Emma Wilson/Relationships

## Friends and Acquaintances

### Elios

Elios is Emma's first and current boyfriend. Though Emma believes to have met him for the first time after moving to her new city, she has occasional dreams and visions of knowing him in the past. She instantly fell for him after becoming fellow coworkers at a local cafe. Deeply infatuated and enamored by his charm and consideration, Emma feels inadequate next to someone so seemingly perfect. She constantly worries about Elios losing interest and finding someone else. She was initially blithely unaware of Elios's nightly ventures and sociopathic tendencies. When Elios revealed he was willing to kill anyone who hurt her, she dismissed it as an extreme expression of love. She naively rationalized his possessive behavior and manipulative attitude, such as when Elios expressed doubts about Brian. Though Emma is self-sufficient and relatively independent, she grew to depend on him for emotional comfort. She chooses not to disclose any personal matters with Nura and Sophie McCarthy, confiding only in Elios, whom she believes is trustworthy, reliable, and loving. Consequently, Emma heeded his advice when he cautioned her against befriending Yohan or Sophie without proper explanations or reasoning.

As an extremely empathetic individual who gives others the benefit of the doubt, Emma was alarmed when Elios advised her to disregard those who held no "value" to her. It made her question whether he would have deemed her as worthless and indispensable had she not become his significant other. Worried that she was not good enough for him, she chose to keep her concerns to herself. Later, Sophie expressed doubts about the video of Emma and Yohan, pressing Emma for the truth about what happened. Hurt and betrayed, Emma sought comfort in Elios, who then shared a story from his past where fellow high school classmates took advantage of his good nature. Emma realized that she and Elios experienced similar struggles and began to understand his skewed perception of people's "worth." Following this conversation, Emma grew closer to Elios and promised to go on a trip with him for his birthday. Unfortunately, Emma realized she had a previous obligation on the same day with her friend, Sophie, and had to cancel her trip with Elios. The night before the school field trip, Emma called Elios to wish him an early happy birthday.

On the first night of the university excursion, Emma was confronted with the harsh truth about her boyfriend's true nature. After Elios secretly smuggled his way onto the field trip, she discovered fresh blood on his clothes. Elios confessed that he had stabbed Sophie as punishment for repeatedly hurting Emma. Horrified, Emma realized that his warning on their first date was not a mere joke; rather, he was expressing his honest feelings. Though she was distressed by this revelation, she chose to conceal the truth and protect him, believing that Elios had good intentions regardless of his actions.

### Yohan Lee

Emma and Yohan are friends and share a unique and unusual relationship. Initially, Emma regarded him as an eccentric, quirky schoolmate. Though she did not perceive him as a bad person, she often found it difficult to adapt to his shameless attitude and overly-familiar personality. When Elios advised her to stay away from Yohan, she complied and began to avoid Yohan at school, despite not understanding the logic behind Elios's request. She was later devastated to learn that Yohan is the first person in their city to discover her past. After a series of events, Emma eventually grew to be comfortable in Yohan's presence and began to trust him.

At the beginning of the series, Yohan introduced himself to Emma after the alleged suicide of Rupert Patrovsky. Though initially thrown off by Yohan's slightly eccentric personality, Emma began to accept his presence. She often interacted with him at the cafe where she worked part-time as he eagerly waited to meet her boyfriend. Noticing his art skills, she learned that he initially aspired to become a comic artist before deciding to pursue law instead. She was later surprised when Elios warned her to stay away from Yohan, whom he suspected was plotting something. Curious about Elios's intuition, Emma began to research Yohan. She learned from Nura that Yohan was known to be a popular, good-looking person at their university and had a knack for handling mysteries. Despite failing to discover any negative traits of Yohan's, Emma decided to respect Elios's wishes and began avoiding him. Yohan eventually tracked her down and admitted to conducting a background check on her. Horrified, Emma grabbed him by his shirt collar and demanded to know how much he knew.

     Startled, Yohan confessed he read everything on the report, including details about her past hometown and her father. Though she had been avoiding him per Elios's request, Emma found no desire to be in his presence after this. The stress of this incident caused her to eventually fall ill as she worried about others discovering her past. A couple of days later, a video recording of the encounter between Emma and Yohan was spread throughout the university. Students at the university began to accuse Emma of keeping a "nice girl" facade, turning their backs on her, until Yohan quelled the rumors by providing a false, yet plausible explanation for what happened.

