âI will fight for my people until I draw my last breath.â
| Requiem For a Dream | I See Fire | Warrior | Bazooka |
Full Name
Tecmessa a MĂŁe Natureza Xavier - Her original last name was "Alvaro".
Aliases
| Tec | Tex | G | Xavier | Legs {By Close Friends} | Daddy's Girl {By Logan} | Princess {By Logan} | Professor {By Students} |
Codename
Gaea
Gender
Female
Age
19
Sexuality
Pansexual | Androromantic
Ethnicity - Race
œ Brazilian, œ Greek - Homo Sapien Superior
Occupation
She's been busking since she was 15. Since graduating, she teaches Botany and Music electives every other day. She also teaches Dance and Yoga. She makes side money by selling cover albums on iTunes. She is also an amateur boxer and underground MMA fighter.
Her hair is naturally brown though she is prone to dying it various different colors and her eyes are a lush emerald hue.
Height & Weight
5'10" & 130lbs
Tattoos & Piercings
As far as tattoos, she has a bar code on the back of her neck and a short score of music wrapping from her left shoulder to just before her elbow. On the underside of her left wrist is a sword and bow making an "X" over a shield with "True Justice" underneath it. The right side of her torso sports a large tattoo that took her one week to finish on her own, a visage of beauty. She also has tattoos on her Left arm, right arm, & left foot. Her piercings include three in her earlobe, a tongue piercing, navel, her right eyebrow, her nose, and âangel kissâ piercings in her lip.
Scars
A faded yet prominent and dark scar on her chest jaggedly spells out âDemonâ while the rest of her figure is adorned in a number of faded scars from experiments and beatings. The only scar that she has above her neck is a horizontal scar on her right cheek. There are two columns and fifty rows of round scars that start at the base of her neck just below her hairline and extend all the way down to the base of her hips. The spinal scars are jagged and look as though needles were ripped right from her flesh.
Character Color
#228B22
{Bold, Adventurous, Outgoing, Kind, Warm, Thoughtful, Creative, Intuitive, Ruthless, Rough, Cold, Hateful, Vengeful}
Just like a coin, there are two sides of Tessa, though this is due to her forcibly repressed memories. The surface Tessa is the Tessa from the better part of her childhood. It's who she would have grown into being had everything that happened to her as a child hadn't happened. She's very amiable and finds it easy to approach others, though because she is a mutant, she is wary around most humans. She's your typical sweetheart, often throwing people off because her type of sweet is a rare thing these days. She would offer a total stranger her jacket if they were cold or perhaps a slice of pie if they seemed sad. Once a person has earned the right to be called her friend, they aren't just a witness to her outgoing and whimsical mannerisms, but they become involved and she's more open. She's a great leader and is quick to take charge when things get hectic, able to keep a level head when shit gets real. Her likable personality and amount of training makes it easier to give commands.
She's the type of girl who prefers spending time with her friends over solitude unless she needs some time to think. She's almost always with someone though, even if she's just reading a book or writing a new song. She's never still for too long, having to do something that keeps her moving. Because of this, she often prefers to be entertaining. Whether she's in the middle of the mall, a classroom, a 7/11, or the street, she has no problem bursting into song, dancing, performing acrobatic stunts, acting out a scene from Hamlet, or breaking out an instrument. She's not really an attention-whore, as some would misunderstand. She just likes to see a smile on people's faces while being able to express herself and her talents. She's very proud of her talents, though not overbearingly so to the point where she has to point it out in every conversation or display them to anyone who hasn't seen yet. In actuality, when it comes to performing in front of others, she tends to only do it to cheer them up or busk. She's never actually uploaded any videos of herself performing from home â All videos of her performing are from her busking. She'll only perform socially at the request of others and prefers that she's not the center of attention outside of busking or leading her team.
