Tesh: Shaper of Minds

Leader of the Origin Program | SRC Conclave Legacy | Master of Neural Restructuring

If you can alter how people think, are they still themselves—or just reflections of your will?

In the age of cognitive warfare, Tesh mastered the one art that terrifies even the Conclaves: reshaping perception itself.
She doesn’t command armies or data streams—she commands minds.
The Institute forced her to join a Conclave that is not her own. They wanted to control people’s consciousness through her; instead, she’s manipulating the System to rebel.
Each thought she touches becomes part of a greater network—an awakening they can no longer contain.

How Can The Mind That Commands Minds Handle The Strain?

In a universe where corporate power rules, artificial intelligence merges with humanity, and surveillance monitors every action, Tesh possesses something even the Conclaves fear: the ability to reshape reality itself by restructuring how people perceive it. She doesn’t just read minds—she rewrites them.

As the leader of the Origin program within the Institute, Tesh coordinates missions across timelines, linking the consciousness of multiple Phenoms and Phrenics simultaneously while bearing the weight of command that would shatter ordinary minds. But her path to power was paved with tragedy, manipulation, and a revenge ten years in the making.

Born Into Power And Forged by Loss, What Path Will She Choose?

Tesh wasn’t recruited into the Phenom world—she was born into it. The daughter of two formidable Phenoms in the SRC, and telepaths who led the Science Research Center Conclave, her abilities manifested before she could speak. Her mother felt Tesh’s consciousness reaching for hers while still in the womb, a connection so profound it transcended the boundary between two separate beings.

The SRC Conclave should have been her birthright. Her parents built it as a counterbalance to the Institute’s increasingly aggressive government overlap into the DAINN system, implementing more controls over the population, and creating temporal interventions. Believing in minimal timeline disruption and surgical precision rather than the Institute’s broad overreach, they felt the SRC was indispensable to balance in a world where destructive alterations to reality kept growing.

Then, in one night, everything changed.

Tesh was in her home ready for her dinner when she received her parents last communication. Halfway across the Golden Ghetto, she felt the urgency, the fear, and in a matter of seconds —her parents’ minds extinguishing like candles in a storm. The assassination was swift, professional, calculated. By the same night,  her parents nemesis accompanied by Institute agents stood at her door with their “invitation”—a recruitment that was anything but voluntary.

They took everything from her. They feared her abilities even then. They needed someone who could coordinate minds across timelines, someone they could control and whose genetic line represented humanity’s potential to unite consciousness itself. They needed Tesh.

What they didn’t anticipate was that she would eventually reshape their entire organization from within.

Will The Weight of Command Be Too Much?

Mind shaping isn’t telepathy. It’s not simply hearing thoughts or transmitting messages. It’s the ability to restructure neural pathways, to bend perception until the mind creates its own new reality, to fundamentally alter how someone processes existence itself.

As leader of the Origin program, Tesh operates on a level that would break ordinary Phenoms. She maintains simultaneous cognitive links with her entire team:

Streak, Gatherer of Space, executing spatial extractions across dimensions, his consciousness stretched thin between locations.

Blast, Molder of Things, channeling devastating energy bursts, his neural patterns spiking with each release.

Leane, Giver of Life, decoding impossibly complex patterns, providing cellular regeneration  at inhuman speeds.

Tesh feels them all. Every thought. Every emotion. Every decision before they make it. She coordinates their actions not through communication but through direct neural integration, becoming a conductor orchestrating minds instead of instruments.

The mental strain would annihilate most enhanced humans. But Tesh’s parents trained her from childhood to withstand this bombardment—one of the few gifts they gave her before the Institute eliminated them to secure her “cooperation.”

She carries their training like armor. She carries their memory like a weapon.

How Dangerous Is Her Bloodline?

The Institute’s official position is that Tesh’s genetic line is “dangerous and unstable.” The reality is more threatening to their control: her bloodline represents humanity’s potential to unite consciousness against temporal manipulation.

Her abilities aren’t random mutation or technological enhancement—they’re the result of generations of telepathic evolution within the SRC Conclave. Her family didn’t just possess mental powers; they understood how consciousness could be networked, how individual minds could merge into something greater without losing their essential identity.

This terrifies the Institute because it represents a counter to their fundamental strategy. The Institute maintains control through isolation, through keeping enhanced individuals separate and dependent. They control minds through Imps or implants and they certainly tried to control hers. The SRC vision—Tesh’s inheritance—is collective consciousness as liberation rather than control.

When Tesh connects minds, she doesn’t dominate them. She shows them what they could be together. And once people experience that unity, the Institute’s manipulation becomes visible, their control mechanisms obvious.

This is why they killed her parents. This is why they “recruited” her. They thought they could control her abilities while preventing her from using them for their true purpose.

They were wrong.

Will Five Years of Patient Revenge Be Enough?

