Tessa

[Anastasia Kirilovna Marisova]

Tessa;;
is now entering It's All in Yer Mind

About You;;
behind the RPer

Name:
Age: 18
Years of Rping: A lot
Contact: PM

ID Tag;;

Alias: Tessa/Spider
Name: Kasimira Adler
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight
Real Age: 120
Physical Age: 26
Species: Were-Wolf
Sire: Guy named Brandon
Religious Affiliation: Loosely Christian
Wealth: Enough to buy what she wants.
Job: Odd jobs here and there, though most of it was inherited from al her family members and few others: as in, she’d become good friends with some wealthy money just to get in on some of their riches.

Dear Diary;;

Specialties:
1. Stealth
2. Boxing
3. Eidetic Memory

Summary:
She uses her heightened senses to great advantage. She knows where people are, what they are doing, and where they might be moving to. Using this information, she can effectively hide herself and remain hidden for hours. Another lycan or a vampire may be able to sense her or even smell her, but they will never hear or see her, even if she is switching locations to get a better vantage point or keep her enemy from spotting her.

Even from a young age she was interested in boxing. It was only ever just a trivial pursuit, though, and she wouldn’t ever box for money, just to have the pleasure of knowing that she could. She grew up in a tough part of Berlin, and if a girl didn’t know how to defend herself they wouldn’t last long. Where others were learn basic martial arts or whatever, she dedicated her time to basic boxing. When she became a werewolf, she learned more complex stances and strategies, making her quite the formidable opponent.

As a human she had always had the worse memory, but when she became a werewolf, she suddenly could remember everything from when she was fourteen and above. Every show she’d watched, every song she’d listened to. Now it’s even better, and she can remember every sound, scent, sight that she’s ever experienced. Call it what you want, total recall, audiographic or photographic memory, it’s like she went around carrying a notebook with her while she lived, writing down every finite detail imaginable. This is all thanks to Spider. He makes it possible for her to pull out everything in her mind. Thanks to this, she is fluent in many languages.

Weakness:
1. Spider
2. Tires Easily
3. Extremely Painful Transformation

Summary:
Spider is the name of her wolf form. Yes, he has a name because he has his own personality. He picked the name “Spider” for himself. Despite her being female, her wolf’s mind is male, and he’s not just some wild beast who acts on the raw instinct to destroy and kill. He understands what he does, he enjoys what he does, and he absolutely hates Tessa. He’s very influential to her, speaking to her mind even when the full moon is not out. It is only during a new moon that he falls silent and Tessa can go without him. He is a very angry creature who wants things his way, or it’s no way. Spider practically runs her life.

It is unknown why, but Tessa doesn’t have the best stamina. Her body tires easily and it doesn’t take much to get her out of breath. She tries not to let that hinder anything. She and Spider believe that because her wolf form doesn’t ever get tired, her human body is more susceptible to becoming fatigued and tired. If she continues to push herself past her limits, it soon gets to the point where she can no longer move even one finger until she is given at least twenty minutes or more to recover. It becomes even harder on her body if she has to take hits.

Even though she is no longer a pup, Tessa’s transformations still cause her excruciating pain. It would hurt less, since she is over one hundred years old, but her oh-so kind wolf Spider doesn’t like her very much. Both he and she could make the shifts more smoother, but Spider wants to cause Tessa pain. He may not wish her to die—because my association he would also perish—but he dislikes his human host enough to wish pain on her if it doesn’t hurt him, too. He gets a kick out of seeing her squirm, even if they’re sharing the same pain.

Human Appearance;;

Hair: Dark brown
Eyes: Half blue, half brown
Height: Five foot four inches
Marks: None
Race: Mostly German
Skin Tone: Pale
Body Type: Slimish
Clothing Style: Anything
Footwear: Whatever fits

Summary:
Tessa is a fairly simple woman. She has longish dark brown hair that could be classified as brunette. Her eyes are very strange compared to most people's. As a human she was born with brown eyes, but upon being turned, a part of each iris turned blue because that's the color of her wolf form's eyes. Unlike most people with dark hair, Tessa has light skin, as she sunburns a lot easier than she tans. Though if she does have a sunburn, it usually goes away after a day or so.

