| “ | Hope... It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat. | ” |
–Juliette, Unravel Me | ||
Juliette Ferrars, also known by her birth name Ella Sommers, is a girl with the power of a lethal touch.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Juliette Ferrars, originally named Ella Sommers, was born to Max and Evie Sommers in New Zealand. Her older sister Emmaline Sommers was discovered to be the first Unnatural, and her parents gave up both of their daughters to the Reestablishment for scientific research for those who were Unnatural were key in the Reestablishment's plans. She stayed at a facility for one month until her memory was erased and Paris Anderson brought her to her adoptive parents Eric and Evelyn Ferrars, who were childless and informed to never tell Juliette she was adopted, from the age of five to fourteen.
Juliette's life with Eric and Evelyn was full of abuse. Her father locked her in her room every night. Her mother screamed at her “for being the abomination she was forced to raise.” She put Juliette’s hand in the fire “just to see if it would burn” on Juliette's sixth birthday.[1] Her parents pulled Juliette out of school when she was fourteen years old. She accidentally killed a boy at the grocery store when she was trying to help him. The boy had fallen because he was chained with a collar by his mother. She didn't know she had developed the power of a lethal touch. Everyone believed she had choked the boy to death. In the two years since, she’s been in and out of nine different juvenile detention centers and been examined by more than fifty different doctors. At sixteen years old, her parents suggested she be locked away and she was.
Shatter Me[]
Juliette has been imprisoned in solitary confinement in an insane asylum for the last 264 days. She learns she will get a new cellmate. She is immediately intrigued by his beauty and personality. He steals her bed and blankets that night, and the next morning he tries to grab the breakfast tray, but it's too hot, and he shoves it away instinctively. They then leave to take a shower, and her cellmate returns the stolen blankets and her mattress. He then reveals his name to her, which is Adam Kent, and she reveals hers. The next day, Adam informs her of all the terror the Reestablishment has imposed upon their people, and Juliette is horrified. He tries to touch her, but Juliette refuses to let him, worrying he will die from her lethal skin. Juliette eventually recognizes Adam as a former classmate who, unlike the other children, never bullied her. She keeps this revelation to herself.
The next morning, Reestablishment soldiers appear in the doorway of their cell, and physically harm both Adam and Juliette, forcing her out. After two days of unconsciousness, she finally awakes and sees Adam with a gun, realizing his actual role as a soldier as well. She is then taken to a young man with blond hair and emerald green eyes, and she describes him as handsome. She reads his name, which is Warner, on his lapel. Warner tells her that he wishes to use her deadly touch as a weapon for the Reestablishment. She initially refuses, but is forced to listen to him or else she would be killed. He assigns Adam as her guard to ensure she doesn't cause havoc.
They travel outside, and she is amazed by the outside world, despite the fact that it is bleak and barren. They enter a tank and eventually come across Warner's headquarters. She is commanded to dress nicely for him for dinner, but out of defiance, she refuses and enters the dining hall donned in her dirty, rags from the asylum. Warner is amused until she also refuses to eat any of the food provided as well, so he takes out his gun and shoots a platter of food, and finally, Juliette obeys.
After the dinner, Warner escorts her to her room, and Juliette questions him about his first name, but he says he will only tell her if she touches him, and she declines in disgust. He then forces a soldier named Jenkins to touch her instead, and she tries to run away but is horrified as her skin lands on his. She pulls away before Jenkins is killed and passes out.
Upon awakening, she finds herself in Warner's bed and later notices that the soldiers are all fearful of her. Warner assures her he was only trying to protect her, but she doesn't believe him. Juliette sees Adam wincing as he enters her room, and finds out that every time she defies Warner, he is whipped. Juliette, terrified for his well-being, decides to dress pretty for Warner.
When she is with Warner, she makes an offhand comment about how horrible it would have been for his mother to raise him, and it catches him off-guard as he is very sensitive when it comes to his mother, leaving the rest of the trip in silence. He brings her to his soldiers, and brings one forth, accusing him of thievery, and shoots him. When they are out of the soldiers' view, Juliette expresses her repulsion for his actions.
That night, she wakes up with nightmares and ends up sleeping next to Adam. They try to talk, but due to the cameras in her bedroom, they go to the bathroom, turning the shower on in hopes that no one would hear them. It is here that Adam reveals his ability to touch her. He promises to get her away from Warner.
Later on, Juliette orders that Warner strip her room of any cameras, and even says she would die for her privacy. In response, he only congratulates her on her confidence to make a stand. He makes a deal. A touch in exchange for the removal of the cameras. Warner is almost successful, but then he tells her that Adam knew all along that they went to the same school together, so, at the last minute, Juliette runs away. She and Adam were just about to kiss until the loudspeakers turned on.
