Jade Harley

Dave Strider

### Typing Quirk

all lowercase. very upbeat! :) uses lots of exclamation points and emoticons!!! O\_O

## Game Information

### Fetch Modi

Owns a set of board game themed fetch modi .Memory®

### Role

Witch of Space

**Jade Harley** is a human from beta Universe B. She is a player of Sburb and the dancestor of Jake English. The alpha counterpart of this character is Jake's Grandma.

## Profile

### Appearance

Like the rest of her family, Jade has pointy black hair and buck teeth. Her hair is long and reaches her lower back. Her glasses have circular lenses.

As a kid, she wore a long-sleeved white shirt with a blue decal on it that changed often. She wore a black belt and a long white skirt.

Jade keeps many colored strings tied to her fingers  to help her keep track of the future events she's seen in Skaia's cloud mirages .

### Personality

Jade is a kind and energetic girl. She is eccentric, and early in the comic is regarded by others as confusing  and mysterious. She tried to help her friends using the foresight afforded by her dreams on Prospit, but often accidentally let on that she knew things that she shouldn't. Jade was narcoleptic, which caused her to fall asleep randomly, sometimes at very inopportune moments .

Jade never left the house without her rifle . She is a very skilled marksman, but would never hurt an innocent animal  with any of her guns. Jade loves animals, and hated her grandfather's vast collection  of mounted big game trophies.

Jade thought very highly of anthropomorphic fauna . Despite this, she finds the idea of wearing a fursuit to be very silly .

### Interests

Shortly after being first introduced , Jade is described as being interested in:

* Considerably nostalgic cartoon shows
* Anthropomorphic animals
* She has an uncanny knack for nuclear physics and advanced gadgetry
* Gardening

Jade grew many kinds of fruits, vegetables, and flowers in the garden atrium in her house.

### Possessions

* Wide variety of potted plants  – Growing in the garden atrium and elsewhere .
* Flute , although she doesn't actually know where it came from
* Bag of plant fertilizer
* Many Manthro Chaps stuffed animals  and Squiddles – In her bedroom.
* Posters: Squiddles, Two posters featuring anthropomorphic animals, a *Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff* poster where the titular characters are drawn to have animal features, A poster with Japanese text and a green slime ghost identical to the one on John's shirt, Manthro Chaps
* Bass guitar – The music from this bass causes foliage to grow rapidly. This could also be a property of the amplifiers Jade often plugs the bass into, and that are mounted on the walls of the garden atrium.
* Collection of firearms : A hunting rifle , two pistols, and a harpoon gun .
* Work table – Initially cluttered with various machine parts and nuggets of uranium. A fenestrated wall could also be seen laying on this table.
* The Wardrobifier  – a machine that changes the design on Jade's shirt. Can be set to change it randomly and intermittently.
	+ The dream version of this machine  on Prospit can modify the pajamas worn by Jade's dream self.
* The Gadget Chest  – A chest resembling John's Magic Chest. It was once an Oracle's Trunk, but Jade repurposed it. It contains fortune telling artifacts and handy gadgets:
	+ Crystal ball and velvet pillow, deck of tarot cards, and a book titled *Problem Sooth*.
	+ The Magic 8 Ball  and Magic Cue Ball
	+ Lunchtop Computer  – A highly advanced computer that projects Jade's desktop holographically.
		- Jade uses the web browser Echidna .
		- The lunchtop can read CDs  by suspending them in the air and shooting scanning lasers at them.
	+ Cookalizer and Refrigifyificator ("Refrigerator" for short)
* Bed  – Has blue sheets printed with white clouds and a white sun. When Jade is asleep, the orbs at the tops of the bedposts  glow red and the Dreambot is activated.
* Dreambot , plus its chamber  – This robot activates when Jade falls asleep . It mimics in the real world all the actions Jade makes in her dreams . This robot has the ability to take screenshots of what Jade's dream self sees  and send the image files to Jade's computer.

Jade has used the following weapons:

* Hunting rifle  – Jade's weapon of choice.
* Harpoon Gun

### Abilities

#### Intuition

Jade has excellent prognosticative intuition. She is able to use this ability to correctly guess which items are where in her Memory fetch modus. Despite its usefulness, she cannot use it to locate  Becquerel.

#### Prospit Dreamer

Jade is a Prospit dreamer and has been awake on Prospit for much longer than the rest of her session members. In addition to her narcolepsy, she saw the clouds of Skaia very often, and used their visions  to try and help  her friends  in ways that, to them, seemed downright clairvoyant.

#### Marksmanship

Jade is a skilled marksman . She is shown to be trained in shooting hunting rifles, but also owned two pistols among her collection of guns .

#### Nuclear Physics

Jade has an innate talent for nuclear physics . This is specifically a talent, and not something she has studied. It is stated that  "for [Jade], experimentation is not an exact science, and [she leans] heavily on SHARP INTUITION for consistently and eerily optimal results".

