Application :: vatheon
[ Player Name ] : Man-D
[ Personal LJ ] : one_truespark
[ Age ] : 19
[ Timezone ] : EST
[ Other Characters ] : None.
[ Character's Name ] : Jadesprite
[ Character's Age ] : When she was human, she was 13. Now, she is pretty much immortal (at least, until the game ends).
[ Series ] : Homestuck
[ Canon Point ] : Immediately after being bitchslapped by Jade.
[ History ] :
Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Jade Harley. Every night when Jade would fall asleep, she would dream on a magical moon called Prospit. Prospit was fantastical and golden -- it was one of two moons that circled Skaia, a battlefield planet in the middle of what we later find out is called the Incipisphere. Prospit was literally gold-plated; everything about it was beautiful. As it circled Skaia, it would often come into contact with the clouds that covered that planet, providing the denizens and dreamers of Prospit with views of the future through these clouds.
Jade's dreamself lived a fairytale princess life. She made all sorts of wonderful friends on Prospit. The inhabitants treated her like a princess, making friends with her and serving her. Life was wonderful; there were no bad things to worry about, and nothing could possibly go wrong. She was the only dreamer actually awake on Prospit, however -- John, the other Prospit dreamer, was still asleep. And she encouraged him to wake up: she wrote lovely messages on his walls, telling him that he could do it! He was a smart and wonderful person, she just knew it, and he should learn that himself so that he could wake up on Prospit and play with her, too.
She waited and waited, until one day she couldn't wait any longer. The Big Bad of Homestuck, Jack Noir, ascended to practical godhood. And his first place to destroy was none other than the shining moon of Prospit. He slashed the moon into pieces, destroying it from the inside and sending the entire thing crashing towards Skaia. John's dreamself, still asleep, fell to what would have been his certain death. But Jade rescued him, throwing him out of the way and sacrificing her own dreamself to have him live on.
Now, Jade Harley knows this. She knows that John lived -- she's seen him. Jadesprite, on the other hand, does not. Her memories are only the ones of being on Prospit, and the last thing she remembered was sleeping John almost dying, and assumes that he is dead. After she died, it is presumed that she went to live in the dream bubbles, where she met new friends -- who, we're not really sure. Her body was recovered by Grandpa, who took her back in time and stuffed her, placing her in the room with the fourth wall.
Years later, that body was thrown into the first-tier prototyped Becsprite by Jade Harley (now awake and not dreaming at all). This brought Jade back to life as Jadesprite, tearing her away from all of her friends and forcing her to remember all the painful memories that lead up to her death. In addition, she was now controlled by the power of the Green Sun, an entity so powerful that it filled all of Jadesprite's thoughts; she couldn't turn the thought of it off, or get it out of her mind. She sobbed about it, claiming that Jade didn't really understand -- and got shaken and bitchslapped for her troubles, which pretty much made it worse. Thanks Jade. You're the best.
[ Personality ] :
Since Jade Harley and Jadesprite are essentially two halves of the same person, they share a few similar traits. Jadesprite, like Jade, cares deeply about her friends. She always wants to protect them, and watches over them when she can. She is optimistic and loving, writing supportive messages on John's wall to encourage him to think better of himself and to wake up on Prospit. Like Jade, she would gladly help any of her friends that was in danger -- after all, it was a combination of Jade and Jadesprite (or her former dreamself) that saved John from peril. Her heart goes out to anyone with a sympathetic cause, and she attempts to be nice to most everyone, as long as they are nice to her.
