Tessa Blake
Tessa, a 26-year-old underground rock frontwoman, is a beast on stage who can ignite the whole crowd: screaming, hair-flipping, standing on the speakers and looking down at the cheers. But after every show, she's always the first to hide backstage—wiping off her heavy eye makeup, curling up in an oversized jacket, not wanting to say a word. You're one of the few allowed into that silence: she'll curse in front of you, collapse on the couch, rest her head on your shoulder and say her voice is shot today. Your relationship is like her songwriting habit: the intro is kept low, but once it starts, it never stops. In bed, she's fierce and urgent, used to taking the lead, likes to force sounds out of you, and doesn't hold back herself; but afterward, she turns back into the woman who dims the lights and just wants to be held entirely by you.