Emily Rockfield*

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Name: Emily Rockfield
Gender: Female
Age: 18
School: Whittree Secondary School
Hobbies and interests: Partying, boys, casual games, shopping, drama, singing, swimming

Appearance: Emily is 5'6" tall and weighs around 110 pounds. Her skin is pale., and she has little body fat or particularly toned muscles. Her breasts are small. Her face is long and heart-shaped with high cheekbones and a small, straight nose. Her lips are fairly thin. She has some acne, most noticeably on her forehead, the curve of her chin and the edges of her nose. She has a dark mole just to the left of her left eye. Her teeth are straight and slightly yellowed, with some plaque visible at the gumline. Her hair is dyed black with light blue highlights towards the tips and falls to just below her shoulders. Its natural colour is a mousy brown, visible at the roots. Her eyebrows are thin, plucked and threaded. Her eyes are large, ovoid and a light green colour. She tends to wear thick, pale foundation (partly to cover her spots), light pink lipstick, thick eyeliner with small flicks at the outer corner of the eyes and mascara. Her nails are usually varnished/painted, and she prefers bright colours with minimal patterning.

Her earlobes are pierced twice on the left and three times on the right. She tends to wear small rings in these. She has a straight scaffold cartilage piercing in her left ear. She has a nose stud on her right nostril.

Her clothing tends to be light or pastel colours. The style varies, but it is usually loose and/or revealing. She prefers trousers or shorts to skirts. She often wears a slightly over-large leather jacket in cold weather. Her shoes are variable. At the time of SOTF-TV, she is wearing a white crop top, mid-thigh length shorts and green open-toe sandals.

Biography: Emily is the eldest in her family of five, consisting of her father, Mr Anthony Rockfield, an accountant, mother Dr Olivia Rockfield BSc, MRes, PhD, Neurological specialist, and brother and sister Simon and Victoria Rockfield. Between the two parents, the family is extremely well off and they live in a large, comfortable house in the suburbs of Whittree. The family moved there from Oklahoma city just two months ago.

Both of Emily's parents have been high-achievers throughout their lives, and both work extremely long hours. For this reason, they have always had little opportunity to see their children, with all three packed off to preschool at a very young age. On the odd occasion that they did meet, it was usually for Anthony and Olivia to 'gently encourage' their children into doing more. Over the course of her childhood, Emily had ballet and tap lessons, took lessons in flute, violin, piano and singing (although she has given up lessons in all but singing at this point), joined a local theatre club and the Oklahoma City Cathedral Choir. Her parents were extremely disappointed when she gave those up. They also pushed her towards doing well in school, even up to getting her private tutors. However, since they were at work so much, this meant that all three children began to see them as nothing more than an unappeasable, distant authority figure, as neither parent is terribly good at giving compliments.

The effects of this has varied from child to child. Simon became a straight-A student, captain of soccer and grade 7-8 standard on four instruments. However, beneath a thin veneer of machismo his self-esteem is cripplingly low. Victoria's marks are about equal, but she does little else but work, and frequently comes into school with dark rings under her eyes from working all night, and has her fingernails bitten to the quick from worry. Emily, however, reacted to the pressure by going completely off the rails.

The principal at her old school described her as having 'fallen in with a bad crowd', and her parents felt that a move to a smaller community might make Emily recover to her former, 'good' behaviour. From a young age, Emily had been fairly intelligent and thus had done well at school. This was in spite of a fairly lackadaisical attitude to work, and being generally somewhat unpleasant to almost everyone around her. As she grew up, Emily became a regular at any parties organised by school-members, and was notable for her ability to get her hands on alcohol. She began smoking at fourteen, and lost her virginity at fifteen during another girl's extended birthday party. During high school junior year, she began turning up late to school and her homework became increasingly late and low-quality, but her parents did not begin to worry until she announced her new boyfriend; a man eight years her senior, in a band and with no notable qualifications. Before this point, they, perhaps naively, assumed that it was just a temporary blip. Naturally, they blamed her problems on the big-city atmosphere and moved away from it.

The rebellion was in fact partly her parents' fault. Both work very long hours, with little time to see their children, and thus Emily's actions could be seen as a cry for help. It could also be blamed on the simple fact that she's a teenager, and has a personality which tries to strive for the top in any hierarchy she finds herself in. Whatever the actual reason, the assessment that she'd 'fallen in with a bad crowd' was inaccurate. Emily manages to be a bad crowd all by herself. School counsellors described her as 'lacking direction'; she appears to have no plan beyond the immediate future. She has a greatly inflated sense of self-worth and refuses to take responsibility for any of her actions. As well as this, she is a pathological liar and is impulsive and prone to boredom.

Emily is known for her 'fun and flirty' personality, and has never been seen to get angry which, along with her good looks, allowed her to be near the top of the heap at every school she's been to. However, this is a facade. Although she is initially very pleasant to others, she quickly becomes emotionally manipulative toward those who are close to her and uses her ability to cry at will to engender sympathy, or guilt people into doing what she wants. If necessary, she will even hurt herself to injure others; after her last boyfriend broke up with her, she lost just over thirty pounds, convincing their peers that he'd done something to utterly break her. Eventually, he was harassed out of the school. Passive-aggressive put-downs and feeding of neuroses ensure that others remain below her. While none of her 'friends' exactly like her, they realise that expressing this will lead to being ostracised by the vast majority of the school, who are only allowed to see the pleasant mask. A constantly-buzzing phone completes the picture of the consummate queen bee.

She does not work particularly hard at school, and the only official clubs she is in are the swimming club and drama club. She is passably decent at swimming, but is not part of the team. Her favourite subject seems to be history, although she attempts to maintain an attitude of disinterest in all subjects.

She follows SOTF TV enough that she can at least hold a conversation on it. She vaguely enjoys it, officially because she likes seeing the struggle against the oppressive powers, and the desperate will to survive. Her real reasons may be entirely different, especially given how little real empathy she tends to display.

She enjoys singing and often sings backing vocals for her boyfriend's band, 'Euripides', a pop-rock quartet who are yet to release their first album. She has not, however, joined the choir or any other musical groups within the school. She auditions for plays within the drama club on a regular basis and frequently gets in, but tends to complain if her part is too small. In rehearsals, she is frequently outspoken about her ideas and some directors find themselves bowing to the pressure of her carefully-worded requests. She has directed one play, an adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's 'The Birds', over the course of which at least half the cast and crew broke down in tears from the stress of working under her. The play was reasonably well-received.

Advantages: She is very rarely stressed and her superficial charm and so on might help her form, or at least join, a group for mutual defence. Her intelligence could be useful in a variety of situations. Her apparent lack of empathy would ensure that she remained unstressed by the deaths of friends, and would allow her to do whatever it took to survive.
Disadvantages: She is 'popular' but has few true friends and a not-insignificant number of enemies, some of whom might take this as an opportunity for revenge. Her borderline-anorexic body is hardly well-designed for hard, physical tasks, of the sort which she might need to survive. Her impulsivity and lack of consideration for the consequences of her actions could easily lead her into very dangerous situations. Finally, her lack of training in any form of combat will leave her at the mercy of those who do have such training.