Emmy Crawford

“I'm not you. I'm not Amaryllis. I'm sick of everyone saying I am. ***I'm me! I'm myself!*** That's all I ever wanted.”

**—Emmy to Hester in *Harrow County* #32**

## Biographical Information

### Title(s)

Emmy-Girl (by Isaac Crawford)
Amaryllis (by Malachi)
My Dear Sister, Sweet and Precious Little Angel (by Kammi)
Little Sister (by Levi)

## Affiliates & Fate

### Affiliation

* Crawford family
* Bernice Anderson
* Malachi

## Family Information

### Known Relatives

* Malachi (biological father)
* Amaryllis (previous life)
* Kammi (twin sister)
* Hester Beck (sister)
* The Family (brothers & sisters)
* Isaac Crawford (adoptive father)
* Perl Crawford (adoptive mother)

## Appearances

### Last Appearance

*Tales From Harrow County: Lost Ones #4*

**Emmy Crawford** is the main character in *Harrow County*. She is a witch and the reincarnation of Amaryllis, the twin sister of Kammi and the adoptive daughter of Isaac Crawford. Emmy is also one of the last surviving members of the Family, a long bloodline of god-like beings.

## Early life

Emmy was born as a result of Hester Beck's murder at the hands of the townspeople of Harrow County. Hours after burying Hester Beck, the townspeople began to hear the sound of a baby crying from the old oak tree where they had hanged and burned Hester. Upon investigation, they found the oak's trunk swollen and began to chip away at it, and in the womb of the tree they found identical twin babies. Isaac Crawford and his wife, Perl, decided to raise one of the babies. A few months later, Perl vanished one night and was never seen again, leaving Isaac Crawford to raise Emmy alone.

Emmy lived a secluded life on the Crawford farm, a few miles from the town of Harrow. She was home schooled for most her life, rarely leaving the farm except to go to church. Her isolation was an intentional part of a pact between the townsfolk who had killed Hester, both to limit Emmy's influence if she were to start exhibiting traits like Hester and to keep her away from townsfolk still loyal to Hester.

Sometime during her childhood, Emmy met Riah Anderson's granddaughter, Bernice Anderson, and struck up a strong, lifelong friendship with her. For a while Emmy was taught by a woman called Cora, whom she was quite fond of. In Emmy's early teens, Cora abruptly stopped visiting and Emmy was told she'd gotten married and moved to West Virginia, though Emmy has doubts this is true.

## Throughout the *Harrow County* series

In *Countless Haints*, Emmy is approaching her eighteenth birthday and life around her family's farm is quickly turning disturbing, with cattle being born deformed and dying from strange sicknesses. Emmy is having equally disturbing nightmares involving the mean-looking old oak tree outside her window, and is seeing shadows and ghostly apparitions called "haints" all around her. Unbeknownst to Emmy, her dreams are subconsciously trying to warn of her the impending danger that's about to break loose.

On the farm, twin baby calves are born mutilated and grotesque looking, one is dead, and one is alive and near death. Emmy touches the calf to try and soothe it and seemingly heals it, just as Isaac is readying his rifle to end it's suffering. The baby calf's miraculous recovery make's Isaac look at Emmy in suspicion and fear.

On the day before her eighteenth birthday, Emmy goes for a walk in the woods near the farm and comes across a young boy by the creek, who runs away and into a briar patch upon seeing her, Emmy follows after him and gets scratched and cut by the thorns, which leaves her covered in blood. She finds the boy eventually, only it's just his skin. Realizing that she had found a real haint, Emmy picks up the skin of the boy and hurries home.

In the dead of night, the skin of the young boy warns Emmy that the townspeople mean her harm and are on their way to kill her, for fear that she is the witch Hester Beck reborn. Emmy hurriedly packs some of her belongings and heads into the woods, where she runs into Bernice, who reveals she came to warn Emmy after overhearing townsfolk talk about witchcraft, a birthing and a pact that they had to kill her.

In *Twice Told*, Emmy adjusts to life being the "town healer," she is called to take care of a haint, a goblin, which she talks to and dubs "Priscilla". Emmy also discovers that there are people some people who would like to use her gifts to cause harm. Later, Bernice visits Emmy and they reconnect and bond over finding common ground. And then shortly after, a car pulls up outside the farmhouse and a girl steps out, revealing herself to be Emmy's twin sister, Kammi.

Kammi and Emmy get to know each other, but it isn't a happy family reunion as one might expect. In the dead of night, Kammi convinces Emmy to go for a walk, leading her to the oak tree where the witch was hung. The girls get into a tense disagreement and discover they have very different views on their shared 'birthright', Emmy wants to leave the witch Hester's memory in the past, while Kammi is eager to know more about the woman.

In *Family Tree*, Emmy helps Bernice find a young boy lost in a cornfield, there she meets a man called Levi, who tells her they are family. Emmy is skeptical at first, then Levi takes her to a mansion, which she remarks shouldn't exist, where a small group of people are, and introduces them to her as the rest of her family.

## *Tales from Harrow County*

In issue #3 of *Death's Choir,* Bernice remarks that she hasn't heard from Emmy in years. Death’s Choir follows the original series with a ten year time-jump.

