Fanon:Tessa Swanson: Difference between revisions

Tessa and Nicole were soon contacted by their cousin, Rachel Swanson, who had rushed into marriage with Aneirin oi Lugos. This thrilled them into no end: the Swansons had good figures and thus more than enough in both skills and looks to get a suitable mates, as Tessa and Nicole believed the case with Rachel proved. As they chatted, they did not suspect that Kallisto was tapping into the conversation, which suddenly shifted Kallisto's focus back on Appaloosa Plains, as Rachel dragging Aneirin into the fray would do the Church little good. Kallisto and Kallistrata always had plans to dispatch clones, focusing on vampires whose Vampiric Vigor would greatly facilitate learning and thus play their ambitious natures to the Church's benefit. Little did they know that Tessa had been spying on them, and little did they know that Tessa had defected to the romantic cause.

 

 

In truth, Tessa and all 3 of the Swanson girls had become puppets ever since Tessa first set foot upon the Hekatonschoinos Chapter house. Initially, the influence was subtle and the Swansons maintained at least a semblance of free will. Even the defection was a lie: Kallisto used that to throw Antigone and Achaia off guard, using the Swanson girls' romantic nature to her advantage, and it was the Church that reunited the estranged Nicole and Tessa together. Having said that, Kallisto staged an attack on the Swanson house and "took control" of the Swanson girls at Hekatonschoinos which was already done quite some time ago. Being fully controlled, Tessa and Nicole return to Appaloosa Plains to meet with their cousins Rachel and Louis and to strengthen the Church's psychic control over Rachel. When they returned, Antigone and Achaia knew that something was wrong, and before long, Tessa, Nicole, and Rachel were compelled to apprehend both Antigone and Achaia, effectively squelching the Populist movement. As for Rachel's husband Aneirin, he was eventually drafted into the Church as he had lost Rachel, and he only had the desire to take down Cocolitanos and decided to join the Church simply for the knowledge that it would transfer to him: he might not like taking orders from the one who had taken his first shot at family life, but his desire to overthrow Cocolitanos and to become the head of a united Gallic federation was stronger.

==Repositioning==

However, Tessa's training had put her far ahead of the average, even outdoing most of the Attalids (well, with the obvious exception of Stratonike). Having the human capital, Kallisto found it fit that Tessa be given a greater role in the development of the Church: Kallisto was too focused on redevelopment to bother doing any more psychic power tests on her and the rest of the Swanson sisters, and as such, Kallisto sent the Swanson sisters to Sunset Valley to serve as advisors and informants to the stewards there. Kallisto gave them explicit order to especially pay attention to the Patriot Party and the Al-Dar, and commanded that reports on both be provided at biweekly basis. Because Tessa was still a kataskopos, Kallisto arranged for them to occupy the former Wolff residence away from the Sunset Valley main chapter building at the center of the Greek enclave. In fact, Kallisto sent a executive epistle to Esomena to make sure that the stewards deny any connection to the Swansons, and also provided a secret frequency to coordinate their activities, ensuring that Tessa et al will make contact with the main Chapter as little as possible.