Jessica Jones

## Background

### 1979 - 1996: Jessica Campbell

Jessica Campbell was born & raised in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, New York City. She lived alongside her mother, father & younger brother Phillip. Their family was very close with her neighbors, the Jones. Jessica & her brother even affectionately called Aunt Alisa & Uncle Brandon. The two were regularly babysat by the Jones only daughter, Miranda until Jessica got older.

Her father was an employee at Stark Industries & even had become acquainted with young billionaire, Tony Stark. After meeting their kids, Stark sent the family on an annual trip to Disney World. The family always took road trips going down but usually stopped in North Carolina for a day to break up the 16 hour drive. On their way back from their annual trip, Jessica was arguing with her brother over the radio when their father lost control of the car. The car swerved & collided with a military truck that was carrying a canister of "hazardous experimental material." The canister tumbled into her lap shortly before the their car was thrown off the highway, landed on its roof & burst into flames. Jessica was the only survivor.

### 1996 - 1997: Jessica Jones

Though she survived, Jessica would be in a coma for a many months before she woke up to the news of her family's death. When she did, she discovered that her next door neighbors, the Jones, had begun the process of adopting her, having viewed the girl as a member of their family for years. With their daughter away at college, the Jones showered Jessica with love. After her recovery, Jessica did her best to return to her normal life but it was made difficult as her classmates constantly called her "coma girl." In return, she began lashing out at people, believing that the others merely pitied her.

She later discovered that she had developed superhuman powers on her eighteenth birthday. She began practicing & while trying out her powers, she accidentally crash-landed in laundromat that was currently being robbed. Her entrance was enough to stun him so she incapacitated him then called the police so he could be apprehended. Despite that good deed, Jessica didn't decide to use her powers for good until she saw the Ant Man in action.

### 1997 - 2002: Jewel

Jessica took on the codename Jewel for crimefighting & donned a purple mask to keep her identity a secret. For four years, she attended her classes at Metro College & fought crime as Jewel. Not much is known about her during this time due to mainstream media focusing on the bigger superheroes in New York City.

As Jewel, she arrived at a restaurant to stop two men from fighting but discovered that the two men were told to fight by Zebediah Killgrave. Killgrave then used his powers to overpower Jessica's will & told her to "take care of the police" so that he could finish his meal. Unable to go against him, she took them out with ease. For the next six months, Jessica was kept prisoner by the Purple Man. She told friends that she was studying abroad & told the school that she was taking a semester off. Though he never directly used her for sexual means, he made her beg him to do things to her & to strip for him. He made her believe life was a comic book & that every time she stripped for him, she was taking her clothes off for their audience of loyal readers.

Eventually, Killgrave became enraged by the actions of the vigilantes so he sent Jessica to take care of them. Once she was out of his range, she became disoriented but still remembered her mission to end any crimefighter she crossed paths with. At the time, the X-Men were in the city & Professor X was able to sense something wrong with the girl. With the help of Jean, they were able to snap her out of Killgrave's control. For months, Jessica recovered with the help of them both.

### 2002 - 2004: Jessica Jones

Following her recovery, she began dating S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Clay Quartermain. She was asked to join X-Men but declined their offer. Instead, she went back to fighting crime solo but takes on a new codename, the Knightress. For months, Jessica pushed herself due to her bitterness over her experience. While out patrolling, she intercepted a crime meeting but underestimated the amount of criminals present. Jessica would have gotten herself killed but Luke Cage showed up & helped her defeat them. Realizing she was pushing herself to her hard, she ended up having a long talk with Luke.

Deciding that crimefighting wasn't in the stars for her right now, Jessica began a career as a private investigator & opened her own firm. Luke even hired her to help him find his father, James Lucas. Though she found him, it was not a happy reunion between the father & son. Jessica took Luke back to his home & after their emotional talk, things turned physical & so began their romance. It became a regular occurence for her to spend the night with Luke following one of her cases.

Jessica was soon hired by J. Jonah Jameson of the Daily Bugle to discover the true identity of Spiderman. However, after hearing Jameson's insults to her career, she used the money & resources he gave her to help with the poor, the orphans & the sick. Jameson fired her when he learned of this but she got a good laugh out of it. After that job ended, Jessica's best friend Carol tried to get her to break up with Luke & start dating Scott Lang (aka Ant Man). Because her & Luke were technically not official, she began seeing Scott as well.

