The Fantasmic Kingdom Encyclopedia

• “I think that Alice, Hercules, and Esmeralda have the most beautiful eyes that I've ever seen.”
• When asked if Glass Abbey scared her at all: “Yes, a bit. I cannot remember which part it was, but I once considered looking behind me in broad daylight to make sure that nothing was in the doorway ... ^^;”

• Voted "Shyest" of her 2003 high school senior class.
• Awarded "Employee of the Month" for September 2006.
• Has been drawing since she was four years old.
• Supposedly ambidextrous at an early age; eventually chose left hand, but has always used the computer mouse with her right. Still ambidextrous? (Look at the bright side, Emma: at least we're no longer burning you people at the stakes!--Ed.)
  
• Enjoys collecting diaries and journals, however, never writes in them.
• Her favourite inventions consist of: letter openers, chap stick, and shoe gels.
• Her favourite colour is green.
• Despite a ferocious dislike of fan hysteria, celebrity worship, and rampant sexual liberation in the masses, cannot repress affection for the father of all three: Elvis Presley.
• Has seen both Tate Donovan (Hercules) and Susan Egan (Megara) perform in person; Donovan in 2006's The Rabbit Hole, and Egan in 1992's Beauty and the Beast.
• Other met "Disney celebrities" include: Andreas Deja (supervising animator for Gaston, Jafar, Scar, and Hercules); Ron Clements (co-director of The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, and Treasure Planet); and the wonderfully spirited and alarmingly beautiful Irene Bedard (voice and model for Pocahontas).
• Rediscovered Alice in Wonderland and The Sword in the Stone, thanks to Joseph.
• Like Joseph, being born prematurely did not affect her height: stands 5'9". That is one inch shorter than Walt Disney.
  

• Cinderella (Cinderella)
• Hercules (Hercules)
• Jane Porter (Tarzan)

Joseph: I am happy to provide commentary for Emma (Emmatary!). It is very difficult to talk about her without mentioning how much respect I have for her. As is the case with all of my closest friends, I will never know how I lived without Emma; we met at roughly the same time she debuted in Fantasmic Kingdom: August of the year 2003. This means that Emma is celebrating her fifth anniversary in Fantasmic Kingdom, and so it’s high time to talk about her! Since I have already written commentaries for Hercules and Cinderella, I will just focus on why Emma is one of my favorite role-players, as well as one of my most beloved friends. 

Timid, soft-spoken, exceedingly pretty and entirely feminine, Emma is among the sweetest, most caring ladies I’ve ever known. Add her 5’10” height into the mix, and you have a lady who’s even more unique. During the five years we’ve known each other, I’ve seen Emma as another elder sister; though we have our differences we have many similarities (our mutual, passionate love for Disney is perhaps our strongest). We have been through countless situations with each other in mind; there has been many times when one of us comforted another when life was rough, and we have talked to each other for hours on end just because I love talking to her (we once had a phone conversation that lasted over three hours. No joke!). And, to put it bluntly, Fantasmic Kingdom just would not be the same without her.

As a role-player, Emma is amazingly descriptive and articulate. She has the gift of typing posts that would make any amateur writer blush, and she applies lush, vivid description to her characters without effort (at least, it seems that way). Unlike me, a guy who role-plays nearly twenty characters in Fantasmic Kingdom, Emma only has three characters to her name. This is because Emma chooses precisely what character works best for her, so she can fully unleash the character’s potential and give them threads hell!

Funnily enough, Emma and I seem to role-play against type, or at least when it comes to our primary characters. Emma plays as Hercules while I play Alice. She is female and plays a male, while I am male and play a girl. Also, Emma is far more elegant and proper than I, as I am much more like a big blockhead than she. The only similarity between Hercules and Alice against Emma and Joseph is that Hercules/Emma is older than Alice/Joseph. (As a matter of fact, Emma is six months older than yours truly.) 

Although Hercules and Alice is the Emma/Joseph pairing in Fantasmic Kingdom, I simply love playing as any character with her. Emma is a beautiful, charming, loyal, wonderful friend, and Fantasmic Kingdom would just not feel right without her. The same goes for life in general; life would not feel right without her.

So, Emma, I just want to personally say thank you. Thank you for everything. We have shared five years together, and I only wish that we’ll share many, many more. And thank you for moving to San Rafael; you live only two and a half hours away from I, but you also live only fifteen minutes away from Amanda! You have no idea how ideal that is for both of us, Emma Monster. (Joseph, July 2008)