Tessa Lamb is a character role-played by Nakkida
Backstory[]
Tessa Lamb is a Driving Instructor and owner of Right of Way Driving School. She is also a Deputy for the Blaine County Sheriff's Office, Badge #370. She has a love for animals (which she calls "aminals"). Tessa has a violent alter ego called Mary Wolf that seeks justice when an animal is purposefully hurt or spoken of being harmed intentionally in front of her.
Tessa grew up in an unhealthy household. Her parents, Don and Tina, were alcoholics who constantly fought. If she didn't make herself scarce, they would turn their anger onto her. She only found solace in her pet dog, Maisy.
Her parents were irresponsible and didn't get Maisy fixed, so she ended up pregnant with five puppies. When she gave birth, Tessa's parents wouldn't let Maisy in the house. In a fit of anger and sadness that her one source of comfort was being hurt, she set the house on fire, ending with the death of her parents. This caused intense scarring on her hands. She has said that this was "the only way".
This information was never told to anyone except Norman Bones, who knows about Mary, due to Tessa's admittance. They now have a tentative relationship, with Norman asking probing questions as he tries to figure out what exactly makes the wolf bite
Her adoptive father is LSPD Sergeant and Ex-Commissioner, Sam Baas.
Personality[]
Tessa is kindness incarnate, and to the best of her ability, she will never break the law. She's gullible, naïve, and forgiving to a fault. Her favorite things include animals, caring for the environment, and being helpful to anyone in need. She struggles with euphemisms, and innuendos fly over her head most of the time. Tessa is, without a doubt, one of the nicest people in the city of Los Santos.
While she follows all laws, especially traffic laws, Tessa used to be afraid to 'snitch' on crimes that she was aware of due to the temperament of the various criminals within the city, but now that she is working towards becoming a deputy she can no longer turn a blind eye to these incidents.
Tessa used to be walked all over, but has recently started sticking up for herself and others. It's backbone season.
Day to Day[]
Tessa Lamb is a driving instructor for the city of Los Santos. Her certified Right of Way Driving School provides a service to people looking to get their driver's license, reduce "driving points" by successfully passing the test, and allowing people to regain their suspended licenses. She formerly worked at the Recycling Center(before it closed), and provides home decoration (she is commonly viewed as one of, if not the best, interior decorator in the city).
Outside of her jobs, Tessa partakes in many activities, often attending concerts, hanging out with friends, going to the Vanilla Unicorn, and many other outings. Because she is very well loved in Los Santos, she often has adventures and encounters with several different citizens with varied backgrounds all around the city. These activities can range from gambling, beach visits, and bus tours around the city. She used to spend every single day with her old best friend Matt Rhodes, until he stopped visiting the city. Matt eventually came back to be a cop in the city, but things have been strained due to his long and busy work hours. Tessa also seems to have a slightly lower-than-average kidnap ratio than most other citizens of Los Santos, due to her being well-known as the nicest person in Los Santos, and people end up feeling too guilty.
On June 26, 2020 Tessa was hired as a Civilian Dispatcher for the Los Santos Police Dispatch. She spent time being trained by Dispatch FTO, now fellow cadet Kevin Keyte. Tessa expressed interest to several people about joining the Blaine County Sheriff's Office when the next police academy arrived. She had ambitions to work along side some of her closest friends like, Matt Rhodes and her father Sam Baas, who are members of the various PD departments. Tessa also has a dream of one day joining the San Andreas State Park Rangers, in an attempt to restore them to their former glory and holding the city, including fellow members of the PD accountable for the Animal Cruelty charges that have been swept under the rug for so long. Tessa also hopes to maintain the Driving School with some help from her fellow instructors, and potentially hold classes for certain infractions such as street racing. Tessa has lost some of her long maintained connections since they learned that she has chosen this path, she previously would turn a blind eye to their illegal activities but will no longer be able to.
Tessa has since passed through Police academy to become a cadet for the BCSO on September 24th, 2020 and has begun her journey as a deputy.
