History Characters / EmmieAndFriends

* AmbiguouslyBrown: His race is unstated. But in "Always Anthony", it's implied that he's African-American.
* CharacterTics: When he was young, he started to spit at the ground, he's trying to break that habit though. And occasionally, he accidentally hits some people whenever they're in his line of sight. Ruby was one of the unfortunate ones to get hit when Anthony was aiming for a water fountain.
* HiddenDepths: While he's the star player of the school's basketball team, Anthony also excels at STEM subjects (ie. math, science).
* LostPetGrievance: When he was in the third grade, he used to have two dogs, but one of them, named Esther, had died, which was really hard on him as he was the closest to her.
* OddFriendship: Anthony, a popular LovableJock befriends Leah, a ShrinkingViolet, who's BookSmart and a poetry writer. After some tutoring sessions, they bond over chemistry, something they both love. He even got interested in the cookbook that she's making and he bought her a copy of chemistry cookbook he saw in the school library.

* BrokenAce: Is really smart in all her classes, is a tutor for some students, but she was a victim of bullying back in elementary school. And seeing Jesse getting shoved in a locker triggers her TraumaButton.

* InformedJudaism: Like Brianna, Leah is revealed to be Jewish in ''Always Anthony''. When Anthony invites her to one of his games, she turns down the offer because she has Shabat.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: His race is unstated.

[[folder:Leah Rubin]]

[[folder:Leah]]

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In "Just Jaime" He tells Jaime this when he wonders why she was friends with Celia.

--> '''Anthony:''' No. [[ItsAllAboutMe 'Cause all she cares about is herself. She's a phony.]] [[BeYourself You're just]] ''[[BeYourself you]]'' Jai. ''That's'' why I think you're cool.

!!Izzy Silver/[[spoiler:Mrs. Davis]]

At the end of the book, it's revealed that Izzy's chapters are set in the past, and she has since grown up to be the new popular drama/eighth grade English teacher, Mrs. Davis -- who's also the mother of the secondary protagonist, Brianna Davis.

* CharacterDevelopment: Emmie is super shy in her first book, to the point she can't even ask the students standing by and blocking her locker to move or confess her crush on Tyler, and walking to class alone makes her stomach twisty; Joe's picking on her upsets her, but she never speaks up against it and only takes his insults and teasing. By the time of ''Truly Tyler'', she's more confident and has made friends with Tyler and Sarah and--while she's still somewhat shy and nervous--when Joe tries to embarrass her about a theoretical love note, she stands up for herself and embarrasses him back--something very [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness un-Emmie like.]]

At the end of the book, it's revealed that Izzy's chapters are set in the past, and she has since grown up to be the new popular drama/eighth grade English teacher, Mrs. Davis--who's also the mother of the secondary protagonist, Brianna Davis.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: ZigZagged. Technically, she's not embarrassing her daughter Brianna in the typical way; instead, she is the CoolTeacher, and everyone loves her for being so creative and outgoing with her classes. But that's the problem--Izzy is so fun and perky, and a lot of Bri's classmates compare them to each other, knowing they're related. Imagine how embarrassing it must be when your peers think ''your mom'' is cooler than you.
* BrilliantButLazy: Izzy is good at select subjects--art, writing, and drama--but bad in several others, including math.

* DisappearedDad: Izzy's mom is a StrugglingSingleMother trying to raise her three daughters alone and work as an ER nurse. There's no mention of Izzy's father or where he is until Brianna's epilogue, where she states that Izzy's older sister (her Aunt Danielle) has a son named after Brianna's late grandpa--Izzy's dad. This is later confirmed in ''Becoming Brianna.''

* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to explain why she's not shown as a middle school student anymore after ''Positively Izzy''--or interacting with any other seventh grade students--without giving away the TwistEnding that she's Brianna's mother and her story is set over two decades ago. In ''Becoming Brianna'', since this has already been revealed, there is no ambiguity in the story about her being Brianna's mother.

* ACupAngst: Jamie is not as developed yet as the other girls in her friend group. She started wearing a padded bra after Maya joked that Grace wore a dress better than her--until she ran out of laundry and couldn't wear one one day. Her so-called "friends" laughed and called her a deflated balloon.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Jamie almost walks away after Celia tries to humiliate her at the pool but turns around and asks "Why do you care so much?" Celia already got Maya to push Jamie out of the group now and Celia should leave her alone, but hasn't. It gets Celia to dart her eyes towards Anthony, who has become closer friends with Jamie over the day--revealing ''why'' she cares, if only for a second.

