It's 10 in the morning, I just woke up, had thoughts about EMMA and Wolf and had to share them. So have fun reading! @panyum
EMMA and Amelie are two sides of the same person. However, while EMMA is a beast, Amelie isn’t. Simply because she holds no love for humanity. She holds no love for anyone, except the white moth that always seems to be around.
EMMA and Wolf, however, are a symbolic representation of death, so how come they love humanity? In a twisted way, they give death to humanity as a sign of love. Because they don’t want to see others suffer from immortality. Even during their own event, it is made obvious that nothing can kill them, because they are death itself. So instead, they have to be put in an endless slumber to stop the madness. Which makes it kinda funny when they are summoned as a servant. The first thing they do, when seeing their Master struggling with the weight of the mission, is offering them death. Again, not out of malice, but as a sign of love. So they don’t have to suffer anymore.
An important note to that is that Amelie and the Gudas are all part of Chaldea at the same time. So they went through the Grand Order and the first 6 Lostbelts together. So now imagine seeing one of your longest companions turn into a creature of death that barely remembers you. It makes the Bond 10 Ce all the more painful, because it’s a string necklace with a wooden flower as pendant. It’s the one thing EMMA has that belonged to Amelie.
On a more lighter note, the valentine Ce is a wolf made of chocolate. Wolf himself tried o eat it, but EMMA quickly kicked him out of the kitchen before he even had the chance.
The crunching of snow could be heard through the woods. Every tree and every branch was an abyssal black, having nearly no features beside their crooked silhouette. With the clear snow as a backdrop to the forest, it felt like someone drew a bunch of lines with ink on a white sheet of paper. The only spot of color in the environment was a young woman. Amelie’s hands were cover by her grey baggy jacket and in her arms she held the white moth. To this day, she didn’t knew why this moth was always around in her visions. She didn’t even have a name for her. Was the moth even a female one? Non of that mattered now. She softly pressed the moth against her body, hoping that they can warm each other in this cold place. Small clouds escape her mouth as a shiver ran up her spine. A growl echoed behind her and she could recognize it everywhere.
Quickly, the brunette turned around and took a few steps back.
Pink eyes stared back at her.
If it weren’t for them, she could have hardly seen the creature. It’s fur was a black as the trees and the rows of teeth had the same white as the snow below her feet. The creature could hardly be called a wolf, but Amelie knew exactly that it was one. Despite how starved it looked, the wolf was clearly over two meters tall and trying to fight against it would be pointless.
Despite this, a chuckle escaped the woman’s throat. A seemingly insane spark twinkled in her eyes and she pulled the moth closer to herself.
“Of course this is all your doing. Who else could it be? EMMA sleeps and you are the only one who could torment both of us like this.”
The wolf growled at her and took a step forward. Amelie took one backwards.
“Growling at me won’t get us anywhere. I know you can speak. But even if, I won’t listen. I won’t let her take control again and ravage every chance of survival for humanity.”
He stopped growling and narrowed his pink eyes at her. Wolf opened his jaw and a deep voice rang through the forest.
“NO MATTER WHAT YOU TRY, YOU CAN’T AVOID THE INEVITABLE.”
A short, pressed laugh came from the young woman.
“As if I don’t know that, of course I can’t! But I sure can delay it, no matter what kind of weird visions you give me. I will finish this mission and when I’m done, I can finally rest and we all three will never see the light of day again. Neither you, me nor EMMA. The world won’t remember us and we’ll disappear into the abyss of nothingness. I-”
The moth looked confused at the two, seeing them interact in this familiar and hateful way. When the woman stopped her rant, the moth looked up at her and saw her staring right back. The world around them changed and they were sitting in Chaldea again. Just like before, they were sitting in the cafeteria, but the Fairy King was nowhere to be found. Neither of them moved, neither of them made a noise. A hand was placed on Amelie’s shoulder and a someone softly shook her. An incomprehensible mess of letters left her mouth as she turned and faced the grand duchess.
“Are you okay, Master?”
At first Amelie was confused as to why Anastasia was asking, but then she remembered that the two of them had plans to watch one of the movies they stole from the archives.
“Oh, yeah. I’m fine. You can already go to my room, I’ll follow in a second.”
Both knew it was a big lie, the woman wasn’t okay at all. But the caster didn’t push the matter and disappeared through the doors of the hall. Amelie looked after her for a second, before her gaze went back to the moth on her lap. Her eyes already told the fluffy insect what she wanted to ask, but Amelie opened her mouth anyways.
