Emma Napulio

Emma was the third child to be born in the Braid-Napulio household, making her the first daughter. Around her parents, Emma was a cheerful and giggly baby, who was simply playing around with her toys. But with her older brother's Erik and Eligah being around, she would cry very often with no reason whatsoever. This behaviour of hers changed when Emma first learned how to speak and got to communicate with her brothers. However since Emma was the first girl in the family, she was often spoiled by her mother with clothing, coloring books and more. By the time Emma was 2 years old, her sister Elena was born, in which Emma was so happy and exited for, now that she has a sister to draw and play with. When she was 4 years old, she took an interest in clothing designs due to Vanessa - her mother, being a professional clothing stylist, spending most of her time drawing dresses and outfits during kindergarden. A young boy from her neighborhood approached her, complimenting her drawings. The boy's name was Sebastiaan, who was the first son of a Dutch law attorney family. Sebastiaan became Emma's first ever friend. They would often play in her mansions's garden while their mothers chatted over various topics. When Sebastiaan told her that he will always stay with her no matter where they are, Emma would giggle a lot, which made Sebastiaan think she was laughing at him. But then Sebastiaan mentions about him wanting to be a law attorney just like his parents, Emma fully supported his decision, so they made a promise to always stay in touch, even when they can't be together all the time. By the time primary school started, Emma and Sebastiaan would start to go to seperate schools. By then Emma had to find new friends, so the first people she approached were two girls from the other first grade class, mamed Amy and Haruki. Emma has heard of Haruki before through Luciana, Haruki's older sister, when she was visiting them a lot at home. The three girls became friends very quickly and would spend time talking about clothes and future goals after class. Haruki and Amy were also the first girls, whom Emma had shown her clothing designs to in which they were facinated with. The praise she was getting from people she liked and cared about motivated her to draw many more clothing designs until her mother took notice of them. At the same time her mother saw her sketches, sewing classes at school were introduced into the system, so she taught her daughter the ways of the sewing machine when Emma was 13 years old. Emma's open-minded and optimistic nature helped her get a massive boost in creativity, as she was very willing for new ideas and concepts to be shared. Around the time the new trends were growing, so were Vanessa's clothing brands. Almost every girl at Emma's school was wearing one of the newest pieces of clothing, while Emma was always spoiled with Vanessa's brands, making girls jealous of her but also made Emma become one of the most liked students in her school because of her clothes. That's when Emma's change in thought happened, where she took an interest in modelling more, since she was getting way more praise by wearing clothes instead of designing them. By the time she was 18, Emma applied for various modelling companies, however was toned down by almost all of them because of her weight. Emma was an average weight for her height, but was still considered "obese" for the judges. Hearing these words over and over again made Emma not willing to accept herself anymore, so she tried eating less and forcefully push the fats out of her. She became thinner and thinner, until jer mother and her brother's took notice of it. After applying again, she then was accepted into the position. Emma was only happy about for a short while until she realizes what she had done to herself to even come to this point. All the other contestants were as thin as her, possibly even thinner. This sight of agony made Emma physically sick, so she quit her modelling job only three months in. Only some of her photos were released to the public and she couldn't look at herself in the mirror anymore because of that decision. Emma attended therapy at age 19 for her bulimia and was offered a photography apprenticeship instead to distract herself while she slowly goes back on her eating routine. Her love for photography was only growing throughout time as she enjoyed seeing the photos she made of common people on the street, appreciating the beauty in all of them. Emma even enjoyed taking photos of her siblings as practice. Things changed for Emma drastically when her mother offered to take over ber fashion business, in which she accepted without heistation. On that same year when Emma took her mother's company was the same time Erik has gained ownership of the very mansion they live in. This was her big chance to fulfill her fashion designer dreams and therefore got to work immediately, making brand new clothing items every day. When she needed photo models, that's when she was a little stuck, since she wasn't going to make some of herself again. So she instead got her brother's and her sister to do modelling work for her and Emma releases the photos in a new magazine, which gained a lot of traction. Little would Emma know that her new collection would boom in popularity, making a new name for herself and in the process, making her siblings known to the public as well. After the overwhelmingly positive response, Emma was working day after day until she heard a knock on the door and was greeted back with a familiar face. Sebastiaan has kept his promise and came back for her after completing his law studies, therefore he became an official lawyer. This moment was tears moving for Emma as she was finally able to hold her childhood friend in her arms, telling him about all the accomplishments. On top of the promise they made towards each other, they then were finally ready to start an official relationship.