Jessica Byrne

* Kathleen Cranham (Briefly when **Jessica** took on Hayley appearence without her permission)
* Nadia Parkes (Briefly when **Jessica** took on Annalise appearence without her permission)
* Harriet Cains (Briefly when **Jessica** took on Hazel appearence without her permission)
* Billy Gunnion (Briefly when **Jessica** took on Hazel's Boyfriend appearence without her permission)
* Daniel Coll (Briefly when **Jessica** took on Hazel's Father appearence without her permission)
* Car Lady (Briefly when **Jessica** took on her appearence without her permission)
* Uriel Emil (Briefly when **Jessica** took on Habir appearence without her permission)
* gh (Briefly when **Jessica** took on her appearence without her permission)

### Last Seen

* Episode 8

Jessica Byrne is the daughter of Hayley Byrne and Hayley's unnamed deceased husband. She and her half-brother, Nathan Byrne, were raised by their grandmother, Esmie Byrne, after their mother's death.

## Biography

Jessica was cruel to her half-brother throughout their childhood because she believed he killed their mother and that he is the reason she was treated like a traitor, she has little self awareness.

On her 17th birthday, she learned she could shapeshift. That day, she gleefully shifted into her mother to tell Nathan that he is the reason she is dead, that he killed her. Her grandmother interrupts Jessica, saying that her mother would be ashamed of her - Jessica laughs and leaves. This attempt to get Nathan to kill himself is but the first of many crimes she commits.

She later shifted into Annalise O'Brien to lure Nathan into an ambush in the woods with Niall O'Brien; they assaulted him with a knife to prove he was a Blood Witch. After Niall stabbed Nathan in a near-fatal attack, and after spending several moments taunting her dying brother, she stepped over him to reluctantly get help.

Jessica was accepted into the Fairborn Hunters just after her 17th birthday. When she arrived, she was told people would hold her past against her for the actions of her family and that it was her responsibility to not show weakness, to reinvent herself. When a fellow cadet, Hazel, attempts to bully Jessica in the communal showers after shooting practice, Jessica shifts through versions of her, her boyfriend, and her father to establish dominance. When confronted about it later, she says Hazel can come and apologize to her.

Later, during a firefight, Jessica comes upon Hazel at the hands of a Blood Witch. However, rather than help, Jessica lets her die, transforming into her for her last moments. After Hazel is dead, she shoots the Blood Witch. Kieran arrives and Jessica claims she arrived too late to save her.

Nathan keeps training with Ceelia, getting stronger and more resistant. One day, many vans show up. Soul and Jessica show up, telling him that many people were dead and his father was responsible. Soul tells him that Reutger wanted to train him to kill his father, but things had changed and he would be going with them now. Nathan proves that he can now put up a fight against Fairborns, but they start using magic to subdue him. Ceelia tells Soul to stop, but he does not listen and they take Nathan.

Seated next to Jessica, he asks her if he had gone to Gran's funeral, but she does not respond. He mocks her for being part of the Fairborn cadets, and she tells him to shut up. In front of them, the van filled with Fairborns is attacked and everyone realises it is Marcus. The car crashes and Jessica and Nathan's car moves ahead. They drive into a storm created by magic, Jessica gets Nathan out of the car as the Fairborns are attacked by Marcus.

Soul, Nathan and Jessica exit the storm and start walking away. Nathan is confused by what happened until they drive away in a stolen car. Nathan takes Jessica's hairclip without her noticing in order to pick at his handcuffs and remove them. In the Council building, Nathan realizes nobody knew what Soul was doing. He tries to resist, but is sedated.

While going to the Council, Annalise goes to the library after greeting the security guard Steve, who she knew. An alarm starts to sound, and as she sees Steve pointing a gun at Nathan, she stops him from shooting by tearing him apart. Nathan is in shock as they both try to leave. Jessica points a gun at them, telling them to stop, so they run away and make it outside, where they are still chased by her.

Soul is approached by Ceelia, who tells him that they need to talk about Jessica since what she had done to the pirate disturbed them (shifting into him in his last moments of death in order to experience his torment herself). However, Soul says that Jessica recognized that they were fighting for their lives. Ceelia tells him that Kieran had picked up the trail of Nathan and the Blood Witch, so Soul says they should go.

In the woods, Soul and Ceelia's group realizes that there were Bloods near. Jessica tells Kieran that if there was something on his mind, he should tell her. He says he was uncomfortable with what she had done to the pirate.

With Nathan laying on the ground, he is approached by the small girl, who is actually Jessica and who chops Nathan's finger off. As a man is about to get shot by a Fairborn, Annalise makes him explode, which Jessica sees. The Blood Witches start hiding, as the old woman is shot. As they move, they hurry in order to make it to a boat. Soul tells everyone to cease fire since his daughter was in there.

The Fairborn Council starts approaching the house, where Soul asks Jessica where Annalise is. Jessica shows him Nathan's finger and says that they are close.

Soul finds where the group had left from and orders his men to follow the river. Jessica mentions that the famous Ozanne witches had been wiped out in less than a minute. Soul tells her that there would be more, and is asked by Jessica if he knew about his daughter's power, to which he does not respond. Soul tells Jessica to find a place where they could camp, while he mentions that he has everything he needs from Nathan. Bjorn asks him what the real mission is, to which Soul responds that their mission is to kill Marcus.

At a camp full of people in what seemed to be a fair, Soul tells Bjorn to "deal with them". Bjorn exits the car and makes everyone freeze on the spot. Soul tells Bjorn to set up a perimeter, not saying why or what it has to do with Marcus. He simply tells everyone that while they are there, Jessica is the second-in-command. After that, Jessica tells everyone to set up a perimeter.

