Sage

Diana Rigg as Tessa Valentine

GENERAL Name: Tessa Valentine Birthdate: 05/06/1936 Faction: X-Men Codename: Sage Position: Position/Job Title/Rank Hometown: London, UK (claimed) FAMILY STATISTICS Partner(s): NA Height: 5'8" Father: NA Weight: 135 lbs Mother: NA Hair Color: Blue Siblings: NA Eye Color: Blue Children: NA

Background

IC Events

Traits

Powers

• Telepathy: Sage is an accomplished telepath. She can read thoughts, probe memories, project herself astrally and project realistic, though psychic illusions. Her psychic defenses are absolutely impenetrable - she is capable of reflecting any psychic attack or probe aimed at her, provided she has 'shut down' her telepathy beforehand. She can broadcast her own thoughts most of the way across a large city, such as London or New York, with little difficulty.
• Computer Brain: Sage's brain is capable of processing large amounts of information at once at a nearly instantaneous level. As well, she has a photographic memory and can recall anything with perfect clarity. She is also capable of easily multitasking up to six different tasks at once and maintaining them all at the same time, with the same level of effort.
• Genetic Analysis: Sage can detect the presence of mutants around her via the genome that separates mutants from baseline humans. She can detect mutants up to 2 miles away from her current location. When face to face with a mutant (or human in which the genome has not activated), she can 'read' the genome, discovering how it expresses itself in any particular mutant. Finally, Sage is able to further boost an already active mutant genome on a permanent basis - the results of which differs from person to person. (For obvious reasons, boosting powers is limited to plots and staff approval only)

Skills

• Self-Defense: Growing up in the Balkans during World War II was dangerous and Tessa learned very rapidly that she needed to defend herself. Friendly soldiers, stationed near the village she grew up, took it upon themselves to help the children defend themselves just in case. Luckily it never came to anything, but on leaving the Balkans for England, Sage had developed a taste for self defense, and looked into every aspect of it that she could find. As a result, she has learned and become an expert in several forms of unarmed combat. She is no master however, and continues to study even after having moved to the United States.
• Firearms: Hunting was a part of life when she was a child and she learned to use a hunting rifle when she was very young. She has kept this up, learning how to use other firearms available to the public, as well as the safety and maintenance of those firearms.
• Polymath: Sage's brain allows her to learn things rapidly, as well as remember those things with perfect clarity. Over the years she studied in many fields - various sciences (particularly chemistry and genetics), mathematics, business (contract law, negotiation) and even psychology and sociology. In many of these, she has a teaching certification. She has a voracious appetite when it comes to learning new things, and continues to learn more as often as possible.
• Languages: Sage knows many languages. Specifically she is able to speak English, French, Slavic (a few different dialects), Spanish and Italian. Her mutant brain allows for the rapid acquiring and retaining of the knowledge needed to speak these languages, so learning a new one is not very difficult for her.
• Teaching: While she never considered teaching before, Tessa's knowledge in a broad range of subjects and her fluency in many languages made her realize she could possibly help teach kids in these fields and pass on what she knows. It turned out that she makes for a good educator, able to reach those young minds and help them flourish where they can, despite her unemotional nature - she can easily come up with creative methods to pass her lessons on.

Advantages

• Iron Will: Even without her mutant power to reflect incoming psychic probes and attacks, Tessa's mind has its own natural resistant to psionics. She has a strong will and sense of self, making it that much harder for her mind to be read and dominanted by other telepaths.
• Wealth: She's not going to make the top wealthiest people in the world any time soon, but a number of shrewd investments over the years has ensured that had she wanted to, Tessa could have retired and lived fairly comfortably - if simply - for the remainder of her days.

Flaws

• Resistance: While she is a telepath, Tessa can't read all minds. Aliens, AIs, even humans with a natural resistance (or other telepaths) could either stop her telepathic probes outright, or potentially possess enough resistance to keep her at bay.
• Unemotional: It's not that she doesn't have emotions - she does - but Tessa prefers to keep them tightly under wraps in favour of logic. Add to that her tendency to view things like decisions as a sequence of binary choices rather than consider the emotional component, and many people view Tessa as if she were an unemotional robot. Further, because she considers things from an unemotional standpoint, she may have difficulty understanding how others think and react.
• Enemies: Tessa abandoned her identity when she left the Balkans, talking on the name Tessa Valentine when she entered England (an adopting an accent shortly there after, to help blend in). Because of things her family did, sides they took, people are on the lookout for her. As well, she helped an employer in a wager against a rival, elusive businessman, who in his rage marked Tessa with scars just below her eyes. None of these men are particularly fans of Tessa, and encountering them again would not be a pleasant experience.

Gallery

Logs

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1965-11-01 - Secretish Origineyness, Garage Edition (log: dizzy julie sage social x-men)

1965-10-12 - Out Foxing (log: danielle sage social)

1965-09-24 - Milkshakes (log: eva forge julie robbie sage social)

1965-09-05 - One More Wednesday Night (log: brotherhood jp julie mutant polaris sage social town x-men x-ternals)

1965-08-31 - Meeting Ms Valentine (log: amber julie sage social)

1965-08-11 - Surprise Ninjas (log: dizzy julie sage social)

1965-07-23 - Thumbing a Ride (log: elmo eva julie sage social)

1965-07-06 - Pointy End Goes That Way (log: danielle sage social)

1965-06-16 - Shop Talk (log: dizzy logan sage social)

1965-05-28 - Mutant Town Diversion (log: dizzy sage social)

1965-05-09 - So You Started Practicing (log: lorraine-reilly sage social)

1965-04-21 - Welding and Training (log: lorraine-reilly sage social)

1965-04-11 - Pink Slip Of The Phantom Woodie (log: dizzy julie lorraine lorraine-reilly plot sage x-men)

1965-03-29 - Found in Translation (log: douglas kwabena man-march-weapon plot sage x-men)

1965-03-25 - Authentic Ghanaian Cuisine (log: julie kwabena man-march-weapon plot sage x-men)

1965-03-24 - Birth of the FireHawk (log: bruce-wayne kwabena lorraine-reilly lucifer plot sage slade-wilson)

1965-03-20 - Can't Sleep? (log: sage social sunspot)

1965-03-02 - On The Topic Of Mutants (log: lorraine-reilly sage social)

1965-02-12 - These Boots Are Made For Something (log: dizzy julie sage social x-men)

1965-01-22 - Car Work (log: dizzy sage social)

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