still a more glorious dawn awaits

❄ thir(FOUR)teenth reminder

2011-12-02T01:04:33Z

[ phone ; fail filtered from dave, davesprite & rose ]

Hi, Mayfield! [ Jade is sounding chipper today, although not quite the level of her usual cheer. She's still recovering from radiationfield, it took a lot out of her. ] Guess who is fourteen today?

Did you guess me?

Hehe, but more importantly than that, my friends Dave and Rose and Dave all have their birthdays coming up soon, too! Tomorrow and the day after. I think since I am now the oldest and the most adult-like, it is up to me to make sure they have the best birthday ever! I thought a birthday party would be really fun, but I have never been to one before, and definitely never hosted one.

If there are any birthday party experts out there, I could really use your help!

❄ twelfth reminder

2011-11-27T23:57:17Z

[ highway ; early morning ; open ]

[ As far as awakenings go, this one is definitely ranks up there for most unpleasant. If the sound of trucks rumbling by weren't enough, the dull pain from the previous day has turned intense. She's quiet, temporarily uninterested by investigation by looking for somewhere to hind, finding a little hole in some nearby rubble to crawl into. The crawling is far more literal than she would like, and when she pulls up the legs of her pants she can see quite clearly why that is.

The swelling has increased significantly, her legs looking some horrible mess of black and purple. She pokes at them, like the two dead things they are, and barely feels it. ]

Oh no...

[ streets ; evening ; closed ]

[ She's not even sure how she's made it this long, or this far. Her legs barely work, and it takes everything she has to keep moving, to get from hiding place to hiding place. She's breathing heavily, and it seems like she won't be making it to her next one. All she can do is hold her breath and hope those things don't notice her. Maybe she'll get lucky. Maybe. ]

❄ eleventh reminder

2011-11-19T02:54:41Z

[ action ; around mayfield ]

[ Gone. Everyone's gone. She's found little notes here and there, snippets that sound almost like parts of conversation, but they're all gone. Empty bedrooms, empty streets, empty everything. Maybe she should be happy. After everything they've all been through, they deserve this. They should be able to go home, to escape from her. If she has to stay here so everyone else can be safe, that should be okay.

But she doesn't want to be alone.

She's been wandering the streets of Mayfield for what feels like years, searching for someone, anyone. Even a drone would be a welcome sight. She might brush past you, bump into you without even realizing it, sniffling and peering into empty storefronts, down empty alleys.

Anyone. Just one person, just so she doesn't have to be all alone. Anyone. ]

Please...

[ phone ]

[ Jade's voice is barely a whisper, and she very obviously sounds frightened. This is worse than anything she can imagine, scarier than dying. ]

Hello? I- if there's anyone still here, anyone at all, then please- [ She hiccups, goes quiet for a minute. ] I don't want to be alone, not like this, please.

❄ tenth reminder

2011-11-04T02:30:40Z

[ action ; 1338 benny ; morning ]

[ so the previous day you likely noticed that Jade was a happy, cheerful drone! fortunately, today she is back to her normal self, up bright and early and just a little confused, all things considered. but for now, she's settled herself down at the breakfast table, humming and working at a bowl of cereal.

everything seems pretty normal, save for the pair of dog ears she's now sporting. ]

[ phone ]

Hi Mayfield, it's Jade! [ wow she sounds super excited! breeeeathe! ] I have so much to tell you!

I went home! I'm not really sure how, or if that kind of thing happens a lot but I went home and I don't think I remembered being here or what but it's really weird! I'm also not sure why I'm back but I guess I'm kind of glad because now I can tell everyone-- or maybe I'm not supposed to say anything! Does anyone know anything about that, I mean, I don't want to spoil anything for my friends who don't know what's going to happen.

Timelines are getting kind of difficult to keep track of, maybe I should make a list.

Anyway, does this going home thing happen a lot? Because I keep getting pulled out at kind of inconvenient times!

[ action ; around mayfield ]

[ Jade is quite active around Mayfield today, once again having donned her girl scouts uniform, but without the wagon of cookies in tow. She's chopped some holes into her hat to accommodate her newly regained ears, and is approaching just about everyone, be they girl or otherwise, with the intention of recruitment. ]

Hi, did you know that you look like you would make an excellent girl scout?

❄ ninth reminder

2011-10-31T00:09:51Z

[ action ]

[ So Mayfield you are probably tired of all these vampires walking around, stalking you, trying to carry you off, it's understandable.

But this sure is one cute albeit inappropriately undead vampire girl that is currently (and very blatantly) shadowing you.

