Emily

Emily grows up in Minnesota as the only child of emotionally negligent and physically abusive parents. She remembers only ever inspiring their attention when she did something wrong or bad. Because of this, she grows up to always want to please everyone around her. She is co-dependent and does not know how to have functional relationships.

She goes to college at Northwestern and meets her best friend, Kristen, in one of her classes. Kristen eventually inspires her to break up with her controlling boyfriend and the two women spend the rest of their college careers having adventures together. Once they graduate, they move to Kristen’s home state, Wisconsin, and spend their twenties living together and working at building careers. They spend all their vacation and holiday time together exploring remote regions of the world. Emily goes along with anything that Kristen says, and she never has any...