Gillian Ross

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Gillian Rose is Alexander's niece and a member of the Belanger Family.

Relationships

Her mother, Jen Ross, is highly protective of her attempting to keep her away from the Belanger Circle.<ref>“…But I expect you’d find yourself caught in a terrible sort of limbo around your mother, who would want to keep you out of trouble and firmly under her watch, keep watch on us, and keep us away from you.  As the easiest thing for her to manage in that interplay, you’d be thrown this way and that, sent on entirely pointless errands.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref> She prevented her from attending the Blue Heron Institute to keep her out of Alexander's clutches,<ref>“Ah, yes.  I remember, when Alexander invited Gillian to come for a term at the Blue Heron, on his dime, and her mother refused, he said, hm, trying to remember the exact wording.  Her mother would block one hundred percent of Gillian’s opportunities and squander one hundred percent of her potential if it kept Alexander from getting a single percentage point of influence over her.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref> this protectiveness limited her opportunities.<ref>Alexander said she’d leave Gillian with no opportunities at all, if it meant keeping her from Alexander, even by the smallest fraction.  It’s having ramifications.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref>

Nicolette likes Gillian and want to do right by her.<ref>“For right now, Nico knows Kennet better than any of us, she’s invested in it, she knows and likes Gillian, and the opportunity to do right by Gillian is more likely to bring her closer to us than any amount of intimidation, threats, or interference.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref>

Wye Belanger employed her to help with answering the phone, he also gave her a tie which her mother later removed.

She is heavily infatuated with Tanner Gilpin. Wye is planning on allowing the two of them to marry at some point in the future.<ref>“I think Wye is probably going to raise the idea of marrying her to Tanner.”

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“I caught her standing outside his room late at night.  Trying to work up the courage to knock.  When she saw me, she was embarrassed, ran.  I’ve kept an eye out to make sure she won’t try again, but I think she’s too afraid to.  It’s for the best.  Tanner has his gross moments, but he’d say no, and she’d be embarrassed.  But given an education, a chance to grow up, remove her young age from the equation… I think he’d say yes.”- Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.a</ref>

Seth used to bully her.<ref>“I can at least tell them what’s coming. If I prep Jen, she might be able to skew the discussion. She hasn’t been a fan of Seth since he bullied Gillian.”- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.8</ref>

Montague looked after her and comforted her whilst she was turning into a Horror.<ref>“What’s the red thing?” Chase asked.

“Montague.  He’s with her now.”- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.e</ref>

Appearance

She is notably thin and has straight white-blond hair. Wears what looks like a school uniform.<ref>Fifteen year old Gillian reminded him a lot of Alexander.  Same face shape, same eyes, similar frame – barely an ounce of excess body fat on either of them.  Her blonde hair was too straight and fine to really become bedhead, but had instead lifted up and away from her head with static electricity.- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref><ref>She’d looked for and was reasonably sure she’d successfully identified the dour looking Jen, helped by the description of Jen’s daughter- stick thin, with ethereal white-blonde hair and she dressed like she was wearing a student uniform when there was no school anywhere nearby and she wasn’t a student.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.8</ref>

Her appearance changed after Helen attempted to turn her into a horror, her eyes becoming a diagonal infinity sign and there are wavy lines on her collarbone and neck.<ref>Her eyes met Avery’s, and Avery could see how the pupils and irises had altered.  Like a cell undergoing mitosis, forming more of an ‘8’ shape than a circle.  Like a goat’s eyes, but diagonal.

Her shirt collar was open, and it looked like her collarbone had a wave to it that shouldn’t be there.  And the line at one side of her neck, the tendon.  Almost curly.  And there were a few too many.  Her long hair hid a lot of it.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.9</ref>

She has difficulty focusing her eyes.<ref>“Just… focusing my eyes.  It’s hard.  Makes diagram drawing hard too.  But I’m- I’m happy,” Gillian said.  “Sad about some things.  Some people.  But I’m happy, it’s weird, isn’t it?”- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.9</ref>

After returning from being horrified she was able to see the future in the stars better than any of the other Belangers.<ref name=":1">“I wanted to look at the stars, and see what was going on.  I’m better at reading the stars than anyone, now.  Stop.  The cold really doesn’t bother me.  Short carpets bother me more than the cold does.  Mom.  Geez.”- Excerpt from In Absentia 21.7</ref>

Abilities

Her sight is similar to her mothers, showing her nature based animals that can predict the future. These animals include a Hawk, a Spider, a Crow, a collection of butterflies and a Wolf with a dead rabbit.<ref>She blinked, because she couldn’t bring herself to move otherwise, and used her Sight as her eyes opened.

The Witch had turned back to Tanner.  The hawk, the spider, and the crow kept close company with the Witch, Spider at her back, one leg on the walking stick. hawk at her shoulder.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.3</ref> Unlike her mothers the animals she sees are painted.<ref>The animals were painted, and she’d only learned a few years into training with her mother that her mother’s weren’t the same.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.3</ref>

She has a small number of curses stored in black envelopes<ref>Gillian had twelve or so prepared curses in her coat- black envelopes with small lizards and mice in them that she’d fed cursed blood and then killed and dehydrated.  Twelve compared to… to what?  Thirty?  Fifty cards in a stack?- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.3</ref> that Nicolette taught her for self defense.<ref name=":0">She had what Nicolette had taught her for self defense, and she knew enough to be a pretty damn good Augur, at least compared to the average but-- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.3</ref>

She's also a capable augur.<ref name=":0" />

After returning from being horrified she found the cold didn't bother her.<ref name=":1" />

Chronology

During the invasion of Kennet she was hired to work in the Belanger circle for the day, being paid 285 dollars.<ref>For one day of work, that’s two hundred and eighty five dollars you’ll earn today, with a chance for extra.- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref>

Was present when the St. Victor's practitioners attacked the Belanger family,<ref>- Let Slip 20.8</ref> During the fight Helen attempted to turn her into a Horror using a curse but she was saved by Chase.== References ==

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