Jocelyn (book)

## Jocelyn

**Jocelyn Cleary** is a recurring character in *The Power (book)*. She is the daughter of Margot Cleary and has a little sister, Maddy.

## Character Story

#### Ten Years to Go

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Margot hears from her ex-husband, Bobby, that their daughter Jocelyn has been caught fighting with a boy and injuring him. Jocelyn tells Margot that she’s had this power now for six months. Margot asks Jocelyn to show her, even though Jocelyn warns it will hurt.

#### Nine Years to Go

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At home, Margot tells Jocelyn not to tell anyone about her powers, including Jocelyn’s father or her sister Maddy. When Jocelyn stays with Margot one weekend by herself, the two practice their powers together. Jocelyn has been frustrated by her power levels fluctuating and wants to learn to control it. Meanwhile, Margot needs to learn to keep it under control for the purposes of the testing.

#### Eight Years to Go

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Elsewhere, Margot goes on a morning television show with her daughter Jocelyn to discuss the use of powers. They bring up how Jocelyn ended up hurting a boy, Laurie Vincens, after she realized she had her powers. Jocelyn attributes this happening to her lack of control over her powers at the time.

#### Six Years to Go

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Jocelyn has been attending NorthStar camp to learn how to control and use her powers for the last two years. Today, Jocelyn introduces Margot to her boyfriend, Ryan. They then go upstairs and start to fool around. Ryan has a genetic abnormality that caused him to grow a skein and he survived it. Ryan has a small amount of power, but he has it.

Back downstairs, Margot continues to prep. She tells herself that she wants this position to be able to help Jocelyn and advocate for her, however, deep down she knows the “real reason is that she can’t stop thinking of the look she’d see on Daniel’s face if she got”.

#### Five Years to Go

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By now, Jocelyn has been photographed with Ryan, and news article have been published about a governor’s daughter dating a guy with

Margot suggests Jocelyn to break up with Ryan, showing her reports that Ryan has been frequenting extremist sites and posting under a false name about planning terror attacks. Jocelyn insists that Ryan is a good person, but Margot tells her that the FBI dug up this stuff, hinting that the Department of Defence is vetting her for a possible senatorial run.

Jocelyn tearfully agrees to break things off with Ryan. Margot consoles Jocelyn, saying she understands that she’s frustrated about her fluctuations in power that make her abnormal, just like Ryan is abnormal. Margot reassures her that they can find some way to fix her.

Jocelyn is on night watch with a few other girls — Dakota, Hayden, Teegan and Samara — at NorthStar camp when the sirens go off. There’s never been a real attack before at the camp, but tonight there’s three men in black masks with baseball bats and bolt cutters.

There’s a scuffle as they men try to enter the camp, but the women manage to get the upper hand. Dakota wants to teach the men a lesson, but Joceyln isn’t sure what to do. Dakota then accuses her of being a “pzit” (an insult for a woman without powers, mimicking the sound of a failed electrical discharge). Wanting to prove herself, Jocelyn zaps one of the guys, killing him.

Two of the NorthStar people show up, Esther and Johnny. When Esther surveys the scene, she explains to Jocelyn what to say. She says that Jocelyn will need to tell others that she saw the guy reaching for a gun, creating a “clear and present danger”, which is why she used “proportionate force” to stop him.

Later, Jocelyn recites her story on the news. The news casters, Kristin and her new co-anchor Matt, also report on the war in Moldova, which the South Moldovans initially got the upper hand on, but the North Moldovans are currently winning with the help of the Saudis.

#### One Year

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In the chapel in the Bessaparan castle, Allie/”Mother Eve” meets with Jocelyn who traveled here with her mother and asked to meet with Mother Eve. Joceyln cries to Allie, who senses that her skein isn’t entirely functional. Skein deficiencies are difficult to correct and aren’t understood yet, but as Allie holds her hand, she senses what to adjust and is able to fix Joceyln’s skein. Jocelyn thanks her and leaves.

#### Can’t Be More Than Seven Months Left

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Jocelyn is still in Bessapara. After the attack on NorthStar, Margot sent Jocelyn to a therapist to work out trauma regarding the attack. However, Jocelyn hasn’t disclosed the truth of what really happened to the therapist because the therapist works for NorthStar and she doesn’t know if it’s safe to talk to her. Instead, they talk about Ryan. Ryan managed to get back in touch with her and has continued to insist that he had never posted or said any of the things that Margot claimed he did. Jocelyn knows that her mother has a habit of lying so much nowadays, so she believes Ryan.

Meanwhile, online Jocelyn has been reading various accounts of the atrocities in Bessapara where men are being raped and murdered and having experiments performed on then. Someone named Tom Hobson has been reporting on it and how the U.S. is stationed there so that Margot Cleary can export Glitter to be sold at a markup in the United States. Jocelyn thinks about how getting doses of Glitter has finally helped her to regulate her powers instead of having the abnormal highs and lows and other women don’t seem to experience.

Tom Hobson has reported that one of these Glitter manufacturing centers is near where Jocelyn is based. Jocelyn leaves to go check it out. She wonders if she might find something incriminating against her mom there that she might use to get her mother to leave her alone.

#### Here It Comes

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To the South, Jocelyn drives up and starts taking photos from the outside of the gate when she sees Darrell approach her. Jocelyn agrees to leave, but Darrell wants to fight, he is eager to really use his new powers, and Jocelyn is eager to see what she can do now that her powers have been cured. Jocelyn thinks she has the situation under control, but then when she goes to make her final blow, she shorts out. Instead, Darrell kicks her in the face and then jolts her until she is no longer moving.

In her office, Margot gets a call that Jocelyn has been found in the woods, barely alive. As Jocelyn heals, it becomes clear she will never fully heal.