Tess Mercer

Player Information
Name: Jessica
Timezone: PST
Personal Journal: vonderp
Players Contact/AIM/MSN/YAHOO: jessiwanvonderp
Email Address: theladyclyne@yahoo.ca
Former/Other Characters in the RP: Amber
How did you hear about us?: This guys mom

Character Information
Name: Tess Mercer (Originally born Lutessa Luthor)
Canon Origin/Series: Smallville
Teaching Position and why it suits them: Potions. Tess is a Marine Biologist in canon, but while she was working for Luthor Corp, she worked on researching poisons and viruses.
Suitability: This said IF, so I'm not filling it out since I think she's suitable
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Out of school living location: Kansas
Blood status: Halfblood

Personality: Tess has been described two ways in the series; a Pit-bull in Prada and the ultimate Eco-terrorist. She does things for the greater good, even if the means aren't so friendly. A prime example is that Lex developed a skin graft suit that could make him as powerful as Clark. Lana was undergoing the procedure to get the suit and Tess knew that Lex shouldn't get his hands on the suit. So while Lana was unconscious after the grafting procedure, Tess was willing to kill her and destroy that technology, just so that Lex wouldn't get a chance to use it. Another example is that she blew up Davis Bloome in his car because she found out that he was the Kryptonian serial killer plaguing the city. Tess wasn't always that way though, as a child she dreamed of having a happy childhood and worked hard at school to get out of her home. She taught herself to read and was eventually able to graduate college before turning 18. Once she puts her mind to something, she'll work at it until she gets it done. Tess is the type who wants to be equals with her adversaries. She asked Zod to let her be a partner in a venture and she said no and sent a soldier to kill her, she in turn killed the soldier and sent the dog tags back to Zod to let him know who he was dealing with.

She has a soft side though! When she discovers a child clone of Lex Luthor, she takes him in and raises him in a happy environment, something both kids were denied while growing up. Eventually she realizes that he was regaining the original Lex Luthors memories, but at the same time, slowing dying from rapid aging. She realizes that he's still Lex to the core, and locked him up. He escaped and met up with Lionel, but after ditching him and going back to Tess, she realized that the only way to save him was to kill him and tried to inject him with cyanide, so that he wouldn't become the monster that the original Lex had become. It didn't work because it turned out that he had half of Clark's DNA in him.

Once she joins Clark and Co in the last season, she's a team player, saving the world in some better ways than ones she previously used.

Canon Background: Herpderp

Background (AU!Canon; HP): Lutessa Luthor was the illegitimate daughter of Lionel Luthor and Pamela Jenkins, his sons nanny. When she was nine years old, Lionel made Pamela give her up for adoption, but not before using a memory charm to get rid of her memories of her family. The orphanage she was sent to was run by a witch named Granny Goodness, who was all about training girls to fight. Lionel wasn't having any of that to come back and bit him in the ass at a later date, so he found a couple to adopt Lutessa and that's when Tess Mercer was born. Growing up in the Mercer home wasn't a great experience for the young witch, he adoptive father was abusive to the point of broken bones and rupture ear drums. He never liked her and could tell that there was something strange about her and the whole situation of the adoption. Tess craved a normal childhood, but instead of becoming broke, she persevered and taught herself everything she needed to know without the help of the Mercers. Eventually Tess received a letter to Salem Witches Institute and was glad to have the chance to experience a normal childhood, even if it was at a boarding school. While at school Tess excelled at Herbology and Potions, earning herself a job as a potions researcher once she graduated school. Life wasn't all tea and roses after leaving home behind though, while out on research trip with a co-worker and friend, they were attacked and Tess witnessed the murder of her friend. She was consoled by a Wizard who was also attacked and got them out of there; they started a relationship but it went south and she caught him fooling around with a waitress and didn't bother saying goodbye to Tess. The soft, dreaming of a happy life Tess was gone, she became cold and to the point with life. Tess focused on her career in the potions world, taking jobs and traveling where she needed to for her research. While globe trotting she heard about the position at Hogwarts, and was encouraged by her boss that it might be good for her research to go somewhere else that has such large resources.

The Luthor family in the mean while was a corrupt wizarding family, Lionel doing shady dealings with Dark Wizards to get power for himself. Her older brother Lex wasn't so bad but he eventually turned towards the same life as his father and eventually had him killed. Lex knew about his having a sister though and was the one who gave her the job as a potions researcher. He never told her, but he kept an eye on her, even saving her after a potions explosion, making her grateful towards him and reluctantly agreed to apply at Hogwarts when he suggested it. She's loyal to her unknown brother and would do anything for the man who saved her life and apparently wants to help the world.

RP Samples:

It looks like I'll get to see my first Quidditch match soon. I heard that it's rather like Quodpot, so I shouldn't have much trouble knowing what's going on. There's nothing wrong with friendly competition between the Houses, it keeps the students on their toes.

I still expect all assignments finished on time. If you don't finish, you can use your brooms to help Mr. Filch clean the Potions room.

Third Person Sample:

Tess went over her trunks three times before she was satisfied at how the contents were packed. She could have used a packing spell, but some things just had to be done a certain way. You couldn't put some ingredients next to others or you'd have an explosion on your hands. She had more than enough experience with that to know it was better safe than sorry. Her thoughts turned to her now former employer, Lex Luthor, who saved her from an experiment gone wrong. He was the one who suggested that she apply for the position at Hogwarts, though she'd rather take a job closer to home. He said it would be good for her work, but she knew he was intrigued by what was happening overseas. A wizard who had risen to power and terrorized the country and a little boy who was that same wizards downfall. Tess believed that Lex was just interested in helping the world and making things better for people, and she admired that. So here she was, packing up her life to move across the sea to a place where there was a hunt for dark wizards, a witch hunt in the wizarding world.

"They would be better off if they just killed them all," she said. Tess picked up a copy of an international Wizarding paper, showing pictures of Wizards and Witches being dragged away from their homes. She discarded the paper on to her desk when the clocked chimed that it was time for her to depart. Lex promised to see her off and she didn't want to be late for him.