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[lightshiningforth]

Tessa Quinn Character Analysis

Just for fun, because Sleepless Domain is amazing. Spoilers, of course.

Tessa is a self-centered character. When I say this, I am by no means saying that she is a bad person or doesn't care about her friends. But she elevates her own importance again, and again, and again.

Look at her bedroom. Yes, she has her whole team represented up top. But the rest of her décor is her own merch. Nine Alchemical Aether figurines. A costume. A fan. A lunchbox. A trading card. A button. Another bag with Aether's sigil as the clasp. Aether-themed jewelry. Possibly more, if the abstracted pink and yellow posters represent Aether as well.

Compare this to Undine's room. Very little Magical Girl merchandise! Like Tessa, she has Team Alchemical represented in doll form. Unlike Tessa, she doesn't have herself as one standalone, let alone several. (Fascinatingly, we see an Alchemical Air poster - did Sylvia, in her self-promotional way, give this to Undine? Or did Undine purchase the poster because she knows that Sylvia's Magical Girl earnings make up her family's income?)

Undine also has her friends represented in pre-Magical Girl form, in the photo on her mirror.

Now, let's look at Kokoro's room. Heartful Punch, like Alchemical Aether, is a super-powerful, popular, pink Magical Girl. You wouldn't know it from her bedroom, though. We've got some heart-shaped iconography, in the lamp. A Magical Girl poster for Team Forte - not Kokoro's team, but another team/band. The pink poster with the fist could easily be Heartful Punch merch, but it seems to be the only piece of self-promotional material, and a subtle example at that (semi-abstracted, without her face or name on it).

Undine and Kokoro's rooms are more about their interests than their Magical Girl identities. Kokoro has exercise equipment, cat things for Kicks, hair styling supplies. Undine has animal plushies, lots of books, her fish. Meanwhile, Tessa's room centers primarily around Alchemical Aether merch. She surrounds herself with her own image, and specifically with the Magical Girl version of her own image.

We know that, when Team Alchemical is alive, Tessa fixates on her status as their leader.

And, when Undine first gets her powers, Sylvia, Sally, and Gwen rush towards her with excitement for her -

 - while Tessa hangs back, a slightly crestfallen look on her face. I don't think it's a reach to believe that she is disappointed that she isn't the one who got powers. Interestingly, Undine herself seems a bit surprised that she gets powers before Tessa.

Undine's assumption that Gwen or Tessa would become a Magical Girl before herself suggests that there is a dynamic among the friends, even before they are a Magical Girl team, in which some of the girls assume more significance within the group. Tessa is one of them. Further, while interstitial guest comics may not be canon, Undine finds her dream self standing on a very interesting mural.

Alchemical Aether dominates this scene. The other four girls are represented by their faces, enclosed in pink circles. Aether's full body looms serenely over them, hands clasped. Her sigil surrounds the whole tableau. In Undine's subconscious, Tessa has a literally outsized presence in relation to the rest of the team. Of course, this comes from Undine's mind, and not Tessa's. But we have reason to believe that Tessa sees herself this way as well…

Tessa's Dream, or, as Goops calls it, "a memory that should have been [Tessa's] all along." Is Goops an unbiased source? Absolutely not. But I believe that this sequence is indeed Tessa's Dream, up until the point that her hair and speech turn a Goops shade of purple and Goops crows, "Now you're starting to incorporate my memories." If you accept that this is indeed Tessa's Dream as it happened, these panels are chock full of things to unpack about her self-image. First, we find her in a palanquin, carried by her faceless friends. She wears royal adornment - a robe, a crown, a scepter.

Now, Tessa is surprised and alarmed to find herself in this position in relation to her friends. She shakes off the robe, she tells them that they don't have to carry her.

And they listen. When Undine turns to face Tessa, she is Alchemical Water. She thanks Tessa, and then all of the girls drop the palanquin and run off as Magical Girls. Tessa's crown falls off.

She calls for them to wait, but they do not. The curtain closes and she is alone.

In Tessa's subconscious, she finds herself above her friends, both literally as they lift her and figuratively as she wears the trappings of royalty while they wear plain white. Undine thanks Tessa before she lets go, suggesting that Tessa granted her permission. Critically, it is when the girls become magical that they leave her. There is a before, in which Tessa is the center of their friendship, and an after, in which they become new people, drop her, stop listening to her and leave her… she has been robbed of her crown, her status, because now they have something in common that she does not.

 While Tessa is embarrassed by the display and tries to put a stop to it - she would never actually dress as a queen and ask her friends to carry her on their backs - the fact that her Dream manifests this scenario suggests that in Tessa's subconscious, she believes herself to be the center of their pre-Magical Girl friendship, and to have no place within their Magical Girl one without powers of her own. Again, I don't believe Tessa is a bad person. I believe she is sincere when she tells the Woman in White that she wants to use her own powers to help her friends.

That said, she presumes that her friends need her to help them. That presumption leads all the way up to that fateful, fatal night, when she holds back from patrol with the belief that the other girls will struggle without her and appreciate her more as their leader.

(They die without her, of course. But they die because Goops murders them, not in the course of a normal patrol. Aether obliterates the monster when she arrives, but only can because she arrives afterwards… that fall would have killed her, too.)

Tessa would hate to see herself as the queen of her friends. Yet, she has no trouble asserting that she is their leader, believes herself indispensable to them, and cannot handle them having something she does not.

Even her assertion to Undine and the way she takes the blame stems from the fact that she believes herself to be responsible for all of them.

That's why she's so vulnerable to Goops. She can easily be convinced that the situation is all about her.

