part 1
original post (tumblr): https://tt-squid.tumblr.com/post/707759462987038720/metajadeoooh-yesalso-the-very-specific
OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
jade being around dead things her whole life so she fills it with life!!!
okay so. before gpa harleys death and their arrival to the island, it had a lot more plant life
but after a while (and not at all aided by various guns..)...
theres barely and plant life left besides the giant lilies artificially grown through seismic waves or however it works, and grass thats grown over evvery smaller island in the atol (? idk it looks like an atol but its like…. a meteor strike? so idk what youd call is)
and even in the isolation of her house/tower shes surrounded by so much death and life!!
right above her room lies the preserved remains of an alternate version of a beloved pet, and her dreamself who is the same as her but slightly different and dead and stuffed right above where she would lie asleep and dream (and in those dreams her dreamself would not yet have died trying to save someone shed longed to talk to her whole life)
and in the rooms below there is the memorabilia from jakes hunting days before he made the mistake of letting a baby dual wield some flintlock pistols
including himself.
but!!!!!
this is also ballanced out by all the life thats stuffed into the tower!
in the rooms jade spends her time in, shes filled them up with plants and stuffed toys and machines AND STUFF SHES INTERESTED IN.
which is a stark contrast to the grey monotony of grandpa harleys dead mummies and knight figgures (and mounted corpse)!!!
and ive reached the image limit but i could go on and on about the visual stuff thats in homestuck lol
tags by @honorabletyranny
#meta#jade#oooh yes#also the very specific contrast of stuffed TOY animals to be played with and mounted posters of anthros to spark imagination#vs stuffed and mounted dead animals as reminders of past times#living and growing up high in a globe vs a stuffed corpse play-living way down in a room filled with globes#plus the spiraled light/dark columns#that pretty clearly recall her aspect symbol i think#reaching all the way from the bottom up through her garden#soooo much of jade’s early arc is about the push/pull between witch of space/seer of time tbh#seeing oracular clouds in her dreams from a doomed moon but struggling to stay awake and be active on her living growing island#even as those visions genuinely are really useful and important to her#struggling to assert her agency over her dreamself and bec as symbols of time and space respectively#them getting combined in the form of her sprite that’s SUPPOSED to be her mystical guide to creating a new universe#that she cusses out for being overly passive and useless!#and for bec’s act of prototyping himself being both wildly counterproductive to the game but also narratively imperative#and making her lonely. anyway#it’s why jade’s godtiering is one of if not THE most narratively satisfying ones in hs imo#it resolves a really significant arc in a meaningful way#oh wait and. stuffed corpses of her dreamself and bec’s ectobiological parent having been standing literally over her the entire time#until she does save them in a way by uniting them through herself#and she gets to skaia above them and can fucking fly now. good for her
^ you are so right about this btw...