Then, Juliette hears arguing from outside her room. She listens to Adam quarrel with a fellow soldier, Kenji Kishimoto, who wants to see her as if she is a sort of zoo animal.
Juliette is told to dress in very skimpy clothing for a test Warner prepared her for. Uncomfortable in the fact that the clothes offer almost no protection, she is placed into a room she nicknames the "torture chamber." Warner forces her to save a small toddler, who is threatened by spikes protruding from the ground, but it is difficult considering Juliette has no gloves to protect the boy from her skin. The boy cries at her touch, and in fury, Juliette smashes through the concrete wall, warning Warner that she will kill him the next time she is made to touch another human being.
Adam finds Juliette in the shower of her bathroom sobbing. He promises to protect her, and they kiss passionately. The intercom announces a CODE SEVEN suddenly. Warner dismisses Adam, and pushes Juliette against a wall, ripping her dress to form a slit. He reaches into her dress pocket to reveal her journal. Adam comes back with a gun aimed at Warner and disarms him. Warner tries to convince her to stay out of jealously saying he would treat her like 'a queen' and realizes she is in love with Adam. He is then overpowered and bound up by Adam. Right before Juliette escapes, Warner tries to trip her, brushing her leg in the process. Juliette then realizes he is immune to her touch and hopes Warner does not notice.
When they arrive at Adam's house, she meets James Kent, his younger brother, and they spend the night at his home. The next day, Kenji appears at Adam's front door, shot and wounded. He is angered, knowing that Kenji led Warner right to them, even if by accident, but fixes up his wound anyway. After James comes back from school, Warner's soldiers appear. James is left in Kenji's care as Juliette and Adam run the former fearing for the latter's life. Finally when they think they've escaped, Warner and his solider come and Adam is shot while Warner drags Juliette away.
Now Juliette is left all alone by Warner, who comments that he can touch her. He backs her up into a corner, confessing his attraction to her. Juliette plays along, kissing him in hopes of escape as she sees a gun in his jacket pocket. When she gets close enough, she shoots him in the shoulder and runs away to find Adam, who is strung up in a building. She gets through the doors by punching them, fuelled by her rush of emotions. After retrieving Adam, she reunites with Kenji and James. Kenji takes them to a place called Omega Point, a place for those with special abilities.
Juliette meets the director, Castle, who explains everything about abilities. Juliette sees Adam and rushes to hug him, revealing to Castle that he can touch her. Kenji reveals his own gift of invisibility to her. Juliette ends the first book with a surge of confidence in destroying Warner.
Unravel Me[]
It has been two weeks since Juliette, Kenji, Adam, and James arrived at Omega Point. Juliette is settling poorly. She knows everyone is afraid of her and so she has withdrawn into herself.
Ignite Me[]
Juliette learns how to control her powers and is able to turn her lethal touch on and off at will.
Restore Me[]
Castle reveals Juliette's history to Warner. Juliette was held captive for about twelve years in the Reestablishment. Her sister was held captive for twelve years as well. Her mother, Evie, and her father, Max, are the Supreme Commanders of Oceania, who gave Juliette away to Anderson so an adoptive couple would adopt Juliette. When she was adopted, they changed her name to Juliette. Her real name is Ella Sommers. She discovers the history of her sister Emmaline and that she was tortured by Warner for two years. That realization leads to the separation of the couple in the middle of the book. But they continue to experience moments of intimacy, and moments that remind Juliette of why she loves Warner.
Defy Me[]
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Imagine Me[]
In Imagine Me Ella's mind is being slowly taken over by her sister, Emmaline. Warner helps her through everything staying with her to keep her from running away, with the later help of Kenji and Stephan. After being able to calm Ella down she was placed into a coma for four days. After she was captured by Anderson he and the other Supreme Commanders her memory was erased making her believe that she was Juliette, a guard of the supreme commander of North America. She becomes a control cold heart servant of Anderson doing everything that he makes her do, including cutting her index finger off. She is later saved by Warner, with the help of Kenji and Nazeera. She kills her sister Emmaline, as it was Emmaline wish.
Believe Me[]
Juliette spent the first ten days back at the Sanctuary in a coma. She has become "notorious to a near-terrifying degree."[2] She has taken back her adopted name, reclaiming it. Warner is the only one allowed to call her Ella. It's a tether to their shared history and a nod to the love he’s always felt for her, no matter her name. Juliette and Warner get married.
