Emerald Yohanson

Emerald Yohanson, a wealthy diamond import/export operator out of Johannesburg South Africa has long been heralded as one of the most connected deaf people in the world. A long time operator, she couriers her south African diamonds far and wide "at basement level" prices, as a front for her illegal Nazi confiscated diamonds ring. A dieing gift of her father, this stash of diamonds is one of the rarest and most sought after stashes in the world and has made her quite a wealthy woman.

In an effort to keep costs down and protect her diamonds, Emerald smuggles all diamonds herself, yet they are never found in her clothes or luggage. A former sword swallower for Galleon Gaston's traveling circus, she has been known to swallow several pounds of contraband at any given moment given her keen control of her gag reflex developed while circus traveling. It is this reflex which the followers at Lord's wish to wrangle for the professional smuggling of illegal propaganda, and she found the address to Lord's as she anally expelled a package of diamonds to find that one was a fake, and in its place, had left a small scroll containing the address of Lord's.

Standing at 5 foot 8 inches, she is taller than many of the Dutch men in South Africa, quite beautiful with sunny blonde hair, and has always used this as a way to attract men in order to cow them into satisfying her insatiable urge for having each of her fingers bent back to almost breaking point. In some circles she is known as "Ears", both for their large size and apparent disfunctionality. Never learning sign language, she employs a small boy, nick named Scribbles, who does her translating and never leaves her side.

Scribbles, an eleven year old black South African Native with unusual but natural Soviet red hair, speaks many languages yet never speaks when not translating for Emerald, and appears to only consume obscure Eastern Bloc olives washed down with ginger beer and vodka. They communicate by a method of back cursive, in which the one writes, in cursive, on the others back, having the appearance of continual back messaging during long conversations. Among many of her wealthy clients is rumored to be Ho Chi Min - leader of communist Vietnam - whom she supplied a rare diamond that only emitted red light reflections - for his underground marriage to a then obscure Cuban national, named Gina Ortsac - rumored to be a hidden daughter of Castro (hence the spelling of her last name.)

Her politically radical lifestyle stems back to childhood rebellion. Her father, Johanson Yohanson, was one of the main political figures behind the enactment of the apartheid laws in 1948. Out of rebellion towards her father, in her very late teens, she birthed two mulatto children from two unnamed politically active native Africans. Both sons were taken from her by authorities and she has not seen them since. This is when she decided to join Galleon Gaston's traveling circus.

She still has a deep sympathy for native Africans, hence Scribbles. Despite being estranged from her father for years, they were able to reconcile while he was on his death bed due to their new found mutual interest in collecting petrified dung beatles. Mr. Yohanson was so happy with the reconciliation that he gave her his Nazi diamonds before passing.

Due to her absurd wealth, she set up a philanthropy program that distributed Slinkys throughout the world to every deaf child under the age of 13. This vaulted her into celebrity status among the deaf, but it was all a ploy, as she can now find safe harbor with the deaf in any city in the world, which serves as great protection for her diamond ring.