Origin
Jenna is from a seemingly normal background, though it is later revealed that she is a falseblood.
Creation
Jenna’s first appearance was in issue 13 of Grimm Fairy Tales in it adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.
Character Evolution
In both cases of the retelling of the story, Jenna often takes a secondary role to the actions of the Beast. In so doing though she learns what real love is and develops as a character.
Major Story Arcs
Jenna’s story starts with the modern setting detailing an abusive boyfriend who suspects his girlfriend of cheating on him with one of her co-workers. He is physically abusive to her and as she runs, Sela gives her a story to consider, that of Beauty and the Beast. It tells the story of a selfish prince that used the people around him and who treated the women in his life as expendable. Finally one girl arrives and curses him with showing the world his true appearance inside and which will be made permanent once all the flowers fall from a single rose flower if he cannot find someone to love him. He decides he must change his ways and he nurses back to health a young woman he finds in the woods, but once she informs him that she must return to her fiance, he grows enraged and forces her to stay as his captive. The action cuts back shortly to modern day where both her co-worker asks her out and then her boyfriend apologizes. As it cuts back to the fairy tale it demonstrates her rescuers, including her female cousin who is killed by the Beast, but also her fiance who saves her. Back in the modern day the boyfriend finds out that his girlfriend has agreed to date the her co-worker and swears revenge. The story continues with a flashback as it shows the present actions of Drew as a result of abuse he suffered earlier in life where he learned violence as a means to solving problems. Cutting back to the fairy tale, the young woman responsible for the curse returns and shows him the rose and informs him it is not yet too late to reform and to stop regarding Jesabel as a possession. He chooses instead to ignore her and refuses to take responsibilities for his actions and seeks out his revenge. As he attacks the stronghold where Jesabel is being kept, he fights through an assortment of soldiers and eventually is succesful at killing Jesabel’s fiance. She runs to the top of the castle wall, but chooses suicide over being with the monster. As the action cuts back to modern day it shows the confrontation between the now ex-boyfriend and the new couple. He threatens them with a gun but eventually turns it upon himself.
Some time later Drew’s older brother returns into the family life upon hi father being diagnosed with terminal disease and with the returned emphasis on his family determines that the one thing in his life that he needs for some closure is to make Jenna suffer. he first hires a private detective agency to detail her every move and then he set his plan in motion. He buys a bank solely with the intention of foreclosing on Jenna’s parent’s house. He brutally attacks her boyfriend Steve. After allowing her to grieve in the hospital he returns to kill Steve in an apparent accident and soon after he attacks and kills Jenna’s parents. She finally confronts him and fights him by shooting him numerous times, including in the head. His ability to heal is too great though and he runs off. It is then revealed that Jenna’s was using the love of Steve to temper her natural abilities to control others. It is left ambiguous whether she uses this ability for good or evil.
Powers and Abilities
Jenna’s powers are poorly defined but evidentally she has some power of mind control over other individuals.