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dog_eat_dog) wrote2022-12-31 10:44 pm
dog_eat_dog) wrote2022-12-31 10:44 pm
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OUT OF CHARACTER
PLAYER: Jenn
PRONOUNS: She/her
CONTACT: Plurk (victoryfanfare) or DM this journal!
THREADJACKING: I love it.
CANONPUNCTURE: Hard pass on discussions about being a fictional character. Potential canonmates can absolutely inform her of the future.
BACKTAGGING: Sure!
CONTENT WARNINGS: Nothing in particular.
IN CHARACTER
CHARACTER: Theresa "Tess" Servopoulos
CANON: The Last of Us. I play from game canon by default but I'm happy to blend game/TV or play TV to preference, just let me know.
AGE: 39
DESCRIPTION: Tess is a white woman in her late 30s. She's about 5'8" and she's very lean and athletic, veering underfed. Her voice is low, and her face is plain. She cleans up nice, and she puts some effort into that. She has a beauty mark under her left eye. She wears a little make-up, eyeliner and mascara, and keeps her eyebrows and hair neat. Her hair is usually pulled back in a half-ponytail or with a scarf, with some shorter pieces around the front; when it's down, it goes past her shoulders. Her skin is freckled and weathered, and she's got a myriad of little scars, abrasions, scabs and bruises at any given time. She's seen her fair share of scraps, and on looks alone, it would not be unfair to think she's had the crap kicked out of her semi-regularly. You would certainly never mistake her for someone with money.
Her favored wardrobe includes tank tops, fitted collared shirts, jeans and practical boots (styled circa 2013).
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DEMEANOR:
While she's perfectly capable of being nice, she's generally not a smiley person unless she wants something. She doesn't like physical contact with strangers, and she's not likely to stand too close. She is not a hugger. She's barely even a handshake person. When friendly, she's still a little bit cool. If she knows someone's watching her, she generally looks pretty ruled, even a little mean -- that's absolutely posturing, but she's comfortable enough about it.
She tends to be very aware of her surroundings, and she is always at least a little ready for things to go south. It's not that she's nervous, it's just her general state of being. If you're in her space, she's always at least a little aware of what you're doing. If she's in yours, she's probably acting like it's her space. Bickering and arguments are second nature to her, even with people she truly cares about. Perceptive characters will see she has different kinds of harshness, whether it's tough love or vindictive. In confrontations, she knows she doesn't have her partner's physical presence, so she falls back on being playful instead; this can be disarming.
She makes easy company with other morally wayward souls, if not outright career criminals, and she's transparent about having been around the block with the legal or military system a few times. She's not judgmental about criminal activity and she's happy to do some favours, but her tendency to sort people into a pecking order might grate on some. If you're insecure about yourself in some way, you might get the feeling that she's looking for find it; everything has a worth to her. She presents herself as a woman of her word -- if you have her on your side, she's very ride-or-die, sometimes even to absurd degrees -- but it's fair to get the impression that if you can't keep yourself up to her standard, she'll be very, very hard on you. She wants to get along, but she won't tolerate otherwise.
If you're not familiar with The Last of Us, she would be very much at home in media like Children of Men, 28 Days Later, No Country For Old Men, Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad and Red Dead Redemption. (TLOU pretends it's zombie media but like... just barely.)
ABILITIES:
Post-apocalypse survival skills, weapon proficiency, some brawling ability, high fitness level. Tess is a great improvisor and when unarmed, she's ready to use anything at her disposal. She does not hold back, and she's prone to go a little far just in case she falls short. She can also craft rudimentary weapons and knows her way around guns; trained gun handlers will notice that she is far from professional. She keeps them clean and functional, but she can be a little careless when handling them, and her finger lingers on the trigger when it doesn't need to be there.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS:
She doesn't care for animals, as they are extra mouths to feed and she's a bit of a control freak. Please don't tag her with animals approaching her/trying to interact with her as a hook unless you're okay with a potentially negative or dismissive reaction –– she's NOT going to instigate with physical aggression but I'm aware that meanness towards animals can bother players. (As an animal-loving horsegirl irl, I love dogs and horses interacting with her anyway because it's fun to write!)
INTERACTIONS
MAGIC: No thanks.
MENTAL: Sure! I'm down but will want to clarify some things first and help you get the best results if it's stuff like mind reading.
PHYSICAL CONTACT: She is not into it unprompted unless she knows you.
INTIMACY: JoelTess is a given, but on memes she'll entertain casual sex and instigate it herself. Tess tends to be interested in gruff, tough, self-sufficient and emotionally unavailable men with violent tendencies. I enjoy shipping and am always down to explore options but Tess is particularly fun for Bad relationships.
VIOLENCE: Absolutely! She will dish out in turn.
OTHER:
- I use Druckmann and Straley's original backstory for Tess, which is that her brother was killed in a Firefly bombing and it fundamentally pushed her away from their ideology as a result. I'm not interested in the TV show's proposed "boy in the basement" backstory for her under any circumstances. (Game Tess is a bit too young for that to have been possible anyway!)
- I like the show canon of Joel and Tess having been together for anywhere between 14-19 years.
OPT-OUT
Wow, we sure live in a time of pandemic and instability, and basically all of TLOU is about what happens when society crumbles to a sudden illness (that turns people into zombies.) If you'd like to avoid any subject wrt pandemic or government instability or military states or anything along those lines, please let me know and I'm happy to oblige.
