Jessie

**Jessica “Jessie” Gerstenberger** the main character and main protagonist of the first episode of Creeped Out, Slapstick.

Jessie is 13 years old.

## Biography

Jessie is unpopular in school with not that many friends. She is constantly embarrassed by her parents and because of this, blames that to be the reason why she is an outcast. She lives next door to the most popular girl in her year, Patty Peterson. Jessie always wanted to be popular, and was very jealous of her next door neighbour due to her popularity and her parents, who appear to spoil Patty.

She wished to be best friends with Patty, but whenever she made an attempt to befriend her Patty laughed and bullied her. Jessie was invited to Patty’s birthday party by Patty’s mother, along with her parents. Jessie begged her parents to act “normal” but they didn’t even want to go.

Jessie met Mr. Blackteeth and his assistant while sulking on the beach after her parents embarrassed her in front of Patty and her friends. He granted her a magic gift which she could use if she tapped her head three times and said “that’s the way to do it.” She did this and she gained the ability to control her parents like puppets. Jessie ordered that they act in her view of "normal" at Patty’s birthday party.

Jessie eventually overhears a private conversation with Patty and her mother who is strict with her and Jessie realises perhaps Patty isn't as lucky as she thought. Jessie tells Patty that she looks very good and they seem to almost start getting along. But Patty threw ketchup sauce all over Jessie when her friends arrived.

And her mother laughed, as Jessie had ordered her to laugh when there was group laughter. Jessie ran out in tears, and realised that Patty and her friends would never accept her. Jessie then looked at family photos from when Jessie was younger, and Jessie starts to miss her parents old habits.

Jessie went back to Mr. Blackteeth’s tent but he is gone. However, the tent has only moved to a different place on the beach. It was revealed that Jessie’s parents have actually become puppets, and Mr. Blackteeth’s old puppets are now human again. The assistant tells her that he had had an argument with his parents before he met Mr. Blackteeth and had used the same method as Jessie but then wanted to have them back. But the only way to get them back was to find “understudies” to replace them.

The assistant leaves with his parents and Jessie must work for Mr. Blackteeth in order to get her parents human again. Jessie watches a boy around her age watching the puppet show. He has clearly had an argument with his parents, who are stood behind him angrily. Jessie begins to approach him as the show comes to an end, and presumably tricks him into doing what she did.

## Appearance

Jessie has long brown hair, chestnut brown eyes, and tends to wear jeans, leggings and a jumper. She also wears a blue coat when outside. At the party, she wore a purple chemise dress over a white shirt. She also likes trendy shoes.

## Trivia

* It is never revealed what happened to Jessie as she approached the boy, but it can be assumed she managed to trick him into controlling his parents and then replacing them as her boss’s puppets and restoring Jessie’s parents to humanity.