With her mask gone, she and her Wolf answered the summoning of Chaldea. Her power as a Beast might be strongly weakened, but as a creature of Death she still possesses the deadly abilities she had in her forest.
The Servant Emma is split into two bodies. The person EMMA herself and her “Wolf”. The fur of her Wolf is black and his eyes are pink. Emma herself is clad in white and blue. The Wolf fights with teeth and claws, while EMMA fights with bow and arrow. The Wolf moves fast and wild, while EMMA's movements are stiff and precise. Her injuries look like shattered glass, an indicator to her nature as something not alive.
Summoned– “Foreigner…”
“EMMA.”
“EMMA… we’ll work for you…”
“EMMA AND WOLF”
“EMMA and Wolf…”
Summoned 2 (After clearing “Deer and Wolf – Endless Forest of Seasons”) – “Ah… Ah! Chaldea… I’m back, I’m back!”
“...FOREIGNER”
“...Yes. Foreigner, EMMA…”
“AND WOLF!”
“And Wolf!”
→EMMA doesn’t forget to introduce Wolf. She just says something first, waits for Wolfs response and repeats it. There’s no real reason why they do this, it’s just a small funny tidbit between those two.
Bond 1 – “No need to hurry…”
“...WE’LL ALWAYS ARRIVE ON TIME!”
Bond 2 – “NO ONE SEEMS BOTHERED BY US.”
“How curious. Usually the living don’t like death.”
Bond 3 – “…Master.”
“MASTER!”
“Do you have some cake left?”
“… CAKE?”
“… cake!”
Bond 4 – “It’s not cold here…”
“I DON’T LIKE IT.”
“I don’t like it…”
Bond 5 – “The stars…”
“THEY ARE SO BRIGHT.”
“They are so bright… and beautiful…”
“MASTER!”
“Do you like them?”
“THE STARS?”
“The stars.”
Like– “The stars!”
“THE STARS?”
“The stars.”
“I DON’T LIKE THEM.”
“What do you like?”
“THE COLD.”
“The cold?”
“THE COLD.”
Dislike– “A HUNT WITH NO KILL!”
“Yes! An unsuccessful hunt is the worst!”
If Oberon is summoned (Requirements: Look Summoned 2) - “...Vortinger…”
“EMMA?”
“Vortinger!”
“WHO?”
“He’s Vortinger?”
“DO YOU KNOW HIM?”
“… I remember him. But I don’t know why…”
Any Animal Servant – “EMMA! LOOK! PREY!”
“Let’s hunt!”
Some little Funfacts
- Garden of Avalon has no effect on EMMA. She is death and will always be death. And since there is no concept of death in Avalon, she can not exist there. “I would love to come to a visit sometimes, but that would not be possible. I can not exist in a place where I do not exist.”
- Wolf always speaks way too loud and never notices it unless someone else points it out. EMMA makes no comment about that anymore.
- EMMA and Amelie don’t have the same memories, but EMMA still recognizes Oberon as Vortinger. I wonder why...
Amelie is basically a sealed version of a Beast. I'm going to go into more depth in another post, but here's a quick explanation. There are two sides of the creature that's known as Amelie. Of course, one side is Amelie, a young woman who's always tired and seems to be a rather normal human. With two exceptions. One, she can't really die. Because Amelie is somewhat of a pseudo beast her existence follows the same rules as her beast self. And second, she doesn't need to sleep. In her own words, she shouldn't sleep at all. That's why she is always rather tired, but nothing can really make her go to sleep.
Now, her other side is a creature known as 'EMMA', the Beast of Restlessness. During most of the story in fgo, EMMA is asleep inside Amelie, because as long as Amelie is awake, EMMA can't wake up. And it also goes the other way around. As long as EMMA is awake, Amelie can't wake up.
There are only three people in Chaldea who know of this. Dr Roman found out when there were no injuries on Amelie after a singularity, Da Vinci had a bad feeling from Amelie since the beginning and found out about her secret after Camelot. And Amelie just told Fou because she was pretty sure he knew that she was a pseudo beast.
But now let's turn to the Lostbelts. When it comes to those, there are only two people who know about Amelie's secret. Holmes and Sion. Well, at least until LB 6, because Amelie did fall asleep in Fairy Britain. That whole incident lead to a separate Singularity, kinda like Ooku. But I won't go into much more detail now.
