Em

Em is a fennec fox hybrid that currently resides in Las Nevadas, splitting her time between there, the Castle, and the Archives. In Las Nevadas, she helps babysit the SMP kids occasionally while running a newspaper that focuses it’s updates on the personal or everyday lives of the server’s inhabitants alongside your typical reporting of current events. When not writing her next articles, she can be found hanging out in the Castle or Fortress, exploring old builds, or drafting up new exhibit ideas and information cards for the Archives. She takes her work seriously, but tends to favor a bit on the dramatic side of description.

She is loyal to Eret and the rest of the Castle staff, but she is still a citizen of Las Nevadas first—and must abide by the rules of that citizenship. While there has been no conflict of interest just yet, it seems only a matter of time until she must make her choice.

Em
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### Occupation

Las Nevadas residentMuseum exhibit designerNewspaper journalist

## Life

### Pre-SMP

Prior to arriving in the SMP, Em stuck to her own personal survival worlds. She really only interacted with other Players she already knew and would sometimes create joint worlds but those often only lasted a short time. She often favored desert or jungle biomes, but also held a strong sense of belonging in underground cave systems.

Her relatively simple and peaceful life remained like that for a while, and she was content to stay where she was. It wasn’t until rumors reached her about a server full of people and places and her curiosity was piqued. After traveling for some time and collecting things along the way, she made it to the far edges of the SMP borders.

### Early days

Em arrived to the main SMP areas at an interesting time. While traveling there, she had mostly been filled in by strangers she met along the way: of times of peace, war, rebuilding. Because of this she remained mostly neutral on the sides of the L’Manburg War and it’s aftermaths, though did end up building a small house just barely inside L’Manburg’s borders still close to the Greater SMP.

A few days after Em arrived in the server, she heard word of an election taking place. While initially not caring much, she soon found out that one of the candidates running, one of the original L’Manburg generals and the son of the current President, was a fox hybrid like her. The more she tried to learn, the more she felt that the party of Coconut2020 was a much better option (despite their obvious lack of government understanding) than any of the other squabbling parties who seemed to be fighting purely out of spite for each other rather than truly differing ideas. Em was present for the voting and the subsequent announcement, and though shocked and a little bit apprehensive she chose to remain in the newly renamed Manburg.

Life in Manburg was much different compared to her short time in L’Manburg, and slowly she began to feel discontent watching the struggle of the people around her. She began her newspaper around this time and used it to help aid a small group of citizens trying to escape and offer aid to the rumored Pogtopians. Unfortunately, her efforts were discovered. Fortunately, it was by a friendly face. Due to her work, Fundy offered her a position in a tiny network of spies he was building with the aim of taking down President Schlatt and his entire cabinet from the inside. While Em didn’t have a large role in it, it was enough for her to trust Fundy, and to become aware of the Greater SMP monarch Eret when they became involved later on.

### Life in Eret’s Castle

After the Manburg-Pogtopia War, during which Em fought on the side of Pogtopia, she stuck around for the rebuilding efforts. Ultimately, however, life in such a constantly changing area just wasn’t her taste. She didn’t hang around past the beginnings of New L’Manburg, and chose to move into Eret’s Castle. She began to operate her newspaper from there and often traveled around the server—not sticking around in one place too long, but always returning back to the Castle.

Though she doesn’t have an official position inside the Castle, she will often be asked to act as a sort of go-between for the Greater SMP and Las Nevadas. Other than that, she helps out in the Castle wherever needed when she can. Once the Fortress is completed, Em chose to move there rather than remain in the Castle on the skeleton crew staying behind, in order to be closer to the museum and the Archives.

### The Egg

When the Bloodvines began to appear Em didn’t take much note of it at first, like most on the server. After some time where the Vines were fairly widespread, she began to take some interest in them. What started as scientific curiosity quickly became something…more. Over time, as she spent more and more days studying the Vines on Eret’s buildings, a gradual change began to take place. The fur on her ears and tail began to redden—as well as her eyes. When rumors began to spread about a group of devotees calling themselves the ‘Eggpire’, she jumped at the chance to join.

‘Join’, as it turned out, didn’t mean much. Em mainly stayed in the half-built Fortress, cultivating the Vines that grew there. One day however she watched from a hidden spot as a person in a shark’s head hood and a second, more familiar person in a golden crown tore at the Vines she’d spent so much time with. If it had been anyone else, perhaps she would have defended the Vines. But something tugged at the back of her mind, something that said she should not, *would* not attack the person in the golden crown. She didn’t know why, but she trusted herself and as the Vines were hacked away she felt more and more sure in her decision.

Just because the vines were gone didn’t mean that the influence of the mysterious Egg was too. One day Em found a beautifully crafted invitation inside her small home in the Fortress, curled script and golden letters inviting her to something named the ‘Red Banquet’.

The day of the Banquet was gorgeous, but Em couldn’t shake the odd worry in the back of her mind as she descended underground with hundreds of people all pressing in around her. The rest of the night was a blur, but one memory was clear. The sight of the person with the golden crown on their knees, blades crossed against their throat, and a former God choosing to take their place. Em’s loyalty to Eret won out then, the horror and disgust and fear of that moment snapping her out of her mind control just seconds before the Egg was contained.

In the Aftermath, Em helped with the cleanup operations as much as she could, feeling bad about how she’d unknowingly helped the Egg’s power grow. She prefers not to talk about the Egg or her time aiding it, and has apologized to Eret and the former God she found out was called Foolish many times since then.

## Personal Information

### Appearance

Though Em is a fennec fox hybrid, she looks more like an average human than not. Distinctly setting her apart, however, are the large tan fox ears on the top of her head and her bushy tan and white tail with a black tip on the end. Her ears are longer than a regular foxes.

She stands about five foot eight, with an average build that’s more on the lean side. Her legs make up most of her height, as she has a somewhat shorter torso.

Her hair is long and brown, and she typically wears it pulled up or back in some way. Her go-to style is a long braid, but on hotter days a bun or high ponytail replaces that. It’s rare to see her with her hair down. Her eyes are dark green with no pupils.

### Clothing

On a typical day Em can be found wearing very light or layered clothing, due to traveling back and forth between climates so often. She favors a light cream-colored shirt and light brown pants suited towards the desert where she lives, as well as brown leather pirate-style boots with silvery trim. She also wears a light navy jacket with golden-colored trim and a golden yellow sash around her waist with a belt on top of it. She keeps a pack strapped over her shoulder on her back, and a leather holster for her dagger at her hip.

### Skills

Her taller ears allow her a greater range of hearing compared to other species, including hearing things underground when she herself is above ground.

Due to the physical characteristics of her species, Em has a very swift and agile nature. Her species also allows her higher than average balance, and to jump higher than most anybody: about three feet up, from a standing position. She holds up well in hot and arid climates and struggles in cold or rainy ones, but overall prefers the cool grasslands of the Greater SMP as it falls within the two extremes.

Her writing abilities have been praised by several other notable server members, including former President Wilbur Soot and current President Tubbo Underscore. Eret appreciates them as well, though wishes she would over-dramatize them just a little bit less.

Physically speaking she isn’t the strongest fighter, but what she lacks in strength she makes up for in speed. Her preferred weapon is her dagger, but if measures call for it she is adept enough with a bow and arrow or crossbow to provide ranged attacks.