Emma Shinoda

**Emma Shinoda** is a major supporting character in ***Caillou SC*...**

Emma as she appears in "Rose?"

Emma Shinoda is an observant, yet smart young girl who is an important character in the Caillou SC Series.

## Biography

Emma had a rough life, being diagnosed as a diabetic at a very young age. She often puts herself away from the rest of the crowd with the constant worry of other people being too responsible for her for having an incurable illness. She blames herself for being born with diabetes and resents her own life because of that alone.

## Appearance

Emma has black eyes, (previously hazel-colored in SC1), She usually wears a Red Hat or a White Beanie. She has long, black shoulder length hair. She currently wears an all red spaghetti-strap dress shirt, with white sweatpants, and black low-top sneakers.

## Personality

Emma is one of the more intelligent characters that always shows respect towards the ones she cares about. She is sometimes worried about others being too concerned about her diabetes. Emma is selfless at times, and stands up to people who threaten friends, and family members.

## Relationships

### Caillou Desperaux

Emma developed an emotional feeling for Caillou Desperaux as they had their altercations through life, especially when they were childhood friends during their time in preschool. She knew he struggled with being a troublemaker as a young kid, but also tried to find good in him when his family could not. Emma could never find the words to say how she felt to him, as he was one of the few people in her life who did a lot for her when nobody else couldn't, especially later in life.

Those thoughts later became exemplified when Caillou offered to be there for her at lunchtime when nobody else would, just because she worries herself over people being protective and responsible for her. As for Caillou though, She sees how much of a down-to-earth person he is by how sweet and caring he is than who he was as a child, making her feel a lot more confident about herself. This made Emma feel heart-struck with emotion and love, hugging and kissing Caillou on the cheek for his caring nature. The two started dating shortly there after.

### Rosie Desperaux

Emma and Rosie have a close friendship as Rosie entrusts Emma to be there for them incase of trouble.

### Daisy Desperaux

Emma finds Daisy's ways of setting couples up "charming".

### Ellery Cross

Although it hasn't been expanded on, Emma shows a lot of her caring nature towards Ellery as if they were brother and sister. She often sticks up for him while others make him feel down, as well as give him advice to help him find love.

### Kiran Patel

Emma and Kiran aren't as close nonetheless friends as they seen firsthand what the Desperaux family goes through with their neglectful parents.

### Gina Degaldo

Emma doesn't know Gina all that well as the two never really met outside of a few instances whether it was the Warehouse Incident, or the Central Park Incident. They officially met at the Degaldo Christmas party as Gina gave her a gift out of a goodwill gesture despite not knowing her the longest.

### **Events In *"Caillou SC1"***

During the events of "Time to begin anew: Part 1, and Part 2" On the night of the *Cult of Barney*seminar/brainwashing she was cordially invited to this event at the warehouse from an unknown sender. Not to known about what was going to happen she and along with Rosie Desperaux, Kiran Patel, Gina Degaldo, & the others including the antagonist threesome Dora Sanchez, William Glover, and Rita Sandoval were brainwashed by Barney's speech. After the warehouse was sequentially destroyed after Lolli and Sting Hickenbottom had incinerated Barney with a combination of dark energy leaving nothing but fire of where Barney once stood. She came out of the warehouse already had gotten over her brainwashing as much as the other did to only find the group as well as Caillou and Daisy. Daisy called out to her attention to tell her about presumably how her older brother has an interest with Emma. She acknowledges her offer with a smile towards the two.

During the events of "Rose", She confronts Caillou at the Hospital pharmacy while on a trip to receive her dosage of insulin. While unaware of Caillou's situation with Sting and Lolli she is interrupted by her father telling her to go. While walking towards the hospital exit, she is stopped by Caillou once again. He explains to her if she wanted to spend lunchtime with him during the start of the new school year. She accepts his offer and explains how a lot of her close friends stopped having lunch with her with being under the intention to be responsible for her despite having low blood sugar. She openly admits to Caillou that she hates being a diabetic for those reasons alone, she then asks Caillou if he wanted to have lunch with her not because he feels sorry for her. Caillou reluctantly wanted to have lunch with her because simply he wanted to. Having Caillou state what he really feels towards her personally and as well as his decision alone, made her feel more confident. She admits to Caillou about how nice his open confession was and told him about how nobody in school did something so nice toward her. While speechless about the confession she just smiled, then kissed Caillou on the cheek and hugged him goodbye, leaving him speechless.

