Tessa Elliott

Tessa James Elliott was the posthumous overarching protagonist of Murder Drones.
She was the daughter of James and Louisa Elliott who, as a child, recovered numerous disposed Worker Drones and repurposed them to be her friends and servants at Elliott Manor, growing especially close to N, V, J , and the AbsoluteSolver inside Cyn's body. Tessa failed to stop the Solver's plan to massacre the humans on the night of a gala hosted at her home; the Solver massacred all the humans at the gala, but seemingly didn't kill Tessa because she was the only human who respected Cyn. However, it's revealed, after N beheads Tessa to save Uzi near the end of "Mass Destruction," that the Solver did kill Tessa at the Gala. Then, keeping its promise to not discard her made prior to the massacre, it grafted Tessa's corpse onto Cyn's body.
Arriving on Copper 9 with the Disassembly Drone J, the Solver, disguised as Tessa, stated she was tasked with journeying into Cabin Fever Labs to search for a list of all Worker Drones infected with the Solver and to terminate them. Having reunited with N and V along with meeting their friend, Uzi, they traveled to the laboratory while N, V, and Uzi did not know the full extent of the Solver's plan. During their mission, the disguised Solver discreetly tried convincing N to later execute Uzi for the universe's sake by revealing to him that the Solver that resides in Uzi, and other infected drones, is responsible for the destruction of Earth and other human colonies.
==Physical Appearance==
=== Child ===
Like all humans, Tessa was only shown as a dark silhouette with glowing eyes. She had a slim build and a relatively tall stature. Her silhouette appeared to indicate a short dress with short sleeves, heeled shoes, and a large bow on her head that is identical to Cyn's (further drawing parallels between the two from the start). Compared to other humans, her head was significantly larger compared to the rest of her body.
=== Astronaut ===
Disguised as Tessa, the Solver wore an astronaut helmet that was decorated with a small rainbow and smiley face sticker on the top right side of the visor. She also wore a JCJenson branded cap (corroborating her false affiliation to them) and a large, light grey bow on the right side of her helmet. Her outfit consisted of a short-sleeved, white crop-top-like jacket with a shiny silver leotard underneath. She wore a pair of moderately long white gloves that were yellow at the ends and silver pants with knee-high strapped boots. Finally, she had a golden name tag that showed her name and occupation, and carried a broadsword on her back attached with silver straps. To her left hip, she also has a pocket where she sometimes holds her revolver.
=== Hybrid ===
Currently, Tessa and Cyn share the same appearance, given that her skin is grafted onto the latter's Worker Drone body, with gaping eye sockets to make way for the drone visor. Glowing yellow X symbols are displayed inside her eyes. Cyn's hands also hang freely from her wrists, with Tessa's human hands draped on top. Tessa still has the same hairstyle and attire as when she was a child. Three intestine-like tentacles protrude out of the hybrid form's back in a similar arrangement to the AbsoluteSolver Translate symbol, which she uses to stand and walk around on.
==Personality ==
Although Tessa was first seen as rather intimidating and mature during the ending of "The Promening", Tessa seems to be a very lively individual. This is demonstrated in "Home" where Tessa screams "N" in excitement and spins him around very energetically. This is further supported in "Dead End" where Tessa shouts "N! You remember me. (cough) Tall, handsome, air's toxic" in a similar vein to how she'd done in "Home". Given that the AbsoluteSolver masqueraded as Tessa with full intent to pass as her, it seems like this was one of her actual personality traits whilst she was herself.
She enjoyed fixing broken drones and giving them names and human hair, something other humans disapproved of.
The way the Solver portrayed Tessa also seemed to be somewhat overly confident and proud of herself as she stated in "Dead End", "Human-made security this human can control!" with pride and confidence despite not gaining control over the Sentinels. Tessa also has a bit of an immature and rather childish personality that heavily resembles her past personality as a child, which yet again makes sense as this was what the Solver was exposed to.
However, when it was revealed that Tessa's body was grafted onto Cyn's, the AbsoluteSolver completely dropped the imitation act.
==Biography ==
===Pre-series===
Tessa Elliott was born to Louisa and James Elliott. Not much is known about her early life, other than that she was part of a wealthy family and lived in a manor with her parents. It's implied that she was mistreated by her parents, such as shackling Tessa with a chain in her bedroom whenever she misbehaved. She was also noted to be asocial, not knowing how to interact with other humans and her only real friends being Worker Drones.
===Heartbeat===
Tessa makes her first appearance in a flashback at the beginning of Heartbeat, when N has a dream about his past life as a Worker Drone still working on Earth as a butler in Elliott Manor.
In the past, Tessa was fascinated by Worker Drones and would adopt or rebuild them from local landfills, often playing dress up with them and even going out of her way to give them hair (which other humans, such as her father James, found creepy). From the expression that J gives upon noticing her, she is somewhat of a boss to the various maids and butlers around Elliott Manor. She is accompanied by a newly repaired Worker Drone, hiding behind her for assurance as she smiles at N who feels a horrible presence coming from the new maid drone.
===The Promening===
Tessa makes her present appearance in The Promening, where she arrives at Copper 9 through a landing pod, jumping out and immediately decapitating a Worker Drone on sight, claiming that she and J, who has been reconstructed and accompanied her superior to the exoplanet, have "maintenance work" to do.