A few weeks following this incident, Emma coincidentally encountered Yohan at a shopping plaza while waiting for Elios. After a series of misunderstandings, Yohan managed to convince her that he was really Yonon Lee, his fictional twin brother, by putting on a pair of fake glasses. Relieved it was not Yohan, whom she was continuing to actively avoid, Emma volunteered to help him search for Yona, his missing younger sister. She later encountered a kidnapper, who took her as hostage when onlookers began to surround him. Yohan posed as Emma's boyfriend while Emma overpowered the kidnapper with a self-defense maneuver. In sharp contrast to Elios, Yohan encouraged Emma to embrace her generosity and desire to help the world become a better place. He praised her for doing a genuinely good deed. Touched by his words, Emma began to regard Yohan as a good person.

Several weeks later, Emma encountered Yohan, with whom she had barely interacted with since the kidnapping incident, on the school field trip. During a hike, Emma was shoved into a river, where she almost drowned before Yohan managed to save her. While they sought shelter in a cavern, stranded from the rest of their classmates, Emma admitted to Yohan that she felt safe in his presence and was comfortable being alone in a secluded area with him. Yohan took this opportunity to inform her that she had a stalker. To help him with the investigation, she began to share details of her past, including living under the care of her alcoholic father and suffering at the hands of class bullies. In return, Yohan confided with her his similar experience of being an outcast among his peers as a child. After he confessed the guilt that he had been harboring since Oscar's false arrest, Emma insisted that the person at fault was the true perpetrator, not Yohan. These words deeply impacted Yohan, eventually solidifying their friendship. With newfound trust between them, Emma allowed Yohan to devise a plan to confront Sophie, whom they suspected was harassing Emma. During the confrontation at the warehouse, Yohan saved Emma from being crushed under a fallen plank. He then praised her generosity, impressed that she willingly chose to forgive Sophie before receiving a proper apology.

Later that night, Emma resorted to lying to Yohan after discovering that Elios had voluntarily hurt Sophie. Her inability to lie influenced her behavior, leading Yohan to suspect her intentions. He privately confronted her and correctly deduced that boyfriend staged Sophie's alleged suicide attempt. Despite knowing that Emma cherished Elios and wished to protect him, Yohan insisted on reporting to the police. Emma grew desperate by his swift decision and declared that she was at fault for being too weak to protect herself. She argued that Elios was simply protecting her and should not be held responsible for his actions. Yohan instantly felt betrayed, recalling the conversation they had back in the cavern when she claimed that people who committed terrible acts should be held accountable for their own actions. With his emotions overwhelming his judgment, Yohan abandoned Emma in the darkness and left.

### Sophie McCarthy

Emma considered Sophie a good friend, unaware that Sophie approached her under false pretenses. Sophie offered to collaborate with her and Nura's for a class project. She feigned a kind personality and struck up a feigned friendship with Emma. During their first lunch together, Emma insisted that Sophie was pretty and encouraged her to have more self-confidence, unaware that it would trigger a traumatic past experience for Sophie. As they grew closer, Sophie confided in Emma that she disliked Mika. She later showed Emma an image she took of Mika slipping something into Emma's bag. When Emma discovered a copy of the final exam in her bag, Sophie and Nura pressured her to report Mika. Some time later, Sophie then informed Emma about the video and attempted to find out what transpired during the confrontation with Yohan. Despite their newly formed friendship, Emma felt betrayed by Sophie's doubts and was unable to respond. Sophie later apologized for tactlessly questioning Emma about her relationship with Yohan, confessing she had not considered Emma's feelings. They made up and agreed to attend the school field trip together as planned.

On the trip, Emma and Sophie decided to room together but ended up in different activity groups. After hearing that Emma went missing during the afternoon hike, Sophie was roped into joining the search parties. She coincidentally came across an unconscious Emma on the edge of a cliff. When she accidentally jolted Emma awake, her frantic gestures accidentally pushed Emma over the ledge and into the river below. Though panicked, Sophie convinced herself that Emma could swim and quickly ran away before anyone saw. She was severely worried about the consequences she had to bear if Emma remembered the incident. When Emma returned safely and approached her, Sophie feigned tears and claimed to worry over Emma's well-being. She then took advantage of Emma's supposed suspicion of Hanamika to pin the cliff incident on another person, reassuring herself that Emma was gullible and dull. After receiving several threatening notes that accused her of pushing Emma,, however, Sophie was confronted by Hanamika and tricked into confessing all of her past misdeeds. She insisted that she was not at fault, accusing Emma of being irresponsible for not learning how to swim. Emma, who taped the entire confession in secret, confronted Sophie. With her true intentions exposed, Sophie lowered her guise and accused Emma for feigning innocence and being hypocritical. She insisted that by treating others nicely, Emma intentionally disregarded the consequences others had to suffer as a result.

