profile. tessa niles (sage)

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name »	Tessa Niles
codename »	Sage
age »	negotiable
birthday »	December 6th

personality »

tessa couldn’t care less about being charming and/or attractive; she likes computers, data, machinery, strategizing, and assembling information in an effort to come to adequate solutions. her life revolves around order and the tangible, leaving little up to chance or emotion.

she appears to be quiet and somewhat standoffish (almost always to the point of being cold), mostly because when tessa focuses on something, she puts all of her attention to it, with little regard for anything or anyone else. these projects are most often mechanical or computerized in nature, as opposed to being interpersonal. when tessa sits down to work on a project she doesn't allow for any interruptions. she has a tendency to neglect all sorts of important things. like food and sleep.

however, when engaged in conversation, tessa is a lively participant and an avid listener, her mind constantly working at the speed of a high-powered computer, storing and analyzing information about the people she’s with and their surroundings. she asks questions, supplies answers, and appears to be fully engaged in the conversation itself and the people that she is interacting with. usually, though, her main drive in participating in social situations is to gather information that she deems to be important and, once she’s acquired it, tessa can quickly lose interest in whatever conversation or activity she has been involved in.

tessa, for the most part, keeps her personal life to herself. she wouldn't categorize herself as having many -- if any -- close friendships because she's so focused on her work. this, however, isn't a result of tessa being unfriendly. instead, it is the result of her work ethic. people who have gotten to know tessa have done so by approaching her first.

likes: information, computers, building and working with computer equipment, foreign languages, html/css/java, bionics.
dislikes: overly emotional people, not being given time and room to work, interruptions, the government and anyone who backs it.
phobias/fears: Losing her memory, being vulnerable to a telepathic attack.
hobbies: hacking, collecting information for information's sake, martial arts, among other side ventures.

goals: she wants to finish her bionic army, she wants to take down the government, she doesn’t really care about world peace but she is tired of having to hide. oddly enough, even though she has a superiority complex, she has absolutely no desire to run something like the brotherhood. sure, she’d be better at it than anyone else (according to her) but she doesn’t want to have to deal with the people aspect of running an organization. because people get whiny and annoying.

strengths: tessa is a talented computer hacker and programmer with an innate sense of how computers work. this allows her to envision, develop and write computer programs with ease. in addition, she's able to access computer files that even some of the most seasoned hackers are unable to gain access to. able to collect, absorb, and assimilate information at the speed of a high-powered computer, tessa's kinetic memory means that she has total recall of everything that she has ever seen, heard, smelled, tasted, touched, etc., much like a computer database. this makes her ideal for intelligence work since whatever information she gathers can be relayed down to the most minute detail at a later time.

tessa is a very serious, hard working, practical individual. it is almost impossible to get her upset -- at least enough so that she'll show it -- and she responds to high pressure situations with the mechanical efficiency of a machine.

because her mutation isn't particularly offensive, tessa has intensely studied and perfected a variety of martial arts and other forms of self defense in order to ensure her survival. she's continued this training with the brotherhood and, as a result, is still in peak physical condition.

weaknesses/flaws: tessa can seem incapable of expressing emotion, especially to people that she doesn't know well. She tends to be unreadable and doesn't easily open up to others. while some people derive their drive and ambition through emotion, tessa is driven by a desire to remain calm and in control at all times.

it goes without saying that tessa's not big on being a 'team player.' she doesn't take orders from other people well (unless she feels that they have reached a respectable level of intelligence), especially when the orders have to do with an area she feels she has superior knowledge in -- which, considering her wide range of knowledge, is a pretty wide array of areas. this can make tessa seem stuck up and unwilling to accept help from others. tessa has a tendency to believe that she's incapable of failing at anything and she often doesn't consider failure an option. because of this, tessa will keep pushing to succeed at something, even at the expense of her mental, physical and/or emotional health.

history »

Almost next to nothing is known about Tessa’s past before becoming a member of the Brotherhood. What is known is that she spent much of her youth traveling and that she originally came from an area plagued by war. Already possessing her mutant powers at a young age, Tessa spent at least part of her youth in Afghanistan.

Later, at the age of 20, after Tessa had used her hacker skills to produce false documents 'making' her a United States citizen, she began working as a freelance investigator and, on a more secretive level, as a computer hacker/programmer.

Because of the work that Tessa did in New York, she learned utilize her cyberpathy, can easily hack into heavily secured computer systems, and developed the potential to be the ultimate spy. She also learned how to use her telepathy more efficiently and discovered her capability to completely block her mind against any telepathic probes.

Tessa also developed another aspect of her mutation – the ability to scan other mutant’s genomes and to jumpstart mutant powers. Having a kinetic memory and total recall of anything she learns, Tessa, though she never had any formal education, still possesses the knowledge and mastery of an individual with multiple graduate degrees.

Tessa was the one who tracked down and contacted Magneto, wanting, by this time, to do something about the high level of prejudice against mutants. She knew that she would be able to affect and manipulate the MRA's computer files with her mutation and thought she would be useful to a mutant organization that had no intention of registering.

However, even though Tessa has settled in New York and is working with Magneto and the Brotherhood, she's never revealed much about where she's from, whether she has any living family, or even what her purpose for being in New York in the first place was. When asked about her past, Tessa sidesteps the issue and absorbs herself in some sort of project, brushing off whoever's asking.

powers & skills »

sage has a mind that exceeds even the most advanced computer system which allows her to analyze and catalogue the dna sequences of all living beings. this basic mutation, and the possession of the advanced mind required for it, provides for a number of different abilities.

DNA SCANNING: sage is able to sense the presence of other mutants, scan a person for all possible mutations and abilities in their genetic code (whether latent or active), and catalogue, analyze and interpret all of this information in her mind at the rate of a high speed computer.

JUMPSTART ABILITY: after scanning another mutant’s DNA, sage is able to trigger power manifestations which unleash latent mutant powers or can enhance and beneficially modify existing mutations in other people.

KINETIC MEMORY / CYBERPATHY / SIMULTANEOUS THOUGHT PROCESSES: these abilities augment her ability to understand and catalogue genetic information with a computer-like mind able to record everything she thinks and perceives, summon any stored data at will for total recall and kinetic memory, run multiple simultaneous thought processes, interact with computer mainframes at an equal-or-greater rate of computing, and perform highly accurate analyses of her surroundings, enabling her to anticipate and counter physical attacks on reflex or concoct elaborate conclusions and strategies with great speed.

DEFENSIVE TELEPATHY: sage has the ability to read and project thoughts, send out her astral form, cast illusions, and manipulate the minds of others. however, these offensive telepathic feats are quite weak and, instead, sage tends to use her telepathy defensively. this type of defensive telepathy is extremely strong and allows her to consciously close off her mind. while this prevents her from accessing her own telepathy it renders her mind immune to psionic probes and detection, and creates a defensive force that deflects any offensive mental action back at her attacker. this ability makes her immune to any kind of psionic attacks --- telepathy, empathy, etc. --- from even those with extremely strong powers.

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