Theresa "Tess" Servopoulos

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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.

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Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:09:40 GMT

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: Yup.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Nothing in particular.

IN CHARACTER
CHARACTER: Tess
CANON: The Last of Us
AGE: 41
DESCRIPTION: Tess is a white woman in her early 40s. She's about 5'8" and she's very lean, veering athletic. 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 -- a bit of eyeliner or mascara when she's feeling Fun -- 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 an unfair comparison 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, collared shirts, jeans and practical boots (styled circa 2013), but having lived in the late 1800s/very early 1900s, some of her wardrobe is styled to that era –– high waisted jeans/trousers with a button fly, long-sleeved and very tailored shirtwaists, leather holster, Western-style boots.

There's an gnarly injury stretching over her shoulder, covering a solid four or five square inches. She also has a couple bullet scars; one on her thigh that's very long healed-over, and three others on her torso that well healed over.

DEMEANOR:

While she's perfectly capable of being nice -- and she can be genuinely nice -- she's generally not a smiley person. 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.

(If you catch her unawares, relaxed or staring into space, she can look a little younger than her years, maybe even a little cute. Pointing it out is a surefire way to get her to steel up again.)

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 already hers. 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 or scruff, so she falls back on being a bit kittenish instead. 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 just more serious about toeing the line these days, that's all.

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 Breaking Bad, A History of Violence, Children of Men, 28 Days Later, The Road, No Country For Old Men, True Grit, Logan, Sons of Anarchy. (Lots of Westerns, there!) She could even be an outright antagonist from a lot of vantage points; within her canon, she's circulated illegal weapons, punctured the quarantine's security, killed people who impede her, sold to a terrorist organization while also not caring if they get wiped out, etc. She lives and works amongst a lot of awful people, and she's witnessed her own government decimate its own people on a near daily basis. She hasn't known a world with civil rights since she was a teenager, and she has no hope of that changing, so she just works the system best she can.

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:
Complicated. There are a lot of things that Tess feels strongly about, but they're either petty as shit or pretty localized to her world.

"Tourism" has a whole new meaning in her world, so talk about tourists or tourism will probably make the conversation weird. (Tourists are people who get ambushed, murdered and looted.)

She doesn't like animals. 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.

INTERACTIONS
MAGIC: Generally yes, but check first if it involves any sort of transformation to her body or mental state.
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.
MIMICRY: Sure.
INTIMACY: She'll entertain being pursued for casual sex and might even instigate herself. Tess tends to be interested in gruff, tough, self-sufficient and emotionally unavailable men with violent tendencies. I love shipping and am always down to explore options :) She'd be hesitant to engage with inmates sexually but could maybe be tempted, but OOC I am largely interested in this from the perspective of it being a morally questionable choice.
VIOLENCE: Absolutely, but I am serious about having OOC conversations about this, especially if death is a risk; I prefer these plot lines to have long-term consequences/impacts and ongoing CR.
OTHER:

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!

In general, Tess is pretty apolitical, but she will comment on having lived under a military state bluntly. In line with the universe being essentially a "science zombie" universe, I also try to treat the infection more like an monster invasion instead of strictly an illness; characters in TLOU don't look at the infected as people anymore. However, it's not always possible to avoid the reality of it without breaking character.

It's very natural to not want to talk about the pandemic, infection, yadda yadda within the realm of RP right now. If that's the case, no hard feelings! Just reply here and let me know what kind of subjects you want to avoid (or avoid the character entirely) 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.

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OOC PERMISSIONS
CONTACT METHOD: Plurk (victoryfanfare) or DM this journal! THREAD-JACKING: I love it. FOURTH WALLING / CANON PUNCTURE: Hard pass on discussions about being a fictional character. Potential canonmates can absolutely inform her of the future. BACKTAGGING: Yup! AVOIDED TOPICS: Nothing outright. PREFERRED GENDER PRONOUN: she/her.
IC CHARACTERISTICS
CURRENT CANON POINT: Death at the Capitol building PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Tess is a white woman in her late 30s. She's about 5'8" and she's very lean, hovering on the cusp of malnourished. Her voice is low, and her face is plain. She cleans up nice, but it's not something she puts much effort into. She's very much at home in jeans, sensible boots, t-shirts and button-ups, and most of her wardrobe consists of that. She has a birth mark under her left eye, and she bites her nails. She wears a little make-up -- a bit of eyeliner or mascara when she's feeling Fun -- and keeps her eyebrows and hair neat. Her hair is usually pulled back in a half-ponytail or with a bandanna, with some shorter pieces around the front. Her skin is freckled and weathered, and she's got a myriad of little scars, abrasions, scabs and bruises at any given time. This woman has seen her fair share of scraps, and on looks alone, it would not be an unfair comparison 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, collared shirts, jeans and boots. There's an gnarly injury stretching over her shoulder, covering a solid four or five square inches. She also has a couple bullet scars; one on her thigh that's very long healed-over, and three others on her torso that well healed over. DEMEANOR: video 1 video 2 Assumptions about most middle-aged white ladies fall into certain boxes. Maybe you can tell where they shop, or how they treat service staff, or how involved in the PTA or local soccer league they are. They generally have a level of polish. Forty years is generally long enough to have settled into how to dress, run a household, manage a relationship. Most are married, and a full two thirds of them have kids. A lot of them make sure that the people around them are comfortable. A lot of them are peacekeepers, moderate in their indulgences, and looking forward to another family vacation. Not Tess. While she's perfectly capable of being nice -- and she can be genuinely nice -- she's generally not a smiley person. 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, it'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. (If you catch her unawares, relaxed or staring into space, she can actually look a little younger than her years, maybe even a little cute. Pointing it out is a surefire way to get her to steel up again -- but enjoy it if you glimpse 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 already hers. 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 or scruff, so she falls back on being a bit kittenish instead. 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. Tess has never been very careful about not looking like a criminal, but she is very careful to minimize proof that she's a criminal. She toes a line, at least when eyes are on her. 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 Breaking Bad, A History of Violence, Children of Men, 28 Days Later, The Road, No Country For Old Men, True Grit, Logan, Sons of Anarchy. (Lots of Westerns, there!) She could even be an outright antagonist from a lot of vantage points; within her canon, she's circulated illegal weapons, punctured the quarantine's security, killed people who impede her, sold to a terrorist organization while also not caring if they get wiped out, etc. She lives and works amongst a lot of awful people, and she's witnessed her own government decimate its own people on a near daily basis. She hasn't known a world with civil rights since she was a teenager, and she has no hope of that changing, so she just works the system best she can. 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. MEDICAL INFORMATION: Malnourished, underweight, poor to mediocre eating habits Drinker A myriad of old wounds/injuries; a finger that was reset by a non-professional many years ago, a couple old bullet wounds, a couple scars from knife injuries, a number of minor scars up her arms, chest and legs. Three healed bullet wounds in her torso Her right shoulder is very mangled on the surface, specifically in the meaty spot between the shoulder and the neck; whatever happened there, it was debrided quite drastically. The surrounding muscle tissue is a little damaged. She has a good sense of what she needs or can get by with, and may refuse anything she deems superfluous in favour of stashing it; she'll self-medicate (with alcohol or otherwise) if given the choice to. OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS: Complicated. There are a lot of things that Tess feels strongly about, but they're either petty as shit or pretty localized to her world. "Tourism" has a whole new meaning in her world, so talk about tourists or tourism will probably make the conversation weird. (Tourists are people who get ambushed, murdered and looted.) She doesn't like animals. 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 know meanness towards animals can bother players.
IC PERMISSIONS
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. MIMICRY: Yes. VIOLENCE: Absolutely, but I am serious about having OOC conversations about this, especially if death is a risk; I prefer these plot lines to have long-term consequences/impacts and ongoing CR. MAGIC: Generally yes, but check first if it involves any sort of transformation to her body or mental state. DEBATE: Absolutely; Tess might not always tolerate it, but she might go a little ham. ROMANCE/SEXUAL CONTENT: She'll entertain being pursued for casual sex and might even instigate herself. She has feelings for Joel but It's Complicated so she's not presently putting all her eggs in that basket. Romantic overtures will probably be shut down, but something could develop long-term if you wanna slowburn.
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Wow, we sure live in a time of pandemic and instability, and basically all of TLOU is about what happens when society crumbles! In general, Tess is pretty apolitical, but she will comment on having lived under a military state bluntly. In line with the universe being essentially a "science zombie" universe, I also try to treat the infection more like an monster invasion instead of strictly an illness; characters in TLOU don't look at the infected as people anymore. However, it's not always possible to avoid the reality of it without breaking character. It's very natural to not want to talk about the pandemic, infection, yadda yadda within the realm of RP right now. If that's the case, no hard feelings! Just reply here and let me know what kind of subjects you want to avoid (or avoid the character entirely) and I'm happy to oblige.

