Name: Tess Skylar
Nickname: Argounova (her hacker handle)
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Sexual orientation: Pansexual
Appearance: Stands 5' 7” and weighs 121 pounds. Brown hair and brown eyes. Measurements are 34C-23-33. Wears solid dark colors.
Strengths: Highly analytical and very well educated. Brilliant computer programmer and hacker. Fluent in English, German, and Russian. Stays fit by training in kickboxing.
Weaknesses: A lack of empathy and an impatience with social norms can make her come across as cold and rude. Her desire to acquire information can be obsessive and make her ignore everything else.
Likes: Information, new technology, independence, breaking the rules.
Dislikes: Any attempts to limit her, anything she might consider frivolous or distracting. This varies depending on how intensely she is focused on a project.
Kinks: Exhibitionism, voyeurism, sadomasochism, anal, gangbangs, choking, watersports, bestiality. The more “taboo” something is the more she likes it.
Personality: Tess considers herself both an Objectivist and a libertarian. She strongly believes in personal freedom and distrusts the government. She has little regard for laws and social norms that she considers restricting her individual liberty. Tess can be arrogant, elitist, self-absorbed, and insensitive. On the other hand, she rarely acts out of malice. Her greatest love is the acquisition of knowledge.
Bio: Born in Palmdale, California, to a middle class family, Tess Skylar was a very bright child with an intense desire to learn all she could. Reading Ayn Rand when she was eight years old helped shaped her personal philosophy. Tess graduated high school when she was sixteen and earned degrees in computer science, economics, and political science when she was nineteen from Stamford University. While in college she grew impatient with existing search engines and developed her own called SkyLook. Tess also created a social networking site initially to stay in contact with other academics she named SkyLog. She decided to release these to the public and was able to monetize them, starting a company dubbed SkyWare Industries. Both sites proved highly successful and Tess was worth just over a billion dollars before she was thirty. In addition to being a wealthy entrepreneur, Tess was also a notorious hacker. Calling herself “Argounova” after the protagonist of Rand's
We the Living, she uncovered many dirty secrets of the government and leaked them to the media. Recently Tess's resources informed of an experiment attempting to give paranormal her abilities to humans. Such profound knowledge was irresistible to her and Tess offered both her money as funding and her body as a subject.