Midfielder - no#4 - eighteen - "the medic"
JULIETTE "JULI" ANNE FOSTER (FC: Taylor russell)
Juliette Anne Foster was born 13th of September 1978 in a small Catholic town in Northern France. She was an astute teenager with a flair for the dramatics and, eventually, one of the few survivors of the flight 2525 crash.
"the picture on the wall you're scared of looks just like you,"
Pre-crash:
ᡣ𐭩 Born in France but moved to America at eight after her mother began to get sick (she passed away during Juli's sophomore year, soon after her brother had left for college)
ᡣ𐭩 She was the daughter of a pastor (Thomas Foster Sr) and practically grew up in Bible school and the benches at Sunday mass.
ᡣ𐭩 She never quite fit in to Wiskayok, as a mixed girl with a foreign accent she was bullied and harassed, learning to keep to herself.
ᡣ𐭩 While considering herself merely a social smoker you'd be hard-pressed to find a moment where she didn't have a cigarette between her lips.
ᡣ𐭩 Soccer became a passion of hers in middle school after she had begged her parents to let her try out for the team.
ᡣ𐭩 She befriended Taissa in her freshman year of highschool the two girls bonding over shared experiences and attitudes.
ᡣ𐭩 Juli's the second oldest of four and the oldest daughter, leading her to be almost solely responsible for her siblings after her mother died and her father started drinking. .
ᡣ𐭩 She opposes Taissa 's plan but hardly tries to fight her on it. While friendly enough with Nat she's closer to Taissa and hence doesn't want to cause an argument.
"she kneels down and holds the frozen dove, pigeons fall like snowflakes at the border,"
In the woods:
ᡣ𐭩 Juli becomes the medic In the woods, her first aid skills being good from a lifetime of caring for her siblings and the younger kids at church.
ᡣ𐭩 She resents the responsibility but is still soft and caring with her patients.
ᡣ𐭩 Juli stays downstairs during the seance, when Lottie starts speaking French they call her up but she arrives too late to add anything useful.
ᡣ𐭩 When Taissa proposes her rescue mission Juli stays behind, relishing the quiet moment it gives her.
ᡣ𐭩 During doomcoming Juli slips off early and shares a dance with Nat before they rush back to the cabin to see the fallout of the Jackie/Travis situation.
ᡣ𐭩 Juli and Nat sort of start dating in early winter, neither really talk exactly about what it means.
ᡣ𐭩 Winter is boring to Juli, she's relieved that no-one 's actively trying to get themselves killed though she's worried about Javi.
ᡣ𐭩 She participates in the cannibalism just like the others but stays behind for the hunt.
ᡣ𐭩 Juli votes guilty in the trial which causes a fight between her and Nat. It's almost resolved when they both object to the yellowjackets keeping Ben suffering but they're not quite as close
ᡣ𐭩 Juli absolutely flips out on Taissa when she objects to them going home, it's probably the angriest Juli gets in the woods.
ᡣ𐭩 Juliette takes part in the black box plot, trying to prolong the hunt to give Nat more time.
"what's left is only bittersweet, for the rest of my life, admitting the best is behind me,"
Post rescue:
ᡣ𐭩 Juli returns to Wiskayok to find out that her Father had died of liver disease while she was in the wilderness.
ᡣ𐭩 She skips town a year after rescue, still within new jersey but away from the lingering memory of the crash.
ᡣ𐭩 As of 2001 Juli works at the till at a cinema, renting a small apartment and going to poor art galleries in the evening, where she meets Sawyer J Good, a southern woman who's just about five years older than her.
ᡣ𐭩 They date for the majority of the next seven or so years. Though Juli does still see Nat at a couple points during this time period.
ᡣ𐭩 On the tenth anniversary of their rescue Juliette drives her car off a bridge. No-one who knew her had predicted it, from all outside perspectives she'd been doing well. The autopsy report showed alcohol in her system.
ᡣ𐭩 Her funeral was small and rather hostile, Her brother getting into a physical fight with Nat after it had ended.
