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Character Name: Jade Harley Series: Homestuck Timeline: Before meeting Calliope Canon Resource Links:Here
Personality: Jade is the last kid to be introduced in Homestuck, but that by no means is indicative of her being unimportant. In the beginning she is described as a silly girl!!! often energetic despite her fits of narcolepsy (though this wasn't her fault) and gets along well with the rest of the kids, indeed none of them have a negative thing to say about her (well except the falling asleep thing, but again that's not her fault). Jade is optimistic and often had a penchant for just "knowing" things, gained from seeing visions in the clouds in her dream world of Prospit while she's asleep. Jade very often has many things on her mind, whether awake or asleep, and so keeps her thoughts straight with colorful reminders tied to her fingers (though she still has some difficulties keeping things straight anyway). Living alone for most of her life allowed Jade to build up a sense of independence and a gamut of skills (though she still speaks of her grandfather lecturing her STERNLY to make sure she brings along plenty of ammunition for safety purposes long after he died and she stuffed his corpse) as well as several INTERESTS that are stated immediately in her introduction.
She has peaceful hobbies like gardening and playing the bass, as well as an interest in nostalgic cartoons and fauna of an anthropomorphic persuasion, yet is also a skilled markswoman and often spars with Bec to keep herself in practice. Though she would never actually put her crosshairs on any innocent creature, Jade is by no means defenseless or unwilling to fight (she spars/plays with Bec in this manner actually) but she is not violent at the same time and will only seek actual physical combat as a last resort. Most significant is her interest in nuclear physics and building robots, her dreambot helped her keep her dreams straight (mentioned earlier as seeing visions in the clouds of Skaia) with its recordings and interact with her friends when her narcoleptic fits hit, as they were often unpredictable and she doesn't recall them happening when she wakes up. Her interest in robotics as well ends in making a gift for John with the help of her pen pal Jake.
Her relationship with Bec is an important one throughout her history, as well as her relationship with the other kids, but what brings out her other traits most of all is her relationship with the trolls. It's easy to think that Jade is just cheerful and positive all the time, though that is not so, the trolls have often harassed her throughout her life (time shenanigans, Homestuck is full of them) she outright dislikes them all and is either antagonistic or bossy with quite a few of them, though the ones that are friendly towards her (such as Kanaya and Tavros) she listens to and even befriends (though mind you she even befriended Karkat eventually after giving him a second chance, he admitted that he was being a bulgerot to her and she didn't deserve it). She even…well, awkwardly forgave Tavros when she found out that he killed her grandpa when he was under the mistaken impression that Grandpa Harley was an intruder and out to hurt Jade. Though she also had to (gently, mind you) let him down when he admitted to having red feelings for her. From this it can be easily assumed that she is willing to befriend and forgive anyone that is friendly to her first or proves themselves worthy of having a second chance.
Her bossy and temperamental side, which comes out when she's at the end of her rope of patience, has a way of making her go loco and smack the hell out of people, even herself in sprite form. While Jade was sympathetic towards Jadesprite's crying at first, trying to converse with her incited a reaction of extreme distaste. Indeed, being confronted with Jadesprite and how defeated she was did seem to shake Jade into outrage. Jadesprite was weepy and refused to do anything except cry and wail about wishing to be dead again even though Jade informed her that she had to help for the sake of their friends. Jade is brave, Jade does what's best for her friends, Jade gets things done, Jade does not lie down in defeat and cry as Jadesprite does, yet Jadesprite is her, or at least a possibility for her. It's interesting in that Jade is so straightforward about herself and her feelings otherwise, yet there seems to be a hint of her holding herself to perfectionist standards and even beating herself up for making mistakes privately. But she makes no time to dwell on these things and instead moves forward. She does not hate herself, no, not by a long shot, but she does expect better of herself and wishes to do better for the sake of her friends and her responsibilities.
She tends to push her friends this same way for their own safety as well, though not in the insulting violent way that she did with Jadesprite or even Karkat (remember she didn't trust trolls at one point) when she was trying to wake up John's dreamself, yes, she smacked and yelled at him as he was about to die from falling out of Prospit (though she ended up dying herself for her trouble) but before that she was calmly sitting on his bed in the tower, scribbling out his self-deprecating messages to himself and covering them with hearts and words of encouragement like "you can do it john!!!" There's no stopping and no giving up.
That's right, Jade doesn't easily give up on something! Where there's a will, there's a way, as long as there is something worth fighting for she'll fight to the bitter end, even if it's not fighting with brute force, no, that is less strategic than how Jade approaches things preferring to feel things out and gain knowledge on what's to come first. Indeed, as most players of Sburb would confront the monster of their quest planet (called a denizen) as a final boss to defeat and destroy, Jade sought hers out specifically to ask for advice and even bargain with. Through their talks she reached a peaceful understanding with Echidna and she promised to take care of the other planets in exchange for Echidna's knowledge and advice that she so desired.
