⸻ anna torv, 44, cis woman, she/her ; ] … the photo on the missing poster is of EMERY FERNSBY. they are FORTY FOUR, and have been missing for SEVEN YEARS IN ARCADIA. when the sun rises, they work as the LEADER OF COMMUNAL HOUSE. rumors in town say they can be CLOSED OFF and PROTECTIVE. they chose to live in COMMON HOUSE, and have an uncanny resemblance to JULIETTE NICHOLS (SILO), MARE SHEEHAN (MARE OF EASTTOWN) & ANDY (THE OLD GUARD). can they survive another night ?…⸻ broken watch, old and torn flannel blouses & cowboy hat.
file info.
BIRTH NAME: Emery Charlene Fernsby NICKNAMES: Em, Fernsby, Sergeant GENDER: Cis woman, she/her BIRTHDATE: August 16th, 1980 AGE: 44 BIRTHPLACE: Selma, Alabama, USA HOMETOWN: Fort Carson, Colorado, USA RESIDENCY: Communal House, Arcadia/Hell Town OCCUPATION: Leader of Communal House SEXUALITY: Lesbian RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Married
early ages.
Born to Michael and Jane Fernsby, the couple hadn't counted on having a child. In fact, the pregnancy had been fairly unwanted. Yet, both raised religiously, they were very pro-life and took it upon themselves to raise a child. But taking care of a baby took a toll on them both, Jane suffered from postnatal depression and Michael took after his father's alcoholism problem. He disappeared most nights to the bar as Jane rather let Emery cry for hours than take care of her. That's the childhood she remembers, the alcoholic father with anger issues and the emotionally distant mother. During her childhood she was always behind in school, she was behind in socializing and didn't have any friends. Because of her father's behavior, she acted up too, picked fights with other children who made fun of her, she swore a lot for her age. When her personality issues became a problem at the town's public school, she got sent to a religious one instead.
18 and up.
The day Emery turned 18, she packed her bags overnight and ran away from home. She ran away as far as she could and signed herself up for the army in Alabama. Her parents never batted an eye at her disappearance, they couldn't care less. And Emery couldn't care less about her parents either. She found solace in the army, after a rough couple of months of getting taught discipline, of learning to let go of her old self. No more picking fights, no more kids play. For the first time in her life, she was equal to others in her rank. For the first time in her life she knew what it was like to have a home. The army became Emery's actual home. She toughened up in a different way, the army shaped her into a better person. She learned what it meant to have respect for one another. To trust one another. To rely on one another. It took years for Emery to deal with her traumatic past, one day at a time. One thing she knew for sure; she was free now.
At 28 her life changed for the better. It was the introduction of a new face to the team she'd gotten tight with, a woman whose guts Emery hated so. The medical addition to the team after their previous one had been relocated was nothing to Emery's likings. The woman was like a slap to her face and Emery made sure to let her know they'd be better off without her every step of the way. The army had none of her behavior and sent the two off together on a field mission. Emery had to learn how to stop picking fights all over again, like a little kid. Little did she know that the reason why she acted the way she did, was because of underlying feelings she never had before. The two learned to trust each other after long days of having to only deal with each other. A friendship grew, which only made Emery excel at her job. Until the friendship became much more than that and feelings came into play heavier than before.
After taking forever tiptoeing around one another, their friendship changed to a romantic relationship. Which eventually led to marriage. The talk of living together. The talk of even leaving the army, if it meant they could live a safer life. Never did they leave one another's side, they were a team after all.
At 35, Emery made it to the rank of Sergeant. She was in charge now of the younger soldiers. She went on less field missions and remained stationed at base to teach the ones who were still so naive. She made it to the other side of where she once stood, young and so stupidly dumb. Her time of being Sergeant was rather lived short, Emery and her wife were planning on leaving the army soon. The sooner rather became later, it still took two years before they - mostly Emery - found solace in leaving the army. Emery only had one last field mission to fulfill, this time without her wife by her side.
hell town.
Her arrival and first night in town was quite literally Hell. It would've been her last mission before she'd drop out of the army, for her wife, for the two of them to start a new life. Away from all the danger and off to a house in the suburbs with a picket fence. With three soldiers she got sent off to another base, this time without her wife by her side. It would just be a quick mission, she'd be gone for a day or two, nothing crazy. They drove the roads they'd driven plenty of times before, only for the scenery to change to unfamiliar grounds and a strange town to appear after they came across the tree in the road. As the sun had set, their car got stopped by Them and gunshots had taken over when panic had set into her companions' minds. Emery had barely made it out alive, having experienced a trauma she never could've imagined. Something far worse than all those years she'd served in the army.
Over time it became clear that there was no escape from town. Somewhere along the line she'd taken leadership of the common house, a place where she found solace among other people. With her experience as a sergeant in the army, leadership comes to her quite easy. She's there for new people who also fall victim to the curse of town, no matter what residency they choose. Everyone in town has the same goal eventually: try to find a way out - to return back home.
inquiries.
How did your muse spend their first night in Arcadia, and where? When the lives of all three of the soldiers she was with were brutally taken by Them, Emery made a run for the closest building she laid eyes on. After the commotion of gunshots caused by the panicked minds of her companions, they had been Their first targets. Emery somehow made it out of the car and found shelter in the radio station not too far ahead.
Why did your muse choose to live where they do? The common house, Emery has a hard time being by herself. That's when the demons come and plague her mind, she can't handle isolation, most especially not during the night. It's how the army has always been her home, always surrounded by people, just like the common house grants her the feeling of protection.
What was your muse doing when they came across the tree? On their way to what should've been Emery's last field mission in the army, it quite literally became her last trip for the army. The sun had gone down rather sooner than later, they should've arrived at their destined post already. But the GPS in the car had been acting up, their surroundings were unfamiliar to the roads they'd driven so many more times before, they'd encountered the tree in the road and the strange town a couple of times before the trusted soldiers she was with even started to doubt themselves. It was close to the gas station, they were stopped by people in the streets. Except... these weren't people. When They started to surround the car, it was clear this was more than a fever dream.
Has your muse left anything behind that they are desperately trying to return to or escape? Her wife/partner. The love of her life. Her home. Aside from the place she once called her second home, the army, it is losing her soulmate that plagues her the most.
wanted connections.
THE LOVE OF HER LIFE: The woman she met in the army, the woman whose guts she hated to her core, the woman who she got partnered up with and had to trust with her life and vice versa, the woman she eventually caught feelings for, the woman she married, the woman she devoted her entire life to.
THE ONE SHE CALLS HER BEST BUDDY: Emery lost her army mates the first night she arrived and has been by herself ever since. She's very closed off about the private life she had before entering Hell Town, but this person she trusts telling more than anybody else.
THE PROTÉGÉ('S): A newcomer or younger person who she's been helping out growing comfortable, even though there is no such thing, in this place. Someone she's taken under her wing and spends time with during the day or night.