She’s not short, but she’s not tall, either. She’s a bit shorter than average, a little taller than five feet. She is of German decent, being born to a German Family and all, but her accent has long since disappeared, as she moved to America at a young age to chase the guy who had turned her.

She has a nice body. It remains thin because of her exercise and metabolism, but she is by no means underweight. She’s a little heavier than the norm for a woman her age, but most of it is just extra water or muscle weight. She doesn’t look muscular, but she’s pretty strong. She doesn’t have any tattoos or anything, thinking that they would ruin the natural beauty of her skin, and the scar from where Brandon had bit her has long since gone.

Her clothing style varies, really. She’ll wear anything that a situation calls for; jeans, sweats, shorts, t-shirt, tank top, turtle neck. . . The list goes on. The same goes for her footwear; she’ll wear whatever goes with her outfit, but she rarely ever wears heels unless she has to dress up for something. Flats or tennis shoes will do just fine for her in most cases. Snow boots, maybe, if there’s like a foot of snow or something.

Wolf Appearance;;

Eye Color: Icy blue
Fur Color: Ink Black
Fur Length: Shaggy—not to short, but not too long, either
Fur Texture: Smooth, but a little coarse
Size: Small and quick instead of big and strong. About 6'10
Marks: None

Personality;;

Likes:
1. Reading
2. Sleeping
3. Going Out
4. Learning
5. Lime Light

Dislikes:
1. Being alone
2. Hard Work
3. Being Ignored
4. Authority

Flaws:
1. Lazy at Times
2. Spider’s Personality
3. Rebellious
4. Sarcastic
5. Self-absorbed

Summary:
At times, Tessa can be the single laziest person in the world. There are times where she just wants to lie on her couch or in her bed and just stay there all day. It’s during these times that she enjoys reading even more than usual, thought most of her spare time is dedicated to reading the next book in one of her series or what have you. It is also during these times that she sleeps the most. When she’s feeling lazy, she’ll get close to sixteen hours of sleep. When she’s not sleeping, she prefers getting at least ten hours of sleep. It’s mostly when she knows she has to be doing some hard work that she becomes lazy, because she just doesn’t want to do hard work.

However, when she isn’t being a lazy-ass, she really enjoys going out and just having a great time. She doesn’t actually get to enjoy these times very often, though, since Spider doesn’t seem to like it when she’s happy, but Tessa has slowly learned how to ignore him most of the time. She goes out a lot because she likes attention. She hates it when she’s being ignored or doesn’t have anyone except Spider to talk to, and she especially loves it when she’s the center of attention, since she’s kind of egotistical. She believes she is everything there ever needs to be, and she thinks she knows absolutely everything. She loves to learn because she knows that whatever she learns, she will retain with no need to study.

She really cannot stand being told what to do. By anyone. If you’re telling her what to do instead of asking for it to be done, she will stubbornly abstain even if it is something she normally wouldn’t mind doing. This keeps her from getting a lot of important stuff done, and sometimes she misses out on money-making opportunities because she just won’t do what she’d told. She’s really very rebellious, and even if someone is threatening violence, she will still refuse to do anything. Needless to say, it gets her in trouble a lot.

There are many occasions where she can be extremely sarcastic, to the point where every other thing she says is sarcasm. However, she’s very good at it, so she never has the problem where people don’t know when she’s being sarcastic, unless she doesn’t want them to know. Her sharp tongue has gotten her into a lot of trouble, and she misses out on friend-making opportunities because not everyone can take her brand of humor. Of course, when people stop wanting to talk to her because of it, it comes off as a surprise to her because she doesn’t think anyone could ever hate her.

