Editing Jessica Casabien (section)

==Personality==
She's noted that she doesn't especially like her chosen field of [[The Ruins]].<ref>“I was always terrible at English class, and so much of this stuff is like being asked to read something and figure out what it really ''means,''” Avery noted, as she wrote.  “But I like puzzles, and figuring stuff out.  It’s why I like the Path stuff.  As scary as a lot of it is.”<br><br>“I don’t really ‘like’ the stuff I do.  This.”  Jessica indicated the walls and the rain. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/08 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.7]]</ref>

Lucy noted that she seemed cold, hard to read.<ref>Jessica watched the exchange between Bristow and Alexander with a level stare.  It seemed to occupy her enough that she didn’t seem to notice or care about their whispers.<br><br>Very cold, very hard to read.  The most she’d talked had been about the Ruins. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/05 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.6]]</ref>

She believes that every community has a roughly similar ratio of bad to good people, mostly bad, and it's important to pick out the good people and surround yourself with a core of them.<ref name=":4">“Any advice?” Lucy asked.<br><br>Jessica turned, and gave her a serious look.  Jessica’s eyes flashed, actually ''flashed'', in the midst of turning dark, like Alpeana’s were.  The look faded, and she looked over Lucy again.<br><br>“I find,” Jessica said, “the proportion of bad people remains roughly the same.  If ten percent of people are assholes, they’re going to be assholes whether you’re in a big school or here, or in the city or a town like mine.”<br><br>“Where are you from?” Avery asked.<br><br>“Pic River.”<br><br>“I haven’t heard of Pic River.”<br><br>“Reservation.  Five hundred people.  Anishinaabe, or Ojibwe.”<br><br>[...]<br><br>“The proportions may remain the same, but the smaller the group, the harder it is to find the necessary number of people to surround yourself with, and the harder it is to avoid the monsters who are not Other.”<br><br>“I think maybe we’ve seen some small glimpses of the monsters here,” Lucy observed.<br><br>“Maybe.  In Pic River, the good people there are some of the best people I know.  I think you have to find a family, found family or blood, and I don’t think Zed, I, Eloise, Ulysse, or Amine can be yours.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/05 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.6]]</ref>

===Relationships===
She sometimes works alongside her fellow students at the Institute. Like them, she is presumably bound not to harm anyone associated with the Institute.

She's deeply dedicated to seeking an an [[Echo]] in the [[Ruins]] that has "fragmented" from her relative.<ref name=":5">"I lost someone important to me, and I went chasing after his echo, to try to bring it back somehow.”<br><br>“I’m sorry.  It’s been a while?  Does it get harder as time passes?”<br><br>Jessica looked up at the ritual circle that floated in the air.  “Yes.  But I was going in circles before I was invited here.”<br><br>[...]<br><br>“Good luck, anyway, with your cousin.  I hope you can resurrect him soon or whatever.  However that works.”<br><br>“Not a resurrection,” Jessica said, leaning back.  She sat on the bench behind Avery, and Avery could feel Jessica propping up a foot on the back of the bench.<br><br>“Not a-?”<br><br>“He’s not dead.  Something happened, and a piece of him broke away.  I need to get it back.”  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/08 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.7]]</ref>

From the [[Wikipedia:Biigtigong_Nishnaabeg|Pic River reservation]]. She has a good relationship with her community (or at least a close core of family and friends) and practices some of their religious rituals, but hasn't inherited any magical knowledge from them.<ref>“Did you get into it because of… family, or Anshi- I forget how to say it.”<br><br>“You can say Ojibwe.  We call ourselves Anishinaabe in Pic River, at least, because it’s, hm, encompassing.  The good people.  Most tribes around here are Anishinaabe.”<br><br>“Like I call myself a Ontarioian and a Canadian, but…” Avery hesitated as she saw Jessica’s expression change.  “I feel like it’s more profound for you?”<br><br>“You can just say Ojibwe,” Jessica said, more curt than before.  “And no, they didn’t teach me.  I’ve used some ceremonies and things my grandfather taught me before going on an expedition, but that was for me, more than it was the practice.”<br><br>Avery nodded.<br><br>“Mostly they don’t understand, but they support me. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/08/leaving-a-mark-4-7/ excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.7]]  </ref><ref name=":3">>SAY “He’s a bit of a prat though. Um. Jessica is more of a generalist. Went into the Ruins to look for a family member. We ran afoul of her twice before we convinced her to join up. Younger.” <br>Ray: The Pic River girl?    <br>>SAY “Yeah.  -  Bonus Content: [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/13 SunnyDay Logs]</ref><ref name=":4" />

Gay, with a girlfriend<ref name=":6">That wasn’t ''wrong'', but… it was frustrating, and it was that frustration that seemed to extend from Jessica.  Because Jessica was queer and casually cool, and she ''explored'' places.  And she was harder to engage with than the weird magic circle with the fish skeleton.  And when Avery tried to reach across that gap, which was a ''lot'' of reaching, then Lucy told her she needed to wind it back.  And Zed was saying, straight-up, that Jessica wasn’t good friendship material?<br><br>And like, okay, Jessica had a girlfriend and she was a few years older, and ''maybe'' that got a bit weird, so she was off limits relationship-wise, which just hammered home how small the number of available, eligible girlfriends was, and that ''sucked,'' especially when people in that small number could so easily not match Avery in personality, or life, or whatever.<br><br>But she just wanted a friend and it was ''this'' hard? - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/08 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.7]]</ref> who lives in Pic River.<ref name=":8">“My friend Jessica,” Zed said.  “She has a girlfriend.  She spends about half her time here, and half her time at the reserve, staying with her.  Before, I was going to suggest people you could trust or befriend.  And I got stuck.  Jessica can be trusted, if you need to talk to someone you haven’t…”<br><br>[...]<br><br>“So this Jessica, she can be trusted, but she can’t be befriended?” Avery asked.<br><br>
“Jessica has a lot on her plate.  I wouldn’t want to tell you you can be her friend, only for her to brush you off.  I’d be lying in that case.”<br><br>“She lost a cousin and the way she’s going looking for them, the loss stays fresh.  When she’s not here, she’s searching in some pretty rough places, or recuperating emotionally, taking a weekend or a week with her girlfriend,” Zed said. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/01 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.5]]</ref>

Avery has tried to reach out to her but found her standoffish.<ref name=":6" />

She's no fan of [[Alexander Belanger]] and doesn't care if he knows it.<ref>“And Alexander?”<br><br>“I don’t know.  He bothers me more than the other two,” Jessica said.  She leaned back, taking the book.  “When I look at Canada’s government and what it’s done over the last one hundred and fifty years, or when I look at police, education, business, any of that, and think of what’s wrong there, and how much ''awful'' there is, I imagine the awful comes from people who resemble Alexander.”<br><br>“Heavy,” Avery said.<br><br>“Except I think the people who I imagine being awful there are only halfway to being what Alexander is.  Or two-thirds of the way, at most.”<br><br>“He can, um, hear you, can’t he?  Alexander listens in?”<br><br>“Zed says so.  I believe him.  I don’t care.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/08 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.7]]</ref> She especially wanted to avoid getting tangled up in any political power plays in the school.