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''[[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others|They wait for he who would]] [[Snoop Dogg|drop it like it's hot whilst the pimp's in the crib.]]"'' }}
 
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== The kids in general ==
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* [[Action Survivor]]
* [[Anime Hair]]: Rose has pretty much normal hair, but John has what are best described as hair horns, Dave's hair is a bird, and Jade's hair has a [[Messy Hair|prominent double cowlick]]. More recently Jade has literally grown dog ears.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Though nowhere near the extent of the trolls, the Kids are associated with some animals, coincidentally their pets. As John doesn't have a pet, he doesn't have a motif. Dave's association with crows is the most blatant, but Jade and Rose have Bec and Jaspers respectively. Dave and Jade take the motif to the literal extreme however, because their alternate selves (and Jade herself) literally become half-crow and half-dog. <!-- John doesn't have bunnies; compare sprites. -->
* [[Badass Adorable]]
** [[Badass Abnormal]]: God Tiers
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* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: [[Color-Coded Wizardry|Because of...]]
** [[Color-Coded Elements]]
* [[Creator in In-Joke]]: The kids and ''Homestuck'' in general are a partially recycled idea that Andrew had about magical kids, which he scrapped for being too similar to the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series. The concept art for that series can be seen on Rose's wall.
* [[Five-Man Band|Four Kid Band]]
** [[The Hero]] / [[The Fool]] / [[Mighty Glacier]]: John is the Hero because he is the central protagonist of the story. However he is also quite ditzy and foolish and tends to blunder along, though post-[[Time Skip]] he's showing signs of having outgrown that. Within the context of combat, he's somewhat of a [[Mighty Glacier]] in that he takes quite a few hits but has a lot of mangrit.
** The Lancer / [[The Smart Guy]] / [[Squishy Wizard]] -> [[Mission Control]]: Rose is both the most openly intellectual and feminine of the Kids, though she is also fraught with darker impulses, being [[The Unfettered]]. Within the context of combat, she initially was a ranged fighter using magic, but currently has transitioned to a largely non-combat support role.
** [[The Lancer]] / [[Ineffectual Loner]] / [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Dave also serves as the Lancer in more of a direct contrast to John, feeling intense rivalry with him at times. He primarily keeps to himself due to his winding path through time, but when he works with others he is a potent force. Within the context of combat, he's very quick and highly powerful, but tends to get knocked down and beaten rather easily.
** [[The Big Guy]] / [[The Heart]] / [[Magic Knight]]: Jade is the Big Guy in that she's easily the most powerful member of the Team, but is also the Heart in that she is the focal point holding them together to a large extent. Within the context of combat, she is both physically dangerous and has potent space abilities, making her a [[Magic Knight]].
* [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist]]: At this point, each of the kids has died twice. Dave and Rose died the first time and were revived via their dreamselves which died and became God Tier. John's real body was killed and he ascended to his God Tier, and then he was killed again by Bec Noir but auto-revived shortly afterwards. Jade's dreamself died, was brought back as her Sprite, and then became her God Tier when her real body died on her quest bed.
** It isn't entirely a slap on the wrist though; their dead alternate selves genuinely died and are in dream bubbles, which is partially why Jadesprite thought they failed horribly.
* [[Fake Band]]: All of the kids can play musical instruments, and some of the songs they made prior to the start of the series are available for purchase. Dave and Jade are by far the most prolific of the four.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104182609/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/prospit-derse Prospit & Derse], while non-canonical, is played by them as well, with accompaniment from Prospitians and Dersites.
* [[Generation Xerox]]: They're all more or less identical physically and in personality to one of their parents. This is toyed with a lot however; Jade and John take after father and mother respectively, while Dave and Rose physically resemble their father and mother respectively, they have personalities more similar to their mother and father respectively.
* [[Glowing Eyes]]: Upon ascension to God Tiers, Rose and Dave's Hero symbols occasionally appear in their eyes and Jade's eyes are just plain weird; they fade away and show where she's going to teleport.
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* [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]]: From 13 to 16 as they travel to the Alpha Session; John and Jade due to spending three years traveling between windows in Hussie's study, and Dave and Rose (and the surviving Trolls) due to the Furthest Ring being non-linear.
* [[Smart People Wear Glasses]]: Everyone but Rose, who double subverts this. She is definitely the most openly intellectual of the Kids but is also the most [[Genre Blind]].
* [[Stock Super Powers]]: Everyone who plays Sburb is destined to become a demigod, and in addition, the Kids have reached their God Tiers, which make their powers even stronger. Of them, Jade is by far [[Superpower Lottery|the strongest]].
