy to do more than just move a few rocks with her power. There had been amazing stories of superheroes who could bend the earth, but whether it was for lack of ability or lack of trying, Emmy did not improve much in her abilities. So, due to lack of improvement, Emmy was dropped from the program at the ripe age of eighteen. She thought about moving home to where her brothers had finally saved up to buy a small apartment in Las Vegas for their family, but she thought better about putting another burden on them and decided to stay in New York at the Barnyard. She has been there for seven years now and works as a waitress at a diner in rich uptown Manhattan. She makes a good amount of money in tips due to her charismatic nature, and she sends every penny that she doesn't use for her own survival home to her brothers and four siblings.