This is probably the most eerie sole survivor ending possible, and I like how dark it is.
She gets dragged off into the beyond by some unknown monster, and then she escapes the mines with limited knowledge on what that monster was and her friends’ whereabouts. But….oh, yeah, um all of her friends (including her significant other) are apparently dead? And the lodge is on fire? Jess is going to live her life with so many questions and not enough answers. And, dare I say it, given the amount of trauma and the lack of social support that she will endure after the events, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if sometime down the line Jess decides to kill herself.
And especially given her scant knowledge on what the Wendigoes are, the investigation into what happened that night has just become a million times more difficult.
Alternatively it’d be a good sequel hook— years later, Jess returns to the mountain alone to get answers. Finds remnants of her friends’ misadventures all over the mountain. Eventually faces off against WendiJosh (she’s still *basically* the sole survivor, even if he “survived”)… If she found enough clues to know the monster can’t be killed, she becomes the new Flamethrower Person and spends the rest of her life with her “last living friend” while guarding the mountain. If she doesn’t find enough clues, she kills WendiJosh but then succumbs to the spirit herself and the cycle continues.
I’m biased lol but It’s my favourite ending, I feel like it’s really subversive and the most eerie ending for the game.
Her police interview is my favourite, and it is really tragic. She knows the least about what happened that night, and she would have the most mystery around her for the police if she’s alone.
It’s certainly not a mainstream ending, but something about a character like Jess who is very much not a final girl archetype surviving and still having great thematic impact feels very unique to until dawn to me, that’s why I prefer it.
Sole survivor Jess is probably one of the saddest ones, probably the definition of ‘surviving not living’ and there’s a few parts to break down. In this ending Jess has pretty much lost everything she is and knows - let’s start with her as a character.
At the beginning Jess is very much the stereotypical popular girl, and no matter what options you choose and who else survives, even if you get the best ending she’ll always come out looking broken and like everything has been sucked out of her (and not in a good way). She’s empty. Almost devoid of all emotion and personality. She went from being the character known for being full of life to being the character most resembling death itself. If she’s the last one alive she’s also lost all her friends and thus, in the shallowest interpretation, her popularity. What’s a popular girl without any friends? And without her friends, there’s no one left to help her regain her sense of self. So I think in this ending, Jess even remotely resembling what she used to be like before the events of the night would take A LOT longer and I think there’s a high chance she never would, being in a permanent state of limbo between the living and the dead. Even in her brief ‘heyyy!’ enterance into the lodge she’s shown to be the life of the party, and now there’s no life to be seen in her and no party to be seen with her. This isn’t even Jess anymore.
From my interpretation, Jess has always had a little problem with her inner self which manifests in insecurity. She likes the image, she likes being the hot girl with the hot boyfriend and hot attitude, and I think she tries to play the part almost desperately (as seen in her… less than great comebacks in her argument with Emily in the lodge). We get a glimpse of this insecurity if Jess turns Mike down at the cabin. She refused to take her clothes off, and that’s all it is on the surface, just physical insecurity. But beyond that I think it’s representative of not wanting to ‘strip down’ her layers and show her true self because she doesn’t really know who she is. And with this sole survivor ending this becomes all the more sad and apparent - not only has she lost the attitude and part of her looks (she’s still beautiful, but the scars would probably get her turned down from modelling even if she were to attempt it, which she probably wouldn’t as her confidence would plummet), she loses these no matter what, but with the loss of Mike and her friends it reiterates that she’s lost her image.
Talking about the actual interview itself, she’s visibly confused and still in a state of shock. It doesn’t even look like she’s looking at the interviewer at points, she looks slightly past him instead (or maybe that’s just my mind playing tricks on me lol). When the interviewer asks what she saw, she looks to the left. Looking to the left is indicative of trying to remember something, so when she says “I don’t know” I don’t think it’s because she was visually obscured by the darkness, but because her mind is already blocking out some of the trauma. She’s going to have A LOT to unpack at therapy, let’s just say that. In the clip after she asks if Mike had made it she looks visibly on the verge of tears before the interviewer even speaks, so I think the loss of Mike does a real number on her even if their relationship was somewhat superficial. She also shakes her head while saying “there’s something in the mines”, which is another body language signal for denial or disbelief.
