She is the daughter of James and Louisa Elliott, and spent her childhood recovering numerous discarded Worker Drones from a nearby dump and repurposing them to be her friends and servants at Elliott Manor. In her youth Tessa was a very lively and kind-hearted girl at first glance, although was actually a rather morbid and disturbed individual, as hinted at by the décor in her room: shelves with human bones and skulls, bottles of what appeared to be blood, occultist and satanic religious scrawlings scribbled on her walls, among numerous other grotesque items. Furthermore, Tessa had a habit of digging up the corpses of her deceased relatives, harvesting their bodies (hence the human remains in her room) and also using their hair to decorate her drones with, something she did not see as abnormal. These morbid interests were contrasted by other more immature room decorations, such as a stereotypical "Live Laugh Love" sign mounted on her wall, crayon drawings of childish things, a pink dollhouse with buff male figures in swimsuits, and many others. Generally, Tessa appeared to be a very "girly-girl" when not engaging in her morbid interests. Despite her parent's dismay, Tessa had an affinity toward drones and preferred to spend her time with them instead. She also had a tinkering hobby, being incredibly skilled with machinery to the point of being able to fix four decommissioned drones who were thrown out and left to rot. This hobby was later shown to have become her profession, although this could've just been a fabrication
