Perseverance (Jessie/Clessie Club)

[Odysseus]

Jessie Rasberry

Age: 23

Lady Explosion.

The technical member of Avalanche. She prepares the necessary things for the operation, such as bombs and counterfeit ID’s. In her spare town, she sells water purifies to earn funds for Avalanche’s activities. In her past, she pursued her dream as an actress and was selected to star in a Gold Saucer performance.

Jessie’s Parents

Parents of a beloved Daughter.

Jessie’s mother and father who live in the downtown area of Sector 7 are pleased with the success of their beloved daughter. Her mother is a good cook and always has the ready for whenever Jessie decides to come home. Her father Rowan was in charge of the maintenance for the Mako reactor but collapsed due to overwork and Mako poisoning, which has left him in a coma.

 

[Odysseus]

Oh okay. Can we see it anyway, though? I was hoping that the Ultimania would confirm she's alive, but I guess they don't want us to know yet?

Oh, and it seems at least one online cosplay shop actually has Jessie outfits now:
https://m.ezcosplay.com/final-fantasy-vii-remake-ff7-jessie-cosplay-costume-eff0250.html

I just stumbled across the link when trying to look up information about her to see if there was anything new. Hopefully other sites like that will follow suit before long.

Sorry no confirmation on anything. They're keeping the details of the sequel close to their chest.

Spoiler

The only thing they said was that they showed Biggs alive to make the players go "wait that's not right" and create "unease," whatever that's supposed to mean. They were also oddly vague about Wedge, though Makoeyes is insisting he's dead.

Does that site show what the outfit looks like? Once you get a cosplay outfit online, that's when you know you made it big.

 

[Jairus]

No, just her concept art. Just follow the link and you'll see what I mean.

And I'm not so sure Mako's right about Wedge. They did a fade to black for a reason, after all, instead of just showing it definitively. And seeing Biggs alive definitely made people do a double take, and that SE said that makes me even more certain they put Jessie's glove there in purpose and for a specific reason and not just as a random nod.

Mako was also wrong about a lot of stuff from the leaks, kept insisting it was false when a lot of it turned out to actually be true. So don't take his word too seriously.

 

[Odysseus]

I like him but the way he thinks is pretty different from the way I think about this stuff. Anyway, best not to talk about people behind their back.

Spoiler

The thing with Wedge is that the ultimania, when describing the scene with him and the whispers, says that he was "made to follow the course of destiny." Now, that could just be a cryptic way of saying "The whispers shoved Wedge into an elevator shaft where he fell 50+ floors to his death," or it could be intentionally vague to disguise the fact he's still alive. I thought it was notable at least thatnthe party doesn't know he's dead, so that's going to have to come up at some point anyway.

 

[Jairus]

Spoiler

Yeah, that is a bit cryptic. Destiny can mean many things, of course. That passage never says which destiny, the old or the new. So he could still be alive. It would seem odd to try to hide the fact that he's dead. One would think you'd only try to hide something that doesn't fit with what came before. Does the Ultimania say anything about the scene where the Whispers surrounded Jessie when she threw the grenade?

 

[Odysseus]

Spoiler

Yeah, that is a bit cryptic. Destiny can mean many things, of course. That passage never says which destiny, the old or the new. So he could still be alive. It would seem odd to try to hide the fact that he's dead. One would think you'd only try to hide something that doesn't fit with what came before. Does the Ultimania say anything about the scene where the Whispers surrounded Jessie when she threw the grenade?

Don't know, I'll keep you posted.

 

[Jairus]

Okay, thanks! Just keep posting anything Jessie-related from the Ultimania in here for us, okay?

 

[chewbaka]

wait...do you guys not know of how cloud reacts when he's around her? or has that been done already?

 

[Jairus]

I remember a bit of what you said about his eye contact and how he started to hug her back outside her door, but that's it. No harm in laying it all out again if you want, though.

 

[Jessie Rito]

Jessie Rasberry

Age: 23

Lady Explosion.

The technical member of Avalanche. She prepares the necessary things for the operation, such as bombs and counterfeit ID’s. In her spare town, she sells water purifies to earn funds for Avalanche’s activities. In her past, she pursued her dream as an actress and was selected to star in a Gold Saucer performance.

Jessie’s Parents

Parents of a beloved Daughter.

Jessie’s mother and father who live in the downtown area of Sector 7 are pleased with the success of their beloved daughter. Her mother is a good cook and always has the ready for whenever Jessie decides to come home. Her father Rowan was in charge of the maintenance for the Mako reactor but collapsed due to overwork and Mako poisoning, which has left him in a coma.

