Emily and Jessica

Emily and Jessica
Relationship	Friendship Rivalry
Status	Enemies
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“	I'm just looking out for my girl Em.	”
—Jessica

Emily and Jessica is a friendship turned into a conflict in Until Dawn.

Overview

Before the events of the game, Jessica and Emily were close friends. In the prologue, Jessica organizes a prank on Hannah who had a crush on Mike, Emily's boyfriend at the time.

At some point after the prank and before the group's return to the lodge, Mike breaks up with Emily for Jess. Emily feels betrayed over this and holds a grudge against her. Their friendship ends and their relationship turns into an antagonistic one.

Until Dawn

Prologue

The year before the return to the lodge, Emily and Jessica were close friends. In order to protect Emily's relationship with Mike, Jessica orchestrates a prank on Hannah, claiming she's just looking out for her girl. In the guest room, the two girls hide together under the bed, giggling. After Hannah runs off, Jess and Emily both try to dismiss Hannah's reaction, saying it was just a joke.

In the 2024 remake, the girls are first seen acting affectionately towards one another. Jessica puts her hands on Emily’s knees as she tells her about the prank she’s started. A digital camera found in the kitchen shows that they spent a lot of time together at the party; one photo shows them in Hannah’s room along with Hannah and Ashley, and another photo shows them pranking Chris together. However, while they are in the guest room, setting up the prank, Jessica begins to act slightly flirtatious towards Mike which causes Emily to wave her off with a scowl.

Chapter 1

While they don't directly interact in this chapter, Jessica can tell Chris and Sam that Mike and Emily split up. This can imply that they are no longer friends after Mike began dating Jessica, which is also displayed by Jessica's lowest base relationship being with Emily and vice versa.

Chapter 2

Upon entering the lodge, Emily will immediately try to pick a fight with Jessica. Jessica retaliates, and the two start insulting each other back and forth. Matt can try to defuse the fight, but it will not stop until Josh sends Mike and Jessica out to the cabin. Their fight can be skipped entirely if Matt and Mike fight instead.

On the way there, Jessica will still be tense over Emily if their fight had happened. She will tell Mike that, if they're lucky, Emily will follow them out here and get eaten by a bear. Mike can tell Jessica that he thinks she brings out the worst in Emily, and this pleases her. However, he can also defend Emily and ask Jessica to 'ease up on her' as she is still feeling torn up from their break-up. Jessica will dismiss this, saying that it's not her problem, and it shouldn't be Mike's either.

The two can later find a heart carved in a tree with the letters, M + E. Jessica won't criticize him, but rather tease him for being so overly heartfelt. Jessica will also make a side comment about her after the first blockage in the path, saying she refuses to go back to the lodge to "drink hot chocolate with Emily."

When searching for Emily's lost bag, Matt may ask her if she's calmed down from the fight, to which she will reply that "the further they get away from Jessica, the better she will feel''. If Matt then criticizes her and afterwards protests, suggesting that she should try to keep her cool, Emily will note that she indeed "should keep it together when being attacked by stupid bitches".

Trivia

• Emily and Jessica's catfight originally was much longer and a lot of dialogue was cut.
  • Emily accuses Jessica of 'screwing half the baseball team'. In return, Jess digs into Emily for her 'mathlete parties.’
  • Jessica brings up that Emily was still trying to seduce Mike via risqué selfies after their breakup.

Quotes

• "Hannah's been making moves on him. I'm just looking out for my girl Em." - Jessica in the prologue.

• "Excuse me, did you say something?"
  • "Oh, did you not hear me? Was your sluttiness too loud?" - Jessica and Emily starting a fight.

• "You're such a bitch!" - Emily

• "Yeah, Em! Why you picking fights over your ex-boyfriend, huh?" - Jessica

• "Maybe if we're lucky she'll try and follow us out here and get eaten by a bear." - Jessica to Mike

• "The further we get from Jessica, the better I feel." - Emily to Matt