<strong>Name:</strong>Emily Hartwell<br/><strong>Date of Birth:</strong>January 16, 1994<br/><strong>Place of Birth:</strong><br/><strong>Known Relatives:</strong>Kara Hartwell (mother), Steve Priceton (absentee father and general douchebag)<br/><br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'4"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>110 lbs<br/><strong>Hair:</strong>Dark brunette<br/><strong>Eyes:</strong>Brown<br/><strong>Usual Style/Clothes:</strong>Emily doesn't usually care for bright colors.  She doesn't tend to show much skin or otherwise be immodest (in her own mind), and since she just doesn't care to spend a lot on clothes, she wears jeans and a casual-looking blouse a lot.<br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Emily is a young Caucasian lady, a bit on the short side, with longish brown hair and matching eyes.  She's pretty enough, at least when she smiles, but tends to be reserved and have trouble meeting people's gazes directly.  She prefers to dress modestly, and although her fashion sense actually isn't too bad, her outfits can be a bit hit or miss since a fair number of her clothes are secondhand or just kind of old.<br/><br/><strong>Powers (if applicable):</strong>Werewolf.  Apparently because the ability is hereditary, Emily has a much easier time controlling the change than an infected werewolf.  Her dislike of her ability makes her less effective than she should be, but sharp claws and superhuman physical prowess forgive many sins.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Massive bookworm, usually quiet.  She's reasonably friendly if someone can actually get her talking, but she's nervous around people she doesn't know and not very good at confrontation, especially since she fears to let herself seriously get angry.<br/><strong>Favorite Quote:</strong>"I was<em>trying</em>to be nice, but I guess<em>that's</em>not an option."<br/><strong>Quirks:</strong>Emily has a terrible habit of hunting rabbits or something to save money on meals.  It works for her, but it's not doing her socialization any favors, especially now that she has enough financial breathing room to eat with friends like a normal, sane person.<br/><strong>Hobbies:</strong>Reading.  Chess.  Running through forests at night.  Emily is a better scrapper than you'd expect from a small-framed girl (being poor gets people to pick on you a lot) but she's not exactly a kung fu master and has no formal training.<br/><strong>History:</strong>Emily's parents divorced when she was only three years old, whereupon she moved with her mother (Kara Hartwell, a criminal defense attorney) to the pleasant town of Fairview.  She grew up knowing very little about her father, since her mother never liked to talk about him -- only that he was apparently abusive and dangerous and possibly even on the run from the cops or something.  Actually receiving any child support payments owed was pretty much out of the question, and Fairview's rather low rate of solved crimes left Kara with less time and money to raise her daughter than she would have liked.<br/><br/>It isn't that Emily's mother didn't love her, but a part of Kara must have resented having to raise Emily by herself, not to mention having her as a perpetual reminder of bad times in the past.  Things only got worse shortly after Emily's 13th birthday, when she found herself sprouting fur and howling at the moon.  It didn't take too long for the panicking Emily to get control of herself -- evidently, being born a werewolf made mastering the change easy enough -- but even as her mother tried to comfort her, Kara's disgust was obvious.  She still wasn't interested in talking, although Emily did manage to confirm that her furry little problem was something she'd inherited from her father.<br/><br/>Fortunately, Emily made it to college on a full scholarship, which is good since that's the only way she'd have had a chance to go.  A part of her still hates and fears her abilities, but she hates and fears getting snacked on by vampires even more.  She is now a sophomore, and it's working out pretty well.  She hopes.