Jesse

Jesse Theotokos is the third encarnation of the Christ. He is preceeded by Seth and Yeshu (aka "Jesus") and succeeded by his sister Jessica.

In this life spanning from approximately 1994-2012, Jesse grows to be an 18 year old bisexual goth kid. His sexual orientation is known to his parents,Ely and Mary (otherwise known as the earthly incarnations of God the Father and the Holy Spirit) who naturally accept him fully. Although Ely expresses mild dissatisfaction with his son, it is his apparent laziness in not assuming his place in the natural order of the end times, which would include his death by martyrdom as per both previous incarnations. Jesse has been given a surname ("Theotokos") on earth in the 20th century so that he may attend school and be raised as a normal human being.

It is ambiguous whether or not his friends Lynn, Terry and Dashell are aware as his status as the Christ, but they gravitate to him both as a leader and as a lover, with the exception of Dashell who does hold feelings for Jesse, but in secret. Their group is very "free-love" and reflect both a goth and hippy mentality.

Originally, "Jesse" was mentioned in the short "the end" by Ely as a reason for him to leave Luc (he has to pick him up from school). When the time came to expand into a feature, the character would of course prove essential and writer/ director Brandon Scott Jensen chose a highly controversial way to incorporate the character not as a means to shock people, but because this version of a bisexual goth kid as Christ most served the story Jensen was trying to tell.

His name is left over from the mention in the short "the end" but was also used in a completely unrelated film Jensen made on the last days of Christ called "Vindico." Originally Jensen had planned to simply borrow all the names for the "related" characters of the representations of Mary Magdalyn (which was "Maggie"), Peter (which was "Pete") and Judas (which was "Jude). But with the help of Rachel Sampson, he decided to alter the names so as not to confuse anyone that might have seen both films written and directed by Jensen. Thusly Jensen took the last three letters from each of the characters original names and used that as the first three letters of these characters names. Thusly "MagdaLYN" becomes "Lynn," "PeTER" becomes "TERRY" and "JuDAS" becomes "Dashell." The name "Jesse" would have been altered too, but the mention of Ely's son "Jesse" had already been made and in retrospect, Jensen had no idea what name to make out of the first three leters of (Je)SUS anyway.

Jesse appears only in the feature "Canon" and is portrayed by Kai Mammoser.