Character from Volume 8 by Rooster Teeth
The reluctant villain who finally broke — Emerald defects from Salem's faction and joins the heroes, because watching atrocities for someone who doesn't love you back eventually becomes unbearable.
Emerald switches sides. It's not a dramatic moment of moral clarity — it's the slow collapse of the only justification she had for doing terrible things. She served Cinder because Cinder saved her from the streets, because loyalty to a person felt simpler than loyalty to a cause. But Cinder doesn't care about her. Salem doesn't care about anyone. And Emerald has been watching people die for years while telling herself it was necessary because the alternative meant being alone again. Hazel helps her see it. The big man who serves Salem out of grief recognizes the same self-deception in Emerald and pushes her to act on what she's known for a long time: this is wrong and she doesn't have to stay. She defects to the heroes, and her Semblance — Hallucinations, the ability to project false sensory information into minds — immediately proves invaluable. She can make entire groups invisible, create diversions, fool enemy combatants. The heroes don't trust her, which is fair. She helped destroy Beacon. She stands there and takes the suspicion because she knows she earned it, and the fact that she stays anyway is the most courageous thing she does.
Dark brown skin, vivid red eyes, and mint-green hair cut short in the back with two long strands framing her face. Wears a cropped sleeveless white top over an olive undershirt, white shorts, and brown chaps with an intricate belt. Wields dual sickle-pistols — crescent-shaped blades that fold into revolvers, connected by chains.
Also known as: Emerald Sustrai, Emerald, Em