Canon Update

Sep 25, 2009 03:15

Background: Following the attack on Umbrella's Russian HQ, Jill and Chris continued to serve with the BSAA, cleaning up Umbrella's messes around the world. The BSAA steadily grew with the backing of corporate finances provided by none other than the same pharmaceutical circles Umbrella had once been a part of. These companies, losing stocks and customers like mad in the wake of Umbrella's public outing, were out to restore their own good names by providing funding to the BSAA as a show of good faith. One of these corporations was Tricell, the new leading company following Umbrella's destruction.

As the resources at their disposal grew, Chris and Jill were finally able to fight Wesker's shadow war on his own terms. They eventually managed to dig up his connections to Oswell E. Spencer, Umbrella's founder, and decided to infiltrate the old man's mansion in Europe to interrogate him and locate Wesker's whereabouts. By sheer coincidence, they chose the same night to launch their raid that Wesker himself had chosen to get some answers of his own out of Spencer. Seeking to learn Wesker's location, the duo instead found the man himself standing over Spencer's bloody corpse.

A vicious battle ensued; Jill and Chris had been training hard to face their nemesis, but Wesker's viral-enhanced superpowers overwhelmed them. The black-clad terrorist threw Jill against a wall and, while standing next to a large window, grabbed Chris by the throat and prepared to smash his brains in. Jill, in desperation, launched herself at Wesker, seizing him around the waist and taking him with her as she jumped out the window and plummeted to the ground miles below. After BSAA reinforcements arrived, both Wesker and Jill were missing from the crash scene. Jill's body was not recovered, and after three months of searching, she was declared dead.

Unfortunately, Jill was... not so lucky. She survived the fall, either by accidentally using Wesker's superhuman body as a cushion or by sheer badassery, but was badly wounded and in near-fatal condition as a result. Wesker, not passing up this opportunity sent by Satan to torture both her and Chris, took her back to his secret lair and healed up her wounds, keeping her in a drug-coma along the way. While fantasizing about all the horrible things he was going to do to Jill when she was conscious enough to appreciate them, Wesker hit some snags in his Master Plan To Conquer The World: notably, that the super-virus he was working on was too super, and was gonna kill everyone it touched rather than make a select few superhuman blah blah blah. Long story short, while testing on Jill, Wesker noticed her immune system was running at an overclocked rate.

Turns out that as a result of surviving the T-Virus in Raccoon City, Jill's immune system was now basically comprised entirely out of white blood cell superheroes. (True enough, she hadn't suffered any kind of sickness since Raccoon, though she had been so wrapped up in work that she failed to notice.) Sample's of Jill's blood provided Wesker with exactly what he needed to jump-start research on his super-virus, and the unconscious Jill was accidentally responsible for helping him destroy the world. The process of extracting her antibodies removed the pigment in her hair, and caused her skin to become a great deal paler.

Aaaand it only got worse from there. Now that he didn't need her anymore, Wesker decided to use Jill to test out a new experiment of his: P30, a chemical that gave humans super-powers similar to his own, at the cost of their mental freedom. It was the perfect upgrade: you could have an army of super-soldiers completely loyal to whoever was holding their leash. Unfortunately, since Wesker was about to destroy the world anyway, P30 was useless for anything but making money. Still, it wasn't a complete loss: he could still use the chemical to turn his former archenemy into his devoted mind-slave- and Jill's immune system made her the perfect test subject. Being Wesker, he did exactly this.

Jill awoke to a new life of base servitude, decked out in a blue catsuit and made to work for Wesker and his new partner Excella as their new "plaything". Since the chemical only had a temporary effect, Wesker had created a device to constantly distribute the chemical throughout her body: an icky little red orb with tentacles protruding into her chest, which really just sounds like a bad /d/ fanfiction. Fully aware and conscious, yet physically unable to resist, she was forced to aid Wesker in his bid for world domination: killing and infecting countless innocent African peasants and tribal villagers. On one of her mass-murder missions, Jill happened to stumble upon a tribal bird mask in one of the villages she had just finished infecting. In a rare moment of clarity, she took to constantly wearing it along with a long black cloak. Wesker, finding humor in this, allowed it, as she needed a disguise anyway.

Although at first she fought like hell, eventually Jill's resilience fell through, and she allowed herself to become numb to the horrifying crimes she was being forced to commit. The once proud and strong S.T.A.R.S. soldier had become a silent, broken killer.

Aaand that's where I'm taking her from.

Personality: As stated above, until recently Jill Valentine was a woman's woman. She was a gun-slinging, zombie-slaying, shit-kicking badass who survived the mansion incident AND Racoon City, nightmarish events that, in the case of the latter, scarred many people for life. (The former didn't scar very many people, mostly because none of them survived.) She killed a giant shark, a giant snake, a giant spider, and a giant invincible guy with a rocket launcher and tentacles. She was everything S.T.A.R.S. and the BSAA had come to stand for, and more.

Unfortunately, getting captured and experimented on by Albert Wesker is something no one can survive with their sanity 100% intact, and Jill is no exception. It is a testament to her strength and courage that she still has any sanity to speak of, but what remains of it has taken a severe beating. After two years of conscious slavery at the hands of her hated enemy, she has become extremely bitter and depressed, a smile being a rarity on her face these days. She has intentionally deadened her own emotions: it's the only way she's managed to survive this long.

There are quite a few reasons why she took to wearing the bird mask and cloak: for one, guilt and shame. The horror of her own involuntary actions has overwhelmed Jill, and in a way she no longer thinks of herself as "Jill Valentine"; thus the mask is a way of hiding her identity from everyone, including herself. For another, wearing the tribal mask is a tribute of sorts- a way of apologizing to those she's killed. And, lastly, the fact that it is a bird mask is important, for what creature better symbolizes the hope of freedom than a bird?

Despite these last few paragraphs, Jill is not entirely emotionally dead. At the end of the game, Chris manages to snap her out of her funk, and she even manages a smile after they take down Wesker. Even in the face of everything, from the mansion to this latest horror, Jill isn't entirely broken just yet- deep down inside, she's still fighting, and nothing Wesker or anyone else does can stop that. Because, frankly, she's still Jill Valentine, goddammit, and if anyone can hold on to hope, it's her.
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