the player can trigger the meeting event with jesse by going to the rear playground after school when the math competition has happened. if pc hasn't made any attempts meeting them, the meeting event will randomly trigger when pc comes late to the swimming class.
jesse is described to have a taller and leaner build than pc, if pc's body type is normal and below. they're seen as somewhat genderly ambiguous with an angry expression. both of their feminine and masculine counterpart is known to wear a black jacket over their uniforms. their feminine counterpart has longer hair, which will later be revealed that it is just a clip-on.
jesse is a temporary stimulant dealer. their prices for the drugs is cheap but only effective for a specific time of the day. they will not appear at school in the weekends.
jesse is paired with four attributes: love, lust, dominance and benefit. only dominance will always associate with jesse if the player want the relationship to be seller to buyer, maximum of 100%. if the player want to romance jesse, they have to decrease dominance by running errands for them and helping them promoting their business. finishing lowering dominance, jesse will offer pc a variety of cosumable for raising pc's skills and core characteristics permanently, gifts for other love interests. getting further into the type of relationship that pc wants with jesse is also a plus.
if pc makes it clear to jesse that they befriending them with ulterior motives, all of jesse's current attributes will be replaced with benefit. with benefit 's in place, jesse will become unromanceable, therefore will be only approacheable for transaction or questing. however, jesse will help the player out to repay their debts. at low benefit, jesse will give the player more tips at their job, they appear often when pc works at the cafe or the office building. at high benefit, jesse will decrease the work time of the job if they happen to visit the player. all these events will trigger at encounter rate of 30%, not accepting jesse's offer doesn't decrease benefit.
romancing jesse is simple like any other love interests. at this point, the player can find out that jesse is also a resident at the orphanage, but hasn't came back for a long time since they graduated. they aren't much older than pc although they still wear their school uniforms mostly for running their business with the students smoothly, or maybe it's actually for their identity, they mention briefly. jesse will show up with their respective other counterpart (they will show up more frequently with their feminine outwards if pc's initial meeting with them is masculine-based and vice versa).
love and lust will entirely replace dominance if pc decides to show obvious attraction to jesse. although building up lust is very difficult with them since they tend to advoid replying to pc's flirting, although some of the lines can it affect the attribute. jesse has one quest to offically become pc's love interest named "the field of youth". the quest includes three heist missions to a three locations set, one can only happen in one night, a two-week break is required inbetween. the set can be randomnized with different executing hour and difficulty: the neighborhood (domus houses, danube houses, strip club), the associate (police station, office building, hospital), the underworld (the docks, the brothel, the factory). these heists are unrepeatable, but can be played again if pc and jesse fail to finish. completing one of these quests will increase pc's crime stat for 300. jesse will also give the player a 60% share of the money if a heist is successful.
succeeding one of the heists will let the player has a option to get jesse become their offical love interest. succeeding three heists will open up the last quest named "the truth of youth". it is a long term quest if the player wants to learn more about the town, including the underground farm, the temple and the asylum. the truth requires preparations, be alerted.
these quests are available even if jesse's in benefit state. although the player will do all the preparations instead of jesse.
after dismissing orlean, jesse will rarely appear for a while. when pc goes to the garden of the orphanage, they will notice the body has been dug up alongside the rustic knife with high tending skill. no shorter than a week, a grave will appear near the beach on the coastal path to the farm. also with high tending skill, the player can make out the carving on the gravestone, seemingly "orlean cadler" with unintelligle numbers below the name. the rustic knife, broken in half, is neatly placed in front of the grave. jesse will come back to their usual schedule as if nothing has happened, pc would rather not make a comment about jesse's absence.
if the player accepts orlean's and jesse's confession on the same day, their dual route will begin.
high dominance: jesse sees no difference.
low dominance: jesse deems you wild.
low love: jesse is confused.
low love, low lust: jesse is interested in you.
high love, low lust: jesse wants your attention.
high love, high lust: jesse loves you.
low benefit: jesse is dissapointed.
high benefit: jesse accepts you.
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