Zessica Wong (ゼシカ・ウォン, Zeshika Won) is one of the main female protagonist in Aquarion EVOL. She is a Neo-DEAVA student and a pilot, she took an interest in Amata and likes to tease him, much to Mikono's displeasure.
Appearance[]
Zessica has short green hair and violet eyes. She has slightly tanned skin and wears skimpy clothing.
She's usually seen wearing a short sleeveless white and black shirt with a gap on the center, through which her cleavage is visible. It has black straps that forms an X around her back. This shirt covers very little as even her side breasts can be seen from certain angles. She also wears a gold and black brooch around her collar. Along with this she wears white shorts with black linings that also have a gap on the right side as well as in the backside, showing that she isn't wearing any underwear. She wears black and yellow boots and a little yellow bow in her hair.
Her swimwear consists of a black bikini with yellow linings and a yellow ribbon in the collar. In the 2013 calendar, she wears a yellow bikini with the lower part having black stripes, alongside a pair of light blue shorts and a white shirt.
In the last episode she is seen wearing a yellow hoodie.
In certain artworks she's drawn with light blue hair, such as in the cover of the novels and in the 2013 calendar.
Personality[]
Zessica is a confident, cool and slightly arrogant girl. In the first episode, Zessica states that unification with girls is boring and wants to try it with boys, resulting in MIX and Suomi scolding and lecturing her on how "impure" that would be. She's interested in boys, as she alongside the rest of the female student body has been forbidden to interact with them. Regardless of the rules of not having romantic relationship with male students, she still pursues Amata and constantly flirts with him. She sometimes can be mean, and there's moments where she feels jealousy of Mikono, but nevertheless she supports everyone in battle and stays cool-headed and in control, at some point she even tries to advise Mikono into showing more skin to attract Amata's attention.
Because of her powers, she wears skimpy clothing and isn't afraid to show her body, taking pleasure in teasing Amata by jumping onto him or rubbing her breasts onto him. She also does this to tease Mikono, knowing that it makes her jealous, as she challenges her to do something or else she'll try to take Amata for herself. However, Amata never reciprocates the flirting and instead tries to get her off him or ignores her in favor of Mikono. She tries to come off as laid-back and tomboyish, but in reality she cares a lot about her image.
Despite this, Zessica later grows to genuinely care for Amata, helping him multiple times and, at one point, even sacrificing herself for his sake. She secretly wishes that Kagura would take Mikono away so that she can have a chance with Amata, and tries to disuade Amata from going after him when she's kidnapped. When it's believed that Kagura and Mikono are Apollon and Silvie, she worries that Amata won't be able to take it and that Mikono will inevitably hurt him, as she and Kagura are supposedly destined to be together. She grows uneasy about the rumors that Amata and Mikono are destined to be together, as she develops feelings for him and wishes to be with him.
Zessica as she's about to tease Amata.
After confessing her feelings to Amata, he rejects her, leaving Zessica heartbroken and insecure. Due to this, she starts imitating Mikono in a last effort to gain Amata's attention, however it doesn't work. From this point on she constantly compares herself to Mikono, as her confidence and pride are deeply hurt. Mikage takes advantage of this and, as her negative feelings dwell inside her, he takes possession of her and torments her as her captor. When she encounters Kagura in the last episode, she asks her to kill her as she has lost all the will to live.
She has a fear of supernatural things, like ghosts, but tries to hide it because it embarrasses her. Like the rest of the female student boy, she's creeped out by Kagura's aggressiveness.
Background[]
Zessica being praised by the female students.
Little is known about Zessica before she arrived to Neo-DEAVA. One of the drama CD's states that she was bullied by other human children because of her powers.
She is very popular in Neo-Deava, along with MIX and Sazanka. She's admired by other girls for her strength in battle and because she was one of the first girls to make union with a boy. She, along with Sazanka and MIX are part of school's choir. MIX sometimes scolds her over her outfit, saying that she's showing too much, though Zessica usually ignores her.
