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Emily

As an immediate and fitting follow up to the previous write up, we have Emily right at the next spot. To be honest I'm once again having 'why is Haley #7 though' syndrome. Pretty much as soon as I finished writing up Caroline I realized that she should probably be ranked higher. What does Emily have that Caroline doesn't? Well, she's the only person in Stardew Valley who seems like she might be around 30 years old that I can actually marry. I think Caroline is a lot more interesting and attractive. But I guess the fact that I can't really date her does hurt her ranking quite a bit.

The other thing I really like about Emily is how tall she is. I've always been really into really tall women, and Emily basically towers over all of the other female marriage candidates, and most of the people in Stardew Valley in general. If you compare her sprite she is about equal in size to the Farmer... she can even seem taller depending on your hairstyle and how you are standing. This is probably the first thing that immediately attracted me to her character when I first saw her in the game. Finding out she was actually a more mature available marriage candidate made her even more appealing.



So ultimately what holds Emily back from an even higher ranking is that, while yes, she does have some specific qualities that I rank very highly, I don't think her overall personality is too exciting or interesting beyond that. Emily is a little bit weird -- and I do actually like weird characters -- but aside from that she just seems like a person who doesn't have too many specific comments to make. Her quirky behavior quirks can only go so far when she has very general dialogue. Not quite as bad as someone like Kent, but yeah, I never felt like her personality was conveyed very well beyond her most basic traits.

All of those basic traits are good, but the I hold the standard for Stardew Valley characters pretty high when you have people like Penny and Haley to compete with. Even Harvey opens up and shares his regrets with the player. What do I know about Emily after dating her and being married to her? She likes crystals. And kale. And dancing.

Honestly this write up more sounds like I am trying to trash Emily but the truth is that I do still like her quite a bit. I guess I'm just struggling to convey her good qualities while it's kinda easy to explain the stuff that holds her back from a top 3 placement. I like her hair and her design. Her faces can be a little creepy and robotic looking sometimes, and she doesn't have any expressive and humorous face portraits like Abigail, Haley, and even Leah or Maru.

The new sewing machine is heavily associated with Emily as a character, so I will say that this is another point in her favor. It was always pretty clear that she was a character who was into fashion, having more props to support this character trait isn't bad. But, even better, is the ability to make your own clothes in the game now and this adds tons more customizable options for what you can wear. Heck yeah!



As a spouse, Emily is pretty good. She actually continues to work, she's a very selfless and kind spouse. I wouldn't say she is SUPER affectionate and lovey dovey compared to some of the others but she is kind and does compliment the player, as well as helping out around the farm pretty frequently. I'm not 100% sure if the 'helping out around the farm' event trigger is completely random or if some spouses do it more than others, but I always felt like Emily was helping out A LOT.

Ultimately, Stardew Valley has one serious problem when it comes to marriage candidates. For some reason everyone in the town is either 20 years old or 40+ years old. Instead of having 30 year old marriage candidates, CocnernedApe made all of the 40+ year old wives and mothers look 30 and also made it so you can't marry them. It's really unfortunate to say this but Emily mostly just benefits from an issue of supply and demand. There is a demand for characters to fill this niche, and she is literally the only candidate. She kinda defaults to being higher ranked just because of this.

Still, she is a unique character who has her own charms, and she is definitely worth befriending or even marrying if you like her. If she was actually BAD I wouldn't have been into her, no matter what her age was.

Oh yeah. She has a really cute nose. I can't believe I almost forgot to mention that...

You will also get a unique pet parakeet if you marry her, so there is that. Actually the cutscene where she finds the bird is probably one of my favorite in the game, and makes me laugh every time. The way she goes "My friends!" while the birds are flying by just cracks me up for some reason.

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