Random Outlander costuming thoughts from the end of my lunch break.
I was rewatching the very end of “To Ransom a Man’s Soul” for my modern AU WIP and I noticed Claire is wearing a green cloak on the ship when she tells Jamie she is pregnant with Faith.
In S8, she wears a green jacket more than once, including in Pharos when they go to rescue John, and in the finale conversation with Jamie at the creek. Both episodes involving the past, the present, and spending time near or on water. In narrative moments about what Claire might do or is asked to do. In S1, it’s trying to stop Culloden. In S8, it’s trying to reckon with another predicted future, and Jamie’s hopes for after he dies.
I’m pretty sure that when they actually say goodbye in the finale before the battle, though, Claire’s jacket is blue: the color of healing. She loses her medical bag on the mountain, and the jacket somewhere in the process. But she uses the blue light to bring Jamie back.
And the next time we see Claire the camera has taken Jamie’s POV, as his ghost in 1945. He sees her the way he always does: in white. Like he did at Lallybroch, when she first told him she loved him. Like at Culloden, when he has visions of her. And like he does in the S8 premiere when he reminds her of the night Faith was conceived. “Sometimes I think you’re an angel, Claire”—so says S6 Jamie, remembering seeing her in prison, as she’s wearing white again.
Angel, healer, doctor, wife, witch (with a little necromancy in the mix, as a treat). Sassenach. La Dame Blanche, who practices white magic. Claire’s not afraid of what they call her, she knows what her purpose is. And Jamie’s had it right all along.