## Relationships

### Jade's Grandpa

As a girl, Jade had a strange relationship with her late grandfather. She would manufacture arguments with him  and carry her  gun around  as if he had told her to and as though he could punish her for not following his instructions.

### Becquerel

Bec loves his master, Jade, and can sometimes be seen taking care of her the same way a human guardian would. For example, when Jade has a narcoleptic episode and falls asleep outside, Bec teleports her to her bedroom , tucked under the sheets. Despite his position as Jade's guardian, the pair still do typical dog-and-master things, such as Jade feeding Bec and playing fetch with him .

According to Becquerel, Jade is strictly not allowed  to enter the Frog Temple.

## Biography

### Exposition

* Jade is born on December 1st, 1995 . She lives on the remote island that houses the  Frog Temple until 2009.
* On Jade's birthday , when she is still very young, her grandpa decides to take her out and teach her how to hunt. While they're outside, a birthday package is sendificated  to their point in time. Inside is a note to Jade  from John Egbert. The note was originally meant for 13 year old Jade in 2008. Also inside the package  is a package of pumpkin seeds and a blue slime ghost shirt. This note inspires Jade to wear blue clothing and ask her grandpa if she can use the atrium for gardening.
* Jade's grandpa dies  sometime later. He is taxidermized and kept in front of the fireplace .
* Jade befriends John, Rose, and Dave online via Pesterchum. Starting from a couple years before 2009, Jade is accosted by online trolls .
* On December 1st , John mails out birthday packages for Rose, Dave, and Jade . He doesn't consider that due to how far away Jade lives, her package won't reach her for months . Jade gets messaged by  Karkat Vantas, one of the trolls. However, this version of Karkat is from further in the future than the Karkat who usually trolls her. This Karkat tells Jade that sometime in the future, her Dreambot will explode, and that when that happens, she should contact him.
* Jade receives a package from a pen-pal of hers . They're collaborating to work on a birthday package for John.
* A couple days later, on the 4th, Rose's birthday , Jade contacts Rose. She tells her that, in the future, Rose will be able to play a game that could bring her dead pet, Jaspers, back to life.