Characteristics[]
Personality[]
Juliette starts off the series as a scared, self-loathing girl, being abused, unloved, and made to feel like a monster her entire life. During her time spent in isolation, she develops compulsions to count things and write the same words over and over, only to cross them out. After she's freed, her depression, anxiety, and compulsive behaviors persist. She struggles to trust others and has difficulty making friends, though she has a deep sense of loyalty to the few people she's close to. She wants to be a normal person while in the asylum. Juliette is insecure, lonely, and afraid of herself and others.
When first brought to the military base at Sector 45, Juliette is repulsed by the extravagant living conditions, which she sees as theft from civilians living in poverty. She reveals a rebellious streak when she refuses the expensive clothes and hot meals provided for her, proving that she's socially conscious and unwilling to sacrifice her ethics for comfort and luxury. Despite how she's been treated, Juliette has a strong sense of justice and compassion. She desires to make a difference in the world. Juliette has always been determined to live a normal life and not use her power to harm anyone unless provoked.
Juliette experiences affection and intimacy for the first time when Adam declares his love for her. Though their eventual breakup was difficult, Juliette grows more confident and independent as a result, realizing that Adam's protectiveness was keeping her from fulfilling her potential. Though the psychological damage she's sustained doesn't go away overnight, Juliette starts to overcome her trauma and becomes more brave, ambitious, and determined to take down the Reestablishment, choosing to continue fighting despite devastating setbacks. Even after she recovers from the effects of her solitary confinement and isolation, Juliette is still a somewhat spacey person. She is prone to going off on mental tangents or contracting abstract metaphors in the middle of a mission. Adam notes in Fracture Me that she's retreated inside her head again by the way she's staring into space.
Though her experiences could easily have made her bitter and hateful, it's a testament to her endurance that Juliette always maintains her kind and generous nature. She is compassionate, humble, understanding, and always willing to help people in need. Seeing someone vulnerable awakens a protective instinct in her. She tries to help a little boy in a grocery store who's being berated by his mother because the situation reminds her of her own mother's cruel treatment of her. Similarly, her perception of Warner changes when she realizes he's been abused by his father.
She is also aware of her flaws, and sometimes too aware. Her confidence wavers in Restore Me, as she knows she is not well-versed in political science in comparison to the other children of the Supreme Commanders. From this stems insecurity and self-doubt, but by the end of the book, she begins to feel indifferent to people's opinions. Juliette starts out as someone desperate to be liked and hoped that doing whatever she could for others would make them like her. When it doesn't, she works to grow out of this desire.
Appearance[]
Juliette is hauntingly beautiful. Her beauty is often described as angelic, innocent-like, "alarmingly beautiful," "strikingly beautiful," and "inhumanly beautiful." Anderson describes Juliette as excessively beautiful and implies her biological mother altered her genetics in a lab to make her more beautiful. She has white skin, blue-green eyes, and dark brown hair that falls to the middle of her back. She is 5'3" and weighs 102 pounds. Her face is round and freckled, with high cheekbones and perfectly straight teeth. She has faint scars on her small hands from burns from the food tray in the asylum.
In Restore Me, Juliette cuts her hair to a uniform crop that's a simple, sleek buzz cut. This made her lose her "innocent" look and made her look somewhat more sophisticated. Warner stated that the buzz cut defined her cheekbones much more, and made her look mature and more authoritative. In Defy Me, Juliette's hair grows back to its original length after Evie applies a chemical to make it grow faster.
Special Abilities[]
Lethal Touch: Juliette has the ability to kill someone with her touch. Her skin acts as a defense mechanism and "sucks" the life out of someone. She receives a rush of energy as she does this. Kenji thinks of her as a Venus flytrap because she attracts her prey with her striking looks and then digests their energy with a simple touch. She developed this power after being adopted by Evelyn and Eric.
Super Strength: Juliette also has the power to destroy inorganic material through her superhuman touch. She has punched through concrete and steel and she can cause earthquakes by punching the ground. Juliette demonstrates the power to also crumble objects, like metal, just by squeezing them in her hands. Later in the series, she learns to project her power such that she can crush objects and even move them simply by moving her hands without touching them.
Invulnerability: Juliette is immune to physical harm (e.g. bullets) because of the nature of her power: it is derived from her very being, her bones, her blood, and her skin. As long as she is in a state of electrum, her powers "on," she is invulnerable to physical harm and nearly invincible. An example of her invulnerability is when she was on her mission to kill Anderson.
