Emma Drakenberg-West
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 6:36 pm
Name: Emma Drakenberg-West
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Grade: 12th
School: Southwest Red Rock High School
Hobbies and Interests: Playing electric guitar, singing, listening and playing metal and punk music, recreational drug use, and motorcycles (riding and mechanics).
Appearance: Emma Drakenberg-West stands at 5'6, with a slim figure outlined with natural muscle, weighing about 140 lbs. Her heritage ties back to her ethnicity from Sweden, being Caucasian with pale skin. Facially, Emma has sharp diamond-shaped brown eyes with a straight nose and pale thin lips. Despite the disapproval of her foster parents, Emma insists on wearing facial piercings. She notably has snake bite stud piercings below her lips, a stud piercing at her nose, and some ring-shaped piercings on her earlobes. Emma wears large bookish glasses with a black frame which is mandatory for driving her motorcycle, though she has gotten used to wearing them all the time. Her hair is a white-blond color, which is cut short with a mini ponytail on the back, along with a curl that goes down her right cheek. Emma is noted to have a deep and growly voice, which she attributes to her time singing. She also has a pink heart-shaped tattoo on her upper chest.
Emma is forced to adhere to the school's dress code, however, she manages to get away with some rebellious clothing. She likes to wear a signature "battle jacket", which is a black jacket sewed with multiple multi-colored skulls on the front and back of the jacket, including an anarchist "A" visible at the breast pocket of the jacket, along with patches themed to Emma's favorite bands, and a green "rat fink" character patch sewn in. On the day of the trip, she also wore a Dead Kennedys t-shirt under her battle jacket, black jeans with a dark leather belt with a silver buckle, a spiked collar, a pink sash wrapped around her right wrist, black leather fingerless gloves, and black motorcycle boots.
Biography: Emma Drakenberg-West was born to a pair of Swedish immigrants who recently immigrated to the United States, both Anders and Helga Drakenberg. While Emma was left alone in the maternity ward, both of her parents were killed in a car accident. Despite her parents being dead, Emma still had kin within the States in the form of her uncle Mikeal who could provide for her. Mikeal, however, had a major negative reputation after being dishonorably discharged from the American Air Force over a fight that ended his military career.
Emma grew up living in a trailer park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with Uncle Mikeal, who lived off of odd jobs and welfare checks. Emma's only other company that she had growing up, besides being sent to elementary school, were her neighbors, who she viewed as more sympathetic to her situation, unlike Mikeal, who became indifferent to her. Emma dealt with this indifference by being forced to fend for herself, though she was still fed when needed.
While living in the trailer park, she became fascinated with the motorcycles that would drive by her home. These motorcycles were part of a local biker club that was near the trailer park, which she ended up visiting once and twice as a kid, showing her interest. Being curious, she asked questions about some bikers in terms of riding and the overall culture.
Emma got her hobbies in music from a neighbor that she viewed as a more responsible parent than her uncle Mikeal. The neighbor in question was a former amateur punk rock and metalhead fan, Joey Lumary, who Emma referred to her as "grandpa", due to the signature sweater that he wore around the trailer park. Joey Lumary was very active in the 80's music scene, considering himself as an anti-capitalist and rebel against the mainstream music industry at the time. Joey was ironically a better father figure than her uncle Mikeal, knowing of how the latter treated Emma. Lumary would share his personal political views towards Emma, noting the political climate around the time after President Canon was elected for the first time back in 2016.
Lumary offered to help Emma get into the same style of music that he once practiced. As a result, he told her about the ways of punk and metal music. One of Emma's birthday gifts was some cassette copies of some of the bands that Lumary followed, along with an old spare electric guitar that he used back then. Emma would listen to metal and punk music that she would get a hold of. While Mikeal was out of his trailer, Emma would practice playing her electric guitar and sing in the same style as the singers in the songs she listened to.
