Jadesprite

Name: Jadesprite
Fandom: Homestuck
Timeline: After teleporting the Royal Deringer to Dave
Age: 13
Appearance: Jadesprite is.

Well.

Jadesprite is of average height for a 13-year-old girl! She has bright green eyes, wears glasses, and has prominent buckteeth. Her hair is worn loose down to her waist and is usually pretty messy, probably just due to a lack of worrying about her appearance much.

Also, she's a floating dog ghost.

Specifically, her entire body glows green all the time, and is green in color itself as well. In place of legs she has a ghostly tail, and she floats several feet off the ground at all times. Her hands are, well, human hands, but with pawpads, and she has two large dog ears poking up from her head (in addition to her normal ears). A tuft of fur prominently sits in the middle of her chest, accompanying the fur on the rest of her body, and her face is reasonably doglike as well, with two more tufts of fur on the sides of her face and a doggish nose.

Arf.

Abilities: Jadesprite is mentioned in canon to be "at least a little omnipotent". Because the source of her powers is Bec, the First Guardian of Earth, this results in her having similar powers to Bec, Doc Scratch, and Jack Noir- She can teleport, both herself and objects, she can fly, and she can exert massive amounts of power capable of at least destroying buildings just from being upset. If she tried to concentrate that power, it's reasonable to think she could exert it in the same manner as the other people with the same power source, which, given Bec's causing gigantic nuclear explosions and Jack's ridiculous teleportystabs, makes her a pretty powerful little dogghostspritegirl. Obviously she'll probably need whatever collar Doc Scratch has.

Also, being Jade, she has Jade's abilities as well! She can use a rifle, she can do kung-fu (sort of), and she's ridiculously intelligent, although her actual scientific knowledge is more limited.

Finally, Jadesprite is a dog, giving her dog-based abilities. These include, but are not limited to:

• An enhanced sense of smell
• An enhanced sense of hearing
• The ability to easily entertain herself by chasing her tail
• Expert-level digging of holes
• A shiny, smooth coat
• Healthy gums

Personality: Jadesprite, is, well. A crybaby! This is basically the absolute first word that would come to mind when describing her, because other than the dog thing- which isn't really describable in one word- the first thing most people would notice is that she's almost constantly sobbing about one thing or another. She's incredibly fatalistic, assumes she's going to fail at everything, and tends to assume that other people do things around or to her just to make her life harder. Compounding this further is the fact that when she starts crying, she's nearly impossible to stop, regardless of the methods taken to comfort her- in fact, she's occasionally continued crying to the point where all that that's achieved is making the other person cry too.

Much of this sadness, however, comes from what seems to be an intense inferiority complex. When she died as Jade's dreamself, she was in the process of saving John, and as far as she knew upon her creation she'd failed utterly. On top of that, everyone around her- normal Jade, for example, and Davesprite- tend to be in the process of doing a great many things to save the day, while Jadesprite knows she's useless when she's crying. All this serves to do is make her sadder, because she just wants to help and doesn't think she can.

Underneath the insane amounts of sorrow, however, Jadesprite is just as sweet and, in the end, brave as Jade herself is, still greatly devoted to her friends and her former master/current doppelganger and willing to do whatever it takes to help them out, provided she can get out of her vicious circle of sobbing into her glowy pawhands long enough to actually realize she's not useless.

Also, she is still part dog, and this manifests itself in a verbal tick where she tends to start barking mid-sentence, or after a sobbing fit in place of a hiccup. It's safe to assume, based on this and the other sprites taking personality traits from both halves of the prototype, that she'd be inclined to... other canine activities. Digging up bones? Totally going to happen.

History: Jade was born on April 13th, 2009, in a lab in the Veil. She was promptly sent back in time thirteen years and was raised by her grandfather, who was actually her father who she had been cloned from along with her best friend John's grandmother who was actually his mother.


Now that I've thoroughly confused the hell out of you let's try that again.



Jade Harley was raised from a baby by her grandfather, known only at the moment as Grandpa Harley. He took excellent care of her, raising her on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean; he was a rather eccentric man, teaching her from a very young age all about hunting and taxidermy, but still very loving. She was additionally raised alongside her grandfather's dog (and later her guardian) Becquerel, a "devilbeast" (according to Dave; he's actually an "Omnipoterrier", according to supplemental materials) with radioactive god powers. Yeah. Anyway this happened and she lived as normal of a life as possible until one birthday when she received a package. From the future.

This package contained a t-shirt (Way too big for her at the time), a packet of pumpkin seeds, and a heartfelt letter from someone named John Egbert. She was kind of confused by all this, but it impacted it her pretty heavily- the pumpkin seeds sparked an interest in agriculture that would eventually become a passion of hers, as well as allowing her to meet her friends, John, Rose, and Dave. This was a ~meeting of destiny~, and very, very important.

Some time after this, Jade's dream self awakened. When someone with an awakened dream self sleeps, their dream self wakes up- an alternate version of themselves, existing in a world different from our own. Jade's dream self was located on the golden planet of Prospit, the light counterpart to the dark purple planet of Derse. In her dreams she was free to do almost anything, making friends with the natives and flying around and playing her bass by growing extra arms to use the attachments. Most importantly, though, was her attempting to awaken John's dream self, also located in Prospit. Though normal Jade did many things, and Dream Jade by extension knew about them, the majority of the dreamself's time was taken up with flying around and attempting to stir John from his rest.

