Emma Emmerich



Emma Emmerich is a character in the video game Metal Gear Solid 2. She is the sister of Hal Emmerich, also called Otacon.

When she was young, Emma lived with her brother, father and stepmother, and was very happy, sharing a close relationship with her brother. However, she became distanced from Hal after a tragic incident in which her father drowned and Emma herself nearly died. She was calling for Hal, but he didn't hear her, and thus didn't come to help. Emma was scarred by the experience and thus Hal and Emma became separated after the death. It was this incident which gave Emma a phobia of water.

As she grew up, Emma's remarkable talent for computers and technology became apparent. Whilst many details about her early life are unknown, she was eventually recruited by The Patriots and set to work on programming a highly advanced AI called GW, which would be used by the Patriots to control the flow of information and the imparting of Memes between the generations. Despite working for them, Emma knew very little about the organisation.

During the Big Shell incident, the facility developing Arsenal Gear, the armed mobile fortress which would house GW, was captured, and Emma was held as a hostage. Raiden, the chief protagonist of the game, was sent to rescue her, which he did after navigating a collapsed passage, which was flooded with water, and defeating Vamp, a member of Dead Cell, the group which captured the Big Shell. Raiden helped Emma to overcome her phobia, and the two of them made it back to the stable section of the Big Shell.

In order to meet with Solid Snake and Otacon, Emma had to cross a series of oil pipes, since the main bridge connecting the two halves of the facility had collapsed. Raiden defended her by covering her with a sniper rifle, but as she neared the end of the final pipe, she was attacked by Vamp, who had survived two deaths as a result of his supernatural powers. Although Raiden killed him 'again' by shooting him, Vamp stabbed Emma as he used her as a human shield.

Snake carried Emma to an office, where she could administer a computer virus that would disable GW. There she was reunited with her brother, and managed to install the virus. Tragically, despite the best efforts of Snake and Otacon, her bleeding wouldn't stop, and Emma died in her brother's arms. Her last words were "Please, call me Emma."