"I don't want to be there when you break glass and I don't want to be there when they drag you out"
Symbolism and hallucinations:
ᡣ𐭩 Juli's animal motif is primarily a moose (strength, independence, self reliance). It's represented through elaborate hallucinations in which Juli sees a small child with the head of a moose wailing. This happens primarily at significant moments, during or after the fact (the cabin burning, Javi dying). Or during dreams where she sees a regular moose, stalking through the forest.
ᡣ𐭩 The first time the moose-child appears is when Juli and the others go to help bring Van back to the cabin after the wolf attack and the last is during her death, the moose-child appears in the middle of the road, causing her to swerve off the side of the bridge. (Though it does also appear in her plane scene, talking to Juli in french about the wilderness "Il ne prend pas, il donne, il a toujours donné." [Forgive my French, translation is roughly 'it doesn't take, it gives, it's always given']
ᡣ𐭩 Juli goes into the hallucination cave (?) with Shauna, Van and Akilah during season 3. Her hallucination is of her father's church, submerged ankle deep in the lake, as she walks down the aisle and organ and a choir start to play. The church is empty save for the moose-headed child at the front. This is the first time it speaks to Juli, making a small comment in french before merging into the stained glass window behind it.
"Beloved of John, I get it all wrong, I read you for some kind of poem,"
Religion & the wilderness:
ᡣ𐭩 Throughout her life Juli remains staunchly a skeptic, the rational part of her brain being unable to reckon with the idea of something supernatural happening. Her view on The wilderness is much similar to her view on Religion, she accepts it as a possibility, though, dislikes the ideas and practices even if it did turn out to be the case.
ᡣ𐭩 During the woods she opposes Lottie's cult, her reasons are somewhat of a mix between Taissa 's and Natalie's; she thinks it's irrational and also Unhealthy and dangerous.
"you can do what you want to, whenever you want to,"
Relationships:
ᡣ𐭩 Nat&Juli: they admired each other even before the crash. Though they love each other their relationship will always be strained by the woods and what happened out there. Also, they both have a poor experience with romance and connection, Juli being especially unwilling to have heart-to-heart type conversations about her feelings.
ᡣ𐭩 Javi&Juli: Javi is Juli's stand in sibling in the woods, he reminds her of one of her sisters, Mary. With both of them spending a lot of time hanging around the cabin they're quite close, his death absolutely shatters Juli.
ᡣ𐭩 Taissa&Juli: they're close before the crash and stay mostly in touch after. in the wilderness they grow a bit distant, though, they remain fond of eachother despite everything.
ᡣ𐭩 Misty&Juli: Misty admires Juli, being an apprentice of sorts to her in the woods. It takes some time but Juli equally finds herself growing fond of Misty and by the second year they're almost friends. Juli turns a blind eye to the possibility that Misty killed Kristen, wanting to see the best in her friend. Misty is the first to learn of Juli's death and the one to alert the others. She gives an over-earnest speech at Juli's funeral which Juli herself would've laughed at.
ᡣ𐭩 Thomas&Juli: the Foster siblings have never had an easy relationship. Thomas was around four years older than Juli and always pushed into masculine roles and Hobbies, never really being encouraged to play with Juli or their younger twin sisters. Thomas goes to College shortly after their mother's death, leaving Juli alone to deal with their spiraling father and sisters. They never quite get over that, even in the years after Juli's rescued.
ᡣ𐭩 Sawyer (Juli's post crash gf)&Juli: while Juli doesn't quite love Sawyer she cares for her and the two are close to happy. Sawyer's stable and easy to talk to, Juli likes not having to think about the woods or the cannibalism she can just be a stupid 20-something-year-old. Sawyer isn't stupid, she knows that Nat will always come before her and she does her best to reckon with that.
[songs: nettles- Ethel Cain, Orange- big thief, Eugene - Sufjan Stevens, be there - low, John my beloved - Sufjan stevens, Ballad of big nothing - Elliot smith]
