<div class="floatright">(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/244/2/d/laura_pol_paint_by_patricia_crvl-d7xjoof.jpg)</div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Hourglass</strong></span></span></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Basics</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Full Name:</strong>Tessa "Tess" Cantrell<br/><strong>Age:</strong>18<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Nationality: </strong>American<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Student<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Physical Description</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Hair Colour:</strong>Black<br/><strong>Eye Colour:</strong>Blue-gray<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'3"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>115 lbs<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong>N/A (sorry, couldn't find a name)<br/><strong>Physical Features:</strong>Tess has freckles on her nose, cheeks, shoulders, and the top of her breasts. Her skin is fair and has no tan-lines since she is constantly covered up, no matter the season. She has an “M” burned on the outer edge of her right cheekbone, which she keeps hidden beneath her side-swept bangs. She also has scars of various sizes on her palms and forearms, which she also hides by wearing long sleeves and sometimes finger-less gloves. Despite her height, she tends to keep her head lowered slightly and her eyes fixed towards the floor.<br/><br/><strong>General Appearance:</strong>Tess has a rather bland wardrobe. Her outfits consist of long-sleeved shirts and over-sized sweaters in mostly dark colors and dark blue skinny jeans. She doesn't wear anything different when it comes to fighting. She mostly tries to conflict.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Who they are</span></strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Just by looking at her choice of attire and her posture, it's clear that Tess is not a social butterfly. She tends to stay quiet and to her own thoughts whenever she's not eavesdropping on those around her. Tess has a hard time trusting anyone and didn't have any friends prior to coming to the X-Mansion, which was actually by choice. She is definitely not against having friends while residing at the X-Mansion, but it'll probably take some getting used to. Her hobbies include drawing and playing video games and she fears only one thing: her stepfather.<br/><br/>When the US government passed the legislation, Tess did not care that she was being tagged and forced to choose between uprooting her life to move or be watched. She needed a reason to leave her home and she did not hesitate to pack her things and go. While she does recognize how terrible it might be for other mutants, it was the best thing to happen to her for a long time.<br/><br/>Tess is mostly against violence, so her thoughts on Charles's approach towards the Brotherhood are understanding. While there are times where you have to fight fist with fist, it is far more beneficial, in her mind, to attempt to change the minds of foes. Bodies heal and are ready to fight again, so you must try to convince the mind that there is no reason to fight. As far as her thoughts on The Brotherhood, she is definitely against it. To her, there is no reason that humans and mutants can't live together. There's no reason for the violence or the fear that they inflict on others.<br/><br/><strong>Biography:</strong>Tess grew up in a broken home as an only child. Her father, who she knows nothing about, other than he was “not normal,” left when she was very young. Since then, her mother has had several boyfriends, all of which ended up being the ones to leave. Her stepfather, who has been around since she was 11, is an abusive man – both mentally and physically. While her mother thinks that she loves him, Tess recognizes that she only puts up with it because she's afraid of being left again.<br/><br/>When her abilities began, her stepfather would take it upon himself to punish Tess for not being human. It started with threats against her mother until she complied and accepted her punishment. Seven years of this has left her with defensive scars on her hands and forearms and one deliberately placed “M” burned onto her right cheek, which had been the result of the heavy conflict between humans and mutants within the last few years.<br/><br/>Tess has never tried to fight back, for fear of what would happen to her mother. And while she knows that it is physically possible for her to do some serious harm or even kill him, she could never bring herself to do so. Leaving to join the community of mutants in the X-Mansion was her best option.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Superpowers &amp; Equipment</span></strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Class:</strong>Gamma<br/><br/><strong>Power Name:</strong>Time Manipulation<br/><br/>Tess has the ability to stop time and rewind time. She can move freely during this, which makes it appear as though she can teleport. Lacking control over her abilities, she can only stop time for a few minutes and rewind no longer than one minute.<br/><br/><strong>Equipment Name:</strong>None<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong><strong>Flaws or Weaknesses</strong></strong></span></span><br/><br/><strong>Weakness Name:</strong><br/><br/>Temporal Looping: While Tess sleeps, she is unable to control her power, which sometimes causes time to rewind a full day. When she wakes up in the morning, it'll be the same day that it was yesterday. Everyone around her will say the same things to her, the same person will yet again bump her shoulder in the parking lot, her stepfather will deal out the same punishment, etc. She has no ability to change the outcome of these days and is forced to play passenger as everything happens the same way again and again. This looping has lasted up to a week and a half of the same day and currently Tess has no idea what causes it.<br/><br/>Temporal Vertigo: After using her ability, Tess often suffers from symptoms of vertigo, which can range anywhere from simply becoming off-balanced to vomiting. The severity of the changes she makes while manipulating time determines the severity of the symptoms. While she can simply step out of the way of getting hit and only get a little off-balanced, if she decides to, instead, go grab a weapon and counter-attack, she'll immediately lose control and fall to the ground in immense pain or intense nausea.<br/><br/><strong>Flaw Name:</strong>Impatient<br/><br/>Due to the fact that some of her days repeat over and over, Tess has become impatient and has difficulty feigning interest in things she has heard time and time again.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Other</strong></span><br/><br/>N/A