** John is the Heir of Breath, and has strong [[Blow You Away|wind powers]], and some natural extensions of that, like [[Flight]]. As a result of his God Tiers, he also has [[Immortality]]. <!-- There is no indication John has super strength beyond swinging around his hammers; and he specifically mentions the Pogo Hammer is surprisingly light, and the rest of his hammers are either smaller or derivatives. Besides we know that technically, Dad isn't John's genetic father, and neither Nanna nor Grandpa have shown anything above average strength. -->
*** Ironically, despite being the strongest of the four Kids for much of Act 5, John is now quite possibly the weakest if only in ability, though not in brute strength.
** Rose is the Seer of Light and her powers manifest as [[Omniscient Hero|pseudo-omniscience]] via seeing and understanding probabilities and likelihoods, in addition to various [[Eye Beams|vision powers]], like [[X-Ray Vision]]. However as the Seer class is a very passive one, her offensive capabilities seem fairly limited, especially upon her ascension to her God Tiers. [[Battle in the Rain|She also has the ability to summon rain]], but so far it's shown little use. Jaspersprite has said that it ties into her [[Myth Arc]]. <!-- Rose summoned a rain cloud during her exploration of the castle and the fight shortly thereafter; there's no other way said storm could have occurred. -->
*** Rose also had command over [[Black Magic|dark magical]] [[Reality Warper|abilities]], although how much of it was her own natural ability and how much of it was [[Touched by Vorlons|granted by the Elder Gods]] is unclear. It remains to be seen how her God Tiers affected her abilities, as she has yet to demonstrate them since going God Tier.
** Dave is the Knight of Time and has [[Time Master|time manipulation]] powers. Part of his role in the session is to serve as the [[Save Scumming|reset button]] if anything goes wrong. He's also worked it into his fighting style, taking his [[Flash Step]] to outright [[Teleport Spam]], in addition to [[Me's a Crowd|several copies of him]] running around for most of Act 5.
*** Heroes of Time are closely tied in with Derse as well, and Dave was "half-awake" on Derse before being fully awoken by Rose <ref> In the branched timeline Davesprite is from, he managed to wake up as a result of John's death</ref>. Dave however is a bit of an exception to other Derse players (such as Aradia or Feferi) in that he outright ignores or rejects the Elder Gods.
** Jade is the Witch of Space, and as of [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|ascending to the God Tiers]] is pretty much a [[Physical God]], including [[Reality Warper|reality warping]] <ref> Includes a lot of things. She has strong [[Mind Over Matter|Telekinesis]], enough to make John's own Breath powers look like small potatoes. She shows no sign of fatigue while using it, and casually mentions that she can maintain a ship at near light speed for almost 3 years. She also has the ability to freely alter the size of objects on a planetary scale, although lands are [[Baby Planet|Baby Planets]]. Extrapolating from other sprites, she can also [[Beam Spam]] and [[The Medic|heal people]]. Plus all the other stuff that follows this point!</ref>, [[Omniscient Hero|mild omniscience]], [[Teleport Spam|functional]] [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling|omnipresence]], and [[Immortality]] <ref> Twice over; she's immortal as a God Tiered Hero of Space and as a First Guardian</ref>. Because of the unusual circumstances of her God Tier ascension, she has all the powers of a [[The Obi-Wan|sprite]], a [[Physical God|First Guardian]] <ref> Note; she has ''most'' of the powers of Doc Scratch, but because Bec was not omniscient, she doesn't seem to be either</ref>, and a God Tiered [[Reality Warper|Hero of Space]], making her almost literally a god. The only thing that is explicitly ''not'' within her abilities is [[Time Master|manipulating time]]. Jade lampshades it by not being entirely sure how many powers she has or what they originate from.
*** Heroes of Space are closely tied in with Prospit as well, and Jade has been awake on Prospit for most of her life. She also is connected with the First Guardian of Earth, Bec, who raised her. In addition, her [[Myth Arc]] is tied in with breeding frogs, as in the Homestuck-verse, Universes are literally god-like frogs, and it's the responsibility of a Hero of Space to breed a new one as part of the game. <!-- Jade's inventing tendencies are more from her father than anything else, as Kanaya does not display that. -->
** There has also been hints that due to the complicated nature of their session in relation to the Post-Scratch Session, they may have hit a [[Superpower Lottery]] and have additional abilities, tied into the roles of their parents <ref> Dave's half-awake self on Derse is hinted to have been related to Dirk's own ability to control both his dreamself and realself at the same time and Rose blacked out during part of Act 5 similarly to Roxy blacking out the entire Post-Scratch Session. However, Life and Hope (Jake and Jane's elements) are still too poorly understood to draw comparisons to John and Jade</ref>.
* [[Teen Genius]]: All of them to some extent; Dave has an impressive array of blogs and websites for a 13 year old, John is Earth's foremost (and only) ectobiologist, Jade is probably one of the youngest experimental physicists on the planet, and Rose knows enough Eldritch Forgotten Lore to fill a Necronomicon.
* [[Theme Table]]: A colour, a classical element, a [[Weapon of Choice]], [[Four-Temperament Ensemble|a humour]], a musical instrument, a mythological title, a personal world in the Incipisphere, the remains of a deceased creature or family member, and a single guardian who seems to know something about the [[Ancient Conspiracy]]. Oh, and an African-American celebrity.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] / [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Jade is the Tomboy to Rose's Girly Girl, although they both like wearing dresses. John is the Sensitive Guy to Dave's Manly Man, although in Act 5 that gets reversed.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Their plan to blow up the Green Sun was a trick of Doc Scratch's from the beginning; they end up ''creating'' the Green Sun. Dave and Rose's reaction is basically [[Oh Crap]] [[My God, What Have I Done?|What Have We Done?]]
* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: Played straight and averted. Rose's intricate plan to try to defeat Jack ends up creating the source of his power, while Jade's slapdash [[Indy Ploy]] goes off without a hitch. However, Rose's mission to John to cause the Scratch ended up working out.
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: All have differing opinions on it. John believes that it is possible, Rose doesn't but is looking for a way around it, Jade revels in it and uses it to her advantage, and it drives Dave crazy trying to manage all the timelines.
** Everything the Kids have ever done or will do is set in stone. We have UU from the future claiming to know that the Kids (with their Alpha counterparts) succeed in the new session, while the Trolls knew from before they started that their session was doomed. Not to mention Sburb is literally the entire reason for their existence.
 
