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quarkylass) wrote2012-02-15 10:23 pm
quarkylass) wrote2012-02-15 10:23 pm
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OOC Information:
Name: Aaron
Age: 20
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IC Information:
Name: Jade Harley
Fandom: Homestuck
Timeline: Immediately after John faints in Act 6 Intermission 3.
Age: 15
Appearance: The first thing to notice about Jade is hair -- she's got a lot of it, black hair that falls well past her shoulders. When she sits down, it curls around her on the ground. Her eyes are BRIGHT GREEN just like the text she types in. In fact, it's the exact same shade of green. She wears glasses. Her two front teeth stick out slightly over her bottom lip, and she's usually smiling. But all in all, she looks like a normal, human girl around the age of 15.
Abilities:
• Sharpshooter. Jade has been training with guns since she was almost too young to be handling them. It's a family legacy, one that she's proud to uphold -- Jade is an excellent shot, adept at caring for and handling all sorts of weapons. She's just as skilled with her favorite weapon (her rifle) as she is with pistols and even harpoon guns.
• An uncanny knack for guessing things on the first try, especially when it comes to locating hidden objects. She is a master of the card game Memory.
• Some sort of magic involving plants and music. While it isn't specifically stated as a part of Jade's role in SBURB, she is able to make plants grow eerily fast using her music (though it has to be good music -- when she plays the flute horribly, nothing happens). Jade can also use this ability to move plants; she rearranges giant lilypads using her bass guitar and an amp in order to hop across them. Even without music to help her plants grow, she seems to have a green thumb of sorts, and always likes to keep flowers and vegetables around her.
• Intelligence. Despite being thirteen year old, Jade enjoys dabbling in things like nuclear physics. She's actually quite handy with mechanics, creating a bunny robot with artificial intelligence and receiving only minimal help from her future penpal. She enjoys tinkering, and has an entire section of her room devoted to her projects, or things that she's fixing or changing to make work again.
• Optimism. Though not necessarily a physical, magical, or intellectual ability, Jade is able to think the best of people, even the Big Bad Jack Noir. She may get exasperated at times, but she's quick to return to positive thinking, planning ahead and setting a goals. Jade is nice to those who are nice to her, and makes friends easily.
• Sylladex
-- Essentially, a sylladex is a place removed from space and time that allows its owner to store objects in a place that no one else can access (this is assumed, as no person has ever grabbed an object out of another person's sylladex). Jade's sylladex is based around children's board games: it's originally set to Memory, and then later changed to Pictionary, though there are several other options for her modus (or the way she can retrieve/store items). A sylladex comes with a certain number of cards -- Jade has at least 9, though might have up to around 20 (but definitely has more storage space than any of the other kids).
-- Jade can carry around objects in her sylladex, and even carry around pets (John carries around Casey, a salamander). But anything too big (such as a car, or a giant wizard statue) cannot be stored in there, but it is dependent on the modus. Jade's can hold things up to the weight of a fully-functional, human-sized robot.
• God Tier
-- Traditional God Tier Powers: Jade is "immortal" in that, when at full power, she can only truly die after a just or heroic death. Any other sort of death will just mean she pops right back up, completely scrape free and with clean clothes to boot! In addition, she can also fly thanks to God Tier, and also gains magnificent dog ears out of the process thanks to merging with her dead dream self (Jadesprite), who had dog ears.
-- Witch of Space Powers: Jade's Space powers manifest in the manipulation of matter, particularly in making things fly, making things smaller, and then making them larger again. She can shrink planets to the size of softballs, and make ships the size of a universe. She can even shrink and enlarge herself and other people! Additionally, she can teleport due to first guardian powers, which came with her merging with Jadesprite. She also has knowledge of the inner workings of SBURB now, thanks to prototyping with a sprite. Also she gets dog senses, like chasing and growling at cats and other silly things like that.
Personality:
The first thing anyone notices when seeing Jade is generally her optimism and good natured speech style. This is fairly indicative of her personality; Jade believes in being nice to those who are nice in return, and is a big believer in second chances. She's a friendly, outgoing person who likes to think on the positive side -- even when the odds are against her, for example when she's told that the Scratch will obliterate her and her friends, she's determined to be the optimist, the person who keeps looking for a different answer. Mostly, this is because she's concerned for her friends; Jade legitimately takes pleasure in making her friends happy and keeping them safe. It is one of the biggest things that drives her -- she looks for the way to make a new universe because she believes that if she has her friends beside her and some good advice, she cannot fail. Not to say that she's completely dependent on her friends; Jade's a very independent person, taking charge in a lot of situations, like…household cleaning around Dave's apartment and getting everything set up so that the carapace in the future have everything they'll need for their plans to succeed. And even in saving the world, Jade didn't need much help. She'll rely on her intuition and trust that everything will work out…and usually it does! She's pretty smart! But when it doesn't, she has her friends to fall back on, and she's quick to pick herself up when she's down in the dumps.
