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44. Jesse Custer
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Ha, you all were wrong.

Jesse Custer was a surprise appearance in campaign 1, being a Preacher out of place in Gotham of all places. He was a a player-favorite character, constantly at the tops of peoples' rankings, and was a nice little dash of DCU-unaffiliated Vertigo flavor.

Come to campaign 2. Jesse was a surprise encounter in the town of Warpath, a little place filled with refugees that Peacemaker (Chris Smith, not the one who died), Vigilante (not the one from the show), and Owlman were trying to get across the border into Mexico. Given that the party included one Spirit (Hombad's character who was played in campaign 1 and is a teenage doctor), Jesse was inclined to come back along with the party, as Taliesin (Scar's roommate, Raven's character) died in that session. And so Jesse, who would have kept looking for his girl Tulip instead, came back with the party as they were in bits.

Jesse hasn't gotten as much screentime as he did in campaign 1, despite being around longer in this campaign so far. That's just the nature of having so many God-damned characters, but still some gravitate toward him. In particular is Roz'etta, War's character who is a Saturnian (an offshoot race of Martians). Roz'etta worships the Martian god of death, H'ronmeer, and is the most religious PC by far. So she spends a lot of time with her old friend Jesse.

Recently, Roz'etta received a missive from Uncle Sam (the spirit of America, of whom we have a body representing one sliver of him) to rescue him and America. Roz'etta is pretty interesting in this regard, as most of the PC's are home-born Americans. My Saoirse is Swiss-Irish, and Raven's new character is Ukrainian. Roz'etta, however, is an alien from Saturn - otherwise, an immigrant to America. Perhaps the most American thing. Roz'etta brought Jesse with her to dive into a spirit vision from Uncle Sam, which has given Jesse some weird kind of new purpose.

After all, Jesse is a red-blooded American with a "Fuck Communism" lighter he inherited from his dad. He's a cowboy type. But he's already killed God. Like in his comic series, he makes a vow, and he was on way to do it in campaign 1, but here, he's done it. The only thing he has left to do is find Tulip. But now, he has a new mission - find a way to help America, and maybe condition it to be a little more like the America he believes in. Or just tarry away in our chapel, writing sermons, smoking, and being just a little bit of that spiritual wiseass that puts us on track.

Hint for 43: Out of all the characters remaining on this list, this one will be the most familiar to people.