Jessica Jones

Subject Facts

Full Name: Jessica Campbell Jones Cage
Codename: N/A
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Archetype: Super Hero
Aliases: Jess, Jessica Jones, Jewel, Knightress, Power Woman
Marital Status: Married to Luke Cage/Power Man
Affiliation: The Defenders, Alias Investigations

Subject Attributes

Superhuman Abilities: Superhuman Strength - Jess's strength levels have not been properly documented or charted, but she has lift and thrown automobiles with no discernible effort, knocked out superhumanly durable opponents with one hit, etc.

Superhuman Durability - Her tissues are much more dense and resilient than an ordinary humans. Jessica is particularly resistant to blunt-force trauma, able to mete out her superhuman strength, suffer likewise augmented physical blows, landings from her flight, etc. with no injury. Any piercing or lacerating injuries Jess sustains also tend to be more shallow than they ought to be.

Flight - Jess is capable of unaided, self-propelled flight. Though she's capable of standard aerial maneuvering, Jessica prefers to use her flying to bolster leaps or slow impacts.

Psionic Resistance - Due to training from Jean Grey of the X-Men, and careful construction of mental barricades and barriers, Jessica is highly resistant to mental manipulation/mind control.

Standard Abilities: Personal Investigator - She is a remarkably skilled PI, with keen judgment, exceptional detective skills, and sometimes-unorthodox research abilities.

Paraphernalia: Alias Investigations - Jessica's recently reopened PI firm is located in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, on the fifth floor of its building.

Leather Jacket - This iconic bit of wardrobe is worth $400, and Jess really, really doesn't like when people damage it.

Subject Weaknesses: Mortality - Jessica, despite her abilities, is a mortal woman at the end of the day, susceptible to disease, injury, ailment and death.

Fledgling - Her skill with flying has ebbed and flowed over the years, but ultimately Jess would prefer to walk. She gets airsick/motion sickness more easily than most supers who can fly, and Jessica's disuse of this ability makes it more crude and less graceful than many expect.

Danielle - Jessica's daughter is her entire world. Though pretty much the entire superhero community adores her and would protect her, and most any super villain knows better than to imperil her due to the swift and ruthless repercussions, she's still the widest and most well known chink in Jessica's armor.

Attitude - Jess doesn't always play well with others, particularly people she doesn't care for.

Alcoholism - She's a reformed alcoholic, having quit cold after the birth of her daughter. In the years following, Jessica has begun drinking again, but never enough to become an actual issue or dare interfere with family life. Usually she only drinks when working a case, and even then she never gets inebriated.

Purple - Jessica's unspeakable, unforgivable history with the Purple Man will haunt her for the rest of her life. Sometimes just seeing too much of that color can cause her to have PTSD episodes.

Subject History

Jessica Campbell lead a relatively ordinary life. To a point. As a teenager she attended Midtown High School, where she harbored a crush on classmate Peter Parker; even being present the day he was bitten by a radioactive arachnid. Jessica's father was given tickets to Disney World by his boss, Tony Stark, and the family vacationed there. On their drive home, however, their car collided with a convoy carrying radioactive chemicals. Jessica was the only survivor, and spent the following six months in a coma, recovering. Once she woke up, Jessica was adopted by the Jones family and discovered that her exposure to the radioactive chemicals gave her superpowers.

Her adoptive parent re-enrolled her in Midtown High, where she was ostracized by her classmates. Peter Parker tried to befriend her but, mistaking his kindness as pity, Jessica lashed out at him. Shortly thereafter, Jessica witnessed a fight between Spider-Man and the Sandman in her school. She was inspired at the sight to use her newfound abilities for noble ends. As an adult, Jessica debuted as the costumed crime fighter Jewel, but her super hero career was largely uneventful. Until, that is, she came up against Zebediah Killgrave aka the Purple Man. Placing Jessica under his control, Killgrave psychologically and physically abused her, forcing her to perpetrate countless crimes to further his own agenda.

When Jessica was sent by Killgrave to murder Daredevil at Avengers Mansion, she was rescued by Carol Danvers - the only Avenger who actually knew her. She went through extensive telepathic therapy with Jean Grey of the X-Men following this, who helped her place psychic barriers in her mind to protect her from future mind control. Jess also began a brief romance with SHIELD agent Clay Quartermain. The traumatic experience with Killgrave, combined with the fact that no one seemed to notice Jewel's absence for the eight months he controlled her, Jessica was disheartened to the point of hanging up her superhero identity.

Changing tact, Jess reinvented herself as "Knightress," and, while facing the Owl, encountered Luke Cage for the first time, developing an immediate and lasting friendship. This new persona was short-lived, and Jessica retired, becoming a PI working out of Hell's Kitchen. Carol set her up with Scott Lang, and the two dated for several months. Following the short romance, she started an on/off relationship with Luke. Killgrave escaped custody, then, and, obsessed with Jessica, sought her out and tried to control her again. Her psychic blocks and willpower allowed her to shake off his thrall and defeat him. Afterward, she and Luke confessed the depth of their feelings for one another and, after Jessica became pregnant with their child, began a loving and committed relationship.

