Tzeitel Nussbaum

Gender: Female

Age: 24

Group: Meta - Fugitive

Game: Dangerous Consequences

Superpower (If Applicable)

Tzeitel can manipulate people- usually through emotions- by expressing pheremones. The closer she is to a target the stronger the effect, she has not yet learned how to isolate targets so anyone nearby will be affected. Her powers are most effective when the target does not know what she is doing, though even when people do know what she is doing they will still feel something. Whether or not they act on these manipulated emotions depends on their own will-power.
Tzeitel’s powers are not infinite, she can and does get tired if her powers are overused for an extended period without rest.

1/31/2023
With the help of Colt, a wind user, Tzeitel is able to target individuals with her pheromones.

5/1/2023
Tzeitel has gotten her complete MegaCorps file and is beginning to better understand how her powers work and what she actually can do with them.

6/3/2023
Tzeitel has learned to excrete something similar to pheromones in an oily substance through the glands on her arms. One of these ‘pheromone oils’ can temporarily make a person immune to her pheromones if absorbed through their skin. The other pheromone oils act similarly to the airborne pheromones, just instead of having to be the center of them she can apply them to objects and people.

Useful Skills

Good at reading body language and expressions, detecting emotions of others.
Some basic self defense.

1/31/2023 Update:
Tzeitel now knows how to use a crossbow and is quite good at it.


5/1/2023
Has learned ASL

6/3/2023
More skilled with crossbow, firearms and self defense.

Rank/Title (If Applicable)

Formerly: Capture Team- “Distraction”

“Mom” to Cody

Physical Appearance

5’6”, 136 pounds, muscular
Unusually large black eyes. Curly brown hair, usually tied back. White skin.
Many scars including “GCS” branded on her right bicep but this is usually covered by her a sleeve.
A government issued collar she can’t remove herself.

1/31/2023
No more collar though noticeable scars left behind by it on her neck.
She usually wears long pants and sleeves to hide her many scars.

5/31/2023
An eerie resemblance to Lily-Rose Depp

6/23/2023
Wears T-shirts now, but still keeps the GCS brand covered.

1/20/2024
While healing Tzeitel of the injuries she suffered from Cholt, Cody healed nearly every single one of Tzeitel's scars. Where the GCS brand once was on Tzeitel's bicep is now only a rippled burn scar from Jaxon. On her thigh are scars in the shape of the letters "NT".

Personality and interests

Fidgety, anxious, a repressed fury thanks to PTSD but Tzeitel is not a confrontational person. She wants to fit in but she has limits.

5/1/2023
Thanks to her friends and therapy Tzeitel has been getting better. PTSD does not just go away but she has much better control over her anxiety. It has been months since the last time she panicked and lost control of her powers. She has even gotten control over her nightmares.
Fiercely protective of her ‘kids’, Ami and Cody.
Tzeitel does not tolerate being treated like shit anymore.

6/3/2023
Years of therapy has done a lot for Tzeitel. Of course it's not like the trauma never happened, when under a lot of stress she's more prone to anxiety, flashbacks, nightmares. But she is a lot stronger than she was, not the same stuttering girl who would lose control of her powers when she first escaped MegaCorp. She still has weekly sessions with Leimomi.

6/23/2023
Has been struggling against relapsing for a while, probably because Ami is the same age she was when she was sold to MegaCorp. Learning that Canestone has been cloned has made it even harder.

1/20/2024
After Thrane and now Cholt Tzeitel is struggling.
Cody healed most of Tzeitel's physical scars, they had been such a part of Tzeitel's identity for so long she's struggling to come to terms with the change in her appearance.

