Emily Hargreeves

“Look, what I wanted most was to be special like my brothers, I never thought that one day that would be true” - Emily Hargreeves

Emily Hargreeves is one of 43 children who were born on the same day in 1989, to mothers with no previous signs of pregnancy. The child was one of eight adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves with the intention of training them to save the world. Unlike her six adopted siblings, Emily and Vanya apparently do not have superpowers. At the age of two she had a talent for the violin, and when Vanya became an adult, he wrote two autobiographies about his life as an ordinary member of Umbrella Academy and about Emily's life as an ordinary member as well.

However, Emily's life was all a lie. She simply had no powers, but, incredibly, she was without a doubt the most powerful of all her brothers. Since she was adopted, Sir Reginald realized that her energy and feelings were connected to her powers mainly through telekinesis and manipulation of the environment by means of sound waves. He tried to use it on the controls, but found Emily's powers too big and strong to be unleashed. The only choice, Sir Reginald researched to hide and suppress them. She was medicated with the same medicines as Vanya, and Sir Reginald made his sister Allison convince her that she was ordinary, using her own power to subtly alter reality by lying.

Emily discovered the truth about her powers when Leonard Peabody found Sir Reginald's diary and manipulated and manipulated Vanya to take revenge on the Academy. After all the revelations and the way she was treated by the children and staff at the orphanage and that a single person who loved her, who was her biological mother, died in one of the outbreaks of her alcoholic husband and family, Emily unlocked the apocalypse .

Despite being taken out of the apocalypse, Emily finds her mind cleared by the leap in time when she arrives on October 5, 1962 and her appearance was quite different, in the blink of an eye Emily managed to grow and grow old. She is welcomed by a family in which she establishes a unique bond with the couple's eldest son. She rediscovers her eighth unique ability right away, which allows Five to find her and reunite her with the rest of the Academy. In trying to prevent an apocalyptic nuclear war, Diego discovers that it was Emily who once again unleashed the apocalypse, this time sucking the life and energy of everyone around him by blowing up an FBI building during the assassination of John F. Kennedy, who it was attributed to the Soviets, leading to the Third World War. Ben managed to convince Emily to get out of this action and not allow her fears to dominate her again and, finally, avoid the apocalypse.

BIOGRAPHY

Early life

Emily Hargreeves is one of forty-three children born simultaneously to mothers with no previous signs of pregnancy in the twelfth hour of October 1, 1989. Emily at birth was well accepted by her mother who loved the newborn, but unlike her father who he had a very different reaction from his wife, who had the courage to hand the girl over to an orphanage where unfortunately she was not accepted by some children, to the point of being "intimidated" by them, due to her appearance. After four years in the orphanage, she is adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves and designated as "Number Eight".

At the age of five, Emily proves to be a difficult student in her violin lessons. As she herself says that she doesn't like her teacher because she is very angry and scary, Emily took advantage of her powers to kill the woman by throwing her against the wall and ended up doing it with a scolding from Sir Reginald but nothing worked the more Sir Reginald Hargreeves hired a new teacher but Emily used her powers to kill. Finally, Emily is introduced to Grace. Emily thought she was just like the other teachers and used her powers by throwing her across the room making her head spin 360 ° but Grace manages to turn her head back in the right place leaving Emily scared and starting taking violin lessons with Grace and leaving Sir Reginald and Pogo are happy about it.

Emily's powers are tested by Sir Reginald while still in a closed environment asking to break 17 empty wine bottles, but the result was different. Emily didn't just break the bottles, she broke all the windows in the room, lamps and Sir Reginald's monocle leaving him surprised and a little scared, in the end he considered Emily's powers too big and powerful to be released.

Emily's training under Sir Reginald continues for seven successful days in a row. However, during a storm, Emily is unable to focus on the tuning fork resonance. Instead, she takes advantage of the sound of the storm around her, breaking all the glass cups without an ounce of control across the room. Sir Reginald begins to see how powerful Emily can be and concludes his training for the time being.

