Jen Ross

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Jen Ross is am augur and a senior if minor member of the Belanger family.

Personality

She's in charge of taking care of family business and sorting out marriages.<ref>“Many practitioner families have people who will look after certain roles.  Common to every family.  There is often a woman who is trusted and connected who keeps track of family business.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref> A job she's struggling at due to receiving insufficient information from the business side of the family.<ref name=":0" /> She is the fourth in line of leadership.<ref>Forty-six, knees hurting, teeth cracked from snapping them together, fourth in the order of leadership - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

As a teenager she loved nature.<ref>“Didn’t think you were the nature-loving type.”

“I used to be.  Artifact of my adolescence,” she said, pointing.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

Relationships

She heavily dislikes both Alexander and Wye to such an extent that she refused to allow her daughter Gillian to attend the Blue Heron Institute.<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> Wye for his part snapped at her for using the wrong bathroom. He's also thinking about having her removed from her position because she's out of touch and has enmity with the business side of the family.<ref name=":0">“When I have full power, I want to remove her.  She’s been in the position so long, she doesn’t know the people she needs to know, she’s holding to old ideas, she has grudges against the business part of the family.  Alexander before, now me.  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.”

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“In her mind, she doesn’t know enough because she isn’t told enough.  You send reports, but include none of the nuance, and you don’t update her on the movements in family relations.  She has to infer who you’re doing business with, but you sometimes do business with Belanger enemies.  To her, she’s left behind, waiting for one page documents with perhaps a paragraph of relevant information, through which she must divine intent, relationships, and broader realities.”

“She is a diviner, technically.  Divination is but one subset of augury.”

“You know what I mean, Wye.  The business end of the family has become divorced from the back end.  She’s left behind with your grandparents, your great uncle, your geriatric second cousin.  They talk.  They conspire.  They stew in frustration and frustration breeds resentment, and resentment breeds hate.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref>

She has an antagonistic relationship with her daughter, Gillian, with her attempts to protect her often stifling her.

She became hostile to Nicolette after she left to set up her own business.<ref>“She’s a rival.  Competition,” Jen said, quiet.  “You could crush her.”

“Nicolette has a vicious streak you really don’t want to see turned against you, Jen.  Try to crush her and you might end up finding out.  She’s a resource, she’s still technically a Belanger, she may return to the fold.”

“Why would you want her to?  She took what we had to offer and left us when things got hard.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref>

Dislikes Seth due to him bullying her daughter.<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>

When she was younger she had had a crush on her cousin Owen, naming the butterflies in her sight after him. Over time she grew to dislike him.<ref>She looked up at the butterflies, and tracked their movements.  She’d named them Eoin.  ‘Owen’ by another name.  There had been a time she’d really liked Owen, when she’d been young and coming into womanhood, nevermind that he was her cousin.  She’d been infatuated with him, and him with her.  Nothing had ever really happened, and it had been little more than a rich, painfully close friendship with whispered talks trying to make sense of boys and girls, fierce jealousy whenever anyone intruded on their dynamic, and then the two of them drifting apart.  She’d named her butterflies after him.

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Now she dreaded that she had to talk to him.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

Marlowe Belanger insinuated that she was unpopular with the rest of the family.<ref>“Nobody likes you, Jen.  I could shoot you now, trying to steal from us in a time of crisis, and they’d shake their heads and fret, but they’d secretly love me for it.”- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

Dislikes Maxwell Belanger for neglicting both her and Gillian and allowing the Belanger household to calcify.<ref>He’d decided she was one of the children who, despite her Sight and talents,  wasn’t worth a shot.  He’d decided Gillian wasn’t worth an apprenticeship, and Alexander had agreed.

He was the one most responsible for where they were now.  Calcified.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

Appearance

She has grey hair and unhappy looking features.<ref>The woman who stepped out was both very similar to Gillian and very different from Alexander, somehow.  She was in her forties, already graying, and unhappiness was set deep into steely features.  Alexander had always made it seem like there was a half-smile behind everything he said, because he enjoyed all of this.  Alexander’s cousin Jen didn’t look like there was even a fraction of a smile underlying things when she was actually smiling, which was almost never.  She had pulled on a red silk bathrobe that was expensive, meant to be comfortable and easy to wear, and didn’t look comfortable at all.- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref>

Abilities

She has a strong sight which she developed further by a ritual of her own design,<ref>She’d had a strong Sight.  Nobody had cared.  She’d cultivated her Sight, she’d practiced, doing what she could on her own.  She’d done and designed her own ritual, named the symbolic animals in a fit of childishness that she hadn’t been able to let go of in the time since, she’d given everything to the family. - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref> showing her the pillar's of human existance expressed as animal froms,<ref>Each one a symbol.  An agent of a pillar.

Cillian the great crow was half the size of a car, talons gripping the peak of the roof of a burning building.  Nessa the hawk, shrieked and flapped madly as she swooped in close to a fight between two different types of homunculi and then veered out toward the conflict at the front lines.  Butterflies crossed the sky above, catching hues and lights that made them blue against a fire-reddened sky at the one end of things, and red-tinted, reflecting the fires, positioned against a blued night sky as they got more overhead.  Many in number, they had one name: Eoin.

She looked for the others.  She spotted Fiadh the wolf with the limp rabbit in its jaws, pacing along the edge of the woods. - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref> each one giving hints of the future.

• Cillian - a crow
• Nessa - a hawk
• Eoin - a collection of butterflies that represent time<ref>Apt.  When they were sand in the hourglass.  Representatives of time.  Including metamorphosis- how things changed over time.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>
• Faidh - a wolf
• Sadhdh - a spider<ref>She turned to look at Gillian as she talked, and she saw Sadhbh.  A spider, silvery in color, wearing what could be described as a veil of spiderweb draped over her head.

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“Sadhbh-” Gillian shook her head.  “She indicates opportunity, not just the bad.”

- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

She's able to transfer her sight to other people.<ref>He seemed to recognize them, which was good, and didn’t fight as she pushed her Sight toward him.

His eyes widened, fur and feathers moving over the surface briefly, irises turning amber.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

She has limited tutoring, much of what she knows she taught herself.<ref>They’d given her the tutoring, up to a point, then they’d abandoned her.  Much of what she knew, she’d had to teach herself, or train in herself.  She found new practices and made them hers with repetition and effort.  She used practice for dramatic effect, when kids were being too loud outside, or when visitors came.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref> She doesn't have much in terms of power.<ref>Don’t be stupid.  Runes take power.  You think we have that kind of power to throw around - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

She owns a camera.<ref>She reached into her inside coat pocket, and found an old camera.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

Chronology

She was present when Wye, Tanner, Nicolette and Gillian were visited by the Carmine Exile.

Took definitive action when the St. Victor's practitioners attacked the Belanger family household.<ref>- Let Slip 20.8</ref>

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