She might not be able to pick you up but dang she sure is trying!! ]

❄ eighth reminder

2011-10-25T17:58:11Z

[ afternoon ; around mayfield ]

[ Jade doesn't look any different today, but since leaving for school this morning she has certainly been acting different. She's not looking where she's going right now (she wouldn't be knocking into people on purpose, right?) when she bumps--quite literally--into you. ]

Wow, you sure are clumsy!

[ early evening ; outside 1338 Benny ]

[ If you've been paying attention today, seeing two of the same person around shouldn't surprise you all that much. One Jade is dragging the other by the collar, and the other is putting up quite a fuss about it, sobbing and struggling. ]

Oh my gosh, will you shut up already!? Why do other mes always cry so much?

❄ seventh reminder

2011-10-12T02:13:51Z

[ You probably can't solve all of life's problems by covering Mayfield with fliers, and it went pretty terribly the last time she tried something like this, but that is not about stop her. She is determined to find Tavros a girlfriend. Or boyfriend. Or just a date, really. Any date.

So these have been plastered up around the school, and any place she thinks eligible bachelors and bacholerettes might be hanging out. What could possibly go wrong.......... ]

[ ooc; feel free to pop in on her while she's hanging them up, otherwise give her a call if you are interested in this hunky piece of troll. ]

❄ sixth reminder

2011-10-01T22:54:59Z

[ morning ; 1338 benny road ]

[ Jade can't help but feel something is wrong this morning when she wakes up. She feels like she's missed something, almost like she's been asleep for a long time. She stumbles out of bed, feeling a little fuzzy, noticing the changes to her room. The window's been repaired, there's a backpack that she didn't have before with half finished homework on the desk. She doesn't really start to feel concerned until she looks at the calendar on her wall, which has been flipped over to October.

That can't be right.

She grabs it from the wall, bursts out into the hallway still in her nightgown and clutching it to her chest. ]

Karkat? Gamzee?

[ phone ]

Hi Mayfield! Long time no talk! Or maybe we did talk, but it wasn't me me, it was creepy drone me. I'm not really sure what happened, I can't remember anything since, hmmm, a couple weeks ago, I think, after the zombies. I don't remember going home, or being here, nothing! It's kind of scary, but I'm glad that I was a normal creepy drone and not a murderous creepy drone. I really hope that doesn't happen to me again. Have you ever had something like that happen to you? Not even just droning but, I don't know, something reeeeally creepy where you almost... don't exist. It's kind of scary.

Oh, and apparently I'm a girl scout now, hehe.

[ afternoon ; your front door ]

[ There is some pretty persistent knocking at your front door right now. If and when you get around to answering it, you will find Jade on your doorstep, wagon stacked high with boxes of cookies behind her. She is looking particularly adorable right now, all dressed up in a girl scout's uniform. ]

Hi!! Do you like cookies?

[ phone; fail filter to eridan ]

Eridan? Hi, um... how are you?

❄ fifth reminder

2011-09-12T15:03:43Z

[ around mayfield ; sunday afternoon ]

[ If you leave your home Sunday afternoon, chances are you have seen one of these fliers stuck up somewhere. Telephone poles, mailboxes, windshields, store windows, no location is safe from Jade and her roll of scotch tape.

She has even plastered some unconventional locations with fliers, shoved them into books at the library, taped them to tables and shoved them under doors and into mailboxes so that you might not even have to leave your home to see it.

Chances are you see her while she's hanging some up, or she might even be passing you one (or more) while asking; ]

Have you seen this troll?

[ phone ]

Hi, I was just checking to see if anyone had any information about my fliers!

I am serious about that reward too. [ She giggles. ] But that's a secret!

❄ fourth reminder

2011-08-30T01:40:32Z

Hello everyone! I don't know if I should introduce myself everytime I make a call, but just in case, this is Jade!

I actually have kind of, um, a question. That I was hoping someone with some [ a loooong pause ] experience in things like kissing and dating could answer.

It's not really related to anything, but I was wondering, if you kiss someone does that mean you are dating them? What if you like them, but you're not really sure if you like them? And say for example it was after a really long day filled with a lot of weird [ there's something muttered here, indistinguishable but sounding very oddly like "and some homicidal". that couldn't possibly be what she said, right? ] emotions, does that matter?

Oh, and one last question: would you count your first kiss as the first person you ever kissed, or the first person you ever kissed who was also alive?

Thanks!

❄ third reminder

2011-08-21T02:44:50Z

[ phone ]

[ Jade places this call only a few minutes after drinking the morning's milk delivery. She sounds exactly like she feels: shitty. ]

Um, hi, Mayfield. I know things have been pretty bad recently, but I hope everyone's doing okay. I'm sorry I haven't been checking in on anyone!