===Cabin Fever===
Despite not physically appearing in Cabin Fever, Uzi sees a vision of Tessa in the past with her true human form (the AbsoluteSolver wearing her skin) being shown for a few seconds but with her back turned in a dark, abandoned room as she faces a corner, her face is still a mystery. However, upon looking back, the apparition is gone and instead Uzi notices the hand of Tessa's apparition appear behind the corner, shocking her until she realizes that she is alone.
===Home===
During the events of Home, Tessa is shown through N's memories of his life on Earth due to Uzi's hacking. There, she is shown to see J as her partner while being enamored by N due to him being a "cute butler". Tessa is wary of Cyn since she knows something is wrong with her, secretly working with J to have her locked in the basement because of this. However, she, J, and Cyn were locked in their room during the gala by her mother, Louisa, while N faced the worst of it by being chained to a tree in the swamp for the crows to devour his parts. Angered, Tessa blames Cyn for N being punished in her place, only for the Solver to reveal her eldritch form and reassure her that she won't have to discard her pets nor will it have to discard her as she warns her to stay away from the gala.
Horrified that Cyn will slaughter everyone present, Tessa speaks to J about work-related taboos such as "paid time off" and "attending a union negotiation" which enrages J due to her workaholic attitude and allows her to break her and Tessa's chains. The duo discreetly pass through the upper floors of the mansion, avoiding the guests, as they search for a way to murder a "robochild." They come across a night stand with a revolver on it and an authentic medieval sword held by armor nearby, which they momentarily swap, until N finds them and warns them about V being under the Solver's control. They help N to get the key to the basement as Tessa and J rush to the ballroom where they encounter Cyn as she reveals her true form under the control of the AbsoluteSolver. As it tells Tessa that she didn't have to see this, it proceeds to murder everyone, including Tessa, offscreen, followed by the Solver then grafting her corpse onto Cyn's drone body, becoming one with her.
Back in the present, Tessa and J meet with Doll who obtained the Keybug from Uzi as part of their deal to take her with them to Cabin Fever Labs, despite Tessa shooting her to make sure she wasn't like Cyn, to Doll's annoyance and anger. Regardless, the trio proceeds to head out until they're stopped by N, V, and Uzi who confront them for answers.
===Dead End===
The scene picks back up at the beginning of Dead End, where N thinks that Tessa is still alive. She, joyfully, tries to pick him up only to momentarily choke on "toxic air", before she is bitten by Uzi in anger at a human being on the planet and questions why she and J are here. Before anyone can say anything, Doll betrays the group by snatching the Keybug and running to the lab before them J tries to stop her while the others chase with her but are unable to stop the Russian drone from making her way underground.
===Mass Destruction===
Her exact first appearance was when she met N and Uzi in a cave on Copper 9. After being separated from Uzi and N, Tessa would go to the lockers and use the computer to explode and destroy the locker room. Doll would emerge and confront her about the Crucifix Patch. Tessa learned that Doll needed it to patch herself to keep the Solver from influencing her. Tessa taunted her, saying that the Solver didn't need her before vanishing into the darkness. From the darkness emerges a new threatening being, which is heard making child-like, distorted screeching sounds as it approaches Doll. The screeching gets louder and louder as Doll tries to attack the unknown enemy with her Solver, but fails since the enemy also has the Solver. Doll reaches in desperation for a rock on the ground, flinging it toward the darkness. The creature then jumps out of the darkness and mutilates Doll, exposing its true form.
When Tessa walks into the main lab to see Uzi near Doll's corpse, she attempts to kill Uzi, but N stops her and tells her to spill the secrets about the patch. When she doesn't, N uses his blade to decapitate her.
After N and Nori battle a possessed Uzi, a headless Tessa walks over to reattach her head, then proceeds to unzip her suit. After doing so, she walks over to Doll and starts eating her core, revealing that Tessa was dead all along, and under the suit was nothing more than her rotting corpse melded with Cyn. It proceeds to attack N and Uzi and tries to drag them into the pit.
==Gallery ==
==Trivia ==
*Daisy Rose, her voice actor, has confirmed that Tessa is an Australian/Aussie.Tweet from Daisy Rose
*Tessa's hybrid appearance was foreshadowed in the "It came from Copper 9!" poster as there was a creature behind Doll with an evil grin and X's on both eyes. This has since been revealed to be the AbsoluteSolver wearing Tessa's skin from within Cyn.
* The gun Tessa acquired in "Home" was a black powder Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, although it was treated as a cartridge-converted version in the episode.
* If one looks closely, Tessa and Cyn appear to share the same hairstyle (albeit in different colors), foreshadowing their later fusion of appearance and identity used to fool the main cast by the Solver.
*Tessa's hybrid form bears a similar appearance to Ic-0n from Internecion Cube, a previous show made by Liam Vickers that shares a similar plot and premise with Murder Drones. Both have dark hair, a large, toothy grin, X symbols on their eyes, long strands of hair, and a similar hairstyle with two pieces in the front. In addition, Ic-0n's long strands of hair resemble hybrid Tessa's intestine tentacles (it could be argued that both have four tentacles if you count Ic-0n's smaller strands of hair), both wield guns, and Ic-0n and Tessa's astronaut suit both have a white color scheme.
*There are a few discrepancies between Tessa's appearance in the show, and her design in art drawn by Liam Vickers:
**Tessa and Cyn are both depicted with small bows on the ends of their hair in the official art. There are no bows in the show. 
**Tessa's hybrid form's tentacles appear serrated in the official art, similar to the tentacles of the hearts of Solver-infected drones. In contrast, these tentacles are smooth in the show.
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