 
== John ==
=== {{<span style="color|:#0715cd| ;">John Egbert}}</span> ===
 
[[File:ectoBiologist_5153.gif|frame]]
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{{quote|''"You have a passion for REALLY TERRIBLE MOVIES. You like to program computers but you are NOT VERY GOOD AT IT. You have a fondness for PARANORMAL LORE, and are an aspiring AMATEUR MAGICIAN. You also like to play GAMES sometimes.''"}}
 
A fairly average boy living in suburban Washington with his father, [[The Hero's Birthday|on whose birthday our story begins]].
 
He is the '''{{color|#0087eb|Heir of Breath}}''' of his session, and the de facto leader. His Chumhandle is "{{color|#0715cd|ectoBiologist}}", formerly "{{color|#0715cd|ghostyTrickster}}".
 
He has filed a pair of [[Weapon of Choice|STRIFE SPECIBI]] in his STRIFE PORTFOLIO: [[Drop the Hammer|HAMMERKIND ABSTRATUS]] and [[Lethal Joke Item|BUNNYKIND ABSTRATUS]]. He is a clone of Nanna Egbert and Grandpa Harley's paradox ghost slime, and is Jade's biological brother.
 
<code>{{color|#0715cd|types without capitalizing letters, but uses proper punctuation!}}</code>
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<code>{{color|#0715cd|after act 5, he's a bit more prone to swearing.}}</code>
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* [[Action Survivor]]: Dave and Jade start out with weapons training, while Rose has plenty of raw [[Badass|badassitude]] to work with, but John starts out as your average 13-year-old kid. [[Took a Level Inin Badass|He learns pretty quick, though]].
* [[Adorkable]]: As Andrew Hussie put it on Formspring:
{{quote|'''Andrew Hussie:''' John is adorable because he is honest and heroic and nerdy and a good friend.}}
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* [[Angry Eyebrows]]: Shown through his glasses and [[Expressive Shirt|on his shirt]] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001902 here.]
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: So. Very. Much. Expect him to believe anything as long as it doesn't serve his interests. If it does, be prepared for a (verbal) fight.
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Has by far the worst attention span of any character in the series (save maybe [[Cloudcuckoolander|Clubs Deuce]]), and if left to his own devices, he tends to get sidetracked constantly.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: He has potent wind powers, [[Dual-Wielding|Dual Wields]] [[Drop the Hammer|two rather impressively sized hammers]], is probably the best at working the alchemy system, and is [[Adorkable]] to his very core.
** Compare [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005582 this panel] and [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005590 this one, eight panels later].
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Cakes and baked goods in general. ''Especially'' Betty Crocker brand.
* [[Blow You Away]]: As the Heir of Breath, John has power over wind. The first time we see him semi-consciously manifest his abilities, he's able to blow out a fire that's consumed half a ''planet.'' He only gets stronger after that.
* [[Blue Eyes]]: [http://www.formspring.me/andrewhussie/q/1540483313 According to Andrew]{{Dead link}}, the kids' eyes match their text color.
** [[Innocent Blue Eyes]]: His eyes are pretty vividly blue and in much of Act 5 he's very innocent, but it's averted in Act 6 as he's shown himself to have matured.
* [[Buffy-Speak]]: John does this a lot. Lampshaded by Rose here:
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'''<code>{{color|#b536de|TT: Try to learn the lingo.}}</code>''' }}
* [[Celibate Hero]]: Decided to be for the time being while Sburb is going on. He shows some slight disdain for romance in general as well.
* [[Character Check]]: After the [[Time Skip]] in Act 6, John snaps back to his personality in Acts 1 and 2, being more openly joking and sweary, instead of simply being [[The Fool]] wandering around listening to people. He still is kind of course, it's just not his sole attribute any more.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: The alternate John who dies to Typheus ends up showing up much later.
* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: His natural instinct is to throw himself in between other people and danger, despite Vriska and Karkat repeatedly pointing out that doing so would make him a very short-lived immortal.
* [[Costume Copycat]]: Unwittingly to Vriska, who makes him ditch his Junior Ectobiologist's Lab Suit for a copy of her outfit.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: He's prone to constantly goofing off and always has time to crack a joke. However, he has shown skill with the alchemiter, has the mangrit to dual-wield hammers, and was the strongest Kid for much of Act 5 after he reached his God Tiers.
* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Irrationally claims in early Acts that Betty Crocker is evil, and has her gnarled claws in everything. He turns out to be 100% correct.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: In the end, John is essentially a geeky, loveable, good-natured young boy who also happens to be able to swing around two warhammers at once and have God-Tier powers over wind.
* [[Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?]]: Doomed-timeline John and Typheus had a nice chat before the latter killed the former.
* [[Die or Fly]]: Staged by Vriska to trigger his [[Blow You Away|powers over wind.]] It was an enormous success.
{{quote|"DO THE WINDY THING DO THE WINDY THING DO THE WINDY THING"}}
* [[Does Not Like Spam]]: Any type of baked goods (cookies, birthday cake, etc) sends him into a [[Freak-Out]]. This is because of the truly ''ridiculous'' number of cakes his dad makes for him. He's been eating cake all day, so John's pretty much sick to ''death'' of baked goods at the moment. Finding out that Fruit Gushers are a Betty Crocker product was enough to almost make him [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002878 flip the fuck out].
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* [[Drop the Hammer]]
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Does it briefly himself at the end of Act 3 with his Pogo Hammer and Wrinklefucker, but also has the Remote Ghost Gauntlets which can let him ''Quadruple'' Wield if he had a 4th hammer.
** However by the time he alchemized a fourth hammer, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103121132/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003639 Fear No Anvil], he's gone back to single wielding entirely. Later he receives a fifth hammer, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921205349/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005579 The Warhammer of Zillyhoo], which is also wielded singly.
* [[Emotions vs. Stoicism]]: John's more emotional, compared to [[The Lancer|Dave's]] stoicism. Reversed as of Act 5 with Dave becoming more open with his emotions, while John learns to be a bit calmer.
* [[Expressive Shirt]]: Seen for one panel [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001902 here.]
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* [[Hearing Voices]]: WV commanded John around for a while; they've seemingly become friends through it as well. However now that John's real self is dead, he can no longer be contacted by an exile.
* [[The Heart]]: Role shared with Jade. Tries his best to stop Rose going grimdark, and pretty much the only person who got Vriska to [[Morality Pet|reconsider her actions]].
