A-gents : Tessa Voerman - T16

Name:  Tessa Voerman

Rank: T16

Date of Birth: November 8th,1991

Age: 27

(Preferred) Class: Brawler (maybe Pilot)

Skills and Specializations: Wrestling, Ass-kicking, Face-bashing, Truck driving, Able to swallow an egg without chewing.

Ability: Lyrical Battle Dress (Liriese Stryd Rok)
▹ How does it work?: By singing the magic spell and twirling the magical scepter around in a Sailor Moon-esque way, the user is recovered by a "battle dress" (aka a frilly and ridiculous magical girl outfit) enhancing its defensive abilities. The "battle dress" is made from the atoms of the user's clothes magically reorganized according to the user's psyche. The scepter is then transformed into a weapon (only blunt or edged weapon -never a firearm- with a maximum length of 4 feet and a maximum weight of 19 pounds). By singing another spell, the dress returns to her initial state -the scepter- and the user will be wearing its clothes again.
▹The "battle dress" is composed of : a hat, a short sleeved shirt, a pair of silky gloves with ribbons, a frilly above the knee skirt, a stripped panty, a large ribbon in the back, a pair of stockings, a pair of loafers with ribbons. Everything come with extra-frills and extra-ribbons in extra-pinkish colors. (The design may vary according to the user's state of mind while wearing the dress, but the dress will never have more elements than the ones listed above).
▹ Pros: Enchances drasticaly the physical protection of the user (while making it quite ridiculous to look at) and anyone can use it (as long as they sing the spell and twirl the scepter around).
▹ Cons and Weaknesses: It can't be used without the scepter (the armor IS the scepter). Singing and twirling are required, impossible to wear the "battle dress" without. ▹Repeated damages cause mental exhaustion. Mental state can alter the dress (design and capacity -only in a negative way). Magic is extremely effective against the dress. ▹Destroying the dress will make it unavailable for at least a week (destroying the scepter in its original state -aka while the dress isn't worn- would cause irremediable destruction of the dress and, of course, the scepter).
▹If the dress is thorn, pierced, burned, etc, etc, ... the user's clothes will bear the damages afterward ( if the dress is thorn apart, the user's clothes will be thorn apart when the transformation will be reversed). Same, if the clothes of the user are damaged before wearing the dress, the dress will reflect the damages even if the dress didn't suffer damages.
▹The dress does not improve the user's physical abilities.
▹ Defensive capacity: The dress protects only the body parts covered by the dress (no protection on the uncovered part). The dress has the penetration resistance of a Type IIIA bulletproof vest -protection against 9mm to .44 Magnum level of threat. It doesn't protect against piercing bullets. It offers a relative protection to stabing and a slicing (slightly above the protection given by the standard A-gent uniform).
▹The main advantages of the dress are its light weight and minimal movement restriction. Except from this it is nothing but a glorified bulletproof suit served hot with a weapon.

Stats:
Strength: 4
Stamina: 3
Speed: 2
Dexterity: 1
Intelligence: 1
Ability: 5
Defense: 3
Balance: 1
(Total: 20)

Personality:  Naive, Energetic, Curious, Stupid

Tessa could be described as physically inteligent. She’s not bright, but she’s willing. She compensates her lack of education with a neverending curiosity. On that side she can be quite annoying, asking all the time about what people are doing as she tries to understand. She is not dumb though, just uneducated. She can follow orders, as long as she understand them, so avoid complex words.

She tends to be quite primal in her behavior, she doesn’t really think before she acts and she start thinking long after most of times. She’s not bad person, she’s just a bit hot blooded. This flaw is balanced by her naivety. She doesn’t doubt people, and almost never hold a grudge. A way to describe her would be to compare her to a large clumsy dog unaware of its strenght.

She is a bit too energetic for everyone’s sake. Quite often she almost hurt, unwillingly of course, friends while watching or speaking about pro-wrestling. Her brother had to endure her attempts to mimic wrestling moves more than once.

Of course this result in an unlady-like behavior. She’s naive about the things of life and relationships. She seems to have a certain success among certain women and to frighten most of men with her wild demeanor. She doesn’t understand why and doesn’t really care.

▹ Like : Whiskey, Country Music, her Brother, Pro-wrestling

▹ Dislike : Touchey customers, Dogs, Frills, Ribbons, Loafers

History:  

▹ The St Mary’s Orphanage :

The 8th day of November of the year 1991, Tessa VOERMAN was born in greater Johannesburg. Daughter of a black mother and a white father in a country where the apartheid was still fresh in everyone’s memory. She was only 4 months old when she was abandonned in front of St Mary’s orphanage with her 7 year old brother. She was just one of the three babies abandonned every day in Johannesburg. Actually, she find herself lucky that she was left in an orphanage. She could have been thrown into the garbages like many were and still are. And her mother gave her a name, Tessa VOERMAN.