However, Jade's temper can be short once and awhile, particularly with people who can't seem to do anything for themselves. Case in point: Jadesprite, whose constant stream of tears caused Jade to start screaming and slapping her. Mostly, Jade hates people who say that something is fatalistic -- that nothing will ever change it, that things are the way they are and they will never change. Which is why she detests that Jadesprite was part of herself, and even though now she accepts this fact, she still doesn't like the idea that not knowing what to do means she can sit in a corner and never do anything. She's an active person, and nothing will stop her. Karkat gets this side of Jade, as well -- she hates the idea that someone could fight with themselves so stupidly, and even cusses them out before ragequitting. She accepts that a person can hate a part of themselves -- this is normal. But blaming it on some other part of yourself that you don't accept is ridiculous and dumb. You have to be the whole person, or you're not yourself at all.
Since ascending to god tier, Jade seems to have become a little more subdued and mature -- probably because that's a lot of responsibility to put on someone's shoulders! Her sadness, when she has it, makes her quieter. But doesn't dampen her optimism or her spunk, just makes her a little bit older and wiser than she showed at thirteen; she always puts on a good face for her friends, and their reactions and craziness quickly turns her into the straight man -- she's not above telling someone like it is if she thinks it'll help them. However she's not above keeping secrets from her friends if she doesn't want to spoil things, like not telling John when Davesprite broke up with her, or keeping the ultimate bunny a secret from her friends when it needed to be delivered to a certain place. Most of this stems from her visions on Prospit, as well as her conversations with trolls in dream bubbles -- though recently, due to a lack of communication in dream bubbles in general, Jade has had to rely on her own intuition to guide John whenever he's starting to act a bit weird. She's even delved into romance; in short, she's growing up on a tiny ship, and being around the same people all the time starts to get to a person. While she's still the same Jade as before, she knows more about pop culture now thanks to John, and is no longer enchanted by the things she was two years ago, things like Squiddles and cute television shows. It's something she's come to readily accept -- people will change over the course of time, and your interests change too. Jade is just worried that the friends she had way back when won't be quite the same when she meets them next…but in traditional Jade fashion, she takes this one step at a time, never worrying about things in the future when there's enough to take care of now.
History:
Jade Harley is a cheerful, somewhat out of touch girl who lives on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. She lives alone, with only the aid of her guardian, the dog Becquerel. When she was younger, her Grandpa Harley also lived with her. But he died in a tragic accident involving a misguided bullet. Grandpa was then stuffed by the smaller Jade and placed in a dignified position in front of the hearth. Since then, it's been Jade and Bec on the island by themselves, though Jade has enjoyed talking to Grandpa as if he were alive. Her home life has always been a little strange; she grew up surrounded by mummies, pictures stolen from beauty parlors, and suits of armor. Jade is very eclectic, just like her house and her Grandpa before her -- she has a large number of interests, and spends most of her time frolicking around her island.
Or at least she did. Before there were meteors.
On April 13, 2009, Jade and her three friends (John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, and Dave Strider) decide to play a video game named SBURB. Or rather, her three friends decide to play -- Jade simply knows that this is a momentous day, thanks to what her friends believe is a gift in prophetic foresight. She doesn't even have a copy of the game disks until they show up via time shenanigans in the Frog Temple that is placed in the center of her island. Instead, she seems to accomplish a number of ridiculous tasks while her friends engage in life-threatening scenarios involving fire and death. She feeds her dog (who is not just a dog, but rather the First Guardian of Earth, an omnipotent hellhound who can warp Space and Time) some lightly irradiated steak, and pesters all of her friends to casually remind them of things that they will need to know later. It's not that she is any more psychic than John is -- she actually says this in canon -- it's just that Jade Harley has been awake on the moon of Prospit for as long as she can remember. This moon is one of two that circle a planet called Skaia, which exists in the Incipisphere, part of the territory of SBURB. Prospit is the moon closest to Skaia -- so close in fact, that when Jade's tower on Prospit passes close to the planet, the clouds of Skaia provide the dreamers that are currently awake with visions. These visions can be of past, present, or future events, and rarely ever come in complete pictures. Jade uses her dreambot, a robot created by her Grandpa Harley, to record the visions and comb through them later. When she figures out an important event that she or one of her friends must complete, she records it by tying a string around her finger. These colorful reminders help Jade to know what she must do in the upcoming days, and at the start of SBURB on April 13 she has several to keep her on schedule.
