Divya "Ivy" Jacob, also known as The Jacobite, is a clairvoyant who is imprisoned in Sheol I with Paige Mahoney during Bone Season XX. She is a palmist, a kind of vile augur.
Biography[]
History[]
Ivy grew up in Jacob's Island never knowing her birth parents. Instead, she was raised by Vern Jacob and Wynn Jacob. At seventeen, Ivy escaped the Island with her girlfriend Chelsea Neves. Ivy moved to Camden where she worked for a kidsman named Agatha for three years. At twenty, Ivy became mollisher to the Rag and Bone Man, mime-lord of II-4. She called herself The Jacobite. She was arrested at Camden Market on January 11, 2059 and then sent to Sheol I.
The Bone Season[]
Paige meets Ivy when they are both brought to Sheol I. They are both recovering from flux poisoning. Thuban Sargas becomes her Rephaite keeper. When Ivy tries to sneak food from an amaurotic, Carl rats on her to Thuban. As punishment, Thuban shaves her head and beats her.
Paige sees Ivy again when Warden brings her to Port Meadow for her first training session. Ivy is standing behind Thuban. Ivy has become a yellow-jacket. She is incredibly thin and Thuban has clearly been keeping her in her own filth. Because Thuban can't retaliate against Warden, whom he despises, he slaps Ivy across the face.
When Paige is sneaking into the House to steal supplies, she hears Ivy being tortured. It's likely the Reph beating her is Thuban. Ivy is being asked about what she saw when Paige and Warden were training in Port Meadow. She's asked other questions about Paige and Warden's relationship. Paige is horrified by the sounds. Ivy is one of the humans able to escape from Sheol I during the Bicentenary Celebration. She gets on the train with Paige and the others heading back to London.
The Mime Order[]
After the events of Bone Season XX, Ivy hides in Agatha's basement. Paige learns that Ivy was mollisher to the Rag and Bone Man, who was selling voyants to Scion in a trafficking ring called the gray market. When Ivy tried to expose what was happening, the Rag and Bone Man sent her to Sheol I along with those she had unknowingly helped put there.
When Paige comes to the group hiding in Agatha's basement with her idea for The Rephaite Revelation, Ivy is particularly unwilling to speak out about her experience in the colony. Her reluctance partly stems from her fear of the Rag and Bone Man, who she claims is particularly violent.
Ivy reveals to Paige that she knew Cutmouth when they were younger. She also tells Paige that Cutmouth actually hated Haymarket Hector's guts and only pretended to love him. Ivy refuses to listen to Jos Biwott and Felix Coombs say anything negative about Agatha, and defends her treatment towards them.
Nell, Ivy, Felix, and Jos are turned over to the Abbess by Agatha. They are whitewashed before being rescued at Paige's request by the Ranthen. The Ranthen bring them immediately to the scrimmage. Upon arriving in the Camden Catacombs where the scrimmage takes place, Ivy tells her story before the Unnatural Assembly. She reveals the truth about the Rag and Bone Man, who his allies were, and how when she tried to expose the truth she was sent to Sheol I. While Ivy has helped expose the truth about the gray market, she still must stand trail for her crimes committed as the Rag and Bone Man's mollisher.
The Song Rising[]
Since the scrimmage Ivy has been staying in a cell north of the river and kept in her own room to prevent revenge attacks. One of her arms is in a sling as her shoulder recovers from injury. She's gained a little weight and her hair is growing out soft and dark. At her trial, Ivy tells the assembled members of the Mime Order how before Cutmouth fell in love with Hector after joining the Underbodies, she and Ivy were lovers. For a time, they couldn't have lived without each other. Ivy recounts how she unknowingly became involved with the gray market, realized something was wrong and reported it to Cutmouth, and was ultimately sent to Sheol I herself as punishment by the Rag and Bone Man. Ivy also names the people she knew were involved in the gray market. Ivy is found guilty by the high commanders of the Mime Order. Paige is forced to find her guilty. However, Paige gives a relatively light sentence of remaining under house arrest or in the company of a commander for at least the next three months.
Immediately upon arriving in the crisis facility in the Beneath after martial law is declared, a sensor attacks Ivy and cuts a “T” into her cheek.
Róisín Jacob and Paige make a plan to protect Ivy from the syndicate by having Ivy be the one to join the toshers in the Beneath, and then Róisín will volunteer to take her place. However, before Róisín could leave, it was discovered that Ivy had gone to join the toshers anyway. She left Paige a note saying, "You can't save us all, Paige."[1] Róisín went after her and they are together in the Beneath. At Paige's behest, Scarlett Burnish has them both extracted.
The Mask Falling[]
Eliza Renton and Glym Lord send Ivy to Paris to find Paige. When Ivy expresses her desire to kill Thuban, Warden discourages her by saying that by being alive there is no greater vengeance she could take against Thuban. Ivy has brought Paige was her father left her in his will. Somehow Eliza got it for her. Ivy tells Paige that she ended up liking being in the Beneath. She was mostly out with the mudlarks on the riverbank. She found it all a bit exciting. She scavenged a lot of interesting stuff. Her favorite find was a sixteenth-century posy ring. She now wears it on a chain around her neck. When she first got out of the Beneath, it was the world above that was more frightening. Paige describes the changes in Ivy as a result of "the world beneath the streets transfiguring Ivy. It has taken the clay of her and fired it into sturdy ceramic."
After Arcturus's supposed betrayal, Paige sends Nadine Arnett, Zeke Sáenz, and Ivy back to London to warn the Mime Order, let the Edinburgh and Manchester syndicates know what's happened, and move the London voyants to the shadow houses. Ivy doesn't want to go back to the Mime Order, instead she wants to become a perdue. Paige understands and says once Ivy is done getting Nadine and Zeke to Eliza and Glym, she should return to Paris, but asks her to bring someone with her. Ivy agrees to this plan.
Ivy returns just in time for the trial of Le Latronpuche, and has brought the person Paige asked her to bring. It's revealed to be Didion Waite, Le Patronpuche's half-brother. After the announcement of the alliance between Le Nouveau Régime and the Mime Order, Ivy tells Paige that Le Vieux Orphelin has accepted her request to join his perdues. She looks forward to being able to pick her new name and begin a fresh start.
Physical Description[]
Ivy is originally seen with electric-blue hair in a pixie cut, but it was shaved off by her keeper. She is of South Asian descent.[2] She is 5"6' and has dark, almost black, eyes. She has mottled scarring on her right arm where a tattoo was burned away. She has narrow hips. After being imprisoned in Sheol I, Ivy has scars hatched into the smooth brown of her skin from her Rephaite keeper. There's a missing tooth at the front of her mouth, thanks to Thuban. Her fingers are noticeably bony, with knuckles raw with calluses. Her smile is rare, but when it appears, it lights her face all the way to her eyes. A few months after escaping Sheol I, her hair has grown long enough to cover the tips of her ears. Her hands tremble. She is frail. She doesn't sleep and her stomach won't take much food.
Personality[]
The instinct to avoid detection is etched into her. Paige recalls how Ivy was the most fearful of the voyants brought to Sheol I with her. Her dreamscape feels dim, quiet, and broken. Despite her trauma, Ivy is a survivor.
Etymology[]
Divya is an Indian name that comes from a Sanskrit word meaning "divine" or "divine brilliance."[3]