Besides her promise to Echidna, Jade takes on a lot of responsibility through the session as a Hero of Space and plans ahead on what she shall do next and how it will benefit the other players in her session, her class (Witch) being an active player enhances her already proactive personality. Frog breeding, orchestrating several things ahead of time and planning around them accordingly, working past setbacks and continuing to go forward all for the greater good is her duty in life and she will continue it all for the sake of her friends and protecting them, as well as keeping her promises.
As time goes on in the session, Jade seems to mellow slightly (there's only so much you can do when you are trapped on a spaceship with your friends for three years) and gains a liking for "so bad it's good" movies (she finds them charming in a cheesy enjoyable way). Most significantly, she appears to take on a role as a sarcastic "straight man" to her ectotwin's more overreactive nature. She seems perfectly fine with being on the ship and admits this as she likes being around so many people after being alone for her entire life on the island (though in the beginning of the trip she did offer to teleport John to be with Rose and Dave if that would make him happy, but he refused since he knew that would leave her alone). Jade even goes on to defend Davesprite's behavior towards her (and to John too as Davesprite has a tendency to be cold and distant to everyone by default) to John as "he's just going through a lot of things right now" after telling him that they broke up… though she puts her foot down at John calling science "stupid bullshit" DO NOT insult science when Jade Harley is around!
Obviously they make up later; Jade can't hold a grudge or stay mad at her friends for very long and is always more than willing to give a second chance as said before. Though she can go ahead of everyone and make moves that they might not necessarily agree with in order to protect them as exampled by her abandoning ship at the end of their journey (while John was asleep) and going off to save Jake and Jane from mortal peril. Who's completely unafraid and going to protect her loved ones no matter what? It's Jade, because it's her duty to be the hero, it's her.
Since it happened in canon, though I personally don't regard them as the same character or an accurate representation of Jade, when she falls under the Empress's mind control she becomes "Grimbark." A significantly crueler and more bitter version of Jade, acting as a puppet for the Empress specifically to screw up her friends' plans. Her way of speaking to Dave in particular is uncharacteristically defiant and mean, even going so far as to threaten the life of a friend of his to force him to do what she wants. At one point she claims to him that he "broke [her] heart" referring to the dissolving of her relationship with Davesprite, though the regular Jade wouldn't regard them as the same person at all. Whether it's the Empress acting through Jade or some "nightmare" version of her either way, she's ineffectual as a villain and even comments on this. The "true" Jade, after being killed, is unaware of any of this happening, though she feels a sense of guilt and sadness about doing "something bad."
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Name: Jade Harley
Series: Homestuck
Timeline: Before meeting Calliope
Canon Resource Links: Here
Personality: Jade is the last kid to be introduced in Homestuck, but that by no means is indicative of her being unimportant. In the beginning she is described as a silly girl!!! often energetic despite her fits of narcolepsy (though this wasn't her fault) and gets along well with the rest of the kids, indeed none of them have a negative thing to say about her (well except the falling asleep thing, but again that's not her fault). Jade is optimistic and often had a penchant for just "knowing" things, gained from seeing visions in the clouds in her dream world of Prospit while she's asleep. Jade very often has many things on her mind, whether awake or asleep, and so keeps her thoughts straight with colorful reminders tied to her fingers (though she still has some difficulties keeping things straight anyway). Living alone for most of her life allowed Jade to build up a sense of independence and a gamut of skills (though she still speaks of her grandfather lecturing her STERNLY to make sure she brings along plenty of ammunition for safety purposes long after he died and she stuffed his corpse) as well as several INTERESTS that are stated immediately in her introduction.
She has peaceful hobbies like gardening and playing the bass, as well as an interest in nostalgic cartoons and fauna of an anthropomorphic persuasion, yet is also a skilled markswoman and often spars with Bec to keep herself in practice. Though she would never actually put her crosshairs on any innocent creature, Jade is by no means defenseless or unwilling to fight (she spars/plays with Bec in this manner actually) but she is not violent at the same time and will only seek actual physical combat as a last resort. Most significant is her interest in nuclear physics and building robots, her dreambot helped her keep her dreams straight (mentioned earlier as seeing visions in the clouds of Skaia) with its recordings and interact with her friends when her narcoleptic fits hit, as they were often unpredictable and she doesn't recall them happening when she wakes up. Her interest in robotics as well ends in making a gift for John with the help of her pen pal Jake.
Her relationship with Bec is an important one throughout her history, as well as her relationship with the other kids, but what brings out her other traits most of all is her relationship with the trolls. It's easy to think that Jade is just cheerful and positive all the time, though that is not so, the trolls have often harassed her throughout her life (time shenanigans, Homestuck is full of them) she outright dislikes them all and is either antagonistic or bossy with quite a few of them, though the ones that are friendly towards her (such as Kanaya and Tavros) she listens to and even befriends (though mind you she even befriended Karkat eventually after giving him a second chance, he admitted that he was being a bulgerot to her and she didn't deserve it). She even…well, awkwardly forgave Tavros when she found out that he killed her grandpa when he was under the mistaken impression that Grandpa Harley was an intruder and out to hurt Jade. Though she also had to (gently, mind you) let him down when he admitted to having red feelings for her. From this it can be easily assumed that she is willing to befriend and forgive anyone that is friendly to her first or proves themselves worthy of having a second chance.
