JHUTD: Jade Harley Universal Discussion Thread

oh hell yeah we got the person with the jade username :3 :3 :3 B) B) B)

i think jade is one of the best executions of the whole "real human being, emotionally reacting to life in a cartoon world" concepts that i've ever seen. being the world's specialest girl who got to be raised by a demigod dog on a tech billionaire's deserted island, who desperately wishes she had a normal childhood in a normal world. and is also one of the strongest people to ever exist. it's a real "what can the girl who 'has everything' do when she wants something no one can give?" arc, especially towards the end of act 6.

being a lonely/'different' child makes "becoming a normal adult" often feel like an unreachable goal. being in homestuck, it kinda literally is, so it's been interesting seeing how she handles growing up. we know that candy is generally the "worst case scenario" for all characters, but meat jade has a lot going for her, still. no mediocre marriage, freshly out of a love triangle, all the time in the world.

@takofish what does it even mean to "punish" a fictional character? She isn't real and if stories were written based on "nice" characters just having perfect and conflict-free lives it wouldn't be interesting and no one would bother reading it... Even her base character was in a situation that I think would be generally considered bad for childhood emotional development. So of course she would have behaviors later in life where she doesn't always take the "best" action for other people. it's not therapystuck. messy keeps things interesting!

i get upset when people draw jade without her two front teeth sticking out, i imagine it hurts her and that makes me very upset...

@theswordwizard
The writers seem to think Jade is real enough if someone like Miles and Haven, current writers of HS2/BC, believed she would get in the way of Davekat in the base webcomic.

re: EriRoxy Fan

Genuinely do not understand the point you're trying to make with that one boss. Dave and Karkat are also not real and are characters in a webcomic, so her "getting in the way" of Davekat doesn't really alter that. I get not liking the direction gone for with Jade (I'm not a big fan of it either) but trying to name and shame writers for it is kinda weird.