Tessa

Tessa is a member of the Electroclan. She escaped from the Elgen at the Peru Starxource plant and live in the amazon jungle with the indigenous tribe called the Amacarra. She joined the Electroclan after the Amacarra rescued Michael from the Elgen and brought them together.

Abilities

 * Tessa's abilities are opposite Nichelle's—she is able to enhance the powers of the other electric children. She is also able to sense the other glows by their power, similar to the way Ian can see people’s glow, but with scent instead of sight. (She specifically mentioned that she can ‘smell’ others powers.)

Description
Tessa is described as a pretty young woman with dark red hair and freckles. One would assume she has darker skin due to living in the jungle for so long, with so much exposure to the sun.

Part 1
After being rescued from the jungle by the Amacarra, Michael meets Tessa, who is an electric girl living with the Amacarra tribe. At the time, Tessa was still going by the name given to her by Hatch, Tesla, but upon Michael's suggestion, she changes it back to Tessa. She calls it her 'declaration of independence.'

Tessa explains her powers to Michael, describing them as 'the opposite of Nichelle.' Instead of sucking away electrical powers, Tessa enhances them. She then tells Michael that using the Weekend Express she escaped the Peruvian Starxource compound, where Hatch was using her to amplify the electricity generated by the plant through the rats, just as Michael had. She had been at the Peruvian compound for over two years. The Amacarra took her in post her escape and she's lived with them for about 6 months before she met Michael.

Tessa tells Michael about the Elgen's fleet of ships. She described it as 'practically a whole navy' and elaborated upon that saying that 'it's where they ( the Elgen ) live. If they lived in any real country, they'd probably be arrested. So they made their own country.' Tessa tells Michael that she had seen only two of the ships, the Ampere, where the Elgen bosses lived and the Volta, the Science boat which the Elgen used for their most secret experiments.

Tessa invites Michael into her hut which Michael calls nicer than the one he'd stayed in. When Tessa asks Michael about the other electric girl who the Elgen hadn't found, upon hearing Michael say Taylor's name, she guesses that he likes Taylor. After talking for a while, Tessa reveals that she knows all of the glows who had been with Hatch. She has an odd reaction upon hearing Zeus's name. Tessa is extremely shocked when she finds out that Michael stopped Nichelle stating that 'No one's ever stopped Nichelle.'

Tessa has a mother-daughter relationship with an old Amacarra tribeswoman, Aigei. Tessa calls her muchin which means mother. Since Tessa was taken away from her real mother when she was only nine, Aigei is the only parent figure she has. Just before leaving the tribe with Michael, AIgei embraces Tessa and gives her one of her necklaces, a long string of bright red seeds. The two hugged once again before parting. Tessa says 'I will never forget you, Mama.'

Tessa is initially suspicious of Jaime. She is shaken after the incident with the Elgen guards. After Michael rescues Tessa, Jaime and himself from them, Tessa calls him clever. Before sleeping that night, she thanks Michael for saving her life. The next morning, Tessa is extremely sleepy and despite Jaime and Michael's best attempt's is hesitant to wake up. Frustrated, Jaime says 'You can sleep after you are dead' and upon seeing Michael's reaction to it asks if it wasn't an American thing to say.

Michael notes that Tessa is stronger than she looks. In spite of her difficulty getting up, she kept walking on while they tried to get to their spot on the mountain. After Jaime says it, the line 'You can sleep after you're dead' becomes somewhat an inside joke between the three, with Tessa and Michael using it on multiple occasions. She enjoys the castana bread Jaime gives them for breakfast. Tessa seems to be a foodie and enjoys food a lot.

Upon finding out that his friends had been captured, Michael insists on finding a way to rescue them, but Tessa and Jaime are not convinced, causing Michael to say that he didn't need them for it. Tessa apologizes but says that it wasn't her fight, which Michael doesn't understand, saying that it was her world too and the Elgen were trying to take it.

Part 2
Part 2 follows the rest of the Electroclan who have been captured by the Peruvian government. They do not know about Tessa being with Michael, hence she isn't mentioned.

Part 3
Part 3 follows Hatch and his electric kids. They don't mention Tessa, but mention the Tesla, a ship in the Elgen fleet which shares Tessa's previous name.


 * After Ostin explains the history behind the Apache Airlines logo and symbol on the hangar and their connection to Douglas, Arizona, Tessa pessimistically connects the story to the potential end of the resistance. McKenna states Tessa is supposed to enhance their powers, not diminish them.
 * As everyone is exiting the plan, Tessa threatens to punch Ostin, and McKenna defends him.