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[underachievement]

Character Info
Name: Jessica Jones
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Canon Point: Jessica Jones season 2, episode 1
Age: 35

Background: MCU wiki: Jessica Jones. Content Warning: For the series itself and mentions in the application of substance abuse, consent violation (mind control, sexual assault), suicide ideation, and a cavalcade of death and trauma. No graphic descriptions in app.

Personality:

Above all, Jess is resourceful. In her twenties, she had the grades and testing acumen to get into university but dropped out due to degradation in her personal life. Before becoming a private investigator, Jess worked a series of "McJobs" to make ends' meet: minimum wage office work and food service. She found these unchallenging environments extremely boring and barely made an effort in them. Despite her poor attitude, she continued to get hired. In one case, she obtained a reference by blackmailing her fund-embezzling manager. As a PI, she's adept at assuming false identities and personas to gain access or information in the interest of a case, and uses her powers to get results others can't. They also play into her professional reputation.

Jess is her own knight. When she fantasizes about getting away from Kilgrave, she isn't rescued by anyone else, not even her sister; she breaks the spell herself and rides away on a white horse, a symbol of unexpressed emotional and physical desires (in this case, the desire to leave her abuser). When her sister implies she is dependent on her financially, Jess immediately moves out of their apartment and into her rebound boyfriend's, where she's the breadwinner for both of them. Well, bread stealer. By her thirties, she no longer uses her powers for material gain, just to give her an edge in her work.

After her abduction, she moves out of Trish's apartment and barely sees or speaks to her for several months. After Kilgrave's return, Jess shuts down Alias Investigations and hooks up a landline to more easily ignore the flood of literal calls for help. When she does start to take cases again, Trish remarks that they are meaningless, as are Jess's sexual partners. An offer from Luke to reconnect as friends is never actioned by Jess. She's never looked into the origin of her abilities as it won't change the tragedy that preceded their application. As much as Jess despises being the way she is, she doesn't feel deserving of an improved life. On a surface level, she considers this self-protection. She does not want to chance losing someone else she's come to care about, like Hope or Matt. She values her few friends more than she does herself.

She can be and usually is a jerk. Anyone who's met her can remark on how rude and unfriendly she is: prone to swearing, lying directly and by omission, threatening strangers, etc. She treats her close friends badly, most often by alienating them from her or vice versa. Compliments bother her, whether surface or sincere, as does any assumption that killing is in her character. Dramatic behaviour does nothing to move her or provokes a sarcastic response. Impromptu gifts are, to her, burdensome debts. Should she display genuine empathy, she tries to minimize the importance of it or excuse herself from the situation entirely.

She can choose to ignore peoples' pain unless confronted with it directly, even if that someone is a pain in her ass (Malcolm). She'll break a vow of non-interference witnessing abuse, such as protecting Trish from her showbiz mother. At her core, Jess wants to make the world a better place, she wants to help, just like she helped Malcolm the night she met Kilgrave.

That said, her low self-regard can lead her to sabotage relationships or start them under false pretenses. She forms a fixation on Luke Cage after murdering his wife while mind controlled. This includes stalking and taking pictures of him as though he were the subject of an investigation. Eventually, Jess confesses to the murder and to knowing who he was prior to meeting him, but this honesty is forced out of her by circumstances endangering a third party. She can be downright manipulative in pursuit of her goals but would not place an innocent bystander in harm's way and would put herself at risk to defend them.

She's disarrayed. Jess's apartment is a mess and a blatant extension of her mental state. In the first season, she's only once seen cleaning up the accumulated debris, but never stocking up her increasingly barebones kitchen with anything other than liquor. Her fridge and wall are plastered with takeout/delivery flyers and the one "meal" she prepares for herself is a basic PB&J, indicating she doesn't plan ahead when it concerns her day-to-day wellbeing, physical or mental. She outright states to Malcolm, when he suggests she talk about her problems to someone, "I prefer repression." Jess offers Malcolm's same advice to others on two occasions, however she immediately addresses her own hypocrisy both times.

Along with repression comes the occasional unhealthy combustion of emotions. Aside from the grief and depression she struggles to manage, there's a deep rage in Jess that she lacks an appropriate outlet for. At life's unfairness, at society's bullshit, at anyone assuming they know what she's about. When this anger boils over, Jess can act without thinking, usually expressing it through her fists. Even when it's targeted at a specific individual, Jess still has the wherewithal to eventually pull herself back from the brink and would never grievously injure anyone in this state. These episodes leave her deeply ashamed at her lack of control and further cement the belief that being alone is what's best for everyone.