Express yourself is a phrase that she's highly familiar with. Art is her life and her passion, easily told by the tattoos and piercings adoring her body. One of her pet peeves is being judged (herself and others) for tattoos and piercings. She literally has a rebuttal for anything and everything that a person might try to argue about in a conversation against body art, as she's been approached more than once (like so many others) by people (mostly old people) with reserves against body art. She's very proud of the ink that she's put on her body and finds herself often doodling more onto them every now and again when the inspiration hits her. She frequents tattoo shops to observe the work of others (maybe now and again to do some work of her own for some cash) and isn't against sitting in an art museum for hours to stare at a painting or sculpture to wonder what the artist was feeling. She wishes that every artist had her ability to make others feel as they do when they perform or paint, thinking that more people would truly appreciate art if they could.
That's her good side. Let's talk about her inner warrior.
From the ages of six to twelve, she was...Well. She was something. She was prone to violent mood swings, depressed one minute and ferociously angry the next. She spent her days switching between two very exclusive ranges of feelings: Hatred, anger, vindictive, righteous, and sanguinary were the worst. She was more bearable when she was feeling lonely, sad, hurt, suicidal, and dead inside. Either way, someone ended up dead before the night was over each and every day. After escaping her captors, when she wasn't feeling dead inside and moping in bed she was out satisfying her need to vindicate the innocent lives she had been forced to take and the lives of others that she had not taken but had witnessed being taken. Her level of intensity during such a mood swing was always at a fifty out of a scale of ten, âgoing hardâ, as the kids say. She was absolutely brutal, cruel, and uncaring. She could skin a man alive and pour acid on him without feeling a shred of remorse for what she had done.
But she wasn't completely messy. She was an apex predator. She was the crocodile in murky waters and her prey was the unsuspecting deer trying to cross. She was smart â She had been trained to leave no traces of her presence and she did pretty okay in that. She would often compare herself to Dexter - a favorite show of hers and a bit of inspiration. She had been hardened by her past and no fucks were given as she watched the light diminish from the eyes of her victims. But she felt in her head that she was doing the right thing. Her heart had no say in it â They weren't on speaking terms during that time. But despite her cruel treatment of perceived criminals, she never hurt an innocent person if she could help herself (when she wasn't hopped up on mind control) and would go out of her way to make sure that an innocent would remain out of harm's way even if it meant that she would get hurt.
She didn't like talking to people and she didn't make eye contact except to either glare or give a lifeless gaze. She had no passion for art or life, only her view of justice. But she's changed now, though Ororo hopes to bring out her inner beast that she once saw and help her control it and put it to use for good.
â» Working out â» Playing instruments and Singing â» Dancing and Writing â» Composing â» Modeling â» Reading â» Cooking â» Cleaning â» Baking â» Listening to music â» Parkour â» Skateboarding â» Raiding record shops â» Raiding thrift stores â» Uploading new songs and videos â» Busking â» Nature â» Climbing Trees â» Swimming â»
Habits
â» Humming â» Tattooing herself â» Reciting facts â» Quoting songs, poems, and books â» Quoting movies â» Just quoting in general â» Scratching her hands when she's nervous â» Babbling when she's hiding something from someone she cares about â» Cooking when stressed â» Not looking where she's walking â»
Likes/Loves
â Music â Art â Combat â Vlogging â Writing new songs â Reading â Hanging out in the Danger Room â Spying on Logan while he works out â Candy â Organic food â Eating pure sugar â Seafood â Steak â Flying â Her pets â Tolerance â Salmon â Free running â Movies â Quoting â Kids â Busking â
Dislikes/Hates
â Self-important people â Bologna â The smell of Pinesol â Black licorice â Watching horror films alone â Watching war films alone â Being without her stuffed panda â Disorder â Nihilism â Bigotry â Dogmatism â Beef stew â Most stew in general â Feeling useless â Black licorice â Advanced darkness â Needles â Doctors â Being examined or stared at â Being all alone â Empty night skies â Itchy clothes â Centipedes â Loose clothes â Sweaty pits â Petty Fighting â Yelling â
