Tessa Ashlyn Mercer

[Tessa Ashlyn Mercer]

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Nickname(s): Tess, Tessie
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: July 24, 1987
Date of Change: N/A
Birthplace: Harper Valley
Hometown: Harper Valley
Current Residence: Brooklyn
Species: Magi
Main Animal: N/A
Occupation: Child and Family Direct-Service Social Worker
Ability(ies):

Weather Manipulation:Tess can control the weather around her to a certain degree. She's young so she hasn't quite mastered this ability fully, and she doesn't have the tornadoes, save fore small dust devils, or hurricanes down, but she can normally prove her point without them. She is pretty skilled with making it rain and thunderstorm, or have some sun come out, but her powers can only stretch a good twenty to thirty feet around her at this point in time. She just needs more practice is all. Because she doesn't always have the best control, as we stated she is young and still learning, sometimes her emotions can get the best of her and can mess with the whether, such as thunderstorms around her when she is angry, that is the most common reaction as she can normally keep her weather manipulation under wraps save for when she is really set off. Such times are also the only time she gets anything slightly like a hurricane, and even then it could hardly be called a hurricane. And once in a mood like that, very few can get her to calm down. But it's extremely difficult to accomplish that so the likely hood is that most people won't see that side of her.

Playby: Alexandra Chando
Height: 5'3
Weight: 116 lbs
Scars/Marks: She has a scar on the back of her right shoulder blade from when she tried to stop her brother frome getting into trouble and he pushed her into the tool shed where she knocked things over and bush sheers stabed and gave her a nasty cut, resulting in a wonderful set of stiches and a nice jagged scar.
Personal Style:

Tess is one for comfortable clothing, partial to jeans an just some comfy shirt. Nothing too fancy. She does look nice in whatever she wears, but she isn't one to just walk around town in some nice clubbing outfit or anything of the sort. If you do find her just wandering town in a skirt or dress, it's likely a rather simple one, falling still in the comfy category. When she is at work, she wears professional clothes as she is a social worker and she can't just wear any old pair of jeans to someone's home or anything. On the rare, as in once in every two blue moons, chance you do find her in a fancy dress, or even something suited for clubbing, she knows how to do it, even is her normal attire doesn't show it.

Species Appearance:

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Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Habits/Quirks: Chews her lower lip and wiggles or taps her fingers when lost in thought. Always seems to have at least one caremel chocolate in her purse.
Fears: Rats a bit, more of grossed out, but she may squeak a bit of she sees one. And, though she likely won't admit it, vampires freak her out when attacking her. She also wouldn't admit she's afraid of losing her magic.
Secrets: She's got a bit of a crush on Sav, she just doesn't know how to say it depsite how close they already are.
Goals: Get Sav to start opening up a bit more.
Overall Personality:

When Tess was younger, she was a pretty happy girl for the most part. She had a nice family with her parents and her little baby brother. She was a very loving girl who looked out for her brother. But as she and her brother grew and he got all the attention from her parents, Tess, while still a very nice girl, found herself disliking her brother and desperately trying to prove to her parents that she was just as good as her brother. She wasn't trying to be an attention whore or anything, but she often found herself trying to get some from her parents. Despite her frequent attempts at earning approval from her parents, she quickly learned she had to rely on herself when it came to family and became an independent girl, not really asking her family for help all that often, preferring to learn on her own rather than listen to her parents complain.

Outside of her home though she was very well liked by her friends. She was kind and caring and looked out for others for the most part. Despite how her parents treated her, she's still a very open and trusting girl, willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, and assuming they are good when she first meets them. Because of this kindness, it is extremely, extremely hard to piss Tessa off. She has a way of keeping her temper in check and it really isn't pretty if you can push her to the pint of snapping.She's a very loyal girl and isn't one to ever turn her back on her friends no matter what happens. Tess would run to the ends of the earth and put herself in any amount of danger if it meant that she would be helping her friends.

Tess is also one for fun. She is is pretty adventurous and willing to go off and do daring things, even if they are pretty stupid. Because of this she often seems to find herself in trouble she then has to use magic to get herself out of it, or end up saved, most likely from her best friend finding her and helping her out.