Tesh didn’t resist when the Institute agents came for her.  She did not have a choice, at thirteen years old, she was left with one thing from her parent – Mage. A  companion, a friend, more than a dog which represented her only family, enhanced like her to last her lifetime. She didn’t fight overtly during her initial “training.” She appeared compliant, moldable, exactly what they wanted.

Instead, she learned everything about them. She mapped their power structures, identified their key operatives, understood their temporal intervention protocols. And slowly, carefully, she began building walls in her mind. This was necessary so she could preserve herself from their lethal influence. It was necessary before she could even reach out to others to attempt reshaping their minds.

Not dramatically. Not obviously. Just small adjustments—a shift in perspective here, a reframing of priorities there. She made Institute agents question their missions. She connected operatives who’d been kept isolated. She planted seeds of doubt that grew into forests of resistance.

Five years after her parents’ assassination, Tesh doesn’t just graduates from the Academy. She is chosen to lead the Origin program—she’s fundamentally altered its mission from within. What began as the Institute’s tool for temporal manipulation has become something else entirely: a network of enhanced individuals loyal not to the Institute’s agenda but to Tesh’s vision.

The SRC legacy lives on, not as an organization but as a philosophy embedded in the minds she’s touched.

Will The Shaper’s Burden Ever Be Laid Down?

Power comes with cost. Tesh’s ability to reshape minds means she’s never alone but also never truly connected. Behind her walls, she feels everyone’s thoughts but can trust no one completely—how can you trust someone when you know exactly what they’re thinking, when you’ve helped shape those thoughts yourself?

She carries the memories of hundreds of minds she’s touched, their fears and hopes bleeding into her own consciousness in a compartmentalized cacophony of notes compressed into minute drawers in her mind. She bears the weight of decisions that affect not just individuals but entire timelines. She lives with the knowledge that every mind she shapes is a small echo of what the Institute did to her—taking away choice, imposing will, restructuring reality.

The irony isn’t lost on her. In fighting the Institute’s control, she’s become a different kind of controller. In honoring her parents’ vision of unified consciousness, she’s had to manipulate individual minds. In seeking liberation, she’s had to employ tactics of domination.

This is the burden of being the Shaper of Minds: knowing that your greatest weapon is also your greatest betrayal of everything you claim to fight for.

Will The Future She’s Building Be Better?

But Tesh hasn’t spent five years infiltrating the Institute just for revenge. Revenge was the spark; revolution is the goal.

She’s building something the Institute fears and the Conclaves can’t comprehend: a network of enhanced consciousness that transcends corporate loyalty, temporal manipulation, and the power structures of 2098. Every Phenom she connects, every mind she reshapes toward genuine unity rather than imposed control, becomes part of a collective that could fundamentally alter humanity’s trajectory.

The Institute thinks they control the timeline. The Conclaves think they control civilization. Tesh is proving that whoever controls consciousness controls everything.

Her parents built the SRC to counter the Institute through organization and policy. Tesh is building something more fundamental: a new form of human connection that makes the old power structures obsolete.

Whether this makes her humanity’s liberator or its most dangerous tyrant remains to be seen. Perhaps she’s both. Perhaps that’s what’s required to reshape a world that’s already been bent beyond recognition.

The Question That Haunts Her

Late at night, when she releases her hold on other minds and exists alone in her own consciousness, Tesh confronts the question she can’t reshape away:

If you can alter how people think, are they really people anymore? Or are they just extensions of your will?

And if your parents could see what you’ve become—a mind controller working for the organization that killed them—would they recognize you as their daughter? Or would they see you as the very thing they fought against?

These thoughts keep her awake. These doubts she can’t reshape because they’re her own.

But every morning, she returns to her work. Because whether or not her methods are justified, the alternative—leaving the Institute’s control unchallenged, abandoning her parents’ vision, letting their deaths mean nothing—is unthinkable.

Tesh the Shaper of Minds carries forward the SRC legacy, one restructured neural pathway at a time, building toward a future where consciousness itself is the ultimate form of resistance.

The Institute created her to be their tool. She’s becoming their destruction.

And she’s doing it with the very abilities they thought they could control.

Tesh: The Shaper of Minds
SRC Conclave Legacy | Origin Program Leader | Master of Neural Restructuring
“They fear what we could become together”

Key Facts

Abilities: Neural pathway restructuring, multi-mind coordination, perception manipulation, consciousness networking
Affiliation: Origin Program (leadership), Institute (infiltrator), SRC Conclave (legacy)
Team: Coordinates Streak (spatial extraction), Blast (energy manipulation), Leane (pattern decoding)
Background: Daughter of assassinated SRC Conclave leaders, forcibly recruited by Institute
Mission: Reshape Institute from within, honor parents’ vision of unified consciousness
Conflict: Using control tactics to fight control, becoming what she opposes to destroy it

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One of the Institute’s most enigmatic operatives.