A lot of SBURB before Jade enters is completely unknown to her; Jade spends a good amount of her time asleep on Prospit. She awaits the time when John, the other Derse dreamer, finally wakes up. When she's not asleep or wandering around as her dreambot, Jade is off doing other things that she must complete -- she has seen in her visions that she has to leave many notes for the exiles of the future, to aid them on their quests. So she waits for Bec to fall asleep and ventures to the Frog Temple, where she receives both the SBURUB copies and sets up the scenario for the pawns that arrive there hundreds of years in the future. But that's not to say that she isn't asleep for a long time. Jade becomes Dave's server player (or the player that aids in setting up the needed equipment in order to play SBURB) and manages to do most of this while completely asleep, much to Dave's chagrin. He finally manages to wake her up by getting her robot to punch her in the face, knocking her out of her bed and onto the floor. But not before Jade's dreamself prototypes Dave's kernel (or his guide for the game) with a useless, dead crow (essentially setting up what will later become Davesprite).
After Jade handles Dave's entry into the medium, she settles down to fall asleep again, staying awake on Prospit since she knows that John's awakening is close at hand. She is trusted with the Ring of the White Queen and told to take it to the White King on Skaia, a quest that Jade treats with great solemnity. She even beats an evil Derse pawn up when he tries to attack her, knowing the importance of giving the ring over. Except what Jade doesn't know is that while she's busy frolicking in the dream world, shit's going down. One of the citizens of the moon Derse, named Jack Noir, has killed the Black Queen (or the ruler of the moon) and stolen her ring. While a human wearing the ring has absolutely no effect, a pawn wearing the ring gives that carapace creature immeasurable power that's directly linked to the first prototypings of the kids' kernel sprites. So along with the wings and sword through the chest of the dead bird that Jade prototyped for Dave, Jack Noir gains the appearance of the one-armed jester and the tentacled cat princess that John and Rose prototype, respectively. With these powers plus the innate magical power of the ring itself, Jack soars to the battlefield of Skaia and wreaks havoc there, killing thousands of warring pawns and ruining the earth. After he gets bored, he flies to the home of his mortal enemies -- that is, Prospit, whose White royalty have been at war with the Black royalty of Derse for an eternity. Jack corrupts Prospit and tears it into pieces, sending Jade and the sleeping dreamself of John spiraling down towards Skaia. Jade decides to take action -- she pushes John out of the way of the crashing ruins, saving his dreamself and killing her own in the process.
When a dreamer's dreamself dies, they fall asleep and wake up in what is later to be known as dream bubbles, creations of the gods of the furthest ring that were made on a deal with Feferi, a troll. Jade meets Feferi in one of these dream bubbles not once but twice, both times thinking that she was more than a little freaky. When she wakes up from her post-dreamself death, she finds that John has hooked up to her SBURB game as her server player, and helps her set up all the things she needs to enter the Medium. And oh, is her entry important. Because Jade's entry will give Jack Noir the final powers he needs, a troll named Vriska puts John (the person in charge of prototyping Jade's kernel sprite) to sleep so that Jade's omnipotent, space-warping dog is forced to jump into the kernel to save her. This creates not only Becsprite, a powerful but canine SBURB guide, but also Bec Noir, the ultimate villain.
Jade wakes up in the Land of Frost and Frogs, a snow-covered world with a giant volcano. She is now officially the Witch of Space, responsible for creating the new universe which the kids would have been the gods of, was their session not royally fucked. A lot of her first moments in the Medium are spent quickly alchemizing new outfits and weapons with the help of Dave, who realizes that John (due to dying and ascending to god tier) is unable to aid Jade as her server player any more. Using her new creations (such as the ectogoggles!), she locates not only her friends in the Medium, but also the body of Bro (who died in a fight with Bec Noir); she is able to see anything going on in the present moment throughout the Incipisphere. But the novelty eventually wears off, and Jade is left wondering what to prototype her kernelsprite with for the second time. So she does what any reasonable person would do: considering the fact that her dog is an omnipotent beast, and leaning on the pride she has in herself, Jade throws her (deceased, stuffed) deamself into Becsprite, creating Jadesprite.
Only...yeah no, Jadesprite was pretty much an all-around failure. She refused to cooperate with Jade, crying and moping about Prospit without actually knowing the whole story. This pisses Jade off, and eventually lead to her screaming at Jadesprite about how worthless she was. Jade couldn't believe that a person who was once Jade Harley could be so cowardly, but Karkat was quick to remind her that the hatred she felt for her sprite self was remarkably similar to Karkat's anger towards his past self, which Jade condoned. As Jade realized that, she felt bad about denying that part of her, and somewhat apologized to Karkat (placing them on better terms than before, when he had trolled her mercilessly about fucking up her session).
