Name: Tessa Williams
Age: 16
Personality: Tessa is a very intelligent, calculating girl. She tends to be unemotional and cold, keeping things on a need-to-know basis, so she often doesn’t enjoy talking about herself or her background. Mostly, she’s polite and quick to give an unemotional response rather than her actual feelings, and ignores questions she doesn’t wish to answer, normally of the “what about yourself” kind. Only shows strong bouts of emotion when angry or surprised. Her shielded personality can be broken through if she trusts you a lot, which is hard to achieve and easy to lose. Is actually a very compassionate person behind the shell, but keeps things on a mostly logical basis to avoid emotions clouding her judgement. Â The only time she can be described as “off-guard” is when playing, rescuing, or even talking with children, in which she is very gentle and understanding. Often doesn’t want people to see her this way, besides said children, either.
Appearance: 5’6, 145 pounds, very slight. Long, brown, usually tangled fly away curls that usually are tied in a ponytail or bun. Small nose, hazel eyes, and bangs that mostly cover her thin eyebrows. Rod-straight posture from her own training to appear taller and stronger. Has two small tattoos on each wrist of numbers, “X XVII” on the left wrist, and “XXV XXVIII” on the right. Unknown as to what the number’s significance are. Normally passive expression. Wears an old coat of her father’s that she took before she left him constantly, even in hot weather.
Skills: Able to conduct the will of shadows, including turning her physical form into a mass of shadows still vaguely resembling her form and stature. Moves extremely quick as a shadow, dashing between corners of darkness nearly silently. Able to use the ability longer if assisted or feeling very strong emotions. Strategic and quick-witted in battle, preferring to direct a team and fight at long range, given her gun is a long range weapon and that’s she can’t sustain much damage in being such a small person.
Backstory: Was born to Amber and Gideon Williams, and lived a relatively uneventful life until her mother died in a robbery-homicide of her mother’s workplace when she was 10. Her father became lethargic and unresponsive in the shock of his wife’s death. Tessa slowly went as cold and unemotional as her father, earning her personality already described. She eventually turned over the care of him to a retired nurse and packed up her things at 15, running away and moving from rag-tag group of people on the streets to the next, never staying anywhere for long in fear of someone coming after her. Received news of her father’s death only recently from drug overdose. Didn’t seem to react much or care, which isn’t much surprising, given her usual demeanour. Became a bit obsessed with finding her mother’s killer, but lost more and more hope as the years went by. Usually shuts herself away on the anniversary of her mother’s death, and probably will do the same on the anniversary of her father’s.
Equipment: An array of small pistols, acquired through illegal means.
Weaknesses: As mentioned, her lack of taking human emotion into account. Can be extremely stubborn and persistent on gathering information, and doesn’t have qualms against breaking into private things to learn more. Not very good at fighting with knives or short-range objects, so she resorts to her pistols or her fists, the latter not as strong. Incredibly unemotional and calculating.