Jessie
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Jessie (ジェシー, Jeshī?), known as Jesse in the demo release, is a Non-Player Character in Final Fantasy VII, and a member of AVALANCHE together with Barret, Biggs, Wedge, and Tifa. Cloud is given the option to flirt with her at times.
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Appearance and personality
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Jessie is a young woman with brown eyes and medium-length brown hair tied into a ponytail. In Hoshi wo Meguru Otome, it is mentioned she is about Aerith's age, but the novella's status as canon is questionable. She wears a blue top with metal armor and brown gloves, and knee-length green shorts.
Jessie is the technical expert of AVALANCHE, and is the one who builds the bombs AVALANCHE uses in their raids on the Mako Reactors, though following the plans of the original, more violent AVALANCHE in doing so. As such she roughly acts as Barret's second-in-command, overseeing the plans of the group during their raids. She develops a crush on Cloud and does a poor job of hiding it, and is happy to receive his approval at being well-disguised as a Shinra troop, though she also questions the meaning of this given her disguise was meant to be a male.
StoryEdit
Jessie is met at the start of the game during the bombing mission on the Sector 1 Reactor. She comes with a code that opens a door inside the Mako Reactor and then comes down in an elevator with Barret and Cloud. After Cloud and Barret have set up the bomb and are evacuating the reactor, the player must talk to Jessie to help her up, or else she won't be able to open the door to leave the reactor. AVALANCHE manage to escape the reactor in time and Jessie declares the mission a success, before they part ways and head to the train back to the slums. During the train ride Jessie shows Cloud the miniature model of Midgar on a computer terminal and tells Cloud of her fascination with computers.
Back in Sector 7 Jessie heads to the AVALANCHE secret headquarters in 7th Heaven where she is found watching the news telling of the bombing, marveling that the bomb built by her is in the news. She promises that the next bomb will be even bigger.
The next day AVALANCHE sets off to their next target, Sector 5 Reactor. Jessie has made everyone a fake ID card to get past the train's security check, but because of the previous day's attack on Sector 1 Reactor, the system has been updated and the group are found to be holding forged IDs and are forced to jump off the train. Biggs, Wedge and Jessie stay behind when Cloud, Tifa and Barret jump off the train first. Jessie is wearing a train conductor's uniform as a disguise. If the player talks to her, they have the option to compliment her on her disguise, or tell her it needs a little more work. This answer affects the affection value toward Tifa.
On their way to bomb the Sector 5 Reactor, the party come across Jessie who apologizes for the faulty ID and feels the reason they got caught in the train is her fault. She promises to make an even better ID for the next mission.
Jessie is seen one last time when Shinra Electric Power Company attacks the Sector 7 pillar. She is found wounded on the stairs and the player has an option to talk to her. She is glad she could talk to Cloud one last time, and says since many people died because of their actions, this is probably their punishment. Jessie dies when Shinra brings down the upper plate on Sector 7, destroying the entire sector.
In Hoshi wo Meguru Otome, Jessie appears to Aerith within the Lifestream when she thinks of Cloud and Tifa and Jessie's remnants respond to their names, and Jessie in turn causes her to call Biggs and Wedge to her as well. The three are happy to hear Cloud joined AVALANCHE officially and the group is now fighting a larger threat, but tell Aerith they are fated to never be absorbed into the Lifestream due to the lives they took while alive. Jessie asks Aerith to leave them because she must still have a task to fulfill before she is absorbed, and being near them will only taint her with their sinful memories and inflict their fate on her. As they leave Aerith calls to them and tells them their deaths helped save people by delaying Shinra, allowing more of Sector 7's people, including Marlene, to evacuate in time than if they had lived.
Other appearancesEdit
Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2Edit
Jessie appears alongside Biggs and Wedge as a trio of Black Mages in a research laboratory. She offers Chocobo Dispel Tonics in exchange for Essences.
Kingdom Hearts IIEdit
Jessie is the owner of an Accessory shop in Twilight Town, and appears together with Biggs and Wedge. She looks different from the Jessie from Final Fantasy VII, as she has blonde hair and wears blue. She plays a bit of a role at the beginning of the game, being the first character the player can talk to using Reaction Commands.
GalleryEdit
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Concept sketch.
TriviaEdit
- Jessie has a high-resolution model of her upper body. It was used in the scene where she and Cloud look at the Midgar map.
- Characters using the models of Jessie and Biggs are seen in Elmyra's flashback at the train station. It is unknown whether these are meant to be the same characters or not. One possibility is they are the same characters at a younger age using their ordinary models due to not wanting to create new models for the scene.
