Emily Winchester

"'What I'm doing now? It isn't living; it's barely even surviving. My mind is rebelling against itself and I don't know how to stop it!' - Emily to Dean"Emily Winchester (b. August 12, 1979) is a human and Hunter as well as a member of the Men of Letters along with her adopted brothers Dean and Sam.

Emily is portrayed by Juniper Cannon.

Physical Appearance
Emily is 5'8", with black hair, gorgeous deep brown eyes, and freckles. She wears glasses regularly, but has contacts for using her sniper rifle. She often wears lots of layers and plaid like her brothers. In seasons 1 - 3 Emily wore a simple black jacket. From 4.09 on, she wears a dark brown leather Air Force flight jacket that she stole from some guy at a bar.

For accessories, she's accumulated a several rings and bracelets that all mean something to her. On her right index finger, she wears her mother's wedding ring. When Mary comes back in season 11, she gives this ring back to her, then replaces it with another silver ring that she puts a protection charm on. On her right ring finger, she wears the gold ring her brother Sam gave her when she was young. Rowena gifted her an iron ring to protect against ghosts and now she wears it on her left middle finger. She wears a thick black bracelet to cover up old self-harm scars.

Emily also has several meaningful tattoos on her arms and shoulders: a tally of how many times she's died, an ellipses, an emoticon smile, a cassette tape, an "X" in place of the Mark of Cain, a lynx paw, two marshmallows, three hearts for the Winchester siblings, a semicolon, and two other "border" tattoos that don't really have significance.

Personality
At the beginning of the series, Emily was more optimistic and high energy like Dean. She cared deeply about every case and this caused her to be even more devastated when things didn't go well.

As her anxiety and depression got worse, her kindness and compassion towards other people, as well as her passion seemed to grow. As much as the world brought her down, she became hardened to those low points so she couldn't ever be surprised or disappointed again. The few times she experienced pure joy throughout the series were mostly near the beginning, but occasionally when she and her brothers did stuff outside of the job.

She loves music, specifically classic and soft rock, and she's a talented writer. She's a very creative, heart-centered person who puts her all into everything she does.

Emily is a fighter, always was and will be. Near the end of the series, however, she wanted out of the business. She was done with the constant fight and the heartbreak. She was done putting hers and her brothers' lives on the line all the time. She wanted to pursue a life with Anthony. In the last year as a Hunter/Woman of Letters, she fought the hardest she's ever fought, putting her all into every last job, because if she was leaving the life, she wasn't about to go quietly.

Emily sees the world through the lens of a very good thief. She takes stock of everything she sees, everything she feels. She constructs her response by falling back on the things she believes to be fundamentals. She believes that her brother Dean is a good person. She believes that Bobby was the father she needed. She doesn't believe in god, or at least a god that has her best interests at heart. She believes that everyone has more of a potential for evil than for good. She believes that it's her job to protect Sam, make Dean smile, destroy everything that threatens that, and unfortunately that sometimes means putting herself in danger.

There's very little gray area with that, but people like Cas, Charlie, and Anthony broke her thinking up a little bit. He made her believe that someone was looking out for them. She made her believe that there was more to life than protecting her brothers. Anthony taught her that there are more good people out there than bad and and that they were a precious resource to defend with her life. Emily's a deeply passionate person and there is nothing that could stop her from heading up these beliefs.

Season One

 * Em is sour and annoyed with having to get Sam from Stanford
 * She is established to be a fantastic pickpocket and a charming female counterpart to Dean
 * Emily was adopted (clearly) by the Winchesters when she was a baby. The reason why is not revealed.
 * Em and Dean are shown to be super close, they talk to each other about everything, comfort each other about their pasts...
 * She is determined to prove herself as even more capable than her brothers, pushing herself to the limit to get the job done
 * Sam and Emily do share a resentment towards their father, but Emily moreso - she explains that John never cared for her and treated her like she was capable
 * Their relationship improves throughout the season, just by doing jobs and fighting for each other
 * Emily is the best shot of all the Winchesters

01.01

 * Em breaks her foot jumping off the woman in white bridge

01.02

 * She's kind and understanding with the people they talk to
 * She's obviously a writer, her language is more formal / distinguished than her brothers and she's always writing in her journal while their driving

01.03

 * Foot heals [Em's a Little Shit]

01.10

 * Em's beef with Sam is revealed: "You left me. Alone, with Dad. And you know the worst goddamn thing? You didn't even have the decency to say goodbye."

