Emma Maddleton

Emma Maddleton is the leader of the Third Street Saints as of 2011 and became President of the United States of America in 2016. Known for her determination, arrogance, recklessness and ferocity towards her rivals, she was a force to be reckoned with by anyone who dared to challenge or disagree with her. She is the earliest and first recorded incarnation of Persephone Brimstone, Minister of Gluttony turned leader of the M.A.Y.H.E.M. Initiative on Earth-87469.
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== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Emma Maddleton is the daughter of Katherine Maddleton, a bank teller who formerly supported the Vice Kings in their early years and former friend of Julius Little when she was younger. Growing up with an abusive father, Emma had a rough childhood as did her older brother and sister, Kaleb and Monique. Emma also dealt with bullying in school as well, in which when she was 16, a group of bullies pinned her down and put a burn mark on her leg with a cigarette.
It was when Emma was 17 years old that Katherine divorced Jack and he was never allowed to see or go near his son and two daughters again.
=== Saints Row ===
Emma moved out in her early twenties, seeking employment and a place to call her own. However, it was one night in 2006 that would change her life as she found herself caught in a shootout between the Westside Rollerz, Los Carnales and Vice Kings, she was injured during the shootout and almost executed by a sole surviving member of the Vice Kings. But Troy Bradshaw and Julius Little saved her life. Seeing potential in Emma, Julius offered her a position in the Third Street Saints to fight back against the other gangs and make Stilwater peaceful once more.
Through this, Emma made many unlikely new friends-Johnny Gat, Dex, Troy Bradshaw, Julius Little and Lin Harper in which she helped out with their assignments on helping to take down each rival gang. Though her communication with others was rare, her friends began to understand her anyway and knew she was listening and understood them clearly. Over the next few months within 2006, Emma and her friends became almost as bad as the rival gangs after Stilwater was reclaimed. This change in behavior came to Julius' concern when he was arrested by Chief Monroe.
Upon being rescued, Julius planted a bomb on the boat of Alderman Richard Hughes and blew it up, allegedly murdering Emma as well. However, the explosion seriously injured Emma and put her into a coma.
=== Saints Row 2 ===
What remained of Emma's body was recovered and she was placed in the Stilwater prison to recover. After five years in a coma, Emma woke up and with the help of Carlos Mendoza, she escaped the facility and found herself in a whole new world. Stilwater had changed drastically after Ultor renovated the city and it had been taken over by the Brotherhood, Sons of Samedi and Ronin following the absence of the Third Street Saints. Emma rescued Johnny Gat from execution by the electric chair and they set out to reform the Saints, gathering new recruits and new lieutenants Pierce Washington, Shaundi Wilson and Carlos Mendoza.
As months went by, the war with the new gangs raged on. When no more gangs stood in the way, Stilwater belonged to the 3rd Street Saints once more but a new enemy rose. Dane Vogel sought to renovate another district of Stilwater by eradicating the Saints by forcing them into a trap, but with little success. Furious, Emma made Dane her next target. The Saints started to sabotage Ultor by destroying the mysterious Pyramid, thus proving it's existence, before killing Dane herself with a bullet to the mouth.
=== World-Wide Fame ===
Following the events of Saints Row 2, the 3rd Street Saints became world famous icons and international celebrities. They somewhat moved on from their gangster roots. Pierce became an ambassador for the Saints Flow energy drink, Shaundi had a major makeover and became the host of her own TV show, Emma became a fashion a model and started her own perfume, cosmetics and makeup range while Johnny gained several movie deals in which he became a movie star.
=== Saints Row: The Third ===
Emma, Shaundi and Johnny found themselves in jail after a bank heist went wrong. They were bailed out by the DeWynter sisters, Viola and Kiki, proteges of The Morningstar. Brought aboard a Morningstar owned plane, Emma and her friends were confronted by Phillipe Lloren. As his criminal syndicate was expanding into Packard County, he offered to share the division with the Saints, in which they would have to give up 66% of their monthly gross revenue. Emma and Johnny declined, so Phillipe ordered a member to execute them. Johnny broke free and helped Emma and Shaundi escape. As Emma and Shaundi fled, Johnny stayed behind to fend of waves of Morningstar members. Emma and Shaundi, believing Johnny died, found themselves in Steelport. Seeking revenge for their fallen friend, Emma, Shaundi and Pierce set out and murdered their way through Steelport. Proving that they had not gone soft following their status as international celebrities.
Following the death of Phillipe, Emma and her gang returned to Stilwater to hold a funeral for Johnny but it was interrupted by Killbane and The Luchadores in retaliation for the death of Phillipe. Oleg told Emma of others that opposed The Syndicate-Kinzie Kensington, Zimos and Angel De LaMuerte, so Emma recruited them to the Saints. Following the recruitment of Angel, kinzie and Zimos, Emma got word of Luchadore presence in Stilwater, finding out they were in her mother's neighborhood. Desperate to save her mother, she returned to Stilwater in an attempt to rescue her from her burning house but she arrived to late and she perished inside. Filled with revenge and hatred towards Killbane, Emma returned to Steelport to finish The Syndicate once and for all.
The gang violence in Steelport rose drastically following the death of Katherine due to Emma's revenge-filled killing spree, forcing Senator Monica Hughes to establish the S.T.A.G. Initiative to combat gang violence around the world, first deploying it in Steelport because of the increase in violence. Before Emma could deal with The Deckers and Luchadores, Emma and the Saints sabotaged and destroyed S.T.A.G. property, rendering them unable to continue operating before finishing off the Deckers and Luchadores. With S.T.A.G. no more, it's Commander Cyrus Temple went rogue and was forced to resign.