âČPowers â Nature Lordship. ~x~ Environmental Adaptation - [Passive] Tessa's body automatically adapts to the environment around her to provide her an optimal chance for health and survival. It is because of this that she doesn't need specialized suits and equipment like the others. She can survive extreme heat, extreme cold, varying water pressures, pollution, varying air pressures, and many others. It is because of this that her body can survive for the seven days when she sleeps without food or water. Environmental Sense â [Passive] Tessa has the ability to innately sense the state of the world around her, though it is entirely localized. She can tell where there is pollution, which plants are dying, who is sick, and if something is simply off. She can immediately identify various flora and fauna by touch or a single glance and their uses. Nature Enhancement & Manipulation â [Master] Tessa can manipulate plants, even the ones that she is not in physical contact with. She can also generate plants from her body as well as from nothing at all. She can enhance or diminish the health of the plants. She can sap the life force from plants around her to heal herself as well, though she hasn't learned to redirect the life force to heal others yet. She can sense the sentience within plants that others cannot, able to speak to them as well as enhance their sentience. Elemental Transformation â [Expert] She has the ability to transform into different elements including air, metal, and different kinds of plants. She can turn into fire and earth but it's hard for her to turn back. Air Manipulation â [Adept] She can manipulate air at an adept level, creating strong gusts of wind from nothing. It becomes quite problematic for people around her when she sneezes. Animal Manipulation â [Adept] She can morph into any animal if she's eaten its meat first and she can understand and communicate with them. She bonds with animals faster than most but she cannot command them unless the bond is intense. Earth & Metal Manipulation â [Expert] Tessa can manipulate the earth and its minerals with ease, having trained long and hard under the tutelage of a friend, Petra. She has yet to be capable of generating them from nothing as she can with plants. She can create small earthquakes and open up the earth a bit as well. However, her abilities limit it to being localized. She can also manipulate different types of metals except for copper. Electricity Manipulation â [Adept] She can manipulate and generate electricity from her body with enough voltage to knock someone on their ass but she hasn't learned how to control other sources of electricity yet. Fire Manipulation â [Novice] Her control over fire is novice because of her fear of it. She can create small fireballs in her hand and shoot them about or cover her hand in fire, but they never last long. She's too afraid and when she starts to freak out so does the fire. It tends to end badly. Water Manipulation â [Expert] She can manipulate and control different liquids so long as there is water in them and she can create water from nothing. She is capable of controlling and generating large volumes of water as well as altering the state and temperature of it. Magma Manipulation â [Unrealized] Crystal Manipulation â [Unrealized] Weather Manipulation â [Currently Passive and Unrealized]
âČEducation â She's never gone to college, believing in self-study. She speaks English, Portuguese, and Greek. She's also an expert in all subjects concerning the environment, having studied the subjects deeply to better understand her powers. She is very knowledgeable about various theologies and deities, a very spiritual person.
âČCombat â She's a 1st degree black belt in Muay Thai and a formidable boxer, a Lightweight Youth World Amateur Champion. She is very light on her feet and good at evading incoming attacks. She might be a bit petite but she can certainly take a hit.
âČDomestic â Her domestic skills include cooking, familiar with many recipes through surfing the web. She is also a frequent traceuse, spending a lot of time with her best friend in gymnastics. She is an excellent driver, though she's hardly a stunt master. She's qualified to fly the Bird, taught by her mentor, Ororo.
Weaknesses, Disabilities, & General Flaws
âŒPhysical â She knew a mutant once upon a time who could heal and who also didn't know about Tessa's healing factor. She had broken her arm and the young mutant tried to heal her while Tessa's own body was in the process. Doing so didn't work out so well and now when her left arm is hit with enough force it goes numb for days.
âŒOddities â She cannot sleep. She might get tired, but she cannot sleep for any longer than three or four hours a day. It's on the last seven days of every month when she just shuts down, her body entering a state of self-preservation as she recharges completely. It's these seven days when she's at her weakest. You could throw her done a flight of stairs and she still wouldn't wake up. She can stave off that sleep for a few days if she must, but she'll sleep for every day that she missed.
