Character Name: Tessa Harris
Age: 19
Race: Human
Appearance: Tessa has a small frame, stands at a height of 5'4, weighs approximately 115 pounds, and her measurements are 34B-24-34. First impressions of Tessa usually pan out to be a bright girl with a fair amount of spunk, cute but not beautiful, with a very accepting attitude. Her motto tends to be, "If you can't fix it, work with it the best you can" which is usually how she gets by. She has interesting features that people tend to think are either very attractive or very unattractive while there are some, still, that would say she is an acquired taste. She has a modern appeal to her instead of classicism. Her hair is shoulder length and cut in a sort of choppy way, dyed from dark brown to a light blonde. While some would argue her attractiveness, no one would argue that she is very appealing in form - slender and toned, a very slight hint of a tan without going overboard. What stands out about her the most are those eyes. They are so blue that, in some lights, they take on this silver hue.
History:
Tessa comes from Lumber City, Georgia which doesn't have a large population and is known to be a low income area. Her father died of a heart attack - he was a heavy eater and smoker - when he was in his thirties which left her to be raised by her mother and aunt. They were good women that encouraged her to do well in school, to have a good work ethic (to which she even got a job at sixteen working in a gas station), and to treat people the way she would want to be treated. She took all of those lessons to heart and did what she could with what she was given and with being in the area she was in. When she graduated high school, she might have had a ton of opportunities and her choice of colleges, but she lacked the money to attend (and move to where she needed to be), was afraid of student loans piling up, and didn't want to leave her mother and aunt when they were still struggling. Instead, she's still working at the same gas station she was in high school and doing what she can to help out as her mother just got remarried and she had a new baby sister on the way.
When she was in high school - her Junior year to be exact - she went out on a date with a guy who tried to get her to have sex with him in the bed of his truck. When she refused - and nearly broke his finger to boot - he spread the rumor around school (which spread through town) that she slept with guys on the first date and was into all sort of dirty, deviant things. For the last year and a half of her school life she was continually harassed by guys that thought it was true and girls that took vicious glee in calling her a slut both to her face and behind her back. It was a false rumor that has stuck with her all this time. They view her and her family as trailer trash, not worth anyone's time, and she's sure that there is more than one person who thinks her and her family should just disappear as if, for some reason, people like her and her family have caused the problems seen in the area today. Everyone needs someone to blame, someone to hate...Tessa just happens to be the person who drew the winning lottery ticket for that!
Age: 19
Race: Human
Appearance: Tessa has a small frame, stands at a height of 5'4, weighs approximately 115 pounds, and her measurements are 34B-24-34. First impressions of Tessa usually pan out to be a bright girl with a fair amount of spunk, cute but not beautiful, with a very accepting attitude. Her motto tends to be, "If you can't fix it, work with it the best you can" which is usually how she gets by. She has interesting features that people tend to think are either very attractive or very unattractive while there are some, still, that would say she is an acquired taste. She has a modern appeal to her instead of classicism. Her hair is shoulder length and cut in a sort of choppy way, dyed from dark brown to a light blonde. While some would argue her attractiveness, no one would argue that she is very appealing in form - slender and toned, a very slight hint of a tan without going overboard. What stands out about her the most are those eyes. They are so blue that, in some lights, they take on this silver hue.
History:
Tessa comes from Lumber City, Georgia which doesn't have a large population and is known to be a low income area. Her father died of a heart attack - he was a heavy eater and smoker - when he was in his thirties which left her to be raised by her mother and aunt. They were good women that encouraged her to do well in school, to have a good work ethic (to which she even got a job at sixteen working in a gas station), and to treat people the way she would want to be treated. She took all of those lessons to heart and did what she could with what she was given and with being in the area she was in. When she graduated high school, she might have had a ton of opportunities and her choice of colleges, but she lacked the money to attend (and move to where she needed to be), was afraid of student loans piling up, and didn't want to leave her mother and aunt when they were still struggling. Instead, she's still working at the same gas station she was in high school and doing what she can to help out as her mother just got remarried and she had a new baby sister on the way.
When she was in high school - her Junior year to be exact - she went out on a date with a guy who tried to get her to have sex with him in the bed of his truck. When she refused - and nearly broke his finger to boot - he spread the rumor around school (which spread through town) that she slept with guys on the first date and was into all sort of dirty, deviant things. For the last year and a half of her school life she was continually harassed by guys that thought it was true and girls that took vicious glee in calling her a slut both to her face and behind her back. It was a false rumor that has stuck with her all this time. They view her and her family as trailer trash, not worth anyone's time, and she's sure that there is more than one person who thinks her and her family should just disappear as if, for some reason, people like her and her family have caused the problems seen in the area today. Everyone needs someone to blame, someone to hate...Tessa just happens to be the person who drew the winning lottery ticket for that!