In *Fair Folk*, Bernice revealed when Emmy left town she had performed a ritual that removed the memory of Emmy’s abilities from the minds of the townspeople of Harrow. This was done in an effort by Bernice to protect Emmy and let her live a relatively normal life without the shadow of Hester’s legacy looming over her. However, the ritual Bernice carried out was revealed to ease Bernice’s heartache and pain of Emmy leaving her behind.

In *Lost Ones*, Emmy is living a peaceful life in New York City. She works at the Sunflower Diner as a waitress.

## Personality

Emmy is a very sweet, compassionate and benevolent young woman. She is a great friend and daughter, and despite her unnatural roots, she was a valued member of her community. Emmy is also a very forgiving young woman, as she chose to forgive her father and the townspeople when they tried to eliminate her, for fear that she was the witch Hester Beck reborn. Emmy has never been one to cast an unfair judgement on a person, and she always tries to see the good in everyone and monsters alike. However Emmy is very naïve and innocent, and for those reasons alone she's often too blindsided by trying to see the best everyone, to see the worst in them.

Emmy is a very brave, compassionate and courageous young woman. She is very strong-willed and has a strong sense of morality, though most of her adversaries and trials throughout the course of the series force her to make decisions and sacrifices that greatly compromise her humanity.

## Physical appearance

Emmy is a thin, attractive young woman with a fair complexion and blue eyes. She has light blond, almost platinum, shoulder-length hair that is worn straight in a deep left side part. She is relatively tall, though quite petite. Emmy is commonly noted as being "very pretty" by those around her.

Her attire usually consists of casual dresses with a peter pan style collar, worn with either a knit sweater or an overcoat for warmth, paired with brown oxfords. Sometimes she wears a jean and sweater combination with boots, for work around the farm.

In the future, twenty-eight year old Emmy looks almost exactly the same as her younger self, although her taste in clothing has matured some.

## Powers and abilities

* **Spell Casting:** The power to change, manipulate and control objects, events, actions and phenomena through the use of incantations, rituals, potions or sheer force of will.
	+ **Reality Manipulation:** The power to manipulate and bend and change reality by sheer force of will. Emmy was the reincarnation of Amaryllis, a powerful witch who could shape reality to her will.
	+ **Illusion Manipulation:** The power to project highly realistic illusions into the physical world. Emmy was able to summon illusions of the townspeople to bind and lynch Hester and distract her.
	+ **Necromancy:** The power to control, manipulate and resurrect the dead. Emmy is able to control all of the Haints and townspeople who were made by Hester. She was also able to summon the spirits of her father, the Skinless Boy, Amaryllis and The Family, so she could talk to them.
	+ **Atmokinesis:** The power to control the weather. Emmy was able to manipulate and control lightning by sheer force of will.
	+ **Healing:** The power to heal another person of their injuries and wounds. Emmy was able to heal herself and others of injuries ranging from minor scratches to life threatening injuries.
* **Telekinesis:**The power to move and control objects with the power of the mind alone. Kammi was able to do this, and when Emmy took on her sister's abilities, so would she.
* **Mediumship:** The ability to see and communicate with the spirits of the dead. Emmy was able to communicate with various Haints and spirits.
* **Familiar Communication:** The ability to converse with her familiar the Skinless Boy and the Tattered Skin.
* **Levitation:** The power to propel oneself in the air and hover. Emmy was able to levitate and fly.
* **Pyrokinesis:** The power to generate, control and manipulate fire. Kammi was able to do this, and when Emmy took on her sister's abilities, so would she.
* **Resurrection:** Emmy was able to recreate and resurrect dead hunters and send them back into the world.
* **Memory Manipulation:** The power to alter or change another person's memory. Emmy was able to manipulate and change the memories of the hunters she resurrected, so they wouldn't remember what happened to them.
* **Longevity:** The ability to live for a long time without aging. Many members of the Family were able to live for centuries without aging.

## Trivia

* Before *Harrow County* was a comic, it was a serialized prose novel called *Countless Haints*. Emmy Crawford was originally called Madrigal "Madi" Creed, a sixteen-year-old girl on the cusp of her seventeenth birthday who lived in a town called "Ahmens Landing" on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
* Emmy is believed to be the reincarnation of Hester Beck, but is actually revealed to be Hester's sister Amaryllis, who Hester murdered to take her powers. Amaryllis was one of the most powerful members of the Family.
* The series foreshadows Emmy's connection with Amaryllis several times before being confirmed by Malachi in *Abandoned*. One time when Odessa remarks to Emmy that she and Amaryllis could both reshape reality to their will. Another was when Emmy was banishing the Family from Harrow, Odessa states that they "should've seen the signs, there were two of them both from that tree," referencing Kammi and Emmy's birth and obviously mixing up their true identities, as Kammi is actually revealed to be the real reincarnation of Hester Beck.
* As much as Emmy denies that she and Kammi are nothing alike, they do share some pretty similar qualities and personality traits.
* Emmy's character design is inspired by Alice, from Lewis Caroll's *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*.