<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/e5/More_Sage_Scars.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Basics</span></span><br/><strong>Character name:</strong>Tessa<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Sage<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Frigid? (but seriously, she's Pansexual)<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Single<br/><strong>Age:</strong>27<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'7”<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>135<br/><strong>Hair color:</strong>Black<br/><strong>Eye color:</strong>Blue<br/><strong>Hometown/Place of birth:</strong>somewhere in the Balkans<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">More Personal</span></span><br/><strong>Family:</strong>Unknown.  Her non-mutant parents are now deceased and she has no known relatives.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Analytical and cold toward most Sage has few friends and LARGE trust issues.  She is pragmatic and incredibly stubborn at times.<br/><br/><strong>Hobbies:</strong>Training, learning or making new languages, shooting things, reading, people watching<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>When asked about what she's done in the past Tessa always claims “a little of this, a little of that” and deflects  or shuts down completely if pushed for details.  Some of the highlights of her early years include growing up in a 'dirt poor' village in war-torn south eastern Europe (even she's not sure which country exactly), being sold into a harem by her parents, becoming embroiled in the invasion/wars in Afghanistan where she learned survival and combat skills against both soldiers and local bandits, and eventually saving the life of a trapped and wounded Mr. Charles Xavier in the Hindu Kush mountains.<br/><br/>When it came time to form his school Xavier recruited Tessa along with the original class of x-men, but not to study or teach, instead he sent her undercover to infiltrate the New York branch of the Hellfire Club where she became the assistant and general right hand of the Black King, Sebastian Shaw, all the while passing information back to Xavier.<br/><br/>While his students were learning Archery and History Tessa got crash courses in advanced torture techniques and other .. unsavory things that she'd rather not talk about.  Though only following Shaw's orders at the time she managed to piss off Elias Bogan, a powerful Club member capable of mind control.  She was kidnapped and held for quite some time, getting the distinctive facial brands beneath her eyes.  Shaw refused to ransom her and it was Storm who managed to extract her and bring her back to the Institute.<br/><br/>In addition to the physical ones she has some deep psychological scars from that time and she's more than a little pissed at Charles, the contrast between her life and that of those at the school a sharp one. (The facial scars/brands will fade slightly with time, but right now are relatively fresh and raw about the edges.)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Mutations and Powers</span></span><br/><strong>Classification:</strong>Delta<br/><strong>Type of mutant:</strong>Dormant gene<br/><br/><strong>Powers:</strong><em>Super Human Intellect</em>– Sage's mind is essentially a supercomputer with unlimited storage capacity, perfect control and recall.  She is capable of analyzing information and her surroundings with incredible speed as well as tracking probabilities of events by putting together stored and extrapolated data.   She can easily partition her brain completing several tasks simultaneously without distraction.<br/><br/><em>Master the mind, master the body</em>-  She can perfectly recreate physical actions that she has seen once so long as they are within her optimal human physical limits. Can also control her bodily functions to a degree such as stopping her heart or breathing for short periods.<br/><br/><em>Telepath</em>– Although not a heavy hitter in this regard Sage's ability is perfectly controlled and precise.  She can communicate telepathically, project psionic energy blasts, create realistic illusions, and control an astral form.  By shutting down her own telepathy she can create a psychic 'firewall' that blocks all manner of mental intrusion, deflecting the psychic attack back at its source. Since her capture paranoia causes Sage to stay completely in this firewalled state, not accessing her other telepathic abilities.<br/><br/><em>DNA sequencing</em>– Not only can she sense the presence of the mutant gene in others, she can identify and study it, in some cases is able to understand how their powers work better than they themselves can.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong>Self taught in many firearms (and learning more at every opportunity)<br/>Hand to Hand Combat - Not only does she know several kinds of martial arts, she is capable of quickly analyzing her opponents and tailoring her attacks for optimal engagement.<br/>Expert tactician and spy<br/>While by no means omnilingual she is easily able to break down and study languages and tends to collect them whenever possible.  She enjoys mastering obscure dialects and breaking code.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">School Information</span></span><br/><strong>Classes Taught:</strong>Languages/Cryptography, Current Events<br/><br/><strong>Staff Relations:</strong><em>Professor Xavier</em>- Unlike the easy and almost affectionate relationship he has with the other staff and students her relationship with Charles is ... tense.  She believes, and not entirely unjustly, that he threw her to the wolves to help protect his school.<br/><br/>