Sir Reginald takes Emily to a special soundproofed safe that he built in the basement, telling her that it is a special place just for her and Vanya. Sir Reginald wants to test more like Emily's skills to see if they can be regulated. With Pogo's help, he catches Emily scared and scared in the camera.

Eventually, he came to the conclusion that his powers could not be controlled and were very dangerous. Any emotional turbulence or lack of professional focus with which the powers were released uncontrollably, each time with enormous destructive capacity, even training her was too risky to try and her chances of dying increased with every second she used her powers.

As a result, he locks it in the soundproof box, telling the other children that Emily is sick and had to be isolated. None of the children questioned. Grace brought Emily food and medicine. One day Sir Reginald took Allison and Vanya into the chamber and made her use her power on Emily and Vanya, saying, "I heard a rumor, you have nothing special, you think it is normal."

The Umbrella Academy

At the age of 13, the children of Umbrella Academy make their first public appearance, preventing a robbery in the West Bank. While the rest of the Academy deals with thieves, Sir Reginald watches from above with Emily at Vanya's objections. When Emily asks why she and Vanya can't play with the rest of the kids, Sir Reginald says it is because she is not special and is just like Vanya. After the Academy successfully stopped the theft, Sir Reginald introduces the world to Umbrella Academy's inaugural class, but only mentions that he adopted six children instead of eight.

Despite not being part of the team, Vanya and Emily helped Sir Reginald to train the other members of the Academy. Her brain waves were monitored by her father while she slept. All children, except Emily and Vanya, received umbrella tattoos on their wrists. In an effort to feel included, Vanya drew one on her own pen wrist and one on Emily's wrist telling Emily that she is special in her own way and that Reginald Hargreeves couldn't do anything about it by trying to make Emily feel better.

During the argument between number five and Sir Reginald at dinner, just before the disappearance of five, Vanya tried to dissuade him from running away for fear of something happening to him that might leave Emily completely shaken, silently shaking her head at him from the other side of the table.

After the number five disappeared, Vanya warned Emily about it and she and Vanya always left the lights on for him. They were afraid that if Five came home late and the house was dark, he would be gone again, as he would not be able to find them. Emily also left his favorite snack, a peanut butter and marshmellow sandwich, for him.

With the brothers on a mission, Sir Reginald tells Emily to be prepared to study alone. Emily sees Sir Reginald's violin and borrows it while her violin lessons are over Sir Reginald asks about her violin, says her violin broke 3 weeks ago and Sir Reginald Hargreeves says he will buy another one. Sir Reginald agrees. Emily gives the present violin for Vanya and Vanya says that she will learn and will be extraordinary just like Emily.

Leaving the Academy

When everyone left the Academy, Emily had nowhere to go, she couldn't work, she had stopped aging for ministry reasons, but in 2014 Vanya decided to bring Emily to her apartment and in the same year, Vanya bought a typewriter in a pawn shop. She writes a revealing biography about her life as number seven, entitled "Extraordinary: My life as number seven". And another biography about Emily entitled "Another Extraordinary: The life of a child as number eight" The second book is a moderate success more than the first attracting interest in who this very powerful Emily Hargreeves was; Vanya engages on a press tour reading excerpts from the first book. Eventually, interest in Vanya's book wanes and is offered at a 50% discount. After the books were published, Vanya sent a copy of the two books to her father with the inscription: "Dad, I wondered, why not. V." and "Dad, I figured, why didn't you give her a chance. V".

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Telekinesis: By manipulating sound waves, Emily can move and control objects with her mind. When confronted with Leonard, she manipulated the sound waves around her, levitating him above the ground and telekinetically moving various objects in the kitchen to impale him and protect Vanya while attacking Leonard. In addition to controlling and moving things with the mind, she can control gravity and the universe, since she was able to place a very advanced tumor in a person's brain.

• Superhuman strength: Emily has immense strength that even Sir Reginald Hargreeves himself could not explain. As a child, she could easily lift and shoot an adult across a room and through a window. In other words Sir Reginald wrote in his diary and explained to Emily's biological mother that it might be possible for Emily to carry more than five cars one on top on the other or dismiss a building with only punches. Something hard to believe but remembering Emily's strength has not been exploited 100%.