Since Jadesprite had fled to be alone, Jade was without a guide for her quest and her session. Sensing that Jade might need help, a troll named Kanaya stepped in to advise her on what to do as a Space player. Kanaya had created the kids' universe, with the help of Karkat, and was knowledgeable on the method to breed the universe. Jade took her advice readily, building up her house to reach the next gate and also to deploy the breeding equipment on top of her house. As she's nearing the start of her breeding process, Jade pesters John, trying to get in touch with him for the first time since he ascended to god tier. She finally contacts him and they chat about the future, as well as John's immortality and Karkat's shipping wall (which, according to the troll, the kids were logically supposed to follow in order to create the new human species). Jade helped John find his dad's location by looking for Dad in the sooth googles, and then they parted ways, leaving John to go find his long lost father and Jade to start attempting to create a new universe with the help of a few thousand frogs and her new troll friend.
Of course, Dave also shows up to help after awhile; while hunting for frogs on LOFAF, Jack Noir also appears and begins to attack Jade and Dave -- well, attack Dave with the hopes that something will go wrong and hit Jade, too. Unfortunately, he's too clever for them; Jack teleports behind Dave while Jade is shooting at Jack, causing her bullets to go straight through her best friend. While Jack stood around awkwardly, Jade had to kiss her BFF so that he would come back to life on Derse -- conveniently at the same time that John did so to Rose. After that, Karkat gave Jade a "pep talk" in order to get her back up on her feet, and she realized that even now she needed to keep trying to breed the Universe Frog. So she sought help from Echidna, in exchange for an impossible deal: Jade had to take all of the planets -- the denizens, the consorts, even Skaia -- with her when she left for wherever she was going. Jade didn't really know how she was going to do that, but she agreed. Finally, the Universe Frog was made...until CD showed up, carrying a metric fuckton of shaving cream, and set it on fire. Jade died in the explosion, and Jack was so upset that that had happened that he killed CD and took Jade to her quest bed as a final act of desperation to save her life -- since he still couldn't kill her, because of the Bec parts he had in him. With this, Jade merged with her dreamself, Jadesprite, and saved all of the planets (and her friends!) from certain death via meteors and/or the Scratch by blasting through the fourth wall into a nebulous space that would take approximately three years to navigate properly.
During these three years, a lot of things happened -- well, relationship-wise. John finally went crazy, realizing he didn't like Con Air and a lot of other things, Jade barked a lot at Jaspersprite, and even dated Davesprite for awhile! But for reasons unknown, the two broke it off the day before John's fifteenth birthday, sending John into a raging fit so hard that he actually knocked himself out while Jade was standing there, the perpetual straight man with a :/ face.
Well. At least there's only one more year to go?
Roleplay Sample - Log:
It was going to be the best idea ever. Jade had it planned to the minute -- Dave would walk out of the house, and then the tree would appear in front of the door like magic. However, the small problem was getting the tree to appear without hurting any of the roots. Jade didn't want to damage the tree with this stunt; preferably, she'd like to keep it entirely whole, and then gently set it back into the earth when she was finished with it. If that wasn't possible, then she'd just have to get rid of the whole idea.
So she crouched next to the tree of choice, examining it carefully. She couldn't see underground -- she wasn't that talented -- but it seemed like a very healthy tree, with a good amount of roots. Maybe if she just....lifted it up gently out of the ground? But that would take so much force...Jade shook her head. They would have to shovel an awful lot of dirt to find these roots. They were probably huge.
"This is a really bad idea!" She frowned, biting her lip slightly as she thought. There had to be some way to make the plan work without hurting the tree or damaging its root system. She would just have to think about it some more.
Roleplay Sample - Journal:
oh wow im back
i definitely was not expecting to be here after a year at home
especially since it was sort of crazy there
particularly that last part with john :/
though i suppose if i am here that means the year at home was someone elses year at home...
but i am not going to think about that
dave, are you still here?
jack too???
and yukina and dick! and everyone else as well
how are you all doing?
what did i miss??
dick did you get married yet?
i really hope that i didnt miss it, i was really looking forward to the ceremony :(
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function?
Jade has handled a lot of stuff that's pretty horrible, physically and mentally, just in her canon -- she's died (twice), had to fight her own dog, hold her friend (that she killed!) as he died and then kiss him back to life, her own crush on him (??) not withstanding. Jade's a fighter in more ways than one, and she would never let something get her down if she could help it' She'll truck through anything that comes her way, within reason; she's very resilient, and bounces back from trauma easily.