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted twice]]. Intially it seems like trusting [[Vigilante Man|Terezi]], shortly after she had gotten him killed in a doomed timeline, is a bad idea and everyone readily pointed that out to him. As time went on and her character was explored more, it became apparent she wasn't evil at all. He also trusts [[Manipulative Bastard|Vriska]] who manipulates him into getting killed again, but does so in order to help him ascend to the God Tiers.
** On the other hand, trusting Karkat, WV, and the Consorts all turned out to be pretty smart moves.
*** Courtyard Droll? Not so much.
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: John has a lot of trouble at first figuring out how to work his [[Inventory Management Puzzle|Sylladex]] and play the Sburb beta. (Finally getting the hang of using the game mechanics makes him [[Took a Level Inin Badass|take a few levels in badass]] later on though.)
** On a similar note, once he grasps the various ways the trolls are, well, trolling them, he manages to counter-troll them ridiculously well.
** He has no idea initially how to summon The Breeze. He gets much better at it.
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** [[Up to Eleven|Infinity Plus Two Sword]]: The Pop-a-matic Vrillyhoo Hammer
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: "the windy thing", in regards to John's [[Blow You Away|powers as the Heir of Breath]].
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: He has some level of interest in Vriska; when Dave questions him about it though he admits he'd probably be an awkward d8. This also applies to Beta John, who also shows some interest in her despite not having ever even gotten to know her, beyond a long forgotten trolling.
** Defied later. John admits it was kinda dumb to have feelings over the span of a single day and also in hindsight thinks Vriska was kind of crazy.
* [[Large Ham]]: Given any chance to act out his favorite scene, he ''will'' overact it.
* [[Leitmotif]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922074957/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/showtime-piano-refrain-2 Showtime] (his original theme and Strife music) and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922074122/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-2 Doctor] (his planet's theme).
* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: With Jade; they never have the same joking sexual tension that Rose and Dave did in early chatlogs. They are brother and sister biologically, and cousins legally, although they were initially unaware of both.
* [[Lovable Nerd]]
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* [[Martyr Without a Cause]]: Upon learning that the only thing that can kill him permanently is a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], John comes up with a bunch of plans that involve exactly that. His nature as [[The Fool]] makes him pretty much unable to comprehend NOT being heroic, and also unable to fully think out the consequences.
* [[Meta Guy]]: Since Act 5 Act 2, he's been the one mostly [[Lampshade Hanging|hanging lampshades]] on both the trappings of Sburb and the reader's expectations.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Seems to be this kind of fighter in Sburb, as he takes a lot of hits but eventually has pretty good attacking power.
* [[Missing Mom]]: He was raised by his Dad and never had a mother figure. This is because he is the child of Nanna and Grandpa via paradox slime.
* [[Mind Screw]]: He made ''himself'' in a ectobiology lab from his grandmother and Jade's grandfather's genes. This means his grandmother is actually his mother and his father is his half-brother.
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* [[The Movie Buff]]: With the twist that his taste in movies is questionable at best. His descriptions of them venture into [[Cloudcuckoolander]] territory [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004605 at times].
* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Though it can be hard to tell at times if he's wearing glasses due to a lack of a bridge between the lenses, he is indeed sporting spectacles.
* [[Nice Guy]]: To [[The Messiah|messianic levels]]. So much so that even [[Big Bad|Doc Scratch]] doubts he'll die anything other than a martyr's death.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Discussed with the Bunny Sassacre Fedora, [[Subverted Trope|although he never wears it.]]
* [[Oblivious to Love|Oblivious To Hate]]: Although not necessarily so much "oblivious" as "unaware of [[Foe Yay|what it actually means]]".
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*** Defied later. John has clearly put some thought into romance but decides to be a [[Celibate Hero]] until Sburb is over.
* [[Odd Name Out]]: The kids' chumhandles initials are TT, TG, GG... except John's is EB. It's later revealed that the trolls' harassment caused him to change away from his original chumhandle, GT.
** According to [[Word of God]], this [https://web.archive.org/web/20130309193653/http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40585720/Combined_Formspring_Web_Aug-28-2011.htm#andrewhussie448980558 retroactively became symbolic] of the how the trolls managed to give his universe cancer under Karkat's leadership.
** His last name is also the only one that differs from his [[Generation Xerox]] parent's birth name, Nanna having married and passed on her married name Egbert to his dad, and by extension him.
* [[Plot Allergy]]: Averted; although John is deathly allergic to peanuts, it isn't brought up ever again shortly after it was introduced.
** Although it becomes a [[Brick Joke]] when [[Homestuck/Characters/Post Scratch Kids|Jake]]'s dreamself dies from being fed peanuts.
* [[The Pollyanna]]: Relentlessly optimistic. [[Hilarity Ensues]] whenever he runs up against [[Knight in Sour Armor|Karkat]]. Rose notes that this (and John's [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]) is a variety of [[Cursed with Awesome]]:
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** As well as his fetch modus: [[John Cusack|John's Queuestacks]].
** He's the Heir (Air) of [[Blow You Away|Breath]].
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: He takes quite a few, until in Act 5 he's the strongest Kid of all.
* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: Not that he was ever a real jerk (although he has his moments), but his overall niceness is much more apparent in later acts. Snapped back later with him being a lot swearier in Act 6 and more teasing to Jade.
* [[Toothy Issue]]: He has quite the overbite.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: John loves Fruit Gushers. Until he found out they are made by Betty Crocker.
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** They are genuinely happy to see each other again, for the brief moment they meet, and John flew into one of his few moments shown of genuine anger upon finding his corpse.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: During his first alchemy binge, John creates [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002961 BARBER'S BEST FRIEND], using an umbrella and straight razor, and mentions that he has an UMBRELLAKIND strife specibus lying around. Neither the weapon or the strife specibus are ever mentioned again.
* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: Both literally and with his wind powers. John's powers are relatively simple compared to his friends' but he uses them in creative ways, and the sheer level of power backing them as of ascending to the God Tiers certainly helps.
** [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005590 Oh boy, does it ever.]
 