[ Any cheeriness she had fostering fades as she continues. ]

With the way death is in this place, I guess I shouldn't be scared of it, but I still sort of am. Especially when I've already done it once. Hehe, um, at least this time I don't think it's going to hurt so badly.

So I guess I'll be able to talk to everyone tomorrow! I wonder if my police chief application had been better, maybe this wouldn't have happened. ...oh well.

Stay safe everyone! Bye.

❄ second reminder

2011-08-07T22:11:56Z

[ phone ]

Hi everyone!! It's Jade again!

I saw all the posters that said Mayfield is looking for a new police chief, and it sounds like an interesting job, so I applied! My only problem is that I only have oooone letter of recommendation, and I need three. Does anyone think maybe they could write one for me? I would really appreciate it!

Also apparently you need three hundred dollars to apply, and I'm not going to just ask for that, but I am going to be selling lemonade to fundraise for it! So I'm setting up shop outisde my house today if you wanna stop by. Thank you very much!!

[ action ]

[ And Jade has indeed set up an adorable little lemonade stand outside of her home, decorated in lots of drawings of herself in a police uniform, smiling and standing with various citizens of Mayfield. She has also scrawled vote for jade harley for chief of police! at the bottom of her sign.

A jar sitting on her table has a sign taped to it proclaiming that donations are very welcome. Whenever you pass by, she'll be flagging you down. ]

Hi!

❄ first reminder

2011-07-09T02:15:27Z

[ phone ]

Okay this is actually kind of annoying! I spent all that time making computers so this wouldn't happen. I'm not really sure where I am, but it's pretty important that I get back to where I was was. Really important.

Could I maybe borrow someone's computer? I promise I'll be really quick and won't even download anything or change your wallpaper. Thank you in advance!

[ She hangs up at this, but after a moment her voice comes back on the line. ]

Oh also I am Jade! Hi and it's nice to meet you.

[ action ↔ 1338 benny road ]

[ Hey Karbro, today you'll find yourself with a brand new not!sister, who is currently trying to get some information from her drone parents over breakfast.

It's not going too well. ]

application for sirenspull

2011-06-29T02:36:43Z

Player Information

Name: Maddy
Age: 20
AIM SN: vanityremix
Plurk: go here!

Plurk is typically the best way to get in touch with me OOCly. :3

Character Information

General
Canon Source: Homestuck
Canon Format: Webcomic
Character's Name: Jade Harley
Character's Age: 13
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. Jade has always been a survivor. Her adoptive Grandfather was killed when she was very young, and from that point on she was raised by her omniscient dog Guardian, Bec. She's always been independent, and fairly capable of protecting herself. She's well acquainted with rifles and can wield several varieties of them, and is shown able to hold her own in a fight against Bec Noir. Siren's Port could essentially be seen as an extension of the game in her eyes, and her ability to survive would easily carry over.

What form will your character's NV take? Her NV will take the form of her Junior Compu-Sooth Spectagoggles, which are these fancy looking doodads.

Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Jade hasn't been shown to have any superhuman canon abilities yet, however in the webcomic she possesses an inventory system known as a sylladex, allowing her to carry an assortment of items without actually having to carry them. Her sylladex can take any item regardless of size or weight and essentially turn it into an easy to carry card, which in her case can be retrieved later by matching it via a memory card game. This seems like something that could manifest as an "ability" in Siren's Pull.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Otherwise Jade's dormant ability will be spatial manipulation (primarily pertaining to herself) allowing some degree of teleportation. Jade's in game title is the "Witch of Space", and thus her dormant ability relates to that title. This ability could best be described as blinking teleporation, in which she teleports via blinking light. Jade would be able to take the equivalent mass of one average sized adult male with her while teleporting. The limitations of this power include only being able to teleport to somewhere she's already physically been and not easily being able to teleport someone who is mentally/physically resisting. And also she wouldn't be able to teleport out of Siren's Port hehe. :u
Weapons: Jade's strife specibus is riflekind, meaning she posses and is skilled at using an array of rifle weaponry. This includes a standard hunting rifle, a harpoon gun (which she uses as zipline), the Green Sun Streetsweeper and a Proton Canon, which can only be used while wearing her Iron Lass outfit.

History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: MSPA Wiki
Point in Canon: Taking her from this page, so just after shooting Dave.

