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Jessie Rasberry,[2] also known as Jesse[3] in a demo release, is a non-player character in Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII Remake and a member of Avalanche together with Barret, Biggs, Wedge, and Tifa. She develops feelings for Cloud and the player is given the option to flirt with her at times. In Final Fantasy VII Remake, she has an expanded role.
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Appearance
Jessie is a young woman with brown eyes and medium-length brown hair tied into a ponytail. In Hoshi o Meguru Otome, it is mentioned she is about Aerith's age. She wears a red headband, a blue shirt underneath a metal breastplate, metal pauldrons, brown gloves, knee-length green capris, and armored boots. Her appearance in Final Fantasy VII Remake stays true to her original design, but adds a black mail shirt to the ensemble and turns her shirt into a leotard with black trim and a zipper on her left shoulder.
Personality
Jessie is the technical expert of Avalanche who builds bombs for raids on the mako reactors, following the plans of the original, more militant Avalanche. She develops a crush on Cloud and does a poor job of hiding it. Despite being the technical expert, Jessie is pained by insecurities, and is quick to blame herself if a mission goes awry. She is vibrant and animated, her passion before joining Avalanche having been acting. She abandoned her dream of becoming an actress when her father became ill, and blames Shinra for what happened to him.
Story
Original continuity
Building the bomb that Avalanche intended to use on the Mako Reactor 1, Jessie comes with a code that opens a door and descends an elevator with Barret and Cloud. After Cloud and Barret have set up the bomb and are evacuating, Cloud helps Jessie after she gets her leg stuck.
The Avalanche members part ways and to regroup at train back to the Sector 7 slums, during which Jessie shows Cloud a digital model of Midgar and tells him about her fascination with computers.
The next day Avalanche sets off to Mako Reactor 5. Jessie has made everyone a fake ID card to get past the train's security check, but because of the previous day's attack the system has been updated and the group is found to be holding forged IDs and are forced to jump off the train. In the original game, Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie stay behind when Cloud, Tifa, and Barret jump off first, Jessie disguised as a train conductor. Cloud can compliment her on her disguise, or tell her it needs more work. This answer affects the affection value toward Tifa.
On their way to bomb the Mako Reactor 5, the party comes across Jessie who apologizes for the faulty ID and feels the reason they got caught is her fault. She promises to make an improved ID for the next mission. When Shinra Electric Power Company attacks the Sector 7 pillar, Jessie is found wounded on the stairs. She is glad she could talk to Cloud one last time and says since many people died because of their actions, this is their punishment.
Remake continuity
Building the bomb that Avalanche intended to use on the Mako Reactor 1, Jessie comes with a code that opens a door and descends an elevator with Barret and Cloud. After Cloud and Barret have set up the bomb and are evacuating, Cloud helps Jessie after she gets her leg stuck. While the mission is a success, unaware that President Shinra activated the reactor's self-destruct when her bomb's detonation caused damage to the pump alone, Jessie blames herself for the resulting devastation and civilian casualties.
The Avalanche members part ways and to regroup at train back to the Sector 7 slums, during which Jessie shows Cloud a digital model of Midgar and tells him about her fascination with computers. Jessie watches the news of the bombing soon after, the original game depicting her impressed that her bomb made the news, while the remake depicts her regretting the destruction she assumes her bomb caused. In the remake, she thus wants to procure less potent blasting agent for the next bombing mission. Though Jessie tries to convince Barret, he does not want to hire Cloud for the next mission.
Jessie hires Cloud to take her to her parents to steal a Shinra ID card from her father to get into the Shinra warehouse where the blasting agent is stored, giving him materia as payment. To her surprise, Biggs and Wedge have caught wind of her plans and tag along. As the trains have stopped running, the four ride to the topside on two motorbikes, Jessie riding with Cloud with him driving. They fail an ID check and are accosted by Shinra bikers, among them a maniacal SOLDIER 3rd Class, but Cloud deals with them much to Jessie's elation. While Jessie, Biggs and Wedge amuse Jessie's mother, Cloud sneaks in through a back door to steal Jessie's father's ID card as he lies comatose nearby.
Jessie sneaks into the Shinra warehouse while Cloud, Biggs and Wedge organize a diversion to buy her time. While they wait for Jessie's signal, Biggs tells Cloud about Jessie's background as an actress whose big break for the role of the Princess at the Gold Saucer was disrupted when her father had an accident at work, and that he has been suffering from mako poisoning since then. Jessie believes that her father's soul is stuck between the physical world and the Lifestream, inspiring her to join Avalanche to stop Shinra from siphoning the planet's life energy.
