When Emma was young, she always wanted to make her parents proud. Her parents never paid much attention to her because they thought that she was a bit odd. In school, she would try to get the best grades. She would get E’s on her grades. Emma thinks the E stands for ‘Egg”. When it came to showing affection to her parents, she would burn things and they would get scared. They don’t like her.

One day, Emma was watching her sister, Maria, stirring sugar into her tea. She was just trying it out, seeing how it made the tea look and taste. She watched her sister melt the sugar into the water and she thought it looked kind of cool. Emma watched Maria stir some more. Emma wanted to try putting sugar in her tea. One day, she was mixing her sugar in her tea and thought that it would be better with a touch of fire. She then drank her sweet flaming tea.

As Emma grew older, she realized that she had a love of fire. She would often take things apart and then put them back together again, but in a different way and with a touch of fire. She liked to watch things burn, like a candle or a finger. She would often get carried away and burn a table or her hand. Early on into her fire exploration, she discovered that she could regenerate her burned limbs, so she never had to panic when she burned her fingers or hands off.

Eventually, Emma didn’t have to worry about burning her fingers. It had become such a common occurrence that her parents had gotten used to it, though they didn’t like it. It got so annoying to them that they would force her to put her fingers away for dinner so that she wouldn’t burn the table. Sometimes, they would find singed fingers in the hallway when they awoke in the middle of the night. At the moment, they figured that this must be a phase and that someday, her fascination with fire would burn itself out. They were very wrong. It only got worse.

Emma’s parents were not very understanding when it came with her fascination with fire. They thought it was a sin and thought that it was unnatural for her to regenerate entire body parts. Her parents hoped that she would grow out of her habit by the time she was out of middle school.

Emma’s fire obsession only ended for a short amount of time when a ‘tragedy’ struck. At the age of 13, Emma discovered that her parents had died. It kind of made her happy. Their abuse would finally stop. As she made her way through the school day, she was on fire. She was burning everything and causing a big panic. She was burning through everything she touched, and she didn’t even know it.