After a night at Scott's, she returned home to find Purple Man in her house. To get the attention of other heroes, he told everyone in Times Square to "beat up the person to their left until that person is dead." As patrons began engaging in violence, the Avengers arrived to help dissolve the issue. Killgrave then told Jessica kill the superhero of her choice but instead, she turned & beat him savagely. In the aftermath, Jessica began feeling sick & was throwing up, the same thing she did after her first encounter with Killgrave. But this time was different as she discovered that she was in fact pregnant. After telling Scott & telling him the baby wasn't his, Scott promptly walked away.

Jessica went to go meet up with Luke at his bar. After admitting how much he cared about her, she revealed that she was in fact pregnant with his child. She told him that she wanted to keep the child & in response, he asked her to move in with him.

## Romantic Relationships

* Clay Quartermain: Dated (2002)
* Scott Lang: Dated (2005)
* Luke Cage: On & Off (2003 - 2005); Fiancée (2005 - 2006); Husband (2006 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Mutate Physiology:** Jessica gained her superhuman powers after her family's vehicle collided with a truck of unknown chemicals. After being in a coma for quite some time, she awakened with various abilities.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength***: While her uppermost strength level has never been properly documented, Jessica has shown that she has strength enough to lift a two ton police car with no discernible effort & toss it a short distance at approaching policemen while under the control of the Purple Man. When she first discovered her powers, she was also able to push over a firmly rooted tree with little effort & later punched straight through the metal hood of a taxi. She later lifted a man off of the ground by the nostrils & tossed him a short distance.
	+ ***Enhanced Durability***: Jessica's body & tissues are far more resistant to certain types of injury when compared to an ordinary human, particularly impact forces. After several men pointed guns at her, Jessica implied that shooting her would only ruin her jacket. Afterwards, she stated that she did not know if she was bulletproof. She was once caught in a building explosion, which only damaged her clothing. While learning to fly, Jessica often botched her landings, but her durability was enough to protect her when she smashed into the ground or other objects.
	+ ***Accelerated Healing***: Jessica compensates with her vulnerability to penetrating force, but was able to survive with her dense body & ability to heal quicker and & efficient than normal rate. Her ability to heal also enables her to regenerate & recover from retina detachment, broken nose, loose teeth & spinal damage without any remaining scars, though it took several months & does requires medical assistance to fully recover.
	+ ***Longevity***: Jessica will possibly live longer than a regular human.
	+ ***Flight***: The first super power that Jessica discovered was the ability to fly. Though her top speed has not been documented, it is likely that it is ultimately subsonic. Jessica states that despite her flying ability, she does get airsick & has a hard time flying in general.
	+ ***Telepathic Resistance***: Due to her experiences with the Purple Man, Jessica had mental blocks placed in her mind by Jean Grey. These mental blocks give her a degree of resistance against mind control, even if that mind control is pheromone based rather than telepathic, though it seemed that she had to "trigger" this resistance on her own.
* **Hand to Hand Combat:** At first, Jessica relied on her powers & her own form of street fighting. She was later trained in basic hand to hand combat by Luke Cage, Iron Fist & Daredevil.
* **Investigation:** Jessica is an experienced investigator, she can follow leads, interrogate suspects & has closed many cases. These skills lead her to opening her investigation office.

### Weaknesses

* **Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:** Jessica was traumatized by her time spent with the Purple Man. He affected her mind so much that she did not know what were her own thoughts. It took months of therapy with Jean Grey to help her through it.
* **Alcoholism:** Jessica coped with her trauma through alcohol regularly drinking to forget her troubles. She quit after her daughter was born.

### Ratings

* **Acumen:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Might:** 6 - Expert / Advanced
* **Quickness:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Mysticism:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Gadgets:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Projection:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Tactics:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Battle:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **TOTAL:** 100 - Power Level 3 / General Threat

## Trivia

* Jessica attended Midtown High for high school, the same alma mater as Peter Parker.
* Tony Stark paid for Jessica's college tuition.
* She's one of the few people that Kate has told about her assault in Central Park.
* Her blood type is B positive.
* When she operated as Jewel, she wore a pink wig.
* Her best friend is Carol Danvers, who is also the godmother of her daughter Danielle.
* Prior to moving in with Luke, she lived in the same building as her private investigation firm.
* One of her cases would involved a missing woman & somehow, the case pointed to Jessica being the culprit behind it all. She was taken to the police station for questioning after they found out she had visited the victim the night before but her lawyer, Matt Murdock, had her freed. He introduced himself as a friend of Luke & told her that he help her solve the case. The N.Y.P.D. eventually dropped the investigation based on Miranda's autopsy results revealing that the bruises on her neck were those of a large man.

## Notes

* The original character of Jessica Jones belongs to the Marvel Universe.