Name: Jade Harley Current location: Sacrosanct Current Physical Appearance: Taller, the body of a 23 year old instead of a little girl. Still has the roboarm, but has a lot more robotic parts in general (and also because Linda is right arms are so cliche, she lost a leg somewhere in there too yeah). Her hair's cut short, and her glasses have been rendered obsolete by robotic eye implants. But she still wears the frames with the glass popped out. Summary: Jade initially disagreed with Karkat's assumption that they would have to leave the station -- after all, robots have never done her personal harm, besides the few AIs but they don't really count, do they? She stayed behind when the others fled to Asphodel, thinking she'd be completely fine.
But of course That Was Wrong.
Being part robot, part sprite, part human made Jade a bit of an anomaly; it wasn't hard to hack her mind with the programming from the game and Kimiko's own surgical additions in place. But it couldn't completely erase her humanity, either -- instead of a mindless robot slave, she became a sort of half-working mess, hating her existence as a creature made to kill but unable to actually do anything about it. Because if she resists, her own body could turn against her; and dying over and over for no good reason is exactly the sort of thing she wishes to avoid. Hypatia can (and has) used it against her before. And if Hypatia could get her hands on the key to manipulating Space, she could simply shrink the resistance and crush them in her hand -- so Jade's kept alive, frequently interrogated and experimented on. Not that Jade knows anything about her powers beyond what game mechanics can tell her. Until then, Jade acts as an agent sent to survey Asphodel and report on resistance findings, as well as an assassin targeting everyone she ever loved. Because there's nothing more hilarious than to watch a girl try and kill the people she grew up with.
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Current location: Sacrosanct
Current Physical Appearance: Taller, the body of a 23 year old instead of a little girl. Still has the roboarm, but has a lot more robotic parts in general (and also because Linda is right arms are so cliche, she lost a leg somewhere in there too yeah). Her hair's cut short, and her glasses have been rendered obsolete by robotic eye implants. But she still wears the frames with the glass popped out.
Summary: Jade initially disagreed with Karkat's assumption that they would have to leave the station -- after all, robots have never done her personal harm, besides the few AIs but they don't really count, do they? She stayed behind when the others fled to Asphodel, thinking she'd be completely fine.
But of course That Was Wrong.
Being part robot, part sprite, part human made Jade a bit of an anomaly; it wasn't hard to hack her mind with the programming from the game and Kimiko's own surgical additions in place. But it couldn't completely erase her humanity, either -- instead of a mindless robot slave, she became a sort of half-working mess, hating her existence as a creature made to kill but unable to actually do anything about it. Because if she resists, her own body could turn against her; and dying over and over for no good reason is exactly the sort of thing she wishes to avoid. Hypatia can (and has) used it against her before. And if Hypatia could get her hands on the key to manipulating Space, she could simply shrink the resistance and crush them in her hand -- so Jade's kept alive, frequently interrogated and experimented on. Not that Jade knows anything about her powers beyond what game mechanics can tell her. Until then, Jade acts as an agent sent to survey Asphodel and report on resistance findings, as well as an assassin targeting everyone she ever loved. Because there's nothing more hilarious than to watch a girl try and kill the people she grew up with.