Character Personality: At first glance, Jade is a bubbly, sillier than usual 13 year old girl with a knack for making friends and being enthusiastic. She is typically cheerful and supportive, optimistic even in dire situations. She is more naive than even your typical 13 year old, having spent most of her life alone, with only her dog-guardian Bec for company. Most of her life has been very sheltered, growing up on an isolated island, with her computer and the internet being her only connection to the rest of the world. There haven't been people in her life to teach her the danger that can come with trusting others, so she is likely to lend someone her trust with little prompting. This doesn't mean that her trust is easy to keep, and her bad side is one that you don't want to be on. When it comes to dealing with someone she doesn't like, Jade's usual response is to just ignore them. If ignoring them doesn't work, flipping the fuck out at them is also a viable option. Her personality does a 180 in her frustration. Jade doesn't respond particularly well to weepy pessimism either, and if words fail, slapping you to your senses is always an option. Jade doesn't have high tolerance for harassment, and is far easier to win her over with the same kindness that she will inevitably show you.

In some ways, Jade lags behind her friends in maturity, largely in part to her upbringing. She loves Squiddles and anthropomorphic fauna, but also has a fondness for nuclear physics and horticulture. Her intelligence is not hampered by her maturity, it just changes the way she expresses it. Despite being less mature than her friends, Jade is not lacking in the bravery department. She'll do just about anything to protect her friends, including being crushed by a moon for them. She also engages in battle with Bec Noir with little hesitation, despite generally being a pacifist. Jade knows that sometimes there's no option but to fight, and when that time comes she puts everything she has into it. This can sometimes backfire in her becoming a bit careless, accidentally harming her friends despite her attempts to protect them.

Jade is a very eccentric girl, even without her odd interests. She has spent a lot of time dealing with problems of narcolepsy, which have caused her to almost spend more time asleep than awake. These narcoleptic attacks allowed her to live through her dream self (as well as her dream bot, which allowed her to keep in touch in the "real" world, until both were destroyed) and she witnessed events of the past, present and future while in her dreams. Spending so much time with her head literally in the clouds has played a large part in her personality as we know it. This knowledge makes her sometimes seem sometimes cryptic or prophetic, and has given her something of an advantage without even participating in the game. She is shown to be very resourceful, using this knowledge to maintain stable time loops as well as implement some tricky time shenanigans. Although she has an uncanny knack for memory games, her actual memory isn't so great, causing her to keep an assortment of colorful reminders on her fingers so that she can keep things straight.

All the unusual events in her life have taught her to adapt easily to new, strange situations. She shares her Grandpa's love of adventure, and especially eager to do something with her friends. Jade falls pretty clearly into the role of a support character, orchestrating events to help her friends succeed while paying less attention to her own advancement. This is a role that she's quite happy to fill, preferring to support and encourage her friends than be the big damn hero herself. She believes in her friends and their abilities, and does everything she can to keep morale up and things moving smoothly, all while being upbeat and a little silly! :)

Character Plans: Jade's first order of business is going to be making sure her any of her friends in SP are alright. After that, I imagine her trying to work out what Siren's Port is in relation to her own universe and SBURB. Also I would love to give her a few chances to be a bad ass and protect people from monsters.

Appearance/PB: This is Jade's default apperance, though she will be arriving in this, with (potentially) several other outfits in tow. And this is non-sprite!Jade. :3

Writing Samples

First Person Sample

oh nooooo
im sorry but this is a really bad time for me to be somewhere else :(
there are some things i was in the middle of!!
and a lot of those things were actually very important . . .
so i cant actually stay here that long
also if anyone could tell me me why i cant connect to pesterchum that would be nice :\
it is giving me errors and i really need to talk to my friends!
does anyone know whats wrong?

oh right!!!
and i am jade! :)
because i think there are a lot of people i dont know here

Third Person Sample

For all the strange situations she had ever found herself in, this one was certainly near the top. Not quite the number one slot, but maybe somewhere in the top five, or ten. Definitely strange, and a little scary, although any fear she might have isn't outwardly reflected. Instead, she just seems thoughtful, worried, swinging her legs back and forth over the edge of the couch. She's been stuck here, waiting and feeling helpless, shut in thanks to this "darkness". Jade has tried to leave once, and after sharply being warned against it, has settled for lingering in the lobby and hoping for responses to her message over the network.

Answer come slowly over this strange message board, friendly strangers pointing out little bits of information, but none of it is quite the answer she thought it would be. This world is so weird in its refusal to be the same sort of weird that she's used to. Jade pulls off her spectagoggles, letting them rest in her lap. Right now, she needs a little time to think, and as much as she'd like to be able to enjoy meeting all these new people, there's far too much on her mind for her to relax. Jade sinks back in the couch, considering heading up to the apartment she's been given, ultimately choosing to remain here, where she can easily pretend that she isn't alone. Frustrated fingers fumble with the goggles for the nth time since her arrival, trying to connect to something familiar, to her web browser, pesterchum, anything that might give her a hard line to the information she actually needs.