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Name: Aaron
Age: 20
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IC Information:
Name: Jade Harley
Fandom: Homestuck
Timeline: Immediately after John faints in Act 6 Intermission 3.
Age: 15
Appearance: The first thing to notice about Jade is hair -- she's got a lot of it, black hair that falls well past her shoulders. When she sits down, it curls around her on the ground. Her eyes are BRIGHT GREEN just like the text she types in. In fact, it's the exact same shade of green. She wears glasses. Her two front teeth stick out slightly over her bottom lip, and she's usually smiling. But all in all, she looks like a normal, human girl around the age of 15.
Abilities:
• Sharpshooter. Jade has been training with guns since she was almost too young to be handling them. It's a family legacy, one that she's proud to uphold -- Jade is an excellent shot, adept at caring for and handling all sorts of weapons. She's just as skilled with her favorite weapon (her rifle) as she is with pistols and even harpoon guns.
• An uncanny knack for guessing things on the first try, especially when it comes to locating hidden objects. She is a master of the card game Memory.
• Some sort of magic involving plants and music. While it isn't specifically stated as a part of Jade's role in SBURB, she is able to make plants grow eerily fast using her music (though it has to be good music -- when she plays the flute horribly, nothing happens). Jade can also use this ability to move plants; she rearranges giant lilypads using her bass guitar and an amp in order to hop across them. Even without music to help her plants grow, she seems to have a green thumb of sorts, and always likes to keep flowers and vegetables around her.
• Intelligence. Despite being thirteen year old, Jade enjoys dabbling in things like nuclear physics. She's actually quite handy with mechanics, creating a bunny robot with artificial intelligence and receiving only minimal help from her future penpal. She enjoys tinkering, and has an entire section of her room devoted to her projects, or things that she's fixing or changing to make work again.
• Optimism. Though not necessarily a physical, magical, or intellectual ability, Jade is able to think the best of people, even the Big Bad Jack Noir. She may get exasperated at times, but she's quick to return to positive thinking, planning ahead and setting a goals. Jade is nice to those who are nice to her, and makes friends easily.
• Sylladex
-- Essentially, a sylladex is a place removed from space and time that allows its owner to store objects in a place that no one else can access (this is assumed, as no person has ever grabbed an object out of another person's sylladex). Jade's sylladex is based around children's board games: it's originally set to Memory, and then later changed to Pictionary, though there are several other options for her modus (or the way she can retrieve/store items). A sylladex comes with a certain number of cards -- Jade has at least 9, though might have up to around 20 (but definitely has more storage space than any of the other kids).
-- Jade can carry around objects in her sylladex, and even carry around pets (John carries around Casey, a salamander). But anything too big (such as a car, or a giant wizard statue) cannot be stored in there, but it is dependent on the modus. Jade's can hold things up to the weight of a fully-functional, human-sized robot.
• God Tier
-- Traditional God Tier Powers: Jade is "immortal" in that, when at full power, she can only truly die after a just or heroic death. Any other sort of death will just mean she pops right back up, completely scrape free and with clean clothes to boot! In addition, she can also fly thanks to God Tier, and also gains magnificent dog ears out of the process thanks to merging with her dead dream self (Jadesprite), who had dog ears.
-- Witch of Space Powers: Jade's Space powers manifest in the manipulation of matter, particularly in making things fly, making things smaller, and then making them larger again. She can shrink planets to the size of softballs, and make ships the size of a universe. She can even shrink and enlarge herself and other people! Additionally, she can teleport due to first guardian powers, which came with her merging with Jadesprite. She also has knowledge of the inner workings of SBURB now, thanks to prototyping with a sprite. Also she gets dog senses, like chasing and growling at cats and other silly things like that.
Personality:
The first thing anyone notices when seeing Jade is generally her optimism and good natured speech style. This is fairly indicative of her personality; Jade believes in being nice to those who are nice in return, and is a big believer in second chances. She's a friendly, outgoing person who likes to think on the positive side -- even when the odds are against her, for example when she's told that the Scratch will obliterate her and her friends, she's determined to be the optimist, the person who keeps looking for a different answer. Mostly, this is because she's concerned for her friends; Jade legitimately takes pleasure in making her friends happy and keeping them safe. It is one of the biggest things that drives her -- she looks for the way to make a new universe because she believes that if she has her friends beside her and some good advice, she cannot fail. Not to say that she's completely dependent on her friends; Jade's a very independent person, taking charge in a lot of situations, like…household cleaning around Dave's apartment and getting everything set up so that the carapace in the future have everything they'll need for their plans to succeed. And even in saving the world, Jade didn't need much help. She'll rely on her intuition and trust that everything will work out…and usually it does! She's pretty smart! But when it doesn't, she has her friends to fall back on, and she's quick to pick herself up when she's down in the dumps.