Powers and Abilities[]
Zessica's element power is Distortion (捻れの力 Nejire no Chikara), which allows her to warp structure of objects and project bolts of kinetic force. She additionally possesses a secondary element power that lets her extend extra-sensory perception through her exposed skin. In one episode, she saw a vision of Kagura and Mikono in her mirror, but it is unknown whether this is actually a manifestation of latent element power or one of Mikage's many tricks. She's a very capable pilot, staying cool-headed in the most dire situations, and even manages to defeat Jin in battle. Zessica belongs to the school choir, showing that she's capable of singing as well.
Relationships[]
Zessica, in the background, jealous of Mikono as Amata ignores her.
Amata Sora[]
Zessica begins to develop feelings for Amata as the series progresses. Initially, she teases Amata merely for her own amusement as she enjoys his and Mikono's reactions, but as her feelings deepen her demeanor becomes increasingly melancholic as she realizes that Amata is too in love with Mikono to return her feelings. Eventually, she becomes so jealous of Amata and Mikono's relationship that her telekinesis begins to randomly distort nearby objects. As the series progresses, her teasing of Amata decreases and instead she spends more time worrying about his well-being, and even turns shy around him on occasion.
Zessica is also torn by the vision of Mikono and a winged Kagura embracing one another. She believes that Mikono will choose Kagura, which would break Amata's heart. This pushes her to love Amata more, as she desires for him not to ever be lonely. She constantly tries to look out for him and help him in any way she can, going as far as sacrificing herself to save him when he's near certain death. Unfortunately, Amata never reciprocates her feelings, but thanks her anyways.
Mikono Suzushiro[]
Zessica telling Mikono that all guys want girls like her, possibly referencing Amata.
Although they have a few misunderstanding regarding Amata, Zessica and Mikono get along. When Mikono refuses to take her relationship with Amata further, Zessica teases her and tries to convince her to be more like herself (that is, wear skimpy outfits) to attract Amata. After Amata rejects her, Zessica grows insecure and jealous, trying to imitate Mikono in a desperate attempt to gain Amata's attention, wondering what does Mikono has that she herself is lacking.
When Kagura's element powers awaken, Zessica's ESP lets her see a vision of Mikono and a winged Kagura embracing one another, making her believe that Mikono will choose Kagura, which would break Amata's heart. It's unknown whether this is product of her powers or another fabrication of Mikage. She secretly wishes Kagura would take Mikono away so she could have Amata for herself, and she admits to being relieved when she heard that Kagura and Mikono are destined for each other, because it'd meant that she could have a chance at being with Amata. She doesn't worry about Mikono when Kagura kidnaps her because she understands that he won't harm her.
Trivia[]
- Her esper-like powers are similar to Silvia's psychokinesis from the original Aquarion.
- She shares the same voice actor with Chloe Klick from the original series.
- Towards the end of the show she's seen to get along with Shush, Mikono's pet.
- Ironically, Zessica's fear of ghost results in her downfall. Mikage is technically the ghost of Toma, and even possesses her towards the end.
- In a Biglobe popularity poll made during the show's airing time, Zessica ranked 1st in the female cast, with a total of 2146 votes. She ties with Yunoha as the most popular female character.
- In the promotional poster for the show, Zessica is seen holding tarot cards, even though she's never shown to know about tarot during the show.
- Zessica, along with MIX and one of the extras, has one of the biggest breast size in the female cast.
- In the manga version of the Aquarion EVOL manga, when Mikage possesses Zessica towards the end, she turns into a man. Following the same name change as MIXY, this would turn Zessica into ZEXY. Notice the pun.
- Zessica's character design resembles that of Ranka Lee, a character from Macross Frontier, a show directed by the same creator of Aquarion, Shoji Kawamori. They both have short green hair, and Zessica's dress resembles Ranka's schoolgirl uniform.
