Erma Williams

Occupation

Elementary school student

Family

Sam Williams(father) Emiko Yureimoto-Williams(mother) Paternal Family Jim Williams(grandfather, deceased) Pamela Williams(grandmother) Michael Williams Freddy Williams(uncles) Regan Williams(aunt) Emily Williams(cousin) Maternal Family Osamu Yureimoto(grandfather) Amaya Yureimoto(grandmother) Fumiko Yureimoto Rin Yureimoto Ena Yureimoto Mayumi Yureimoto Yori Yureimoto(aunts) Kentaro Yureimoto(uncle) Mitsu and Momo(cousins)

Friends/Allies

Siris(pet) Amy Sylvia Sidney Miko Connor(crush) Terry(friendly rival) Her relatives and parens Mitsu and Momo Felicia(babysitter) Santa Claus Yokai Kids(formerly)

Enemies

Mitsu and Momo Sidney Rat people Santa Claus(one-sided, all formerly) Wittle Wallace Yokai Kids Toru, Kiko and Mei Connor's Sister

Appearance

Erma resembles the stereotypical Japanese ghosts in horror movies such as Sadako from The Ring. She is completely monochromatic, wearing a long white skirt and having long black hair which obscures one of her eyes most of the time. She has black sclerae with white pupils and wears white socks with black shoes. However, when enraged her entire face is shadowed and her eyes turn completely white. At night, she wears dark pajamas with skulls on them. During the summer she wears a black swimsuit and in winter she wears a blue and white scarf with earmuffs. In the Halloween special, she cosplays Roll from Mega Man and wears a red and white outfit with white gloves and a white cape, with her hair being held in a ponytail using a beartrap-like hairclip. In the Christmas special, she wears a red beanie with horns, a white scarf and a black jacket. During the Yokai Parade she wears Emiko's old outfit, which is a light kimono with the Yureimoto family crest on the sleeves, as well as a sakura obi and sakura hairpins. She also wears traditional Japanese sandals. In an April Fool's special about making the webcomic "edgier", Erma's hair was temporarily dyed pink with black tips, with a pink striped bow and several temporary piercings. Her pupils were red, and she wore an oversized ripped grey shirt with the words "RAWR" on it. She wore black spiked bangles on her arms with a red band on her right one, with her fingers being long and black tinted. She also wore red socks and black shoes. As a teenager in an April Fool's special, Erma has much shorter hair and wears a black shirt with fingerless gloves. She also wears a white dress, white socks and shoes like the ones she wore as a child. As a baby, she wore a onesie with a pattern similar to her pajamas. Currently after escaping her torment in the Jubokko tree, Erma's hair is much messier and wilder, with her entire body being completely in shadow. Her fingers are also red and claw-like, with her eyes lacking pupils and being completely red with veins flowing from them.

Personality

Being a yokai, Erma is a mischievous little girl befitting of her age, enjoying playing pranks on others. Taking delight in the macabre, she frequently uses her supernatural powers to scare people, ripping off her own skin for a show and tell on the muscular system and pulling off her own head, as well as laughing at horror movies. Erma's love for scares is so great that she apparently drives her previous babysitter, Connor's sister, to insanity, with the woman still bearing a grudge against Erma after being discharged from the mental institution. She's also shown to be somewhat of a cheater, levitating during jump rope, using telekinesis for dodgeball and phasing into a television to scare the opposing football team. Erma isn't also above threatening others as during the charity drive mini-arc, she blackmails the wealthier residents of Blair Wood into donating using a small nuke.Despite her reveling in the paranormal, it's shown that in her own life Erma is a fairly normal little girl, enjoying the popular children's cartoon Warrior Unicorn Princess and having a huge collection of its toys. This causes her to be embarrassed and causes her to hide the toys quite often, although after opening up to her babysitter Felicia and realizing her uncle Kentaro's also a fan, she becomes more open about her interests. Erma also isn't completely fearless, having a bizarre phobia of Santa Claus and being frightened by her parents when they rage at football, with her babysitter Felicia also managing to pull off a face so scary it scared Erma up the wall.Erma genuinely cares for her friends as well, with them getting hurt being the only thing that causes her to fly into a rage. This is highly exemplified in the Christmas Special where she travels all the way to the North Pole just to try and find the toy her friend Sylvia wants for Christmas from Santa Claus. Likewise, she is on good terms with her rival Terry, giving him chances to one-up her fairly although his bad luck causes them to all be for nothing.

Trivia

Despite never speaking in the comics, Erma isn't mute, as she does exclaim when she has strong emotions and does attempt to speak but is always cut off. Likewise, she actually talks to the reader in "She Speaks", but as she forgets to open the window, her voice isn't heard, and she has to leave before she can reiterate herself. Erma's infamy in her hometown has caused her family to be hounded by supernatural investigators, much to the chagrin of her father Sam who always shuts the door on them. For some reason, Erma's ear canal leads straight to a hellish dimension. Erma apparently resembles a younger version of her mother Emiko. Judging by several out-of-canon artworks done by Brandon Santiago, it appears Erma's signature smug smirk was inherited from Emiko as seen from one where the latter wears a "bikini" (really just a drawing of one scribbled onto her usual dress). Erma is banned from ingesting caffeine, as doing so will cause her to levitate everything in her vicinity in a hyperactive fit of evil laughter. Erma is shown to have rather strange eating habits typical of yokai, eating sandwiches filled with worms and bugs, requesting for cat meat as hot dog toppings and eating rocks like candy. She is also shown to have a bizarre fear of Santa Claus, having nightmares of him and his elves baking her alive as a gingerbread cookie and thus sleeps with a knife under her pillow during Christmas. This fear is so strong she beats up her uncle Kentaro when he dresses as Santa, mistaking him for Father Christmas. However, she does appear to get over this fear after the events of the Christmas special where Santa Claus is revealed to be a genuinely goodhearted and kind giant. Erma is shown to sleep-float, causing mayhem as she floats everywhere which forces Emiko to go pick her up. In a similar vein to Bloody Mary, Erma can be summoned by saying her name thrice, coupled with either lighting a pentagram of candles or looking in the mirror. This is often used by Amy and the rest of Erma's friends when they need her help

Powers/Abilities

Hanyo physiology Inhuman strength Inhuman durability Supernatural hair Flight Biological invulnerability Shapeshifting Teleportation Intangibility Invisibility Telekinesis Wall climbing Possession Limited life absorption High intelligence Black magic knowledge Trilingualism Supernatural knowledge