Jessica

Jessica
Biographical Information
Alias(es)	Jess
Occupation	Drug Runner Writer
Status	Alive
Relationships
Relatives	Unnamed mother Unnamed father
Appearances
Actor	Phoebe Miu
First Appearance	"Chapter Eighty: Purgatorio"
Last Appearance	"Chapter Ninety: The Night Gallery" (flashback)

“	I was living with Jughead then. Yeah, things were good for a while. But then these writing deadlines started to get the best of him, and he started spiraling into this destructive behavior. To be fair, so did I. I'm a writer as well. I mean, we cared about each other. We just weren't good for each other, you know? I couldn't be around that energy, so I got out.	”
	— Jessica to Betty and Tabitha[src]

Jessica is a recurring character on The CW's Riverdale. She is portrayed by Phoebe Miu.

Jessica is Jughead's ex-girlfriend.

Character Description

A train-wreck-y hipster, Jessica is Jughead’s live-in girlfriend. Jessica makes no secret of the fact that she’s done with their relationship, since she can see that she’s not as important to him as the book he’s not writing.

Throughout Riverdale

Season 5

Breaking up with Jughead

Jessica breaks up with Jughead

Jughead slams his fists down on his typewriter in a fit of rage, as he struggles to write his novel. Jessica approaches after hearing the commotion. Instead of sharing his troubles with his girlfriend, Jughead meets with his agent, Sam, who informs Jughead that he’s no longer in the run for the staff writer job at the New Yorker. To make matters worse, their publisher is threatening to take back their advance unless Jughead produces pages for his next book. When Jughead returns home, he find an eviction notice on his door and Jessica on her way out. She no longer wishes to be with Jughead and is leaving to stay with a friend. She also informs him that debt collectors stopped by. Jughead pleads with her to stay, but she leaves, wishing him luck on his book, as it’s the only thing he cares about.

Running Drugs in Riverdale

Jessica delivers Jughead's drugs

Jessica arrives at Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe with Jughead’s maple mushrooms. She’s Speedy’s new runner. When he told her that Jughead asked for mushrooms, she got nostalgic and now wants to have one last trip together for old times sake, but Tabitha interrupts, claiming that she’s Jughead’s new girlfriend. Jessica backs down, telling Jughead that he owes her $500 and that he has a week to pay up.

Jessica also appears to Jughead while he's under the influence of the mushrooms. Along with Betty, they guide him to the bed, where they proceed to kiss.

Searching for Jughead

Jessica gets a call from Betty and Tabitha, asking about Jughead. However, she hasn't seen him. Jessica thinks he's just on a walk-about, but Betty insists that it's more than that. So, Jessica offers to meet them tomorrow so they can search for Jughead together.

Jessica looks through Jughead's office

The following day, Jessica, Betty, and Tabitha look through Archie's garage, where Jughead has been holding up. Jessica wonders if he was taking anything else, as her shrooms shouldn't have sent him overboard. She begins looking through potential hiding spaces but comes up with nothing and heads to the school. Betty, Tabitha, and Jessica check all over but turn up empty-handed and decide to check the bunker.

Jessica asks about the manuscript

They take Jessica to the bunker. Once there, she asks about the manuscript, which Betty has in her possession. She asks the read it, but then comes up with a new idea to take the shrooms together in hopes of experiencing what Jughead did, but the girls are very much against the idea. Jessica then comes up with a mother idea that Jughead may be headed back to New York to confront his demons and suggests that she go after him. However, before she goes, she wants to grab a bite at Pop's.

Jessica drugs Betty and Tabitha

Jessica buys Betty and Tabitha a plate of fries. During their sit-down, Jessica brings up the fact that Betty got with Archie and just how much that hurt Jughead. Betty retorts by replying that Jughead isn't so innocent and plays them a voice message from 2 years ago, with Jughead yammering on about how she bailed on him. He said that she pretended to be kind, but she's truly cruel, referring to Betty as a "cold, fake, duplicitous bitch." Jessica had no idea and says that she was living with Jughead then. Their relationship started out good, but then his writing started to get the best of him, causing him to spiral, as did Jessica. They weren't good for each other, so Jessica moved on. When Tabitha starts feeling hot, Jessica reveals that she sprinkled dry maple mushrooms in their food. Her plan was to wait for them to start tripping and ask for the manuscript because Jughead wouldn't ever allow her to read it. She then offers to get them to some place safe.

Jessica helps Betty and Tabitha back to the bunker. After Jughead used Betty as fodder for his book, Jessica was afraid he intended to do the same with her. And she doesn't want her friends and family reading that. Sympathizing with Jessica, Betty hands her the manuscript. Jessica advises them to let the trip take them and ride it out together.

The Source of Jughead's Trauma

Jessica brings Jughead shrooms

While attending an AA meeting at Riverdale High, Jughead recounts the moments leading up to his book release party, which include his then-girlfriend Jessica. After moving to New York, specifically a cramped apartment in the East Village, Jughead was hit with a lethal case of writer's block. Luckily, Jessica knew where to score some maple mushrooms. Jughead ingested the shrooms and began to trip, which allowed him to write 200 pages that night, and from that first draft came "The Outcast."

The year leading up to the publication of the book was a whirlwind. Jughead was drinking steadily, along with Jessica, who had moved in with him.

Jessica tells Jughead that he's in hospital

The night of Jughead's book release finally arrived, but it quickly began to derail after he got a call from Betty saying that she wasn't going to be able to make the book release after all. So, after a few more drinks, Jughead stumbled his way in the general direction of his party and woke up in a hospital room three days later with Jessica at his side. Jessica told him about how he went on an epic bender before ending up at St. Vincent's. Jughead recovered, but his relationship with Jessica only continued to deteriorate due to all the drinking and fighting. So, when Archie called him, he decided to come back home to Riverdale. Although, his drinking continued, and he hit rock bottom on Skid Row. He figured he needed to go back to New York and find out what happened during those three days he lost during his bender.

Jughead went back to St. Vincent's In New York and requested a copy of his discharge records, which stated that he had been treated for a rabies infection. Jughead then sought out Jessica, who revealed that the doctor's said when Jughead came in, he was raving and ranting about a "Rat King." A man that lived under the streets of New York.

Physical Appearance

Jessica is a young woman with tan skin, long brown hair, and brown eyes, best described as a "train-wreck-y hipster."

Appearances

Season 5

• "Chapter Eighty: Purgatorio"
• "Chapter Eighty-Six: The Pincushion Man"
• "Chapter Eighty-Seven: Strange Bedfellows"
• "Chapter Ninety: The Night Gallery" (flashback)
• "Chapter Ninety-Two: Band of Brothers" (mentioned)

Trivia

• Jessica is not a character from the Archie Comics. She's an original character, created specifically for the series.

Gallery

See also: Category:Images of Jessica