Emilio Murkmere

## Appearance

    Emilio has a mostly concealed appearance, likely due to his reserved, but stalker-ish behavior. He tends to wear dark and/or thick clothing due to his poor ability to retain body heat. He wears black tomboyish side-tails with slightly curly bangs and round glasses. Emilio also has freckles, pale skin, and a pointy nose. His eyes are bright purple. Before moving elsewhere in Pennsylvania, Emilio had longer hair. He a mix of Japanese and White American, his father a white American and his mother Japanese.He is approximately 5’11.

## Personality

Emilio can be sadomasochistic, seen with a fascination of murder both towards others and himself, though in public is quieter and more reserved. Despite his own bodily weakness, he takes pleasure in certain pains inflicted on himself by others of his interest, the sensation forcing him to feel "alive". He is extremely observant and can identify what someone is feeling and thinking though not always grasping those thoughts and feelings in reality, often jotting notes about the people he meets in his notebook he carries to keep his thoughts straight amidst his own internal confusion and bouts of social paranoia. He has a tendency to keep his promises, sometimes to someone's expense. Emilio is smart and decisive, as he played along with Carmelo's ego in order to be his ally and not be bullied, lacking faith in his own physical ability to withstand or retaliate a malicious confrontation.

## Relationships

### Tobias Schneien

Emilio is fascinated by Tobias, referring to him as the "perfect being"(pt 4: 75-77). Emilio takes great interest in Tobias' activities as well, so much so that Emilio resorts to stalking and watching Tobias vehemently, disturbing Tobias to a great degree. Tobias eventually violently confronted Emilio though Tobias regretted the action as he felt he had misunderstood the situation, leading to Tobias letting Emilio "punish" him, a phrase often used by Tobias to express remorse(pt 1: 221-222). Emilio stabbed Tobias' shoulder and licked the blood off the knife before kissing Tobias in a moment of excitable delirium due to lacking his behavioral medication and, shocked by this unexpected method of punishment, Tobias had frightened and otherwise mixed feelings regarding Emilio and his actions. Emilio later apologizes about the incident and admits that his behavior was the result of his medication not being taken. After this apology, Tobias becomes less apprehensive of Emilio though still wary. Emilio is completely enraptured by the fact that Tobias kills people and only falls into deeper infatuation with him for it. An example of this can be shown when Emilio discovers the corpse of Daniel Dorian in the woods, who Tobias had strangled to death while possessed by Mr. Edburt(pt 3.5: 242-245).

On the day of the field trip Emilio sits with Tobias on the bus. He falls asleep on the way to the town which Tobias sees as an opportunity and takes a look through Emilio's notebook is search of information on Rudy (pt 4: 72-74). On the way back to school, Emilio gifts Tobias a doll and gives him [tobias] his own opinion on whether or no Tobias is a good person. After getting off the bus, Tobias kisses Emilio to "understand the feeling of strange horror" (S2 Pt 1: 314-316).

### Vanessa Murkmere

Vanessa is Emilio’s younger sister, whom he adores with all his heart upon having grown up an only child. Emilio is highly protective of Vanessa, hitting Carmelo with a flashlight when the latter jokingly threatens her with a finger gun. Vanessa looks incredibly similar to Emilio, and in one joke update for the comic, Carmelo and Rudy assume that she's his daughter due to that similarity.

### Christopher Murkmere

Emilio has a complicated relationship with his father. Chris is caring towards his son, constantly trying to mend the state of their relationship, while Emilio views him as annoying and immature, refusing to forgive him for his childhood as Chris attempts to gaslight Emilio into believing what happened between them was Emilio having vivid dreams. The two have extremely different personalities, Chris tending to be childishly cheerful even when inappropriate. Chris states that he feels left out when Emilio and Hanabi speak Japanese around him(pt 3.5: 36-37) . It is shown that Emilio sees his father as a liar(pt 4: 170-175); someone he doesn't trust. When shown a twisted flashback from Emilio's childhood regarding a place Chris works at called the Adderstong Institute for the Wellness and Betterment of Humanity (A.I.W.B.H), we can assume that there's a good reason for their odd relationship. Emilio describes him as a "human-shaped pile of rotten flesh."(S2 pt 1: 219-222). The medication that Emilio is currently on is revealed to be crafted by Chris to "Fix his [Chris] little mistakes " (S2 pt 1: 117-118). This infers that reason behind Emilio being unstable is likely due to Chris.

### Rudolph Richardson

Emilio has been shown to care about Rudy multiple times despite them having a very complex relationship. This is first shown when Emilio seeks out Rudy after being told to by Tobias. After finding Rudy in a very unstable state, he restrains Rudy and helps him calm down, then carrying him to a calmer area. Rudy asks if Emilio loves him or rather if he could love him and Emilio responds in an ambiguous manner, but then says that he could find Rudy cute when he calms down. After this interaction Emilio kisses Rudy on the forehead.

On the school trip, Rudy and Emilio are paired up together. Rudy is apprehensive of Emilio at first because of what he did to Tobias, but Emilio tries to earn back that trust by explaining himself and taking Rudy to a dress shop. In the dress shop the clerk mistakes them for a couple and Emilio does not deny that. While Rudy is trying on dresses he has flashbacks to some of his trauma with Ben; Emilio then reassures Rudy that he is allowed to live his own life outside of what Ben did to him, and that he is not an object or a thing, and that he has his own thoughts and opinions. Rudy still doesn't seem to trust him but has allowed himself to be at least comforted by him, repeatedly reiterating his lack of forgiveness for him and Emilio simply tolerating it.

## Trivia

- Emilio is bilingual, fluent in both English and Japanese.

- Emilio is currently on a medication that he says keeps him stable. When he doesn't take his medication, he becomes notably unhinged and cannot control himself, such as when he stabs Tobias(pt 1: 221-222) or on Halloween(pt 3.5: 242-245). The medication is made by his father.

- Emilio has social anxiety when it comes to groups but is generally good at hiding his social discomfort.