Emmeline "Strike One" Parsons

Emmeline "Strike One" Parsons is an escapee of the DIRL tragedy preceding the CorpOvertake Era of Tychoon, Training General & Co-Mission Debriefer of CSW Program for the Uprising Equality Army, & the previous 5th Incarnation to her Era's Mechanism Gear (being Jeven), as well as being one of the two DIRL escapees (the other being Terra) to preserve their mind in a DCI without the use of a PKP. She is also the first member of Tria Bella de Falica Negra and is one of the co-heads of the CSW.

During the DIRL days, she was designated as the Super Duper High School Sleuth, but nowadays serves as Jeven's aide, bodyguard, and lover. Emmeline (as well as her friend and co-girlfriend(?) Terra) occupies an interesting role throughout the entire HiddenGenomeverse. For starters, she obvious has the trait that she was a survivor of her era's disaster (admittedly not by her own merit, being preserved in a DCI courtesy of Jeven), as well as the fact that she previously held a Role; that is, she was either an Incarnation, a Compliment, or a Cellulate, being the former in this case. The only other two to do so in her category were Nedalia "Automatrona" Odwhin and Myra J'Thul Akanadhadem, both of which were A. directly responsible for each of their era's respective disasters and B. came equipped into future times with their own unique abilities intact from their previous time. So, Emmeline is unique in the fact that she survives her disaster, she held a role, and she did retain her intellect and personality, so she came as intact as she could have. But this is only the start.

Emmeline is inarguably the trendsetter for the seemingly random polyamory that pops up in future titles seen in characters such as Emma Rhoades or Adaria/Arida "Stonematron" Pequitone, all of whom were perfectly content with sharing their respective love interest (namely, Jared Parsons & Nikolay "Ichor" Harrows, respectively) with friends and even direct competition. Particularly Emmeline's case is interesting because she is the one who initially conceives the idea, and even more so without any sort of prompting or suggestion from the recipient. In fact, she herself concocts the idea with Terra "Atoma Genus" LaFarce some time after her boyfriend Prewit "Metaphysics" Hannonberough is killed by Mr. PK, proposing this to her in the following scene:

"Without Prew, I am in such a bad position, Emme." cried Terra softly, putting her face in her hands and sniffling as Emmeline patted her on the back, her arm slowly wrapping itself around her waist, "What am I going to do? I don't have someone I can trust like that except you and Jeven, and I feel as though I would be intrusive to you-"

"Hey, hey, hey!" exclaimed Emmeline, pulling Terra up by her shoulder and grabbing her other arm with her left, shaking her slightly, "Really? Is that what you think? That you're intrusive to what we're all doing?"

"Well...yes, I'd say so." stammered Terra, "I feel it is fair to say that you and Jeven had a unique connection and dynamic special to you, in the same way I had with Prewit, as well as what I thought I had wi-" She cut herself off there, looking down at her clasped gloved hands and tightening her eyes.

"With Jev?" chuckled Emmeline, rolling her eyes and taking her left hand off of Terra's arm as Terra nodded her head, "Yep. You and I just can't think smart, huh? Can't very obviously see how stupid it is that we like this dumbass Jeven. That smart, sexy, brilliant, asshole of a survivor Jeven."

"Isn't that kind of harsh?" asked Terra, looking up sideways at Emmeline, "Jeven has his flaws, and they'll get him killed if he doesn't find a way to balance them out, but he is also very smart and kind beneath his rough, heavy-armor exterior."

"Forget his skin being armored, try his brain being made of metal. Super fucking dense metal." snickered Emmeline, closing her eyes and shaking her head, "My God, this kid just doesn't get it. You, me, Aneda, Rosa... lot of us look at him, live with him, and just fall for him without a second goddamn thought. We're so stupid..."

"No, we're not." replied Terra, sitting up firmly and narrowing her eyes at Emmeline as she grabbed her wrists tightly, "Jeven is someone w-worth caring for. He is someone who it isn't wrong to love...I'd think."

"Hmmm...so you'd be open to be part of his harem?" grinned Emmeline, laughing softly and clapping her leg as Terra's eyes turned wide and let go of Emmeline's wrists in shock, "HA! That reaction is priceless!"

"His...*what*?" asked Terra, raising her eyebrow as she blinked rapidly.

"Harem. Assortment of girls who consider him lovable and agree it's good to share rather than be greedy." explained Emmeline, grinning even wider as Terra's eyes remained unchanging and confused, "Look, you and I both like him, right? That's not gonna change anytime soon. You and I are really good friends. That won't change anytime soon either. What I propose is that we realize we both love Jeven, we both want him, we both don't care- well, at least I don't- whether or not he has someone else. All that matters is that I'm in there."

"So...you mean that being with one of us won't modify relationships with the others? This is okay and consensual, and nothing bad will happen?" asked Terra curiously, smiling as Emmeline nodded, "Interesting. I am fine with this. I'm grateful to you for sharing him with me. But who else knows of this proposal of yours?"

"Legit all the other girls I mentioned know. Only one who doesn't is the main man himself." snickered Emmeline mischievously, taking Terra's hand and leading her out of her room towards the cafeteria, "All I needed to do was convince you, then we can flesh out some more details later. C'mon, let's do this. Go, go, Khastle Harem Girls!!"

Emmeline definitely brings a much more open attitude than most girls portrayed throughout the many series to this, and has even encouraged Jeven to add Nedalia to his 'harem', seeing as how they are very close & have such a strong and personal relationship unique to them (although both of them reject this prospect under the pretense that they are both dangerous prior Incarnations and Compliments, and who knows what misfortune that could bring), as well as others such as Helunari/Helan "Heraldine" Veriscitian Wilson and Myra J'Thul Akanadhadem (again rejected for the even more obviously false pretense that the age gap of his youth and their maturity would be weird, despite his vast outclassing of several millennia to Helan and Myra's somewhat stunted emotional maturity)