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PLAYER INFO

Name: Jenn
Age: 30+
Contact: victoryfanfare on plurk
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CHARACTER INFO

Name: Tess
Journal: dog_eat_dog
Age: 39
Appearance: 5'8", athletic build (though underfed), shoulder-length brown hair, brown eyes, beauty mark under left eye, flecked with scars, considerable scar in the shape of a bite wound on her right shoulder. Image.

Canon: The Last of Us
Canon Point: Post-death

History: History

Abilities: Baseline normal human, with 20+ years experience in urban survival, including weapon proficiency, improvising tools/weapons, brawling and first aid.

Questionnaire:

1. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed?
Twenty years ago, even in the midst of society collapsing to the Cordyceps Brain Infection pandemic, Tess was an optimist –– she was even willing to make a crusade out of it, too, having been involved with the Fireflies, a radical resistance group that wanted to restore a democratic government by overthrowing the military state that governed the surviving quarantine zones. That didn't last; between the eventual fall of most QZs, the death of her brother, and the increasing violent tactics of the Fireflies that made them no different than the military they sought to overthrow, Tess's spirit was broken. No more hope. No more crusade.

Her loyalties are largely to herself now. In her mind, there's not really any other way to be: humanity is on a slow downward spiral into eventual extinction, and as a smuggler, she rules over her own tiny little kingdom. She walks into the black market and everyone's heads turn. She wants something, she gets it. Death is all around her and her way of life, so it's easy to accept that everything that comes into her life will go away again, whether it's to infection, execution, gang wars, or even bacteria in a contaminated tin of food. So it goes. The only people she commits herself to are people who can keep up with her, but she'll turn on a dime on anyone who turns on her. Tess will shoot someone just for standing in her way. Why not? Everyone dies eventually. There is no God, no master and no authority she won't skirt. Survival is all that really matters.

She knows it's awful. Most of the time, she doesn't care. She can ride the high of a good find, a good sale, a real fucking impressive cache of guns. Those moments of self-awareness, where she knows just how far she's sunk and how much of a shitty person she is, they only exist because deep down, she wishes it were different.

2. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take: best, worst, most likely?
Tess was robbed of a normal adulthood –– the pandemic wiped out any chance of that when she was nineteen. She had no opportunity to decide what she wanted to be or what she wanted to do with her life, and that's the same now. The idea that she might get to become a different person in the future is radical.

Best case scenario: it's something like a Cinderella story, but she's, you know, not a shitty person. As a player, I'm not super enthused about storylines where female characters settle down and become domestic and chill, and I like Tess's edges, but she's also a person who has never had an opportunity to live comfortably. Nothing she owns is less than 20 years old. Her clothes are threadbare. She's emotionally distant from people because she has to be, even if she doesn't want to be. She's violent because she often has to be. For her to have an opportunity to become a legitimately better person –– more open, more compassionate, more giving, more emotionally honest –– would be a best case scenario for her to earn a modest happily-ever-after.

Worst case scenario, she carries on the way she is. There is no getting worse, at least not without a living scenario worse than back home, but avoiding staying the way she is will be a struggle. Becoming a better person might seem easy to her at first -- after all, without Cordyceps Brain Infection and the military to duck and dodge (and mow through), does she really need to pursue nastier things? She can settle down and finally take that "vacation" she keeps promising and postponing on her partner, especially in a comparatively more relaxed environment. But she's done what she's done for almost twenty years, and the idea of living a "normal" peaceful life has only ever been a distant fantasy. If an opportunity presents itself, she will get right back into crime because it's all she knows how to do.

3. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of strangers? Why?
Tess is a social butterfly and likes to be in charge. With strangers, she's very direct and particular about how things are done, and is very direct with others when she's happy, unhappy, or wants something from someone. She can be petty and vindictive when challenged directly, but she's comfortable finding compromise. If she can slip someone a ration card instead of threatening them, she will! She's easily flattered and easily bought. She can be quite patient (if not still blunt) with children and she's a fair bit more lenient with women than she is with men, but her standards remain high just the same. The black market is a very male-dominant "industry", and there is no room to show weakness whatsoever, as back home, it might mean her life.

She is also surprisingly soft underneath that hardened shell. She might let people think they're under it, but they'll know when they're really there -- when someone's her person, she'll check on them, dote on their health, and tease playfully. She'll encourage weak links in her circle to toughen up instead of outright abandoning them. In relaxed moments, she's got a quick wit and an ease to her, and she'll share what she has. Despite all her walls, she'll actually act wounded around people she cares for –– something she would never, ever show to strangers, because vulnerabilities are easily exploited.

4. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it?
Tess needs stability, and for the most part, she gets it –– sort of. If people don't cut it for her, she finds stability by removing them from the picture. If they meet her standards, she works hard to keep them, whether that's by keeping them flush materially or with favours, or meeting their expectations. It is, however, transactional, and that isn't really stability. It's not honest.

On the other hand, she wants emotional openness. She can't have it because there is nothing in the world that can come close to guaranteeing it won't end up hurting worse in the long run, so it's too much of a risk. Romantically, the person she wants emotional openness from most is unequipped to give it to her; Joel's walls are practically Fort Knox, a lot of things are left unsaid even between them. In her last moments of her life, she threw out a hail mary and admitted there was something between them, but hey, anyone can say anything in a foxhole. Seeking the open emotional connection she wants is something she still has to learn to do.

5. How do they understand the world–what kind of worldview and thought processes do they have? Why?
Tess has a dog-eat-dog mentality –– it's the only thing that gets her by, so she doesn't really entertain any alternatives. The world is an ugly place, and thinking about how it was when she was a child only highlights just how ugly it is. She has a complicated relationship with it, too. On one hand, she's very much a city girl, and she's scarcely been in the "wilderness" for decades, and she owes that to living in a quarantine zone run by the military. On the other hand, she's willing to kill soldiers to skirt the very rules that are supposed to protect survivors from infection, solely for her own gain. Whatever gets her ahead is what matters most, even if it means biting the hand that feeds her, and she doesn't interrogate that. In her mind, everyone does (or should do) the same, because that's what it takes to survive, even if it causes collateral damage.

6. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions?
Tess has some hang-ups about her intelligence. She's crafty, highly organized and meticulous, but she isn't a great long-term planner, and sometimes she can throw away a plan entirely in the name of impulse. She's good at strategizing on the fly, fortunately, but it doesn't always impress her partner. Joel makes "you are smarter than this" remarks when she does things he doesn't like, and Tess is generally very quick to try to find a solution he will like.

That said, her impulses are very much driven by her emotions. Feeling threatened or talked down to can prompt her to pull out a gun and just start shooting. If she wants someone dead, she'll mow through dozens of people to get to them. If she feels betrayed, she'll take all negotiations off the table and figure out a workaround later. It takes extreme moments of fear for her life and insecurity to get her to turn to blind faith, and even in those moments, she is very much driven by her feelings.

7. What is something others might find intolerable about them?
Setting aside the fact that she can be very trigger happy for petty reasons, Tess can very easily get smug, and can sometimes be transparently insincere. If she's up to no good, she'll only put the thinnest of "innocent" veneers over it, and she can tend towards gloating about how little she cares about the rules.

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Why are you interested in this game?
I love redemption arcs, and Tess's character lends itself to that perfectly; while in canon she finds some redemption in dying for a selfless thing for the first time in a long, long time, there's something very different about earning a redemption by putting in the work, day by day, in making the world a better place instead of being a vulture on it.

