#ourtownemily

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ABOUT THE CHARACTER ➝

NAME ●●● Emily Grace Wilde

AGE ●●● 27

PRONOUNS ●●● She/Her

BIRTHDAY ●●● 06/22

ORDER ●●● First (Solo)

FROM ●●● Cotton Plant, Arkansas

SEXUALITY ●●● Bisexual/Heteroromantic

FULL TIME JOB ●●● Author at Hyperion Books

PART TIME JOB ●●● Lifeguard at Princess Hotel

WRITER ●●● River

↳ A CLOSER LOOK:

{ trigger warning: homophobia }

When she was younger, Emily always tried to make her parents happy in everything she did. She regularly attended church, she was well behaved at home and school, and she was always obedient. She did what she could to be the model child. As she grew older, though, she started struggling to maintain this image, particularly the religious aspect of it. She started developing her own opinions about certain topics - ones that greatly differed from her parents’ opinions. She always kept her opinions to herself, not wanting to upset her parents, but she couldn’t deny that she was mildly ashamed of the way her parents spoke about certain things, especially topics such as homosexuality.

{ WARNING: HOMOPHOBIA } When she was fifteen, she started noticing that she was looking at the girls the same way that she was looking at the boys. She started wondering what it would be like to be with a girl in the same way she’d been with boys. What it would be like to kiss a girl. Or more. She had tried talking to her pastor about her feelings and urges, but that session went about as well as it would have had she tried to talk to her parents. To make matters worse, the pastor felt it was his ‘duty’ to talk to Emily’s parents about what she had told him, and they did not take it well at all – enduring lecture after lecture about how homosexuality was a sin, one absolutely loathed by God, and she was going to go to hell if she continued down this road. It was during this time that her faith started waning, and she stopped going to church regularly, making excuses to get out of it whenever she could.

To this day, Emily still believes in God. But not the god that her parents taught her to believe in. She’s still religious, but she does not believe in organized religion. In her mind, God would never approve of such harsh judgement and treatment of people simply because of who they are or how they feel about the same sex.

For a while, Emily tried to listen to her parents. She tried to ignore the attraction she felt towards the same sex. She tried to stop her thoughts from wandering. Her desires from overtaking her mind. She started to hate herself and the way her mind worked, wondering why she couldn’t just be ‘normal’. Meeting Eva had changed things for her, though; the girl that would soon become her best friend changed the way that she looked at herself. Emily realized that her parents had been wrong, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with her or her feelings. That was when she started rebelling against her parents and their religious ideologies, even if her rebellion only came in small things here and there.

As she got older, Emily learned to bite her tongue despite her parent’s ongoing commentary about every little detail and goings-on in their small town – her mother, in Emily’s opinion – was the small town’s hypocritical gossip. Despite how well she had gotten at biting her tongue, though, things became tougher in her Senior year. Eva came out of the closet as a lesbian, admitting publicly what Emily had already known, and her parents had a proverbial field day. Strict rules were put in place forbidding Emily to hang out with her best friend, her parents wanting to keep their eldest away from that kind of ‘disgusting behavior’ as they called it, and for the first time in her life Emily began outright, openly disobeying her parents. Shortly before her graduation from high school, Emily revealed to her parents that she herself was bisexual, and all hell broke loose in the Wilde house.

As soon as she graduated high school, Emily left Cotton Plant as quickly as she possibly could. She knew she would miss her siblings immensely, but she had to get away from her parents. Essentially being disowned by her parents She moved to New York City and enrolled in the Creative Writing and History programs at NYU. Writing had always been a passion of hers – as had history – so in her mind it only made sense for her to get her degrees in both subjects.

After one particularly inspirational writing prompt in one of her classes in her Senior year of college, Emily’s professor sent her submission into a publishing house that he had connections with; he had asked her before had, and she had said yes, but she had never expected anything to come of it. It wasn’t even a fully-fleshed out story. It was just a small short story; she hadn’t even been overly proud of it because it felt unfinished, but she had agreed to let her professor send it to one of his friends. The last thing she expected was to get a phone call from a junior editor at Hyperion Books who thought she really had something, especially in a culture where mythological novels were becoming popular with the younger generations. After much back and forth, the two of them agreed that she needed to finish her studies and graduate from college before fully delving into developing her up and coming novel. Just a few months later, Emily graduated from NYU with two degrees: one in Creative Writing and the other in Ancient History.