While her friendship with Lumary was happening, Uncle Mikeal's behavior and actions would worsen. Not only was he being seen as a black sheep of the town by gaining a drinking problem and random bouts of rage at others, but he was also being turned down for employment by multiple places who were unwilling to even hire him. Negative word of mouth in Emma's starting years of middle school would relate her to Uncle Mikeal, mostly from teachers and seeing how her rebellious interests were being seen as dysfunctional by her peers.
Unfortunately, when Emma was 13, Joey Lumary was found in his trailer from a stroke that struck him. In an infamous moment, Mikeal celebrated Lumary's demise, since he wanted Emma to "square up" in his eyes. Around the same time, Uncle Mikeal would get involved with a woman named Amanda Hoskins, who would also have the same level of reputation as Mikeal. Emma couldn't debate who was the worst that was supposed to be raising her since both ended up causing a hostile and dysfunctional relationship with one another. Mikeal was drinking alcohol regularly and was verbally abusive to Emma, while Amanda derided Emma seemingly at any given chance, being emotionally and physically abusive. Emma, not knowing what to do, since she lacked any responsible parental figures, ended up coping with this by lashing out towards her fellow middle school peers, earning a poor response from her teachers.
It came to a head on one cold night on April 2nd, 2020, when Amanda Hoskins ended up getting into an altercation with Emma, who was getting tired of her mistreatment. What would go from an argument would become a full-on fight, when Amanda punched Emma directly and threatened to stab her with a knife. From what other neighbors at the trailer park described, Amanda intended physical malicious harm upon Emma. Mikeal got wrapped in it, blaming Emma, and began to destroy her guitar and some of the music albums that she had. Finally, at the end of her rope, Emma Drakenberg decided that she needed to get away from it all.
Several days later, with the aid of her neighbors in a far early morning, Emma and some others would put her plan into motion. Having become sick of Mikeal and Amanda, her neighbors arranged and help Emma gain some cash to buy a bus ticket that would take her far away from her trailer park community. Being only 14, Emma traveled with the help of whatever money she had, conversing when necessary. The COVID pandemic was still occurring around the time, forcing Emma to remain extra cautious. Her bus ticket managed to get her past multiple states, but she was admittedly lost. Getting a sense of direction, Emma discovered that she was traveling west. Her best idea was that she could be able to reach the West Coast of the United States, after hearing about Lumary being active in California. Wanting to take a shot at reaching the state, Emma attempted to travel there by all means necessary. However, Emma was forced to be admitted to a nearby hospital while traveling across Nevada, when she tested positive for COVID-19. Upon delving into her records, Emma would be forced to admit to being a runaway.
After no longer testing positive, Emma was placed in a temporary youth homeless shelter, while social workers began to comb her case. What followed was a one-sided, but lengthy battle in favor of Emma for custody. After Emma left Iowa, her uncle Mikeal was arrested after an incident with another woman that placed him as a sex offender. Mikeal attempted to implement the "veteran card", in which Emma needed to accommodate him following his service, but this statement was quickly shot down. Amanda Hoskins' involvement with Emma was also brought up, to which statements from Emma's old neighbors mentioned the hostile tension between the two, along with the mentioned knife incident. When Emma's case was leaning towards her going towards a suitable foster family that could take care of her, Amanda privately threatened and blamed Emma for her problems, mentioning that she intended to bring her back to Iowa, whether she liked it or not.
Emma would repeat what Amanda said to her social worker.
As a result, the courts in both Nevada and Iowa placed a restraining order on Mikeal and Amanda, to prevent them from contacting Emma. Amanda would attempt to know of Emma's address in Nevada, but she was arrested for violating private records by doing so.
Emma ended up in the care of Ralph West, a foster parent and economist, who was married to his husband Jonah West, a science teacher at Emma's high school. Both of which lived in Las Vegas, Nevada. The West family would also have an adoptive younger daughter named Riley, who is currently attending the 4th grade in elementary school. Emma still kept her Drakenberg name, merging it with her foster parent's, since she wanted to honor her real biological parents who didn't have the opportunity to take care of her. Emma's introduction into the West household was shaky since the fathers were hesitant about Emma's interests. Despite enjoying her new foster family's company, Emma still felt alienated at her new residence at Meadowbrook.
