Your Character is the main protagonist of The Freshman, The Sophomore, The Junior and The Senior series respectively.
Although her default name is "Emily Day", the player can choose to name her as they wish. She is a student at Hartfeld University and later graduated in The Senior, Chapter 15.
Appearance
Your appearance is customizable according to the player's preferences.
Personality
Your personality depends on the player's choices but can be generally perceived as a helpful, amiable and confident person.
Chapters
The Freshman
Book 1
- Chapter 1: Welcome to Hartfeld University
- Chapter 2: Rooftop Games
- Chapter 3: The Assistant
- Chapter 4: The All-Nighter
- Chapter 5: Game Day
- Chapter 6: Kappa House Party
- Chapter 7: Rush Week
- Chapter 8: On the Hunt
- Chapter 9: Sorority Ball, Part 1
- Chapter 10: Sorority Ball, Part 2
- Chapter 11: The Birthday Girl, Part 1
- Chapter 12: The Birthday Girl, Part 2
- Chapter 13: The Birthday Girl, Part 3
- Chapter 14: The Ashton Affair
- Chapter 15: The Professor's Daughter
- Chapter 16: Last Call
- Chapter 17: The Hartfeld Formal
Chris: Luxury Getaway
- Chapter 1: Chris: Luxury Getaway
James: Masquerade Ball
- Chapter 1: James: Masquerade Ball
Kaitlyn: The Perfect Date
- Chapter 1: Kaitlyn: The Perfect Date
Snowed In
- Chapter 1: Snowed In
- Chapter 2: Snow Worries
Book 2
- Chapter 1: Winter in Hartfeld
- Chapter 2: Welcome Back Party
- Chapter 3: Auditions
- Chapter 4: Playing the Part
- Chapter 5: Stage Kiss
- Chapter 6: The Cast Party
- Chapter 7: The Talk
- Chapter 8: The Hospital
- Chapter 9: Just Friends
- Chapter 10: Ballot Boxing
- Chapter 11: Visitors
- Chapter 12: The Debate
- Chapter 13: Swing Vote Sixties
- Chapter 14: Inauguration Night
- Chapter 15: Setting Sail
Book 3
- Chapter 1: New Leaves
- Chapter 2: A Place to Belong
- Chapter 3: New Kid on the Block
- Chapter 4: Budgetary Concerns
- Chapter 5: Bad Reputation
- Chapter 6: A Kappa Birthday
- Chapter 7: Rebel With a Cause
- Chapter 8: Misadventures in Babysitting
- Chapter 9: Until We Meet Again
- Chapter 10: Caught in the Middle
- Chapter 11: Rock 'Roll' Hartfeld
- Chapter 12: Flirting With Disaster
- Chapter 13: California Dreaming
- Chapter 14: Karma Chameleon
- Chapter 15: Take a Chance on Me
- Chapter 16: Never Gonna Give You Up
- Chapter 17: Don't You (Forget About Me)
Book 4
- Chapter 1: Rockin' Down the Highway
- Chapter 2: (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
- Chapter 3: Summer Wine
- Chapter 4: Can't Buy Me Love
- Chapter 5: Born to be Wild
- Chapter 6: Hungry Like the Wolf
- Chapter 7: Bad Moon Rising
- Chapter 8: Stand By Me
Game of Love
- Chapter 1: May the Best Couple Win
- Chapter 2: Everyone's A Winner
Love Bites
- Chapter 1: The Bite
- Chapter 2: Blood Wanted
The Sophomore
Book 1
- Chapter 1: Semi-Charmed Life
- Chapter 2: Carry Me Home
- Chapter 3: Run-Around
- Chapter 4: Bills, Bills, Bills
- Chapter 5: Party Up
- Chapter 6: Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Chapter 7: Livin' La Vida Loca
- Chapter 8: I Want It That Way
- Chapter 9: Barbie Girls
- Chapter 10: Animal Instinct
- Chapter 11: Sabotage
- Chapter 12: Get What You Give
- Chapter 13: You Oughta Know
- Chapter 14: Unbreak My Heart
- Chapter 15: Bitter Sweet Symphony
- Chapter 16: Baby One More Time
- Chapter 17: It's The End of the World as We Know It
Book 2
- Chapter 1: Hanging by a Moment
- Chapter 2: Everything Will be Alright
- Chapter 3: Independent Woman
- Chapter 4: Come Away With Me
- Chapter 5: Take a Bow
- Chapter 6: Daddy Wasn't There
- Chapter 7: Try Again
- Chapter 8: Family Affairs
- Chapter 9: Bye Bye Bye
- Chapter 10: Get the Party Started
- Chapter 11: Beautiful Day
- Chapter 12: Just Dance
- Chapter 13: U Got it Bad
- Chapter 14: Graduation (Friends Forever)
- Chapter 15: Not Ready to Make Nice
Hartfeld Horror Story
- Chapter 1: Stranger Than Fanfiction
- Chapter 2: I Know What You Did Last Quarter
The Junior
Book 1
- Chapter 1: Live While We're Young
- Chapter 2: A Head Full of Dreams
- Chapter 3: Shake it Off
- Chapter 4: We Can't Stop
- Chapter 5: Somebody That I Used to Know
- Chapter 6: Problem
- Chapter 7: We Are Young
- Chapter 8: Bad Blood
- Chapter 9: Pray You Catch Me
- Chapter 10: Set Fire to the Rain
- Chapter 11: Sorry
- Chapter 12: Rolling in the Deep
- Chapter 13: Look What You Made Me Do
The Senior
- Chapter 1: Don't Stop Me Now
- Chapter 2: Year of the Cat
- Chapter 3: Atomic Punk
- Chapter 4: Mr. Blue Sky
- Chapter 5: The Jungle Line
- Chapter 6: We Are The Champions
- Chapter 7: Hooked on a Feeling
- Chapter 8: Video Killed the Radio Star
- Chapter 9: Rebel Rebel
- Chapter 10: Imagine
- Chapter 11: Go Your Own Way
- Chapter 12: Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- Chapter 13: London Calling
- Chapter 14: Come And Get Your Love
- Chapter 15: Changes
Character Personalization
Face and Hair