• Mental Manipulation: By prefacing a "heard rumors" statement, Emily can compel people to do whatever they want. However, for her power to take effect, she must be close enough to a subject so that they can hear her. The same power from Allison that warmth for Emily to think it was normal and to forget her biological mother's face. It is capable of manipulating other beings: animals, robots and other beings without conscience.

• Space Jumps: Emily proved to be extremely talented and one of the most powerful of her brothers in her latest form. Emily has the ability to teleport for short and long distances. Although she can travel at will, several trips in a short space of time exhaust Emily often and easily. In addition to teleporting, it is capable of teleporting objects without physical contact.

• Invisibility: Emily is able to be completely transparent, invisible to the naked eyes of a normal human being and can make objects invisible even when she touches them.

• Elemental Manipulation: Emily can completely control the 4 elements (earth, air, fire and water) and their variations (temperatures, plants, ice and climate), this was considered one of Emily's most powerful powers by Sir Reginald. With this power, it is able to create fire, water and some air, it can also survive very high and very low temperatures

• Time manipulation: Emily can control the flow of time, being able to speed up, slow down, rewind or paralyze completely. In addition, she is able to jump in time, travel in time, manipulate time and space, she was able to give half of her energy to Five when he was almost dying after a Ha shot them all.

• Sound projection: Emily is able to generate and control sound waves and vibrations for devastating effects, such as knocking people down or even destroying buildings. When she began to experience her power at the stage that she was still trying to find out why she stopped aging, she radiated sound waves in the form of transparent ripples of strength. When she was upset during a confrontation in a parking lot, she unleashed a multidirectional shockwave that sent three adult men flying across a parking lot and unwittingly attacking Vanya, leaving two dead and one seriously injured and Vanya with only minor, non-serious injuries. Its sound waves caused the Umbrella Academy mansion and the orphanage to experience a powerful tremor that caused the buildings to collapse.

• Manipulation of Matter: During her concert and subsequent battle with her siblings, Emily's energy generated also altered the color of her clothing in some way and in some way the color of Vanya's clothing while it was turning into the first apocalypse.

• Illusionism: Emily is able to create, shape and manipulate illusions, making targets see, hear, touch and smell or taste things that don't really exist, or cause them to perceive things differently than they really are.

• Telepathy: Emily is able to enter minds and thoughts to transmit and extract information in different ways and for different purposes. It can, for example, read everything a target is thinking about, make contact with targets through the mind, and even share and project information. In many cases, it can even influence this information contained in the minds that are affected by its power, being able to manipulate emotions, memories and the subconscious as a whole.

• Manipulation of the climate: Emily has the ability to feel, change and control the climate at will, that is, the weather patterns, being able to manipulate various elements related to the climate (such as air, water and electricity) in various forms, as well as how to cause changes in precipitation, humidity, temperature and atmospheric pressure. With this, it is able to give rise to various phenomena of nature (such as heavy rains, gales, blizzards, etc.) and to control the intensity of the climate, whether only in a more limited environment (such as inside a room) or in more extensive areas (such as countries or even entire continents).

• Intangibility: Emily is able to pass through solid matter as if it were not there, making it able to pass through physical obstacles. In addition, she can also avoid being hit by blows or enemy projectiles, bypassing and ignoring them to exempt herself from taking damage.