Also, I love that the setting changes regularly. As much as the "one week a month" structure works, sometimes it's nice to get more time to dig into a particular setting/environment before moving on, and week often isn't enough.

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pirate's life 4 me

Sat, 24 Jul 2021 18:11:44 GMT

A PIRATE BREACH FOR ME

Jan 5th - Jan 11th

PREMISE

Attempts to get rid of pirates have failed time and time again. Jail, hanging and social ostracism have done little to stem the tides, and not even the threat of damnation has stopped some 2000 souls from terrorizing trade routes around the Caribbean sea.

The only thing that has made a dent in their numbers is the issuance of letters of marque, a government license to capture or eliminate pirates. Many pirates now serve as privateers, sailing under the Queen’s banners and attacking other ships with royal permission, but the difference between pirate and privateer is questionable at best, and many doubt they have changed their ways at all.

Like dogs to their vomits, they say, a pirate will always return to his old ways.

This is a week where many residents of the barge will find themselves in lives of piracy, competing to attack merchant ships and each other in the pursuit of adventure, wealth and fame.

SHIPS & SETTING

No, not that kind of ship.

There are four ships featured in this event. Characters may be on any of these ships, or live in port, or have some other role.

THE PIRATES | The Adventure, a slim pirate sloop meant for moving cargo between Caribbean. A quick and agile vessel with cannons, and a crew united in their goals. With merchant ships heading for Cinco Torres with a cargo full of goods, they intend to find one, steal its goods and sink it. Seeking ne'er-do-wells, adventurers, and ambitious people seeking fame and fortune.

THE PRIVATEERS | The Revenge, a ship in the service of Her Majesty. An impressive vessel with fifty guns. What she has in speed and size she lacks in maneuverability, but the expansive cargo hold begs to be filled.  They have their eyes set on pirate ships; attacking them, stealing their ill-gotten gains and sinking them is both revenge and profit, all under the Queen's flag. Seeking former pirates willing to retrieve hostages and kill or arrest pirates for great rewards.

THE MERCHANTS | The Toison d'Or, belonging to the Merchants of Pemberly Trading. Large and statuesque, and mostly unarmed. This month's haul is a hundred bags of cocoa and two hundreds barrels of refined sugar, due to be delivered in the Port of Cinco Torres. Life on the sea is an adventure, but an allegedly moral one. Without them, people all over the Caribbean would go without goods and trade. Seeking folks willing to risk being taken hostage or killed in the name of goods and profit.

THE MUTINEERS | The Rose Emelye, a pirate ship that was quite famed years ago, but recent strife and poor maintenance has tarnished her reputation. Things are getting tense, too. After months of hard labour, fleeing the navy and privateers alike and attempting to make ends meet, the promised pay has not materialized, and the captain has refused to turn over the helm in a proper pirate election. So what is there to do but put the old bastard on the rowboat and put him out to sea, and claim his treasure map to seek their own fortune? Seeking determined pirates ready to overthrow their captain and reestablish their place in the history books, and find some treasure while they're at it.

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THE GOOD PEOPLE OF PORT CINCO TORRES | Cinco Torres is home to a great number of folks making a living on land: shopkeepers, blacksmiths, labourers, cooks, doctors, tailors, prostitutes, bureaucrats, the list goes on. There are also a great number of sailors on leave, and people waiting to answer the call of adventure.

That said, there is a deep contempt for pirates in this place, and privateers still bear the brunt of some of that contempt. The lieutenant governor has declared that all making port must hand over their arms to a justice of the peace, and may not associate in numbers larger than three. Those who engage in such riotous concourse will be conduced swiftly to jail... in theory, anyway. It can be hard to convince people to put their lives on the line to suppress such a gang, but it does happen.

STORY

Welcome to a little slice of the Caribbean around an island called Guarma. Its main city, Cinco Torres, is a major trading hub. It's a beautiful region with crystalline blue waters, white sand beaches with massive palms and dense, mountainous jungles. Sailing ships tend to blend in with the fluffy white clouds on the horizon. It is a picture of paradise.

Day One, Jan 1st
On this particular day, a lot is going on. People in Cinco Torres are going about their lives, preparing for another busy week after a restful Sunday. Privateers are preparing to make sail from Cinco Torres' port. Merchants are nearing their destination with a cargo full of goods. Pirates are... well, pirates are about to raid the merchant ship, and on another ship, a mutiny is starting.

Oops. Not quite paradise.

Day Three, Jan 3rd
All parties meet in port. (Those that lived, anyway; tough luck to anyone headed down to Davy Jones' Locker.) Pirates sneak ashore to covertly sell their goods, merchants regroup, mutineers resupply, and privateers prepare to hunt down the pirates responsible.

Day Five, Jan 5th
The privateers hunt down the pirates. The mutineers set out in search of treasure.

SCHEDULE & ROLES

The event is structured with multiple event posts. There are two actions at the start, a regrouping in port in the middle, and two actions at the end. Most of these posts will be player-directed; play out individual fights, hostage-taking, overboarding, theft and other nastiness in the midst of ship battles, or gather a few people for group decisions like making someone walk the plank. Get up to shit in port, like getting thrown out of taverns or cavorting with folks of the night, get thrown into jail, get tried and hung for piracy, go shopping, whatever you want.

Because in the middle all characters will be in port, characters can then "change tracks" — maybe they start as a merchant in port who gets kidnapped into piracy, or as a pirate giving up the life to settle in town, or a privateer who can’t resist the call of wealth and goes back to piracy. This also allows players to choose how busy characters will be.

The only event-runner-led event post will be the mutineers' treasure hunt. Characters will be separated into twos and threes in the caves, and each team will have a puzzle to complete. Characters' ability to solve the puzzle will determine whether the treasure is unlocked.

The pirate vs privateer battle's victor will be determined with a coin flip on the date of the event. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose!

Event Logs:

Day 1 - Jan 1st | pirates raid the merchants, mutineers overthrow the captain
Day 3 - Jan 3rd | all parties meet in port
Day 5 - Jan 5th | privateers hunt down the pirates, mutineers find treasure

We're also looking to fill a number of story roles. It is entirely up to you how these roles are accomplished or how they play out; they just facilitate the flow of events. Some of these can have multiple people in the role.

A captain who falls to mutiny, and ends up stranded or dead
Surviving merchants who inform privateers of the pirate ship that attacked them
A mutineer to hold the treasure map
BLAH BLAH BLAH FINISH THIS STUFF

Q&A

What about the communicators?
There are no communicators here, but there are bulletin boards, newspapers, some mail, and messages in bottles hurled into the sea.

Powers?
Functionally everyone has been humanized and depowered, but superstition and folk magic are widely believed to be real in this time. Think Pirates of the Caribbean; it's a very relaxed sort of mysticism where sailors genuinely believe in curses, ghost ships, mermaids, and any number of other fantastical things. If you'd like to play with supernatural stuff or make your character a mermaid or victim of an Aztec curse or be a sea goddess traveling in human form, go for it!

Is this Earth?
This is Earthesque, but it's not 1:1 with ours. It's the early 1700s, and they live in the midst of some variation of the Caribbean islands, though with different names and mildly different geography and roughly adjacent politics. Don't worry about it too much, it's Crime Time.

What happens if you die?
Join the Flying Dutchman or something, maybe the lot of you can be doomed to sail the oceans forever and never make port again and maybe grow a lot of barnacles on your face.

Wait, everything's on event posts?
Just about! If you want to do something wild, like have a dead people party on the Flying Dutchman, or have a few people stranded on a deserted island together, or set out on your own adventure on a little stolen ship, have at. But otherwise, we're looking to keep people together. For this event, top levels count for more AC credit. [Pretty please, mods, pretty pleaseeeee.]

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Scarification

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 02:53:04 GMT

For vaccination and alloveragain :

A lifetime ago, Tess dabbled in chemistry.

