Post by tesseract on Jun 26, 2008 14:10:23 GMT -5
Tesser Gray
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Cannon or your own: My Own
Copyright (Marvel/DC/ect): ---
Characters civilian name: Tesser Gray
Code names/Aliases:...Tesser Gray
Class [Superhero, Vigilante, Mercenary..ect]: Neither if she has a say.
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Gender: Female
Age: 10
Apparent Age: 6
Hair: Straight and Red. It's very dirty and short, ragged because she cuts it herself.
Eyes: They would be green but nobody ever sees them because she wears a blindfold.(see powers)
Height and weight: She is very short and very thin because she never has enough to eat.
Appearance: Tesser is very short and looks like a vagabond of some kind. Which she actually is. Her clothing is old and baggy, looking like it was pulled out of a dumpster, which it probably was at some point. She wears a black blindfold of a gauzy material which she can see through but doesn't really work the other way. She goes barefoot and has many callouses.
Picture [if available]: ---
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Super Powers: Tesser has the ability to look at somebody and see their soul. Instead of seeing what you or I might see, she might see a person made of cobwebs and old locked safes. Or a plot of earth with growing plants in it. She can see through lies, seeing a person's hopes, dreams, fears. She thinks she crazy, however.
Learned Abilities: Tesser learned early on to survive on the streets. She is smart and good on her feet and an exceptionally good pickpocket.
Equipment: nothing that she hasn't stolen within the last half hour.
Weaknesses (Must Have): Tesser is very young and easily tricked by smooth words and empty promises, normally of food. She can't really fight and thinks she is just your everyday loony who got out of the bin. She is terrafied of her powers and the thought of having to go back to Arkham. Also, because of where she was raised, she is compleatly illiterate. (see history.)
Background: When Tesser was three her father was killed in a work related accident. It was in this time she gained her powers. At first it was a game, every person was like a puzzle. She made the mistake of telling her mother, however. Fearing what the neighbors would say, she had her daughter shipped off to Arkham.
That is where Tesser grew up, surrounded by crazies, loonies, and the maniacal phycopaths of Gothem City. Is it really a wonder that she believes she's just one of them? It was in these people, though, the ones that Batman dropped off every night, that Tesser learned of her curse. The things she saw inside villians like Joker, Poison Ivy, The Penguin, exct, scarred her mind. Even now whenever she sleeps she has only nightmares. She stole a strip of black cloth one night in desperation, making it into a blindfold. It blurs her vision to the point where she can't really make out anything more than the people around her.
She lived there until a minor jail break when she was eight years old gave her her escape. She fled to the streets of Gothem, and from there she left the city compleatly. She now wanders from place to place, either charming or stealing from everybody she meets, and some both.
Personality : Tesser is for the most part a loveable little girl. She's a good actor and can easily pull off the 'sweet, innocent, little girl act' However, though she would like to believe otherwise, her powers have taught her that if she wants to survive she's got to know what's going on. Therefor she became the sweet little girl who gets into political debates, steals people's wallots, hardwire's machines to let her vote for presidents, and has more than once consorted with the masked hero type.
Other:Though she gets the whole 'money' thing, Tesser has a thing for wallots, she thinks they're the prettiest things and will often take that from somebody, leaving money and credit cards sitting on the sidewalk. She is good with machines and as long as she doesn't have to deal with police she's pretty much happy with her lot in life.
This would be Oracle and Whiteraven as well.
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Brief Sample Roleplay
Tesser was sitting on a drainpipe. the fact that it was on the eighth story of an old dilapidated apartment building in Star City wasn't bothering her for the moment. The red head was quite content to watch the cars on the buisy street below her zoom around like little points of light in the night's darkness.
Beside her somebody flung a window open to the night air. Shivering in the breeze, the young girl carefully crawled from her perch, though the window, and landed on a neatly made bed. She bounced up and down on the old spring mattress, ignoring the spots of grime that appered on the pale pink bedspread.
A lady walked back in and stopped in the doorway, staring at the apparant six year old bouncing on her bed.
"Who... How...?" she asked. Tesser turned a meltingly sweet smile to the woman,
"You left your window open and I-" She couldn't contenue, though because the woman started to shriek,
"Get out! Get our of here at once, you vagabond, you!"
Tesser sighed and rolled her eyes, hopping back to the window sill.
"Fine." She said dejectedly, "Be like that, you bus driver's are all the same." Then pocketing the woman's wallot, Tesser jumped out of the window.
*drat.* she thought to herself *well, I suppose there'll be another drainpipe a couple stories down.*
