Tersul here came to be as the hypothetical lover/test subject that Oran wanted to try her uberberry serum on; given its effects, it'd presumably be something she'd reserve for someone she actually had a shine for, someone she just really -loved-.

Problem being the uberberry serum, Oran's opus, was so stupendously potent that while you'd end up a massive, sweltering, gushing blue sphere where you couldn't even see limbs, the sensations were such that one's mind would essentially -break-, reduced to pulp under a perpetual, overwhelming orgasm sensation. Even if one did manage to juice the subject, they would be left a hollow, groaning husk, their mind lost to euphoria. Oran, hence, no longer allows herself to craft this particular strain, having it destroyed the moment she makes it.

Anyway, Tersul! Tersul here was an investigator set on Oran's trail, given that turning people into blimps pretty much without any warning, and many of her other antics, were of...questionable legality. It was soon found by Oran, when she ended up a temporary subject herself of a sort of temporary berrifying 'smokebomb' Oran used for getaways, that Tersul herself had a -heavily- repressed blueberry kink. As much as she was shouting about trying to catch Oran, how she'd regret doing this to an officer of the law, some of the grunts and huffs Oran heard sounded -very-...distracted.

A sort of rivalrous crush forms, mostly on Oran's part. She'd tease Tersul, eventually start sending her messages, little coy notes...Alas, it comes to a head when Oran's finally finished her first sample of the uberberry serum. Tersul shows up at that particular moment through some stroke of luck, and without a way to incapacitate her otherwise, or flee, Oran simply takes the finished serum and jabs Tersul with the vial. Hence how she learns how ridiculously powerful it is. Tersul's last words before her mind supposedly breaks amount to a confession of her exceptional love for -every- sensation she was feeling, basically wanting to be a berry -forever-.

Supposedly, despite the uberberry's effects, we liked the thought of this character so much that we decided she'd beat all odds and come out of the serum mentally intact. The resultant Tersul was a lot more unwound and laid back compared to her earlier days as a police investigator. She was very uptight, very tsundere back then, leaning heavily towards tsun. Liable to punch the people who snickered when they found regular-berried Tersul. Now...she mostly serves as Oran's public liason, seeing as, unlike the Quarian who had spent several decades with almost no intelligent company whatsoever, Tersul still has her social skills well intact.

Aaaand that is me writing a novella for a description on a site where almost -no one- reads it.
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