This was not the sort of chemistry she learned in high school labs. It wasn't done out of curiosity. From the start, she knew what skin did when sloshed with battery acid, or what happened to a body too close to an ammonium nitrate blast. It was pure necessity, or at least what felt necessary at the time. After a few bad incidents, she switched to selling materials. No more checkpoint bombings. No more Fireflies. It's been a few years since she did even that much.

The willingness to do what needed to be done for survival stuck around, though, and she never really forgot what she was doing.

The relevant bits come back to her now, preparing ingredients in between household chores. Joel is out on patrol, due back in a few hours, and Ellie is out running errands, due back soon, and Tess is going to be ready for both. She has good timing for these things.

She nips out into the backyard, a pair of old rubber gardening gloves shoved in the pocket of her jeans, and she rounds the far side of the house. It's the least trafficked side of the yard, nestled beside a row of trees, and so no one has been tending to the wooden barrel there but her. She crouches down, pulls on the gloves, and drags the thick plastic dish bucket out from under the raised bottom of the barrels. The lye water sloshes precariously, and she lifts it and takes it into the house. It's been filtered through the white ashes multiple times now, and though she doesn't have a test to measure the pH, she's sure it's almost on par with sodium hydroxide. An alkaline. Highly corrosive. A metal hydroxide.

Also used for making soap, if anyone snoops and asks.

Tess brings it upstairs to Joel's workshop, setting it down carefully on the workbench, far enough down that no one will accidentally disturb it. She goes to the linen closet next and pulls out a couple of mismatched wash clothes and towels, and those go on the bench, too.

She gives the vise grip a considering look and then winds it open, turning the metal arm over and over and over again until it is wide enough to fit a wrist. She tests it on herself, seeing how awkward it is, how risky it is to the whole arm if the wrist is locked in there. It won't be comfortable, even with a washcloth or two padding out the harsh metal. It's not going to be comfortable period.

Tess goes back down the hall a third time, this time to the bathroom. She plugs the sink and fills it with cold water. She props the door open, blocks it that way with the corner of a laundry hamper. The path needs to be clear.

All ready.

Just in the time: the sound of the front door opening.

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A "Date"

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:18:07 GMT

Funtimes with brokenness

In some small way, it's amazing to find a place so untouched since the outbreak, having somehow been spared both looting and the bombings. Maybe being inconspicuous helped: the windows are boarded up and the door barred over, and the sign on the brick outside had been removed a long time ago. The store is nestled into a strip of buildings on the outskirts of the city, a place no one wants to be. It’s almost like it’s a secret.

Getting in didn't seem too hard, either. A screwdriver and a bit of torque had taken care of some of the boarding, and a crowbar and a bit of leverage took off the rest. (Joel being an ex-contractor and still occasional fixer-of-apartment-things is a handy trait in a smuggler, in Tess’s books.) The window underneath is shattered, and the front display case is empty, but it's a big enough space to crawl through.

Tess is first inside, flashlight bobbing on her backpack strap as she slips through the gap, mindful of broken glass. No sounds of movement inside, so her finger stays off the trigger. No spores. She squints through the dark as she gets to her feet and rights the flashlight to illuminate the scene.

She laughs.

“Well... we might find a ton of batteries!”

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OPEN POST

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 04:06:03 GMT

canon, AU, cross-canon, assumed CR, etc etc etc, all welcome

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RDR2 AU

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:20:15 GMT

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PLAYER

Sun, 12 Jul 2020 02:32:47 GMT

hi I'm Jenn I have to put stuff here but I'm on plurk at victoryfanfare

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OLD THREADS

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 13:38:47 GMT

MASK OR MENACE

PARADISA

SMALL TOWN

Tess and Joel outside of Waco

BAKER STREET / DEAR-MUN

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INVENTORY

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:47:15 GMT

CURRENT

An iPhone 4S and charger. 05/25/20

Used to facilitate access to the inmate bar. Tess had Entrapta manufacture a charger for it; Entrapta returned it glittery and pink.

A shank, made from a drawer track and a strip of cloth 05/27/20

Crafted out of materials in her room, made to go after William with. She tried to reassemble it with the drawer she took it from, but couldn't get it back together.

An iPad, circa 2030, in a case with stylus Christmas 2020

A tablet containing several romance novels, a document entitled ASSHOLE WARDENS with Arthur and Yunlan's names listed, and a list of warden items. It has facial recognition so good luck getting into it.

A metal pendant on a chain, round, engraved with “TESS WALKER 00103” 06/19/20

Her brief (and now non-functional) warden item from the run-up to the Mirror Barge incident. Her last name is scratched out but not entirely indecipherable.

A magic 8-ball toy 06/26/20

Says "Hange Has The Map". Tess used it during the Mirror Barge event.

Olive backpack, highly distressed, with tactical flashlight 05/13/20

Stolen by William upon arrival to the Barge; contains assorted bandaging, duct tape, bits of paper. Bag image, flashlight image. William returned it 07/04/20 in exchange for his knife back. She doesn't use this very often now, having gotten a new one for Christmas 2020.

S10 NBC Respirator 05/13/20

Stolen by William upon arrival to the Barge. Circa early 2000s, manufactured by Avon. Has one cartridge and is missing the drinking tube. Very worn but face seal is functional. Image. William returned it 07/04/20 in exchange for his knife back.

Keys 05/13/20

Stolen by William upon arrival to the Barge. A set of apartment keys, for both Joel and Tess's apartments and the security gates. William returned it 07/04/20 in exchange for his knife back.

Assorted books 07/04/20

Library books, given to her by William. Something Wicked This Way Comes and three romance novels.

Sewing Supplies London

A collection of sewing supplies, including sewing needles in a bone case, assorted threads, an awl and sewing scissors in a few sizes. While Tess has been known to mend clothes from time to time, scissors make a handy improvised weapon and stitching is useful on flesh as much as fabric.

First Aid Supplies London, Christmas 2020

A collection of first aid supplies, including bandaging, a thermometer and tweezers. Arthur confiscated the morphine, opium and laudanum, but Tess has supplemented by skimming her painkiller prescriptions from the infirmary. Pain managed now means nothing if you don't have a supply for a future where you might need it more. There's also a full first aid kit from Misty from Christmas 2020.

Home Repair Supplies London

A collection of home repair supplies, including a hammer, nails, a hank of rope, zip ties and bolt cutters. Tess has traditionally left all the repairs to Joel, and she wouldn't hesitate to lean on maintenance here, but a girl can't rely on men all the time.

A Flask London

A Victorian metal flask with a myriad of embossed details. Tess uses this as a water bottle.

A Pocket Knife and a Multitool London, Christmas 2020

A Victorian folding pocket knife, about three inches long. Good for small jobs. Tess also has a sturdy multitool from Misty, this one with the knife removed.

Assorted Locks and Keys London

A number of Victorian-made padlocks with keys. You never know when you'll need one.

Victorian Clothing London

A couple white shirtwaists, a blue wool walking skirt, a couple pairs of men's trousers recut for her waistline, a well-tailored jacket bodice, some silk ribbons, a string of pearls, a pair of earrings made to look like a cluster of grapes in a gold setting, and a pair of earrings with small garnet carbuncles in a silver setting. Tess wears the earrings sometimes.

Books of Matches London

A couple books of matches with assorted labels.

Hankerchiefs London, Christmas 2020

A linen handkerchief she bought herself in London; this handkerchief was the center of a lot of drama with the V blood and Zhao Yunlan, but it is back in her possession now. She also has five silk handkerchiefs from Steve from Christmas, taken from the wardrobe.

Assorted snacks and kitchen items London, Christmas 2020

Victorian candies, a case of Coca-Cola, a bag of marshmallows, a "frankly inconvenient" number of pineapples (now preserved) from Quentin and a sizable bag of fun-sized chocolate bars from Misty. She also has a jar of olives from Callisto, as well as a high quality bottle of whiskey and another bottle of wine from Hange. Tess ate the honey cake from Callisto, it was delicious (and shaped like a dick.) She also has a Soda Stream with various flavors and some wine glasses, and a portable ice maker.