Relationships[]
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Momentous Dates within the Government[]
Unified Police Department[]
| Rank | Insignia | Note | Date | |
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| Recruit | - | Accepted into Academy; Badge #R-20 | September 16th, 2020 | |
| Cadet | 
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Passed Academy; Badge #570 | September 24th, 2020 | |
| Signed off Traffic Stops by Senior Officer Brian Knight | October 20th, 2020 | |||
| Signed off Investigations by Senior Officer Brian Knight | October 22nd, 2020 | |||
| Signed off Booking by Senior Officer Lance Malton | November 7th, 2020 | |||
| Signed off Negotiations by Senior Officer Lance Malton | ||||
| Signed off Comms by Senior Officer Domenic Toretti | November 18th, 2020 | |||
| Signed off Pursuits by Sergeant Lance Malton | ||||
| Signed off Foundations by Sergeant Lance Malton | ||||
| Solo Cadet | 
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Solo Certified; Badge #670 | ||
| Final Eval with Sergeant Lance Malton | January 20th, 2021 | |||
| Deputy | 
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Promoted to Deputy; Badge #370 | January 27th, 2021 | |
Police Dispatch[]
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Hired to Dispatch; Call-Sign D-10 | |
| Dispatch | 
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Promoted to Dispatcher | |
| Resigned from Dispatch to pursue the path in the BCSO | September 16th, 2020 |
Personas[]
Tessa's multiple personalities are currently in a more dormant state within Tessa. While not being gone, they are more repressed than before. Mary will still be seeking justice, just in more subtle ways when they join the PD. The Other will still be there to cushion the blows that Tessa might receive, but not as outwardly obvious as before.
Mary Wolf is Tessa's vengeful alter
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Tessa suffers from blackouts from time to time, snapping back to reality in a completely different place than she remembered, with no idea how she got there. This is because Tessa is host to an alternate personality, Mary Wolf, a homicidal serial killer who seeks to punish people for their crimes against animals (which in Los Santos is frequently hit and run murder.) Mary and Tessa converse sometimes, with Tessa only being allowed to remember what Mary wants her to remember. The line between Mary and Tessa continues to blur, as more and more issues get added to Tessa's life, from constant loneliness, to more recent Mary attacks, all these things are bearing down on Tessa mentally. While the wolf does not concern itself with the feelings of the lamb, Mary is cautious and also very protective over her host. She can sometimes influence Tessa and her decisions if she feels that it would put Mary's identity in jeopardy, or even draw eyes to the fact that there is something more beneath the surface. Mary has her reasons for wanting to join the Police Department. She has stated that the decision was not the Lamb's alone. She will utilize the power she has to exact vengeance where she is able to. |
The Other is Tessa's childlike alter
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Recently, Tessa has been experiencing some rather severe depression and separation anxiety. Most of the people she had learned to lean on, mainly Matt Rhodes and Amara Harte are not quite as available as they used to be, and those that are there for her get pushed away by Tessa lest they find out more about her. This has led to a couple instances of rather concerning mental breakdowns: The first, being a couple months ago when attempting to give a driving test to Davey Doherty. Tessa was struck by Davey with her car during the test, hitting her head and doing enough harm to require EMS to be called and come assist her to continue. Davey continued to antagonize her after the EMS left and cause general mayhem until Tessa received a call from Kiki Chanel, causing even more stress and anxiety. At this point Tessa breaks down and collapses in the parking lot, after Davey drives away with her car. She later goes on to meet with Kiki, and throughout their adventure receives several more injuries and head traumas. She eventually garners enough concern for her to be taken to an emergency therapy session with Thalia Hayes and Pixie Plum. During the session Tessa has several outbursts relating to past traumatic events she has endured, although everyone eventually brushes off the condition as side effects from the head trauma and does not pry any further. During this day, Tessa had many moments of less lucidity, typically with some sort of mantra such as:
