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Her backstory is still a little vague, but:

All her life, she has had extraordinary skill in ballet. She is also the daughter of two Fishers (which is a class in and of itself), and she absolutely hates that occupation. Therefore, she’s been working at her ballet skills her entire life so that on the Day of Destiny, the Benevolents will make her a Dancer. She also kinda toys with the idea of maybe gaining power in the higher ranks of Benevolents if she can because she thinks she’d do a better job controlling things, but that’s nothing very major so far. Anyway, part of what happens on the Day of Destiny is the Culling of kids deemed unfit for any class. These people are sent to work to fish food factory until they die…and then, um, they get turned into fish food…. This matters to Jade because her cousin committed suicide after her lover was Culled. So Jade deeply despises this system, and also guards her heart fiercely. Rosemary is her only friend because of this.

Now Rosemary, poor girl, is very smart, so the Benevolents are likely to make her a Doctor, which is NOT someone who cures disease in this world. It’s more like a group of insidious, high tech, biochemical weapon administrators handpicked by the Benevolents. Rosemary does not want that future, so she wants to keep herself unnoticed and unremarkable (“I’d probably get executed the first day on the job. Hardly a pleasing prospect.”)This is pretty much impossible. She has to learn everything she possibly can to help her little brother, Zeke, who is likely to be Culled because of disease. This need for knowledge and capacity to handle it she well knows are monitored. With all this going on, she’s willing to sacrifice herself for Zeke’s sake.

I could go on about them all day, so I’ll just cut it off here 😂