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{{quote|"''You have a passion for RATHER OBSCURE LITERATURE. You enjoy creative writing and are SOMEWHAT SECRETIVE ABOUT IT. You have a fondness for the BESTIALLY STRANGE AND FICTITIOUS, and sometimes dabble in PSYCHOANALYSIS. You also like to KNIT, and your room is a BIT OF A MESS. And on occasion, if just the right one strikes your fancy, you like to play VIDEO GAMES with your friends.''"}}
 
A girl with a fondness for psychoanalysis, writing and wizards, who lives with her mother in an isolated mansion situated atop Rainbow Falls in New York.
 
In Sburb, she is the '''{{color|#ed7b00|Seer of Light}}'''. Her Chumhandle is "{{color|#b536de|tentacleTherapist}}".
 
She has allocated her [[Weapon of Choice|STRIFE SPECIBUS]] with the [[Improvised Weapon|NEEDLEKIND ABSTRATUS.]] She can play haunting refrains on her violin. She is a clone of Mom Lalonde and Bro Strider's paradox ghost slime, and is Dave's biological sister.
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** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=pony [S]Ride].
* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: Reaching the God Tiers grants Rose a comprehensive understanding of fortune. This lets her know exactly what needs to happen to achieve the most favorable outcome for everyone.
* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: After being killed by Jack, she was revived by John as her Dream Self on Derse, which also had the benefit of knocking her out from her [[Grimdark]] state. Technically also happens when she ascends to the God Tiers.
* [[Badass]]: Remember how long it took John to defeat his first Crude Ogre? Rose has managed to dispatch hers [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003486 in a manner of seconds]. With a pair of knitting needles and some yarn.
** And then of course we have [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130815115025/http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003716 this].
* [[Badass Adorable]]: See above. She then proceeded to sit cross-legged on its back to open her laptop and answer her Pesterchum. Sitting on a pillow too.
* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]: She too, has alchemized herself [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003711 some elegant clothes] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004584 over the course of their game].
* [[Berserk Button]]: She straight up [[Problem Sleuth|flips the fuck out]] when [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005596 Jack kills John a second time].
* [[Black Speech]]: She was stuck talking in it after she went [[Grimdark]]. After her real self was killed, she's seemingly back to talking normally.
* [[Blind Seer]]: Not actually blind, but her God Tier hood is clearly designed to be evocative of this trope by being large enough to cover her eyes.
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* [[Fling a Light Into the Future]]: Rips her walkthrough out of the internet and puts it into a server in the Furthest Ring for other SBURB players to find. In an inversion, one of the people to find it is Kanaya, in the past.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: After officially going grimdark.
* [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation]]: Rose asked Doc Scratch's omniscient cue ball if the horrorterrors were evil or not. Whatever the actual answer was, it was not healthy for her psyche.
** Played with in that she's doesn't go THAT crazy, she just can't speak normally and [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|really really wants to kill Jack]].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Jade should not have brought up [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005537 her mother's death.]
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* [[Killed Off for Real]]: At least her real self is. John kisses and awakens her dreamself, who is conveniently un-grimdarked, although the blackout lingers around her.
* [[Lady of Black Magic]]
* [[Leitmotif]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922080042/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/aggrieve-violin-refrain-2 Aggrieve] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922082934/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/endless-climb-2 Endless Climb].
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Considering her [[Hot-Blooded]] nature, her [[Genre Blindness]], and her [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]], this should not come as a surprise in the slightest.
* [[Magic Wand|Magijyk Needlewands]]
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: At least according to Aradia, Rose's actions of deliberately tearing apart Sburb and listening to the [[Eldritch Abomination|dark gods beyond the Veil]] has ([[Time Travel Tense Trouble|or will have]]) some ''huge'' consequences.
** It also turns out that her plan to destroy the Green Sun in fact ''created'' it.
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Her love of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Zoologically Dubious]].
* [[Not So Above It All]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002806 Rose: Wear the scarf. Be the Rider.]
** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/index.php?s=6&p=002270 Rose: Attach a W to face as a fake moustache.]
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** She gets [[Up to Eleven|even angrier]] when Jack kills John.
* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: [[Kamen Rider Decade|It's pink.]]
** She seemed to have ditched it after it got singed in the house fire, though, but made another one as part of her black-and-white squiddle robe and uses it as a belt.
* [[Screw Destiny]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921103145/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003842 "I am not playing by the rules anymore. I will fly around this candy-coated rock and comb the white sand until I find answers. Nobody can tell me our fate can't be repaired."].
** Inverted, as while she thinks she's in control of her own destiny she's really playing right into the tentacles of the horrorterrors, who pretty much only have their self-preservation in mind and nothing else.
* [[Self-Sacrifice Scheme]]: Her plan to take '''The Tumor''' and destroy {{color|#2ed73a|The Green Sun}}. She knocked Dave out to ensure that she would be the one to take the fall rather than him.
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* [[The Straight Man|The Straight Girl]]
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Late in Act 5, she pilots the Moon of Derse into the Furthest Ring, making her the [[Sailor Moon|Sailor (of a) Moon.]]
** Her name is ''Rose''. Her primary weapons for most of Sburb are the ''Thorns'' of Oglogoth.
* [[Stepford Snarker]]
* [[The Stoic]]
** [[Not So Stoic]]: She knows John means well with his word play, but sometimes his barbs are [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004822 a little harsh] to her. In the same log, she also confesses that she finds "flying across rainbow oceans with a couple of magic wands and a salamander in a little cowl" both practical and fun, even if it is absurd.
** Her mother's death also garnered [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005537 quite a reaction]. She went a bit crazy afterward, though not as bad as some were thinking.
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: For all her snarkiness and "spookiness" she does care about her companions and will occasionally show [[Not So Stoic]] colors.
** Displayed [[Tear Jerker|heartbreakingly so]] in her conversation with Jade after learning of the death of Mom. After spending the series passing off her mother's affections as sarcastic Rose reveals how highly she thought of her, all while seemingly on the verge of tears. It treads a very fine line between [[Heartwarming Moments|sweet]] and [[Tear Jerker|sad.]]
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Her magic needlewands basically can be used for [[Reality Warper|anything she wants to do.]] Later on it's revealed it's not actually magic.
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{{quote|<code>[[color:red:TG: oh my god
TG: so many words
TG: do you think like the pulitzer committee is secretly scouring the dregs of the [[Game FAQsGameFAQs|gamefaq]] archives or something]]</code> }}
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: In terms of both range and firepower, the Thorns of Oglogoth are probably the most powerful item crafted by any of the kids so far. But they don't seem to be doing much for Rose's mental health either, whether directly or indirectly.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Sure trust the guy whose whole thing is manipulating people into a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], that sounds like a great idea.
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A boy unceasingly devoted to the pursuit of (what he perceives to be) irony in all aspects of life, who lives with his Bro in an apartment in Houston, Texas.
 