Outfit Choices
The Freshman
Outfit Choices in Holiday Specials and Premium Dates
The Sophomore
Halloween Special
The Junior
The Senior
Your Character's Article on Alpha Theta Mu
Miscellaneous
Trivia
- She is shown on the covers of The Freshman, Book 1, The Freshman, Book 2, The Freshman, Book 3, The Freshman, Book 4, The Freshman: Snowed In, The Sophomore, Book 1, The Sophomore: Hartfeld Horror Story, The Sophomore, Book 2, The Junior, Book 1, and The Senior.
- While there is no default name in The Freshman, from The Sophomore onwards, her default name is set to "Emily".
- The default name, Emily, is of Latin origin, which means: rival, trying to equal, excel, industrious, striving.
- Her default last name is not given until Chapter 1 of The Senior.
- If the default first name Emily is kept, she will share the same first name as Dr. Emily Chambal, Dan Pierce's therapist who only appears in It Lives In The Woods via text messages in a premium scene.
- If the default last name Day is kept, she as well as Maureen and Stephen will share the same last name as Your Character (Mother of the Year) and her Daughter.
- While there is no default name in The Freshman, from The Sophomore onwards, her default name is set to "Emily".
- The developers changed her appearance in November 2016 to improve the diversity of the game.[1]
- In The Freshman, Book 1, Chapter 3, Twombly asks you what special skills you have, if you choose "I'm a star athlete!", Your Character will reveal that in high school, she played volleyball, soccer, and softball and that she also set up an intermural dodgeball league.
- It is implied in The Freshman, Book 1, Chapter 1, that had Your Character and Becca not gotten off on the wrong foot, she might have been recruited for Kappa Phi Sigma by Madison or even Becca herself.
- As of February 21, 2019, she and Becca Davenport appear as the new icon on social media across their various social media sites.[2]
- In The Sophomore, Book 1, Chapter 15, if you have gained enough confidence for her, James will reveal to her that the National Association of Student Journalism has contacted him and that Your Character is the recipient of their coveted Lauderdale-Poulson Award.
- If Your Character has been dating Chris, Kaitlyn or James since the beginning of The Freshman series, the two of you celebrate your one year anniversary in The Sophomore, Book 2, Chapter 4.
- Your character publishes her book called "The Freshman" in Chapter 5 of The Sophomore, Book 2.
- In The Sophomore, Book 2, Chapter 13, your character declares her major in English.
- In The Sophomore, Book 2, Chapter 15, your love interest will ask you if you want to move in together.
- Alternatively, if Your Character is single, Zack will be the one to ask you if you want to move in together.
- In The Junior, she shares the same number of love interests (6) with Kenna Rys from The Crown & The Flame and Your Character (America's Most Eligible) who both have 6 love interests by the end of their respective series.
- The newspaper that publishes Your Character's article on Alpha Theta Mu depends on the number of clues on the evidence board.
- If only 2 clues have been found, the newspaper is the Knightly News.
- If 3 to 7 clues have been found, the newspaper is the Hartfeld Daily.
- If all 8 clues have been found, the newspaper is the National Times.
- At the end of The Junior, Chapter 13, it is revealed that due to Your Character's exposé on Alpha Theta Mu, the folks at Vangness Magazine read her article and offered her a summer internship before her the start of her senior year.
- In The Senior, she becomes the second main character where players get to see both biological mother and father.
- In Chapter 1, you are able to choose her academic focus: fiction, journalism or playwriting.
- In Chapter 15, she receives a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in English. She graduates Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude (the second highest level of academic prestige) or Summa Cum Laude (the highest level of academic prestige) - depending on how many items you purchased for your memory box.
- In The Senior, Chapter 12, Your Character goes to London after a falling-out with either her love interest (if she has one) or Zack (if she is single).
- If she has a love interest, they will follow her to London and in Chapter 14, you are able to choose if you want them to get back together or to break up. If you choose to reconcile, you get to choose if you want her to follow her love interest and give up the job offer in London or if you want to take the job in London, her love interest will move to London to join her.
- If she and her love interest have reconciled, her love interest will propose in Chapter 15, and it is up to you to decide if she accepts or rejects the proposal.