During her pregnancy Jessica took a break from the PI business and became a superhero correspondent for the Daily Bugle. Following an altercation with the Green Goblin, and the Bugle's smearing of the New Avengers, Jessica quit. She moved in with Luke during the last months of her pregnancy and, when she gave birth to their daughter, named her Danielle after Luke's best friend, Danny Rand. Shortly thereafter, the two married. Jessica played a pivotal and supportive role to the Young Avengers in their formative days. She, Beast and Hawkeye tried to diffuse the situation when the Avengers discovered Wanda Maximoff's whereabouts and sought to punish her for the events of M-Day. Again, she helped support the Young Avengers and fight Doctor Doom during the ensuing battle, comforting Hulkling and the rest after Vision and Stature perished in the battle.

When the Superhuman Registration Act was put into affect, Jessica and Luke declined Tony and Carol's offer to join. Jess moved into Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum but, after an attack on it by the Hood, was fearful for Danielle's safety and, separating from Luke, signed the SRA. The separation was short-lived, because when Jessica joined the fight against the Skrull Invasion, she was reunited with Luke. The Skrull disguised as Jarvis, however, abducted her daughter. Luke, with the secret help of Norman Osborn, found and rescued Danielle, returning her to Jessica. She was present when Spider-Man revealed himself as Peter Parker to the New Avengers. Jess assisted the team save Hawkeye from capture by Osborn, and Peter tried to convince her to return to superheroism as a way to present a good example to Danielle.

For a brief period, Jessica rejoined the New Avengers as Power Woman alongside her husband, and hired Squirrel Girl as Danielle's nanny. After several incidents, and a threat by Norman Osborn, Jessica left the team and took Danielle into hiding, finding it too dangerous to have her daughter living at the Mansion with how much danger it was always in. Later, Jessica was an ally to her husband's Mighty Avengers team, who used their apartment as a base of operations. Superior Spider-Man approached Jessica to join a team of Avengers of his own design and, after he leveled threats, she refused his invitation and punched him out cold. Jessica, Luke and Danielle switched apartments with an old friend of Luke's.

It was around this time that Jessica decided to reopen Alias Investigations. She participated in Captain Marvel's plan that ended in the arrest of Alison Green. Jess's next case involved Maria Hill and, when she refused to cooperate with SHIELD Director Sharon Carter, was arrested, though Matt Murdock's intervention freed her. After Luke, Danny and Daredevil interrupted up-and-coming crimelord Diamondback's agenda, he retaliated by attacking Jessica, hospitalizing her. She recovered quickly and, as a team, the four of them went after Diamondback, leading to his arrest.

During Hydra's rise to power in the United States, Jessica joined the Defenders and, alongside Cloak and Dagger, Doctor Strange and Spider-Woman fought the Army of Evil. Ultimately they were defeated by Nitro and trapped in a Darkforce dome by Blackout until Hydra's toppling. Jessica and the Defenders attended Diamondback's trial, but he walked away due to an unknown benefactor's machinations. They sought him out and defeated him for good shortly after, and the Hood next, who tried to take over Diamondback's operations following his defeat.

Next, Purple Man, who had escaped SHIELD custody, sought Jessica out yet again. Though she initially hid from him, Jess confronted Purple Man, refusing to be afraid and seemed to force him to confront how evil he was. He left their meeting place and apparently dropped dead in the street. Later, Jessica found the body of a former client with an unresolved case in her PI office which dissolved into a complex case involving a reality-warping serial killer targeting women with power - literally or influentially. When Danielle turned purple on her second birthday, Jessica had to call in a favor from Emma Frost to help track down the person behind it: Purple Man's son, who was using his father's (kept in an induced coma by him) blood to control people via injection. Ultimately, he was defeated, but escaped, and Danielle returned to normal with no ill side effects.

Subject Interview

There were a hell of a lot of reasons why the superhero gig hadn't stuck for Jessica Jones. One of the top five on that list? "I &%$#ing hate fighting," she grumbled while the jack**s on the receiving end of her punch was knocked clean through some drywall. And, really, Jess did. Abrasive attitude, gutter mouth and therapeutic outlet for frustration and anger that fights were aside, they were just so unnecessary.

Unnecessary and, in most cases, (like this one), unhelpful. Avoidable. A huge pain in her a**. When she'd let herself into the allegedly abandoned apartment to follow up on a lead - not exactly legally, but hey - the last thing Jessica wanted was a scrap. She'd not even started it, swear to God. No, it was all the d-bag she'd just knocked into another room's idea, despite her telling him she didn't want any trouble.

Jess's attention swept over the dusty living room that she stood in. Molded takeout containers, signs of disuse and a paper three weeks out of date. All indicators that the woman she was looking for hadn't been at her last recorded address for a while. She took in the identifiers in a second before a grunting sounded on the other side of that new hole in the wall.

"Was it too much to ask for you to stay the hell down?" Jessica sighed. The guy was in a ski-mask, because of course he was. That, his breaking-and-entering, and throwing the first punch (even if it'd gone wide) all pointed to him being... difficult. But, like she said before: she hated fighting. So she tried the diplomatic approach. Again. "I don't want to do this, kay?" Jess held up her hands, again in a sign of peace and backed up while ski-mask climbed through the tear in the drywall.

"You tell me why you're here, I'll tell you why I'm here, then we decide if I beat the s**t out of you. Sound good?" He lunged for her just as soon as he regained his balance. Jessica sidestepped, sticking out one leather boot to trip him. He sprawled on his stomach. Reaching down with disdain snagging her features, Jess grabbed him by the back of the shirt and threw him into the ceiling. He hit, shaking dust loose, then hit the ground again. He didn't get up. "A**hole," Jessica said to his unconscious body. Then she stepped over him and continued her snooping.

Author's Notes

Player Alias: Di

Other Characters: Wanda Maximoff

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