Jonah helped arrange a chance for Emma to attend Southwest Red Rock High School, having tabs being kept on her with a school counselor. Emma started back from scratch by learning about motorcycle mechanics, intending to have her chopper motorcycle. As a part-time job and to gain experience, Emma got work at a mechanic store, so that she can be taught to fine-tune motorcycles. Later during her time in Red Rock, Emma would study to earn herself her license to drive her motorcycle. Emma would fail her vision screening, due to her developing nearsightedness, which required her to wear glasses. She would be able to do and succeed in her driver's test during her junior year, and she used her own money to buy herself a Harley-Davidson chopper motorcycle. She uses this to travel around town and to and away from school.
Finally being able to explore her musical talents without the interference of her previous abusive guardians, she restarted her music collection of songs. She aimed to venture back into her metal and punk music roots but became aware that her taste does veer into the pop-punk territory, though she will try to excuse this as being interested in metalcore. Overall, she aims to be more faithful to classic heavy metal and hardcore punk. Her foster parents also had a garage, where she could practice her singing and guitar playing, finding some comfort in playing the tunes that she could enjoy.
Emma's focus on music would be what caused her to start her band called "Finest in Niflhel", paying homage to her Swedish roots. While she thought of doing things solo, she felt that a solo act wouldn't work without help. It was around her freshman year in Red Rock when she ended up meeting and befriending Heather Klein, who had a rocky reputation for being antisocial and alienating others with her political and ethical principles. Emma didn't have any other options at the time, since she was seen as a delinquent by most of the student body and her failed attempts to avoid succumbing to the wrath caused by other kids did not help her case. Emma is aware that Heather's influences in music were not what she envisioned Finest in Niflhel, but wanted to have the band stand out from among the other bands that formed at the school.
Despite being away from her abusive uncle and his girlfriend, both Ralph and Jonah West would be aware of other issues from Emma that have manifested, which they worried would devolve into self-destructive tendencies. Emma was noted by others and herself that she was prone to a wild temper, to which she was hostile towards several kids who messed with her back at school. Her school counselor tried to reason that Emma was diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder, but Emma worried that she might be suffering from antisocial personality disorder that was caused by her neglect and abuse back in Iowa.
Mentally, Emma finds herself being left with personal internal scars caused by her bleak childhood. While at high school, Emma began to use marijuana and abuse painkillers to deliberately numb herself. She does so in the belief that she can remove and/or decrease the chances of her mood swings. Her foster parent Jonah would end up discovering Emma's habit when he went to clean her room, only to find that she had hidden a few small baggies of both marijuana and pills under her bed. With a private talk with both of her foster fathers, they argued that Emma's problems needed direct intervention which would mean having her be given therapy, should these issues continue. Afterward, Emma would attempt to keep herself clean but periodically found herself indulging in her usual type of drugs, whenever she found herself placed in unbearable situations.
Emma still wants to maintain a healthy relationship with her foster family, due to them being a healthier alternative and a necessary far cry from her past. She allows Riley to listen to some of Emma's music that is suitable and child-friendly for her. Emma even plays the guitar for Riley to show her how she likes to perform. Even though the Wests are not involved with the rest of the Drakenberg family, Emma believes that when she is older enough and has more power to be independent, she can venture to Sweden, since she believes that more of her family still reside in her home country.
Advantages: Emma has natural strength from her work in mechanics, which she can use when handling tools or even weapons. She has been able to fend for herself before, making her possible to act as a lone wolf.
Disadvantages: Emma doesn't have a shiny reputation. Many would consider her to be a threat since she is easy to enrage and anger. Emma's emotional issues and dependence on recreational drugs can also pose other mental issues when on the island.