Jess has diagnosed PTSD. Despite emerging victorious, Jess is still recovering from Kilgrave's abduction, his return, Hope's death, and all the other deaths incurred before and after. Her diagnosed PSTD is shown to manifest in nightmares, insomnia, panic attacks, flashbacks (less frequent by season end), and her dependency on alcohol. Anything erring close will be preceded by a clear warning, which may also include mentions of past suicide ideation or Trish's drug abuse, significant focus on Jessica's alcoholism, and other potentially harmful subjects. An opt-out and permissions posts will be provided and linked whenever relevant.

Powers:

• enhanced strength: can lift a sedan, superhero jumping
  
• enhanced durability: can get hit by a food truck and walk away with only bruised ribs, but can be damaged by bullets and scarred by knives
  
• enhanced speed: can run a mile in under 4 minutes
  
• viral immunity: unaffected by a specific strain if mind control; zero defense against any other form of mental tampering

Inventory: The clothes she's wearing (leather jacket, jeans, Henley, boots) [1], a messenger bag [2] containing her camera [3], laptop [4], corresponding chargers [4] and an empty thermos [5]. And a pizza in a box. [6]

Samples:
Deerington TDM containing several threads, take your pick.

Augury
Opt-In Kinks: Anonymity; Bites, bruises; Breathplay; Clothing; Competition; Cuddling; Dirty talk; Drug, alcohol use; Endurance; Fighting, wrestling; Gags, silence; Hair pulling; Hands, fingers; Hurt, comfort; Kissing; Messy; Multiple orgasms; Negotiation; Oral fixation, oral sex; Orgasm control, denial; Phone sex; Possessive, leaving marks; Power play; Rough sex; Rubbing, grinding; Scratching; Sensation play; Sexual exhaustion; Size difference.
Opt-Out Kinks: Age difference, ageplay; Authority figures; Blades; Bloodplay; Branding, burning, scarring; Bodily secretions; Body alteration, injury; Body worship, fetishization; Branding, burning, scarring; Cages, confinement; Coercion, blackmail; Consent play; Emotion manipulation, altered mood; Exhibitionism; Feathers, fur, velvet, silk; Fisting; Flogging, whipping, caning; Gore, vore, guro; Humiliation, degradation; Immobilization, mummification; Jewelry; Licking; Medical play; Mirrors; Obedience; Objectification; Orientation play; Photography, videotaping; Piercings, needle play; Snuff, necrophilia; Sounding; Spanking, paddling; Suspension; Tattoos; Vehicles; Voyeurism.

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[underachievement]

First Impressions Physical appearance? Black shoulder-length hair, hazel eyes, pale skin, with no visible disfigurements. Thin build belying sturdy muscles (but by no means swole). Wardrobe? Leather jacket, jeans, Henley, black boots. Demeanor? Tense in the neck, shoulders, back and hands, self-assuredly lazy gait, unless she's stomping. Glowering body language either closed off or beyond caring. Sound? Scratchy voice in a low but feminine octave. Tinged with sarcasm in most cases. Smell? Whiskey and sweat. Cucumber soap, if she's recently bathed. Abilities? Jess makes casual use of her enhanced strength. Permissions Physical affection? M/F and F/F. Jess frequently indulges in casual sex and one night stands. Outside of a sexual context, she is unlikely to initiate physical affection or receive it particularly smoothly (IE hugging, hand holding). Physical violence? Fights and minor injuries are greenlit but I would prefer to discuss anything more significant than flesh wounds. Telepathic surveillance or influence? As this is a PTSD trigger for Jess, please discuss first. Magic? She has none herself but is accepting of its existence. Please ask before using it on her. Relationships? All CR is welcome, from negative to friendly to mutually transactional. Happy to handwave one-off encounters (including one night stands) and friends with benefits, as long as we discuss it briefly so everyone's on the same page. Offensive subjects? She will be offended by active displays of abuse and prejudice. The mention of them is fine. Please be aware that Jess has diagnosed PTSD, routinely manifested in depression, paranoia, insomnia and alcoholism. Further symptoms (panic attacks, flashbacks, episodic rage, suicide contemplation) may present if triggered. See below. Triggers? excessive licking, hotel rooms, her abuser (most likely via hallucination), mind control, loss of bodily autonomy (such as sexual bondage), mentions of her abduction, car accidents. OOC CR Opt-Out: If you don't want to be tagged by Jess, please PM me or leave a screened comment here with your character journals so that I can best accommodate your preference. No hard feelings. Considering the themes of her canon material it's more than understandable. Tagging style? I write in present tense, third person in prose or action, first person in dialogue. For consistency, I'll swap to match your preferred style, but I may slip back to my default in some tags, purely by accident. Timezone? Tagging habits? PST, available daily. Backtagging? Welcome, within 1-3 weeks. Please ask, if longer than that. Threadjacking? Please ask first. Smut? I am down to write it or fade to black, and may prefer one over the other based entirely on my current tag-load. Offensive subjects/triggers? None, personally. I would ask that, however well-meaning, please do not mention me on anon communities.