Relationships[]
Aaron Warner[]
- Main article: Juliette and Warner
Aaron and Juliette at first would have a complicated relationship, as she was used to knowing him as a monster. As they get closer Juliette begins to fall for Warner and soon form a strong relationship until they actually break up. Later in the books, they do get back together and Aaron proposes to Juliette. They get married in Believe Me.
Adam Kent[]
Main article: Adam and Juliette
Adam has known Juliette since they were still in school. He had been searching for her since she was locked up. In the army, Adam figures out that he can touch Juliette, and the two start a relationship. However, Juliette says that she only had a relation with him because he was the first one who was nice to her and she was desperate about the thought that he could touch her. Later, they grow apart and Juliette breaks up with him because she wants to protect him since they found out about Adam's ability. She states that she never ran away for "them," she ran away so she could be free. Even when she realizes she and Adam have their abilities under control, she does not get back together with him because she says there would have been problems between them later on, regardless of the fact that she was in love with Warner. Adam was brokenhearted by their separation, but realizes that she has changed, and is no longer the shy, quiet girl that needs to be protected, and soon begins to accept the truth.
Kenji Kishimoto[]
Juliette and Kenji are best friends; almost like siblings. They are there for each other during difficult times, and comfort each other when they're hurt. They have been through a lot together. Juliette is Kenji's closest friend. Numerous times, Kenji has helped Juliette through her "boy problems," and supported her when she was weak or just in need of a friend to talk to. In exchange, she listens to him and helps him just like he does her. He has also said that Juliette is one of the few people who actually care to listen to his problems without any judgement. Kenji has expressed to her how difficult it is to joke around and lighten the mood even when he himself feels down. Kenji feels like he can't talk to anyone else the way he does with Juliette. She understands him. While Kenji may give her a bad time for being emotional all the time, he loves how empathetic she is. He loves how she’s all heart.
James Kent[]
Juliette first met James when she and Adam escaped from Warner. Adam had bought James his own house, and James has lived there for most of his life. Juliette and the ten-year-old have a special bond that cannot be broken by even Adam. James confronts her about her ability in the tunnels of Omega Point, then states that he would never leave her side. It is often said that James has a small crush on Juliette.
Evie Sommers and Maximillian Sommers[]
Evie and Max have no love for Juliette. Evie believes that Emmaline is the "superior specimen" and is pure fire, while Ella is "doe-eyed" and "moony." Juliette was "far too full of emotion." Evie claims that Emmaline and Ella are her life's work. They were the greatest accomplishments of her career.
Emmaline Sommers[]
Emmaline and Ella were incredibly close growing up. They used to always hold hands and often wore matching outfits. Emmaline held her sister's hand like she was trying to protect her.
Castle[]
Castle had a great interest in Juliette from the beginning. He wanted her to join him at Omega Point and sent Kenji to follow her, protect her, and bring her back to Omega Point. Castle has been an advisor and mentor for Juliette, to harness her energy and control her emotions.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Juliette's fabricated birthday is on the 18th of May.[3]
- Juliette is claustrophobic.
- Juliette's identification number is 45B-11111.
- Juliette is the fake name Anderson gave her as he had known her since she was Ella.
- Juliette tried to make Warner and Kenji friends several times.
- Adam and Juliette met back when they were just seven years old.
- Juliette had low blood pressure, asthma, and anemia, along with a series of other symptoms according to her medical history.[4]
- She was addressed as Experiment 5H-A773RM3.[4]
- Juliette's blood type is AB-.[4]
- Juliette spent the first three months of her time at the asylum without a shower because no one told her how to shower or use the bathroom.
References[]
- ↑ Destroy Me
- ↑ Believe Me: Chapter 2
- ↑ See The Reestablishment Person of Interest Juliette's Condensed Fact Sheet - Bonus content in Destroy Me. Her biological father says “She’s been eighteen for four months,” to Anderson on May 5th in Imagine Me. So, she was born sometime in early January.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 See Juliette's Medical History, page 1 - Bonus content in Destroy Me.
| Shatter Me series | |
| Books | Shatter Me • Unravel Me • Ignite Me • Restore Me • Defy Me • Imagine Me |
| Novellas | Destroy Me • Fracture Me • Shadow Me • Reveal Me • Believe Me |
| Spin-off | Watch Me |
| Main Characters | Juliette Ferrars • Aaron Warner • Adam Kent • Kenji Kishimoto • James Kent • Rosabelle Wolff |
| Supporting Characters | Paris Anderson • Nazeera Ibrahim • Emmaline Sommers • Castle • Delalieu Warner • Brendan • Winston • Sara • Sonya • Lily • Ian Sanchez • Alia • Clara Wolff • Lieutenant Soledad |