"At first I fought for my freedom, but now... I think I fight because it gives me worth.”

Character Summary/ Introduction:

Dame Tessa, or just Tessa as she prefers, is a valiant gladiator for the Tristate Kingdom. She takes great pride in fighting gruesome battles in the modern arena, known as the Battleheart, for the High Royalty to view and respect. Now, she’s gearing up for yet another glorious battle.

Character Background:

Tessa Clawthorne was born into a family of farmer Deerkin (Anthro-deer people), and she lived a fairly uneventful but joyous childhood. Things were calm in her small hometown, people just going by with their day-to-day lives, a simple yet livable life. Now, Tessa didn't go through life as a perfect princess, she did have her bad moments. In school, she was often pushed around and bullied for being a Deerkin, as they are notoriously known for their stereotype of running away and being general pacifists. Tessa grew to be quite the sizeable girl too, working on a farm and growing some firm muscles. But despite this, she let others walk on her all throughout her schooling years.
Though, her life took a drastic unexpected change on a seemingly normal day when she happened to spot a young boy getting beaten by two fully grown men. She decided to help, since she was quite sizeable for a woman and knows what it's like to be in his situation. Running up to the men, she didn't even hesitate before delivering a heavy blow to one of the men, her muscles shining in glory and finally being put to use for something other than cart pushing or rolling hay bales. The other man fled when she ordered him to, dragging away his unconscious friend. As Tessa helped the boy up and back to his parents, she was shocked to find out that he was the son of one of the High Royal members. The gratefulness of the father was met with an offer like no other. The father of the boy, Keenan Grant, was the head developer of one of the most prestigious technical research facilities in the kingdom. Contacts were exchanged, and the two split ways for some time.
It wasn't until months later when Tessa was viscously attacked by a feral bear, the horrific incident leaving her face malformed and herself on the brink of death. Luckily, a few hunters heard her screams and fought off the bear before it could actually kill her, but her face was so broken that she'd never be the same girl she once was. The word spread from the hospital all the way up to the High Royal Party, but more specifically, Keenan Grant. Sensing both an opportunity, and a chance of repayment, Doctor Keenan Grant personally met with Tessa and offered a possible solution to her... well, face.
Dr.Grant had been developing a project at the time, a merge between digital and organic systems. A specially designed visor were to be fitted to her skull, completely replacing her face entirely. With a direct link to her brain the digital visor could both provide her with an enhanced sense of vision, as well as any other general senses, and output her facial expressions. Despite being a digital display, there was a hinged jaw that allowed for eating and freedom of mouth movement. This visor was another chance at a fully able life.
Tessa was beyond ecstatic at the news, without the visor she would've had to been tube fed, people would look at her as a monster, but now she could live an almost normal life. She was taken to the research center where Dr.Grant worked, and was met with scientists and doctors alike. The surgery went underway, and after an excruciatingly stressful and long procedure, she became one of the few people to be the product of merging tech and man. Months of adjustment and rehabilitation led to Tessa becoming even stronger than she was previously. Now, with a higher sense of vision and different vision modes, she started to get really good at guessing moves and motives. She started to notice small things more, like minor shifts in a person's demeanor or momentary movements that let her predict where and what a person was about to do. Now, she wasn't perfect at it, but she got pretty good at guessing people's movements. She liked it, and she wanted to use her abilities to help more people.
Though, while Tessa was in recovery, her family's farm started seeing harder times. With one of their main supporters being gone for months, things started to decline. On top of that, her father fell ill and, without proper treatment, could die in the coming months.
Tessa wouldn't allow this, so she starting searching for ways to make money. Sure she could do crime jobs, but that wasn't her. She could try and join the military, but that wouldn't be enough. Then the thought of the Battleheart Arena entered her mind. The Battleheart was a place of vicious warriors that fought for respect and honor, on top of being paid enormous sums of money. More often than not, it was a life or death situation, and that's what made it so entertaining.
So, she did. She made her entry despite anyone's protest, and fought. She was thrown into a ring with some big guy who had previously won four matches in a row. The odds were against her, if it weren't for her new face. Being able to sense the guy's movements, she did well with dodging. She got hit a few times, but she managed to keep upright until the big bad man was tired. She took her chances, and with a bit of luck, she won. It was the first person she ever killed, but she had to for her family.
Years later, with the medical debt paid off, her family living happily in their homes, Tessa learned that this was a way of life. She had the stamina, grew the strength, and her technical advancements gave her an upper hand. People would bet a lot of money on her and all that wealth could go to her parents and siblings who made her life as good as it's been.

Whaddup yall, random drop again. Went with a futuristic but medieval-style scenario in this one (castlecore, medieval sci-fi, whatever you want to call it), and hopefully I did well. She is a protogen, as you can probably tell by the thumbnail image (art by Thesociallyawk3). Also, if anyone wonders why I put the #notmacro tag in the tags, Tsap (the artist) posts mostly macro art but my bots aren't, so I just don't want people to think it's macro because the art is. Anyway, sorry about having no extra images :( I still try to find extra images, but Tsap doesn't redraw characters very often unfortunately.

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