Assorted clothing Christmas 2020

Tess received two chunky knit sweaters from Misty, and a number of bandanas in various colours and patterns from an anonymous gifter. She also has a pair of sturdy riding boots of good quality from Misty, and a pair of stylish mid-calf lace up boots with holster from Cloud.

A Portrait of Tess Christmas 2020

A portrait of Tess by Ellie, half a page. This one isn't creepy like the scribbles in Ellie's journal.

A Doll Christmas 2020

A simple and hand-made doll from Callisto; Tess has not discovered the small amethyst hidden inside of it yet.

Bath Salts Christmas 2020

Bath salts n a number of scents; lavender, pear and bay rum, mandarin orange, vanilla and patchouli, etc. Tess has no bath to speak of and has taken it as an unsubtle reminder that she has not graduated yet, as she is not about to knock on a warden's door and ask to borrow theirs. Clever, Misty.

Some "Best Of" CDs Christmas 2020

A gift from Misty collecting the most popular music of the decades after Tess's world went to shit. Tess will be tracking down a full copy of Miley Cyrus' Plastic Hearts very soon after hearing Midnight Sky.

Assorted DVDs Christmas 2020

A collection of late 00s teen movies from Bill.

A sturdy backpack Christmas 2020

A new backpack from Bill.

A Trunk Christmas 2020

A trunk at the foot of her bed, very heavy and with an enormous lock on the front. There is a false bottom containing a bunch of gold coins, a couple hundred thousand dollars USD, a couple fake IDs and some rapid hair dye.

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LOST

Assorted Papers 05/13/20

Stolen by William upon arrival to the Barge. Three maps: the Boston Q.Z. map, a patrol route map, and a Firefly map. He did not return them with the rest of Tess's belongings.

An ornate wrought iron key 06/26/20

A key to the warden area of the deck. Tess used it to return the Barge's deck back to normal during the Mirror event; it vanished when the Barge reverted.

A steak knife with duct tape sheath 05/27/20

Lifted from William in a fight; he crafted the sheath from the duct tape he'd stolen from her. She returned this to him in exchange for her backpack and its contents.

A paper bag containing one million dollars USD and a significant amount of gold glitter 06/19/20

An offhand acquisition from Bill Cipher; vanished at the end of the Mirror Barge event.

Bootleg alcohol 06/19/20

An initial collection of bottles of homemade alcohol. Rawne has been producing, and Tess convinced him to stash half in custodial. It didn't all fit, so she took the rest back to her cabin; it's all been consumed or given away now, and as Tess has gotten out of bootlegging, she's no longer into it.

Ellie's Journal 00/00/0000

Stolen temporarily; Tess took it from Ellie's backpack in the Enclosure when she was distracted, and Ellie threw a fit when she realized it was missing. Arthur retrieved it for her.

Pagan's Knives 00/00/0000

Stolen temporarily; Tess took these from Yunlan's dresser when she broke into his room to retrieve her handkerchief. Arthur returned it for her in exchange for the handkerchief.

Yunlan's Pendant Necklace 00/00/0000

Stolen temporarily; Tess this pendant from Yunlan's side table when she broke into his room to retrieve her handkerchief. Arthur returned it for her in exchange for the handkerchief.

CODING

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Inmate File

Wed, 27 May 2020 12:04:51 GMT

Inmate File

Name: Tess [family name unknown]
D.O.B.: Oct 6, 1994 (age 39 as of 2033)
Home: Boston, United States
Physical Description: Female, Caucasian, 5'8", 128lbs, brown hair, brown eyes
Health concerns: Somewhat malnourished, misc. injuries (5/12), bite wound on shoulder (5/13), gunshot wounds on torso (5/13), laceration on arm and leg (5/27)

Survivor of the 2013 Cordyceps Brain Infection pandemic
Resident of Boston Quarantine Zone
Leader of unnamed smuggling ring, active for >10 years
Never successfully apprehended or identified, no prior arrest record
Unmarried, no children, no surviving family
Former member of anti-military terrorist group "The Fireflies"
Shot down by U.S. Military for smuggling a child out of Boston; accomplice escaped with the child, location unknown

Charges (Simplified)

Aiding and Abetting	Drug Trafficking and Distribution	Possession of a Controlled Substance
Aggravated Assault	Drug Possession	Providing Material Support to Terrorist Organizations
Assault Causing Bodily Harm	Extortion	Resisting Arrest
Assault With A Weapon	Failure to Report Infection	Smuggling - Controlled Substances
Assault of a Peace Officer	Forgery	Smuggling - Drugs
Attempted Murder	Fraud - Rations Benefits	Smuggling - Goods (Alcohol, Tobacco)
Bribery of an Officer of the Law	Harbouring a Fugitive	Smuggling - Human
Benefits Fraud	Identity Theft	Smuggling - Weapons
Child Abduction	Murder - 1st degree	Theft
Conspiracy to Murder, Maim	Murder - 2nd degree	Torture

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STORY YEAR 1

Fri, 15 May 2020 15:22:24 GMT

STORY - YEAR 1

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SETTLING IN

May 12th, 2020
Tess arrives on the Barge. Having just been shot down by the military in Boston's Capitol building, she arrives grievously wounded. She is immediately mugged by William, who steals her backpack and loose items and leaves her for dead. Fortunately she is found by Bodhi Rook, who summons Tiffany Doggett. The two take Tess to the infirmary, where she is operated on by Dr. Harry Goodsir, saving her life.

Upon regaining consciousness, Tess is introduced to the broad strokes of the Barge, its residents and the communicators by Tiffany. Tiffany allows Tess to look at her communicator, which she uses to read content filtered to Wardens, including a message from William. She recognizes him from her mugging and decides to hunt him down when she is no longer bedridden. She isn't very impressed by the zaniness of the communications network.

She talks with Bodhi a bit (who mentions her to Hux) and also meets Dogma and sends him to get her communicator for her.

May 15, 2020
During her recovery, she spends some time poking around the network, including talking about shapeshifting monsters with Richie Tozier and resistance with Rose Quartz. Just casual conversations, you know?

May 16, 2020
Tess is discharged from the infirmary and stops to talk with Dr. Goodsir for a little bit.

May 17, 2020
Tiffany checks in on Tess via her inbox as she recovers in her cabin and they talk a bit about partners. She later goes down for dinner and meets Hange, who shows her the Enclosure. The two discover their worlds share some similarities, and they talk a little bit about selflessness. Tess goes back to her room exhausted.

May 18, 2020
Tess runs into the Inquisitor, who tells her that she is on the lookout for Cal Kestis. Later on in the day, they run into each other again and Tess catches up.

May 19, 2020
When the Barge's flood starts causing trouble with inanimate objects coming to life, Tess doesn't want to take any chances. She touches base with Quentin Coldwater and learns about their plan to hole up in the Enclosure, and she heads over to introduce herself to Misty Day. En route, she runs into the aforementioned Cal Kestis.

May 21, 2020
When William makes a public call looking for his hat, Tess responds. The chase is on.

May 23, 2020
Geralt and Tess bump into each other (almost literally) in the gym. Tess thinks he's interesting, and potentially useful, given he's calm and has realistic thoughts about wardens –– and hey, he's not bad on the eyes, either.

May 24, 2020
Tess posts her first audio log to the network, asking for food recommendations. Hange and Tess talk vacations, Tiffany invites her over for cream puff swans, and she encounters Wolf, a fellow quasi-zombie survivor. Richie and Tess talk survival and MREs. Tess meets Double Trouble in the wardrobe area and gets some fresh clothes, as well as Bill Cipher, who jokes with her a little. She talks drinks with Billy Butcher, froyo with Michael, pickled garlic with Jedao, the Empire with Trilla, and chili hot chocolate and octopus with Fives. She also meets Jasper, who loses their temper and spills some details about Rose Quartz.

She also meets Arthur Morgan, who takes her for drinks and then to see the countryside and horses in the Enclosure. They get along smoothly right out of the gate, slyly talking about their criminal histories. Tess immediately clicks with him.

Tess also reaches out to the owners of the inmate bar, and she acquires an old iPhone out of it, which she decides to use for note-taking. She's brought to the secret bar by Freeza, an alien, and she has drinks with him and... Bill Cipher! She tells them that she used to smuggle and she starts getting ideas about starting up business again.