01.16

 * John seems saddened when Em ignores him
 * Their relationship seems to warm? Or at the very least, she tolerates him

Deaths

 * 3.16 No Rest For The Wicked - Mauled to death by Hellhounds while helping Dean fend them off. Both her and Dean were brought back by Castiel, but she suffers with severe PTSD as a result of decades of torture.
 * 5.16 Dark Side Of The Moon - The three Winchester siblings are shot by another set of hunters for starting the apocalypse. They're all brought back by Joshua.
 * 9.23 Do You Believe In Miracles - Emily is stabbed in the heart by Metatron with an angel blade. Thanks to the Mark of Cain, Emily doesn't stay dead for long and she comes back as a demon.
 * 11.17 Red Meat - Emily voluntarily kills herself (by way of overdose) in order to talk to Death, or Billie the Reaper in this case. She wanted to convince her not to take Sam, who had been shot.
 * 12.09 First Blood - Billie made a deal with the Winchesters to kill them all and bring them back so that they could escape prison.
 * 13.21 Beat The Devil - Most recently, Emily was killed by a swarm of vampires in Apocalypse World and left for dead by Sam. However, Lucifer shows up and brings her back to life -- to make a deal and get closer with his daughter.

Relationships
"'John may have given me life, but Bobby let me live.' - Emily to Dean and Sam"

Dean Winchester
Dean and Emily are exactly same age. They've had each other's back since birth and on many occasions, they've died for each other.

Sam Winchester
These two have had quite the rocky relationship. In season 3, they made up, but even then, they've never really had a "good" relationship.

Bobby Singer
Bobby and Emily have one of the best relationships in the show. Bobby was the one who Emily went to when she was fed up with her father or when she needed stability. He was cynical, but Emily was one of the only people who could break open his long-fortified shell.

Anthony Park
Emily and Anthony (Emthony) started off as business acquaintances -- he did many of her tattoos -- then they started dating in season 12. Anthony has changed her for the good. She has become more trusting and open because of his love and influence.

Amara
Amara (Emara) developed romantic feelings for Emily quickly after they met in season 11; feelings that Emily returned to a lesser degree further into the season.

Charlie Bradbury
Emily and Charlie (CharEm) started out as friends, but eventually broke off from the brothers and started dating while also taking some cases. They got really serious and the only reason their relationship ended was because Charlie was killed.

Victor Henriksen
Emily and Victor (Victem) were the most unlikely of pairings. He was an FBI agent dead set on arresting all three of the Winchesters, and she always flirted with him, throwing on the snark whenever they interacted. The second time he brought her into custody, demons infiltrated and ruined his plans to lock them up for good. Victor and Emily continually checked each other out throughout their fight. They ended the night with Victor slipping her his number and him getting tortured and murdered by Lilith.

Crowley
Emily and Crowley (CrowEm) are best friends. They started off as enemies, but through their many trials and Emily's time as a Knight of Hell, they've become very close. Emily was deeply saddened when he died and it took a long time to work through it.

Minor Relationships

 * Kevin Tran

Quotes
See page Emily Winchester Quotes.

Trivia

 * Anthony named his tattoo parlor after her (Supernatural Tattoos and Piercings). He took her hunting journal and used it to inspire the interior design.
 * After Supernatural ends, she lives with Anthony, helps him out at the parlor, and lives a normal life--for three months. One day, she takes off on a solo road trip to try and find something to satisfy her restlessness
 * That something came in the form of Daphne Littlewood and the S.E.A. (the Society of Explorers and Adventurers)