This event seemed to have no lasting impression on the surface for all to see, however Tessa has continued using the mantra Tick Tock several times in the months since. Secondly, and more recently Tessa had bought an apartment on her own and all seemed normal. However, about a week later she wakes up to find that the entire apartment has been covered with clocks on almost every surface that one could be placed. It would seem that 'Tessa' herself placed all of these clocks during one of her breakdowns/ blackouts, it is implied that it was not Mary who placed them either as she would not want the risk of someone seeing them. The only person to see the apartment in this state has been Vivi, and upon prompting Tessa about the clocks, Tessa answered "What clocks?". Tessa has apparently blocked the existence of the clocks from her mind and has kept the existence of the apartment a secret from most people, even her late fiance, Amara Harte. Mary appears to be the one influencing her into keeping this a secret, as this getting out could cause a link to her degrading mental state, and therefor endanger her host by gathering more unwanted attention. These breakdowns are seeming to point to the existence of another persona of Tessa Lamb... December 31, 2019 Amara has found out about Tessa's home. She confronts her about it, and they drive across the city to discuss. This leads to a major argument, with the end result being Tessa saying that she isn't sure that she still wants to get married, claiming that she still cannot trust Amara after she left the last time. Amara asks Tessa to go home and think things over for 30 minutes, as she didn't want her making any heated decisions about their long-standing relationship. Tessa elected to walk home, unknowingly leaving Amara to drive to her untimely death. Tessa goes to her home, completely unaware of the consequences of the day's events. She sits in silence, the ticking of clocks her only company. Alone, like always, though this time the crushing pressure of all the lies was too much... 'The Other' had come to the surface once again...
While The Other' is seemingly docile and childlike in nature, she is unruly and hard to keep reigned in. She seems able to hide things even from Mary, something Tessa could never do. The Other left their home and walked to the street, wherein she received a call from Ducky he was going to inform her about Amara's accident, but noticed something off in her voice. He asked her to stay put and he would come pick her up. She took this instruction literally, and stood right where she was at the time, in the middle of the street. Seeing her like this, Ducky and the rest of the Pillbox staff rightfully kept the information from her. They did not want to talk about it and possibly degrade her mental state even further. She has multiple talks with Ducky and Pixie, they deem her not safe to go home alone, so Tessa spends the next few nights in the hospital being watched over. January 3, 2020 When Tessa awoke everyone was concerned for her, although she acted normal aside from having a fuzzy memory/dreamlike images of the events on the 31st. Later that day, Amara passes away from complications following the car crash. This largely overshadows the events and conversations that everyone had with The Other, as they were just concerned about Tessa being depressed and it has not been addressed since. February 21, 2020 Tessa takes a blow to the head, after Alabaster Slim drops her off the overpass near Pillbox Medical. She suffers a mild concussion, and The Other persona comes to the surface to protect her. She gets checked over and cleared by Pillbox staff, although nobody notices anything other than the concussion. During this state she eluded to still be talking to Amara Harte. It is unclear whether this was her talking about texting her number after she died, or if The Other is not entirely aware of the events that have taken place since the last time they were at the surface. February 22, 2020 Tessa wakes up with a pounding headache, The Other is still present and watching over her. She speaks with the Lamb about how she is just there to protect her. Tessa asks to be left alone, The Other says that she will go to bed. Although this is the first time that this persona has spoken with Tessa, we still do not know her name, or if she even has one. |
Mary's Victims[]
- Yung Dab
- After hitting a bird on the driving test and hamming up the guilt so that Tessa would go out with him, Mary killed him in a tunnel. He admitted to her that he was The Gnome.
- Rudi Rinsen
- After he hit a bird on the road and insinuated that they eat it together during the driving test, Mary wounded Rudi, taking out his eye. He has no memory of the event but is still trying to figure out who took his eye.