The one biggest flaw in her personality is the other mind sharing hers. Her wolf form is actually personified and calls himself Spider for reasons unknown. He is violent, vicious, sadistic, and untrustworthy. There is no good side to this wolf, and every once in a while he will force some of his thoughts onto Tessa and she will end up saying or doing something that she would never actually do. He hates everything except himself and is constantly attempting to make sure Tessa loses every last one of her friends. He hasn’t gone so far as to kill one of her friends, but Tessa is afraid that he will one day.

Background Check;;

Family Members: All dead. She had a little sister and a mother and a father. Her sister was younger than her by six years. She also had another sister, but she does not know of this fact. It kept from her as her parent's dirty little secret.

Birth Place: Berlin, Germany

Childhood: Nothing beyond the age of fourteen, but for the most part everything seemed pretty good. Her family never fought, she’d gotten a pretty ok education. You know, for someone who grew up in the last few decades of the eighteen hundreds.

Transformation: She was attacked by a werewolf by the name of Brandon, a visitor from America. His intention was to turn, not to kill, in order to get revenge on one of Tessa’s friends.

Prey: Tessa prefers to eat human food, but when Spider gets in control he’ll eat whatever happens to walk by him. He seems to be fond of middle-aged people, though, saying they’re more “ripe.” If he can, he’ll go out of his way to kill and devour a vampire.

Moon Tidings: She has not been trying to get any control over her powers because she doesn’t want to give Spider free reign, so the moon still dictates when she transforms. However, it seems that Spider is trying harder and harder to force her to transform without the moon.

Other Transformation: All she has to do is bite someone, but it has to be in a specific part of their body; one of their shoulders. It is unknown whether or not her victims would also get a wolf with personality like she does.

History:
She was born by the name Kasamira Adler. Upon her birth, her parents were blessed with two children, two twin daughters. They had originally planned on keeping them both, but when it was discovered that one of them was nearly deaf, they decided to give that one up. It was selfish, but they did not care. One mouth was easier to feed than two. They decided it was best to just pretend that Jenna's twin never existed and they disposed of any photos they may have had of the two together.

When she moved to America was when she started going by the name Tessa. She moved to America before the holocaust, so before then she was still going by the name Kasamira. When World War II happened, that was when she changed her name to something less German so she wouldn’t be lynched just being from that area. Of course, this also meant that she had to work to get rid of her accent, so it didn’t take long before she was pretending not to be German and speaking with a southern accent. . . The easiest one. Now she just has a more northern accent, though. She doesn’t much like the south.

However, it was around World War I that she was growing up during. She was born in 1889, so when WWI started, she was almost twenty-five years old. It was near the second year of the war that she was attacked. Unbeknownst to her, she had befriended a male vampire. At some point in this vampire’s life, he had gone and ticked off a male lycan named Brandon. She is still unaware as to whether or not that was his actual name, but that was what he said his name was later when she tracked his ass down.

The two had been fighting for several decades over whatever their little problems were, but Brandon could never destroy his foe, and the vampire—he was calling himself Jaden—would not kill Brandon. So, the werewolf decided that it was time to hit him where it hurts, and that was to attack someone he was close to. Unfortunately, that person happened to be Tessa. She had been hanging out with Jaden one night on the full moon—Jaden always seemed to only be able to hang out with her during the night, saying he worked every day—when Brandon attacked. He had been alive long enough to control himself when changing for the moon.

Jaden had thought that it was him he was going after, so he had instinctively pushed Tessa out of the way so she wouldn’t get hurt because of him, but that only made it easier for Brandon. He bit her, and while she was lying there bleeding and wondering what the hell she had done, Brandon ran off, leaving Jaden with Tessa alone. Jaden of course blamed himself, so once he was sure Tessa was going to live, he left.

This left Tessa alone to wonder what the hell it was that attacked her. Her bite wound healed nicely, leaving little more than just a pale mark against her already pale skin. She didn’t know what she was going to become, as she never saw Jaden nor Brandon again after that night, so she had to learn it the hard way, and that was with the full moon, as Spider did not come about until that first transformation. It was after that night when her hell really started.

