Jade Rosemarie

**Warning for Jaded spoilers.**

### Debut

The Destructive Anomaly who Turned to Chaos | Destructive Anomaly [Chapter 2, Jaded]

> *"Aw, why spoil the fun by telling them my story? Don't you think I should be the one to tell people my dark past or something?"*
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Jade is the main antagonist of the novel Jaded. Somehow, she was born as the Harbinger of Destruction. Due to a failed suicide attempt, she became the Harbinger of Chaos.

## Appearance

Jade has space buns and her hair ties have small shapes hung by threads. She wears a collared shirt, puffy shorts, and a jacket with puffy short sleeves and a fractal design. She is chubby and is on the shorter side compared to other Genies.

## Plot

### Backstory

Jade Rosemarie was born the Harbinger of Destruction to a family consisting of Crow and a neglectful mother. Throughout her childhood, she was feared and thus mostly stayed hidden inside the house. Usually, she'd end up taking the blame for Crow's mishaps. She and her sister were incredibly close and they formed an unhealthy type of love which was obsessive on Jade's part. Despite the abuse that she'd occasionally get from Crow, she still sees her through rose-tinted lenses as she had treated her better than her mother ever had. Jade knew of the secrets Crow attempted to hide from her, but she feigned ignorance as all instances of her blurting out the truth would cause her to be severely harmed (and she didn't want Crow to be sad). Jade repressed her emotions and pretended Crow was perfect and a paragon of who people should be.

One day, her sister's unstable emotions and powers grew to the point of slaughtering all the people in a small area, and while at first Jade was blamed for that too, eventually it was rightfully pointed out to be her sister's fault. Due to this, Jade Rosemarie watched a botched execution in which a spell Crow talked to her about was used to kill her mother. Crow was nowhere to be seen after that, and Jade, with all her negative emotions brought to the forefront with no one to act as her family or friend, attempted to kill herself.

However, the attempt failed, and part of Jade's soul dissipated as she remained alive, becoming the Harbinger of Chaos as a result of her action. Jade lost parts of her morality and care for others' lives and decided to cause havoc to finally uphold her role. Even when her sister disappeared and was seemingly dead, she still longed to find her again.

## Trivia

* Part of Jade's motif is a mouse. This is a reference to how birds eat mice.
* In Interlude I, it's mentioned how the mouse dresses itself up as a lion. This is a reference to how Rhea, Cronus' sister-wife, was associated with lions. This part of Cronus' myth is shown by Jade's obsessive love of her sister, but is subverted as it is *not* romantic. It is also subverted as Jade does not actually love her sister but resents and fears her (she constantly denies this throughout the story), and Jade, not Sandra and Ryan, was the one eaten by Crow in the end.
* Jade was the first ever character to be drawn and conceptualized. One of the reasons why the story is known as Jaded which no longer applies to the current plot is because the original concept of Jaded included a sort of illegal drug. Said illegal drug had a side effect of turning the eyes green.
* Jade used to be the older sibling and was actually the one who committed atrocities. This changed the more the story was developed.
* Jade's name was a contrast of jade-tinted glasses and rose-tinted glasses. The Marie is just there because Nys thought it sounded good.