### Nura Kim

Nura and Emma are best friends. Though they are extremely close, Emma refrained from sharing details about her relationship with Elios in fear of Nura falling for him. Though she spends a lot of time complaining to Emma about her relationship with her boyfriend, Nura is fiercely protective of Emma. When Emma was harassed by Rupert Patrovsky, Nura heatedly accused him of being a pervert and urged Emma to report him despite the lack of evidence. Later, Nura also vehemently blamed Mika for scapegoating Emma for the plagiarism incident and planting a final exam sheet in Emma's bag.

### Jamie

Emma helped pick up Jamie's books one day in the hallway as a kind gesture. A few weeks later, they coincidentally ended up in the same group for a class project. Their conversations were polite and cordial, until Lucas cheerfully asked if Emma reciprocated Jamie's feelings. Startled by the sudden declaration, Emma blurted out that she had a boyfriend. Jamie later apologized for Lucas's behavior over text, promising not to hold a grudge against her for the rejection. Delighted that he was a genuinely good person, Emma pushed the matter out of her mind and hoped they could become good friends. The next day, not knowing that Elios had secretly gone on her phone and sent a message to Jamie, she was perplexed when Jamie and Lucas conspicuously avoided interacting with her, even during their group project meeting. In private, Lucas blamed her for maintaining a "nice girl" facade while treating Jamie horribly. Jamie hastily intervened, assuring Emma that he would not bother her after the project ended. Feeling misjudged, Emma decided to heed Elios's advice and not value Jamie's opinion as a stranger.

### Rupert Patrovsky

After an anonymous student submitted a plagiarism report, Rupert Patrovsky summoned Emma to his office to investigate the matter. Although Emma insisted that she did not plagiarize her work, she had no evidence to support her claim. As punishment, Patrovsky cut her grades and gave her five days to compose an apology letter and rewrite the report. As Emma walked dejectedly out of his office, Patrovsky suddenly called her back in and showed her leniency. He promised to give her good grades and a recommendation letter for a scholarship in exchange for complying with his wishes. Horrified, she threw coffee at him, declining his offer, and escaped. The next day, Patrovsky was announced to have allegedly committed suicide.

### Brian

Brian is an upperclassman who offered to help Emma complete an assignment. After realizing that he had other intentions, Emma harshly rejected his advances and offer to walk her home. When he used physical force to push her down in a dark alley, she swiftly kicked him in the crotch and escaped. Several days later, she bumped into him in the university hallways and was startled to see him terrified of her. As he hastily apologized and ran off, Emma noted his strange behavior, believing she should have been the one to be frightened of him.

### Hanamika

Throughout the series, Mika treated Emma with little to no respect. When Emma and Nura politely invited Mika to join their group for a class project, Mika coldly declined. Later, Sophie managed to capture a photo of Mika slipping something into Emma's bag. After discovering a copy of the final exam in her bag, Emma was convinced by Nura and Sophie to report Mika to the professor. She later walked by Mika at the park on her date with Elios, and briefly entertained the notion that Mika is Elios's type.  At the school trip, Emma and Mika ended up in the same activity group. While hiking, Emma dully wondered why Mika treated her so coldly. Unable to handle the negative aura emanating from Mika, Emma suggested to switch places so she could follow Mika instead.

### Natalie Johnson

Natalie and Emma were friends in the same class. Unwillingly, Emma allowed Natalie to copy her report under the condition that Natalie kept it a secret. She was later horrified to discover that Natalie emailed Emma's report to the entire class group chat for others to reference. Furiously, she confronted Natalie the next day, who assured her she would take responsibility if the professor found out. When Rupert Patrovsky summoned Emma to his office, however, Natalie refused to speak up.

### Lucas

Aware that his friend Jamie had a crush on Emma, Lucas candidly asked Emma if she returned Jamie's feelings. After Emma confessed that she was in a relationship, Lucas apologized for creating an awkward situation. The following day, Lucas gave Emma the cold shoulder and later accused her of disrespecting Jamie. Jamie restrained him from saying anything more.

### Kayla

Emma was called for questioning at the precinct for the alleged suicide of Rupert Patrovsky. After Emma gave her testimony, Kayla admitted that there was a possibility that Patrovsky was murdered.