History

Tzeitel came from poverty with abusive parents.
Her powers manifested when she was 11. She had barely begun to understand that she even had powers and what she could do, mostly just used it to keep her parents from beating her, before some shady characters showed up at her home. Her own parents had turned her in after realizing that she had powers after suddenly not feeling violent too many times midbeating.
After growing up as a captive of MegaCorp the teenaged Tzeitel gained some freedom by joining the capture team. She had such a broken family she looked to the organization as a place to fit in, She usually used her powers to distract a target or lower their guard so the others on her team could capture them. She was more than a little conflicted about helping capture others like herself, but being so young she convinced herself that they were better off safely captured than trying to survive on their own, or that they were too dangerous to be free.
Gary Canestone was definitely too dangerous to be free, besides having powerful skin manipulation powers he is a cruel serial killer. Tzeitel probably could have taken him on a good day, but she had a busy week helping capture others and an exceptionally powerful psychic the day before being assigned to the team going after Canestone and she still had not recovered. The team leader wanted Tzeitel to get as close as possible to Canestone and blast him with “disarming pheromones” so the rest of the team could tranq him, on a good day it might have worked but Tzeitel was tired and it did not help that Canestone was paranoid and only grew more paranoid when he felt Tzeitel trying to manipulate his emotions. Canestone made his skin so hard that the tranquilizer darts only bounced off of him, then Canestone knocked her out and killed half of the capture team. When Tzeitel woke up she was Canestone’s captive in one of Caenstone’s lairs. She spent three days expecting to die at any moment- either at Canestone’s hands or her collar- and being tortured by Canestone before another capture team tracked them down. By then Tzeitel’s powers had been restored, Canestone had gotten to the point where he thought she was broken and not going to fight anymore and had lowered his guard to her so she was able to manipulate his emotions so the capture team could fire on him- to her disappointment they used tranquilizer darts instead of bullets.
Tzietel was furious that they captured Canestone alive. Besides what he had done to her she had seen his grisly collections of trophies of victims that had not survived. Tzietel had been well rewarded for her part in Canestone’s capture, but all Tzietel wanted was Canestone dead so he couldn’t hurt anyone again. Yet the organization was planning to get Canestone on their side to use his powers for their own means. Tzietzel no longer has any faith in the organization and has been starting to look for a way out. She has also begun working out so the next time her powers fail her she won’t be defenseless. She is suffering from untreated PTSD.

12/21/2022 Update
Recently escaped MegaCorps with another meta on her capture team. Teitel no longer wears a collar. Tzeitel has had an interesting time fighting to remain free, and has learned she has a younger sister and has very recently rescued her.

1/31/2023
A lot has happened.
She killed Canestone. Unfortunately Loreen the “bitcher” revived him and he is stronger than ever.
She found out that she had a friend in the distance while in MegaCorps, the wind user Colt who was able to resist her pheromones and protected her when he could. He had killed the soldiers that found her after Canestone because of the way they joked about her and were going to treat her. Colt had very strong feelings towards Tzeitel, she did not feel the same way towards him but cherishes their friendship. Tzeitel got a lot of pressure from her friends to give Colt a chance, and she did try even though she is not ready for that kind of relationship and does not think she will ever be interested in such a relationship with anyone. She was worried when Colt hooked up with Feng because Feng has been an enemy and she did not want Colt to get hurt. But since Colt has been open about genuinely being in love with Feng Tzeitel is hopeful that he’ll be happy, and relieved to have that pressure off of her. She still loves him as a friend.
Tzeitel has been in therapy for her PTSD with Dr Chi. She is getting better but has been less than complately open with her therapist.

5/1/2023
Dr Chi was murdered. When Tzeitel got a new meta therapist, Leimomi, she promised herself to not waste time. She has been much more open with Leimomi and they have covered a lot of ground. Tzeitel feels like she’s getting pieces of herself back.
Canestone is dead. Hopefully for good this time, his body was burned.
Tzeitel got her complete MegaCorps file and learned that MegaCorps had erased her memory on multiple occasions. It turns out that she and Klaire had been friends and tried to escape MegaCorps together several times but neither remember it.
Tzeitel was kidnapped by Klaire’s evil uncle, Thrane. He used her as bait to distract Riley to murder Klaire’s father. Tzeitel is still coming to grips on this.

6/3/2023
We moved ahead by years so... more history coming soon.

6/23/2023
Tzeitel used her pheromones to make Cain kill himself after he betrayed Megan (and kidnapped her kids).
Tzeitel has been traveling with her friends for about five years, ever since the Meta Village fell.
She has very recently learned that Canestone has been cloned.

9/21/2023
Tzeitel learned that Colt still has feelings for her - after he kissed her. Things are still really awkward between them.
Klaire gave Tzeitel and early 'Christmas present', a new crossbow with special sharp bolts that can pierce even Canestone's hardened skin.
A Loreen clone, Anastasia, has been taken in by the Scooby Gang. Naturally Tzeitel was suspicious of her, but after learning from Klaire that Anastasia smells differently from the original Loreen, and that Loreen was used by one of the Canestone clones (Clonestone), Tzeitel has softened towards her.
Tzeitel, with help from Klaire and other friends, killed one of the Canestone clones (Clonestone) but still struggled with relapsing.
Tzeitel recently found out that she has a bullet lodged in her neck. It has been there for around ten years, she had been shot during a failed escape attempt. MegaCorp erased her memory of trying to escape and being shot.
The other Canestone clone (Caneclone) has been captured by the Meta Underground. Tzeitel tried to kill him, but was stopped by Lola, Klaire and Riley (because Caneclone has not hurt anyone), leading to Tzeitel cussing out Riley. Caneclone is still in the Underground, somewhere.
Colt was used by a female Canestone clone (Femstone) Tzeitel has not had time to process this.
Tzeitel, along with Ami, was abducted by Thrane and Jaxon. Thrane had sent Ami back to the Underground (Tzeitel has been told this by Thrane, she hopes he is telling the truth) in return for taking Colt. Zero told Tzeitel that Thrane plans to impregnate her with Colt's child. Tzeitel does not want to get pregnant (in the past five years she has tried birth control pills but stopped due to side effects. She had considered other forms of birth control but was worried about side effects and doesn't want anything in her body. She was serious about getting a surgery to prevent pregnancy but did not thin she had enough time to recover so has not had it done. Tzeitel is asexual but meta females are raped often enough for this to be a legitimate fear) and is completely terrified. She has been locked in a soft room with Fredriki and Nea, who happen to be Thrane's daughters and have been used for 'making monsters', though Fredriki had miscarried every time and this is Nea's first time. Fredriki has been taken away.