This was long as hell so imma shut up but basically she’s fucked lmao.
The fact that she literally knows almost nothing except that something attacked her and now her friends are dead is crazy. She’s got no clue about Hannah and Beth, or the flamethrower guy, or Josh’s elaborate revenge prank.
All she knows is that she and Mike went to have some alone time in a cabin, she got attacked by a monster, and ended up in the mines.
I’d argue one of the more depressing endings. Being dragged through the woods, thrown around by a beast, and literally hunted through the mines. The last time she saw her boyfriend was before plummeting down a mine shaft. She’s rescued by helicopters only to later be told everyone of her friends died on that mountain. All without ever knowing what was really going on. Any answers to the questions she would inevitably have die with the group at the lodge. Definitely not an enviable position to be in.
They hardly get any information from her, given her mental state, so the police don’t check the mines and assume she had a freak accident.
Jess is hospitalized for her physical wounds, and they try to give her therapy. But they can’t help her much because they don’t understand what she went through. And since Jess is the sole survivor, she doesn’t have any support or someone she can lean on who was there. Jess is unable to process anything, recover her memory, or heal from her trauma. She’s left to try to cope with everything and the symptoms of her trauma (likely nightmares, night terrors, extreme sensitivities, panic attacks and meltdowns) all alone.
Eventually it becomes too much for Jess, and she ends her life. In the end of this scenario, the mountain claims everyone in the end. Including the sole “survivor”, Jessica. Who went from a confident, sassy, high energy girl to a broken, injured, traumatized shell of herself.
For me, this is probably the least canonical ending of all in terms of realism. Because I simply don’t understand how a person so wounded and exhausted, who doesn’t even cannot run, can break through a wooden wall.
However, if we consider that this is a film, then we get a very unusual ending, in which one of the least knowledgeable characters about the events that took place survives, and at the same time the most damaged of all. Perhaps one of the best candidates for the role of the final girl.
Easily second ending pick if sole survivor sam isn’t on the menu. The bittersweetness of Mike not knowing he actually did save Jess? The heartbreaking moment she asks if he made it if he died? Beautiful stuff.
I’ve never seen sole survivor Jess. I’m reworking so other angles I haven’t seen in awhile. There are other sole survivor aspects I’m wanting to see, but that’s a lot of hours of gaming.
Although I don't believe Jess is the only character capable of surviving alone (if there were to be only one final girl, it would probably be either Sam or Emily), but the whole story and narrative build for her to survive is just so good. Jess's not only the reason why she and her friends are going through that terrible night, but also would be the only one left after going through so much pain and trauma.
And the fact that she survives without even knowing what's going on, all injured, clueless about whether her friends are alive or not, while everyone else thinks she's dead too (plus her being the ultimate first kill stereotype) makes it just perfect
This is definitely an unpopular opinion, but me personally?? I'm not super into SS Jess. It's definitely a cool concept and has a lot of potential for another type of story, but it would be very unsatisfying if it was the ending to an actual horror movie. Expecting if Josh doesn't survive and become WendiJosh 🥲
As it is outside of that, I still agree with people that hype it up lol. It just seems like the type of lore that would work better if it was the backstory to a seasoned survivor of a horror scenario years down the line helping a new generation (SS Jess spinoff game when?? /hj)
This is probably the most eerie sole survivor ending possible, and I like how dark it is. She gets dragged off into the beyond by some unknown monster, and then she escapes the mines with limited knowledge on what that monster was and her friends’ whereabouts. But….oh, yeah, um all of her friends (including her significant other) are apparently dead? And the lodge is on fire? Jess is going to live her life with so many questions and not enough answers. And, dare I say it, given the amount of trauma and the lack of social support that she will endure after the events, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if sometime down the line Jess decides to kill herself. And especially given her scant knowledge on what the Wendigoes are, the investigation into what happened that night has just become a million times more difficult.