=== Saints Row IV ===
Several months later, Emma, Shaundi and Pierce took part in a black ops mission with MI6 agent Asha Odekar, with the assistance of Matt Miller and Kinzie Kensington to assassinate the rogue Cyrus Temple, who made allies with terrorists in Iran to make the United States start over by destroying Washington, D.C. with a nuclear warhead. They fought their way through the underground facility where Emma killed Cyrus and stopped the nuke, saving millions of lives. She landed through the roof of the White House and found herself in the Oval Office. From there she had an epiphany, the 3rd Street Saints go into politics and become the new cabinet of the White House. Emma became president elect, teaming up with Keith David to be her Vice President. One year later, Emma successfully won the election and the Saints moved into the White House.
Emma was a good president and world leader over the next four years but it didn't go without controversy. In 2019 everything changed when Earth was attacked by Zinyak and his Zin Empire. Along with millions of people around the world, almost the entire white house cabinet was abducted. Emma remained and fought back. She was close to killing Zinyak then and there but was defeated and abducted herself and placed in a 1950s simulation. She managed to oppose the programming of said simulation with the help of Kinzie. But Zinyak entered and placed her into a new one where she faced her dreaded past before finding herself in a simulated Steelport controlled by Zin. With the help of Kinzie, Emma managed to break out once more and escaped the mothership with Kinzie and Keith. However, Earth was atomised, forcing them to return into the simulated Steelport and find the others. Shaundi, Peirce, matt, Asha and Ben were rescued and they all worked together to bring down the Simulation network, which led to Emma discovering that her best friend Johnny Gat was alive. Through her arrogance and recklessness, Emma rescued Johnny Gat at the cost of Zinyak finding their location but they fought back. The simulation network was brought down and Zinyak had his head ripped off by Emma, who became the new leader of the Zin Empire. Soon after, Emma and the Saints saved Christmas and defeated Clawz.
=== Saints Row: Gat out of Hell ===
Upon celebrating Kinzie's birthday, Emma is sucked into a portal taking her to Hell where he is forced to marry Satan's daughter Jezebel so Hell's army can invade the multiverse. However, Johnny and Kinzie follow and wreak havoc in Hell with the help of Dane Vogel, Blackbeard, Vlad The Impaler, William Shakespeare and Viola and Kiki DeWynter. Upon defeating Satan, Emma, Kinzie and Jezebel are returned to the real world while Johnny is taken to heaven by God. At the request of Johnny, God is asked to restore Earth. Unable to fulfil the request entirely, God focuses his attention on maintaining Earth-87469 by placing the memories of the Saints into their alternate counterparts of said timeline while Emma was reincarnated into a young, high spirited teenage girl from Paris named Persephone Lamatre'.
== Personality ==
Upon joining the Third Street Saints in 2006 in Saints Row, Emma remained quiet, often too timid to speak and often being referred to as a mute by her unlikely new friends. However, after helping defeat each enemy gang leader-Joseph Price, Angelo Lopez and Tanya Winters, she would occasionally speak, much to another's surprise.
As of Saints Row 2, Emma became extremely viscous towards the rival gangs, showing no remorse whatsoever when taking lives, whether it be the lives of innocent or not so innocent people such as Maero, Mr. Sunshine, Kazuo Akuji and Jyunichi, all of whom had violent, unpleasant deaths.
After becoming a fashion model and celebrity as of Saints Row: The Third, Emma left behind her mostly cold personality and became somewhat of a "public darling" as did Shaundi Wilson, Pierce Washington and Johnny Gat, who was sort of defiant when it came to the Saints being world famous celebrities.
After the believed death of Johnny at the alleged hands of Phillipe Lloren, leader of The Morningstar and The Syndicate, Emma became just as cold hearted as she was in 2011. The death of her mother only made the Saints and Emma herself more aggressive towards The Syndicate, making gang violence in Steelport 25% worse than when the Saints first arrived. In which she sought absolute revenge on Killbane and promised to make him suffer as those who came before did (Maero, Mr Sunshine, Kazuo Akuji and Jyunichi).
Following the fight against the Zin Empire, Emma displayed great signs of arrogance and selfishness towards her friends. After finding out Johnny Gat was alive, she would argue with anyone who said otherwise thus set out to rescue him, a reckless move that allowed Zinyak to pinpoint their current location resulting in Kinzie being captured and placed in another simulation despite her physical body being on the same ship that her friends were.
== Appearance ==
In Saints Row, Emma has shoulder length brunette colored hair. She wears a black top with women's jeans and canvas shoes. In Saints Row 2, Emma wears a grey and purple colored top tied up, revealing her stomach area. She also wears grey and purple leggings with running shoes.
In Saints Row: The Third, following her new status as a fashion model and international celebrity, Emma wears more appropriate clothing to match her status. She has long, brunette hair tied into a ponytail with several strands of hair left untied on each side. She wears a women's zip up jacket with the collar up with black leggings, purple studded earrings and small heeled boots.
As President of the United States of America, Emma maintains a more formal appearance. She wears a purple tube skirt that stops just above her knees with gold leggings and purple heels. She also wears a gold blouse worn underneath a purple formal jacket with a single Fleur De Lis button.