She grew up in St Mary’s orphanage, a depressing place. The orphanage was grey, and so were the Sisters looking after the children. Every day was the same repetition of boring prayers, boring religious teachings and boring classes. And the forever rejection of potential parents, she was nothing but an average girl of mixed origins born during the apartheid. Her only ray of light in this never ending gloomy boredom was her older brother, Dean.

But this girl who never knew the joy of the familly lost her brother when she was 11. He reached his 18 and was litterally kicked out of the orphanage. She was then alone. True she had the other orphans around her, but she lost her brother. However they kept writting to each other. Dean became a trucker, while she was still waiting to be adopted one day.

The days passed, each one longer than the previous. Being picked on for being a metis, her time in the orphanage went rougher as her brother wasn’t there to protect her anymore. She had to become tougher. And she did become tougher. Luckily for her, she grew taller than most of the other children, which helped her a lot in all the brawls she ended in.

▹ The Life out of the orphanage :

When she reached her 18, in 2009, she was pushed out of the orphanage like her brother before. She lived with her brother in the greater Johannesburg. Wanting to help her brother and not really gifted intellectually, she had to use her body to earn money. She didn’t end on the street but in a HOOTERS instead. Working as a waitress there all day for meager wages, and as a bouncer for a shady club near the slums at night. Her free time was reserved to watch Catch brawls. She discovered catch after leaving the orphanage, and now it was her big pleasure. She dreamed (and still dreams) to become a pro-wrestler one day.

In the meanwhile her brother worked as a trucker. He sometimes took her with him during her days off. She enjoyed those days because her brother taught her how to drive his truck.  However, one day he got arrested for passing drugs. Tessa’s savings from her two jobs, as badly paid as they could be, were just enough to help her brother out. But not enough for her to keep the head out of the water. She had to work extra. But like with her mother, Tessa didn’t hold a grudge against her brother. He was here for her before, and he surely had reasons to pass drugs … As a result though, Tessa’s crappy life got crappier. Money isn’t something easy to come by when you share her situation.

▹ The day she found the scepter :

It was a night at her waitress work when she had to work late. She was taking out the restaurant’s trash when she was surprised by a moving shadow near the trash pile. Surprised and convinced that it was again one of those humongous rats she threw the bin at the shadow out of reflex. The shadow wasn’t a rat, as a rat would have avoided the bin, but whatever it was, it squealed and died, crushed by a bin full of half eated meals.

Tessa went near the creature, looking like a well groomed pinkish ferret and spotted a pinkish scepter near the squashed creature. Used to the slum, and curious, she picked out the scepter and examined it. It looked like one of those staff little girls waved around in the tv shows she saw when she was at the orphanage. Feeling silly, and perhaps because it was late and she was tired, she twirled the scepter and sang one of the spell she heard in the tv show when she was a child. What followed after could only be described by a flash of bright light and a weirdo in a pink dress standing in the middle of a dark alley of Johannesburg. She tried to understand what happened and to remove the dress,  but she failed at both. She ran away from her work, not wanting to show up in such a ridiculous outfit at her work (not that the HOOTERS’ uniforms were classier though), to hide at her place. She fell on her couch, asking out loud what happened and begging for understanding, and a roll of paper popped out of the scepter as if it answered her wish. The scepter came with an instruction book ! She read the roll thoroughly, learning that she was now in possession of a « Lirieshe Stry Rok », a magical outfit. The roll detailled the very use of the dress and its capacity.

Tessa could barely believe what she read, but she was forced to believe : she was in the dress and she was sure that she didn’t pass to dress on herself.

Secretly, during the following month, she « trained » with the dress in the secret of her place, learning how to use it. It may be ridiculous, but a bulletproof vest is always usefull when living where she lived. It would be even more ridiculous to not use such a gift.

As a result, rumors spoke of a weirdo wearing a strange pink dress beating the hell out of troublemakers near a shady club in Johannesburg … No one ever confirmed or infirmed those rumors, and the beaten up troublemakers surely wouldn’t admit that someone wearing such a ridiculous outfit beat the crap out of them and that their knives had little to no effect on the weird looking vigilante.

And Tessa’s job as a bouncer suddenly became far less troublesome.

▹ The picking up of the weirdo :

Such rumors wouldn’t go unnoticed by the A-Gency. Plus Tessa wasn’t as bright as she would like to be, someone with a bit of interest for the weird looking weirdo and not fearing the nights of the greater Johannesburg would catch a sight of her easily. Her outfit didn’t mix well with the shadowy alleys. She just finished taking care of some troublesome clubers when A-Gent 01 caught her, offering her a place in the A-Gency and a far better paid job … Of course she accepted, it’s not everyday that you can leave the slum.

Medical Information:

▹ Blood : A+

▹ No major surgery ever performed

▹ No known phobia (a disliking for rats and spiders though)