### April 13th, 2009

#### Alpha Timeline

* Jade wakes up in her garden atrium, having fallen asleep due to narcoleptic episode.
* Jade plays the bass guitar in her bedroom . Meanwhile, John's late birthday package to Jade arrives, having been parachuted in from a plane passing overhead.
* Rose messages Jade about Sburb . Apparently, Jade had been insisting that this day would be the day they play the game, and that it would answer some questions for Rose, but due to Rose being unable to successfully get John or Dave to play with her, she's skeptical. Jade tells her that she's still sure Sburb will be played that day.
* Jade goes to her bedroom and grabs her rifle  and a cooked steak for Bec , then descends to the bottom of her house. On her way, she gets trolled by  Karkat Vantas.
* She passes through the living room and briefly engages with the stuffed corpse of her late grandfather .
* She goes to retrieve John's package. Bec confronts her, and the two strife briefly . Jade gets the package, then falls asleep due to a narcoleptic episode. Bec moves her to her bedroom .
* On Prospit, Jade in her dream self's body flies out and explores Prospit. She returns to her bedroom  before the Skaian eclipse can occur. While inside, she pesters John  to wish him a happy birthday. Outside, one of Skaia's clouds is projecting the moment the Frog Temple's meteor crashed onto Earth. The noise startles Jade , who goes out to check. She sees Becquerel in the impact crater. On Earth, Becquerel prevents Jade's Dreambot from accessing the Frog Temple, so Jade goes back inside. She pesters John about that, too .
* John takes a quick nap . While asleep, his dream self starts to sleepwalk . His dream self starts to awaken, and John catches a glimpse of Jade on Prospit. But, before he can fully awaken, John and Jade's real selves both wake up.
* Now awake on Earth , Jade pesters John again  about his Sburb progress and tells him to "wake up".
* One of the string reminders tied to her fingers reminds her that she needs to deliver John's package to WV. She draws up instructions for WV  and PM  to follow , and attaches them to John's package.
* She uses her harpoon gun  to zipline to the Frog Temple. She places the package of the top of one of the Temple's towers  and it is accidentally  appearified away by WV . She also severs the zipline , leaving the cable where it is so that WV can find it later .
* Afterwards, she hops along the giant lily pads  surrounding the Frog Temple to the temple's interior . Inside is the temple's time capsule  and a countdown with only minutes left on the clock. The countdown runs out to reveal Dave's original copies of Sburb —the ones he accidentally dropped out of his window. The time capsule's timer resets itself. The next time it opens will be in 413 years.
* Jade changes her fetch modus  to Jenga®, which ejects all of her artifacts. After brief experimentation with the Jenga tower, Jade decides it won't work out and switches to  Pictionary® instead.
* After trying and failing  to captchalogue several of her scattered artifacts (during which a pumpkin briefly appears  then disappears), Becquerel suddenly teleports in and escorts Jade out of the Frog Temple. She only manages to keep her lunchtop and Dave's copies of Sburb. The rest of her items (fertilizer, cookalizer, refrigifyificator, bass guitar, portable amp, and Squiddles) are left behind. The bass jams the elevator  at some point in the future. During this, Karkat tries to troll Jade , but she ignores him (it's revealed here that the troll was Karkat, specifically Karkat from later in Karkat's timeline, after he has already befriended the humans). She was also trolled by Vriska and Gamzee .
* In her room, Jade installs Sburb  to her lunchtop using Dave's copies. Instead of answering any of the three trolls who have messaged her, Jade messages John . She tells him she's installing the game and that John should go look for wherever his dad's car fell so that he can retrieve his server copy. John is suspicious of Jade's knowledge that John's dad's car fell down and accuses her of being psychic. She says she's no more psychic than John (which is technically true).
* Jade messages Dave  and tells him that she will be connecting to him as his host player, but that he can finish his business as Rose's host first.
* She deploys the Alchemiter , Cruxtruder , and Totem Lathe . She moved Dave's bed  and his Bro's TV to the roof to make room. Meanwhile, Dave and Rose text each other. Rose was apparently talking to a troll, which is why she was AFK.
* Jade tries to clean the apartment using the Sburb host interface, but accidentally rips the toilet out of the floor . While holding the toilet above the roof, she has a narcoleptic episode and falls asleep, causing the toilet to fall through the ceiling  and land in Dave's bedroom.
* Dave argues with Jade about it , who is now asleep and not in her right mind. Dave has to pee due to drinking the apple juice earlier. He considers pranking John by peeing in the empty apple juice bottle  and sending the captcha code for it to John for him to alchemize and drink. However, he decides that's too much work and just pees in the shower .
* While Dave is in the bathroom, Jade finds the bird that Dave accidentally killed . Feeling bad for it, she prototypes its corpse into the Kernelsprite. Dave wakes Jade up by tricking her into slapping herself awake  using the Dreambot.
* Without Dave or Jade realizing it, Dave's kernelsprite has been taking loose objects and building a nest on top of the building's radio tower . The kids proceed through the entry process and alchemize Dave's cruxite artifact:  an egg. However, due to Jade placing the Alchemiter in a hard-to-reach location, Dave can't reach the egg before his Kernelsprite steals it  and places it in the nest.
* After Dave suggests he might try and microwave the cruxite egg, Jade throws his microwave off the side of the building .
* Jade and Dave discover that with each host–client connection, the client gets more Build Grist and the host is given access to more phernalia to deploy . Jade deploys a new CD available from the Phernalia Registry. Dave installs it to his computer , giving him access to GristTorrent. Dave uses GristTorrent to download Build Grist and Shale from John's grist cache. Jade also retrieve's Dave's lost Sburb copies from where they fell and gives them back to him .
* Jade uses this grist to deploy the Punch Designix  in Dave's hallway. Dave punches a bunch of cards and takes them back to the Jumper Block Extension and experiments with the shunts. They find out that putting punched cards inside the Jumper Block Extension adds upgrades to the Alchemiter based on what artifacts the punched cards are for. Dave upgrades his Alchemiter  with a Punch Designix, Holopad, Totem Lathe, Jumper Block Extension, and the enlarger from his photography setup.
* At some point after becoming Rose's host, Dave sees that Rose has writing all over her walls. He tells Jade that he'll tell Rose about it  but ultimately doesn't end up doing as such.
* Rose messages Jade  to talk to her about things that her sprite, Jaspersprite, had told her. Jade is asleep, but responds anyway with her Dreambot . Rose tells Jade about what Jaspersprite told her. Jade explains the concept of dream selves to Rose, and that Rose's dream self is asleep and needs to awaken. Jade lets it slip that Rose has writing on her wall that Rose can't see, similar to the harlequin drawings that John drew on his wall. Rose is not aware of this writing. Jade says that Dave told her that he would tell Rose about the writing.
* Here, the timeline splits. In one timeline, John is killed by his denizen. For that timeline, see: Davesprite's Timeline. Otherwise, the events of the alpha timeline are as follows:
* On Prospit, Jade sees the Courtyard Droll pickpocket the White Queen's ring from the Parcel Mistress.

#### Davesprite's Timeline

The following events take place in the timeline where John goes to fight his denizen early and is killed.

* John goes to his denizen's palace early and is killed . Because John then can't connect to Jade as her host, Jade is also presumed to be killed by a meteor strike.

## Mythological Role

Jade is the Witch of Space .

Her innate talent for nuclear physics is an expression of her connection to and control over the Space aspect.

## Trivia

* Jade can play bass guitar . She also owns a flute  but cannot play it very well .
* Mandarin oranges  were her favorite fruit when she was 13.
* Jade and Dave are the only two beta humans to have their strife specibi allocated before being introduced. This is due to both of them having been trained for combat before the start of the comic.
* When surfing the internet , Jade is seen to have been browsing http://www.furaffinity.net/user/vampireprincess007/.
* Dave's Bro makes Jade nervous .