### **Events in *"Caillou SC2"***

###### "A Duel in Central Park" Act 1

Sometime after *"Rose"* and before *"A Duel in Central Park",* Emma and Caillou officially started dating as a promise they made to each other to be understanding of their struggles and try to improve on them. Daisy broke out the news, as she was the one who got them together to Caillou's friend group such as Ellery, Kiran, Lolli, & The Knuckleheads who congratulated the two for being together. After the Gym Assembly at Gunner Elementary, While holding hands Emma and Caillou stopped as Caillou asked if he brought food for them. Emma questioned if he wanted to try her assistive diet. To Caillou's response and going back on the promise, they had made that he would do the things she does to make her feel a lot better about herself. This made Emma feel happy toward him. She questioned what Caillou did over the summer, and since Caillou explained to her that his old childhood home was torn down and replaced with townhomes as a part of Arkenvast's heavily intensive city rebranding efforts. She felt sad for him about his childhood neighborhood being torn down as it was a place that brought a lot of memories to both of them, but Caillou reassured her that he is kinda glad that the old house is gone and he can be closer to the city, as well as spend a lot more time with his sisters. Emma was surprised by what he said, and how in general how much he is grown up and changed from his old past as a troublesome child, thus making the bond a lot stronger as Caillou stated that "anyone can change".

After that, they were confronted by Dora and Little Bill, as she overheard what Caillou said. Caillou is understandably angry with Dora after being insulted by Dora after she questions why Emma and he were hanging out in the hallway. Emma who is a bit concerned about Dora, tells her why she is hanging out with Caillou then signals to Dora by putting her arm around an angry Caillou who is in full-protective mode. Dora finds out and then snarkily congratulates the two for being boyfriend and girlfriend. Later Caillou tells Emma to go on ahead to the lunch room and that he will handle confronting Dora. Kissing him on the cheek, goodbye.

###### "A Duel in Central Park" Act 2

Later in the Lunch Room, the gang is all at the table sitting down questioning Daisy's unusual matchmaker practice which is making her a lot of money, while Emma is fascinated. Caillou is unfazed and furious at Daisy, for profiting off people's emotions for her own benefit. Emma finds it unusually charming, while a sarcastic Caillou agreed with her. When Ziggy, came over to gush about Daisy too much of her disgust towards him, Emma stopped Daisy from being mean towards Ziggy, as Daisy only stopped to make a joke about being her "future sister-in-law", which Emma and Caillou stared her down in disgust. Kiran then offered Emma and Caillou as they were now dating, if they want to double-date with him and Rosie, which the two agreed on. Lolli then offers a triple-date suggestion with her and Sting, which then they all agree on. Ellery comes by the table and then asks Lolli about what he's trying to say to her earlier at the bus stop. While everyone is concerned and tries to shift Ellery's attention away from Lolli after hearing about the bad news, including Emma who tried to distract him but was interrupted by Daisy letting Ellery and Daisy talk it out on their own. Emma agreed with Daisy, to let Ellery hear the bad news now than later.

###### "A Duel in Central Park" Act 3

After Ellery figures out the truth about Lolli liking someone else, Ellery bursts into a panic attack. The Knuckleheads mocked the situation, while Emma scolded them both for not being serious about it. Later on, Emma calls the gang's attention as an important news story popped up on her phone. It is revealed that there was a battle in Central Park, involving a robot (H.U.S.H. v3) and a kid (Sting Hickenbottom). Then Emma and the gang all realized that the kid might be Lolli. After the battle between Sting, Lolli, and H.U.S.H. where Hush retreated. Emma and Caillou met up with the rest of the guys who were comforting Rosie, Sting, and Lolli. Later in that same scene after Sting told Lolli to let her friends go to keep them out of danger. Emma and the rest of the gang were obviously saddened, as Lolli said goodbye to the group.

## Appearances:

Episode Appearances
 Caillou SC2

### **Caillou SC1**

"Time to begin anew: Part 1"

"Time to begin anew: Part 2"

"Rose?"

###### **Caillou SC 2**

”A Duel in Central Park”

"A Daydream Before Christmas"

## Trivia:

* Emma has black hair but in her first appearance in "Time to begin Anew," her hair is a shade of dark purple.
* Emma didn't have a voice until *"Rose",* her first two appearances were non-speaking roles.
* This character is a parody character on an already existing character in the initial "*Caillou" PBS* series.