Candice Emory

'''Candice Emory is a main character and EO in the Toska series. Her powers revolve around shadows and incorporeality.'''

Appearance
With her fair skin and dark raven hair, Candice is the poster child for moody art kid. Barely standing five foot tall, she's often mistaken for being much younger than she appears. A misconception Candice thoroughly enjoys as it often means people often underestimate her and give her slack for her behavior.

Candice prefers to wear baggier clothing, often dressing in many layers to hide her shape and the things she steals. This is also in effort to hide her curvy figure, which causes her much discomfort due to her asexual nature.

Throughout her body, she has a number of scars including one on the back of her neck while detained at EON South. Currently this scar is covered with an elaborate tattoo that continues down her shoulders and back.

Personality
Toxic, selfish and immature, Candice cares little about other people's opinions and only associates with people she respects or out of necessity. Her general attitude makes her difficult to work with and she tends to work best with those with a similar chaotic nature. Due to her immaturity, she finds it difficult to form intimate relationships, and considers them a weakness and bothersome.

Candice has a strong need to express herself creatively, originally this was through graphic design and eventually through her powers. The subject of her creations is often the reflection her current thoughts and themes in her life.

From her years of isolation back at EON, Candice sees herself as a 'Monster' and her powers as an extension of herself. The Queen of Darkness, she applies her ideal world of horror to reality as she sees fit, which causes others to scoff at her attempts at being intimidating and supernatural.

Life
Born in raised in Florida, Candice was the baby and weirdo of the family. From an early age her artistic talent was recognized eventually being accepted to a prestigious high school to further develop her art skills. She also had a following online on several art communities and sold her stickers at high demand. However, this was short lived. During her senior year, she was #cancelled for doxxing fellow artists she accused of IP theft. Unapologetic for her behavior the community blacklisted her and she was forced to enter the art world the old fashion way, college accreditation.

After High school she moved to Atlanta to go to college with fellow cancelled frenemy, Giselle. Here the two girls attempted to overcome their individual failures as they start off new as college freshmen.

Death
While on a college field trip with Giselle, the charter bus got into a major accident resulting in Candice being crushed to death under several students and various debris. Blinded and surrounded by the pressure of their body weight and metal, she blindly reached out for her friend only to pass out as her rib cage collapsed under the pressure, puncturing her lungs.

While at the hospital, her powers manifested and she was soon detained by EON and house in their Atlanta facility. For two years Giselle and her lived in a shared community space with other EOs, often bullying them for their weakness. With all their free time, the two girls spent most of it planning their escape, relying on Giselle's acid powers as a means to break out. She was the more dangerous one at the time. The night before their escape attempt, EON caught onto their plans and Candice was tranquilized and relocated to the main EON facility in Merit as punishment. At Merit she was placed into a pitch black isolation cell for observation for three years.

The Break-Out
After cooperating with EON agents by providing information on Giselle, Candice was relocated to the luxurious apartment cells where other cooperative and 'harmless' EOs were stored. As the other cells were released by Strauss, the EOs in this wing remained docile and the Agents quickly secured the wing, sectioning them off from the chaos that was happening elsewhere in the facility.

The Second Break-Out
Recruited by Agent John, Candice was partnered with Agent Xavier and Agent Xiao to travel to the Palisades to spy on Strauss, Elira, Yuki and Jackson after their break-out. It took a day but with Candice's help, they were able to locate the safe house and identity all members in the breakout party. During their stakeout, they were discovered by the Strauss twins and hunted down. The dark conditions and Candice's powers helped delay the inevitable but not for long. A shoot out occurs between the two parties. Unable to win, Candice remained behind to distract the fugitive group with her shadow forms and Agent Xavier escaped.

The group was unable to hurt Candice in her shadow demon form and she too was able to escape eventually. However she was weak from her overuse of her powers, passing out on the front lawn of the base. Seeing her body, Xavier decides to leave her and eventually is captured by Elira and Yuki. Seen as useful, Candice is offered to have her tracking chips removed in return for her assistance in their escape.

New York City
Once in Queens, Candice splits off from the group and reunites with Giselle at the old bookstore apartment like they planned. From there they continue Giselle's organ harvesting business and make plans to expand to their operations to include stolen art. With money prepared they move their operations to a leased warehouse in the shipping district. Here they ran their art business as well as their blood and organ farming business. During this time she first met Cara and became quick friends.

Few days after moving their operation, the two girls get entangled with Strauss and the twins, and work for him for a time. There was some strife in their relationship as Strauss saw Candice's antics as a crutch and Giselle's behavior childish. But Strauss' intervention wasn't the only thing that plagued the girls. Giselle's relationship with former boyfriend Isaac also caused issues and resulted a major argument. Candice out of frustration of everyone telling her to be human and having to share Giselle with Isaac breaks off from the group.

On her own and no where to go, Candice took a job offer from Bill Williams to paint a mural in his house. Unfortunately while at Bill's residence she met up with Agent Xiao and forced to help work as an EON snitch. While 'working' with Xiao, she continued to help the escaped EOs, helping them travel undetected with Darkness.

The End of EON
Nearly dying from a fire bombing attack by Agent Z, Candice remained behind during the Merit EON raid and chose to patch things up with Giselle. In effort to be a true Monster, Candice studied under Cara while she occupied Leon of the Ah Kong.

Powers and Abilities

 * Shadow Manipulation: Ability to manipulate existing shadows. An early adaptation of her powers, this ability was used more like shadow puppets and lettering. These shadows have no substance and rely on existing shadows in the environment.
 * Darkness: Ability to infuse one's soul with shadow. Originally limited to physical properties of shadow, it evolved to be able to hide areas, objects or people in shadow making them visually undetectable including soul detection.  In later forms, Darkness can be manipulated into objects of substance. These objects can not move on their own.
 * Dark Sight: Ability to see in the dark and Darkness.
 * Incorporeal Form: Ability to change herself to be incorporeal. incorporeality can be be applied to objects and humans but requiring Candice's soul to merge with them, sharing her powers. This can be a threatening condition depending on the other party's compatibility.