backwards

It seemed like she had some kind of middle school girl mentality of desperately wanting to be friends with the cool popular girl in school or something.

"I'd rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain't"

Kacey Musgraves "Pageant Material"

Jane seems to be like a talent scout looking for impressionable people whom she describes as light-bearers. She wants to mentor and nurture people like Candace and Bridget. I think Jane describes herself as having no light. And so she needs latch onto people with a charismatic potential and mould them to her will.