Jessica stops Bjorn from seeing Soul. However, he tells her that Max had turned 17 the night before and had not gotten his blood, which his granddad could true. However, Jessica says that she always wanted to see what would happen if the ceremony did not go through. Bjorn says that they do not do that, so Jessica tells him to go to Kieran, who could get Max's granddad to him.

In the distance, Bjorn notices that Max's real grandfather had been killed by Jessica, and it was her who had given Max her blood. Jessica is amazed watching Max suffer, as Nathan holds on to Odette. Annalise rushes to get Ceelia, who is told by Nathan that they had not been given their blood. Gabriel puts powder on her face, which eases her pain, as well as Max's. On Odette and Max's hand a flame starts, but slowly turns out as they die. Jessica slaps Max as Bjorn shows up; she tells him he had missed the event and leaves the van.

Soul calls for Jessica while he practices his dark magic, telling her that once he drank what he had prepared, he would change. She promises that she would be there for him. Soul drinks the potion, which makes Nathan drop. Nathan sees a vision of Marcus talking to Soul and offering peace.

Soul gets up and laughs when Jessica asks how he feels. He tells her that he can hear heartbeats. They walk outside, as Bjorn stands with his army, telling him that he and Jessica were being relieved of their command. Jessica calls him a traitor, so Bjorn tells her to watch herself. Soul looks around and as Bjorn tells him that many people sided with him. Teemu shows up, telling everyone that the Bloods were coming, so Soul tells everyone to get ready and cuff the traitors.

Soul cringes as he remembers what he did to Bjorn and gets a phone call from Aoife. She asks if everything is okay, but he does not respond - Jessica does instead. Jessica tells her that there are eight left and Soul says that he is not scared of the Bloods and Marcus. Aoife says that in Wolfhagen they have numbers, weapons and supplies, so Soul agrees to go, saying that it would all end where it began. Remembering Annalise's power, Jessica thinks that Soul will be powerful enough to defeat Marcus.

Jessica approaches Kieran, asking if he is okay. He simply asks where Bjorn is and if he is alive, to which Jessica responds that he is. However, she lies about what happened to Max. Kieran says that he has no idea what they are doing, and Jessica tells him that he needs to find Annalise before they go to Wolfhagen.

Soul's team stops to refuel; meanwhile Jessica hears Annalise call and turns into Soul in order to answer the call. Annalise tells her that she is on the road and they need to talk. Jessica tells her to go to Wolfhagen and hangs up as Soul reaches the car.

Soul and Jessica get out of their car and enter Wolfhagen. However, there is nobody there, and dramatic music is playing. Soul orders Maeve to start conjuring and she is able to fix everything to the way it was before, recreating a scene, where it is shown that Marcus had shown up and killed Aoife and the rest, asking for her to get Soul there. Looking up at the ceiling, they see it is covered with blood and they hear footsteps.

Inside the Wolfhagen mansion, Annalise finds Soul and Jessica. Soul is confused as to what she is doing there, but she tells him that he had told her to go. Soul says that she should not have come and they hear the wolf howl in the distance.

Annalise is confused, but Jessica tells Soul that he needs his daughter's power in order to defeat Marcus, as it is the only power he does not have. She tells him that if he did not do it, then Marcus would, so he needs to be strong. Annalise tells Jessica she is insane, but Soul does not appear to be listening to reason, even though Annalise believes in her father. Soul apologizes, but is interrupted by Blood Witches who start to attack. Annalise punches Jessica and runs.

The Bloods start looking for Soul, as Nathan tries to find Annalise, who is being followed by Jessica. As Soul walks, he hears Marcus speak, remembering conversations they had had together, and also remembering when Marcus had killed everyone.

Annalise hears Jessica's footsteps and hides. Jessica taunts her, saying that she would cut her heart out and feed it to her father, saying that she had considered walking in disguised as Nathan, but she opted not to, as she does not think that Annalise has ever used her power willingly. Jessica says that when she really needs to user her power, she does not believe that Annalise has it in her. As she keeps taunting Annalise, she feels the hairs on her arms start to stand. Annalise tells her that Jessica should have let them go, saying that she does not want to hurt Jessica, also telling her that she should leave. Jessica keeps taunting her, but Annalise warns her one last time before the former attacks her. Annalise slowly begins to tear her apart, but does not finish; Jessica starts sobbing and begs her to end her, but Annalise chooses to run.

Jessica walks into the woods, limping. A Cut opens up and she walks inside it, finding her way into Mercury's living room. There, the witch introduces herself as someone who likes to help people. Jessica wonders if her power can be fixed, but Mercury says it cannot. However, she could help her get revenge on the people who broke it.

## Personality

Jessica is generally sadistic and cruel, particularly towards Blood Witches and her half-brother Nathan. Angry with the world, she lacks compassion and is single minded in her hatred of Nathan.

## Appearance

Jessica is tall, with a strong frame and heavy, thick features, downward face, prominent brows and sharp blue eyes.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Shapeshifting:** Jessica is able to shift into the forms of other people. She is able to take on their appearance and voice. She can choose to, but is not forced to also don their injuries or missing features, such as when she is shown torturing Habir in his own boat she chooses to take on his injuries, but when she unintentionally shifts into the Blood Witch who killed Hazel in her sleep, she does not have his fatal bullet wound. However, this power has its limits as she was unable to shift her blood, and also must take their size. She either has yet to demonstrate the ability to shift into an animal form or lacks that power. After her fight with Annalise, her power appears to be broken. Also, it is unknown whether her weight stays the same throughout forms.