Jocelyn Cleary Character Analysis

Jocelyn is Margot’s daughter. Jocelyn has difficulties with her skein: she sometimes has so much power that she is unable to control it, but sometimes she doesn’t have any power at all. These problems lead her to online internet forums for people with skein issues; it is on these forums that she communicates with Ryan, a boy with a skein. They eventually meet up and start dating. Jocelyn also starts to attend the NorthStar training camps that Margot sets up so that she can learn to control her power better. At the camps, Jocelyn is frequently made fun of for having less power than the other girls. This leads Jocelyn to want to avoid looking weak, and she accidentally kills a young man who tries to infiltrate the camp because she wants to seem powerful. Ultimately, Jocelyn meets Eve, who cures her of her skein deficiencies. Following this incident, Jocelyn has full faith in the Holy Mother and Eve’s teachings. However, this belief is misguided: Jocelyn’s cure eventually fades when she comes face to face with Darrell, who injures her severely using the power from Roxy’s stolen skein. This emphasizes the potential harm in blind faith and in Allie’s manipulations, as Allie knows that her cures are not forever but allows many of her followers to believe in them anyway.