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But she technically can leverage something like refusing to speak to Tybalt against the others because he's technically got power over the other preps. If Jill were to say, "if you do that, I'll never to speak to you again", Tybalt would surely to anything to ensure that doesn't happen and would likely grovel to Jill, at which point she could tell him that not only should he not file charges, but he also needs to persuade the other Preps not to do so either and Tybalt would probably do that, or at least say he did since he's likely lying about them wanting to sue anyway.I think you're oversimplifying things. Jill consistently stood up to Tybalt in defense of MC, not just on Rooster, but also when MC trespassed into the mansion. BUT there is a big difference between defending someone who trespassed and caused no harm, and someone who was allegedly said to start a fire in the mansion (and probably punched Tybalt too). Also note that Tybalt used other people (in this case, Gordon and Trent) to make it sound like suing MC is what "everyone" wants and not just Tybalt himself. He's basically making it hard for her to say no, because she can say no to him, but not to "everyone".
This is on top of the fact that Jill told MC what he did wasn't right. So it's harder for her to defend MC this time when she knew that he was also in the wrong.
So really she does have a lot of power of here, and it's an unfortunate side effect of DPC making her so meek that he's chosen to make her give in to something that she has a clear way of countering.