Jesiah Black | Xenogears

JessieName: Jesiah Blanche Black
A.K.A.: Jessie
Birthplace: Etrenank, Solaris
Age: 34
Date of Birth: 9965
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 170 lbs
Specialty: Guns
Gear: Buntline







Jesiah Blanche "Jessie or Jesse" is the oldest of the former Elements and also happens to be Billy and Primera's father. He was born in Etrenank, the capital of the Sacred Empire of Solaris. He's first class citizen, and one of Jugend's top students. Racquel and Stein were among his classmates. While in Jugend, he also met Ramsus, who shared his dissatisfaction with Solaris' policies for advancement, and together they created the elite team called "the Elements," and recruited Hyuga and Sigurd. Later on, he married Racquel, abandoned Solaris and went to the surface. It was said that Racquel encouraged him to make his change, insisting he experience the truth of the discrimination the lower classes lived with.

Jesiah was expected to be the next commander of Gebler, but the closer he got to central power, the more he learned about the nature of the government, and the M Plan or otherwise known as Malakh Plan. He took off from Solaris along with his family and established in Aquvy. There, Jesiah's first target for information was Maria Balthasar, whose escape he learned about in his research back home. He met Gaspar and fought against Solaris during the Third Invasion, helping Shevat's guerrilla forces attack a Solarian surface base and stealing Buntline in the process.

After the Invasion, Jesiah arranged his disappearance in secret with his wife so his family wouldn't be targeted by the agents he was sure Solaris would send after them. During this period he met and befriended operative Joshua Black, who agreed to guide him to Shevat. Unfortunately Joshua was wounded while they were fleeing from Solarian agents, and before he died, he suggested to Jesiah to take on his features, fingerprints, and name to continue his work. Jesiah complied, and continued his mission. Jessie soon found out that his wife was murdered. When he returned home, his son Billy was already cold to him, blaming and hating him for not being there when they needed him the most. Primera recognizes him as her father and loves him, but Billy is unwilling to trust him. Their conflict is only heated up by his disruptive behavior and distrust of the Ethos to which Billy had become a prominent member of.

Jessiah had a heated rivalry with his fellow Solarian soldier Isaac Stein (Later Ethos Bishop Isaac Stone), and it drove Stein mad for always surpassing him. Stein later on burst out his frustrations. Jessiah became an Element and Stein didn't, he became a Gebler commander and Stein didn't, and worst of all he won the love of Racquel whom Stein also cherished. Jessie suffered Stein's eventual wrath when he followed him to the surface and used Wels to have Racquel brutally murdered, then swooped in under the guise of a benevolent bishop of the Ethos to console his children and turned Billy against him.


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