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Grade: 12th
School: Southwest Red Rock High School
Hobbies and Interests: Playing electric guitar, singing, listening and playing metal and punk music, recreational drug use, and motorcycles (riding and mechanics).
Appearance: Emma Drakenberg-West stands at 5'6, with a slim figure outlined with natural muscle, weighing about 140 lbs. Her heritage ties back to her ethnicity from Sweden, being Caucasian with pale skin. Facially, Emma has sharp diamond-shaped brown eyes with a straight nose and pale thin lips. Despite the disapproval of her foster parents, Emma insists on wearing facial piercings. She notably has snake bite stud piercings below her lips, a stud piercing at her nose, and some ring-shaped piercings on her earlobes. Emma wears large bookish glasses with a black frame which is mandatory for driving her motorcycle, though she has gotten used to wearing them all the time. Her hair is a white-blond color, which is cut short with a mini ponytail on the back, along with a curl that goes down her right cheek. Emma is noted to have a deep and growly voice, which she attributes to her time singing. She also has a pink heart-shaped tattoo on her upper chest.
Emma is forced to adhere to the school's dress code, however, she manages to get away with some rebellious clothing. She likes to wear a signature "battle jacket", which is a black jacket sewed with multiple multi-colored skulls on the front and back of the jacket, including an anarchist "A" visible at the breast pocket of the jacket, along with patches themed to Emma's favorite bands, and a green "rat fink" character patch sewn in. On the day of the trip, she also wore a Dead Kennedys t-shirt under her battle jacket, black jeans with a dark leather belt with a silver buckle, a spiked collar, a pink sash wrapped around her right wrist, black leather fingerless gloves, and black motorcycle boots.
Biography: Emma Drakenberg-West was born to a pair of Swedish immigrants who recently immigrated to the United States, both Anders and Helga Drakenberg. While Emma was left alone in the maternity ward, both of her parents were killed in a car accident. Despite her parents being dead, Emma still had kin within the States in the form of her uncle Mikeal who could provide for her. Mikeal, however, had a major negative reputation after being dishonorably discharged from the American Air Force over a fight that ended his military career.
Emma grew up living in a trailer park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with Uncle Mikeal, who lived off of odd jobs and welfare checks. Emma's only other company that she had growing up, besides being sent to elementary school, were her neighbors, who she viewed as more sympathetic to her situation, unlike Mikeal, who became indifferent to her. Emma dealt with this indifference by being forced to fend for herself, though she was still fed when needed.
While living in the trailer park, she became fascinated with the motorcycles that would drive by her home. These motorcycles were part of a local biker club that was near the trailer park, which she ended up visiting once and twice as a kid, showing her interest. Being curious, she asked questions about some bikers in terms of riding and the overall culture.
Emma got her hobbies in music from a neighbor that she viewed as a more responsible parent than her uncle Mikeal. The neighbor in question was a former amateur punk rock and metalhead fan, Joey Lumary, who Emma referred to her as "grandpa", due to the signature sweater that he wore around the trailer park. Joey Lumary was very active in the 80's music scene, considering himself as an anti-capitalist and rebel against the mainstream music industry at the time. Joey was ironically a better father figure than her uncle Mikeal, knowing of how the latter treated Emma. Lumary would share his personal political views towards Emma, noting the political climate around the time after President Canon was elected for the first time back in 2016.
Lumary offered to help Emma get into the same style of music that he once practiced. As a result, he told her about the ways of punk and metal music. One of Emma's birthday gifts was some cassette copies of some of the bands that Lumary followed, along with an old spare electric guitar that he used back then. Emma would listen to metal and punk music that she would get a hold of. While Mikeal was out of his trailer, Emma would practice playing her electric guitar and sing in the same style as the singers in the songs she listened to.
