#i am revealing literal plot and hiding jess backstory because i Want To Write It and that is the way i am thank u

[pechebeche]

You've given me jess moore brainrot. Tell me more pls. Or alternatively stat any supernatural character of ur choosing or do both. (You've given me the brainrot i thought i was done with this)

YES....join me in my protag jess moore hours!! Come To The Better Reality

i actually still haven't Fully decided what jess was studying in college. i know that the like anime version of the show had her as a law student, so i guess that would be the most 'canon compliant' one? and if i remember right a lot of fanfic made her a nurse?

but like. personally, im invested in a jess whose abilities translate into hunting in a less traditional sense. like i really love math whiz jess, whose ability to see patterns makes her an ideal researcher; or jess who planned to work in criminology or history, whose knowledge of different cold cases and unsolved crimes gives her insight to modern cases (ie one "episode" idea was that the police would call a copycat killing of the cleveland torso murderer only for it to turn out to be a vampire hunter)

i especially like the angle of historian jess because i think it works really well for the other themes of the story - a lot of it is abt, as jess is hunting down dean (the last person sam was seen with before his death), the discovery of His personal history in tandem with the confronting of her own, and the themes of uncovering the past

theres actually a very literal level of that where one of the first places jess investigates (because dean is fuckin off the grid that boys impossible to find if he doesn't want found!) is the winchester house, which is an actual haunted building with some WILD architecture, and the whole shtick is digging into the past of the winchester family on a Larger Level

(its also where she meets meg! meg is posing as a More Experienced Hunter who is ALSO looking for dean. she's the one who leads jess to the roadhouse and introduces her to jo, and she's kind of their cas for a while until it gets revealed she was Evil All Along. theres plot reasons for all of this but they're secret. the important thing is she and jo have a 10-year allies to friends to enemies to forced cooperatives to tentative friends to soft mutual pining to lovers arc)

the big mid-season twist of "s1" in the timeline is that dean finally goes on the grid with The Whole Shapeshifter Murder Debacle, and deans apparently dead so the trail goes cold...except they look closer at the reports from the town. they go and talk to zach and becky. and they confirm.

sam was with dean.

sam, who jess watched burn alive on her ceiling, was walking around with dean not more than a few days ago.

and jess has some QUESTIONS.