Ironically, Tessa's self-absorption does not indicate high self-esteem. Quite the opposite - Tessa is deeply insecure. She feels upset when her friends get powers before her not only out of jealousy, but also out of fear that they will leave her behind. She believes that she has no value to them without powers. Thus, she pins everything on being magical, powerful, the leader. Being Aether. Goops perceives this, and tries to tempt her with the promise of more power…

And taunts her with the loss of her identity as Aether.

But by this point, Tessa has given up. Her self-absorption has devolved into self-loathing. She goes out to Goops with the intention of being killed.

The text in gray, the vestiges of Tessa's self-worth, are weaker than her self-blame. Tessa is overwhelmed by what she perceives as her failure - to save Undine, to be friends with Rue, to be a good daughter. "No one needs you anymore," she thinks. And if she cannot be needed, then what's the point of living at all?

And then there's TessaGoops. Is Tessa her puppet, or are they truly fused into one person? I'm still not sure. I suppose time will tell.

At the very least, I believe Aether's powers are still present, somehow, at least slightly. Why else would the spot where her sigil was glow when Undine approached?

I suspect it will matter, at some point, that Alchemical Water has a little bit of Alchemical Aether inside her.

We shall see!

[myebi]

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[papier-ciseaux]

Masking :)

Two drawings made for Fright Night! Since children use masks to disguise themselves as monsters, I thought I would have fun with that concept

[milkycalico]

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[poorlydrawnsjsmlmao]

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to the other specimen 2:

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"HELL YEAH"

[madamlava]

"Contessa" - Sleepless Domain

[arl0bun]

gus is so underrated. he’s so goofy and i love him sm 😭

AND HIS DESIGN AT THE END OF WAD IS SO GREAT LIKE DANAAAA TYSM FOR BLESSING THIS EARTH WITH GUS

[florenceisfalling]

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[irbcallmefynn]

Some of you want to eat delectable slimes and goops and gels and it shows

Your wishes and desires are valid btw it's just very apparent you want that. What with the staring longingly at the slimes and goops and gels while licking your lips and all

[yetanothergreyjedi]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Danny Fenton & Damian Wayne Characters: Danny Fenton, Damian Wayne, Batfamily Members, Sam Manson, Tucker Foley, Bruce Wayne, Amity Park Residents (Danny Phantom), Gotham City Additional Tags: Crossover, Alternate Universe - Siblings, The League of Assassins (DCU), Amity Park Is Strange (Danny Phantom), Tags May Change Summary:

Seven years ago, Danyal Al Ghul tried to smuggle his little brother away from the assassins. He... he should've explained it better, but to be fair he wasn't expecting a knife in the back. Now, a class trip to Gotham and he meets eyes with his brother. He runs.

[volcanicmertle]

"i just asked the bartender for a tall glass of water," mertle informed the stranger, sliding up next to them at the bar top and leaning freckled forearms against the wood, tilting her chin upwards to look at him. a coy smile danced across painted lips, and she felt the crimson burn of a alcohol-infused blush decorating the apples of her cheeks complimented by the sparkle of interest in her eyes. god, mertle missed the men of hawaii but...the men of evermore seemed to satisfy her sweet tooth just as well...okay, almost as well. "instead of pouring me one... she pointed to you instead."

@fredelicious24

[lightshiningforth]

There's something exquisitely beautiful and painful about the relationships among the main characters in Sleepless Domain.

Undine. Undine has this wonderful group of friends that she grew up with, but she's also sort of stuck in this role as the soft one, the sweet one, the nice one, the supportive one. Throughout the series, she learns that she's so much more powerful and capable than she ever imagined, and she finds all of these beautiful new friendships, one of which turns into a romantic relationship. Kokoro, Zoe, Harley, Bud, Vedika... these people see her and admire her in a way that Tessa, Sylvia, Sally, and Gwen never could, because they had been friends forever and were caught in a pattern of the same old roles. There was a Tessa-Sally-Sylvia power struggle with Gwen and Undine in the background. And it's absolutely heartbreaking that Undine only gets to grow beyond that because three of her best friends die.

Kokoro. HP is so elevated and idolized that very few people see her for who she is, to the point that she goes by her magical girl name rather than her given name with most people. Cassidy, for one, puts her on a pedestal and attacks Undine while trying to defend the idea of Heartful Punch that she made up in her head. And Kokoro is rightfully furious with her for hurting Undine, the only person who meets Heartful Punch and isn't starstruck, not for a moment. Even Bud, Harley, and Vedika were fans before they were friends. Zoe is completely intimidated by her. Meanwhile, Undine sees Kokoro as she is, as a friendly dork. A friendly dork who struggles to let people in because she's so afraid of losing them. A friendly dork whose mom and aunt lost their powers for her. A friendly dork whose mom and grandparents ultimately died for her. Of course she and Undine understand each other.

Tessa. Oh, Tessa. She wants so badly to be in control, to be the center. She struggles when her friends become magical girls before her. She struggles when they try to pull away from her as a leader. When they die, she still can't pull the focus away from herself - she blames herself for their deaths and shoves Undine away, self-isolating to the point of self-destruction. She wants Undine to find a new team so that she can be safe, but how can it not hurt for Undine to find that team in another high-powered, pink, popular magical girl? Of course Goops is alluring. Goops wants her. Goops needs her. Isn't it wonderful to be needed again? Isn't it great to be back in control after everything you've ever known has shattered?

[unicosantone]

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[papier-ciseaux]

What if Goops was a Nihilego?

Bonus:

[warmfuzzyanimal]

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