Emma was the youngest of two sisters. Her elder sister was deemed sterile, a disappointment for the family which had suffered losses in the second of the Sabbat Civil Wars. Emma suffered no such deficiency and was married at the age of eleven to Raoul Ambre, a member of an offshoot of the family in Biloxi, in order to bring it back into the fold. Only a child, all she could do was submit to the will of her family and her husband. The first childe arrived two years later, shortly after her thirteenth birthday, to the joy of both lines.
Unlike many of her kin, though, she was possessed of a singular will and sharp mind which soon became apparent when she grew old enough to hold her own against her elders. However, rather than make her rebel against her husband, she sought to be complicant in his schemes, adding her own advice and observations. Appreciative, though wary, soon he learned to rely upon her as he pursued his ambitions within the family and without. Her intelligence wasn't noticed by he alone, however, but also by the shadowy kindred lurking on the periphery of the household. When Jean-Michel decided to take a new childe to act as student, it was Emma whom he chose.
Disturbed and enthralled at the prospect of unlife, in the end it was Emma's own ambition that won her over. She gave up her life on her thirtieth birthday and joined their ranks. She proved to be a magnificent student, all of the secret delvings into the family library paying off as she was sent to research various and sundry occult topics for her sire. As her ambitions began to surpass her husband, who grew increasingly skeptical about her loyalty to him, she withdrew from family affairs to concentrate almost exclusively on her supernatural studies.
She's even taken to being close-mouthed about her progress in her studies, so that she can take greater liberty in directing them. As such, her sire isn't aware of half the rituals she's mastered, nor that she's on the verge of being able to see into the spirit realms. However, he is wary of her ambition, as he isn't a fool. He's actually relying on it to provide results and, should it become inconvenient to him, he has no compunction against being rid of her. She has no clue of this, however, and has grown overconfident in her position as favored childe and star pupil.
Emma is almost too intelligent for her own good. She has grown confident of her advantage and has been getting cocky, and it reflects in her manner. She has become increasingly condescending in what little interaction she has with her kin, even towards her husband, with whom she is trying to be careful. She has also grown very possessive of her sire's attention and has come to resent any, Father Joseph and Beranger among them, who provide him with 'distractions'.
While she feels superior, she still loves her family deeply and, though she doesn't realize it most of the time, would be lost without them. However, she feels that her greater intellect and power have earned her the right to be in charge and this has turned her ambition on them. She is currently scheming for a means to undermine her sister's influence and has taken to trying to replace Marie-Thérèse in her sire's estimation. None of these endeavors is bearing much fruit, much to her frustration.
She had become great friends with her husband, even if she never loved him, and the two worked well together in their petty scheming. Since her Embrace, however, she has grown more and more to view these past pursuits and puerile and her husband as inferior to herself and the company she now keeps. She has grown more and more distant from his as time has passed, a fact which makes Raoul angrier and angrier.
She respects her sire greatly and doesn't mean to compete with him as much as she wants to be able to advance at her own pace in order to better serve him (and herself), which is close to his own sentiment for allowing it to continue. She's competitive with the Brasseaux matriarch and feels herself well above Gil and Gui, who she considers little more than lapdogs. As for the non-Tzimisce kindred, she bears them proper respect but is wary of them. Father Sicard because of his strange religious mania and Henri because of his uncertain loyalties and motivations.
Emma's affection towards her own children has grown as distant as her feelings for her family. The way Sevis turned out has fed this somewhat and she is more than willing to let her sister deal with them all, if it will keep her off of her back. At times, however, she enters dark depressions when she feels the loss of those things she's sacrificed for her newfound power.