Where did you get that from?

 

[Odysseus]

Where did you get that from?

From a fan translation of the Ultimania character profiles. Here is all of them:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xbZGiuZClTqPD--U4-sfFvwO-mRl029TJkcYrF9rsCw/edit

Okay, thanks! Just keep posting anything Jessie-related from the Ultimania in here for us, okay?

Okay I have a new tidbit for you.

Spoiler

The reason the whispers were hanging around Biggs and Jessie was to make sure destiny stayed on course. I didn't see the exact quote this time though, so I don't know how vague or not the wording is.

 

[Jairus]

Spoiler

Well, they failed in Biggs' case (since he died in the OG), so they may have failed with Jessie as well.

 

[Jairus]

More screenshots!

Spoiler: Chapter 3 - Set 9

Chapter 3 - Hi, Honey!

 

[chewbaka]

I remember a bit of what you said about his eye contact and how he started to hug her back outside her door, but that's it. No harm in laying it all out again if you want, though.

weird that her and cloud's ship dynamic wasn't mentioned here. oh well, here it is.

Spoiler

so when he's confused he relies even more on his facade. interesting.

also, a new erica lindbeck interview has been released, for anyone interested https://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/erica-lindbeck-final-fantasy-vii-remake

 

[Jairus]

Quote from Erica: "I could’ve never imagined as well how much people were going to love Jessie! I mean, you’ve already got Tifa and Aerith as the two big female characters and then for Jessie to come along and steal the spotlight if you will is amazing to see."

A statement like that coming from someone on the inside is huge to me. I guess Jessie's had a bigger impact than we thought!

Oh and chewie, you might want to update your essay about her being a love interest now that the remake's out and you have more material to work with. I'm sure it'll be good!

 

[chewbaka]

i have been considering it for a while, i'm just trying to decide how to write it so it will be readable lol

 

[Vanwinkle]

I'd Like to say that Ive been following this thread for a while and I am happy it exist. Jessie for me in this game was like a slow venom in my veins and when I say Cloud pick her up from the ground when she hurt her foot, I was completely intoxicated.

Ive been researching everywhere as well to try and see if we could figure out if she somehow survived and it looks like we will need to wait for more info from SE before we can be more certain, which kills me.

I think it would be cruel for them to lead us on with her glove on the table and Biggs somehow surviving, to then just reveal that she actually did'nt make it, but I feel that Nomura would be troll enough to do that. Please don't twist that dagger anymore you bastard!!!

 

[chewbaka]

glad to see another jessie fan! welcome!
and lookie here. i know your screenshots are in 1080p jairus, but i do have a 4K videodownloader so this video could be helpful to me

 

[Odysseus]

Well your guess is as good as mine for now. But here's hoping she's alive. Shademp had an interesting take on a different sort of way for her to remain alive from what we've been thinking, too.

 

[Jairus]

Welcome, VanWinkle! Nice to see another Jessie/Clessie fan. I hope she's alive, too, and until SE states otherwise, that's what I'm going to believe.

I saw that vid a while back, chewie, but I don't know how they were able to record them in 4k since the PS4 Pro doesn't allow video capture in 4K, only 1080p. I'm still gonna post my screenshots, though. And did you know that the Jessie kiss video is up to 1.2 million views now? It's gotta be one of the most viewed FF7R videos out there!

Found some more nice Jessie art, too:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1256494557933580288

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1256507427844845569

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1255596369902997506

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1255499473092042759

 

[Odysseus]

This is something I thought when I saw her ultimania profile, and since its Tifa's birthday today I was thinking about it again, but I kinda wish they gave Jessie a canon birthday. Given everything else we know about her now, it is weird that she doesn't have one.

EDIT: Oh hey this was my 2000th post. Nice.

 

[Jairus]

Yeah, I was thinking about that, too. Well, maybe we can make one up for her since SE didn't give us one.

 

[Odysseus]

I'll leave that up to you.

https://www.deviantart.com/sparxanders/art/Jessie-Rasberry-Character-Art-840392065

 

[Jairus]

I'll come up with one for her, then, Ody. Hehe...

In the meantime, I've begun posting my rewrite of Lifestream. You can find it here:
https://thelifestream.net/forums/th...-lifestream-an-unofficial-novelization.21889/

 

[chewbaka]

upscaling, is my best guess, as there is an 8k trailer around YT i saw. whatever the case is, i see really the difference when i switch from 1080 to 4k on there. but either way i'm sorta happy i have a way to get HD screenshots instead of relying on doing it from YT (which can quickly get annoying). i really wish there was a non subtitled version in HD of the game though....://