Emily | The Dog | Nathan | Grandma | Roger | Maddie | James
Emily
is a vivacious five-year old girl who shares a small house with her Grandma, her brother Nathan, and a big dog. Despite her young age, Emily is a natural leader with a love of adventure and high-spirited mischief. Emily’s favorite color is turquoise, and her favorite bands are Shonen Knife and Madness.
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The Dog
is five years old and relatively quiet and patient. A boxer – retriever mutt. He’s Emily’s constant loyal friend even though he doesn’t understand a lot of the stuff she’s talking about.
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Nathan
is a sixteen year old student at the Nikola Tesla high school, and older brother to Emily. Nathan works very hard to be the very best inventor and engineer. He’s basically a nice guy, but he’s prone to fits of hubris and somewhere along the way he has confused respect for popularity.
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Grandma
pretty much runs the show at the house she shares with Emily, Nathan and the Dog. Grandma loves her many cats, especially the gray tabby named Max and a black shorthair named Spooky. Grandma hates the internet because she thinks it’s nasty.
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Roger
is Nathan’s chief rival at Nikola Tesla High School. He’s just as smart as Nathan, but a bit more tricky and devious, and blessed with good looks, confidence, and a wealthy family. Roger is a huge Pink Floyd fan. Roger excels at building small and cute robots, like “Little Protonski.”
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Maddie
is another rival student of Nathan’s at the Nikola Tesla High School. Maddie is generous and hard-working, and looks to the future with optimism that technology in the right hands will make the world a better place.
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James
is Nathan’s best friend and a student at the Nikola Tesla High School. James has awkward manners, is often depressed and consumed with self-loathing. At times he has a similar loathing for the world in general. James understands insects and robots better than humans. He’s very good at building robots that look like insects.
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More character profiles will be added when they appear in the story.













