Emelda was born in Mexico. She grew up with her father always feeding her propaganda about necromancers - about how terrible, no-good, and scummy they were. In contrast, he also told her how the Alcaraz family deserved respect and honor for their valorant deeds, yet they were shunned out from the rest of society. Emelda often asked what her family had done to be treated so poorly, but he would never answer.

On the other side of things, there was Emelda's mother, who was from Japan. Emelda was always interested in learning more about a culture that was different than the country she was growing up in. Yet her mother was reserved and quiet. There was the occasional Japanese lesson or conversation about scattered topics, though their relationship didn't develop much. Emelda always felt something was off about her, but was never able to pinpoint it.

For school life, Emelda was home schooled. Her dad did most of the work while her mother was out doing jobs or taking care of other things around the house. She learned a lot more sucky things about necromancers. Combining that with being isolated from other kids most of the time, Emelda began to feel scared yet intrigued of the outside world (think of Rapunzel from Tangled).

The only thing that really kept her going was her dance lessons. And martial arts ones. Both, sort of mixed into one? Long story short, her dad had a tutor who taught her the art of flamenco dancing. To compliment that, her mother got her a tutor for using a Japanese fan as a weapon, as well as other close-combat techniques. Unfortunately, the little girl had no clue that her fun classes were molding her into a killer.

I'm really tired of writing I'll add more later oops