Jade Harley



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Recently introduced approaching User Sarge about circumstances involving User Zev and his recovery of The Absolution, Jade is apparently from another "Session" - Basically, a quasi-User from entirely different multiverse of the BZPower Battles game and its players.

It has not been gone into detail as to whether this Session exists independently, but it has been confirmed that due to Jack Noir, the entire primary Universe in the Session from which Jade came from has been destroyed. As well, User Zev's theft of the Absolution has freed an incredibly powerful entity known as LORD ENGLISH.

Appearance
With skin of a fair light tone, long, mostly straight black hair, and luminescent, lime green eyes, Jade has a very pleasant appearance. She also wears large, circular-framed glasses, has prominent buckteeth, and bears whitefurred, canine ears atop her head. Usually smiling, Jade has a very upbeat, sunny kind of presence.

As seen in the appearance image, her long black robes show the void and stars of space on the chest and long, trailing, split hood; additionally, on her chest is a glowing green symbol of eight lines slightly curved to look like they're turning counter-clockwise, arranged with two in each of the four main directions. Additionally, and very noticeably, beneath Jade's robes are long, striped black and white socks beneath ruby red shoes.

Personality
A very friendly, benign girl, Jade is easy to get along with and does what she can to help others around her. She's also highly quirky, and has a variety of odd interests. For one thing, she's devoted a large room in her apparent house to gardening, and appears to grow more than enough vegetables and fruits to sustain herself. She's also talented on the electric mandolin, and enjoys large books which may be didactic in content. Unfortunately, she tends to lose focus when not given something direly important to keep her on-track, and she has serious issues with controlling her emotions when certain triggers are agitated.

History
Coming from a Session preceding the current story of BZPower Battles, Jade was one of the players involved. As it turned out, the various creatures they Prototyped in order to serve as guides in later Sessions were programmed to also change the Final Boss, Jack Noir.

This would have been fine; yet unfortunately, Jade's bizarre, freakishly powerful dog Bec chose to Prototype itself. It knew that so long as it was part of the Final Boss, Jade would be safe from dire harm. Yet this loyalty created an "unbeatable boss," in Jade's words, and his Red Miles destroyed their Session's main Universe nearly before the players and inhabitants could escape.

In her first appearance before User Sarge, Jade startled him so badly that she had to bring him to her own contained dimensional space to try and calm him. Twice, she explained her predicament. Once Sarge was calmed down and Jade explained how User Zev had inadvertently freed LORD ENGLISH, things began to go smoothly; with Jade remembering to expose Sarge to his Motif, boosting his power.

Unfortunately, Jade discovered that Jack Noir had entered the new Session faster than anticipated, and was attacking BZPower. Even though User Zev appeared, was killed, and ascended to God-Tier as a result, he could do nothing to stop Jack Noir short of teleporting both of them away. She warned User Sarge not to follow them, yet ended up tracking him as he himself teleported.

On the other side, USarge found himself attacked by a horrible Shadow. Loathe as she was to do so, Jade used Ahab's Crosshairs to slow the monstrosity down, and helped USarge escape to another planet. However, just as they were discussing how to defeat Jack Noir definitively, none other than LORD ENGLISH struck and nearly killed both. Only Jack Noir himself coming to Jade's defense allowed them to escape.

As soon as they were safe, Jade gathered her resolve once again upon realizing a fact she had missed: the fact that LORD ENGLISH is immeasurably powerful, but still has rules he must follow. Upon rewinding all the way back to the onset of BZPower Battles (and possibly further) via a passive link to the Fourth Wall, Jade revealed that in every Session, an individual dies that, under exact circumstances, will thus allow LORD ENGLISH invincibility should be be able to enter.

Focusing on England in 1987, Jade found the girl who was to be killed. Yet in a turn of events which Jade only caught by chance, a time-traveller named Aradia, the "Maid of Time" (just as Jade herself is the Witch of Space, and User Zev is the Heir of Heart) intervened to rescue the girl, named Karin "Noodle" English. As Aradia escaped, Jade had only enough time to mention that Aradia was not a member of her own Session before she succumbed to a painful headache due to using so much power in such a short frame of time.

Falling asleep, then later being awoken by User Sarge, Jade soon explained how she acquired her dog ears. As her dog Bec had become part of the Prototyped guide before entering the game, a second Prototyping was required after entering. Based on how another player had used himself from the future of another timelime as the second Prototyping, Jade used the body of her separate, physical "dreamself."

Unfortunately, "Jadesprite" was left inconsolable by memories of both how she died and the horrible things she had seen on the other side. It was only much later that she could function without such distress. Yet as characters reaching God-Tier were merged with their dreamselves, Jadesprite was reunited with Jade by this process - Thus giving her a portion of Bec's powers that hadn't gone to Jack Noir.

Weapon
Begrudging as she finds wielding it to be, Jade's weapon of choice is called Ahab's Crosshairs.

As shown in the image provided, it resembles a sleek, incredibly high-tech harpoon gun colored violet and lavender.

Rather than firing out the supposed harpoon, however, from the tip is shot a beam of fiery white energy that leaves a still-molten trail of pure energy for several moments. For unknown reasons, Jade hates using it if she can avoid it; calling the weapon a "legendary piece of shit."

Abilities/Skills
As the Witch of Space from her Session, Jade is gifted with incredible powers which her status as a God-Tier player only makes more potent. She was able to easily bypass the boundaries of User Sarge's enclosed space in a star - Though Jade herself was obviously strained, and stated that had Sarge placed tighter boundaries, she wouldn't have been able to teleport back out again.

Additionally, due to being from a previous Session and knowing the ins and outs of its demise, Jade's knowledge will be invaluable against the likes of Jack Noir and LORD ENGLISH. She's keenly aware of the nature of both existences, and though it is wont to slip her mind from time to time, Jade has clearly shown that information lies in her possession that could prove essential to defeating the threats she attempted to escape from.

It has been confirmed that Jade has incredible capabilities for tracking individuals across the expanses of space, and this has been compounded with her ability to remotely view nearly any location in the Universe, in exchange for making herself completely vulnerable to any sort of attack while doing so. As well, she is able to manifest a passive link to The Fourth Wall that allows her to view any point in a Session by using a regular player's vantage point; though, this has been shown to afflict her with crippling headaches when exercised in such a way.

Perhaps most remarkable, one of Jade's greatest feats was saving each of the dozen or so inhabited planets in the entire Universe killed from her Session: By shrinking them all down to about the size of tennis balls and protecting them herself. She is still able to maintain this shrunken size, and normally keeps the miniaturized planets in her pockets or the recesses of her robes.

Trivia

 * Jade's canine ears and Jack Noir's canine features are linked in certain ways - It has been confirmed that Jack's part comes from being Prototyped with Jade's dog, Bec, while Jade's come from being combined with Jadesprite, which gave her a smaller, but still large fraction of Bec's powers.