One fleshed out idea transformed into a two-book contract, with a novel that she described as ‘Harry Potter meets Percy Jackson meets Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar children’, and after her first novel stayed on the New York Times ‘Top 10 Bestsellers’ list – in varying positions – for five weeks straight, her publisher upped her contract to a five-book contract.

Shortly after starting work on her second novel, Emily thought she had met the love of her life. She was happier with Tyler than she’d ever been before. He helped her whenever she got stuck on a chapter, and no one was more supportive of her writing than he was. After eight months together, he proposed, and she happily accepted his proposal. Another year after that, Emily’s world shattered around her. Marrying Tyler had been her biggest dream come true; she thought she’d be marrying her best friend and the love of her life. The absolute last thing she expected was to be left standing at the altar. To make matters even worse, they got most of the way through the service before things went south. She had been halfway through her vows to him when he stopped her, said he couldn’t do this, and then walked away. Emily had tried to keep her composure, but she couldn’t help but break down. Since that day, Emily has been understandably hesitant when it comes to real relationships.

While she’s very proud of what she’s accomplished with her novels – more than she ever thought she’d be able to do – Emily still feels the pressure of delivering a new product that will be just as successful as her first two novels. It’s been almost a year and a half since she’s published a novel, and she’s still working on the third book, but she’s hit a mental block. With everything that happened with Tyler, she couldn’t stand to be in New York anymore – there were too many good memories turned sour – so she moved back to Cotton Plant six months ago in an attempt to clear her mind. Maybe being back in Cotton Plant could help her dislodge her mental block. Being home has helped a little, but with the pressure of what will happen if she breaks her contract with Hyperion Books by not finishing this novel is leaving her life anything but stress free.

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IT’S ALL ABOUT YOOOOU ( ooc ) ♪

MAIN ALIAS: River

PRONOUNS: she/her

AGE: 25+

ACTIVITY LEVEL: 6.5/10

WHO YOU PLAYIN’ ?

FULL NAME: Emily Grace Wilde

PRONOUNS: She/Her

FACECLAIM: Claire Holt

AGE/BIRTHDAY: 27 && June 22

ORDER: First

TYPE*: Solo

ORIENTATION: bisexual && heteroromantic

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY ☆

all should work, whether they’re in school or not.

EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Part time

WORKPLACE: The Princess Hotel

POSITION: Lifeguard

HOW LONG?: About five months

EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Variant/Full time

WORKPLACE: Home / Hyperion Books

POSITION: Author

HOW LONG?: A little over four years

WHO WILL I BE, IT’S UP TO ME ( ic ) ♪

{ trigger warning: homophobia }

When she was younger, Emily always tried to make her parents happy in everything she did. She regularly attended church, she was well behaved at home and school, and she was always obedient. She did what she could to be the model child. As she grew older, though, she started struggling to maintain this image, particularly the religious aspect of it. She started developing her own opinions about certain topics - ones that greatly differed from her parents’ opinions. She always kept her opinions to herself, not wanting to upset her parents, but she couldn’t deny that she was mildly ashamed of the way her parents spoke about certain things, especially topics such as homosexuality.

{ WARNING: HOMOPHOBIA } When she was fifteen, she started noticing that she was looking at the girls the same way that she was looking at the boys. She started wondering what it would be like to be with a girl in the same way she’d been with boys. What it would be like to kiss a girl. Or more. She had tried talking to her pastor about her feelings and urges, but that session went about as well as it would have had she tried to talk to her parents. To make matters worse, the pastor felt it was his ‘duty’ to talk to Emily’s parents about what she had told him, and they did not take it well at all – enduring lecture after lecture about how homosexuality was a sin, one absolutely loathed by God, and she was going to go to hell if she continued down this road. It was during this time that her faith started waning, and she stopped going to church regularly, making excuses to get out of it whenever she could.

