Personality
Emma is a sassy, quick-witched, clever teenager who always has something to say or retort. The only things she takes seriously is fighting and training; and Julian. Emma is one of the adventurous type who likes to blow of steam with a good fight. There is nothing more boring than sitting in one of Diana's lectures or a patrol where nothing is going on. There is nothing more upsetting than failing to help someone or arriving too late to help someone. She is said to be the best shadowhunter of her generation but Emma says it is because she trains harder than anyone else. She has the many scars on her body to prove it, usually risking injury while training to push herself hard. She does have a more gentle side and usually reserved for Julian. Without her better half, Emma feels incomplete. Unwhole. When he is away, it tugs at her like a rubber band stretched to the breaking point.History
Link. https://shadowhunters.fandom.com/wiki/EmEmma grew up in the Los Angeles Institute as the only child to Cordelia and John Carstairs. Being at this institute meant her family was on good terms with the other family that lived there, the Blackthorns. From a young age, Emma trained at the insitute and became best friends with Julian Blackthorn, but was still close friends with the other children. When she was 12, the institute was attacked by Sebastian Morgensten. Emma escaped through a portal to Idris, but it was also attacked by Sebastian. She helped keep the other children safe during the attack of Idris. Later that day, Emma was told that her parents had died. She started a distrust of the Clave after they blamed her parents death on the Dark Shadhowhunters, even after the file she had stolen from the Consul said differently
Now an orphan, Emma was going to be sent to a dffierent Academy in Idris but she accepted Julians offer to become his parabatai. The Clave sent her back to the LA to be with the Blackthorns. When she turned 14, she and Julian had their parabatai ritual. It was afterward she was told that that Jem was also a Carstairs. When she turned 17 the events of the Lady Midnight started with the events of murders similar to her parents. She became close friends with Cristina, who had come of age and was traveling. It was also during this time when she realized her own feelings for Julian. After Emma went to investigate the cave alone, and was flushed into the ocean, Julian saved her. He told her that he was also drowning and that was how he had found her. In that moment, they both gave into their passion and slept together on the beach.
The next morning, Emma went with Cristina to follow Sterling when she told her friend what had happened the night prior. Still unsure, she entered the building when suddenly she was no longer in LA.