Later that evening, she runs into Callisto, a woman she's seen on the network. Callisto is interested in rebelling against the wardens; Tess isn't sure her goals align, but she does think Callisto is interesting.

May 26, 2020
Tess runs into new arrival Angel in the hall.

May 27, 2020
It's time to deal with the William problem. Tess strips down a drawer track from her dresser to use as a shiv and heads to the laundry room, where he meets up with her. They fight; they both walk away wounded, but she leaves with the upper hand and his knife.

However, while Tess tries to patch herself up on her own, she realizes one slash wound needs to be closed up a little better than what she has on-hand. Despite having told Dr. Goodsir that she'd go to him if no one's life was in danger, she decides to just make do -- she borrows a needly and thread from DT, and convinces Geralt to stitch her up. She ends up hooking up with Geralt.

May 28, 2020
When the Joker asks why people went to work that day, Tess replies that she didn't, and they chat for a little bit.

May 30, 2020
Tess wakes up to a morning announcement from the Admiral; she and Arthur Morgan have been permanently paired together as inmate and warden. She has mixed feelings on the subject; upset over having someone with direct authority over her for the first time in her adult life, angry for having revealed anything to him for such a low price, and curious about what he knows. She heads over to his cabin to look at her file and talk plans.

She also meets Dancy Flammarion, an odd duckling with obvious experience with survival; Tess takes her to lunch.

May 31st, 2020
Quentin invites Tess over; they talk about Boston and Tess gets to eat pineapple for the first time in twenty years.

June 1st, 2020
Tess sees an invite to a séance and jokes around about ghosts with the poster only to end up summoning Betelgeuse to her –– she isn't exactly graceful about it, but she learns something about not taking supernatural things seriously.

June 2nd, 2020
New warden Nadja arrives to much chatter; Tess is initially wary of her, but is too intrigued at the prospect of trying make-up to stay away.

June 3rd, 2020
Tess hangs out with Billy Butcher and shoots the shit with him, and then later has a chat with Tiffany in the gym.

June 6th, 2020
Tess runs into Demona in the library and they talk about clothes and genocide. (Like you do.) Richie Tozier has a question about TV and Tess goes back for more conversations about things she hasn't known since she was a teenager. Hey, he's good conversation. Michael, on the other hand, digs a little deeper.

June 8th, 2020
Tess reaches out to Misty to find out what she knows about Arthur; she also gets an earful of advice about redemption out of it.

June 10th, 2020
Betelgeuse texts Tess (and everyone else) at some ungodly hour, and they have another minor tiff. No matter: Tess has business to attend to, so she hits up Dr. Goodsir to talk about Arthur and William, under the guise of having stitches removed.

June 11th, 2020
Tess answers Lawrence's question about whether anything is real; the question's real annoying, but she's intrigued by Lawrence himself and what he claims to be true. She ends up getting Arthur to snag her a bottle of whiskey so she can go drinking with Lawrence.

June 15th, 2020
Tess has a chat with the Joker in the dining hall, and a very brief conversation about armies with Freeza.

June 19th - 20th, 2020
When the power is flipped on the Barge, Tess is given her own item to open doors and has her room flipped to be a warden's room, as well as being given her gun back. The inmates are a little excited, and Tess asks what everyone plans to do with it. Amongst others, she meets Rawne, who is making bootleg alcohol; Tess helps him package it up and offers to split the stash to store half of it in custodial. She also gets $1 million dollars USD in cash from Bill. Betelgeuse has taken over the lounge, so she goes to visit him to take a few bottles under the guise of karaoke.

Arthur reaches out to her to touch base and get his guns back; she agrees to hand them and his journal over in exchange for the privilege of keeping her gun when this is all over. He agrees, and they get each other up to speed on using pistols and revolvers.

She also pokes a little fun at Misty and says hi to Geralt.

June 21st, 2020
The Barge has been flipped into a mirrored form –– the object is for inmates to be corrupted to achieve graduation, and Tess, a hopeful Firefly who wants to see the world fixed, refuses to knuckle under, even under the application of torture. Her Warden, Arthur, is a man of no honour and a whole lot of cruelty, and she maintains an overall chilly relationship even with well-meaning wardens like Misty or grouchy ones like Geralt, but it's not all bad. She has a boyfriend, William, and he's sweet to her. She has friendships with Billy (Startrekker), Bodhi and Quentin, and she's a member of Callisto's Amazon girl gang, with fierce sisterly relationships with Tiffany, Madelyn and Trilla.

June 22nd - 25th, 2020
Barbara Gordon arrives in the midst of the flip; Tess greets her. Tess discusses sanitary food practices with Eddie. Tess talks with Callisto about the Amazons' celebration plans, and coordinates a small plan with Tiffany to get materials to make fireworks. The Amazons have a bonfire that night.

June 26th, 2020
After a terse conversation with Misty and struggling with what Arthur showed her in the torture booth, Tess breaks her silence on it to William. Later that evening, she breaks free of the mirror.

June 28th, 2020
Having woken up from her altered memories, Tess spends two days figuring out what to do and ducking her warden. Eventually he catches up with her, and they have a spat, resulting in Arthur's memories being jogged.

July 1st, 2020
Some of the other residents are struggling with their own memories; Tess talks to Trilla.

July 2nd, 2020
Frustrated, Tess asks the Barge residents what anyone is doing. She ends up having a small spat with Demona, prompting a future struggle.

July 3rd, 2020
Tess seeks out Arthur to check in on how he's doing, and though she's glad that he's mostly back in his right mind, she feels oddly challenged by the task of comforting, and conflicted about what he'd inflicted on her. She decides to leave that concern for another day, and the two agree to split up and scour the Barge for clues. He tells her to be careful and she jokes that she always is.

She does get another clue in the form of a magic 8-ball with a message, so Tess hunts down Hange to figure out what her map is about. The map shows which rooms have yet to be converted. The two end up in the cybernetics lab, where they get the last clue to pass on to William, Misty and Rhys. Something happens along the way and Tess ends up killed. Tess doesn't remember what.

Arthur is informed of her death by his journal and picks her up, taking her to the infirmary, where he, Harry and Tiffany revive her.

GETTING BUSY

July 4th, 2020
Tess wakes up in the infirmary disoriented and upset; upon learning that the Barge has been reverted back to normal, she decides she wants to be done with the whole affair and insists on being allowed to leave the infirmary. Arthur takes her back to her cabin and looks after her for a couple days. They have a bit of a heart to heart, and she has a minor meltdown and admits she feels she's been taking advantage of him. They also discuss her plans, and whether she'd try to make warden and get a deal of her own. Tess isn't sure, but she's willing to try.

July 5th, 2020
William drops by Tess' room to return her backpack, as promised, and they have a bit of tension negotiating who they are and who they were to each other. Tess goes over the maps with him and explains how she smuggled Ellie out of Boston with Joel.

July 6th, 2020
Bored again and on the last leg of her death toll, Tess picks a couple little fights on the network, including needling new resident Crais and reminding Tiffany that they aren't sisters. She also talks to Joker about cops, and reaches out to Double Trouble, who also died in the Mirror Barge.

July 7th, 2020
Tess chats with Warren Kepler about Chinese take-out and then goes and pays Billy Butcher a visit with a bottle of booze in tow. No way to celebrate survival like knocking boots, right? Meanwhile, Arthur confronts William about the raid on his cabin, and then he turns to Tess about his burned photographs. Tess doesn't believe they've been burned and promises to get them back, but Harry convinces William to return them first.

June 9th, 2020
Tess jokes to William that it's apology hour; they talk for a little and spat a little.

July 12th, 2020
Determined to keep busy, Tess jumps right into making plans for her bootleg ring. Bill tells her that the speakeasy was lost in the Barge's restructuring, but Freeza isn't so sure it's gone. Tess tells Rawne that it might have been lost, but begins making plans to hide the bootleg where it won't be as easily found. She settles on sending it with Lawrence.

She also takes a moment to welcome Loki to the Barge.

