jesse quick.
- Her parents take the superhero stuff incredibly seriously, and that’s why Jesse is so disenchanted with it. The teenaged rebellion phase has lasted ten years longer than it should have.
- It was expected that after she finished school she’d join the family business (i.e. super hero-ing and doing something important at Quick Start Enterprises).
- She just used a good chunk of her trust fund to buy this ancient brownstone with balconies and three floors that are much too big for just her all by herself. It’s filled with vinyls and canvases that she’s too lazy to mount on the walls; endless collections of things.
- And an arthritic cat named Lance that hates her (she hates him right back).
- They go together well, though, because of how alike they are in temperament. She dresses him up in dog sweaters because he’s slowly losing his hair and the bald patches embarrass her.
- Her father made her memorize the speed formula that allowed her to tap into the speed force whenever necessary because of his desire for her to follow in his footsteps. Be a speedster, be a CEO, never have a moment to take a breath.
- The dissertation she wrote in school was on the impact Heroes Have On Society. It was written just to spite her parents, because Jesse lives to spite her parents.
- Wally West is her best friend, but she’s really not good at expressing her feelings so mostly she beats on him (e.g. Wally your haircut makes you look like a lesbian; Wally it’s okay if you can’t get it up for the Asian I’m sure she doesn’t expect much from you anyway; Jesus Christ Wally can you pull your head out of your ass for just a minute?)
- She’d still do anything for him. Making him cry is just too easy.
- Eventually she gets in to the whole hero thing because it gives her something to do. Instead of sitting around her house watching Days of Our Lives. Also the desk job she has at QuickStart (receptionist; worst receptionist; never answers the phone and falls asleep at her desk receptionist—her dad can’t fire her because she’s family).
- Then her dad dies and she has an Empire Records moment where she cuts all of her hair off and sits around all day in nothing but her underwear just kind of crying all the time because everything sucks.
- Before her father’s death she rarely smiled; after, it’s nearly impossible for her to.
- Jesse Chambers is gay as a window. She likes tits and fanny and it suits her just fine. Her parents find out when she gets caught macking a girl two years ahead of her at her boarding school. Thus began the long time when her mother set her up on dates with ‘nice boys’ like Rick Tyler (but he’s not important yet) and Jesse continually makes her cry by holding hands with Manic Panic girls with rings through their noses.
- The most important girl is one called Leslie Willis. Livewire. Villain.
- Another thing she fucks up after her father dies and she can’t stand to be around other people.
- Which is when Rick Tyler becomes important, and Wally pesters her with all these questions like “Who’s Rick, Jesse? I thought you were a lesbian, Jesse. When’s the wedding, Jesse? Jesse? Jesse? Jesse? Does this mean you’re not even marginally homo anymore?” (their friendship is based on the belief that if you’re sorta gay and i’m sorta gay then together we can be fully gay).
- Rick makes her feel whole again and she hates herself for it. He coaxes her into doing things she doesn’t want to do. And two years after they start dating she allows him to propose. Wally is her Maid of Honor.
- She’s mostly kind of a bitch.
- But.
- It suits her.