In Sburb, he is the '''{{color|#c91409|Knight of Time}}'''. His Chumhandle is "{{color|#e00707|turntechGodhead}}".
 
He had allocated his [[Weapon of Choice|STRIFE SPECIBUS]] with the [[Katanas Are Just Better|BLADEKIND ABSTRATUS]], but an incident with Bro and a "cheap piece of shit" [[Breakable Weapons|turns it into the 1/2BLADEKIND ABSTRATUS]]. He is a clone of Mom Lalonde and Bro Strider's paradox ghost slime, and is Rose's biological brother.
 
[[Show Within a Show|He is also the author]] of ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]''.
 
<code>{{color|#e00707|types with no caps and no punctuation except sarcastic question marks and occasional ellipsis}}</code>
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* [[Always Someone Better]]: Bro, Davesprite, the Future Daves and, ultimately, John. Learning to cope with this, to stop comparing himself with others and accept himself for who he is (a pretty cool dude, when all's said and done) seems to be the goal of his character arc.
* [[Badass]]: Especially once [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921165219/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003541 he's in The Medium.]
** [[Badass Adorable]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004666 Never has a baby resisting getting fed, been so cool.]
** [[Badass Boast]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130815165928/http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004728 Upon figuring out his own way to remove a legendary sword from the stone block it's stuck in.]
{{quote|{{color|#e00707|TG: bow down before your new king bitch}}}}
** [[Badass Cape]]: As the Knight of Time, his god-tier outfit doesn't just have a trailing god-hood, but a full-blown crimson cape.
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]: to John's Red Oni, as well as Red to Rose's Blue.
* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Dave's nowhere near weak, but he's a little concerned over the rapidly growing power gap between himself and John. A doomed Dave from a timeline offshoot tries to gain the God Tier levels, but Dave doesn't have the heart to kill himself. Later, he actually does ascend to the God Tiers, and considering the sorts of powers Aradia showed after doing so he's quite possibly caught up
* [[Character Blog]]: [http://dstrider.blogspot.com the blog of dave strider], which was then abandoned. Presumably irony factored in there somewhere.
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* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Before Dave was named by the readers, it's a little obvious that his personality wasn't fully determined yet. He was more likely to use punctuation and emotion, and less likely to ramble, not to mention how easily John was able to troll him. In short, he acted more like an actual kid.
** [[Character Check]]: After Act 5, he's less prone to his depressed shtick that he developed in that act and is more akin to his character in Act 3.
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* [[Elemental Punch|Elemental Sword]]: His Snoop Dogg Snow Cone Machete has freezing powers. [[Irony|Ironic]], given that between his affinity for the color red, and his Land of ''Heat'' and Clockwork, his associated element is clearly Fire.
** On the other hand, he is a ''cool'' dude.
** He eventually ends up just going back to the Caledscratch.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Chopping his name bar in half. [[Badass|Yeah.]]
* [[Flat What]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006885 Here].
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* [[Freak-Out]]: Despite his insistence to the contrary, [[Creepy Doll|Lil' Cal]] and the other puppets in his Bro's room send him into this.
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Hits harder and faster than [[Mighty Glacier|John]], but doesn't take nearly as many hits to drop, either.
* [[Genre Savvy]]:
{{quote|<code>{{color|#0000D4|EB: like monsters or something.}} </code>
<code>{{color|#e00707|TG: howie???}} </code>
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* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man|Manly Man]]: To John's Sensitive Guy.
* [[Me's a Crowd]]: Thanks to his time powers, at one point there are over 40 Daves running around.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Accidentally managed to set Gamzee off.
* [[Not So Stoic]]: In [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004936 this] conversation with Rose, we can see that he definitely cares about his friends' wellbeing.
** It's more transparent [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005598 in this conversation with Terezi]. She even calls him out on it.
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* [[Phrase Catcher]] / [[Say My Name]]: STRIIIIIIIIIIIDEEEEEEEEEERRR
* [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy]]: Is a textbook example, given his passion for rapping.