July 14th, 2020
Before Tess can get the rest of the booze moved out of custodial, Arthur finds the stash. He doesn't seem to suspect her, however, and Tess goes about helping him with custodial until they get into a little tiff when Tess gets bossy. Tess immediately makes arrangements with Rawne and Lawrence to move the remaining stash out of maintenance and into Lawrence's room. Then she's off to have a drink with Cloud, and she mentions having smuggled Ellie.

July 15th, 2020
Tess goes back to Arthur to make nice, and they talk a little more about Dutch. Tess invites Arthur out to the enclosure as a peace offering, and he takes her on a treasure hunt, where they talk about the world outside the Quarantine Zone, cell phones and being outdoors.

July 16th, 2020
Bill finds the Brew and meets with Tess to talk arrangements. They agree that there is no functional economy on the Barge, especially for inmates, but that if they get the population hooked on booze, they'll be able to establish something once people are reliant on the supply. Afterwards, Tess updates Rawne on the bootleg situation.

July 19th, 2020
Arthur and Misty talk, and Arthur asks if he's a bad person for not offering Tess his deal. Misty assures him he isn't. Tess congratulates Hange on Betelgeuse's graduation, and tells Rose to enjoy her own.

July 21st, 2020
A now-ex-CIA agent named Allison arrives on the Barge, and under the influence of a Barge flood prompting people to tell the truth or else, Tess is very candid with her. It's a no kids, no boyfriends kind of place. Later, she heads off and plays Truth Chicken with William.

July 22nd, 2020
When Cloud needs extra people for another kitchen shift, Tess ribs him about his ability to get people in line for the job.

July 23rd, 2020
Bill Cipher is gross.

ELLIE

July 25th, 2020
Ellie arrives. It does not go gracefully. Tess encounters her in the hallway and confronts Ellie about what's happened since they parted ways. They're cautious with each other until Ellie admits what happened to Joel, and then it gets caustic and they brawl. Tess realizes Ellie is serious and decides to walk for the time being, leaving Ellie alone.

Ellie takes to the network later; many people remark on her bloody nose. William sees and approaches Tess; she goes to his room and argues with him and punches him out, too. Arthur sees Ellie and talks with her for a bit, and then catches up with Tess that evening and lets her vent. Tess takes Arthur to Joel's apartment in the Enclosure, intending to burn it down, but she holds back, finally admitting what Joel was to her and why the whole thing upsets her. They end up drinking together instead.

July 26th, 2020
Mildly hungover but ready to make some measure of peace, Tess goes back to Ellie in the morning and chats for a bit.

July 29th, 2020
Tess meets Pagan. He is crazy. She also gets herself into a mild debate with Randel over what the people on the barge can do to help people in ports they visit, and though some other Barge residents agree with her point, she realizes how jaded her worldview is by comparison.

July 30th, 2020
Tess talks with Callisto about roman candles. The Admiral also makes a pairing post; when Tess sees that some wardens have been given multiple inmates and others none at all, she sends Ellie a message with "suggestions". That quickly devolves into a spat, and in a pique of frustration, Tess asks Lawrence to give Ellie a hard time.

Aug 1st, 2020
Tess gets drinks with Butcher in the lounge and chats with him about Ellie. Later, she brings Ellie pudding as another peace offering.

Aug 6th, 2020
On the network, Tess jokes about keeping her figure. Steve chimes in and that conversation veers through a number of topics, ending when Tess finds out Steve is with Pagan. She pals around with Bill Cipher and Nadja, and FILL MORE OF THIS OUT LATER AAHHH

Tess takes Ellie to the hot tub and they talk for a bit; Ellie is notably uncomfortable seeing Tess's injuries but Tess doesn't bring it up.

Aug 8th, 2020
Tess talks with Cloud about her new hobbies.

Aug 15th, 2020
Tess goes for a walk with Pagan Min; he discovers she is carrying a pistol, and she gets video of him in a dress because she is an asshole.

Aug 16th, 2020
Tess shows Ellie the not-blackmail video of Pagan in a dress.

Aug 21st-26th, 2020: Rumbling, Rattling, Rolling
The Barge is breached and turns into a prison train hurtling around a frozen Earth. Tess has been on board the train for twenty years, having arrived with her sister Allison after murdering Tess's shitty then-boyfriend. Within the first year she finds herself pregnant with Ellie, who she raises with Joel and her sister. She's supported by friends on the train, including Arthur. Tess keeps her head down and focuses on survival.

Tess goes about life on the train. She soothes Ellie on sleepless nights.

Aug 27th, 2020
Tess isn't particularly happy about what happened, but she pulls up her socks to deal anyway, going on an Enclosure outing with Arthur that has her riding with him for the first time. Ellie, on the other hand, is upset by her first breach, and Tess tries to keep lines of communication open. She's also surprised to find out that Ellie considers her train life with Tess better than her childhood at home, but she says nothing. She touches base with Allison, too, and they talk about their parents. She catches up with Billy Butcher, too, telling him that it was fairly normal for her.

Aug 30th, 2020
The Admiral announces new pairings and Tess is right there to give Ellie advice, whether it's welcome or not. Either way, she gets right back to socializing: talking rehabilitation with Rawne and hobbies with Zhao.

Sept 4th, 2020
After hearing from William that Tess died trying to fix the barge, Ellie tries reaching out to Tess. Tess is a little surprised, given that Ellie seems to want to avoid her, but she goes with it. Ellie's cageyness with her feels upsetting, though, and she's struck by the notion that Ellie might be hiding things from her the same way Joel might, so she takes Ellie's journal.

Sept 6th, 2020
Billy found something weird in the inmate showers. Tess teases Allison.

OK I KNOW I HAVE A LOT TO CATCH UP ON

LONDON

Nov 7th, 2020

Tess catches up with Cloud after he wakes up from his coma.

Nov 15th, 2020

Bill goes on a spam-a-thon on the network, and Tess asks him about the future of the Brew. He offers her a partnership if he or Freeza ever leave. While Tess accepts it, she knows she shouldn't, but she decides it doesn't matter if it may not ever even come to pass. Tess reaches out to Arthur to let him know what's going on with the Brew, but she gets cold feet over a text response where she can't really read his reaction. They end up getting lunch and talking about Starbucks instead, and Tess feels somewhat unsure about broaching the topic again to avoid making him angry.

THE VIPS

Nov 00rd, 2020
The Admiral sends in VIPs; Tess switches in and out with Marlene, and Ellie switches in and out with Joel. Marlene talks with some of Tess's people. Tess braces herself to see Joel and heads out to see him; they have a spat.
William reaches out to her to talk and she rebuffs him at first, but they end up going to lunch.

Nov 21st, 2020
Annoyed by Marlene's posts all over the network, Tess posts that "Marlene is a bitch" and leaves it at that. She talks with Ellie and bonds a little, offering her crash space if ever needed, jokes with Pagan, talks about Maeve with Lawrence, and meets up with Arthur to chat. She also chats with Tesla's VIP, Watson, about pandemics. She gets a Thanksgiving invite from Misty. That night, she gets drinks with Hange, and they talk about partners and wall security.

THE BLOOD AFFAIR

Nov 23rd, 2020
As the VIPs head home, Tess comes across Steve wandering the halls covered in bloody tears. She wipes his face clean with her handkerchief, only to have Yunlan run into the two of them. Not wanting Tess to have the blood, he tries to take it from her and ends up having to frisk her up against the wall, where he discovers the gun. He takes it from her and contacts Arthur. Meanwhile, Tess turns around and reaches out to Bill to immediately dump the blood sample, meager as it is, and is on her way out when Arthur calls. They argue, but ultimately Arthur gives her the gun back.

Nov 27th, 2020
Needing an outfit for the Thanksgiving party, Tess invites Pagan to dress her and they chat in the wardrobe. She broaches the subject of Pagan getting his shit together and he doesn't take it well.

Nov 29th, 2020
Despite all of the chaos of the blood affair, Tess goes to Misty's Thanksgiving Party; she has a fantastic time, chatting with Loki, chatting with Tiffany, sharing kitchen space with Bucky, eating with Arthur. She also has a minor tiff with William. Tess also makes a drunken request to the Admiral before heading to bed.

