Jesse

Jesse is a playable character in Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake, Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. He's 24 years old.

Profile

A free spirit who hates the strict rules of the household where he was constantly told what to do and not do, Jesse's father was a high-ranking Zofian nobleman, and he was in fact friends with Clive and other nobles around his age. There were high expectations for Jesse due to his skill with the sword, but trouble arose with the birth of his younger half-brother, as Jesse himself was born to a low-ranking concubine rather than a proper wife. Most of their vassals hoped Jesse would succeed his father, but Jesse decided instead to abandon his family name and run away for the sake of his sickly brother's future.

At some point in time, Jesse encountered Silque being kidnapped by bandits. Realizing her plight, he rescued her and then accompanied her during her travels for a distance, parting at Zofia Harbour. Later on, Jesse attempted to save Est from Grieth, but was captured and imprisoned at the Desert Stronghold. When Celica's party frees him he then joins their team.

After the war, Jesse made his own nation in Grieth's land, joined by Saber and Kamui. He became known as the "Desert Mercenary King".

Personality

Jesse is a man who enjoys life without restrictions, leading to his ambition of creating a kingdom that could not be tied down by anyone. Being very flirtatious and often smooth talking women in Celica's army, and even Celica herself, he is also quite a dreamer as shown in his supports with Saber.

In-Game

Fire Emblem Gaiden

Base Stats

Starting Class
Mercenary
Level	HP	Str	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov
6	28	11	10	12	9	5	7	4
Magic				Starting Items
-				-

Growth Rates

Learnt Magic

Class	Level	Magic Learnt
‎Mage	1	Fire
	2	Excalibur
	9	Thunder
Sage	1	Recover

Overall

Subjective: The following part of this article is based upon the editor's personal experiences and opinions, and therefore may not be applicable for all readers.

In Celica's route, she gains access to three Mercenary units: Jesse, Saber, and Kamui. When considering the three Mercenary units that Celica can obtain, they can generally be simplified into 3 types. Saber is the durable, defensive Mercenary, Kamui is the all-rounder Mercenary with even stats, and Jesse is the late recruit with the best base stats and growths making him the most dangerous. An optional, Pre-Promoted Myrmidon, Deen, is also available to recruit. Deen is best described as fragile and aggressive.

Jesse can be considered a quasi Est Archetype, in that he joins a ways into the game and comes to you below your average party level. However, unlike Est, Jesse actually starts with better stats for his level than other characters of the same class. While Jesse's growths are very high, they are not quite as explosively high as Est's (Jesse having 190% total growth, and Est having 250% total in a game where the average is roughly 150%), but they are high enough where he will outshine characters of the same class. His starting level and stats should only be a little behind your current party, so giving him a sword and catching him up is perfectly feasible without any grinding. He is, overall, one of the strongest units available to Celica.

Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Base Stats

Starting Class
Mercenary
Level	HP	Atk	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov
6	28	11	10	12	9	5	7	4
Magic			Skills			Starting Items
-			-			-

Class Sets

Class Sets
Base Class	First Tier	Second Tier	Third Tier	Overclass
Villager	Cavalier	Paladin	Gold Knight	Skogul*
	Soldier	Knight	Baron	Spartan*
	Mercenary	Myrmidon	Dread Fighter**	Yasha*
	Archer	Sniper	Bow Knight	Oliphantier*
	Mage	Sage	-	Guru*

*DLC class; visit Shrine to access.
**Possible to loop back to Villager after Dread Fighter and Yasha.

Learnt Magic

Class	Level	Magic Learnt
Mage	1	Fire
	2	Excalibur
	9	Thunder
Sage	1	Recover
Guru	1	Lemegeton

Growth Rates

Personal Max Stats

Supports

See also: Jesse/Supports

• Saber
• Deen

Passive Supports

• Silque

Overall

Subjective: The following part of this article is based upon the editor's personal experiences and opinions, and therefore may not be applicable for all readers.

Jesse doesn't leave a great first impression. At this point, Saber and/or Kamui are most likely promoted, and Deen can join shortly after with significantly better bases, on top of being promoted by default. The other mercenaries offer advantages that Jesse simply doesn't have. However, even with all that against him, Jesse manages to be a decently viable unit thanks to his fantastic class and solid growths. In particular, his high luck and skill growths make him a fantastic user of the Zweihänder for fighting Jedah and other bosses in lategame, as he can deal significant damage via Tigerstance and his high crit with a much lower chance of being crit in retaliation than his competition. His speed growth is also a notable strong point, as he'll reliably outspeed the majority of foes, even ones that Deen or Saber may struggle with. His main drawback growths-wise is his 35% attack growth, which, while not terrible, hinders his raw damage when compared to Deen, Kamui or Atlas.

