Talk:SFC WHAT-NOTS 53: MOST DRASTIC CHARACTER CHANGES/@comment-27335969-20190821011318

Esmerelda started out as a being made from Shadow the Hedgehog's blood and the power of the Chaos Emeralds...the most original and creative backstory ever lol. Her profile picture was one made from the furry dollmaker and she had zero character at all besides being an anti-hero turned friend towards my twin porcupines Rusty and Aynoa. She was a trickster and a con artist, but had a strong will and cared deeply for the twins. I don't even remember how she came to be or what I planned to do with her.

Post-reboot, she's lived under various names and identities throughout her life from Estelle the Hare, a completely normal mobian girl; to Zornelle the Emberman when her spirit was taken after her accidental death to replace that of Emberman girl of the same name; to a wandering spirit after she was killed again by her step brother who then possessed Rusty and Aynoa in order to have a physical body to take revenge on him; to Esmerelda the Dark, a morally-ambiguous trickster who's become a third twin to the porcupines and struggles to balance her Emberman nature of destruction and chaos with her passionate and playful heart.

I feel like that explanation didn't really do her justice, but she went from a Shadow the Hedgehog gender-bender with an unoriginal backstory to a very morally conflicted anti-hero who's goals are brought into question by her friends and who's antics and questionable choices bring tension amongst her friends in Teams Havok and Hope.