Nothing. Only this same, stupid network that she is getting seriously tired of seeing.

By now, she's used to this sort of thing, waiting to be brought up to speed by someone else. This is the first time she's felt so helpless about it. She briefly debates heading up to the apartment they've given her and trying to get some sleep, just to see what happens. Ultimately she decides against this, not wanting to potentially miss out on something important in the mean time. Part of her might be just the slightest bit afraid of what dreaming here might be like. With a quiet sigh she slides from the couch, briefly considering making a run for the door and just leaving anyway, against these stranger's recommendations. She follows her rationale instead, resigning herself to the slow climb towards her temporary home.

Daylight can't come soon enough.

Application for mayfield_rpg

2011-06-28T00:43:13Z

Name: Maddy
Contact Info: catmandu @ plurk
Other Characters Played: Chell and Kairi also apping Selina this cycle!
Preferred Housing: 1338 Benny Road, permission obtained from Siz~

Character Name: Jade Harley
Character Series: Homestuck
Character Age: 13
Background: MSPA Wiki

Personality: At first glance, Jade is a bubbly, sillier than usual 13 year old girl with a knack for making friends and being enthusiastic. She is typically cheerful and supportive, optimistic even in dire situations. She is more naive than even your typical 13 year old, having spent most of her life alone, with only her dog-guardian Bec for company. Most of her life has been very sheltered, growing up on an isolated island, with her computer and the internet being her only connection to the rest of the world. There haven't been people in her life to teach her the danger that can come with trusting others, so she is likely to lend someone her trust with little prompting. This doesn't mean that her trust is easy to keep, and her bad side is one that you don't want to be on. When it comes to dealing with someone she doesn't like, Jade's usual response is to just ignore them. If ignoring them doesn't work, flipping the fuck out at them is also a viable option. Her personality does a 180 in her frustration. Jade doesn't respond particularly well to weepy pessimism either, and if words fail, slapping you to your senses is always an option. Jade doesn't have high tolerance for harassment, and is far easier to win her over with the same kindness that she will inevitably show you.

In some ways, Jade lags behind her friends in maturity, largely in part to her upbringing. She loves Squiddles and anthropomorphic fauna, but also has a fondness for nuclear physics and horticulture. Her intelligence is not hampered by her maturity, it just changes the way she expresses it. Despite being less mature than her friends, Jade is not lacking in the bravery department. She'll do just about anything to protect her friends, including being crushed by a moon for them. She also engages in battle with Bec Noir with little hesitation, despite generally being a pacifist. Jade knows that sometimes there's no option but to fight, and when that time comes she puts everything she has into it. This can sometimes backfire in her becoming a bit careless, accidentally harming her friends despite her attempts to protect them.

Jade is a very eccentric girl, even without her odd interests. She has spent a lot of time dealing with problems of narcolepsy, which have caused her to almost spend more time asleep than awake. These narcoleptic attacks allowed her to live through her dream self (as well as her dream bot, which allowed her to keep in touch in the "real" world, until both were destroyed) and she witnessed events of the past, present and future while in her dreams. Spending so much time with her head literally in the clouds has played a large part in her personality as we know it. This knowledge makes her sometimes seem sometimes cryptic or prophetic, and has given her something of an advantage without even participating in the game. She is shown to be very resourceful, using this knowledge to maintain stable time loops as well as implement some tricky time shenanigans. In addition to being resourceful Jade is the sort to always be prepared, when others might think they're okay with just one computer, Jade suits up with five of them, to make sure that she'll always have a way to keep in contact with her friends. Although she has an uncanny knack for memory games, her actual memory isn't so great, causing her to keep an assortment of colorful reminders on her fingers so that she can keep things straight.

All the unusual events in her life have taught her to adapt easily to new, strange situations. She shares her Grandpa's love of adventure, and especially eager to do something with her friends. Jade falls pretty clearly into the role of a support character, orchestrating events to help her friends succeed while paying less attention to her own advancement. This is a role that she's quite happy to fill, preferring to support and encourage her friends than be the big damn hero herself. She believes in her friends and their abilities, and does everything she can to keep morale up and things moving smoothly, all while being upbeat and a little silly! :)

Abilities: Jade doesn't have any super human abilities. :'(
Sample Entry: musebox | meme | meme

frogst @ 2011-06-14T01:27:00

2011-06-14T05:27:02Z

bluh bluh nothing to see here atm