Father: Jason Mercer
Mother: Emma Mercer
Siblings: Jordan Mercer, Little Brother, 22
Additional Family: None
Other Important People: Savitar Dalca, Best Friend
History:

Tess a was born in Harper Valley to Jason and Emma Mercer, The first three years of her life were pretty uneventful. She was just like any child, save for the fact her parents were Magi, making her one as well. Though she wouldn't get her powers until she was older. It was when the young girl was three that her life took a nose dive. Her baby brother Jordan was born. At first it wasn't a bad thing, her parents doted over him, but still had time for Tess. Tessa was clueless to the favoritism already forming. It wasn't until they were both a few years older that it really became noticeable.

Tess would do things and her brother would do similar things and her brother got all the praise, and Tess was sighed and and told she could do better. Jordan always out shined her in anything he did, even the simplest things. Potty training, Tess got nothing, Jordan was showered with toys for a good job. When Tessa got student of the month, her parents had something better too do, work she thought, but when Jordan got the same award, they took the whole day off to celebrate with him and even took him out of school early. So as she grew she found herself constantly trying to do things to prove her worth yo her parents, try and make them proud of her. Not even earning her powers and advancing with them could get their attention.

Even bad things were turned around and onto Tess. If her brother did something wrong it was pinned on her. It was either she took the fall and was blamed or she would be scolded for teaching Jordan awful things and being a bad influence, or for letting him do such a bad thing, if they couldn't find a way to deny Jordan had done it.

When she was twelve and Jordan was nine, the two were playing in the backyard playing, and Jordan, being the trouble maker that he was, headed towards the tool shed, that was always kept locked so that they wouldn't get in. He produced the key and unlocked the door.Tess jumped up and pulled on his arm trying to get him to walk away because they weren't allowed in the shed. He had already pulled the door open and he huffed and pulled his arm free demanding he leave her alone. When Tess stood her ground in front of the door he shoved her as hard as he could sending her crashing into the shed. She fell and knocked over some shears for trimming bushes and it slit her right shoulder blade open before one blade stabbed her. She screamed and cried, while her brother ran off, pinning the whole thing on Tessa. She was rushed to the emergency room and received stitches, earned a nasty and jagged scar from the mishap and was grounded for a month.

Her home life went on like that for years, but outside of the home, particularly once she hit junior high, she started going more with her friends. As she was well liked, she often found opportunities to go out and hang out and spend time away from her family, which was perfectly fine with her. As soon as she turned fifteen, she found another opportunity to escape her home life. She started working, earning a few jobs over the course of the next three years. She didn't spend any of her money, she saved all of it putting it into the bank account she started so it would be there for her. At sixteen her parents got her a car so that they wouldn't have to drive her places any more and she loved it, they had bothered to get her a nice one so they wouldn't have to pay for repairs.

Because she still managed to get her parents to buy her things, by the time she was eighteen, she had a considerable amount of money. She took off a few months after her birthday, to earn a little more cash, then she just left, packing up her things she would need and really wanted, loaded up her car and left Harper Valley. It wasn't even suspicious as her family had been planning on moving to New York City anyway. She drove the east coast for a while, stopping and taking jobs along the way to make sure she never ran out. After a couple of months she settled down in Georgia, deeming that far enough from her family, and went to college so she could become a Social Worker, wanting to help people.

She achieved her goal of graduating and took off again to search for a new place. In 2010, she was in Miami, just passing through staying in a hotel for the night, not really sure where exactly she was going. At some point in the night there was a knock on her door. She frowned and opened the door to find a man there. Before she could ask anything he lunged at her, pinning her against the wall, tearing into her neck. She screamed and tried to push him off, but she really couldn't. Luckily a kind man rushed in and killed the vampire and patched her up quickly. She smiled and thanked him, making some sort of connection that couldn't be broken. Since she really didn't have any destination, she traveled with him, following him to Brooklyn. Sure it was a tad bit too close to her family, who she hadn't seen since she had left, but she didn't mind. Sav, as she had quickly learned the man's name was, was her best friend and she was willing to follow him anywhere. He was all she had after all and the two shared everything. She picked up a job as a Social Worker just as she wanted and had lived there not far for him ever since then.

Alias: Rose
Time Zone: Pacific
Application Number: 1
Who Else Do I Play?: Those ones in my head
Contact: PM, Email, Cbox
Where Did You Find Us?: Ashy!

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