wickedemmett

[wickedemmett]

emmett had woken up in many strange places with no recollection of how he’d gotten there, yes. but this one-- fucking buena vista, of all places-- had to take the cake. for the first day, he’d allowed himself to believe it was some sort of cruel nightmare, an empty reminder of the freedom he’d willingly given up after his graduation from the university. he’d even topped it off with some symbolic shit about a dome, keeping him in the one place he’d ever felt liberated by. he’d spent that day in a daze, uninterested and unamused by the theatrics from everyone in town. it wasn’t until the next morning, when he woke up still trapped, that he came to two conclusions: either he was in a coma, and this was his punishment for everything he’d ever done, or this was real. the punishment thing was... well, it was still on the table regardless. every day after the first had ended the same way so far: him, falling asleep in some shitty assigned room and wondering why, exactly, he of all people had to be here. it wasn’t like he secretly wished he could go back in time to relive this time period. it wasn’t like there was some higher purpose for dragging all of these people (strangers, families, old friends, exes) away from their lives and into a bubble. and, if he were being honest, it was driving him crazy to not see a bigger picture to it all. he hated this, hated the way the imprisonment felt like a second skin to him. he loathed the fact that no one outside of this godforsaken dome would even care that he’d disappeared. he wanted his brain to shut the hell up. today, at least, had been nothing out of the ordinary (aside from... everything), but he couldn’t count the worst out yet. he was still kind of expecting to be stabbed at random by someone he’d pissed off while he went here. he’d gotten lucky to have avoided any familiar faces thus far; it was a shame karma was the biggest bitch he’d ever met. emmett couldn’t begin to tell you what went through his mind the moment rylie caught his eye. he hadn’t even been sure it was her, he hadn’t gotten a good enough look to know for sure, but he didn’t need to. he could feel it: in some part of himself, buried far beneath all the other memories he wished he could forget, he felt himself being drawn toward the blur of the girl he once knew. perhaps it was the shock of seeing her, or the shock of how violently his long-ignored emotions resurfaced in a split second, or simply his first thought of how to get her attention, that made him drop both the bags full of toiletries he was carrying back to the school. “holy shit,” whether that sentiment was in reaction to finally seeing her face, right there in front of him, unquestionably her, undeniably beautiful, or in reaction to the heavy ass bottle of conditioner that’d landed directly on his foot? well, that was for him to know. his gaze fell away just as quickly as it’d found her, surveying the damage he’d done. at least only one of the containers had burst open. emmett made quick work of gathering them back up, stuffing them back into the grocery bags, and blatantly ignoring the fact that he’d just made a fool of himself. some first impression. “can you, um, hand me that?” god, he did not miss getting nervous. his focus slowly strayed away from the bottle at her feet, travelling up until he was looking directly at her once again. he cleared his throat, pushed away the uneasy feeling in his stomach, and furrowed his brow. replaced the look of awe with one of indifferent impatience. “sometime today?” @rylie-barton

#cs: rylie #int. #int. rylie

[wickedemmett]

⌜   CISMALE, HE/HIM   |   power is power by sza, gryffindor, estj   ⌟    ⏤   meet EMMETT WICKS ; a TWENTY-FOUR year old who kind of resembles ROSS BUTLER, don’t you think? they originally hailed from THE LAND OF OZ where they lived with their parent, THEODORA (THE WICKED WITCH), but word is that they’ve been LIVING BACK IN OZ AND FUNCTIONING AS HIS MOTHER’S RIGHT HAND MAN. they’ve always been pretty OBSERVANT & CHARMING, but have gotten way more CYNICAL & SELF-INVOLVED since they woke up. maybe their power/ability of ENHANCED CHARISMA & CURSE INDUCEMENT can help in taking down the dome.   (   lane, est, she/her   )

SO no one here has ever seen me actually play a guy because i don’t do so very often, but when i do there are two types: nerds and little bitches. this guy here is the latter.

emmett here is the son of (ooo) the wicked witch of the west, and oh boy can you TELL

not to like. make my villains semi-redeemable/understandable or anything but my son has had. a weird life. when your ONLY FRIEND is your evil mom, and she teaches you that you have no one else in the world to trust, and there’s no other right way to live aside from hers, that’s HARD TO UNLEARN

but, surprise, he kinda did learn it anyway. he learned it at wda! and then he fell in love with rylie barton! and then a whole bunch of shit happened and they were cancelled and he was like Oh Right I Forgot That Nothing Will Ever Be Good

and so after graduation, without much of anything else going for him, he just... went back to oz. which is on him, it really is, because like it or not he could’ve forged a life for himself even with his broken ass personality

he’s just stupid and he’s like oh.. oh free thinking? doing what ISN’T the easiest option? doing literally anything that would be hard? trying to not be an awful person even without any kind of motive behind it? no

and so, in the WORST CHARACTER ARC OF RECENT HISTORY, emmett my guy went from a redeemable asshole to an almost-could be okay dude then straight into Antichrist Territory because he doesn’t know how to handle being sad

OH BUT DON'T BE FOOLED HE'S STILL SUPER CHARMING AND CAN MAKE A RATTLESNAKE FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM

if you have interacted with a certain past version of this character and for some reason want to keep a plot you had going, please don’t hesitate to ask! i’m bored! and getting free plots is fun! so!!

CONNECTIONS TIME: enemies ksjckd cleARLY. he’s literally just a terrible person so that should be easy, friends who are ALSO terrible people with loose morals who can stand the smell of cigarettes, exes because why not we luv pain, and uhh idk anything else i’m not thinking of rn

MWAH

#wda: intro

[wickedemmett]

#insp.