Perseverance (Jessie/Clessie Club)

[Jairus]

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They made it look like Biggs died in his last scene with Cloud, but he didn't. So I'm sure the same can be the case with Jessie. Maybe she just blacked out, like Biggs. Lost consciousness due to her injuries. Cloud and Tifa couldn't stay to be sure because they had to save the pillar, and they couldn't get back to her later when they came back to Sector 7. So they just assumed she and Biggs were dead. But they were wrong about Biggs, so they could've been wrong about Jessie, too.

 

[Odysseus]

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I just want you to know that these feelings you're having are exactly how Square wants you to feel right now. Yes, there's plenty of plausibility. Her and Biggs' death scenes play out very similarly. Have some emotional last words with Cloud before closing their eyes and going limp. The only thing different is that Jessie is higher up on the pillar, but that barely matters.

 

[Jairus]

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Yeah. And the fact that this is what SE wants us to be thinking about makes me even more certain that she's alive. Otherwise, what would be the point of causing it? There would be no need to have her glove in the scene if she was truly dead because there's no way to explain it being a memento with just a single pan across and no dialogue. But if it was left there by her or she's alive, then the technique fits because it clearly hints at that very thing.

Something else I've noticed and which I've pointed out before is that Jessie stands out visually more than either Tifa or Aerith. Her colors are just so much more vibrant and almost jump off the screen. I like Tifa, but she's a wallflower by comparison with her black and white palette. Aerith is in between, lots of red and pink but still not as much overall color as Jessie. And I'm wondering if that was a deliberate choice on SE's part. They could've made Jessie's outfit more washed out, but they didn't. You can't help but notice her whenever she's around because of how much color she has and how bright it is. It's just another thing I like about her.

 

[chewbaka]

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And did you see Jessie's glove on the dresser? I think that's a very big hint that she's alive, especially since the scene shows the glove before it shows Biggs, making sure to get Jessie on the viewer's mind before hitting them with the sight of Biggs alive. The possibility of her being alive too flows naturally from that. Jessie's glove + Biggs alive = Jessie possibly alive too.

i didn't notice the glove until i was looking at a reaction of zack coming back and then someone mentioned that they saw her glove. biggs very well could have found it and had it for sentimental reasons, or she could very well be alive. those are just my theories

 

[Jairus]

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i didn't notice the glove until i was looking at a reaction of zack coming back and then someone mentioned that they saw her glove. biggs very well could have found it and had it for sentimental reasons, or she could very well be alive. those are just my theories

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I don't think Biggs knows about it yet. When we see him in the ending, he's still pretty hurt, and I think he's waking up for the first time since the pillar. So he couldn't have found it. And remember, Jessie was wearing both. So you can't find one without the other. It doesn't come off on its own, after all. And there would be no reason to take only one of them as a memento and not both. She had to have taken it off herself, I think.

 

[Odysseus]

Don't you make me drag my big long expose about that scene in here again

 

[Jairus]

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Any idea what that is in the circled area? There's definitely something (and maybe someone) on the other side of the dresser, and the camera very clearly avoided showing anything on that side of the room for the most part. This is the only glimpse we get, and I'm not sure what it might be. It's just hard to tell.

 

[Odysseus]

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Looks like a table and the side of another bed

 

[Jairus]

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Could be. Maybe Jessie's in that one, if it is another bed.

 

[Odysseus]

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I think the glove would be closer to the other side of the table if that were the case.

Anyway, here she coooomes

 

[Jairus]

Maybe, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see. The art's looking good so far!

 

[Odysseus]

Thanks. I'm wondering if its too dim, but they are in a dark tunnel. I just had to do a mad dash through my other jessie pics on tumblr and deviantart to update the tags to include her last name. I've done a solid 7 Jessie drawings now (counting the two colorings of that other guy's work) and I have #8 on the way. Jesus, I'm obsessed!

 

[Jairus]

You're welcome. Didn't realize you'd done that many of her. Nothing wrong with that, hehe. She is great, after all.

 

[Odysseus]

I do it because it makes you guys happy I guess. She's also just fun to draw!

 

[Jessie Rito]

I do it because it makes you guys happy I guess. She's also just fun to draw!

Indeed! Me and the person which is sitting next to me in class have a small ringbook filled with badly drawn ff7 characters... Because its too much fun to not do so

 

[Jessie Rito]

Here you go...

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wonder if that flowers symbolize anything... You know? Like the yellow lily that symbolizes reunion

 

[Odysseus]

Indeed! Me and the person which is sitting next to me in class have a small ringbook filled with badly drawn ff7 characters... Because its too much fun to not do so

Ha, I'm sure they aren't bad. I'd like to see some of them some time!

 

[Jairus]

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wonder if that flowers symbolize anything... You know? Like the yellow lily that symbolizes reunion

I'm not sure. I don't know much about flowers. But there's got to be a reason they're there.

 

[Odysseus]

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I got nothing for the flowers. They're presumably fro Aerith's house, but she obviously can't have brought them herself. I wonder if it changes depending on what flowers you pick in chapter 8?

 

[Jairus]

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I got nothing for the flowers. They're presumably fro Aerith's house, but she obviously can't have brought them herself. I wonder if it changes depending on what flowers you pick in chapter 8?

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Probably not. But I thought of another thing that adds to the likelihood of Jessie's survival. The Whispers were trying to make sure things happened the same way as in the OG. But in the OG, Biggs died in the pillar. So the very fact that he's alive is proof that defeating the Whispers changed things. Which means that since they could no longer force him to die, it's very possible that the same thing could be true of Jessie. Biggs' fate is no longer what the Whispers intended. It was changed when they were destroyed. And Jessie's fate could have been changed as well, leaving her alive when they wanted her dead.

 

[Odysseus]

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You're working on the assumption that everything the whispers did was undone. I don't believe that to be the case, I just think they survived anyway.

 

[Jairus]

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I'm not sure exactly what happened. All I know is that Biggs is alive despite the Whispers wanting him dead, and up until the end, what the Whispers wanted, they got. Fate and the story's path weren't able to be changed until they were defeated in their realm, so I'm sure beating them changed many things, Biggs' survival being one of them. Which means Jessie could be alive, too.

 

[Jairus]

Just posted Chapter 8 of Reflections. Jessie uncovers the truth about Reactor 3 and Corel and has an epic showdown with Scarlet.
https://thelifestream.net/forums/th...ii-reflections-a-lifestream-side-story.22284/

 

[Jairus]

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/tweedlr/jessie

 

[Jairus]

Something else I noticed about that certain ending shot...

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See the two dots in the circled area? I wonder if that could be this...

The buttons on Jessie's bag. If that is Jessie's bag over there on the other side of the dresser, then it's a good bet she really is alive!