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• tesla chevalle cavalier but she goes by tess
• anywhere from 17-25 but probably 18
• who knows why her parents made tesla her first name because she sure as hell doesn't know and they never told her
• was a fairly happy and spirited growing up with a knack for music and finding joy in the arts. she is the daughter of jessica cavalier and henrick cavalier and the first ten years of her life were great until they abandoned her at a hospital for no reason really and they never came back for her
• she was put in the foster system and it didn't take long for her spirit to break and her bubbliness to disappear within a matter of months
• hopped between houses until she was twelve and she was taken into a home that actually wanted to adopt her and it restored some faith
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tw (sexual abuse, rape) in the house she was in, they had a son who was their blood and he had taken a liking in tesla and pursued her despite that being completely wrong. she told him to stop but it only escalated the persistence to the point where he would "hug" her while his hands felt her up. it all came to a climax when he, some four years her senior, raped her. this continued for four months and had officially broken whatever glimmer of spirit was left in her. she was thirteen at the time
• when her foster parents found out, they kicked tesla to the curb instead of the pervy older son who had touched her inappropriately and raped her
• tesla proceeddd to move between houses again until she found herself in a group home with other foster kids who were continuously turned away
• she closed herself off to people, became a loner, and developed a deep hate for life and those around her which translated into a perpetual grumpy look as well as her falling behind in school and it's bad
• fluent in sarcasm and her words are normally laced with that and spite
• just needs the right person to coax her out of her hard shell
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tw (sexual assault) being a loner with zero friends means she walks places on her own often which is dangerous, especially at night. she was walking home from a store one night and there were dudes whistling at her and jumped her and held a knife to her throat and ripped at her clothes, practically tearing them apart, and would've had their way of an approaching car hadn't stopped to investigate the struggle
• naturally has a mess of chocolate curls that cascade down her spine but has dabbled in shorter haircuts before just depending on her
• has got a beautiful set of pipes but hasn't sun since her foster brother abused and raped her without regret and just she hasn't been able to
• at times she can still feel the touch of her attackers and foster brother all over her skin and it is the worst feeling and she wants to claw her skin off just to rid herself of the horrible feeling of her skin crawling
• depressed, anxious, suffering from ptsd, and broken
• scared of heights and walking all by herself
• she identifies as bisexual, biromantic but with the past abuse she has found it hard to open up or trust someone for fear of it happening again
• okay i know i used jcj a long time ago but this is new bean