BASICS:
skeleton: Coral character name: Emilia Mirabel Acosta age & birthdate: 30 & June 26th 1991 gender & pronouns: cis woman / she/her birthplace: Cardenas, Cuba length of time in port vale: 2.5 years occupation: tattoo artist apprentice fc: Ana De Armas
BIOGRAPHY:
Born in Cardenas, Cuba, Emilia didn’t live there for very long before she and her family moved.
She grew up very artistic, always doodling away, sometimes even spending more time drawing than studying.
Her parents were never a fan of how much time and focus she put into her art and did their best to stifle their daughters creativity in favour of education.
Emilia always found a way to continue practicing every so often but was stuck following her parents orders.
When the time came to decide on post secondary schooling, Emilia knew what she wanted but knew her parents weren’t going to pay for art school so the decision fell into their hands as they picked something more science based since those were where her best marks lay.
She was only away at college for a couple of semesters before she could no longer handle the workload. She stopped showing up to classes and spent a lot of her time getting back into art instead, as well as making some money to support herself.
Once she felt secure enough, she called her parents and told them that she was dropping out, that she was going to pursue a life in art whether they liked it or not. It definitely didn’t go well, but she felt better knowing she could live her life her own way.
Emilia travelled to a few different places in the hopes of her art getting noticed, getting some kind of job and proving her parents wrong but it never worked out that way. Each town or city she stuck around for less and less time until she was about ready to give up.
When she came across Port Vale it wasn’t much of a coincidence. During college she had some classes with Stephanie Anand who always talked about Port Vale and how amazing it was so it was Emilia’s last ditch effort before returning to her parents feeling defeated.
PORT VALE:
She tried selling her art on the streets for a little while before Isidore Delgado showed up and offered her a job, impressed with her work.
She had been staying at The Mermaid Inn, only expecting to hang around for a couple months before going back to her parents so she barely realized that she had been staying there for nearly a year until it was brought up and Stephanie asked her to come live with her instead.
Emilia has been in town for two and a half years, happily working under Isidore and living with Stephanie for the past year and a half.
Along with working at the tattoo parlor she also enjoys taking on freelance photography jobs and can easily be spotted walking around with her camera almost everywhere.
HEADCANONS:
Emilia is a Cancer.
She is bisexual.
While travelling after dropping out of college Emilia got into photography.
She has two older sisters, Catalina and Valeria who used to try and reach out to her when she first cut ties with her family but now no longer attempt to keep in contact with her.
She doesn’t like to talk much about her family and her past now that she’s here. She doesn’t consider her time under her parents authority as something fun to reminisce about.
Her parents dictated a lot of things in her life, like the friends she made or the people she dated.
When Emilia went to college she dated a girl who was also a model for some of her art.
She has a tattoo like this that she designed on her upper right arm.
Emilia believes in aliens but thinks the idea of mermaids being real is farfetched.