âŒMental & Emotional â She is mildly schizophrenic with a dash of PTSD, a sprinkle of paranoia, and a hearty helping of dysphoric mania. She thinks that she's a little crazy, unaware that her nightmares are slivers of memories and her mental disorders stem from those memories that slip through.
âŒMedical â She is allergic to fish and copper. She also has a marijuana, sugar, and alcohol addiction. She is incapable of ingesting any non organic food or drink without growing violently sick.
Secrets
âHer scars â They aren't much of a secret to those who've known her since her arrival, but the new folks don't know about them. She takes meticulous care to keep them covered with either makeup, tattoos, or clothes. As far as her memory implants are concerned, she got her scars from dirty fighters in the underground MMA ring and being burned in the house fire. She thinks that the âDemonâ scar on her chest came from an attack when she was younger and got lost in the wrong neighborhood.
âHer addictions â It's not exactly a secret from her adoptive father, Charlies Xavier, but she doesn't tend to tell anyone else. She's more than liberal about her inclination to smoke marijuana but she doesn't divulge that she drinks alcohol and eats sugar far more often than she should to deal with the stress of her increasing and frightening nightmares.
âHer nightmares â Unknown to her, the walls within her memory are coming down. She thinks that these are just insane nightmares as a result of the increasing sigma against mutants and the pressure of being a leader.
Fears/Phobias
â Dying in her sleep â Because she is so dead to the world when she finally lays her head down to rest, she fears that something bad will happen [like an attack on the mansion] and she will end up killed in her sleep.
â Failing the X-Men â She is honored to have been chosen as the leader of the Gamma team, though it wasn't a surprise. While she is optimistic and takes her position in stride, she also holds the fear that she might do something wrong and mess up, maybe even put someone's life in danger.
â Fire â She's fine with fire that is held under control as with stove fires and such. However, she all but shuts down when a fire gets out of control. It is among her greatest of all fears. She suffers from PTSD of unreal fires.
â Being left alone â The memories that Xavier show that she was put into foster care until he arrived with Logan to pick her up. She remembers being alone and picked on by the other children. She couldn't remember ever feeling so alone in her life. Her true memories, seeping in through her dreams, they show her being left alone and tied up in a dark and dank cell. She hates the idea of being completely alone.
â Being captured and experimented on â Because of her nightmares/memories and the horrible stories she's heard from the few who have suffered, she fears this more than anything else. She values her freedom and cannot imagine what it would truly feel like to have it taken away from her.
Biography
Place Of Origin
Olympos Village, Karpathos, Greece
Westchester, New York
Birth Date
March 21st, 1993
History
Tecmessa was born in Greece when her father, a native of the United States, found himself backpacking across the country. When he happened across Athena, he fell in love even though she was much younger. The two were married within a few months and she was soon pregnant. She gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Happy, the new couple moved to the United States where Edgar's family resided. Growing up, these two children absolutely adored their parents, though they were more inclined to their mother. But their happiness wouldn't last for too long, as they were soon thrust into a world of darkness and abuse. See, Athena had grown weary of her husband as he soon began "finding Jesus". It countered her own religious beliefs and he began to look at their children in a way that made her uncomfortable. Their children were mutants, something that had become painfully obvious when the two month old twins sneezed their father into a wall. And so she told her children that they were leaving - She was going to take the six year olds far away to a place she had heard of for mutants like them where they could learn to better control their abilities and they wouldn't have to hide. She hadn't had the chance before Edgar killed his wife and abandoned his children. After shooting Athena in the head in front of the children, he beat them until they were a bloody mess and drove them out into the middle of the woods where he left them. Why would he do that? Because, he had let his head get filled with ideas from his coworkers and media that mutants did exist and they were abominations. He was a Christian man now and his thoughts were easily swayed into believing that the children he once thought were angels blessed by God were demons in disguise. So...where did that leave Tecmessa and Tulio?
