Emma

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Emma マチエール Material
Age	16
Gender	Female
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Black
Hometown	Lumiose City
Region	Kalos
Relatives	Looker (guardian, formerly)
Generation	VI
Games	X and Y

Emma (Japanese: マチエール Material) is a character introduced in X and Y Versions that played a major role in the post-game side story with Looker in Lumiose City.

In the games

In X and Y, Emma is a young woman living in the dark alleyways of Lumiose City with her Espurr friend, Mimi. She meets Looker and the player when they are sent on a case after concerned mothers report that their children have been hanging out in suspicious alleyways. In reality, the children were playing with, and protecting Emma and Mimi. Looker invites Emma to live at the Looker Bureau, however Emma wouldn't want to leave behind Mimi who is terrified of adults. Looker approaches Mimi and tells her she is also welcome, but Mimi runs away and the player is sent to find Mimi and return her to Emma. Once Mimi is returned, she is much friendlier to Looker and accepts Looker's invitation and the player and Looker escort Emma and Mimi back to the Looker Bureau.

During the following case, Emma returns to the Bureau to find a hysterical woman speaking Japanese angrily shouting insults about Looker, who just left thinking the woman wanted tea. Emma defends Looker as Mimi translates their conversation telepathically for the player revealing that the woman had her Pokémon stolen at the Lumiose Station. Looker returns and Mimi begins translating for Looker. He then leaves for the station and finds a trio of thugs there who admit to stealing the woman's Pokémon. After they are defeated by the player, Emma shows up and demands they return the Pokémon to the woman. The thugs reveal that Emma unintentionally became their boss after she beat them in a fight and they recognized her strength as leadership.

During the third case, Emma approaches Looker and asks him if she and Mimi are a burden to him financially. He assures her that they have enough money to get by, and encourages her to focus on her studies. Still feeling guilty, Emma sets off to look for work at a café she saw that was looking for workers. It turned out that the café was Lysandre café and that Emma was actually tricked into being Xerosic's guinea pig to test out his new invention, the Expansion Suit, and was given the codename Essentia (Japanese: エスプリ Esprit). She is equipped with super-human jumping abilities, and camouflage. During that time, Emma was unconscious and completely unaware of her actions. From her perspective, she was taking a nap inside the suit. For days she helped Xerosic perfect his invention until finally she was ready. As a test run, he made her travel to the Lumiose Museum and vandalize a painting. To his surprise, Emma had no Pokémon of her own, so he let her borrow some of his Pokémon. However, the Pokémon preferred playing with Emma over battling. This left Xerosic no other choice but to control the suit remotely.

She began lurking in dark alleys and challenging unsuspecting people to battle where she would steal their Poké Balls afterwards. This caught the attention of Looker who comes up with a plan to find the culprit and return all the Poké Balls. He instructs the player to be bait to catch the perpetrator, but when they finally corner her and Looker realizes it's Emma, she begins to sever Xerosic's control over the suit and unintentionally attacks Looker after Mimi tried to snap her out of her trance.

The following day, the player is sent to apprehend Xerosic at Lysandre Labs. After defeating Essentia once again, Looker arrives and demands that Xerosic release Emma. Xerosic agrees, and lets Emma go and allows Looker to send him away. After Xerosic is brought to justice, Looker reveals to Emma that he is a member of the International Police, and he must leave to continue his civic duty. However, he feels strongly towards Emma and in order to help ensure she has a bright future, purchases the entire building where Looker Bureau was located, and instructs Emma to use it however she sees fit. She vows to keep Lumiose safe with the abilities the Expansion Suit have given her and keeps the name Essentia as her codename. The player can return to the Looker Bureau at any time and challenge Emma to a rematch.

Pokémon

Mimi

During her time as Essentia, she used Xerosic's Pokémon. After he was arrested however, he left his Pokémon in her care.

First battle

Suspicious Woman "???" Lumiose City X and Y Suspicious Woman and Professor "???" Oak Lumiose City X and Y Reward: $8,400
Types: Water Ghost Ability: Water Absorb Held item: None Jellicent♂ Lv.58 Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Types: Fire Bug Ability: Flame Body Held item: None Volcarona♀ Lv.60 Quiver Dance Bug Status   --       Silver Wind Bug Special   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --

Second battle

Suspicious Child "???" Lumiose City X and Y Suspicious Child and Professor "???" Oak Lumiose City X and Y Reward: $1,824

Types: Grass Fairy Ability: Unknown Held item: None Whimsicott♀ Lv.57 Tailwind Flying Status   --       Moonblast Fairy Special   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Types: Fairy Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Granbull♂ Lv.57 Play Rough Fairy Physical   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Types: Steel Fairy Ability: Hyper Cutter Held item: None Mawile♀ Lv.57 Stockpile Normal Status   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --

Third battle

Suspicious Lady "???" Lumiose City X and Y Suspicious Lady and Professor "???" Oak Lumiose City X and Y Reward: $960
Types: Normal Unknown Ability: Unknown Held item: None Persian♀ Lv.60 Slash Normal Physical   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --

Fourth battle

Pokémon Trainer Essentia Lysandre Labs X and Y Pokémon Trainer and Professor Essentia Oak Lysandre Labs X and Y Reward: $9,240
Types: Water Ghost Ability: Water Absorb Held item: None Jellicent♂ Lv.64 Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Types: Fire Bug Ability: Flame Body Held item: None Volcarona♀ Lv.66 Quiver Dance Bug Status   --       Silver Wind Bug Special   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --

Fifth battle

Pokémon Trainer Essentia Lysandre Labs X and Y Pokémon Trainer and Professor Essentia Oak Lysandre Labs X and Y Reward: $8,820

Types: Grass Fairy Ability: Unknown Held item: None Whimsicott♀ Lv.63 Tailwind Flying Status   --       Moonblast Fairy Special   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Types: Fairy Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Granbull♂ Lv.63 Play Rough Fairy Physical   --       Payback Dark Physical   --       Crunch Dark Physical   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Types: Steel Fairy Ability: Hyper Cutter Held item: None Mawile♀ Lv.63 Stockpile Normal Status   --       Play Rough Fairy Physical   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --

Sixth battle

Pokémon Trainer Essentia Lysandre Labs X and Y Pokémon Trainer and Professor Essentia Oak Lysandre Labs X and Y Reward: $9,240
Types: Normal Unknown Ability: Unknown Held item: None Persian♀ Lv.66 Captivate Normal Status   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --

Seventh match

Pokémon Trainer Essentia Lysandre Labs X and Y Pokémon Trainer and Professor Essentia Oak Lysandre Labs X and Y Reward: $9,800
Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Crobat♂ Lv.68 Haze Ice Status   --       Poison Fang Poison Physical   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Types: Dark Psychic Ability: Unknown Held item: None Malamar♂ Lv.70 Psycho Cut Psychic Physical   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --

Looker Bureau rematch

Pokémon Trainer Essentia Looker Bureau X and Y Pokémon Trainer and Professor Essentia Oak Looker Bureau X and Y Reward: $10,500
Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Crobat♂ Lv.73 Haze Ice Status   --       Poison Fang Poison Physical   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Types: Dark Psychic Ability: Unknown Held item: None Malamar♂ Lv.75 Psycho Cut Psychic Physical   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --

Names

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