However, Jade's temper can be short once and awhile, particularly with people who can't seem to do anything for themselves. Case in point: Jadesprite, whose constant stream of tears caused Jade to start screaming and slapping her. Mostly, Jade hates people who say that something is fatalistic -- that nothing will ever change it, that things are the way they are and they will never change. Which is why she detests that Jadesprite was part of herself, and even though now she accepts this fact, she still doesn't like the idea that not knowing what to do means she can sit in a corner and never do anything. She's an active person, and nothing will stop her. Karkat gets this side of Jade, as well -- she hates the idea that someone could fight with themselves so stupidly, and even cusses them out before ragequitting. She accepts that a person can hate a part of themselves -- this is normal. But blaming it on some other part of yourself that you don't accept is ridiculous and dumb. You have to be the whole person, or you're not yourself at all.
Since ascending to god tier, Jade seems to have become a little more subdued and mature -- probably because that's a lot of responsibility to put on someone's shoulders! Her sadness, when she has it, makes her quieter. But doesn't dampen her optimism or her spunk, just makes her a little bit older and wiser than she showed at thirteen; she always puts on a good face for her friends, and their reactions and craziness quickly turns her into the straight man -- she's not above telling someone like it is if she thinks it'll help them. However she's not above keeping secrets from her friends if she doesn't want to spoil things, like not telling John when Davesprite broke up with her, or keeping the ultimate bunny a secret from her friends when it needed to be delivered to a certain place. Most of this stems from her visions on Prospit, as well as her conversations with trolls in dream bubbles -- though recently, due to a lack of communication in dream bubbles in general, Jade has had to rely on her own intuition to guide John whenever he's starting to act a bit weird. She's even delved into romance; in short, she's growing up on a tiny ship, and being around the same people all the time starts to get to a person. While she's still the same Jade as before, she knows more about pop culture now thanks to John, and is no longer enchanted by the things she was two years ago, things like Squiddles and cute television shows. It's something she's come to readily accept -- people will change over the course of time, and your interests change too. Jade is just worried that the friends she had way back when won't be quite the same when she meets them next…but in traditional Jade fashion, she takes this one step at a time, never worrying about things in the future when there's enough to take care of now.
History:
Jade Harley is a cheerful, somewhat out of touch girl who lives on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. She lives alone, with only the aid of her guardian, the dog Becquerel. When she was younger, her Grandpa Harley also lived with her. But he died in a tragic accident involving a misguided bullet. Grandpa was then stuffed by the smaller Jade and placed in a dignified position in front of the hearth. Since then, it's been Jade and Bec on the island by themselves, though Jade has enjoyed talking to Grandpa as if he were alive. Her home life has always been a little strange; she grew up surrounded by mummies, pictures stolen from beauty parlors, and suits of armor. Jade is very eclectic, just like her house and her Grandpa before her -- she has a large number of interests, and spends most of her time frolicking around her island.
Or at least she did. Before there were meteors.
On April 13, 2009, Jade and her three friends (John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, and Dave Strider) decide to play a video game named SBURB. Or rather, her three friends decide to play -- Jade simply knows that this is a momentous day, thanks to what her friends believe is a gift in prophetic foresight. She doesn't even have a copy of the game disks until they show up via time shenanigans in the Frog Temple that is placed in the center of her island. Instead, she seems to accomplish a number of ridiculous tasks while her friends engage in life-threatening scenarios involving fire and death. She feeds her dog (who is not just a dog, but rather the First Guardian of Earth, an omnipotent hellhound who can warp Space and Time) some lightly irradiated steak, and pesters all of her friends to casually remind them of things that they will need to know later. It's not that she is any more psychic than John is -- she actually says this in canon -- it's just that Jade Harley has been awake on the moon of Prospit for as long as she can remember. This moon is one of two that circle a planet called Skaia, which exists in the Incipisphere, part of the territory of SBURB. Prospit is the moon closest to Skaia -- so close in fact, that when Jade's tower on Prospit passes close to the planet, the clouds of Skaia provide the dreamers that are currently awake with visions. These visions can be of past, present, or future events, and rarely ever come in complete pictures. Jade uses her dreambot, a robot created by her Grandpa Harley, to record the visions and comb through them later. When she figures out an important event that she or one of her friends must complete, she records it by tying a string around her finger. These colorful reminders help Jade to know what she must do in the upcoming days, and at the start of SBURB on April 13 she has several to keep her on schedule.