Fate had other plans, however, and soon enough Dream Jade found Prospit being destroyed by Jack Noir, the treacherous archagent to the Queen of Derse- Via a present from the waking Jade intended for John that he had intercepted, he had managed to kill the Queen and seize her Ring, the source of her power. Utilizing this power he began to lay waste to the golden world and its moon, where Jade and John's dreamselves resided. Jade, of course, being Jade, decided that this meant she had to save John, and quickly- as she arrived in John's tower, Jack Noir severed the moon's chain connecting it to Prospit, causing it to plummet down to Skaia, the world that Prospit itself orbited.

Surrounded by the wreckage of Prospit and its moon, the moon itself looming large above them, Jade attempted one last time to stir John from his sleep, falling with him to Skaia as the moon grew closer and closer. Unable to wake him up on her own, she tossed his body out of the way of the falling orb and took the full force of the blow herself, killing her instantly but leaving her body intact.

A short time later, after John had claimed the opposing ring to Jack Noir's- which had come into Jade's possession after a well-placed kung-fu kick- Jade's grandpa, who was alive due to Skaia being timeless, arrived in his massive airship that he had for some reason. He quickly took her body and enacted Harley family tradition, taxidermying the body and placing it in his cellar, technically years before she had even died due to timeline shenanigans. Real-world Jade grew up knowing her dreamself would perish due to the stuffed body sitting in one of the rooms of her house, but knew nothing else for years, when she went through the events herself.

In the real world, meanwhile, Jade was in the process of the dangerous entry sequence into SBURB, an alternate-reality game intended to create universes. One of the steps to this entry ritual is the creation of a Kernelsprite, intended to assist the player as they go through the game. Jade trusted John with the prototyping- another piece of the puzzle, which gives the sprite attributes of whatever item it is prototyped with- and went up to her greenhouse to break a pinata shaped like Becquerel. For a reason. John, however, was forced into slumber by the troll Vriska and was unable to prototype the mummy he was about to prototype, causing Becquerel to prototype itself to save Jade from a meteor that was literally right about to destroy her house. Thus Becsprite was created, and Jade entered the Land of Frost and Frogs.

Unfortunately, as a Sprite is prototyped and enters the game, all the rings carried by the sovereigns- and, by extension, Jack Noir- gain a power correspondent to that prototyping. Becquerel's omnipotence was transferred to Noir, giving the players of the game an incredibly impossible foe to beat, and leaving Jade to make what seemed like a logical decision- Utilizing second tier prototyping, she prototyped her dead dream self, creating Jadesprite at long last.

Jadesprite's reaction to this- her soul suddenly being dragged into a world she knew nothing about, torn away from her Prospitian friends in the afterlife, the constant burning of the Green Sun, Bec's power source, in her mind- was to burst into frantic tears and scream at Jade, unleashing a power wave that sent the part of the house they were in snowballing down a hill. After some more tears, and a thorough bitching out by Jade that ended with Jadesprite sobbing hysterically while her other self slapped the shit out of her, Jadesprite simply left, leaving Jade to her own devices as she looked for a purpose, or someone to calm her.

She found this when she encountered the heavily-wounded Davesprite on Skaia, clutching a sword- Davesprite had been nearly killed when Jack Noir gained Becquerel's power, and had used the last of his strength to find the Royal Deringer, a sword necessary for Dave to kick some ass. Jadesprite spoke to Davesprite for a time- She didn't know what to do. Jade was much more brave than she was, and everyone was doing their best... except Jadesprite. She wanted to be brave, and wanted to be help, but what could she do?? Davesprite suggested, that since she was omnipotent, she could send the Deringer to Dave and save the day, just as Jade herself always did. She did this, happy to be of some help, and then settled in with Davesprite as everything went to hell around them, probably just to blow her nose on his wings.

Then, Facility.

Roleplay Sample - Log: Jadesprite was crying.

This wasn't exactly an unusual thing for anyone that knew the sprite girl, since she was practically always crying. This time, though, her crying seemed more... directed, as if she was sad about something in specific instead of just about the general unfairness of her life. Also she was talking, which was strange as well.

"O-oh god where is it why is this always happening to me boo hoo hoo hoo hoo..." Her flying became more frantic, tandem with her crying growing intensely desperate. Whatever the issue was was clearly something very important for the poor depressed dream dog ghost, to the degree that she started crackling with omnipotent force, trying to clear away the snow around the wreckage of Jade's former island home. "I could swear I left it here boo hoo hoo hoo where is it I--"

Abruptly her crying was cut off, replaced by her nose twitching a bit. Jadesprite promptly fell to the ground, digging through the snow and gasping a bit happily as she found what she'd been looking for.

"Arf arf arf arf arf--" Squeak. Squeak squeak.

This was unusual for her friends too, she supposed. Most of them didn't commonly see her in the process of chewing eagerly on a squeaky toy.

Roleplay Sample - Journal: sniff
i am not sure where i am
and i am not sure what is going on here
but it is pretty much to be expected i guess................
i was actually a tiny bit happy that id helped out and something had to happen to ruin that i suppose
boo hoo hoo hoo hoo!! T_T
arf

i cant even decide if i want anyone else i know to have gotten kidnapped too
or dognapped
ghostnapped??
spritenapped???
i am waaaaay too many things
but if jade is here i might cry a little bit
if shes not i might cry a little bit too
thinking about it makes me want to cry a little bit too actually

boo hoo hoo hoo hoo

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? Jadesprite, in canon, has died after being crushed by a falling moon, while attempting to save her brother/best friend from also dying, and didn't know for years while in the afterlife if she'd succeeded or not. Recently she's been resurrected from the dead as a dog ghost thing, which isn't exactly ideal for anyone, and she's pretty clearly traumatized by it. Through it all, she tries hard to be brave, and while she fails more often than not, she's clearly not reduced to a useless wreck by it.

Just a crying one. Facility should be no different.

Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. Can Jadesprite's bed be a dog bed instead of a normal bed.