Nov 30th, 2020
Tiffany finds the Admiral request, and she and Tess have a laugh over it. Tess checks back in with William. He meets her at the Brew and they talk about Emily. Later, when the pairings for December go up, Tess sees that Pagan and Ellie have been temporarily paired for the month and messages Ellie about it. Yunlan does the same, shedding light on the blood affair from his own perspective.

THE YUNLAN AFFAIR

Dec 3rd, 2020
Butcher and Tess break their silence; Tess approaches him in the chapel and they talk a little about what happened.

Dec 5th, 2020
Tess chats with Annie about gas masks. And still frustrated about the Yunlan debacle, Tess reaches out to Steve to talk about what happened.

Dec 6th, 2020
Pagan messages Steve and they talk about Tess a bit.

Dec 10th, 2020
Tess gives into an impulse: invisible due to a flood causing invisibility, she breaks into Yunlan's room to retrieve her handkerchief (and scope out what he has while she's at it.) He comes home before she finishes and they end up in a fight, leaving him battered and unconscious and her with a broken arm. She immediately informs Arthur, who marches her to the infirmary to see Tiffany, who disagrees with Yunlan breaking Tess's arm. Arthur, on the other hand, is more upset at Tess: she was supposed to go to him instead of charging ahead on her own. Recognizing his anger, Tess offers to give him some space. Arthur checks his communicator and talks to Yunlan, who runs over his side of the story, and asks Arthur to get his things back.

Arthur messages Tess asking for the things back in exchange for the handkerchief, and she agrees. Things are tense and they agree not to talk, but he brings her dinner that night.

Dec 11th, 2020
Yunlan turns to the network to figure out getting his laptop fixed; he's vague about what happened, but he tells Bucky. He also talks to Tiffany about what happened.

Dec 12th, 2020
Feeling sassy, Tess and William poke fun at Archer on the network. Later, Tess meets Norton in the lounge and they talk about emotionally unavailable men and men that are too emotionally available.

Dec 15th, 2020
Pagan finds out about the arm break; he reaches out to Tess to chat about it, and they break the ice on their prickly relationship.

Dec 16th, 2020
With Tess struggling with her arm still in a sling, Butcher offers to help. Tess tells him about Yunlan but gets frustrated with the situation and excuses herself.

Tess posts to the network about the life boats, prompting some interesting conversations with wardens about the state of things, with Bill about how much anything can be fixed here, and with Norton about what happened with Yunlan. Norton turns around and talks to Yunlan about it a few days later, showing him the conversation. Ellie and Cloud both run into Tess in the dining hall and ask about the sling; both turn around and talk to Yunlan. Cloud gets a bit of heat and Ellie asks him to throw her in Zero next time.

Dec 17th, 2020
Tiffany reaches out to Tess about the arm, and they talk a little about Yunlan. Tess opens up a bit about Arthur. Cloud gets back in touch with Tess to follow-up about Yunlan.

Dec 19th, 2020
Tess eventually folds on Arthur, breaking the silence by slipping a picture of them under his door. They hug and talk it out.

Dec 23rd, 2020
When Tup asks a lot of questions about Santa Claus, Tess informs him that Santa is not real.

Dec 26th, 2020
Archer sends out invites to a New Years' party; Tess is initially interested but backs out when she realizes it's being held outdoors at night. Gertrude posts to the network about doing experiments with the Barge's engine room, which Tess plays along with until Larry messages her privately to check in.

Dec 28th, 2020
Tess spends a decent part of her week casually stalking Yunlan.

Dec 29th, 2020
Pagan reaches out to Tess about hiding a body; Rawne was killed by a new inmate. She gives him some timely advice about striking before the new guy gets a warden, and Pagan asks her to hide his contraband if he gets killed. Tess agrees and turns around and lets Arthur know so he can give her an out, and lets Ellie know to keep an eye out –– for Pagan's own good. And, because she's nice, she reaches out to Rawne to give her condolences on the murder.

Non-Canon Threads

William and Tess on the Truth Meme
Aerith on the TDM

Baker Street and Memes

Joel and Tess
Joel and Tess ft. headaches
Joel and Tess ft. depressing
Bill and Tess ft. supply run

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AUDIO

Fri, 15 May 2020 15:17:13 GMT

♫ Home - Gustavo Santaolalla [instrumental]

♫Thin Line - Honeyhoney oh i ain't no southern belle, no georgia peach, i guess all my good graces are too far out of reach

♫ Bird Song - Florence + The Machine i picked up the bird and above the din i said, "that's the last song you'll ever sing".

♫ Not The Doctor - Alanis Morissette i don't want to live on someday when my motto is last week, i don't want to be responsible for your fractured heart and its wounded beat

♫ Angel of Small Death and The Codeine Scene - Hozier i watch the work of my kin bold and boyful, toying somewhere between love and abuse

♫ Chandelier - Sia can't feel anything, when will i learn, i push it down, push it down

♫ Shankill Butchers - Sarah Jarosz they're picking at their fingers with their knives and wiping off their cleavers on their thighs

♫ Still - Daughter hate is spitting out each others mouths but we're still sleeping like we're lovers

♫ All I Really Want - Alanis Morisette and there i go jumping before the gunshot has gone off, slap me with a splintered ruler

♫Canary - Joy Williams there's a madness in the valley, there's a darkness that can blind, it was every man for himself, no one's getting out alive

♫ My Body Hurts - Sofi Tukker so i'm here on the other side, feeling fucked up and bridled inside my own mind

♫ Criminal - Fiona Apple heaven help me for the way i am, save me from these evil deeds before i get them done, i know tomorrow brings the consequence at hand, but i keep livin' this day like the next will never come

♫ Do You Sleep - Lisa Loeb i saw you as you walked across my room, you looked out the window, you looked at the moon, and you sat on the corner of my bed, and you smoked with the ghost in the back of my head

♫ Smoke and Mirrors - Gotye you're a fraud and you know it, but it's too good to throw it all away. anyone would do the same, you've got 'em going and you're careful not to show it

♫ Bury A Friend - Billie Eilish it's probably somethin' that shouldn't be said out loud, honestly, i thought that i would be dead by now (wow!) calling security, keepin' my head held down, bury the hatchet or bury your friend right now

♫ No Filter - Black Coast now i make 'em listen, i'm pushing limits through my teeth, oh yeah i say what i want when i wanna, say what you want i don't give up, let my lips run wild, get away with my smile

♫ Smugglers - Gustavo Santaolalla [instrumental]

♫ Listen to full playlist.

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a constant WIP lol

William
"Son of a fucking bitch."

Tess's first encounter on the Barge made a lasting impression –– William mugged her as she lay dying, robbing her of what little she had. Although some old ration cards and duct tape don't mean much to her here, it's the principle of the matter, and she firmly intends to make things even.

Bodhi Rook
"Needs more observation."

Bodhi found Tess bleeding out in the laundromat and called for help. Tess isn't sure what to make of him so far, given the chaos of their first meeting, but she'll be sure to follow up with him, if only to see if he feels she owes him anything.

Tiffany Doggett
"A little too trusting. This one might be useful."

Tiffany was part of the rally to save Tess's life, and she explained the gist of life on the Barge, as well as use of the communicators. She also left her communicator in Tess's hands to look through, giving Tess brief access to warden filters -- while Tess was too disoriented to make complete use of it, it did direct her to William.

Dr. Harry Goodsir
"A doctor. Useful."

The doctor responsible for saving Tess's life. Seems kindly enough, but time will tell whether he can be a trusted ally.

Richie Tozier
"Clown guy."

A man from small-town Maine who dealt with some sort of monster as a child and then again as an adult. The monster causes hallucinations. Frankly, Tess is just relieved that there are some people who are both grounded in the real world and have experience with horror shit.

Rose Quartz
"Too idealistic."

Means well, but seems pretty naive -- she's thousands of years old and Tess doesn't get the impression she's all too grounded for it.

Dogma
"Military guy, clueless."

Coming soon.

Zoe Hange
"Strange. Reads for fun."

Coming soon.

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