A lot of SBURB before Jade enters is completely unknown to her; Jade spends a good amount of her time asleep on Prospit. She awaits the time when John, the other Derse dreamer, finally wakes up. When she's not asleep or wandering around as her dreambot, Jade is off doing other things that she must complete -- she has seen in her visions that she has to leave many notes for the exiles of the future, to aid them on their quests. So she waits for Bec to fall asleep and ventures to the Frog Temple, where she receives both the SBURUB copies and sets up the scenario for the pawns that arrive there hundreds of years in the future. But that's not to say that she isn't asleep for a long time. Jade becomes Dave's server player (or the player that aids in setting up the needed equipment in order to play SBURB) and manages to do most of this while completely asleep, much to Dave's chagrin. He finally manages to wake her up by getting her robot to punch her in the face, knocking her out of her bed and onto the floor. But not before Jade's dreamself prototypes Dave's kernel (or his guide for the game) with a useless, dead crow (essentially setting up what will later become Davesprite).
After Jade handles Dave's entry into the medium, she settles down to fall asleep again, staying awake on Prospit since she knows that John's awakening is close at hand. She is trusted with the Ring of the White Queen and told to take it to the White King on Skaia, a quest that Jade treats with great solemnity. She even beats an evil Derse pawn up when he tries to attack her, knowing the importance of giving the ring over. Except what Jade doesn't know is that while she's busy frolicking in the dream world, shit's going down. One of the citizens of the moon Derse, named Jack Noir, has killed the Black Queen (or the ruler of the moon) and stolen her ring. While a human wearing the ring has absolutely no effect, a pawn wearing the ring gives that carapace creature immeasurable power that's directly linked to the first prototypings of the kids' kernel sprites. So along with the wings and sword through the chest of the dead bird that Jade prototyped for Dave, Jack Noir gains the appearance of the one-armed jester and the tentacled cat princess that John and Rose prototype, respectively. With these powers plus the innate magical power of the ring itself, Jack soars to the battlefield of Skaia and wreaks havoc there, killing thousands of warring pawns and ruining the earth. After he gets bored, he flies to the home of his mortal enemies -- that is, Prospit, whose White royalty have been at war with the Black royalty of Derse for an eternity. Jack corrupts Prospit and tears it into pieces, sending Jade and the sleeping dreamself of John spiraling down towards Skaia. Jade decides to take action -- she pushes John out of the way of the crashing ruins, saving his dreamself and killing her own in the process.
When a dreamer's dreamself dies, they fall asleep and wake up in what is later to be known as dream bubbles, creations of the gods of the furthest ring that were made on a deal with Feferi, a troll. Jade meets Feferi in one of these dream bubbles not once but twice, both times thinking that she was more than a little freaky. When she wakes up from her post-dreamself death, she finds that John has hooked up to her SBURB game as her server player, and helps her set up all the things she needs to enter the Medium. And oh, is her entry important. Because Jade's entry will give Jack Noir the final powers he needs, a troll named Vriska puts John (the person in charge of prototyping Jade's kernel sprite) to sleep so that Jade's omnipotent, space-warping dog is forced to jump into the kernel to save her. This creates not only Becsprite, a powerful but canine SBURB guide, but also Bec Noir, the ultimate villain.
Jade wakes up in the Land of Frost and Frogs, a snow-covered world with a giant volcano. She is now officially the Witch of Space, responsible for creating the new universe which the kids would have been the gods of, was their session not royally fucked. A lot of her first moments in the Medium are spent quickly alchemizing new outfits and weapons with the help of Dave, who realizes that John (due to dying and ascending to god tier) is unable to aid Jade as her server player any more. Using her new creations (such as the ectogoggles!), she locates not only her friends in the Medium, but also the body of Bro (who died in a fight with Bec Noir); she is able to see anything going on in the present moment throughout the Incipisphere. But the novelty eventually wears off, and Jade is left wondering what to prototype her kernelsprite with for the second time. So she does what any reasonable person would do: considering the fact that her dog is an omnipotent beast, and leaning on the pride she has in herself, Jade throws her (deceased, stuffed) deamself into Becsprite, creating Jadesprite.
Only...yeah no, Jadesprite was pretty much an all-around failure. She refused to cooperate with Jade, crying and moping about Prospit without actually knowing the whole story. This pisses Jade off, and eventually lead to her screaming at Jadesprite about how worthless she was. Jade couldn't believe that a person who was once Jade Harley could be so cowardly, but Karkat was quick to remind her that the hatred she felt for her sprite self was remarkably similar to Karkat's anger towards his past self, which Jade condoned. As Jade realized that, she felt bad about denying that part of her, and somewhat apologized to Karkat (placing them on better terms than before, when he had trolled her mercilessly about fucking up her session).