1/20/2024
Tzeitel and Nea were rescued from Thrane's 'soft room' by Riley, James and Piritta. It was a long trip back to the Meta Underground where Riley had to keep Tzeitel from hurting herself by her attempted on road abortions. Tzeitel was happily reunited with Ami and Cody. She was afraid to see Klaire because she did not think Klaire would be her friend anymore if she got an abortion- but was relieved to learn that she was not pregnant- she never was pregnant.
Tzeitel has adopted Ami's friend Nine, a fox-eared boy.
Tzeitel was doing really well during Ami's birthday party.
Unfortunately Tzeitel was abducted by Cholt, Colt's clone, who tortured and raped her on a video that was sent to everyone associated with the Underground. She met her daughter Yrsa- a test tube child created by Thrane using her egg and Colt's sperm.
Tzeitel and Yrsa were sent back to the Meta Underground where medics and Frisk tried to treat Tzeitel- but Tzeitel was mad from pain and being violated by her oldest friend and was bent on attacking Colt when she saw him. Piritta stopped her. Ami was so distressed by seeing Tzeitel in such a state that she touched Tzeitel and used her powers more deeply than she had ever used them before- absorbing every bit of information connected to Tzeitel including the erased memories. This overload caused Ami to have a seizure.
This was when the Underground was attacked. Megan and Ryan took Ami, Cody, Nine and Yrsa, while Tzeitel escaped with Frisk, Drizzt, Ap, Juno and Razor.
Tzeitel was brought to a Meta Underground warehouse, it was only supposed to be a temporary stop while Frisk got her stabilized but a blizzard struck. Tzeitel has learned that James was killed, though has not gotten all the details yet so besides her own problems she is worried about Klaire and her godchildren. Of course she has been nearly frantic with worry about Ami. A strange side effect of Ami using so much of her powers on Tzeitel has caused Tzeitel to be able to separate herself from the alternate timeline where James was a rapist, she can remember it but no longer as strongly as before. Ironically this happens only after James was lynched for a false confession of rape and Tzeitel feels guilty for how she treated him.
While talking to Cody on a borrowed phone, Tzeitel could not hide how much pain she was in so Cody braved the storm to reach her (Abe drove) with Nine and Ami. Ami used her new insight on why Tzeitel is the way she is to talk her sister into allowing Cody to heal her. Ami had filled many notebooks trying to make sense of the information overload, and Tzeitel has looked at them. Seeing drawings Ami made of Tzeitel and Klaire concerning the erased memories have given Tzeitel flickers of memory- more of feelings and emotions- Tzeitel is afraid of what these drawings will unlock inside her.
Tzeitel has talked to Klaire about all that has happened. Tzeitel does realize on some level that it was not Colt who hurt her- that it must be a clone- but is not ready to see Colt yet. She does not know what to think of having a daughter either.
Cody was brought to the Farm to treat Riven and Gregor. While he was gone Tzeitel took a shower- and was shocked- horrified even- to see that most of her scars were gone. When Cody returned Tzeitel confronted Cody, worried about Cody harming himself from overusing his powers. Even after being assured by Cody and Frisk that Cody was okay she was still upset, comments from Ami making her realize she was upset because she had been seeing her scars as part of herself. She tearfully thanked Cody for healing her.

For Tzeitel's "Dark History" (so far) see messages 89, 2, 3, 4, 6, 11, 19 and 26

Favourite Sayings

Are you sure that is how you really feel?

Favourite food

Grilled cheese with peanut butter.

Anything else?

Has an uncle, Campbell Brantley, an anti-meta politician who wants to sterilize all metas and put them on work camps. Of course he is a meta himself.

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This character is owned by: LW