To this day, Emily still believes in God. But not the god that her parents taught her to believe in. She’s still religious, but she does not believe in organized religion. In her mind, God would never approve of such harsh judgement and treatment of people simply because of who they are or how they feel about the same sex.

For a while, Emily tried to listen to her parents. She tried to ignore the attraction she felt towards the same sex. She tried to stop her thoughts from wandering. Her desires from overtaking her mind. She started to hate herself and the way her mind worked, wondering why she couldn’t just be ‘normal’. Meeting Eva had changed things for her, though; the girl that would soon become her best friend changed the way that she looked at herself. Emily realized that her parents had been wrong, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with her or her feelings. That was when she started rebelling against her parents and their religious ideologies, even if her rebellion only came in small things here and there.

As she got older, Emily learned to bite her tongue despite her parent’s ongoing commentary about every little detail and goings-on in their small town – her mother, in Emily’s opinion – was the small town’s hypocritical gossip. Despite how well she had gotten at biting her tongue, though, things became tougher in her Senior year. Eva came out of the closet as a lesbian, admitting publicly what Emily had already known, and her parents had a proverbial field day. Strict rules were put in place forbidding Emily to hang out with her best friend, her parents wanting to keep their eldest away from that kind of ‘disgusting behavior’ as they called it, and for the first time in her life Emily began outright, openly disobeying her parents. Shortly before her graduation from high school, Emily revealed to her parents that she herself was bisexual, and all hell broke loose in the Wilde house.

As soon as she graduated high school, Emily left Cotton Plant as quickly as she possibly could. She knew she would miss her siblings immensely, but she had to get away from her parents. Essentially being disowned by her parents She moved to New York City and enrolled in the Creative Writing and History programs at NYU. Writing had always been a passion of hers – as had history – so in her mind it only made sense for her to get her degrees in both subjects.

After one particularly inspirational writing prompt in one of her classes in her Senior year of college, Emily’s professor sent her submission into a publishing house that he had connections with; he had asked her before had, and she had said yes, but she had never expected anything to come of it. It wasn’t even a fully-fleshed out story. It was just a small short story; she hadn’t even been overly proud of it because it felt unfinished, but she had agreed to let her professor send it to one of his friends. The last thing she expected was to get a phone call from a junior editor at Hyperion Books who thought she really had something, especially in a culture where mythological novels were becoming popular with the younger generations. After much back and forth, the two of them agreed that she needed to finish her studies and graduate from college before fully delving into developing her up and coming novel. Just a few months later, Emily graduated from NYU with two degrees: one in Creative Writing and the other in Ancient History.

One fleshed out idea transformed into a two-book contract, with a novel that she described as ‘Harry Potter meets Percy Jackson meets Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar children’, and after her first novel stayed on the New York Times ‘Top 10 Bestsellers’ list – in varying positions – for five weeks straight, her publisher upped her contract to a five-book contract.

Shortly after starting work on her second novel, Emily thought she had met the love of her life. She was happier with Tyler than she’d ever been before. He helped her whenever she got stuck on a chapter, and no one was more supportive of her writing than he was. After eight months together, he proposed, and she happily accepted his proposal. Another year after that, Emily’s world shattered around her. Marrying Tyler had been her biggest dream come true; she thought she’d be marrying her best friend and the love of her life. The absolute last thing she expected was to be left standing at the altar. To make matters even worse, they got most of the way through the service before things went south. She had been halfway through her vows to him when he stopped her, said he couldn’t do this, and then walked away. Emily had tried to keep her composure, but she couldn’t help but break down. Since that day, Emily has been understandably hesitant when it comes to real relationships.

While she’s very proud of what she’s accomplished with her novels – more than she ever thought she’d be able to do – Emily still feels the pressure of delivering a new product that will be just as successful as her first two novels. It’s been almost a year and a half since she’s published a novel, and she’s still working on the third book, but she’s hit a mental block. With everything that happened with Tyler, she couldn’t stand to be in New York anymore – there were too many good memories turned sour – so she moved back to Cotton Plant six months ago in an attempt to clear her mind. Maybe being back in Cotton Plant could help her dislodge her mental block. Being home has helped a little, but with the pressure of what will happen if she breaks her contract with Hyperion Books by not finishing this novel is leaving her life anything but stress free.