Anyway, if you also want to opt out of interacting with me or my character entirely, please reply below with your name and character journals.
PLAYER: Jenn
PRONOUNS: She/her
CONTACT: Plurk (victoryfanfare) or DM this journal!
THREADJACKING: I love it.
CANONPUNCTURE: Hard pass on discussions about being a fictional character. Potential canonmates can absolutely inform her of the future.
BACKTAGGING: Sure!
CONTENT WARNINGS: Nothing in particular.
IN CHARACTER
CHARACTER: Theresa "Tess" Servopoulos
CANON: The Last of Us. I play from game canon by default but I'm happy to blend game/TV or play TV to preference, just let me know.
AGE: 39
DESCRIPTION: Tess is a white woman in her late 30s. She's about 5'8" and she's very lean and athletic, veering underfed. Her voice is low, and her face is plain. She cleans up nice, and she puts some effort into that. She has a beauty mark under her left eye. She wears a little make-up, eyeliner and mascara, and keeps her eyebrows and hair neat. Her hair is usually pulled back in a half-ponytail or with a scarf, with some shorter pieces around the front; when it's down, it goes past her shoulders. Her skin is freckled and weathered, and she's got a myriad of little scars, abrasions, scabs and bruises at any given time. She's seen her fair share of scraps, and on looks alone, it would not be unfair to think she's had the crap kicked out of her semi-regularly. You would certainly never mistake her for someone with money.
Her favored wardrobe includes tank tops, fitted collared shirts, jeans and practical boots (styled circa 2013).
click to open full size
DEMEANOR:
While she's perfectly capable of being nice, she's generally not a smiley person unless she wants something. She doesn't like physical contact with strangers, and she's not likely to stand too close. She is not a hugger. She's barely even a handshake person. When friendly, she's still a little bit cool. If she knows someone's watching her, she generally looks pretty ruled, even a little mean -- that's absolutely posturing, but she's comfortable enough about it.
She tends to be very aware of her surroundings, and she is always at least a little ready for things to go south. It's not that she's nervous, it's just her general state of being. If you're in her space, she's always at least a little aware of what you're doing. If she's in yours, she's probably acting like it's her space. Bickering and arguments are second nature to her, even with people she truly cares about. Perceptive characters will see she has different kinds of harshness, whether it's tough love or vindictive. In confrontations, she knows she doesn't have her partner's physical presence, so she falls back on being playful instead; this can be disarming.
She makes easy company with other morally wayward souls, if not outright career criminals, and she's transparent about having been around the block with the legal or military system a few times. She's not judgmental about criminal activity and she's happy to do some favours, but her tendency to sort people into a pecking order might grate on some. If you're insecure about yourself in some way, you might get the feeling that she's looking for find it; everything has a worth to her. She presents herself as a woman of her word -- if you have her on your side, she's very ride-or-die, sometimes even to absurd degrees -- but it's fair to get the impression that if you can't keep yourself up to her standard, she'll be very, very hard on you. She wants to get along, but she won't tolerate otherwise.
If you're not familiar with The Last of Us, she would be very much at home in media like Children of Men, 28 Days Later, No Country For Old Men, Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad and Red Dead Redemption. (TLOU pretends it's zombie media but like... just barely.)
ABILITIES:
Post-apocalypse survival skills, weapon proficiency, some brawling ability, high fitness level. Tess is a great improvisor and when unarmed, she's ready to use anything at her disposal. She does not hold back, and she's prone to go a little far just in case she falls short. She can also craft rudimentary weapons and knows her way around guns; trained gun handlers will notice that she is far from professional. She keeps them clean and functional, but she can be a little careless when handling them, and her finger lingers on the trigger when it doesn't need to be there.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS:
She doesn't care for animals, as they are extra mouths to feed and she's a bit of a control freak. Please don't tag her with animals approaching her/trying to interact with her as a hook unless you're okay with a potentially negative or dismissive reaction –– she's NOT going to instigate with physical aggression but I'm aware that meanness towards animals can bother players. (As an animal-loving horsegirl irl, I love dogs and horses interacting with her anyway because it's fun to write!)
INTERACTIONS
MAGIC: No thanks.
MENTAL: Sure! I'm down but will want to clarify some things first and help you get the best results if it's stuff like mind reading.
PHYSICAL CONTACT: She is not into it unprompted unless she knows you.
INTIMACY: JoelTess is a given, but on memes she'll entertain casual sex and instigate it herself. Tess tends to be interested in gruff, tough, self-sufficient and emotionally unavailable men with violent tendencies. I enjoy shipping and am always down to explore options but Tess is particularly fun for Bad relationships.
VIOLENCE: Absolutely! She will dish out in turn.
OTHER:
- I use Druckmann and Straley's original backstory for Tess, which is that her brother was killed in a Firefly bombing and it fundamentally pushed her away from their ideology as a result. I'm not interested in the TV show's proposed "boy in the basement" backstory for her under any circumstances. (Game Tess is a bit too young for that to have been possible anyway!)
- I like the show canon of Joel and Tess having been together for anywhere between 14-19 years.
OPT-OUT
Wow, we sure live in a time of pandemic and instability, and basically all of TLOU is about what happens when society crumbles to a sudden illness (that turns people into zombies.) If you'd like to avoid any subject wrt pandemic or government instability or military states or anything along those lines, please let me know and I'm happy to oblige.
Anyway, if you also want to opt out of interacting with me or my character entirely, please reply below with your name and character journals.