• Sound absorption: Some of Emily's abilities dependent on her contact with sound, causing her to resonate with sound and energy similar to a tuning fork. By absorbing enough sound or energy and reducing its energy as much as possible, your skin becomes pale and gray and your irises turn white and the color of your hair turns white, as your body begins to generate blue and white light and sometimes black and white lights. blue. In addition, Emily's behavior changed to a cold and impassive state, severely injuring cruelly or even killing those who caused Emily's anger, irritation and stress. While in this furious trance, Emily was set to hallucinate younger versions of herself and even the very woman who appeared in her dreams, or who encouraged her to vent her anger and revenge on those who wronged and humiliated her. Thanks to this mental instability, she still proved to be unpredictable in her behavior, while looking out and sadness at Allison when she saw her at Vanya's show and at Vanya when she saw her in the first chair at the show, as part of her still recognized Allison and Vanya as a sister and friend, despite the fact that she almost instinctively killed Allison when she revealed her role in suppressing her power and tried to incapacitate her with them again and calling Vanya a liar on the part of also making Sir Reginald's secret. Even after clearing her mind and completely erased, Emily is still able to enter this dispassionate state, but she has a lot more control over herself, probably influenced by her positive experiences with Chris, Lucy and John Patterson, the family she created a great bond with. . However, this control was not necessary at all when she was again pushed to her breaking point, turning the FBI electroshock interrogation into an alternative 1963, in which she accidentally caused a shock wave and strong enough force until more strong than normal that destroyed the ground she was on and started to hover over the city. This event was prevented by Ben's ghost, who managed to help her escape before she got to that point and that she truly and her fears get back in control.

Skills

Specialist violinist: Emily started practicing violin at the age of 4 who previously belonged to her biological father who stopped playing for 3 years and, when she went to Vanya's apartment, started a career as a violin teacher and interpreter in an orchestra. With enough confidence, she got a more prominent role on the show that she was supposed to play but gave Vanya that as Emily spoke Vanya deserved more than she did.

Combatant Master: Emily proved to be excellent in hand-to-hand combat and a martial artist while in combat with Lila. When she was young she was trained by Diego and by Five hidden from Sir Reginald Hargreeves.

Relationships

Sir. Regianld Hargreeves - Her relationship with her father was not a happy one. She was classified as the last of the children as "Number Eight", and Sir Reginald bluntly told Emily that she was not special and that this was the biggest reason her biological parents left her at that orphanage.

Although she could participate to some extent with the team, such as helping with training exercises, Emily and Vanya were excluded in other areas. Notably, she and Vanya were the only kids who didn't have an Umbrella Academy tattoo on their wrists. In an effort to fit in, Vanya drew the logo on her wrist with a pen and on Emily's wrist.

But deep down, Sir. Reginald Hargreeves showed a deep concern for Emily and perhaps for her well-being, let Emily give her violin as a gift to Vanya, despite being a very important memory for him, when Emily got a high fever, he took care of her himself and felt sorry for locking it up many times in the isolation chamber.

Luther Hargreeves - she and Luther didn't even talk when they were kids, Luther didn't understand and didn't like Emily at that time, Luther had the courage to accuse Emily of Reginald Hargreeves' death and arrest her in the isolation chamber but in the end he understood that Emily was not what expected and they started to understand each other.

Diego Hargreeves - Emily and Diego were kind of close brothers but they got away with the publication of Vanya's autobiography. Diego believed that Emily did not have to live with Vanya when she returned to the Academy after Sir Reginald's death and was generally cruel and cold to her when it came to her relationship with Vanya.

After Hazel and Cha-Cha attacked the mansion in search of Five, he was furious with her for still being there and wanted her to leave because he saw it as Vanya's responsibility. In episode 9, Luther locked Emily in the safe in which she was wielded as a child to contain her powers, Diego and Klaus disapproved of this because she was still their younger sister and it was never right for her. In 1963, Diego remains paranoid with Emily's powers unleashed, but despite all that, he still shows a more loving and kind side to his sister.

Allison Hargreeves - Allison and Emily were not quite close sisters like Five or Vanya but as two showed that they wanted to be close to one another, Allison was forced by her father to make Emily and Vanya believe she had no powers and Emily that her birth mother did not love the girl and abandoned her, making Allison feel guilty.

Klaus Hargreeves - When Emily and Klaus were young, they were close because of Ben, Emily and Klaus got along very often, when Ben died, Emily asked Klaus what Ben wanted to tell her that Klaus was so excited.