Jessie acquires the blasting agent and rendezvouses with Biggs and Cloud, Wedge having been saved from Shinra forces by another Avalanche faction. They grab Wedge as the other Avalanche soldiers flee and Jessie checks that he is unharmed. They sneak into a spot where Jessie knows parachutes for Shinra maintenance workers are kept and parachute down to the slums, Jessie riding with Biggs. Back at the slums, Cloud swings by her place at her request where she gives him another orb of materia and thanks him with a hug. Though Cloud is reluctant, he agrees to one day possibly go out with her, making her ecstatic.
The next morning the slums are attacked by invisible ghosts. They attack Jessie and Barret at the steps of Seventh Heaven while trying to stop Cloud and Tifa reaching them. After Jessie is injured, the ghosts disperse and Cloud carries her inside. Barret declares she can't take part in the next bombing mission due to her condition, hiring Cloud as her replacement.
The next day Avalanche sets off to Mako Reactor 5. Jessie has made everyone a fake ID card to get past the train's security check, but because of the previous day's attack the system has been updated and the group is found to be holding forged IDs and are forced to jump off the train. In the original game, Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie stay behind when Cloud, Tifa, and Barret jump off first, Jessie disguised as a train conductor. Cloud can compliment her on her disguise, or tell her it needs more work. This answer affects the affection value toward Tifa. In the remake, the injured Jessie stays at the slums with Wedge protecting her, Biggs having already gone ahead of the others.
On their way to bomb the Mako Reactor 5, the party comes across Jessie who apologizes for the faulty ID and feels the reason they got caught is her fault. She promises to make an improved ID for the next mission. When Shinra Electric Power Company attacks the Sector 7 pillar, Jessie is found wounded on the stairs. She is glad she could talk to Cloud one last time and says since many people died because of their actions, this is their punishment. While the original depicts Jessie among the casualties when Shinra brought the upper plate down on Sector 7, the remake has her die as the result of the Whispers arranging her to be crushed under rubble when her grenade prematurely detonated. After being dug out by Cloud, Jessie uses her final moments to tell him and Tifa not to be sad over her death. However, in the epilogue, her head band and glove are seen laying beside the waking Biggs, possibly implying she might have survived the plate drop just like Biggs.
Hoshi o Meguru Otome
Jessie appears to Aerith within the Lifestream when she thinks of Cloud and Tifa, and Jessie's remnants respond to their names. Jessie causes Aerith to call Biggs and Wedge and the three are happy to hear Cloud joined Avalanche officially, and the group is 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.
Behind the scenes
Jessie was designed by Tetsuya Nomura. She was redesigned by Roberto Ferrari based on Tetsuya Nomura's original version of her for Final Fantasy VII Remake.[citation needed]
In the original Final Fantasy VII, Jessie has a high-resolution model of her upper body, 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, but it is ambiguous whether they are meant to be the same characters.
Jessie is voiced by Erica Lindbeck in Final Fantasy VII Remake. Lindbeck knew little about the original game when joining the cast, but had heard her role would be minor. She was nonetheless very excited to be in a Final Fantasy game at all, and was happy that her role was being expanded upon. Lindbeck also loved the relationship between Jessie and Tifa.[4]
Other appearances
Final Fantasy XIV
Jessie in A Realm Reborn.
Jessie is introduced in Patch 2.3 as the Deputy President of Garlond Ironworks. Her appearance is very similar to her Final Fantasy VII counterpart, being a young female Midlander Hyur with brown eyes and brown hair tied into a ponytail.
Mobius Final Fantasy
Jessie makes an appearance in Mobius Final Fantasy as an obtainable card.
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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.
Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
Jessie appears with her Tetsuya Nomura artwork. Her card is Thunder-elemental.
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Other media
Games
In Kingdom Hearts, a character named Jessie appears in Kingdom Hearts II. She is the owner of an Accessory shop in Twilight Town and appears together with Biggs and Wedge. She looks quite 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.
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Etymology
Jessie is a given name in its own right, but may also be a nickname for the given name Jessica. It is generally considered the feminine form of Jesse. Jesse, meaning "God exists" or "God's gift", is the father of David who became the king of the Israelites.