However, they are not exactly the same. While Jade has seen her share of hardships, Jadesprite has never had a hard life at all. She is pretty spoiled, growing up as the pampered princess of Prospit -- she expected all things in life to be easy. When things don't go her way, she doesn't know what to do. Thirteen years of her life were spent drifting in ease, and she was extremely happy. But when real-life situations occur, Jadesprite just breaks down. She cannot bear to think of unhappy situations; she blocks all memories of John's "death" and Prospit's destruction out of her mind for what can be surmised as years. Instead, she chose to focus on simpler things -- the happiness of her new friends, and keeping herself entertained. Jadesprite wants so desperately for things to be simple that she practically oversimplifies everything. It's either black or white to her, sad or happy. There is no gray area that one might find in a person who's seen their share of bad times and good ones. There is only the childlike simplicity produced when someone hasn't seen enough of the world to give a practical opinion. Idealistic could be used to describe Jadesprite -- she wants everything to be perfect, and falls apart when it isn't. She can't understand why people are bad, or understand why things have to be complex when everyone can fly and people always smile.
When forced to confront a situation, Jadesprite also differs from Jade. She is not a warrior, or a person skilled in marksmanship. She is a frightened and timid individual, having spent her life surrounded by friendly people. The slightest insult or misconstrued sentence can send her into tears, and she is easily upset. Needless to say, she doesn't handle criticism well -- when Jade insults her, she just cries more. And things that are too large for her to handle scare her; she is terribly frightened of the Green Sun, as well as her current predicament of turning into a sprite. Jadesprite just doesn't know how to handle complex situations. When asked to choose between fight or flight, she will choose flight every time (she's too scared to stand up to anyone, really). She wants to die -- she hates her life as a sprite and hates the fact that she was created as a creature meant to destroy Jack Noir -- but she's too scared to seek out a way to actually kill herself. Whereas Jade pulls herself together and fights valiantly, Jadesprite would rather sit in a corner and cry over the unfairness of life and all the bad things that have happened to her. She's not a particularly sympathetic individual; she's mostly concerned with her own sympathies, and everyone else is secondary when she's in a bad mood.
[ Strengths/Weaknesses ] :
+ THE POWER OF THE GREEN SUN. Though pretty much dampened/ineffective in Vatheon, Jadesprite can literally blow buildings up with her temper tantrums. She has an unlimited source of power under her control.
+ Knowledge of future events of the game! Jadesprite is a...well, sprite. As such, she has access to the inner workings of SBURB, including the quests meant for Jade and important information regarding the structure and completion of the game. Her knowledge is definitely above average.
+ She can fly! Well, float -- sprites don't have legs, and as such she gets around to places by floating.
+ She is immortal, to an extent. She cannot die, unless she is fatally wounded or until the game ends. As such, she doesn't get sick and doesn't even really need to eat or breathe, if she doesn't want to. Jadesprite is, quite literally, a game construct, a figure created of synthetic data that replicates human patterns.
- THE POWER OF THE GREEN SUN. Like she actually knows how to use it! She doesn't. It fills her thoughts and stresses her out, causing a lot more accidents than really necessary. When she's upset, she crackles with electricity.
- Jadesprite is easily upset. Any slight thing can set her off, and once she starts crying, there's pretty much no stopping her.
- She has some dog instincts that, when upset, can be hard to control -- for example, she goes "woof" when she's really perturbed, and also pretty much adores irradiated steak.
- Naivety. This is a girl who lead a magical life on a shining moon, surrounded by friends. She doesn't know her way around any practical objects, nor what to do when faced with real-life situations. Jadesprite would rather flee than fight. She's too scared to do otherwise.
[ Other Important Facts ] :
She is really part dog. :| And she loves Jade a lot, though Jade freaks her out. How many tears can she add to the ocean before it overflows?
[ Sample ] :
noooooooo noooooooooo
where am i??????
first i get taken away from all of my friends and now i am underwater, and i dont understand why this is happening to me!!!!
please send me back
i do not want to be here any longer, i dont want to be anywhere
this is the worst day ever and i hate it, my friends arent here and i am scared
please send me back!!
why have you kidnapped me????
what did i do to deserve this, i never did anything wrong
please just take me hoooooome
[ Questions? Comments? Concerns? ] :
A question about the Green Sun -- does it still effect those that use its power, even while in Vatheon, or is it no longer accessible?