Emma Lau
Emma is Charlie Landers' best friend and an avid fan of Hero Rising. Her avatar is Dark Tamara.
Physical Appearence
Emma is a 17 year old Asian girl, possibly from China (as her surname, Lau, suggests). She is ussually seen with puffs in her hair and is hardly seen with long hair. She usually wears capris and a long sleeve shirt and an undershirt.
Season 1
Emma was first seen in Hero Rising part 1. She met Charlie outside her school, had had peaked through her window before. She knew about the loss of his father. Also a player of "Hero's Rising", she quickly finds out that Charlie's avatar in the game is Aaron Stone, the world's best player. She is the only one besides Charlie's brother Jason who knows of this.
In "First Strike", she jokingly asks if Charlie leads a double life, because she thought him to be avoiding her lately. Instead of accompanying her to the mall, like he promised, he spends time with Chase Ravenwood, a popular girl from school, whom Charlie in in love with. When circumstances prevent him from spending time with her, she makes him treat her to a movie and a trip to the mall to make it up to her.
In "Rocking the Free World" Charlie and Emma form a band, he intends to use to impress Chase Ravenwood. Missing their gig, Charlie is replaced by Stan and disapoints Emma again.
In "From Hero to Xero." Emma, Charlie and Jason had all gotten detention with Stan as their teacher. During class, he meets Budnick, a bully, who has a crush on her. When Charlie is whisked away by T. Abner Hall, and Stan too, she is put in charge of detention; she helps Jason to defend himself from Budnick and later asks Charlie where he has been. When he informs her about her secret identity as Aaron Stone, she laughs at him, but makes a phonecall to an unknown person (presumably T. Abner Hall), telling him about Charlie's confession and noting that they need to "stop him now".
In double episode "Not So Friendly Skies", Emma displays suspicious behaviour by spying in the Landers' House when Charlie (and Stan) have been shot down in their jet. She manages to retrieve information as to his whereabouts and comes to rescue him, revealing her to be an Agent of T. Abner Hall, instead of The Omega Defiance. She saves both Charlie and Stan as her "Hero Rising" avatar "Dark Tamara" and defies a direct order from T. Abner Hall to specifically save Stan. In this episode it is also discovered that she is the inventor of Charlie's equipment: his gauntlet, utility belt, headset etc.).
Abilities
Emma has displayed several abilities, not only stemming from her gadgets, but also from her athletic abilities: She is very agile, being able to climb to Charlie's roof effortlessly, hanging from the ceiling in a Spider-Man-like manner. As her avatar, Dark Tamara, she uses a vast array of laser pistols and riffles and has her own S.S.J.