- Jessica Glittersnatch (Kiki Chanel)
- Kiki, going by the name "Jessica Glittersnatch" at the time, was stranded on her car surrounded by a cougar and called Tessa begging for help. In the meantime, the cougar was killed by Judge Dennis LaBarre, after hitting it with his car. Kiki proceeded to stomp the dead cougar in front of Tessa and Vivi, blaming and taunting Tessa for it's death. Tessa and Vivi lured Kiki out of the city after stalking her together, and brought her into the wilderness where they allowed a cougar to maul Kiki. Tessa does not know that "Jessica Glittersnatch" is Kiki.
- Davey Doherty
- After hitting a crane on the road while driving with Tessa and Lauren Forcer, Davey called Tessa shortly after for another driving test. She led him to the mountains under the guise of showing him the driving test course, and then allowed Vivi to torture him by cutting off his pinky finger. Mary finished the job and left his body under a shrub.
- Bryce Miller
- During a therapeutic nature hike event, a few mountain lions appeared and got a few of the hikers, Tessa being one of the victims. After the animal attacks, Bryce bragged about hurting one of the animals to Tessa and to the rest of the group. Later on, while Bryce invited himself into Tessa's car (she was already triggered into Mary prior to this), Mary drove to a secluded place under a bridge in a remote location, lectured Bryce about the importance of animals and their nature and was mad at his apparent nonchalant attitude about the whole thing, before stabbing him and leaving his body in a nearby overpass drain.
- Brav O'Six
- When a stray cat (Server Admin) was seen roaming near Pillbox Hospital, a small group (including Brav) gathered. Brav accused the cat of being a Russian (when the cat/admin messaged back) and pointed his gun at it in front of Tessa. When Brav went to physically strike the cat out of frustration, he instead accidentally hit Tessa. Later on, he was picked up by Huck and Mete and taken to a remote lumber-mill and told to expect to meet "The Mistress" soon. They did not know of Mary's involvement, and she was not aware it was them who was working for Vivi. Shortly thereafter, Tessa and Vivi (as Mary and Miss C) tortured and then stabbed Brav, as part of his malicious intent against the animal earlier that day, and his body left in a tall bush.
- Kiki Chanel
- Kiki called up Tessa asking for training on how to be a Driving Instructor, and met her up in Harmony. Unbeknownst to Kiki, Mary was triggered earlier, and Mary took Kiki to an isolated location, discussed the reason for the kidnapping, and stabbed her. Kiki's body was left under a bridge.
Fun Facts[]
- Routinely changes clothes and showers, as Mr. Wang Chang told her a long time ago that she smelled, making her extremely self-conscious.
- She has fear of water, specifically deep, open water. However, this can also be applied to bodies of water, such as a homeowner's underground pool.
- She was on the bus tour that Yung Dab hijacked and threatened to blow up, causing her to have a fear of both buses and gnomes.
- She has been confirmed to have Dissociative Identity Disorder (although more like the "Hollywood version" rather than the actual scientific disorder.).
- Has been given the nickname "El Tesso" by Richard Dark.
- Made over $60,000 in less than an hour, dancing at the Vanilla Unicorn.
- After a lot of decorating, and slinging Aminal Facts, Tessa raised enough money to buy her own LAMBorghini.
Quotes[]
Tessa
- "Aminals!"
- "No can doodles"
- "Lissen"
- "Aww Jeez"
- "Aww Man"
- "I have... Immense power"
- "I'm always strapped!"
- "Cadeputy Lamb!"
- "Stop being illegal!"
- "Let me see some hams!"
- "Crime-inals!"
- "*Audible Gasp*"
- "Why are you the way that you are?"
- "It's my ... Lamb-Orghini!"
- "Oh, I love creampies!"
Mary
- "Oh, I'm just peachy... Thank you for asking."
The Other
- "We all have a clock..."
- "Tick Tock... Tick Tock..."
Gallery[]
| Blaine County Sheriff's Office |
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| High Command:
Command: Rangers: Conan Clarkson • Ziggy Buggs |