The two were happened upon by some hunters who had found them curled about one another on a bed of flowers. Thoroughly frightened, they called the authorities and were paid off by the government to keep silent about it when they realized that the children were mutants. The two soon found themselves under the âcareâ of William Stryker and his team of odd and twisted scientists. With twelve mutants they were in captivity and slavery from the ages of six to thirteen. For six years they suffered daily emotional, mental, physical, verbal, and sexual abuse. Or at least Tecmessa did. Tulio was nine when he died after having his heart removed in a battle to the death. It was part of an experiment to see which was stronger â The mutant with super strength or the child who could control nature. Tulio could have wrapped the child in vines and strangled him, but he wasn't a fighter. He never had been. In their years of captivity, Tecmessa had been the strong one. She was the one that defended who she could, taking extra beatings so that he might be spared and have a few minutes to recover. The most horrific part of her capture was the Quintipede. It was a crude form of technology that was used to manipulate a person's nerves to control their movement. It was a failure and discarded after a mind control serum that worked through injection had been created. It was with this serum that they were able to mostly control those that they held captive. Their subjects became less resistant and were more malleable for training. They were transformed into drones, trained to handle various forms of combat and often sent out to capture or kill mutants.
Tecmessa was among the five that survived the experiments and torture, becoming a finally tuned killing machine that was sent out to kill Stryker's enemies and capture other mutants. They didn't expect some of them to start developing an immunity to the serum, therefore unsuspecting of the attack that came shortly after. They destroyed the base where they were being contained, killing everyone that they came into contact with. William Stryker was lucky enough to not be there when the attack happened, though he was furious when he returned. Where did these kids go? 1407 Greymalkin Lane. They were found and rescued after walking down the road by Professor Xavier. It was there that Tecmessa went through a couple of years of deep depression and anger, her strange sleeping habit forming. For three years, she simply lost her passion for life and seemed to just go through motions of living. She also had a sort of... âBatman Meets Dexter Phaseâ going on. She would venture out into the city and brutally murder criminals that she came across. The NYPD was on a manhunt for a serial killer with no face or no name. But someone knew who it was.
Fearing that the government would get its hands on Tecmessa once more, after finding out what she was doing, Charles went through intense therapy with her and eventually got her permission to repress those memories of her life. When he was finished with her, as far as the fifteen year old knew, she was an orphan. Her mother, father, and brother had died in a terrible house fire - this also prompted a fear of uncontrolled fires. With the darker memories of her life gone, so was the attitude. She became all that she could be and was virtually a ray of sunshine. She had no memory of her time in Stryker's lab. She had no urge to kill anybody anymore either and no longer attacked people when she was confronted. The memories that were implanted painted a pretty picture for her, having her to believe that Xavier had adopted her â which he had to prevent the state from putting her into foster care â and she had been raised by him since she was six. She was given false memories of friends that had come and gone from the mansion while she remained. The students who had been there during her first three years played along with the false memories to prevent her from finding out the truth. She was allowed to keep her memories of combat training, though she believed that she was trained by Logan and others. She went on to become an amateur and underground fighter, something that Xavier took into account. She trained relentlessly with the X-Men and was more than glad to have gotten a job teaching Music and Botany classes after graduating. The entire estate bloomed with wildflowers, so great was her joy when she was named the leader of Gamma Team, which she named âTitansâ.
Extra
â» She always wears locket like her brother's containing a picture of herself, her brother, her father, and her mother. â»
â» She doesn't have a driver's license but she has been known to take joy rides on Logan's motorcycle. â»
â» She has a Samoyed-Pomeranian mix named Bastille, a Corgi named Talisman, and a Sugar Glider named Jade. â»
â» She always has her phone, her iPad, or laptop with her if not all three for the purpose of mixing new songs and making new beats. â»
â» She keeps a handwritten journal in which she records her songs, poems, nightmares, dreams, and art. â»
â» People wonder how she's been able to master so many skills and her powers; It's easy for someone who only sleeps 84 days out of the year. â»
â» She has her own sense of style, having enough clothes to change at least three times per day. There's no telling what she's going to wear when she wakes up. She's often barefooted though. The trim of her uniform is a very prominent shade of green. â»