Emmy Bergström

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Name:
Emmy Linn Bergström

Age: Nineteen.
Gender: Female.
Species: Human.
Planet of Origin: Avalon.
Occupation: Clock-maker. Part-time historian.

Physical Description: Emmy is a completely and utterly normal human being. She has no anomalies either externally or internally. She is about the average height for a woman – five inches past five feet. Emmy’s weight is average for her height, too: 132 pounds. She doesn’t particularly stand out in a crowd, but that’s not too important to her. She’s come to grips with her normality.

She looks exactly like her parents – the stereotypical Swedes. Emmy has bright blue eyes framed by pale blonde eyelashes (thank you, mascara!) and shoulder length pale blonde hair. She has standard issue pale skin, and the accompanying freckles that litter her shoulders and face due to the sun exposure. She has a wide and crooked smile.

Personality: Emmy is always compelled to understand what makes things tick. Her parents often found the girl taking apart bits of machinery and putting them back together. She hates reading books about theories or how-to manuals. She’d much rather get her hands on the problem and work it out through trial-and-error. Part of the reason she does so well as a clock-maker is her meticulous attention to details and her stubborn tendency to stick things out.

She gets her adventurous spirit from her parents. Although she’s never been to another planet besides Earth (Avalon hardly counts! They left as soon as she was born), her parents have told her enough stories to keep her imagination active and over-flowing. Her sense of adventure and her thirst for action makes her bored rather quickly when she’s stuck doing a mundane task. As a child, she would often rig up her own parachutes and jump from the top of their roof to the ground. Her mother didn’t approve, but Emmy didn’t approve of being so bored!

Although she has a fairly wide circle of friends – but none of them her best friends, just a good number of friendly acquaintances – she thrives on her alone time. Her mother says it’s absolutely necessary for a girl like Emmy to be by herself and think things through. So, Emmy sometimes barricades herself inside her house and works on designing or fixing clocks, or going through the occasional history book and documents.

When she’s stressed out – and it happens quite often if Emmy doesn’t have any ideas and no work to do – her personality totally flops. She gets emotional and angry, or she’ll bare her soul out to a complete stranger. Both of these make her look like she’s just escaped from the lunatic asylum. Especially when she begins rambling about how she wished she could travel to other words like her parents did, or when she starts screaming about she wasn’t even born on Earth. But most of the time, Emmy remains unstressed… which is a good thing for both her dignity and the unfortunate person getting the brunt of her anger or soul-searching.

She’s a fairly optimistic individual, although she isn’t a totally blind optimist. She’s mostly loyal, but Emmy refuses to take part in any sort of confining commitment. It isn’t that she’s greedy or that she’s self-serving. Emmy doesn’t want to be held down by anybody – not her mother, not her father, and certainly no friend deserves that level of trust.

History: Her story can only begin with her parents’. Stefan and Anna were born and raised in a very small Swedish town. They met, they fell in love, and everything was going well and hunky dory for a while. Until, of course, things changed and they met the woman who would forever change the course of their lives. A Time Lady with an impeccable sense of timing and an ineffable sense of wonder about her. They travelled through time and space and it was a right good lot of fun and danger.

Anna became pregnant on the TARDIS. The Time Lady – Emmy could never get the name out of either of her parents – had initially been worried. It seemed that humans who conceived on the TARDIS had… less than normal children. At this part of the story, Emmy was beginning to feel jipped from her destiny as a ‘less than normal child’. Her fears were completely unfounded – there was not a trace of any sort of vortex energy in the womb, not a single abnormality.

And the chances of that, the Time Lady pointed out, were alarmingly… well, close to impossible. There were no genetic mutations, her immune system was much too healthy, and there was literally nothing wrong with her. By being so damned normal, Emmy was perhaps one of the most abnormal humans in existence. Anna told her that to make her feel better about herself, but it didn’t help Emmy’s longing for anything exciting to happen to her.

She was born on Avalon while her father and the Time Lady explored the strange goings-on. Once done, they went back to Earth and the Time Lady bid them a goodbye. Emmy knows her parents love her very dearly, but she can’t help the twinge of guilt she feels when she sees the look in their eyes as they recall the Time Lady leaving them. It wasn’t until she was much older that Emmy realized that her parents had loved the Time Lady.

Emmy had a tendency to get involved in some rather reckless things to fulfill her need of excitement. She often goes ziplining or she makes makeshift parachutes and jumps off tall buildings. She’s had her fair share of broken bones, but as long as she doesn’t die she figures that nothing is too dangerous. She decided to become a clock-maker after her talent for repairing and creating them became apparent. It’s not as exciting as she’d like to do for the rest of her life – for example, she always thought she’d be a high-flying trapeze artist or a super spy, but things don’t exactly go according to plan.

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