No safety. No food. No aid. No water. No healthcare. No education. Is this what it means to live? Is this what world accept as life?
If a group of animals were trapped, starved, and cut off from the world like this, people would be outraged. But because it's us—human beings—somehow, the world looks away.
These are unbearable days. Everything feels heavy. Each hour presses on my chest like I’m being suffocated.
My family needs urgent help.
Basic survival has become nearly impossible. Bread—just bread—now costs over $25 a day to make.
We are not asking for luxury. We are begging for life.
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Welcome to entry five of my series: "Knowing our Arcanists"! This is a series in which I introduce and tell the stories of our fellow characters in Reverse: 1999. Today we have: Tennant!
My god, its everyone's favorite lesbian and scammer. This woman is partially why I got into Reverse: 1999 in the first place, and she's probably the reason why a good chunk of the fandom started playing during launch. But anyways, lets get started.
Ada Tennant was born in Birmingham, UK on September 8th in the 1920s. She became more active in the 40s as a notable socialite and scammer, using her arcane skill in which she's able to transform anything of lesser value (like coal) into diamonds.
She grew up as part of the House of Tennant, a famous and wealthy arcanist family in the 20s-30s. Her father, Laurence Tennant, was a senior official mineralogist who managed diamond mining, identification, and transportation for British India. For some time, Ada lived in New Delhi, India, to be close with her father.
In 1937, Laurence went missing, accused of stealing a batch of diamonds and replacing them with disguised coal through his arcane skill. Over the course of the investigation, Ada—a teenager at the time—was put under long-term surveillance by the British Indian Army for a year, before she ran away herself and disappeared in 1938.
Recently after her disappearance, there have been reports about arcanum-related thefts where batches of diamonds are being stolen and replaced with charcoal with arcane skills. Its likely that Ada had moved to Paris.
Since then, Ada started going by her family name Tennant, and has become a lot more active as a merchant and scammer. She became the talk of the town, being well-loved by many wealthy women and being an interest of many wealthy men.
It should be noted that its clear that Tennant has a higher romantic interest in women, as she's mainly flirtatious with them. She has a bit of respect for the male clients around her; at the same time, she's a gentlewoman. She knows how to please all the hearts and minds of the women around her, and is not afraid to use such to her advantage.
She attended and hosted many banquets and struck deals with many clients over time. Many left their fortunes with her, and she simply replies with her usual tricks. To successfully lie is an art, and Tennant is good at it.
Tennant is no doubt very charming and a very well-mannered person. She's skilled in her social capabilities and can talk and flirt her way to people's desires. But don't let such make you disregard her humility. She holds value to her "humble" beginnings and her own worth as a person, having a bit less care for luxury when it comes to human connection.
Despite this, she knows luxury when she sees it, and will leave a comment or two about it as she's knowledgeable on the subject. Her knowledge brings her quite far, knowing when to compliment or when to give advice for those who share her sense of style.
She's also a clean person, being considerate of the people around her, and maintains her health and style to be at its best. These won't prevent her for carrying a gun for obvious reasons, but she'll handle it and her clothes with care.
At the same time, you also can't let Tennant's flattery fool you. She's incredibly clever and deceptive, making intricate ways to scam others and leave with no trace. She'll be impressed when one can figure her out, maybe a bit disappointed when her tricks fail.
But overall, her intentions are difficult to predict and read. If she can find that one shares the same skill level as her, she'll also be quite impressed of such capability.
Speaking of which, Tennant is not very easy to manipulate back, as she will do anything to find the very truth she'll want to know. Whether she will sweet-talk into your heart, or break it for you to see the consequences.
I made a joke about Tennant seeing a potential accomplice/asset in Vertin, but it doesn't seem off the mark. Although, this ties back into the themes of masks that the Fool brought up. Tennant wears different masks to draw in ladies and deceive others in her schemes (and probably to protect herself too but that's more of an HC). Vertin's mask is a stoic one to help her deal with the Storm and the chaos around it.
BUT the lowering the hat thing when you're "vulnerable" is something Vertin already does. She tilts her hat over her eyes to hide her face when she's upset/frustrated. She's a natural.
Drawing every playable Reverse 1999 character until Dikke gets her own anime 1/82
I know doing Vertin or Sonetto first would be more logical but ehhhh. Anyways Dikke! She’s probably my favorite character in the whole game. What can I say I like morally ambiguous women with sexy voices (Tennant my love) I made her look older than her in game counterpart and I gave her high cheekbones and a bit of a crooked nose. I’m not sure how well I pulled them off as I am very much still learning how to draw different types of features :_) so any constructive criticism is welcome.
Since I’m not doing them in order you can comment any character you want me to draw next :) though I’ll probably release a poll later on today.
I love dikke even more after her anecdote, I can't explain it, I just really like how they portrayed her character. She's confident? Like she was able to do a lot with assistance and she managed to find the culprits in a day or so (I was getting confused with the many timeskips).
Like she if that guy wasn't faithful, it was between the Lord and not a judge who wanted justice at the moment. She was fair to arcanists and humans and treats them exactly the same(this has angst potential I can see it I swear).
She strives for justice, even the psychube is about justice, she's the embodiment of justice and will get out of her way to keep that and reveal the truth if it meant to do something unethical.
I love the fact she reminds me of a strict mentor but still nice to be with, maybe when she kept getting amused at the people who tried to sway her or fear her in some type of way thinking that could keep them away from punishment.
And she's 19, literally going around and to find the truth of the case, maybe even younger if the time was before that age. It's very impressive that she is clear headed compared to the elder, who is supposedly wise, and makes sure she doesn't stray from her end goal.
I just wanted to share my thoughts since I really like her character even if I suck at explaining, and the anecdote really solidifies her as one of my favorites and gave me a good laugh.
I'm absolutely not tagging this, if you see this and manage to read all the way here, thank you for hearing my very not so in depth analysis. I love her so much ugh.
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