Jessica Springfield

Jessica Springfield, also known as Jessika (stage name) or Jess (friendly name), is the main love interest in Redemption for Jessika (2016), and she also appears in several other titles in the Elsaverse as a side character. Jessica is the lead guitarist and singer of the rock band Mayhem, and also a "Spell-singer": she can influence people with her singing. She is in a relationship with Marc.

Personal
Since she was a school kid, Jessica's life has evolved around music. She was part of the school band, and even worked a whole summer when she was 12 to be able to buy her first guitar. Along with her best friend, Sarah, she kept practicing and improving her skills over time, and formed a rock band called "Mayhem". Their first real opportunity to shine came in an unexpected way, when a famous band called "FlareUp" visited Sangrive on tour but their opening act got food poisoned the night before the concert, and Mayhem were chosen as a last minute replacement. That night, Jessica was so nervous that she skipped the chorus on the first song, and then broke a string. But FlareUp's guitarist, Jimmy, came to the rescue and lend her one of his guitars, telling her that she was going to be great. From that moment on, Mayhem started a slow but steady path to success, playing mainly in Sangrive and building a decent-sized fan base for a local band. Meanwhile, Jessica started a relationship with Charles, the son of local tycoon Morland Reyes. What she didn't know, though, is that this relationship was actually the first move in a much bigger picture, and Charles role in it was just to mess her up and drive Jessica into a very dark place to prevent her from hampering Morland's evil plans.

One day, just before a concert, a short, blind woman approaches Jessica and tells her a crazy story about her having an unnatural power to influence people with her singing; Jessica brushes the stranger off, but then Charles breaks up with her moments before going on stage, and she starts the concert singing in anger: a riot breaks out in the audience and five people die. Feeling guilty for the deaths of her fans, as she realizes that the blind woman was indeed right and her voice can alter people's behaviour, Jessica falls in a depressive state that leads her to get drunk almost every night in a bar across the street from her home. Usually a confident girl, those events makes her doubt about everything and everybody around her, as she thinks that all her success, as well as all the people who seem to love her, are just a consequence of her having casted some kind of spell to attract them. And things just get worse when, five weeks later, she has to attend a hearing at Sangrive Courthouse in which the prosecutor tries to charge her guilty for the deaths of her fans: she's almost about to agree with him and confess, when her defendant stops her and manages to get the case dismissed.

That's when Jessica hits bottom; however, a whole bunch of people are already trying to help her out. For once, her school friends, Anastasia, Amanda and Alexis, who are using their own secret powers to help the police to chase Charles, as they consider him the real culprit of the riot. Xara, the short, blind woman who tried to warn her in advance, is also working with Miranda to protect Jessica during her recovery, as she knows thanks to Chloe's insight that there was something more to that riot. And, while he is not aware of any of this, one of her most loyal fans, Marc, is also determined to get to know his idol and, maybe, make her fall in love with him. Fortunately for him, he is immune to her voice, and this allows him to start a relationship with Jessica, who knows for sure she can trust Marc's feelings. Marc's kindness, empathy and common sense make the rest, and, after realizing that Charles did everything on purpose and was indeed the one who started the mortal riot, Jessica eventually accepts her power as a part of herself; then, when the moment arises, she uses it for a greater good, saving hundreds of people from dying in the terrorist attack Morland was planning.

Apart from her redemption story, Jessica is a confident, down to earth and charming girl who enjoys sex as part of the rockstar life. She has posed for an artistic nude picture that presides her living room, she's said to having had sex with fans before Marc, and has a voyeuristic side that is explored in one of Saving Chloe (2018) non-canon paths, as well as in Elsaverse: Transitions (2020-2021). Back in her school days, she dated Joey Bertradino once, but she quickly dumped him as he kissed like a fish. For that date, she practiced kissing with her friend Sarah, who has a long crush on her that was finally translated into some real action in the bonus scene of Redemption for Jessika and the aforementioned Elsaverse: Transitions. Both girls live together in a huge apartment that takes an entire floor and even has a professional recording studio in it, where Mayhem meet up for their rehearsals. They were neighbours of Jason before he moved to Elsa's.

According to Jessica's last appearance in the Elsaverse canon (in Elsaverse: Transitions), Mayhem is starting to make it big in the music business, and her relationship with Marc is stronger than ever.

Powers
Jessica Springfield is what Xara defines as a "Spell-singer": she has the ability to influence people with her singing. She can convey emotions with her voice, immediately altering her listeners' own mood to make them feel that emotion. The fact that she can broadcast and influence large crowds of people at once makes her power quite an effective weapon. However, that unnatural mood-changing effect wears off almost as soon as she stops singing; and, apparently, people can build an immunity to it by extensive exposition to her voice, thus limiting the potential utility of her power. According to Miranda's theory, which can be found in Finding Miranda, not only Marc is immune to her voice after being present in all of 23 Mayhem's concerts, but also Sarah and the rest of members of their band; in AAA (2018), neither the three protagonists nor Tina in the sound mixer station seem to be affected by Jessica's angry singing, all of them being childhood friends of Jess.

After achieving her redemption, Jessica agrees to help Xara by calming down her potential recruits and prevent them from running away like she did, but she will never force them to change their mind after listening to Xara. The calming effect of her voice works on Paul in Saving Chloe, when he meets Xara's Angels and the girls imply they know about his power; and also on everybody but Miranda during the final battle, when she sings a lullaby to stop the fight. And, although she wasn't aware of it back then, it's also foreshadowed in Dreaming with Elsa, when Jessica appears briefly during a building evacuation and Jason states that she's humming a soothing tune.

Miscellaneous

 * Jessica is the first main character in the Elsaverse whose last name is ever disclosed.


 * When Marc and Jessica see Charles before the Mayoral rally in RfJ, Marc's first reaction is to run after him, but Jessica stops her new boyfriend. When Marc objects, she says that he's already her hero, and that all what he has done for her (supporting her and being a kind friend and an unselfish lover) is way more important than how well he punches a guy. That line could be considered paramount of how masculinity and heroism are understood in the Elsaverse.