Once she had gotten accustomed to what she was, she moved away from her home country and to America to search out the stupid wolf that had done this to her. It took a few years, but she eventually found Brandon in Colorado. He wasn’t particularly happy to see her, and after a quick little skirmish, Brandon informed her that he hadn’t the slightest idea why her wolf would be talking to her, because that was really what Tessa wanted to know. Spider was just happy to actually get in some excitement while not in wolf form.

After her meeting with Brandon, she just remained in America, thinking that it was a whole lot better than where she had been living. She eventually moved up to New York and she’s been there ever since. She refuses to leave, not caring who realizes that she never ages. She’d just move away then and change her name. Though she never really gives anyone a last name, so people could be buried by the amount of Tessa’s living in New York.

She had been living in New York for a grand total of a year. Spider had caused her many jobs with his malicious thoughts, and Tessa was starting to give up hope that they would ever see eye-to-eye. She figured she'd just have to get used to the headaches and insults. However, upon being attacked by some werewolf, the two found no other way but to cooperate with each other-- albeit grudgingly. They did not win this fight, but with their last moments, the two made amends.

Code Word:
I hAve read da rules.

Mad Skills;;

(Last Post of her Alive. Mature-ish.)

It was getting worse. Spider’s thoughts fuzzed and then suddenly his air was cut off, his jaws parted as he attempted to get more air to his lungs, but he just didn’t have it in him anymore. Slowly, he pulled away from the controls and sat in the back of his mind, waiting for this creature to end it. He sat in his corner, then slowly he pulled Tessa into the corner as well and did his best to rouse her mind. She mumbled something, but she finally came to. Eh? What? What do you want now?

[/color] she demanded.

She was greeted with waves of misery pouring from Spider’s consciousness and that completely unhinged her anger. She had been unconscious through the last bit of the fight, so she hadn’t the slightest idea what was going on, but she soon found out. Inching forward across her mind, she slipped back into her original control, only to recoil instantly, denial swooping across her like a dark cloud. No, no, no, no! No! Please, make him stop, Spider![/color] Tessa cried. She wanted to struggle, she wanted to do something, but she didn’t have it in her to take the controls and make her battered body work.

Spider sighed quietly. I cannot. I have tried. We have been bested, Tessa. Best not to think about it. Just stay back here. . . It will make this easier,[/color] he said solemnly. Fear rolled off Tessa’s consciousness and clashed with Spider’s depression. Tessa grew more and more frantic as the werewolf went in for the kill, Spider just grew more and more sad, more angry. Even though neither of them were technically in the body, it was easy for them to tell when their neck was broken. Spider winced inwardly and Tessa shoved her consciousness against Spider, looking for some sort of comfort as they each grew fainter.

I have failed you. I have failed us both. Perhaps if I had been more cooperative we would have lived through this,[/color] he murmured. He had managed to cheat death once in this battle, but he could feel that it would not work a second time. It was Tessa’s turn to try and comfort Spider. Their two minds pressed together, and Tessa sighed. I was too caught up in smiting you. I’m as much to blame as you are for this end. A strange calm worked over the two as they drew closer to that oblivion and accepted it. Tessa should have gone over twenty years ago. She had never wanted to be a werewolf.

I'm scared, Spider.[/color]

Me too, Tessa. Me too.[/color]

The imagine that comes to one's mind as Tessa and Spider comforted each other in their last moments was that of Tessa in her human form with Spider, a black wolf, lying in her lap. They had finally accepted one another after years of inner war waged on each other. Their only regret was that this peace came only when they were on their last legs. As their killer picked up their lifeless, uninhabited body and drove a pole deep into their throat, Tessa hugged the black wolf tight, and then all went dark. A low death rattle came from deep in their body as it settled into that forever sleep known as death.
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[Lady Thorn]

Just as a point, "Stalingrad" was in Russia, not Germany. Other than that, no issues.

Approved.