### Matthew

Matthew and Emma are fellow coworkers at the cafe. Though they work a lot of shifts together, they barely interact. Emma once attempted to start a friendly conversation with him, but he coldly rebuffed her, calling her "weird." When he was accused of kidnapping Emma, Matthew made it explicitly clear to the police that he did not like Emma one bit since she creeped him out too much. His reason was; he saw Emma talking to herself a few times at their workplace, and how she would sometimes have a scary facial expression for no reason. Despite his dislike towards her, he admitted that Emma was pretty.

## Family

### George Brenton

Throughout the first and second season, it is shown through flashbacks that Emma had an abusive relationship with her father who was an alcoholic. According to Emma, he died at their house, but Emma forgot how her father died. After his death, Emma was taken in by an aunt of hers and adopted her aunt's surname. Once she became an adult; she left behind her hometown, birth surname, and identity as she moved to a new city.

At the start of season 3, Emma once had a good relationship with her father until he caught her mother cheating on him. After divorcing his wife, Emma chose to stay by his side, claiming that she liked him better than her mother. However, he soon became an alcoholic and started abusing his daughter while drunk. To make up for hurting her, he would buy Emma small gifts such as jewelry and toys, or take her out on his days off from work. It is also shown that he was always dressing Emma up in pretty dresses, as well as styling her hair. When Emma's teacher accused George of abusing Emma and got the Child Protection Services involved, Emma desperately defended her father due to her fear of having no one to depend on and being alone.

One day, he discovered Emma's diary about Elios which made him angry. This also caused him to unwittingly expose the fact that he was *not* actually drunk when he abused Emma. As he revealed his true colours, he explained that his reason for abusing her was because she was *not* biologically his daughter. Since discovering this, he decided to raise her to become a tamed version of her mother, due to his grudge towards his wife and the fact that Emma resembled her. It was just enough for Emma to realise that her father had already been broken since the day her mother abandoned them. While George was threatening to confine her in the basement for resisting him, Emma kicked him in the stomach in an act of self-defense. He staggered back in pain, but accidentally stepped into the puddle of wine from the bottle he broke earlier. This caused him to slip and fall backwards, right on top of the broken pieces of glass that impaled him. As he bled out, he begged Emma to help him before succumbing to his injuries. His death mentally broke Emma who ended up laughing at him until she passed out.

### Linda Brenton

The only thing Emma remembered about her mother was; she looked exactly like her. At the start of season 3, Linda abandoned Emma after divorcing her husband, claiming that she didn't need her daughter. However, Emma chose to stay with her father, stating that she never really liked her mother for always making him sad. It is later discovered by Emma's father that Linda conceived Emma with one of the men she had slept with.

Even though she was never close to her daughter, Emma recalled a happy memory when she willingly accompanied her and her father to the beach. Linda went out of her way to prepare a delicious meal for their trip and even agreed to watch the sunset together.

### Annabelle Wilson

She is Emma's paternal aunt and the sister of Emma's father, who took Emma in after the death of her brother. However, her husband was seemingly against her adopting Emma due to their financial situation, but he reluctantly agreed after some persuasion. Even though the doctor highly recommended her to take her niece for therapy, she chose not to due to the expenses. When her own daughter, Leia got pregnant, she arranged for Emma to move out earlier than they had agreed for her daughter's sake.

### Leia Wilson

She is Emma's paternal cousin and the daughter of Emma's aunt, Annabelle Wilson. When Emma moved in to live with them after the death of her father, she thanked her for bringing more "trouble" to their family after overhearing her parents argue about Emma.

## References

1. ↑ Episode 1
2. ↑ Episode 4
3. ↑ Episode 5
4. ↑ Episode 3
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Episode 12
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Episode 38
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Episode 26
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Episode 30
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Episode 40
10. ↑ Episode 63
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Episode 64
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Episode 13
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Episode 15
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Episode 44
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 Episode 8
16. ↑ Episode 11
17. ↑ Episode 16
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Episode 43
19. ↑ Episode 34
20. ↑ Episode 36
21. ↑ Episode 41
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Episode 42
23. ↑ Episode 49
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Episode 56
25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Episode 59
26. ↑ Episode 65
27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Episode 55
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 Episode 29
29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Episode 24
30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 Episode 25
31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 Episode 6
32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 Episode 27
33. ↑ Episode 28
34. ↑ Episode 7
35. ↑ Episode 2
36. ↑ Episode 37