Tess (TDHH)

> "That's neat. I never really play video games though." - Tess, to Cream
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**Tess**, labelled **The Asocial**, is the deuteragonist on Total Drama: Haunted House. She originally placed 9th after escaping with Cream, but returned to the game unwillingly after being kidnapped. She placed 1st.

## Biography

Name: Tess

Age: 22

Label: The Asocial

Likes: Being independent

Dislikes: Extroverts

Known For: Having many rumors surrounding her

Why TDHH?: To prove to her current psychologist that she is trying to open up to society.

Tess is a complex and mysterious girl who was raised as an orphan. There has been many rumors surrounding her that say she was born with bad luck and that she's used to tragedies. She lives alone and has no friends. She auditioned for Haunted House as proof to her current psychologist that she's trying to open up to society (she once made her previous psychologist go to the psychologist). She isn't really expecting to be accepted. She's independent and prefers solitude. She's also intelligent and picks up on social cues and emotions, using them to her advantage. However, underneath her pragmatic and independent exterior lies a vulnerable interior and want to make authentic relationships, but she keeps that hidden behind emotional walls due to her past experiences, which she isn't too keen on talking about. She also values personal presentation and takes medication (a bottle of pills called Paroxetine) for her depression for three years, and she can sometimes downplay her own emotions and personal needs to complete certain tasks at hand.

## Episodes

Tess is introduced in **A** **Prolonged Prologue**, sitting on the bus looking a bit bored. Unlike the others, she isn't spooked or scared of the Haunted House. She doesn't seem too keen on CJ and thinks he's being a bit overdramatic. She explored the house with Cream and Tyler; the latter introduced himself and hid behind her in fear when he first saw the hooded guards. In **Squid Gamers**, she seemed slightly uncomfortable after witnessing Max's death, realizing that she has to follow the rules, otherwise she or the others will be next. In the challenge, she made it to Round 3. Due to her not doing much, Tess chose to vote out Zoey. Even though she didn't win the reward, she does gain a new friend in Scott, who she doesn't mind hanging out with.

Although she doesn't do much in **The Canada Chainsaw Massacre**, she managed to get immunity. Tess decided to vote for Frida due to her lack of interaction. She and Cream also become good friends. The longer she stayed in the Haunted House, the more her usual composure keeps falling apart, especially after seeing her entire life in the Haunted House database. In **Wednesday the 17th**, during the challenge, she sat on the floor of the room and stayed quiet, and managed to be one of the few to not be caught by "Albert". Since she doesn't want to leave the game yet despite desperately wanting to get out of the House, she voted for Harold. Tess and Cream managed to escape the House with help from Chef Hatchet. She tells Cream that she lives in Toronto, Canada and hopes that she'll see Cream around soon.

In **Rattlepate**, she initially didn't want to come out of her apartment after Cream knocked on the door, wanting to forget what happened during the competition. However, after eleven hours of thinking (and Cream later falling asleep at Tess's doorstep), she decided that she'll think with her heart for once and help Cream; both are determined to put an end to the Gamemaster and his schemes, once and for all.

In **Wrong Directions**, Tess instantly recognized one of the notes Cream (now named Claire) gives her due to her friend's last name being shown on the laptop. They make their way to her friend, named Jason Young's house, where he's doing a yard sale. He tells them that he used to use the laptop a lot, but stopped using it due to the laptop getting laggy the last few days. He offered to give them it for 15$, but he accepts Tess's 10$ and gives them the laptop anyway, but he tells them the next time they show up at his yard sale, they'll have to pay the full price, directing it especially at Claire (who he calls "Pipsqueak" ), due to her not having any cash. They then leave his yard sale.

In **No Code**, Tess gets frustrated with Claire trying (and failing) to get the laptop to work, though it eventually does. However, she eventually loses her patience and snaps at Claire after she crashed her mother's car, left to Tess in her will, against a lamppost. Claire snaps back, revealing that she's dead to the world, which causes Tess to felt extremely guilty. She makes it to the smokestack after Claire and hops over. Claire gives Tess the car's keys so Tess can repair it, but the keys attract lightning, and it strikes on both of them. In **Cheffrey**, Tess and Claire wake up in the Waiting Room, and Tess sees her parents trying to bring her into the afterlife, though she later snaps out of it. She and Claire eventually get to Camp Wawanakwa (after twenty failed attempts) and DJ tells them that he found out how to kill people painlessly and harmlessly on the website, and the girls return back to the Waiting Room. In **A Toast**, Claire figures out the SF note, and her and Tess go to a shop to get a charger. After Claire catches up with one of her friends, Jack, they go to a cafe to rest up. Then, they go to a back alley, but before Tess could be teleported back to Earth, someone puts her in a bag and carries her away, bringing her back into the competition.

She returns to the game in day 36, not wanting to be there. She gets angry at Tyler for killing Scott, and starts to wonder if all her effort put into trying to escape with Claire was pointless, and ponders if she should just give up and once again follow the Gamemaster's twisted rules. She completes the challenge, but she saw everything as a blur due to a voice saying "let me out" numerous times in her head. In **Haunted House Ends**, she gets to return home and meet a loved one. She happily reunites with her first foster carer Pamela, however this is short-lived as a young woman wearing the Gamemaster's mask stabs Pamala in the stomach, killing her. This angers Tess, vowing to defeat the woman, but the Gamemaster (via a voice recording) tells her that she's proven her greatness in the show and says she's officially a finalist. Tess takes the katana from the woman's open hands, and wonders if the others will be okay. Tess and Hunter go back to the House, where Tess wins the competition after Hunter smashes both a safe jar and the poisoned jar, and is present for the events that later transpired.