Since Jadesprite had fled to be alone, Jade was without a guide for her quest and her session. Sensing that Jade might need help, a troll named Kanaya stepped in to advise her on what to do as a Space player. Kanaya had created the kids' universe, with the help of Karkat, and was knowledgeable on the method to breed the universe. Jade took her advice readily, building up her house to reach the next gate and also to deploy the breeding equipment on top of her house. As she's nearing the start of her breeding process, Jade pesters John, trying to get in touch with him for the first time since he ascended to god tier. She finally contacts him and they chat about the future, as well as John's immortality and Karkat's shipping wall (which, according to the troll, the kids were logically supposed to follow in order to create the new human species). Jade helped John find his dad's location by looking for Dad in the sooth googles, and then they parted ways, leaving John to go find his long lost father and Jade to start attempting to create a new universe with the help of a few thousand frogs and her new troll friend.
Of course, Dave also shows up to help after awhile; while hunting for frogs on LOFAF, Jack Noir also appears and begins to attack Jade and Dave -- well, attack Dave with the hopes that something will go wrong and hit Jade, too. Unfortunately, he's too clever for them; Jack teleports behind Dave while Jade is shooting at Jack, causing her bullets to go straight through her best friend. While Jack stood around awkwardly, Jade had to kiss her BFF so that he would come back to life on Derse -- conveniently at the same time that John did so to Rose. After that, Karkat gave Jade a "pep talk" in order to get her back up on her feet, and she realized that even now she needed to keep trying to breed the Universe Frog. So she sought help from Echidna, in exchange for an impossible deal: Jade had to take all of the planets -- the denizens, the consorts, even Skaia -- with her when she left for wherever she was going. Jade didn't really know how she was going to do that, but she agreed. Finally, the Universe Frog was made...until CD showed up, carrying a metric fuckton of shaving cream, and set it on fire. Jade died in the explosion, and Jack was so upset that that had happened that he killed CD and took Jade to her quest bed as a final act of desperation to save her life -- since he still couldn't kill her, because of the Bec parts he had in him. With this, Jade merged with her dreamself, Jadesprite, and saved all of the planets (and her friends!) from certain death via meteors and/or the Scratch by blasting through the fourth wall into a nebulous space that would take approximately three years to navigate properly.
During these three years, a lot of things happened -- well, relationship-wise. John finally went crazy, realizing he didn't like Con Air and a lot of other things, Jade barked a lot at Jaspersprite, and even dated Davesprite for awhile! But for reasons unknown, the two broke it off the day before John's fifteenth birthday, sending John into a raging fit so hard that he actually knocked himself out while Jade was standing there, the perpetual straight man with a :/ face.
Well. At least there's only one more year to go?
Roleplay Sample - Log:
It was going to be the best idea ever. Jade had it planned to the minute -- Dave would walk out of the house, and then the tree would appear in front of the door like magic. However, the small problem was getting the tree to appear without hurting any of the roots. Jade didn't want to damage the tree with this stunt; preferably, she'd like to keep it entirely whole, and then gently set it back into the earth when she was finished with it. If that wasn't possible, then she'd just have to get rid of the whole idea.
So she crouched next to the tree of choice, examining it carefully. She couldn't see underground -- she wasn't that talented -- but it seemed like a very healthy tree, with a good amount of roots. Maybe if she just....lifted it up gently out of the ground? But that would take so much force...Jade shook her head. They would have to shovel an awful lot of dirt to find these roots. They were probably huge.
"This is a really bad idea!" She frowned, biting her lip slightly as she thought. There had to be some way to make the plan work without hurting the tree or damaging its root system. She would just have to think about it some more.
Roleplay Sample - Journal:
oh wow im back
i definitely was not expecting to be here after a year at home
especially since it was sort of crazy there
particularly that last part with john :/
though i suppose if i am here that means the year at home was someone elses year at home...
but i am not going to think about that
dave, are you still here?
jack too???
and yukina and dick! and everyone else as well
how are you all doing?
what did i miss??
dick did you get married yet?
i really hope that i didnt miss it, i was really looking forward to the ceremony :(
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function?
Jade has handled a lot of stuff that's pretty horrible, physically and mentally, just in her canon -- she's died (twice), had to fight her own dog, hold her friend (that she killed!) as he died and then kiss him back to life, her own crush on him (??) not withstanding. Jade's a fighter in more ways than one, and she would never let something get her down if she could help it' She'll truck through anything that comes her way, within reason; she's very resilient, and bounces back from trauma easily.
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