Certified Paralegal, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Jillian is a fun-loving twenty-something who's living away from home for the first time since leaving college. She's settled in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and making the town her home. She has an on again off-again courtship with a man named X, but isn't yet in a committed relationship.
Jillian Downer is the daughter of Korean male and Korean female, both second generation Korean-Americans. Her family lives in California, but she moved to Sault Ste. Marie after college (Michigan University) and attained her paralegal certification. Other than her maternal aunt who lives in Los Angeles and occaisionally appears as an extra in B-movies, most of Jillian's extended family lives in South Korea. Her father's pet name for her is "Jilly-Bear."
Jillian is sneezed on by a gas station attendant on the way to work. While she reads about the lockdown of New York City and Los Angeles, she begins to feel...off. That night, on her way out of Sault Ste. Marie as part of the unoffiial evacuation, she comes down with what she thinks is the flu, and fears is the Elixr Syndrome. Jillian inadvertantly makes her way to Beacon Point, where she infects several people in a drug store, and the towns resident doctor, Dr. Linda Grenwald.