* JewishAndNerdy: ''Becoming Brianna'' reveals that Brianna is Jewish through her mother's bloodline; the book is about her planning for her upcoming bat mitzvah that she agreed to for her mother's sake, and her Jewish name is Bina. She's very smart--see above under Book Smart--and into watching ''Series/DoctorWho.''

* NamedInTheSequel: She isn't named fully--or at all, instead always referred to as "Baked Beans Girl"--until the events of her own book.

* DisappearedDad: Sarah's father, Brett, divorced her mom when Sarah was two years old. He lives with his new partner, Shelia, in California. Other than sending his ex and child money from his successful business--and Sarah a birthday card yearly--they hardly communicate.

* TheAce: Katie is pretty, outgoing, popular, good at sports, gutsy, gets straight As in every class, and everybody loves her and makes way for her through the day. She also has rich, attentive, never-embarrassing parents who run a candy store to boot and always cook things she likes to eat. She's everything Emmie wishes she could be--because Emmie created her to be.

* PutOnABus: After the first book, since she's not a real person--just an InUniverse DreamSue Emmie invented to cope with her personal shyness and insecurity.

* EasilyForgiven: Averted. While Maya does come over to Jamie's to apologize soon after leaving the friend group (that Jamie was kicked out of) and ask for Jamie to be her friend again, Jamie doesn't immediately say they'll be friends again. She says she thinks she'll forgive her...eventually, but it'll take a while. By the finale of the book--set three months later, before the start of eighth grade--Maya and Jamie are close friends again. However, Jamie says that it was awkward at first and it took a lot of sleepovers, dance parties, and time together for forgiveness to happen--and Maya trying very hard to get back on Jamie's good side, and promising not to break her trust again.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Maya feels awful after her text to kick Jamie out of the friend group. She has a panic attack right after, feels guilty the rest of the day every time she sees Jamie, and stands up--ineffectively--against Celia's repeated judgement of Jamie. It takes until the events at the pool for Maya to finally [[HeelRealization realize what she did]] and go to Jamie's house to try and [[MustMakeAmends make amends]].

* RegretfulTraitor: Maya spends the entire afternoon regretting--without saying so--how she pushed Jamie away.
* TearsOfRemorse: When she's apologizing for what she's done to Jamie.

!!Mia [[spoiler:Donovan]]

* {{Foil}}: To Celia. Both are popular girls who pushed their friends away, but the way they go about it is different. Celia pressures Maya into kicking Jaime out of the group thinking she's to "immature" for her GirlPosse, Mia actively ignores Ruby thinking her clumsy antics might jeopardize her status as one of the popular kids and her chances of winning class president. However, Celia is an AlphaBitch, Mia isn't and the latter has a HeelRealization on how her actions pushed her friends away.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: With Ruby. After Ruby got to middle school, Mia--who by then had become popular--started to ignore her, as she felt her sister was too embarrassing for her to be seen with and might affect her popularity.

* ChildhoodFriends: Not only with Sarah, but with Sarah's crush, Ben--putting him awkwardly in the middle.

* QueerEstablishingMoment: Izzy knows that Ash sneaks out of the house often to go to her friend Meghan's house, where the two girls look at the dirty magazines that belong to Meghan's dad. [[spoiler:Brianna reveals in the epilogue of ''Positively Izzy'' that that her mother's freewheeling younger sister has a female partner, Tina, and they have two kids together--without using Ashley's name. Her name is used in ''Becoming Brianna'' and ''You-niquely You''.]]

The head of Maya and Jamie's girl posse, who judges others, talks about everyone, and manipulates almost everyone around her--and gets away with it.