** Was 'pretty fly for a [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002286 Íæûë€Å guy]', after Andrew had to clarify that [https://web.archive.org/web/20130312064059/http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/15937434515/predictably the kids] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130312064639/http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/15965564122/non-reblogged-reblog are aracial], until it was changed back later.
* [[Punny Name]]: (K)night of Time.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: While he is a dangerous [[Badass]] and an [[Running Gag|insufferable prick]], [[Subverted Trope|he generally hides his eyes behind his sunglasses, and isn't evil in the slightest]]. They also match his text color.
** If Karkat is to be believed his wearing of sunglasses is due to insecurity over his eye color <ref>The only outright unnatural color amongst the kids</ref>, though this could just be Karkat projecting.
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: He's the Knight of Time of the Kids' Sburb Game, which involves a lot of looping back to the past. His symbol? ''A broken record.''
** His other motif, the broken sword, evokes symbolic comparisons with [[The Lord of the Rings|a different Strider]] - and the fact that he (and Davesprite) had to break Caledfwlch while "{{color|#e00707|maybe if john was to try with his pure heart and shit it woulda popped out like a champagne cork and fuckin hero confetti woulda blasted him in the face}}" leads to symbolism with [[King Arthur|Lancelot and Arthur]]. In fact, Caledfwlch is the Welsh name of Excalibur.
** When he finally ascends to the God Tiers, his hood makes him look like a chain-mail wearing knight.
* [[Save Scumming]]: The real purpose of Dave's time powers is to basically act as the reset button if something goes wrong with the Alpha timeline.
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** The following is Dave's reaction to '' his own death'':
{{quote|'''<code>{{color|#e00707| TG: welp}}</code>'''}}
* [[Sunglasses Atat Night]]: Always wears his sunglasses, which he received as a present from John.
** Before that, he wore [[Shout-Out|a pair]] [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|that matched]] [[Memetic Mutation|his bro's]]. He's been wearing them since he was an ''infant''.
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Even more so than Rose--almost two years into the comics his stoicness has pretty much never broken, not even after what happened to Bro. But if things like his present to John are anything to go by, he cares way more than he lets on.
* [[Super Speed]]: Though not as fast as Bro, Dave is able to [[Flash Step]]. Which makes sense, given that he's the Knight of Time. One of his more impressive feats is [https://web.archive.org/web/20130309193653/http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40585720/Combined_Formspring_Web_Aug-28-2011.htm#andrewhussie1778186160 waking up, sitting up, and putting on his spare pair of shades ''in between one animation frame and the next''].
* [[Surprise Incest]]: Happens twice. He used to hit on Rose (ironically) before learning that they were brother and sister. In Act 6, he and Rose see Roxy (who is genetically their mother) in a dream, resulting in the following conversation months later:
{{quote|'''<code>{{color|#b536de|ROSE: You're wondering why I didn't tell you?}}</code>'''
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'''<code>{{color|#e00707|TG: and above all try not to do anything retarded}}</code>''' }}
* [[Too Clever by Half]]: There's a reason he was [[Hello, Insert Name Here|almost named]] "Insufferable Prick."
* [[Training Fromfrom Hell]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005104 Pretty much his entire life with Bro], [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004667 even back when he was a baby].
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Throws around a lot of them [https://web.archive.org/web/20130827063046/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002999 here].
** Also a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for him. Seriously, he made a ''[[Troll]]'' block him.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Along with Rose, he helps create the Green Sun they were trying to destroy in the first place.
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{{quote|"''You are an avid follower of CARTOON SHOWS OF CONSIDERABLE NOSTALGIC APPEAL. You have a profound zeal for marvelous and fantastical FAUNA OF AN ANTHROPOMORPHOLOGICAL PERSUASION. You have an uncanny knack for NUCLEAR PHYSICS, and not infrequently can be found dabbling in RATHER ADVANCED GADGETRY. You enjoy sporadic fits of NARCOLEPSY; your love of GARDENING transcends the glass confines of your ATRIUM; and you are at times prone to patterns of PRECOGNITIVE PROGNOSTICATION.''"}}
 
A quirky, upbeat girl living alone on a remote island off the northeast coast of Australia, guarded only by her "[[Physical God|dog]]" Becquerel and the taxidermied body of her late Grandpa.
 
In Sburb, she is the '''{{color|black|Witch of Space}}'''. Her Chumhandle is "{{color|#2ED73A|gardenGnostic}}".
 