Jesse's bases are also somewhat usable despite his base level. He has the highest resistance of any physical unit up to this point, and he can take great advantage of it against the many arcanists and witches encountered in the next few maps. His 12 base speed helps him avoid doubles from the aforementioned witches, as well as certain other foes, along with helping double slower ones that other units may struggle with, though his damage output isn't spectacular. Finally, while 9 luck isn't amazing by any means, it is notably better than fellow mercenaries Kamui and Saber, and even the pre-promoted Deen, making him great at baiting certain dangerous threats. Unfortunately, his paltry 5 defense won't do him much good against enemy mercenaries and archers, which are fairly common in Act 3.

Overall, Jesse can be a pain to train up, but with some proper investment he proves to be a very valuable addition to the army. He is particularly good at abusing the combat arts of the Zweihänder, and faces much less crit than most of your army. While bringing him on par with the rest of your units can be a daunting task, it is almost certainly worth it.

Fire Emblem Heroes

• Original

Blithe Mercenary

A wandering, fun-loving mercenary who refuses to turn a blind eye to any woman in need. Appears in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Base Stats

Rarity: ✯✯✯✯✯

		Title
		Blithe Mercenary
		Group
		Infantry
Level	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res
1 40	17/18/19 39/42/45	9/10/11 42/45/48	7/8/9 44/47/51	9/10/11 28/32/35	10/11/12 29/33/36
Skills			Weapon
Hexblade Sword+ New Moon			Sword

Skills

Type	Name	Prerequisite	Default	Unlocked
	Iron Sword	-	-	-
	Steel Sword	-	-	-
	Hexblade Sword	-	-	-
	Hexblade Sword+	Hexblade Sword
	New Moon	-	-	-
	Moonbow	New Moon	-	-
A	Spd/Def Ideal 1	-		-
	Spd/Def Ideal 2	Spd/Def Ideal 1		-
	Spd/Def Ideal 3	Spd/Def Ideal 2		-
B	Repel 1	-		-
	Repel 2	Repel 1		-
	Repel 3	Repel 2

Overall

Subjective: The following part of this article is based upon the editor's personal experiences and opinions, and therefore may not be applicable for all readers.

Base Kit

Counters

Skill Inheritance

Meet Some of the Heroes

Blithe Mercenary Jesse
	Jesse is a free-spirited mercenary from the continent of Valentia. He's a friendly face who'll never leave a woman in trouble!
	The desert of eastern Valentia was once a lawless place ruled by Grieth's band of pirates. When Jesse saw that Est had been imprisoned by the pirates, he attempted to rescue her.
	But then the pirates caught him too. After being rescued by Celica, Jesse then joined her army, and together they saved Est!
	Apparently, it's Jesse’s dream to build a free country of his own. If that's his goal, then he's got my support all the way!
Closely Associated Characters
Est	Youngest of three sisters who are pegasus knights for Macedon. After being captured, she was saved by Jesse and the other members of Celica's group.
Celica	The princess of Zofia; trained as a priestess. Caring toward others, and dislikes fighting. Bears the Brand on her right hand. Rescues Jesse from capture by the pirates.

Quotes

Gaiden

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Jesse/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Quotes

Heroes

Jesse/Heroes Quotes

Endings

Gaiden

In the former territory of Grieth, he built a new country.
Afterwards, he became known as the Desert Mercenary.

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

After successfully founding a mercenary kingdom in Grieth's former land, Jesse then proved successful at ruling it. In times of strife, he worked with Alm to secure peace. Tales of his valor are told even now, in which he's reverentially called "the Steel Amidst the Sand."

Non-Canon Appearances

Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher)

Jesse is illustrated in the trading card game Fire Emblem Cipher with the following cards:

B16-055HN

Choose Your Legends Placement History

Round	Placement	Character Version	Votes

CYL1	747	Gaiden	43
CYL2	534 ↑213	Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	205 ↑162
CYL3	456 ↑78	Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	196 ↓9
CYL4	435 ↑21	Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	180 ↓16
CYL5	359 ↑76	Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	158 ↓22
CYL6	312 ↑47	Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	236 ↑78
CYL7	258 ↑54	Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	184 ↓52

CYL8

283 ↓25

Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

167 ↓17

Trivia

• The "Choose Your Legends" event of Fire Emblem Heroes revealed that he was 747th out of 791 with 43 votes, tying him with Grieth as the lowest scoring character of the Gaiden portion.
• In the "Choose Your Legends 3" event of Fire Emblem Heroes, Jesse placed 456th with 196 votes and was 49th out of the Gaiden/Shadows of Valentia characters, 28th out of the playable characters, 25th out of the male characters and 19th out of the playable male characters.
• Jesse is one of the three characters to trigger a different ending for other characters if he dies, but not the contrary, specifically Saber's and Kamui's. The others are Clive and Valbar, triggering Forsyth's and Leon's alternative ending, but the contrary won't happen.
• In the Italian version, there's a typo in Jesse's ending. His title in said ending is typed 'la lama della sabbie', while it should be 'la lama delle sabbie'. That's because 'sabbie' is Italian for 'sands', which is plural, but 'della' is a proposition that should be used before singular names. For plural names, 'delle' should be used.
• Jesse's artwork from Echoes depicts him wielding a Steel Sword.

Gallery

See main article: Jesse/Gallery.