Jessica
Jessica
World: Arknights-1Apparent Age: Late Teens
Quote: "I... I really did it? I managed to protect everyone by myself?"
Role: Sniper and snack-bearer
Species: Feline
Voice Actor: Ryõ Hirohashi
Overview
A young mercenary affiliated with the private military contractor BlackSteel Worldwide. Jessica is a woman with slight feline characteristics and a very low sense of self-worth that sees her lacking confidence in many of the things she does. Despite this handicap, she is a highly-trained professional skilled in tactical combat and a natural sharpshooter with the very delicate firearms of her world. A little naive, very empathetic, and currently attached to a group intent on helping relieve the suffering of those victims of an epidemic on her world, Jessica travels about trying to make sure others don't suffer the same fate... and trying to do some work for hire to pay for her sweets addiction.
Perks
BlackSteel Operator: Trained in small unit tactics and military protocol.
Jessica is part of a fairly well-established private military contracting organization known as BlackSteel Worldwide. BlackSteel has shown her the ropes when it comes to basic tactics and strategies when deploying in a group of combined arms, and what role she should play when paired with various types of combatants such as melee, support, and that sort. It also heavily emphasizes chokepoints and defense and controlling the flow of battle, but her usual tactics are less suited for an extended offensive push.
Originium Firearms Specialist: Skilled in using and maintaining delicate, precise firearms.
Firearms in Jessica's world are delicate, finicky devices that require specialized training to use safely. Jessica has received this training, and is capable of using most small arms of her world, and with a few minutes of instruction can usually pick up how to use conventional small arms as well, though she is less effective with those. Her typical weapon of choice is pistols, and she's not just an excellent shot, but can use originium-based pistols with a high degree of deadliness. Her training includes basic maintenance, repair, and some modification of these weapons, but not construnction from scratch.
Originium Firearms: High-powered but unstable small arms.
Jessica has a license to own, purchase, carry, and use military-grade small arms based on originium tech from her own world. Both the weapons and the ammunition are very expensive, and BlackSteel gives her a very limited budget, so she usually sticks to common-calibre pistols. Originium firearms are very difficult to use safely, but are deceptively powerful for their size.
Scrounging: Jessica is very good at finding ammo and materials in a pinch.
When something is needed, Jessica has an uncanny knack for finding a person to supply it, if it's at all possible. While it may be of questionable legality, she can usually find the right people and cut the right deal to get emergency supplies, be they ammunition or medical supplies. This does often take time and she has considerably more trouble the rarer an item is. It's a talent to get replaceable but hard to find supplies.
Physiological Toughness: Jessica is healthier and tougher than she appears.
She may not be supernaturally tough, but Jessica is shockingly resistant to the oripathy disease ravaging her homeworld, and in general extremely healthy and tough. This is a general durability and resistance to terrestrial diseases, nothing more, and she has no particular extra muscle strength or inbuilt armor to go with it.
Complications
Insecurity: Does not have faith in herself, second-guesses her instincts and training.
Even though she's a highly-trained operative, Jessica constantly second-guesses herself and has very little confidence in making important decisions. She is much more comfortable following someone's lead, and if she's forced to act independently, she will be competent... so long as nothing goes wrong. Unexpected dangers, unlucky breaks, and similar problems will make her falter and sometimes freeze up, or just make a hasty decision trying to correct and usually overcorrecting. It's also possible for a canny enemy to leverage this verbally, but she's less vulnerable to outright taunting and verbal abuse than she is to sudden situations.
Sweet Tooth: A fascination with sugary treats, wanting to try new ones.
Candy and various other sugary snacks are a thing that Jessica has a great fondness for. This is a very minor Complication in the sense that she can't be simply bribed with them and will prioritize equipment over snacks... but only barely. The chance to try a new treat or to lay hands on a good stockpile would be a definite distraction, which could have her making a detour or picking a direction that is, shall we say, sub-optimal.
Bleeding Heart: Easily swayed by a good sob story.
It isn't like Jessica is gullible... exactly... she just has a real soft spot for people down on their luck. A good, realistic story about how down on their luck someone is will get her motivated to help them, usually by doing some pretty ridiculous favors or just plain escorting them. Even if the story is true, it can be a problem if she gets distracted helping out a random person instead of doing what she is supposed to.
Heart On The Sleeve: Jessica is very emotionally open, making her bad at deception.
Jessica is a very friendly, nervous, emotional girl. She's expressive and empathetic, but this all leads to her being very open about her feelings. It has made many people trust her, but the big downside to this is that it also makes lying difficult. She doesn't have moral objections to it if it's really needed, she's just ludicrously bad at it.
Recent Scenes
| ID | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1245 | A Melody of Frost and Ember | Sep 10 2024 |
| 1244 | Restricted Access | Sep 03 2024 |
| 1242 | In Search of Landau(continued) | Aug 27 2024 |
| 1240 | In Search of Landau | Aug 20 2024 |
| 1238 | Dreams don't lie | Aug 06 2024 |
| 1237 | Side Story: Equilibrium | Jul 23 2024 |
| 1235 | Next Steps: Wildfire | Jul 09 2024 |
| 1233 | System Log, Recall | Jul 02 2024 |
| 1227 | Eradication Protocol | Jun 11 2024 |
| 1222 | Found Family | Jun 04 2024 |