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( PLAYER ★ INFORMATION )

NAME: Froda
AGE: 29
CONTACT: frodabaggins
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( CHARACTER ★ INFORMATION )

NAME & AGE: Tess; 38
CANON & CANON POINT: The Last of Us; her death
CANON INFORMATION: The Last of Us; Tess.

PERSONALITY:

Tess is at first glance tough as nails, no-nonsense, and frankly, not someone you would want to cross. She's ruthless even for a survivor in her world, being involved in smuggling and other varied illegal activities. She has no problem committing acts of violence, even cold-blooded murder, to protect her business interests and live to see another day.

She's a natural leader, and very charismatic. This is made very clear in the early parts of the game, where nearly everyone she encounters addresses her with respect - and possibly a little fear. It's clear that in her partnership with Joel, she is more or less "the brains" - she's the one making contacts, hammering out business deals and the like, while Joel tends to follow her lead. He even refers to her occasionally as "ma'am" and "boss". She's also headstrong, and occasionally impulsive - she goes to make a drop on her own, knowing it's dangerous and knowing she'll probably incur Joel's wrath, and Joel makes some comments to the effect that she sometimes goes haring off without being very cautious. In short, Tess is a bit of a firebrand.

Joel is her business partner, but also her closest friend, and the person she trusts most in the world. Her feelings for him run deep, and it's clear that they have some romantic undertones to them - they enjoy flirting with each other quite a bit, anyway. No matter the exact nature of the relationship, it's clear that Joel is the most important person in her life, and someone she trusts a great deal. Most of her other relationships seem to be purely about business. But she actually likes Joel.

She gets along well with Ellie, too, though she doesn't have as much time to develop a real bond with the girl. Still, she's not nearly as hostile to Ellie as Joel is at first, and actually commiserates with her after a particularly scary encounter with infected - despite the fact that she's clearly much more experienced with them than Ellie is. She comes to see Ellie as the key to a cure, however, pretty fast, especially once she herself is bitten. She bears no animosity to the girl for anything that happened - she is, after all, just a kid, and there's not much in this world that even an adult can control.

She's also perhaps a little less cynical than she seems at first glance. She takes a certain amount of enjoyment in what she does, and in life in general. When they get outside, she comments that she loves the fresh air, as opposed to the stink inside the QZ, and relishes taking a deep breath. She enjoys playfully bantering and flirting with Joel as well, and even has a bottle of alcohol that she's acquired from somewhere. Essentially, Tess likes to find pleasure in whatever she can - the world is shitty enough without her being doom and gloom all the time. Her sense of humor tends toward the sharp and acerbic, even morbid at times - for instance, she makes a joke out of killing a couple of guys who try to jump her in the street. This is as much a product of the world she lives in as anything else - when death is a normal part of life (gruesome, terrible death no less), Tess feels that one either learns to deal with it by making light of it sometimes, or you go crazy.

Furthermore, she has a kind of hope that Joel seems to lack, at least in the early stages of the game. She buys Ellie's story about being immune while Joel is still disbelieving, and she honestly begins to think that Marlene could be right: Ellie could be the key to a cure. When Tess is bitten, this only exacerbates her feelings, and drives her need to deliver Ellie to the Fireflies. It also motivates her to press Joel for a promise that he will finish the job when they find all the men at the capitol building dead. The bite signed Tess's death warrant, but rather than completely give in to despair, she remains strangely, fiercely determined that a better world can happen, if Ellie can just get to the people trying to find a cure.

COURT ALLIANCE & REASONING: Unseelie. Tess comes from a world where "law and order" is represented by an oppressive military force and has lived under martial law for most of her adult life. Needless to say, the ideals of Authority, Order, Protecting the Weak, etc, are pretty alien to her. She is contemptuous of authority figures, and takes a survival-of-the-fittest mentality. Her own skin - and that of the few people she cares about - always comes first. She is not without compassion, empathy, even guilt for her actions, but she is, ultimately, a criminal in a world riddled with violence. She may have some sort of moral code, but it's vastly different from that espoused by the Seelie court.

ABILITIES: Tess is a baseline human, with no supernatural or magical abilities. She is, however, a scrappy fighter with great survival instincts and a number of skills well-suited to living in a post-apocalyptic world. She's extremely desensitized to violence and sees no reason not to kill, either in self-defense or to get ahead in life.

INVENTORY: Tess will arrive with the clothes on her back, her backpack containing a couple of old protein bars, a makeshift medical kit, some ration cards stamped BOSTON QUARANTINE ZONE, and her 9 mm handgun.

( WRITING ★ SAMPLES )

NETWORK SAMPLE: Okay, I get it. [ Tess' tone is brusque, cool, almost flippant. ] This place is magic. Fairies, trolls, goblins, whatever. You have 'em. Like some kind of fucking fairy tale. [ She honestly isn't sure what to believe right now, so she's getting right to the point. ] I just have one question for you. Cordyceps. Have you heard of it? And more importantly, is it here?

[ Tess glances aside for a moment, her eyes flashing with - fear, maybe. Not that she would ever admit that. ] Because I can live with magic and shit if there's no infection to worry about.

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