EMMETT MILLER.

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biography.

          Canon divergence:   In the movie, Emmett claims that he lost his two children on the first day of the invasion. I HC that Emmett actually lied about this, and that he lost his children later in two separate instances, his youngest son he lost to the creatures, and his oldest son due to some terrible people. I also HC that while his wife was indeed sick like Emmett said, there is more to the story relating to some bad people stealing the medicine that could've saved her life, which, along with his oldest son's death is what caused Emmett to lose his faith in humanity.          

A former husband, and father of two sons, Emmett was just your ordinary family man, doing his best (and admittedly sometimes struggling) to juggle his work-life, romantic life, his responsibilities as a father, social life and own hobbies. One day, while going with his two sons to a little-league baseball game that his oldest son was partaking in, a meteor could suddenly be spotted in the sky coming towards earth. The game was cut short as all the parents gathered their kids, and headed for their cars to drive to safety, Emmett and his sons included.

Skip forwards a little over 400 days, and Emmett is now surviving on his own, staying at an abandoned factory, having lost both his sons and his wife. While his youngest son was killed from the aliens that invaded earth, his oldest son and his wife died not from the creatures, but rather thanks to other survivors. He will claim that both his sons died on the first day to the alien creatures, but that is a lie to protect himself from having to talk about what really happened. He will say his wife died from illness, but that is only part of the story, leaving out the part where she could have survived if others had not showed up and stolen their medicine and most of their supplies. Leaving out the part where she convinced Emmett to put her out of her suffering because they both knew she was past the point of saving, in tremendous pain, and it was only a matter of time before the creatures would hear them and kill them both due to her no longer being able to remain quiet…

Shut down. Without hope. Filled with grief and with cynicism, Emmett has now lost all faith in other people, to the point where he wants nothing to do with them.

Some more notes on Emmett;

- He has received military training. (he has not served)

- He has a brother who was actively working in the military when the meteor crashed into earth. He has not heard from his brother since after that day and has no idea if he’s alive or not, but assumes that he is not.

- Emmett is a creative soul. Before the invasion, he loved to draw, to sculpt, and otherwise create things. After the invasion, he put his creative skills (along with his military training) to use by setting up a variety of traps around his house, and later, the factory where he’s now living in.

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