While her friendship with Lumary was happening, Uncle Mikeal's behavior and actions would worsen. Not only was he being seen as a black sheep of the town by gaining a drinking problem and random bouts of rage at others, but he was also being turned down for employment by multiple places who were unwilling to even hire him. Negative word of mouth in Emma's starting years of middle school would relate her to Uncle Mikeal, mostly from teachers and seeing how her rebellious interests were being seen as dysfunctional by her peers.
Unfortunately, when Emma was 13, Joey Lumary was found in his trailer from a stroke that struck him. In an infamous moment, Mikeal celebrated Lumary's demise, since he wanted Emma to "square up" in his eyes. Around the same time, Uncle Mikeal would get involved with a woman named Amanda Hoskins, who would also have the same level of reputation as Mikeal. Emma couldn't debate who was the worst that was supposed to be raising her since both ended up causing a hostile and dysfunctional relationship with one another. Mikeal was drinking alcohol regularly and was verbally abusive to Emma, while Amanda derided Emma seemingly at any given chance, being emotionally and physically abusive. Emma, not knowing what to do, since she lacked any responsible parental figures, ended up coping with this by lashing out towards her fellow middle school peers, earning a poor response from her teachers.
It came to a head on one cold night on April 2nd, 2020, when Amanda Hoskins ended up getting into an altercation with Emma, who was getting tired of her mistreatment. What would go from an argument would become a full-on fight, when Amanda punched Emma directly and threatened to stab her with a knife. From what other neighbors at the trailer park described, Amanda intended physical malicious harm upon Emma. Mikeal got wrapped in it, blaming Emma, and began to destroy her guitar and some of the music albums that she had. Finally, at the end of her rope, Emma Drakenberg decided that she needed to get away from it all.
Several days later, with the aid of her neighbors in a far early morning, Emma and some others would put her plan into motion. Having become sick of Mikeal and Amanda, her neighbors arranged and help Emma gain some cash to buy a bus ticket that would take her far away from her trailer park community. Being only 14, Emma traveled with the help of whatever money she had, conversing when necessary. The COVID pandemic was still occurring around the time, forcing Emma to remain extra cautious. Her bus ticket managed to get her past multiple states, but she was admittedly lost. Getting a sense of direction, Emma discovered that she was traveling west. Her best idea was that she could be able to reach the West Coast of the United States, after hearing about Lumary being active in California. Wanting to take a shot at reaching the state, Emma attempted to travel there by all means necessary. However, Emma was forced to be admitted to a nearby hospital while traveling across Nevada, when she tested positive for COVID-19. Upon delving into her records, Emma would be forced to admit to being a runaway.
After no longer testing positive, Emma was placed in a temporary youth homeless shelter, while social workers began to comb her case. What followed was a one-sided, but lengthy battle in favor of Emma for custody. After Emma left Iowa, her uncle Mikeal was arrested after an incident with another woman that placed him as a sex offender. Mikeal attempted to implement the "veteran card", in which Emma needed to accommodate him following his service, but this statement was quickly shot down. Amanda Hoskins' involvement with Emma was also brought up, to which statements from Emma's old neighbors mentioned the hostile tension between the two, along with the mentioned knife incident. When Emma's case was leaning towards her going towards a suitable foster family that could take care of her, Amanda privately threatened and blamed Emma for her problems, mentioning that she intended to bring her back to Iowa, whether she liked it or not.
Emma would repeat what Amanda said to her social worker.
As a result, the courts in both Nevada and Iowa placed a restraining order on Mikeal and Amanda, to prevent them from contacting Emma. Amanda would attempt to know of Emma's address in Nevada, but she was arrested for violating private records by doing so.
Emma ended up in the care of Ralph West, a foster parent and economist, who was married to his husband Jonah West, a science teacher at Emma's high school. Both of which lived in Las Vegas, Nevada. The West family would also have an adoptive younger daughter named Riley, who is currently attending the 4th grade in elementary school. Emma still kept her Drakenberg name, merging it with her foster parent's, since she wanted to honor her real biological parents who didn't have the opportunity to take care of her. Emma's introduction into the West household was shaky since the fathers were hesitant about Emma's interests. Despite enjoying her new foster family's company, Emma still felt alienated at her new residence at Meadowbrook.