She has allocated her [[Weapon of Choice|STRIFE SPECIBUS]] with the RIFLEKIND ABSTRATUS and [[Joke Weapon|PAPERKIND ABSTRACTUS]]. She is a clone of Nanna Egbert and Grandpa Harley's paradox ghost slime, and is John's biological sister.
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<code>{{color|#1f9400|as jadesprite she also barks occasionally woof woof!!!!!!}}</code>
<code>{{color|#4ac925|since reaching god tier she has a bit of a verbal tic woof!!}}</code>
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* [[Action Girl]]: Somewhat less so than Rose, but ''she has a gun'', knows how to use it and uses it well enough that she refuses to get a bigger one.
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* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: With the death of her dream self and the increasing destruction of her home, Jade lost much of the advantages that she had over the other kids, and given that she didn't communicate with the trolls and had been asleep for hours, she was out of the loop entirely about Sburb. However shortly after her entry, future Dave helps her make a shitload of cool new stuff and she catches up on the info pretty quick.
** Eventually averted: by the end of Act 5 she's ''miniaturizing planets''.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Averted. The death of her dreamself, the explosion of her dreambot, and her nightmare visions of [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] put a dent in her [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004752 chipper] demeanor for a little while, but she's soon [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004757 back in full] [[Genki Girl|genki]] mode.
** She later yells at Jadesprite for [[Stepford Smiler|focusing on the sad when everything else is so damn important]].
* [[Came Back Wrong]]/[[Damaged Soul]]: Apparently normal creatures aren't too compatible with First Guardians. Among other things, Jadesprite's grief is due to being either heavily annoyed or even ''blinded'' by the ever-present light of the '''{{color|#2ED73A|Green Sun}}''', besides being pulled out of her afterlife dream bubble.
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* [[The Ditz]]: As Dave points out, she's kind of an idiot when she's asleep.
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003688 As] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003689 seen] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003690 here].
* [[Expressive Shirt]]: Unlike the other characters, the design on Jade's shirt has changed multiple times, from an [http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/File:Gardengnostic.PNG atom]{{Dead link}} to a [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002667 pumpkin] to a [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002668 leaf], with a total of ten different designs. Readers voted to pin it to these three: Atom, Spirograph, and Sun.
** Since her Wardrobifier was destroyed, it's been stuck on Bec's face.
* [[Fainting Seer]]: Well, narcoleptic precognitive, at any rate. Apparently, it's not really narcolepsy ''or'' precognition.
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* [[Finger Framing]]: Does this while she's enlarging the Fourth Wall, probably just to [[Rule of Cool|look cool.]]
* [[Friend to All Living Things]] / [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: She even gives '''''[[Omnicidal Maniac|Jack fucking Noir]]''''' the benefit of the doubt ''right after he killed Dave right in front of her''. She [[Easily Forgiven|seems to assume that he killed Dave by accident]], and treats him like a misunderstood, misbehaving dog.
* [[Furry Fandom]]: She's a huge fan of it, but isn't into fursuits.
** Given some utterly fantastic callbacks later in that she becomes part-dog ''twice'' - once as Jadesprite, and again by merging with Jadesprite when ascending to the God Tiers.
** In A6I2, she logs into a ''[[Ghostbusters|Ghostbusters II]]'' MMORPG set up by John with a fox-headed furry character, complete with silver & blue [[Mismatched Eyes]] and a crown of human hair.
* [[Genki Girl]]
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: She tries this on Jadesprite, who upon being revived is constantly bawling and blubbering. When it obviously isn't working, she upgrades the [[Bright Slap]] to bright-beatdown, then just starts beating her to make her shut up.
* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]]: She loves to play with her Squiddle toys and her Manthro Chaps.
* [[Green Eyes]]: [http://www.formspring.me/andrewhussie/q/1540483313 According to Andrew]{{Dead link}}, the kids' eyes match their text colors.
* [[The Gunslinger]]: She has experience in target shooting and keeps rifles in her room, though she refuses to [[Friend to All Living Things|aim at anything innocent, ANTHROPOMORPHICALLY PERSUADED OR OTHERWISE.]]
** Definitely a fan of [[More Dakka]] too.
* [[Harpoon Gun]]: Inherited from Grandpa, and can be used as a [[Grappling Hook Pistol]] in a pinch.
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* [[Is This What Anger Feels Like?]]: The normally bubbly and cheerful Jade occasionally flies into a rage when someone is being uncontrollably obnoxious around her. See [[Hypocritical Humor]] and [[Reason You Suck Speech]].
* [[Kubrick Stare]]: Jade has a [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002668 fondness for plants,] so witnessing a potted plant rain triggers [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004765 this look.]
* [[Leitmotif]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922081719/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/gardener Gardener], which is actually a remix of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922024033/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-beginning-of-something-really-excellent The Beginning of Something Really Excellent].<ref>[[Don't Ask|For a variety of reasons that aren't especially interesting]], Jade's original leitmotif, Guardian, was replaced.</ref>
* [[Light Feminine and Dark Feminine|Light Feminine]]: To Rose's Dark Feminine.
* [[Little Bit Beastly]]: Her God Tier dog ears, a product of merging with Jadesprite. [[Word of God]] is that is the only part of her anatomy that's changed.
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* [[Meganekko]]
* [[Mind Rape]]: [[Eldritch Abomination|[S] ]]Jade:[[Cosmic Horror|Wake Up]]
* [[Mukokuseki]]: Inverted. Jade, like the other kids is designed to not be any particular race and isn't in terms of the plot but fanart often portrays her as looking Asian.
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Jadesprite insists everything is pointless. Probably pretty justifiable since she DIED.
* [[Oracular Urchin]]: Jade often sees visions of the past, present and future in Skaia's clouds while dreaming on Prospit's moon. This leads her to know a lot of things before the other kids do, making her this.
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* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]: A really good example of [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004951 exactly why wigglers] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004952 should not be allowed] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004953 to dual-wield] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004954 flintlock pistols...]
* [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense]]: Jade deciding to give Dave's apartment "[[Men Can't Keep House|a woman's touch]]." She starts with wetting a towel in the toilet. "This is how ordinary people clean ordinary houses, right?"
* [[Self-Made Orphan]] / [[Shoot the Dog]]: Both tropes subverted by being a goofy, carefree, non-villainous example. When she 2nd-tier prototypes Becsprite with her dreamself, she wipes his personality out of existence, and even [[Lampshadeslampshade]]s what's she's doing:
{{quote|Becquerel comes quickly at the promise of irradiated steak. He is such a good boy, and truly the best friend a girl could ever hope for.
You're sure gonna miss him! }}
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* [[Talking to Plants]]: She plays music to them. [[Magic Music|And it works]].
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: After enduring a memo of almost nothing but Karkat arguing with himself, she goes off on both of them. [[I Hate Past Me|Future Karkat approves]].
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* [[Undignified Death]]: Who would have guessed shaving cream was so flammable?
* [[Unusual Ears]]: When she reaches god tier, she gains dog ears.
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