original post (on tumblr): https://www.tumblr.com/tt-squid/741039522439200768/
still thinking about how some of the guns that follow jade into the dreaming world are not her default weapons at this point in the comic, which is the hunting rifle and one she uses most often prior to the shit lets be santa alchemy session
instead, there is the harpoon gun used to make the zipline to escape her tower without bec noticing
and the other is the very (set) of guns that left her all alone on an island in the first place
i v much have trouble stopping talking when it comes to this part but one of the most important conversations in homestuck in my opinion with respect to jade is the one between her and tavros a bit after her dreamself/dreambot dies/explodes, from pages 3049-3057 where tavros tells jade taht he saved her life/killed grandpa harley etc etc
in the convo jade also says how (as a natural theory) she automatically assumed that her grandpa had killed himself (well, formerly that the blue haired doll had until she got older), and thus leaving her to her life of isolation.
(and as a side note, theres multiple references to grandpa and jades rifle usage, in contrast to a world of a yellow moon without grandpa jake in it where the specific gun is absent)
(and you could also say something about how jake harley built robo jade to study jades dreaming and prospit while also keeping jades dreamselfs corpse in the room directly above her room, and so jade grew up surrounded both above and below her by a mirror of another world without her grandpa)
any way this was toatly incoherent prolly lol
(in the rbs:)
OH ALSO! SIDENOTE!! something about "take your rightful place among the DAUGHTERS OF ECLECTICA" and jakes faded out salon portraits and the blue haired doll jade used to think shot her grandpa!!
(in the rbs:)
but basically, in the ‘real world’ she has her own weapon (hunting rifle) whereas her dreamself only has her escape method (harpoon gun) and a memory of someone, whom in this realm, she had never even met yet still shouldered the guilt of his death and i have so many thoughts about this but none coherent enough to put into words really