Posted on 2026-03-07 20:34:24
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Tessa James Elliott, a girl I can relate to. Ive been where she was, I lost my home to monsters long ago, and now, I know what its like to worry if youre still even human on the inside. But shes as human as you can get if you ask me. Even if shes an undead technopath. She just wanted some peace, a place to hide, and to protect the Drones she found from the thing that ate her world, but after I found them and helped her out, she settled down in Traverse Town for a new life.



Of course, she got into dancing too, apparently picking it up from two of her Drones, Doll and Uzi, who tried using it to hypnotize her. Guess it worked too well because she coaxed them into teaching her a few moves. She was interested in performing with me, but her own anxiety made it a bit difficult. She asked if I could help with that, and I could guess what she meant.



I know a few ways of hypnotizing someone, but to keep the theme going, I just danced for her, using my hips as a pendulum. She fell under pretty quickly, maybe shes just conditioned from her lessons with Doll and Uzi. Her eyes filled with swirls and a big smile crept across her face, and with a few words, I made her anxieties take a backseat. She was pretty eager to follow my lead on this.



I asked her to get an outfit that she felt comfortable in, and the end results were a skimpy, black top with some laces holding it together, loose arm-warmers, and puffy pants that mostly hid her metallic legs, along with a bigger bow in the back of her head. It did a good job showing off her curvy figure, and she seemed pretty proud of it, a short beauty if ever youve seen one. Then again, I didnt gain much height growing up either.



We went onstage together, a whole audience of Drones watching in excitement, and Tessa started off following my lead, trying to bop her hips in sync with mine, but even with hypnosis, she was a bit off-beat. Nothing to be ashamed of, but I had a back-up trigger just in case this wasnt her specialty. Without stopping my dance, I raised my hands in the air, clapped my hands, and glimpsed as she just froze for a second, before moving again on instinct, this time in her own way.



She shimmied her hips with a kind of energy that really fit Tessas hyper personality, and she kept her hands on her waist the whole time to give a feel of confidence. She would then raise her arms above her head and raise one leg in the air, showing how flexible she was to the Drones as swirls filled their eye-screens. But the moment she brought foot(?) back down, thats when her true power showed itself.



One big, metal thud on the stage and shadows formed around her, taking the shape of some Drones, four to be exact. Two feminine ones danced to her sides with swirls in their eyes, one with pigtails and another with a shorter haircut, but a bigger bust. As they mirrored Tessas moves perfectly, the two other shadows behind them took the form of a slightly more masculine Drone and a shorter girlish one, playing a flute and drums respectively. Tessa and her shadowy back-up had the whole crowd hooked, even Doll and Uzi watched, deeply entranced by their technopathic queen.



Eventually, the show ended, the shadows dissipated after taking a final bow with Tessa, and she snapped out of her trance at the sound of the Drones applauding. The whole performance gave her a headrush, she couldnt believe she just did all that.



But it really excited her and she wanted to try it again.



Sora