jillian salvius is literally the character of all time to me like instead of going to therapy because she's sad about her son she decides to take on the catholic church and wins? she accidentally stumbles ass backwards into a millenia long war between forces outside of human comprehension. like. who does that. she sticks her own hand into a untested portal at a dinner party because she has a compulsive need to be right. she sits like a dyke. she gets adopted by / adopts a whole gaggle of nuns. she watches her son die twice. she has a weird homoerotic tension with the head nun. she had an immaculate conception. she's wildly rich but what her company actually does is, like, supervillain levels of vague. she has a dick measuring contest with the pope and wins. she gets betrayed by her only friend. she sits like such a dyke I cannot emphasize this point enough. her company gets taken over by a douchebag angel with a man bun. she is 100% sure she could do at least 3 major miracles. her son speaks directly to angels. she's basically a holy figure. she's even a lesbian.
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Warrior Nun characters as latin quotes
Ava: Aut viam inveniam aut faciam (I shall either find a way, or make one)
Lilith: Veni, Vidi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)
Adriel: Flectere si nequeo Superos, Acheronta movebo (If I cannot bend Heaven, I will raise Hell)
Beatrice: Amor omnia vincit (love conquers all)
Mother Superion: Si vis pacem, para bellum (if you desire peace, prepare for war)
Camila: In omnia paratus (ready for everything)
Yasmine: Fores fortuna adiuvat (Fortune favors the brave)
Jillian: Sapere aude (dare to know)
Michael: Non est ad astra mollis e terris via (there is no easy way from the earth to the stars)
Mary: Familia ante omnia (family over all)
Areala: Non desistas non exieris (never give up, never surrender)
Vincent: Igne natura renovatur integra (through fire, nature is reborn whole)
Duretti: Et tu, Brute? (You also, Brutus?)
Reya: Fiat lux! (let there be light!)
Kristian: Tantum religio potuit saudere malorum (To such heights of evil has religion been able to drive men)
Shannon: Ubi amor, ibi dolor (where there is love, there is pain)
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Jillian really feels like the epitome of you don’t find the found family the found family finds you but in the this is a threat you do not have a choice way (aka my favourite way). Like yeah we’re showing up at your house we’re training in your lab and we’re sleeping on your couches and we’re showing up sad at your doorstep for help we are unknowingly bringing your lost son back home we are plotting our grand schemes in your halls we are dying and coming back to life on your floors. You are part of this family whether you like it or not it’s too late you’re already integral you’re already one of us
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It’s tempting to think of Jillian as an atheist given her connexion to science, her confrontation with the church in s1 and simply as a counterpoint to all the religious characters around her. I’ve used the word for her myself in fic before, but I did it fully knowing that Jillian is perhaps the character who most wants to believe.
There’s an implication that she speaks from experience when she tells Kristian one doesn’t ever really leave the church…
… And her firm principle of proving faith and science can coexist shows she has no intention of dismantling faith in itself or the value people find in spirituality.
When Luther supposedly nailed his objections to that fateful church door, he didn't intend to shake the core of what faith actually is—quite the contrary, one could argue.
Neither is Jillian trying to destabilise faith in itself... The difference is that she just decided to build her own door instead.
The church might stand in her way, yes, but one could could make a case about how it is more due to their keeping of divinium than to the criticism she directs at Vincent on the subject of Hell and the subjugation of women. She might well believe it—or any part of her performance during most of season one, really—but her conflict with the institution lies less in the way of ideology than in matters of practical consequences.
Were it not so, wouldn’t she have been a little more resistant to her son’s visions of an angel? Why believe in a child’s prophetic drawings otherwise? Even if she by any chance didn’t consider the giver of those visions an angel, the very fact of taking a vision seriously would suggest some degree of fidelity to the very idea of there being something more, something else than the life we know in this plane of existence.
If she doesn’t admit the existence of a god outright, she at least lends credence to the idea that there is something. We might not be able to take her fully at her word in the scenes where she’s playing her part as a seeker of knowledge maligned by the Vatican, but there is some amount of truth to what she says. She might not have truly found Heaven, she might not be able to prove her portal actually leads there...
… But she most certainly wants to be right. For Michael’s sake, there must be something else, even if not precisely what has been foreseen by scripture.
And, even so, she finds worth in that very scripture she doubts.
Perhaps she’s being honest when she tells Vincent she likes the stories—there’s a lot of knowledge to be found in even the simplest of them to she who knows how to seek it.
Perhaps there’s an underlying attachment of hers to the Bible, a past she cannot really abandon. It’s not all that common for people with absolutely no ties to Catholicism to have something like the image of a saint as decoration hanging in the background.
Sure, there are other religious elements scattered in her workplace including a Buddha, but it’s a man who used to be an archivist at the Vatican she hires, not a defected monk or rabbi.
Yes, she will work with anyone who is equally willing to work with her. It’s not from the goodness of her heart as there is a component of selfishness in such cooperation—one to which she admits herself—but her attitude is also a testament to the openness she has concerning the results she might obtain. Maybe the OCS is right, maybe there’s a God and saints and Heaven and Hell…
It doesn’t really matter as long as there is something, something to work towards, something to seek.
Or it didn’t matter—while Michael was alive.
She has had her proof of there being more... And she has paid a high price for learning of it.
It’s a pity we don’t know what she would have done with this information. How do we react when what we believe is confirmed to be true but not in the way we expected or desired?
Whatever shock the nuns have experienced to their faith in this business with Adriel, the perversion of the power of prayer and all else they've survived during season two, Jillian is likely to have felt the very same blow right alongside them.
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let's talk about suzanne wearing jillian clothes after being resurrected
because my girl was on the run so she didn't have any luggage or anything likely and ain't no way the sisters's clothes could fit her so there's only jillian's.
and jillian is a little taller than her so her clothes are gonna be a little oversized on suzanne and i can't stop thinking about it
this is so personal to me i'm gonna cry
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