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Player's Name: Karra
Are you over 16? Y
Characters Played Here: Stiles, Kit, Allison, Harry, Jefferson, Eve

Character: Tess Doerner
Series/Canon: The 4400
From When? After "Ballad of Kevin and Tess"

History:

http://4400.wikia.com/wiki/Tess_Doerner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess_Doerner

Personality:

Tess is kind and thoughtful, and she loves to read. Especially to younger kids. She loves children's books, but more than that she loves Lovecraftian horror. So, who better to be abducted to the future by people and interfered with until she had mind control abilities?

Well, probably someone better than a girl who was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic when she was fifteen. But she doesn't tend to abuse her ability, or really even use it unless she has to.

Of course, lately she has to use it more and more often.

When Tess is in love, she is utterly utterly and completely devoted to that person. In the 1950s, it was her high school boyfriend. Now, it is Kevin Burkhoff, a man that she helped to cure by using her abilities to control people to build a device to help 'wake him up'. For people she is utterly devoted to, she'll use her abilities.

And if she's annoyed, threatened or otherwise bothered, she will use her abilities. Maybe she uses them more often than she'd really like to let on. She certainly uses them more when she is having some of the more negative symptoms of her schizophrenia, like hallucinations or disorganized delusions. She'll certainly need to work with David to maintain this.

Tess is also a smart girl, she was able to help Kevin with his experiments involving Promicin, an enzyme that boosts psychic or super abilities, and she partially designed a radio tower that contacted the future.

The idea of having been abducted to the future and experimented on apparently does not bother Tess really all that much, as she'd been under the delusion she was already being experimented on even before this happened to her. Because of her paranoid schizophrenia, Tess is one of the only returnees that actually remembers what happened to them in the future.

Why do you think your character would work in this setting?

I'd toyed with having Tess flux in, because honestly it wouldn't really bother her all that much, but there have been a lot of flux-ins lately so I figured someone coming willingly would be interesting again.

She'll have come to see if this is a place where she and Kevin can hide and blend-in, while she is exploring New Dodge, he will be exploring Newfield, the town they eventually end up settling in on the 4400. (Unless, of course, I can get someone to app him) She wants a safe place for them to have a good life, and somewhere off of Earth seemed like the best bet to her.

What will your character do for work?

Tess will teach english at the school, and maybe do some part time work around town.

Inventory: School texts, a lot of other books. Notebooks, clothes, candy. Her medication, her medical profile as written by Kevin.
Samples: And now for the hard part! If you need a prompt for your samples, refer back to the Applications Page.

Third-Person Sample:

http://boomtownmeme.dreamwidth.org/25168.html?thread=4726352#cmt4726352

First-Person Sample:

http://shadowoutof.dreamwidth.org/664.html