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Background
	Daughter of one of Erewhon's fleet captains and one of their many medical personnel, from a young age, Emilia exhibited great intelligence. Earlier than expected, she would group toys by some descriptive element--color, shape, etc. Later on, growing up on stories of her father's anti-pirate raids, she would ask insightful questions about why this or that choice was made in the heat of a given contest. It was clear to both of them that she was likely to follow in her father's footsteps, though she absorbed a great deal of medical knowledge from her mother as well--beyond even the familiarity of the average citizen of Erewhon.

	As a pre-teen, and then during her teenage years, she got into video games, as many her age do. Fighting games amused her, even if her preferred genre was strategy and exploration. Her parents often caught her trying to mimic the highly stylized moves, even if they didn't produce quite the same spectacular effects in the real world. Her father assigned her to an instructor the Erewhonian Navy used for their hand to hand, though, and she enjoyed it as a hobby...still sneaking her game moves in.

	Also during those maturing years, she hit a growth spurt, and never quite stopped; she ended up taller than most of her peers, and even a sizable number of adults, though by no means close to record heights for her homeworld. Her features never passed beyond plain, though her quickly developing body was another matter. To this day she still seems unaccustomed to her size, often underestimating her height or length of limb.

	For all her vaunted intelligence, Emilia was as prone as any other teenager to the fads of the hour, and on her fourteenth birthday the already-1.8m-tall took her first step into her homeworld's cultural obsession with cosmetic surgery. Feeling playful, she sought to have animalistic features added, replacing her normal ears with large fox ones atop her head and adding a thick, bushy tail just for fun. She also sports a series of tattoos on the back of her shoulders that  can change their actual design with a mental command, as well as fingernails that can naturally change their color and even fluoresce if she desires.

	She dropped the video game scene when it was time for college, instead devoting her time to her studies. Coursework came easy, even at the supposedly grueling curriculum of the Galactic University of Erewhon. Talent recruiters approached her and offered her a lucrative career once she finished her degree--even on money-obsessed Erewhon, education was too precious to abandon for a career--and she agreed, becoming the face of a megacorp that spanned three dozen worlds--not the entirety of the human sphere, but a significant-enough presence that her face became known to billions.

	However, Emilia was not ready for the pressures of so public a life, and after perhaps a T-year and a half she negotiated an end to her contract. Severely wealthy, especially for someone as young as she, Emilia packed her bags and disappeared overnight, disguising herself with heavy clothing while boarding a civilian liner to "literally anywhere but here," in her words.

	Still carrying a bit of her father's devotion to duty, she picked one of the least-likely professions to go into--a bodyguard-for-hire. After training for two years and now on her third client (the first two were very low-profile, requesting protection more as a sop to their ego rather than out of any actual necessity), she's looking to extend her chosen career's record.

Now
	Emilia is a very tall, moderately-athletic girl with thick red hair falling to the middle of her back, green eyes, a caramel complexion, and a thin mouth. Standing straight, with her ears fully upright, she comes in at 2.12m tall; her gangly frame, all long and modest limbs, mean her mass is relatively sparse for her size, at 87kg. She usually dresses in current fashion, though when it's time for business she owns a high-quality armored skinsuit that's designed to protect from most small-arms fire and at least partially deflect worse. She carries an array of gadgetry and is equipped with a short-range heavy pistol and a monomolecular short sword.