Editing Emma Barnes (section)

==Personality==
Originally, Emma used to be a relatively nice individual, and was close with Taylor. However, an assault from [[Azn Bad Boys|ABB]] thugs traumatized Emma and changed her for the worse. Haunted by the traumatic experience, Emma became determined to be strong no matter what. Due to this, she had a great admiration for [[Shadow Stalker|Sophia Hess]], and, like Sophia, actively went out of her way to get rid of everything she saw as a weakness, including Taylor and her past friendship with her. When Emma took to bullying Taylor, she had taken much sadistic pleasure in doing so. Having once been Taylor's best friend and confident, Emma was very knowledgeable of Taylor's insecurities, weaknesses, habits, and secrets. She would use the information about her former friend to psychologically torture her, even going as far as using [[Annette Hebert|Annette]]'s death to torment Taylor and even accuse her of being responsible for the death of her own mother.

Emma relished attention and was quite vain too, Her attractive appearance and charisma had allowed her to draw people to her with ease, and these traits would greatly aid Emma with her ambitions for popularity in high school. Emma also appeared to be quite sheltered and detached from reality, regularly using her father to shield herself from suffering any real disciplinary actions or consequences for her actions, and also diminished the suffering of her classmates who stayed in refugee camps as Brockton Bay was devastated by [[Leviathan]], the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]], and [[Echidna]]. Though Taylor was Emma's preferred target, she also bullied others (including a disabled girl at a photoshoot).

After Taylor was outed as Skitter, Emma was both shocked and horrified, and it is likely that her worldview had been utterly shattered. The reality that Taylor was a powerful supervillain (and thus vastly stronger than Emma and entirely capable of killing) had deeply disturbed Emma, and forced her to confront how close she was to goading Taylor into giving her a brutal and agonizing death. Emma was later reduced to trying to slander Taylor when investigators contacted people who knew Skitter's civilian identity. On several occasions, when she was stressed, she refused to leave her room for long periods of time.<ref name="I19">[[Interlude 19.z]]</ref><ref name="R1">[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/3qhk87/worm_spoilers_all_rereading_makes_everything/cwfffe0 Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> This unhealthy habit would eventually lead to Emma's death during [[Gold Morning]], as she had stayed in her room when [[Scion]]'s rampage destroyed her family's home.