Her bossy and temperamental side, which comes out when she's at the end of her rope of patience, has a way of making her go loco and smack the hell out of people, even herself in sprite form. While Jade was sympathetic towards Jadesprite's crying at first, trying to converse with her incited a reaction of extreme distaste. Indeed, being confronted with Jadesprite and how defeated she was did seem to shake Jade into outrage. Jadesprite was weepy and refused to do anything except cry and wail about wishing to be dead again even though Jade informed her that she had to help for the sake of their friends. Jade is brave, Jade does what's best for her friends, Jade gets things done, Jade does not lie down in defeat and cry as Jadesprite does, yet Jadesprite is her, or at least a possibility for her. It's interesting in that Jade is so straightforward about herself and her feelings otherwise, yet there seems to be a hint of her holding herself to perfectionist standards and even beating herself up for making mistakes privately. But she makes no time to dwell on these things and instead moves forward. She does not hate herself, no, not by a long shot, but she does expect better of herself and wishes to do better for the sake of her friends and her responsibilities.
She tends to push her friends this same way for their own safety as well, though not in the insulting violent way that she did with Jadesprite or even Karkat (remember she didn't trust trolls at one point) when she was trying to wake up John's dreamself, yes, she smacked and yelled at him as he was about to die from falling out of Prospit (though she ended up dying herself for her trouble) but before that she was calmly sitting on his bed in the tower, scribbling out his self-deprecating messages to himself and covering them with hearts and words of encouragement like "you can do it john!!!" There's no stopping and no giving up.
That's right, Jade doesn't easily give up on something! Where there's a will, there's a way, as long as there is something worth fighting for she'll fight to the bitter end, even if it's not fighting with brute force, no, that is less strategic than how Jade approaches things preferring to feel things out and gain knowledge on what's to come first. Indeed, as most players of Sburb would confront the monster of their quest planet (called a denizen) as a final boss to defeat and destroy, Jade sought hers out specifically to ask for advice and even bargain with. Through their talks she reached a peaceful understanding with Echidna and she promised to take care of the other planets in exchange for Echidna's knowledge and advice that she so desired.
Besides her promise to Echidna, Jade takes on a lot of responsibility through the session as a Hero of Space and plans ahead on what she shall do next and how it will benefit the other players in her session, her class (Witch) being an active player enhances her already proactive personality. Frog breeding, orchestrating several things ahead of time and planning around them accordingly, working past setbacks and continuing to go forward all for the greater good is her duty in life and she will continue it all for the sake of her friends and protecting them, as well as keeping her promises.
As time goes on in the session, Jade seems to mellow slightly (there's only so much you can do when you are trapped on a spaceship with your friends for three years) and gains a liking for "so bad it's good" movies (she finds them charming in a cheesy enjoyable way). Most significantly, she appears to take on a role as a sarcastic "straight man" to her ectotwin's more overreactive nature. She seems perfectly fine with being on the ship and admits this as she likes being around so many people after being alone for her entire life on the island (though in the beginning of the trip she did offer to teleport John to be with Rose and Dave if that would make him happy, but he refused since he knew that would leave her alone). Jade even goes on to defend Davesprite's behavior towards her (and to John too as Davesprite has a tendency to be cold and distant to everyone by default) to John as "he's just going through a lot of things right now" after telling him that they broke up… though she puts her foot down at John calling science "stupid bullshit" DO NOT insult science when Jade Harley is around!
Obviously they make up later; Jade can't hold a grudge or stay mad at her friends for very long and is always more than willing to give a second chance as said before. Though she can go ahead of everyone and make moves that they might not necessarily agree with in order to protect them as exampled by her abandoning ship at the end of their journey (while John was asleep) and going off to save Jake and Jane from mortal peril. Who's completely unafraid and going to protect her loved ones no matter what? It's Jade, because it's her duty to be the hero, it's her.
Since it happened in canon, though I personally don't regard them as the same character or an accurate representation of Jade, when she falls under the Empress's mind control she becomes "Grimbark." A significantly crueler and more bitter version of Jade, acting as a puppet for the Empress specifically to screw up her friends' plans. Her way of speaking to Dave in particular is uncharacteristically defiant and mean, even going so far as to threaten the life of a friend of his to force him to do what she wants. At one point she claims to him that he "broke [her] heart" referring to the dissolving of her relationship with Davesprite, though the regular Jade wouldn't regard them as the same person at all. Whether it's the Empress acting through Jade or some "nightmare" version of her either way, she's ineffectual as a villain and even comments on this. The "true" Jade, after being killed, is unaware of any of this happening, though she feels a sense of guilt and sadness about doing "something bad."