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! Introduction 
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{{Tab}She spent so much of her childhood looking for a door to another world, and when one finally appeared she didn't want to go at all.
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! Description
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{{Tab}}A small white teenage girl with brown hair usually worn in a pixie cut and uncommonly bright green eyes. At just under 5ft, she's yet to really hit the stride of her growth, which, together with her inclination toward boyish clothes and enthusiastic affect tend to make many think she is a younger child.
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! Reputation
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{{Tab}}None so far, though among the Tessiers' various social circles she is likely soon to be known as some weird parallel universe copy of the "real" Sera Tessier, who died a few years ago. 
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! History
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{{Tab}}Seraphine is the youngest of five children -- Matthieu, Lucien, Desirée, Gaétan being the others -- born to Elie Tessier in a reality very much -- but not ''quite!'' -- like this one. She had a comfortable and uneventful childhood with family in Queens. Both her parents were steadfast and dedicated, and her two eldest brothers, though no longer at home, stayed deeply involved with their lives. Sera was unquestionably spoiled, but managed to come out of it without an obvious sense of entitlement to the doting she received. As she grew, it became difficult to ignore that much of her family had a ruthless streak that she did not share, a realization that caused her much difficult.

{{Tab}}Outside the rosy bubble of the life her family lovingly constructed around her, though, their world was falling into turmoil. The escalating public antipathy and attendant government policies against mutants, in particular, threatened the Tessiers. Sera's mother and all of her siblings are mutants, but between the ease of hiding most their mutations and the ''temporal'' power which her brothers Matthieu and Lucien had steadily amassed over the years, the family remained, for the time being, relatively safe.

{{Tab}}They -- mostly Lucien -- used their position of relative stability and privilege to provide clandestine assistance to the underground mutant resistance movement. One of Sera's closest friends, Spencer Holland, became a resistance fighter himself despite his young age, and remained in regular contact with her even beyond the assistance he received from her family. Things were tense for a time, but still not too bad for the Tessiers themselves.

{{Tab}}And then, about a year ago, Sera's mutation manifested. Given the family's genetic tendencies it did not come as that much of a surprise, but its sheer sweeping power and difficulty to conceal caught the Tessiers off-guard. They pulled her out of school so that she would not give herself away in a moment of excitement or distress. Between her older siblings' respective powers and experience managing the same, they have been teaching to control her own. She had just begun to harbor hope that she might be able to return to something like her normal life again, such as it is.

{{Tab}}In December of 2020, however, the appearance of an interdimensional rift and subsequently interdimensional travelers threw the Tessiers' lives into chaos once again. One night, overhearing a conversation between her brothers and hoping to be of use, Sera passed some information to Spencer upon his next visit and set him on the path to rescuing a group of dimensionally displaced children. Little did she know, the straits they were in had been the result of her brothers' machinations to begin with, and Lucien had struck a deal with his counter part -- and Matthieu's -- on the other side of the rift: if he returned ''their'' Gaétan to them safely, they would take in ''his'' Sera.

Once this plan was in motion, Lucien persuaded Sera that there were forces moving on their family which would target her and, in turn, put them all in danger. Though terrified and anguished at the prospect of leaving her family and her entire world behind, she agreed to it in hopes of helping to keep her loved ones safe. She packed in secret and left with Spencer without so much as a goodbye to any other member of her family. Meeting the interdimensional counterparts of her siblings has been painful and jarring and her powers have not helped her transition in the least, but Sera is determined to take her new life by the horns and find -- or make -- some joy for herself and everyone in it.
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! Powers
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{{Tab}}Sera's power may appear at first flush to be some kind empathic influence, but is in fact a form of sympathetic biochemical manipulation. Her power senses and changes the neurochemistry of those within its range, forming both stable and unstable feedback loops with them. These feedback loops occur automatically without her conscious input, and while she is capable of guiding or forcing them certain directions she cannot ''break'' them. In other words, any biochemical change she produces in another, her power also creates in herself, and vice versa.

{{Tab}}The nature of the changes, whether intentional or otherwise, are intuitively accessible to Sera, although this does not grant her abstract contextual knowledge she does not otherwise possess. She can recognize and recreate joy, pain, sleep, or even hallucinations, for example, but might not be able to accurately diagnose an obscure neurological condition she had never encountered (she could replicate its effects, but would probably have a great deal of difficulty trying to describe it in words).

{{Tab}}Changes which are consonant with existing neurological tendencies (conscious or otherwise) are easier to produce, while "unnatural" changes are more difficult. The conscious cooperation, if applicable, of whose within the feedback loop also make it easier for her to produce changes. The range of this power is variable and can be consciously pulled in as near as touch or pushed as far out as 50ft, though her control over this is at present very crude and it default to a few fluctuating feet around her. It functions continuously -- including while she is unconscious -- unless deliberately suppressed (also currently beyond her skill for more than a few seconds at a time).

{{Tab}}Her skill at managing this immensely complex and frankly overwhelming power is rudimentary at present and she often slips into automatically syncing her own neurochemical processing (most obvious in terms of emotional and physical state) to those around her. Without conscious guidance this is often jarring as her power struggles to reconcile ''all'' those it has pulled into its feedback loop. She can overtax her power, though what conditions produce this problem are highly variable, based on the number of brains she has looped in, the complexity of the changes she has undertaken, and the degree to which all those in her loops (consciously or unconsciously) attempt to resist the changes. Overtaxing leads to progressively worse irritability, headaches, and eventually seizures and loss of consciousness (yes, those also loop others in range).
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! Skills
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{{Tab}}Sera is enthusiastic about learning but not necessarily so great on follow-through. As such she has accumulated much familiarity with a wide range of hobbies -- archery, chess, painting, knitting, pottery, to list a few -- but very little proficiency with any of them. Her most enduring passion is reading, and she is ''is'' in fact very proficient at creative writing in her dual native languages of English and French.
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! Connections
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'''Friends'''
* Coming soon.

'''Foes'''
* Coming soon.

'''And everything in between'''
* Coming soon.
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! Trivia
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*Random facts you think are worth knowing about your character.
*And more random facts!
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! Seraphine Tessier
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Codename'''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| None
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Birthdate'''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| 9 March, 2007
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Birthplace'''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| Queens, NY, in another dimension
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Species'''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| Mutant
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Affiliation'''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| Tessier(?)
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Alignment'''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| None
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Powers'''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| Sympathetic neurochemical adjustment
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Occupation'''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| Student/Dimensional refugee
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Registration Status'''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| (currently n/a)
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Faceclaim'''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| Millie Bobby Brown
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