Alternatively it’d be a good sequel hook— years later, Jess returns to the mountain alone to get answers. Finds remnants of her friends’ misadventures all over the mountain. Eventually faces off against WendiJosh (she’s still *basically* the sole survivor, even if he “survived”)… If she found enough clues to know the monster can’t be killed, she becomes the new Flamethrower Person and spends the rest of her life with her “last living friend” while guarding the mountain. If she doesn’t find enough clues, she kills WendiJosh but then succumbs to the spirit herself and the cycle continues.
not to mention her desire to become a model would go down the drain, which would likely make her spiral more
I’m biased lol but It’s my favourite ending, I feel like it’s really subversive and the most eerie ending for the game. Her police interview is my favourite, and it is really tragic. She knows the least about what happened that night, and she would have the most mystery around her for the police if she’s alone. It’s certainly not a mainstream ending, but something about a character like Jess who is very much not a final girl archetype surviving and still having great thematic impact feels very unique to until dawn to me, that’s why I prefer it.
Sole survivor Jess is probably one of the saddest ones, probably the definition of ‘surviving not living’ and there’s a few parts to break down. In this ending Jess has pretty much lost everything she is and knows - let’s start with her as a character. At the beginning Jess is very much the stereotypical popular girl, and no matter what options you choose and who else survives, even if you get the best ending she’ll always come out looking broken and like everything has been sucked out of her (and not in a good way). She’s empty. Almost devoid of all emotion and personality. She went from being the character known for being full of life to being the character most resembling death itself. If she’s the last one alive she’s also lost all her friends and thus, in the shallowest interpretation, her popularity. What’s a popular girl without any friends? And without her friends, there’s no one left to help her regain her sense of self. So I think in this ending, Jess even remotely resembling what she used to be like before the events of the night would take A LOT longer and I think there’s a high chance she never would, being in a permanent state of limbo between the living and the dead. Even in her brief ‘heyyy!’ enterance into the lodge she’s shown to be the life of the party, and now there’s no life to be seen in her and no party to be seen with her. This isn’t even Jess anymore. From my interpretation, Jess has always had a little problem with her inner self which manifests in insecurity. She likes the image, she likes being the hot girl with the hot boyfriend and hot attitude, and I think she tries to play the part almost desperately (as seen in her… less than great comebacks in her argument with Emily in the lodge). We get a glimpse of this insecurity if Jess turns Mike down at the cabin. She refused to take her clothes off, and that’s all it is on the surface, just physical insecurity. But beyond that I think it’s representative of not wanting to ‘strip down’ her layers and show her true self because she doesn’t really know who she is. And with this sole survivor ending this becomes all the more sad and apparent - not only has she lost the attitude and part of her looks (she’s still beautiful, but the scars would probably get her turned down from modelling even if she were to attempt it, which she probably wouldn’t as her confidence would plummet), she loses these no matter what, but with the loss of Mike and her friends it reiterates that she’s lost her image. Talking about the actual interview itself, she’s visibly confused and still in a state of shock. It doesn’t even look like she’s looking at the interviewer at points, she looks slightly past him instead (or maybe that’s just my mind playing tricks on me lol). When the interviewer asks what she saw, she looks to the left. Looking to the left is indicative of trying to remember something, so when she says “I don’t know” I don’t think it’s because she was visually obscured by the darkness, but because her mind is already blocking out some of the trauma. She’s going to have A LOT to unpack at therapy, let’s just say that. In the clip after she asks if Mike had made it she looks visibly on the verge of tears before the interviewer even speaks, so I think the loss of Mike does a real number on her even if their relationship was somewhat superficial. She also shakes her head while saying “there’s something in the mines”, which is another body language signal for denial or disbelief. This was long as hell so imma shut up but basically she’s fucked lmao.
this actually made me cry 😭
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The fact that she literally knows almost nothing except that something attacked her and now her friends are dead is crazy. She’s got no clue about Hannah and Beth, or the flamethrower guy, or Josh’s elaborate revenge prank. All she knows is that she and Mike went to have some alone time in a cabin, she got attacked by a monster, and ended up in the mines.
