User:ArtisticFire
"I don't know what to say. I'm used to saying I'm okay even if I'm not."
History
Emily is the youngest of four children (Elijah, the late Charlotte, Nicholas) to Michael and Caroline Kenward. She was born in Valentine, New Alexandria but at the age of two, her family moved out to Pennsylvania and built a life there. With the help of her brothers, her father, a retired war veteran of a few wars, built a stable for horses to hide hide his outlaw gang work with his brother. He opened a store to cover the growing income and to help that, Emily's mother used her nursing career, while secretly having affairs on her father. When she decided to break it off, the man traumatized Emily and when she was rescued, she was attacked again years later until her father's gang finally 'took care of it' and made sure he never bothered them again. Emily began to suffer from suppressed memories and from suggestion of her mother, they let her do so and live without remember some events, even some memories of the gang.
As Emily's siblings and she grew older, they all graduated with diplomas and began to pursue their desired aspirations in life. Elijah worked on a small shop and on his free time, he'd assist his father in training horses. Nicholas began racing horses and on his free time, he'd travel. Emily assisted her mother in farming and on her free time, she enjoyed drawing and dreamed of publishing her writings. Charlotte began spending more time away from her home to be with her boyfriend and much of her hobbies were unknown. Their life was pretty decent until tragedy struck. From what reports said, Charlotte had decided to breaking up with her boyfriend and when he couldn't convince her to stay, he killed her. This affected Emily's mother deeply and it also affected Emily due to the fact that she tried to help assist in medical assistance in Charlotte, and is the reason she refuses to wear dresses and skirts. Things only got worse when her father's stable caught fire and damaged the majority of it. Over the next few months, her father and brothers rebuilt the stables when another tragedy struck.
Her mother had developed an addiction to pills and overdosed on her medication. She was pronounced dead at the medical center and her father decided he couldn't live in the house anymore although Emily would later discover it had suffered a fire and that is why he moved out. He continued his gang activity along with his brother and to keep Emily from asking questions, he ran the store with her which worked. One day she was told her father died due to a mixture of alcohol poison and pills but later found out he was murdered from gang activity. Her suppressed memories started coming back over time, slowly.
Even to this day, there are still missing pieces of the puzzle she is still putting together.
last updated: 11/11/2021
Events in Saint's Crossing
She came to the Crossing to start a better life after things went sour with her life in a part Tennessee, and then a part of Colorado. She stated the town was just as poorly run. She ran into her adopted brother, Robert Waters, and he took her in and along with others, they all showed her how to survive. She decided what she wanted to do but before she could accomplish it for him to see it, he attempted a train robbery he knew he wasn't going to succeed after a failed relationship and a betrayal. It was a major setback for her and set her in an emotional breakdown, and she even called him out in death for abandoning her but ultimately took him up to Colter where he wanted to be buried. She is now a medic and slowly training to become a doctor, specializing in therapy. She married to Fox Retskirt but after being deserted, she was granted divorce and it was finalized on November 22nd, 1900.
Updated: 11/29/2021
Character
Personality
She is always friendly and because of this people don't realize she actually does have a shy side to her and can be very introverted despite being a medical practitioner (medic/nurse) and rushing to emergencies when needed. She's an observant and quiet when others are in conversation. She lets others lead the conversation unless she's spoken to.
Constantly being updated
Appearance
5'7 feet tall, brown hair and green eyes. She used to go to the barber and have them put charcoal in it to make it black but rarely does that anymore. She sometimes is seen with glasses because she feels it helps with light sensitivity during extreme headaches. She is always in pants and will never be seen in skirts or dresses due to a past traumatic event.
Relationships
Adopted sister to the late Robert Waters
Friendship with Senior Deputy D. Gunn and trusts him
Grown a small friendship with Senior Deputy O'Malley
Friendship with Mark Allen and hopes to see him since discovering he was in the Crossing
Divorced from Fox Retskirt (Featherstone)
Friendship with Senior Deputy Hudson Hart and considers him a good friend
Updated: 11/29/21
Trivia
- Emily used to suffer from suppressed memories and with advice from her mother, who was a nurse, her family let her live that way until much later when she finally remembered.
- Emily sometimes has a hard time telling people how she really feels so she says she's fine even when she's really not. Sometime ago when asked, she told Dakotah Gunn, "I don't know how I am, I'm used to saying I'm fine."
- While she lives a rather 'boring' life as she calls it when she's not working, her late father and uncle did not. They had their own outlaw gang in Pennsylvania and they used two names and two outfits with this gang but to this day the more potent outfit has never been caught and never been identified of how well they disguised themselves, plotted, the connections they had, and the people the paid off. As her brothers got older they joined and the gang(s) is still active today, run by her uncle. She is a member by relation to her family but doesn't participate in the activities and only gives medical treatment.
Updated: 11/29/21