Jonah helped arrange a chance for Emma to attend Southwest Red Rock High School, having tabs being kept on her with a school counselor. Emma started back from scratch by learning about motorcycle mechanics, intending to have her chopper motorcycle. As a part-time job and to gain experience, Emma got work at a mechanic store, so that she can be taught to fine-tune motorcycles. Later during her time in Red Rock, Emma would study to earn herself her license to drive her motorcycle. Emma would fail her vision screening, due to her developing nearsightedness, which required her to wear glasses. She would be able to do and succeed in her driver's test during her junior year, and she used her own money to buy herself a Harley-Davidson chopper motorcycle. She uses this to travel around town and to and away from school.
Finally being able to explore her musical talents without the interference of her previous abusive guardians, she restarted her music collection of songs. She aimed to venture back into her metal and punk music roots but became aware that her taste does veer into the pop-punk territory, though she will try to excuse this as being interested in metalcore. Overall, she aims to be more faithful to classic heavy metal and hardcore punk. Her foster parents also had a garage, where she could practice her singing and guitar playing, finding some comfort in playing the tunes that she could enjoy.
Emma's focus on music would be what caused her to start her band called "Finest in Niflhel", paying homage to her Swedish roots. While she thought of doing things solo, she felt that a solo act wouldn't work without help. It was around her freshman year in Red Rock when she ended up meeting and befriending Heather Klein, who had a rocky reputation for being antisocial and alienating others with her political and ethical principles. Emma didn't have any other options at the time, since she was seen as a delinquent by most of the student body and her failed attempts to avoid succumbing to the wrath caused by other kids did not help her case. Emma is aware that Heather's influences in music were not what she envisioned Finest in Niflhel, but wanted to have the band stand out from among the other bands that formed at the school.
Despite being away from her abusive uncle and his girlfriend, both Ralph and Jonah West would be aware of other issues from Emma that have manifested, which they worried would devolve into self-destructive tendencies. Emma was noted by others and herself that she was prone to a wild temper, to which she was hostile towards several kids who messed with her back at school. Her school counselor tried to reason that Emma was diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder, but Emma worried that she might be suffering from antisocial personality disorder that was caused by her neglect and abuse back in Iowa.
Mentally, Emma finds herself being left with personal internal scars caused by her bleak childhood. While at high school, Emma began to use marijuana and abuse painkillers to deliberately numb herself. She does so in the belief that she can remove and/or decrease the chances of her mood swings. Her foster parent Jonah would end up discovering Emma's habit when he went to clean her room, only to find that she had hidden a few small baggies of both marijuana and pills under her bed. With a private talk with both of her foster fathers, they argued that Emma's problems needed direct intervention which would mean having her be given therapy, should these issues continue. Afterward, Emma would attempt to keep herself clean but periodically found herself indulging in her usual type of drugs, whenever she found herself placed in unbearable situations.
Emma still wants to maintain a healthy relationship with her foster family, due to them being a healthier alternative and a necessary far cry from her past. She allows Riley to listen to some of Emma's music that is suitable and child-friendly for her. Emma even plays the guitar for Riley to show her how she likes to perform. Even though the Wests are not involved with the rest of the Drakenberg family, Emma believes that when she is older enough and has more power to be independent, she can venture to Sweden, since she believes that more of her family still reside in her home country.
Advantages: Emma has natural strength from her work in mechanics, which she can use when handling tools or even weapons. She has been able to fend for herself before, making her possible to act as a lone wolf.
Disadvantages: Emma doesn't have a shiny reputation. Many would consider her to be a threat since she is easy to enrage and anger. Emma's emotional issues and dependence on recreational drugs can also pose other mental issues when on the island.