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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 the main protagonist and a narrator of the Shatter Me Series. She has a lethal touch and was locked up in an Asylum for over 264 days.

Biography[]

Early Life[]

Juliette, originally named Ella Sommers, was born to Eian Sommers. Her sister Emmaline 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 was sent 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. In Destroy Me, it has been revealed that Warner discovered in Juliette's notebook that her father locked her in her room every night and her mother would scream at her for being the abomination she was forced to raise. She also wrote in her journal that on her 6th birthday, her mother put her hand in a fire once just to see if it was a regular hand and if it would burn. When she was fourteen, she accidentally killed a little boy in a grocery store with her lethal touch when in actuality, she was helping him when he tripped and fell because he was chained with a collar by his mother. People believed that she choked the little boy to death and that she claims innocence by her touch. They have locked Juliette away since then.

Shatter Me[]

Juliette, in the first installment, starts out at an insane asylum that had been her home for 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, and she reveals hers. The next day, Adam informs her of all the terror the Resistance 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. Soon later, she recognizes Adam as a classmate from when she was a child, but she keeps the information 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, 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 but miserably fails as he is bound up by Adam. Right before Juliette escapes, Warner brushes her leg.

When they arrive at Adam's house, she meets James, 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 have discovered them already. James is left in Kenji's care as Juliette and Adam run, but Adam is shot and dragged 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 because she sees a gun in his jacket pocket. When she gets close enough, she shoots him and runs away to find Adam, who is strung up in a building. She gets through the doors by punching them, fueled 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.

Defy me[]

It is revealed Juliette Ferrars was held captive for about 12 years in the Reestablishment. Her sister was held captive for 12 years as well. Her mother, Evie, and her father, Max, are the supreme commanders of Oceanía, who gave Juliette away to Anderson so an adoptive couple would adopt Juliette. The real name of Juliette is discovered to be Ella Sommers. During this book 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 at the beginning of the book. But they later come back together.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Appearance[]

Juliette is said to be hauntingly beautiful, her beauty is often described as angelic, innocent-like, "alarmingly beautiful", "strikingly beautiful" and "inhumanly beautiful". She has blue-green eyes and long dark brown hair that falls to her waist. She is described as short and petite, standing at 5'3, and with a weight of 105lbs in Shatter Me. Her face is described to be round, with high cheekbones and perfectly straight teeth. She has a light complexion with freckles.

Juliette 2

In Restore Me, Juliette cuts her hair short, to a 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 Sommers 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 Ferrars.

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. 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.

Main article: Adam and Juliette

Kenji Kishimoto[]

Kenji and Juliette are very close friends, if not best friends. Multiple times, Kenji has comforted her with her "boy problems" or even problems in general. Although Kenji is energetic and a goofball, he can be serious when needed. Even when Juliette doubted everyone in Restore Me, he was the only one she trusted. He has provided relationship advice for her, and even though the two joke about liking each other, their relationship is strictly platonic.

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 our friend Juliette.

Evie Sommers[]

Evie Sommers is the biological mother of Juliette Ferrars and Emmaline Sommers. She is the Supreme Commander of Oceania. She is also the wife of Maximillan Sommers. Evie Sommers sold Juliette away to an adoptive parent couple who were wanting kids. Later on, her adoptive parents (Eric and Evelyn) send her into an asylum because of her powers. When Juliette was 14, she killed a little boy by accident while trying to help him. Her touch killed him which was the reason that Eric and Evelyn sent Juliette to asylum. In Restore Me, Evie and Maximillian were mentioned trying to take Juliette back. They wanted Juliette back and they did get her.

Evie called Juliette by her birth name (Ella) most of the time but whenever she tried to talk to Ella (Juliette), Ella would not talk to her. She did not want to be home and Evie explained to Juliette the reason they had abandoned her. After a few days, Juliette met her sister and was surprised to see the way she was. Evie saw Juliette getting close to Emmaline so she yelled at her to back away. She told Juliette to go downstairs and Juliette ended up killing her mother.

Maximillian Sommers[]

Maximillian Sommers is the biological father of Juliette Ferrars and Emmaline Sommers. He is also the husband of Evie Sommers. It does not mention much about Juliette and Max's father and daughter relationship. Even though Max did meet Juliette, they did not speak to each other throughout the series. But Maximillian does die in the series.

Emmaline Sommers[]

Emmaline Sommers is the biological and only sister of Juliette Ferrars. Juliette never knew she had a biological sister until she finally got to see her in Defy Me. Juliette said that Emmaline was so unrecognizable from being underwater for so many years that she barely resembled a human anymore. Her mouth was stretched out into an O, and her skin was white and shriveled. Emmaline later passed away in Imagine Me. She was about 19 or 20 years old. Emmaline has been held in captivity by the Reestablishment for 12 years for experimentation after her parents' discovery of her ability.

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.

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Trivia[]

Condensed Fact Sheet - Juliette Ferrars
  • Juliette's fabricated birthday is on the 18th of May. She was born sometime in early January.[1]
  • Juliette is claustrophobic.
  • Juliette's Reestablishment-given identification number is 45B-11111.
  • Juliette's last recorded weight is 105 lbs.[2] Before this, she weighted 102 lbs.[3]
  • 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.
  • Juliette is 17 in the first four books, and she is 18 in the last two books.
  • 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.[3]
  • She was addressed as Experiment 5H-A773RM3.
  • Juliette's blood type is AB-.[3]

References[]

  1. 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.
  2. Ella's fact sheet - Bonus content in the Barnes & Noble exclusive edition of Defy Me.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 See Juliette's Medical History, page 1 - Bonus content in Destroy Me.
Shatter Me series
Books Shatter MeUnravel MeIgnite MeRestore MeDefy MeImagine Me
Novellas Destroy MeFracture MeShadow MeReveal MeBelieve Me
Main Characters Juliette FerrarsAaron WarnerAdam KentKenji Kishimoto
Supporting Characters James KentParis AndersonNazeera IbrahimEmmaline SommersCastleDelalieu WarnerBrendanWinstonSaraSonyaLilyIan SanchezAlia
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