Sage

[Sage]

++Application for Enrollment++

The Person

Name:
Tessa Hartley

Age:
32

Place of Birth:
Balkans Region, Europe

Applying too:
Xavier's

In what capacity:
Teacher- Computer Science

Family:
Unknown Parents, deceased

Height:
5' 7"

Weight:
135

Appearance:


Skills:

• Speaks several languages fluently- English, Arabic, and Russian.
  
• She is also a formidable fighter- her powers enable her to rapidly observe and analyze her opponents fighting style, and from there, predict the probabilities of attack and angles of motion.
  
• Sage also has developed her telepathy to carefully shield her mind from any prying telepaths.
  
• Sage is also self-taught in the use of various firearms.
  

Personality:

Tessa is quiet and very smart- she is usually the brains behind a lot of the X-men’s operations, although she is quite capable of fighting.

Tessa is also fiercely loyal to Magneto- she owes her life to him, after all, and will follow his orders no matter what.

Likes:

• Internet Chess
  
• Computers
  
• Random computer games, especially Audiosurf
  
• Magneto
  
• Fresca Soda
  

Dislikes:

• Prejudice and judgmental people
  
• Stupidity
  
• Having to hide being a mutant
  
• People touching her
  

The Mutant

Codename:
Sage

Mutant Abilities:
Cyberpathy: Ability to interface and communicate with computers, computer mainframes, and any data processors at a speed that's equal to, if not greater than, that of the computer itself. She can also send e-mail using only her mind. She is generally always in contact with her cybernetic shades, which itself is connected to a super-computer.

Kinetic Memory (Computer Brain): Her mind works in the same way as a computer with unlimited storage capacity, only much faster. She is able to perform several mental functions at once without losing focus on any of them. This allows her to instantly recall specific information with incredible speed and accuracy. She's able to store everything that she experiences in a photographic memory and retrieve it immediately without the typical human pause for thought. The sheer speed of her thoughts leads into augmenting her analytical ability so that she is able to make snap decisions about her surroundings and create complex scenarios at that same speed. As such, Sage is able to track the probability of an event by piecing together stored data.

Multi-tasking: able to perform multiple tasks at once by allocating a partition of her brain to each task. For example, Sage can use her mind to replay a movie she had watched previously, play a game of internet chess, and focus on battling an opponent without any one task distracting her from another.

Genetic Sight: able to 'see' a person's genetic code, reading complex DNA sequences for latent and manifested mutations, thereby allowing her to sense mutants and, in many cases, understand how their powers work more thoroughly than they themselves do.

Telepathy: low-level telepathic talents allow her to communicate with others over short distances and release an astral form within a limited range. This also enables her to shield her thoughts from other telepaths.

X-Factor Sense: The ability to sense the presence of the mutant gene in others who are in close proximity to herself.

Weaknesses: (Weaknesses related to powers, personality, fears etc etc)
If Sage doesn't focus while in a large crowd, the thoughts of people around her can easily overwhelm her.


History:

Tessa Hartley was born in the Balkans region of Europe to a pair of missionaries. She travelled a lot as she grew up- however, her family was caught up in the Russian Invasion of Afghanistan, and her parents were killed.

She ended up in a Harem, where she spent several years- this is where she learned how to defend herself, as she needed to fight to defend herself from both bandits and soldiers. She didn't always succeed, though, and this drove her to train even more so she could protect herself.

One day, though, a bandit had managed to get close enough to her and her cut into her cheeks with a knife, leaving her with distinctive scars under her eyes and down her cheeks. This is when her powers awakened- she lashed out with her telepathy, shutting down his brain (a feat which she has never been able to replicate).

However, this overexertion of her powers greatly weakened her- she passed out, and when she woke up, she was a prisoner of the fundamentalist bandits who wanted to execute her for being a “she-devil”.

However, little did Tessa know that her powers were detected by Professor Charles Xavier, who sent his friend Eric Lehnsherr to rescue her. Magneto made it to Tessa just in time, and he took her back to New York.

The second she stepped on the plane though, was when her primary mutation emerged. The plane’s navigation system malfunctioned, but she was able to communicate with it and determine where they were and where they needed to go.

History Add on:
Sage's abilities as a telepath- particularly the ability to effectively shield her mind from other telepaths- made her an effective spy. And spy is what she did- she spied for Magneto, slipping him information about the X-Men, the Hellions... anything that the cyberpath thought that he would find useful. She felt that she owed him for saving her life; and plus, she agreed that mutants shouldn't have to hide.

But that all changed when he attacked D.C. The massive number of causalities, plus the injuries incurred by both herself and the team she led to fight the Sentinels, made her realize that Magneto was wrong. So she began to spy on him instead- telling Professor Xavier everything she learned. This continued until Rogue left the X-men and joined the Brotherhood- with her there, it would be too risky for Sage to continue spying on Magneto and the Brotherhood.

She ended up joining the X-Force not long after that, and just in time, too- Apocalypse began taking over. She fought against him during the war, and continues to do so, in whatever ways she can.

RP Sample:

Sage sat in front of the computer, cracking her knuckles. Hacking into SHIELD's database? Sounded... fun, honestly.

Her fingers flew across the keyboard as she typed, various screens popping up in front of her.

"Disable the tracker, bounce my IP off of several hundred computers then bury the signal...." she muttered out loud, taking a sip of her Fresca before continuing. A few more minutes of typing later, she was in.

"Bingo." she muttered, grinning. "Now let's see how much SHIELD knows about mutants, after all."

++OOC Info++

Player: Nikori
Any plans in mind for the character? Oh, totally. But they're a secret!
Do you agree to the rules: ..............................................

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