Klaus was drunk after Vanya and Emily arrived at the Academy, Sir Reginald died during the month and he was talking to Luther about him. He was making fun of drinking his water. The two often did not interact, as Klaus used to be more interested in getting high and Emily in practicing the violin and generally did not take anything seriously leaving the "younger" girl indignant.

However, after discovering that Luther locked Emily in the safe, Klaus begs her to leave and Emily to calm down, citing that she was really struggling to know how to control her new powers and was not going to get it alone without anyone's help. In the second season, Klaus shows himself to be very gentle, funny and affectionate with Emily, and in episode 10, he is the first to get in the car with her on his trip to Sissy's farm, citing that he "cannot leave his favorite couple face the unknown alone. " Making Vanya and Emily very red and wondering how Klaus is always the first to know.

Number Five - Emily and Cinco were very close brothers. Five was one of the brothers who really refused to leave Emily aside. She was the first one he told about the apocalypse. On a deeper level, they really understood each other.

Even though Cinco refuses his feelings many times in Emily's question, he was already in love with her at the age of 10, but when he was stuck in the apocalypse at 13, not a minute did he stop thinking about his brothers, not even Emily.

After Number Five disappeared, Vanya warned Emily about it and actively waited for her return. Emily kept a light on so he found them and didn't go out thinking there was no one at home, and left their favorite snack, peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches, every night, in case he came back.

After returning to the present, Number Five believed that Vanya and Emily were the ones he could trust the truth about the approaching apocalypse because they had no powers and yet he was surprised to see the size of Emily's powers in the last episode of first season.

Ben Hargreeves - she and Ben were close brothers, Ben was the first to say that Emily was special even without powers, well ... at least for him, but unfortunately that friendship ended when Ben passed away leaving all the members of the Umbrella Academy hurt mainly Emily.

And in the end, the last time Emily saw Ben was when she was almost destroying the world again and she felt safe when Ben said, "and the world is a horrible place where there are bad people too, but remember that Emily, you were never a monster, you are my sister, you knew that me and our brothers would do anything for you, you were never alone in life "and you felt safe in his embrace before he left.

Vanya Hargreeves - she and Vanya have known each other since they were just 5 years old, Emily was Vanya's only company growing up, and Emily was even Vanya's violin teacher, but something that no one knew was that Emily and Vanya had a crush on each other and because of that he brought the two closer together.

When Vanya saw Emily trapped in the isolation chamber, it was a shock, it was psychological torture for her, she never thought and even imagined that she was going to see the person she loved most trapped there again suffering.

In 1963, Emily and Vanya met on the same day that Vanya stopped there, the two started to get quite close again until they ended up having romantic feelings for each other, when Emily and Vanya remembered everything, Emily was proud to tell Vanya that remembered the kiss of the two and ended up confessing their feelings for Vanya, at the end of everything the two spoke what they really feel for each other and now they are together.

Grace - When Emily was younger, she went through several violin teachers who pushed her too hard, one thing Emily thought was unnecessary was her violin lessons. When they pressed her too hard, Emily's powers were activated and killed them violently. Grace was invented to be a maternal figure and nanny for Emily and the other children. When Grace pressed Emily to play the SOL note, Emily tossed Grace away from her causing Grace's head to turn 180 °, but was unable to kill Grace and did what she said to do. Grace succeeded in being a mother to Emily, she cared deeply for Grace as much as her biological mother for her.

Pogo - Emily and Pogo shared a genuine and loving affection for each other. Pogo insisted that the Academy was and always would be her home, even if she felt unwelcome. He also tried to reassure her that Sir Reginald loved her in his own way. His confidence and Emily's love for Pogo was later destroyed after discovering that Reginald had hidden his powers for life and putting Vanya in that lie. In retaliation for Pogo's lies, Emily aggressively kills him.

Leonrad Peabody - Emily thought that her friendship with Leonard was genuine and that he was the only person who really understood her and cared for her as Vanya did, despite her insecurities and childhood traumas

However, after discovering his true nature, his manipulation towards Vanya and especially her and what he really wanted in order to unlock his powers for himself, Emily thanks what he taught her by killing him in front of Vanya in greater anger.