* BitchAlert: Celia establishes herself not once, but ''twice,'' as the AlphaBitch. In Jaime's first chapter she snarks at Jaime humming an ''{{Franchise/Aladdin}}'' song by saying "What are you, eight?" and previously said that Jamie didn't have enough of a figure for the jeans she's trying on. In her first appearance in Maya's chapters--at school--she starts by asking Jamie if her new swimsuit is anything like her old blue one, then says that her blue swimsuit makes her look like Maya's 2 1/2 year old sister--but she's "just kidding." She then swiftly pivots to complimenting Mrs. D's necklace as she walks by--and waits until Mrs. D. walks away to say she ''actually'' thinks the necklace is hideous but she wants an A in English next year.
* EvilIsPetty: In quite a few ways. In ''Just Jamie'' she bumps into Jamie while swimming at the pool and--deciding that Jamie must have done so on purpose--decides to retaliate by trying to loosen her swimsuit top so as to embarrass her publicly--because Jamie "knocked her off course" during the bubble race and caused her to lose her shirt. In ''Surprisingly Sarah'' she tries to make Tyler, her ex-boyfriend, jealous by dancing with another boy--but is then jealous herself seeing him having a good time with Emmie.
* {{Foil}}: To Katie. Like Celia, Katie is pretty and popular--but Katie is ''also kind'' to everyone, well liked, and friendly, instead of gossiping meanly about other people and being falsely sweet. [[spoiler:Too bad Katie isn't real.]]

* JustJokingJustification: Whenever she insults Jaime she always says "JK!" or "Just kidding!" and tells her not to be so sensitive or "dramatic".
* SympathyForTheDevil: Jamie briefly has this for Celia when her shirt accidentally comes off during the bubble race and she's left hunched over in her bra. However, this is very short lived. As soon as Celia's shirt is back on and she's fixed her face, she shoots Jamie a dirty look and then waves to the crowd, getting claps where moments ago she was getting jeers. Celia then says to the students around her in a loud-enough-to-be-heard-by-Jamie voice that Jamie "made" bumping into her look like an accident, but she had to have done it on purpose--and that Jamie clearly has jealousy issues and should be more mature.

** She spends the morning of Field Day pressuring Maya to kick Jaime out of their friend group--the one Jamie was part of before Celia ever came along. She tells Maya she's the only one trustworthy enough to do it, calls her the best, and then compliments Maya and treats her like her new best friend once Maya does it.
** In ''Just Jamie'' she constantly teased Jamie about everything, called her immature, and--whenever Jaime got upset--[[{{Gaslighting}} told her to not be so sensitive]] about it. She does this to Maya for defending Jamie, and is later seen in passing saying it to Grace once Grace has been reduced to the clique's lowest member. She's seen in later books--which are actually set earlier--judging and talking horribly about nearly everyone around her. Jamie outright calls her toxic when she's complaining about her to Anthony.

* ButtMonkey: Once Jaime--and Maya--leave the group, she's the one to take the brunt of Celia's nasty words and becomes the picked on one of the new group with Celia and Lindsey. This was seen earlier, when Celia snapped at Grace for daring to "walk" the same way as her.

* QueerEstablishingMoment: Juan performs a tender, crooning love song about a feather just out of his reach. Afterwards, he reveals to Ruby in a moment of trust just who he sang about--another boy in the talent show who is performing on saxophone. They're later seen talking to each other in the hallway.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He has blonde hair is a NiceGuy.
* NiceGuy: According to Mia, Josh is friendly to everyone. And coming from what her dad says, he mows everyone's lawns for free.

* SheepInSheepsClothing: Mia initially thought that Josh, one of the popular kids, is bribing his teammates and some girls to get more votes. Then it's revealed that he was just asking them about issues in school and how he can come up with solutions.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After seeing how obsessed Mia is being about the class president election--her desire to do everything perfectly, the way she only talks about it, beliving rumors about her opponent Josh Bentz--Keya pulls Mia into a dressing room at a resale shop and privately calls her out over it--and how she's been treating Ruby as an embarassment. Mia doesn't take it well.

* ChildhoodFriends: With Leo--until his bad attitude and lack of interests outside of gaming make Leo want ot end the friendship.

[[folder:Izzy Silver]]

[[folder:Katie]]

[[folder:Mia]]

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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: He tells Jaime this when she's upset about no longer being part of Celia's girl posse.

!!Briana Davis

* EarlyBirdCameo: Dev introduces his parents and older sister Keya to Briana in ''Positively Izzy.'' Keya becomes a major secondary character in ''Remarkably Ruby'' as one of Mia's two best friends.

! Secondary Narrators
[[folder:Katie]]
!!Katie
The secondary narrator of ''Invisible Emmie'', who is pretty, popular, smart, and beloved with the perfect life. TheReveal at the end of explains that she's in fact a creation by Emmie to represent the girl she wished she could be.

