Name: Emily Brown
Faceclaim: Danielle Savre
Gender & Pronouns: CisGender Female & She/Her
Age: 33
Birthday: March 12th 1991
Occupation: Speech and Language Pathologist
Neighborhood: Downtown
Time in Town: 2 years now, moved away at 20
biography
tw: death, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, car crash
Emily was the fourth child born to Stuart and Megan Brown so her birth didn’t earn the same fanfare as many of the others born on the same day. They were excited of course but they were old hands. The labour was short and Emily was taken home in a hand-me-down onesie. It was a few months later that they learned that Emily was profoundly deaf and that she had been since birth. Her parents went into panic mode, they had no idea how to support a child who couldn’t hear so they took all the advice they could get. They were told to ‘fix’ her and so before her first birthday Emily was fitted with two cochlear implants.
Emily was raised in Providence Peak in a hearing world and treated like a hearing child. She had speech therapy and lip reading classes and her parents tracked how many hours she was ‘connected’ to her hearing devices. Emily never felt like she fit in, she felt like an imposter somehow but she never really understood why. She loved people, talked far too much for her own good but sometimes she missed things and she was constantly reminded that she was ‘different’. Emily knew no-one else who was Deaf or had hearing loss or required any kind of hearing device, it was just her.
When Emily started High School she discovered partying, a hobby that she took to very quickly. She was good at it to say the least and found a freedom in the way the alcohol numbed her brain. School was no longer a priority, it was all about friends, dancing and drinking. She didn’t do as well as she could’ve at school, one of those children who didn’t live up to their full potential.
She barely made it through High School so college wasn’t really an option for her, at least not a good one. She got herself a job at a local coffee shop, making coffees and serving people with a very forced smile. She was 20 when she finally found a local Deaf club and started to find her people, Emily began to learn ASL and discover that her Deafness wasn’t just a ‘problem’ that needed to be fixed. She started therapy and managed to put the drinking to one side, instead finding a new focus. She trained to become a speech language pathologist. She knew that if she’d had a pathologist who used ASL her childhood might’ve turned out differently.
First step was college, earning herself a bachelor’s degree in communication science. It quickly became clear that Emily’s ineptitude in High School was her lack of effort as she flew through her bachelor’s degree and then her master’s. By 27 she was finally licensed and ready to practice, now living out in Baltimore.
Then when she was 30 Emily and her best friend were in a horrific car crash when Emily was driving, Emily was left with a shattered leg, a broken arm, a nasty head laceration and a concussion, but her friend didn’t make it. It was like the ground had been pulled out from under her. Emily found solace in alcohol and began a dependence on the oxycodone she was prescribed. She disappeared from work, hardly even appearing at her own apartment, always off partying or spending the night in a stranger’s bed, anything to suppress the pain.
It was Emily’s sister who finally dragged her back to reality. She forced her to realise that she needed to make amends, she needed to make something of her own life because Lucy had lost hers. The car accident had only taken one of them, she had survived and she needed to make it worth it. She checked into rehab and finally got herself sober. After that Emily moved in with her sister’s family back in Providence Peak and began to rebuild her life. She left her life in Baltimore behind, starting a new chapter.
Emily has finally moved into her own place but she’s scared. Living with her sister and her family was busy and chaotic but that kept her calm. It is in the silence that the doubts creep up, that the dark thoughts take over.
TLDR;
Emily is a sober drug addict who talks far too much and shares her opinion without prompt. She is confident and loud but can sometimes overstep.
Wanted Connections:
Siblings - she has a few, so there are a lot of options. Exes - all genders may apply, messy breakups and amicable ones. She's only been in town two years. Flirationships - as above. Friends - people that can deal with her chaos. Sponsor - her go to. Patients families - Emily works with kids. Signing friends - people who use ASL.

















