Jesse Lessard | Grew up a latch key kid until he dropped out of school and ran away from home. Since then he's been a wanderer, street scum. Sometimes he can hold down a simple job, but more often he'll panhandle or commit petty crimes to get money for his latest fix. Lately, he's managed to hitch, beg or stow away and made his way from the west coast to Hathian trying to escape some of his more problematic past.

Things have been looking up lately, having received the life insurance benefits of some commune dwelling cultists he'd been crashing with, Jesse has managed to buy a beaten-up taxi cab and started a business, Jesse's Crappy Cab Company.