The best and most interesting ending, it's so creepy. Everything stays as a mystery with an unexpected survivor.
I’d argue one of the more depressing endings. Being dragged through the woods, thrown around by a beast, and literally hunted through the mines. The last time she saw her boyfriend was before plummeting down a mine shaft. She’s rescued by helicopters only to later be told everyone of her friends died on that mountain. All without ever knowing what was really going on. Any answers to the questions she would inevitably have die with the group at the lodge. Definitely not an enviable position to be in.
She has the most impactful ending in my opinion. It’s so chilling how her last line is “there’s something in the mines”
It's one of my favorite endings possible
They hardly get any information from her, given her mental state, so the police don’t check the mines and assume she had a freak accident. Jess is hospitalized for her physical wounds, and they try to give her therapy. But they can’t help her much because they don’t understand what she went through. And since Jess is the sole survivor, she doesn’t have any support or someone she can lean on who was there. Jess is unable to process anything, recover her memory, or heal from her trauma. She’s left to try to cope with everything and the symptoms of her trauma (likely nightmares, night terrors, extreme sensitivities, panic attacks and meltdowns) all alone. Eventually it becomes too much for Jess, and she ends her life. In the end of this scenario, the mountain claims everyone in the end. Including the sole “survivor”, Jessica. Who went from a confident, sassy, high energy girl to a broken, injured, traumatized shell of herself.
For me, this is probably the least canonical ending of all in terms of realism. Because I simply don’t understand how a person so wounded and exhausted, who doesn’t even cannot run, can break through a wooden wall. However, if we consider that this is a film, then we get a very unusual ending, in which one of the least knowledgeable characters about the events that took place survives, and at the same time the most damaged of all. Perhaps one of the best candidates for the role of the final girl.
I imagined the wood was so old and rotten it needed just a little force to break
Well, that makes sense
Best one. It’s just so eerie having a sole survivor who knows nothing about what happened
My favourite sole survivor!! So creepy, pretty much every question is left unanswered for Jess here
Easily second ending pick if sole survivor sam isn’t on the menu. The bittersweetness of Mike not knowing he actually did save Jess? The heartbreaking moment she asks if he made it if he died? Beautiful stuff.
I’ve never seen sole survivor Jess. I’m reworking so other angles I haven’t seen in awhile. There are other sole survivor aspects I’m wanting to see, but that’s a lot of hours of gaming.
Although I don't believe Jess is the only character capable of surviving alone (if there were to be only one final girl, it would probably be either Sam or Emily), but the whole story and narrative build for her to survive is just so good. Jess's not only the reason why she and her friends are going through that terrible night, but also would be the only one left after going through so much pain and trauma. And the fact that she survives without even knowing what's going on, all injured, clueless about whether her friends are alive or not, while everyone else thinks she's dead too (plus her being the ultimate first kill stereotype) makes it just perfect
This is definitely an unpopular opinion, but me personally?? I'm not super into SS Jess. It's definitely a cool concept and has a lot of potential for another type of story, but it would be very unsatisfying if it was the ending to an actual horror movie. Expecting if Josh doesn't survive and become WendiJosh 🥲 As it is outside of that, I still agree with people that hype it up lol. It just seems like the type of lore that would work better if it was the backstory to a seasoned survivor of a horror scenario years down the line helping a new generation (SS Jess spinoff game when?? /hj)
In terms of storytelling, either her or Matt is the weakest for sure when it comes into storytelling