[[folder:Anthony Randall]]
!!Anthony Randall

Tyler's best friend and Brianna's initial crush.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: His race is unstated.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre:
--> '''Anthony:''' Y'know, I never really knew why you're friends with Celia, anyways.
--> '''Jaime:''' ''(defensive)'' Why, 'cause she so pretty and popular?
--> '''Anthony:''' No. [[ItsAllAboutMe 'Cause all she cares about is herself. She's a phony.]] [[BeYourself You're just]] ''[[BeYourself you]]'' Jai. ''That's'' why I think you're cool.

[[folder:Dev Devar]]
!!Dev Devar

A smart student like Brianna who performs with her in the Talent Show.

* AlliterativeName: Dev Devar.

[[folder:Joe Lungo]]
!!Joe Lungo
A Class Clown who (initially) doesn't know when to quit.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Joe starts out as nothing more than a ClassClown and bully who makes many people, especially Emmie, the target of his jokes; he even goes so far as to take a poem she wrote and try to embarrass her by reading it aloud to her crush and his best friend, Tyler. After Emmie's outburst at him in ''Truly Tyler'' and his subsequent HeelRealization, he apologizes to Emmie directly for how he's treated her and tries to make it up to her by sending her a private message on [[BlandNameProduct SnapGab]] showing how uncreative the people who insulted her in a meme were, finding out who did it, and making them take it down. The next time he's seen in ''Remarkably Ruby'', he's seen apologizing to Ruby for hitting her with a spitball, and by ''Surprisingly Sarah'' while he's still a jokester, he's much less cruel.
* HiddenDepths: Sarah states how Joe's dancing at the spring dance helped cheer her up and she wishes more people would realize he's a nice person under all the class clowning.

[[folder:Danielle Silver]]
!!Danielle Silver
Izzy's responsible older sister, a sophomore in high school. [[spoiler:And Brianna's Aunt Dani.]]

* TheDutifulDaughter: Since their mother has to work odd shifts at the hospital, Dani takes on most of the cooking and cleaning
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She is the responsible elder sister to both her younger sisters Izzy and Ash; since they're the daughters of a single mother, Dani takes over tasks such as cooking dinner and straightening up the house. She also bosses Izzy and Ash around.

[[folder:Ashley Silver]]
!!Ashley Silver
Izzy's younger sister who she's closer to, only fourteen months younger and in sixth grade. [[spoiler:And Brianna's Aunt Ash.]]

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: The youngest of the three girls.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She ''and'' her sister Izzy are the foolish ones compared to their older sister Danielle.
* QueerEstablishingMoment: Izzy knows that Ash sneaks out of the house often to go to her friend Meghan's house, where the two girls look at the dirty magazines that belong to Meghan's dad. [[spoiler:Brianna reveals in the epilogue of ''Positively Izzy'' that that her mother's freewheeling younger sister has a female partner, Tina, and they have two kids together--without using Ashley's name. Her name is used in ''Becoming Brianna'' and ''You-niquely You''.]]
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[[folder:Celia]]
!!Celia
The head of Maya and Jamie's girl posse, who judges others, talks about everyone, and manipulates almost everyone around her--and gets away with it.
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[[folder:Leah]]
!!Leah
A shy, poetic seventh grader who becomes Ruby's friend.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: ZigZagged. Technically, she’s not embarrassing her daughter Brianna in the typical way; instead she is the CoolTeacher, and everyone loves her for being so creative and outgoing with her classes. But that’s the problem--Izzy is so fun and perky and a lot of Bri’s classmates compare them to each other, knowing they're related. Imagine how embarrassing it must be when your peers think ''your mom'' is cooler than you.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Izzy is always distracted in class, and many of her teachers say in reports that she is smart and talented but needs to learn how to focus. This is a symptom of ADHD but a diagnosis is never stated for her. This makes sense once it's clear that her part of the story is set at over two decades in the past and so in a time where a diagnosis--especially for girls--wasn't always easy to obtain.

* CoolTeacher: She grows up to be this trope. She lets her English students perform literature instead of just reading it, and all the students love her. This however, only serves to make the fact she's now her teaching at Brianna’s school even more awkward for Brianna, as everyone thinks Izzy is much cooler than her brainy daughter and constantly compare the two.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Anthony tells Jaime that she's the coolest girl he knows when the latter tells him that her former GirlPosse thinks she isn’t cool enough for them. He later gives Jaime another one when she’s leaving the pool to go home.