Jade Harley

Jade Harley was formally introduced at the beginning of Act 3.

Biography
She was named Farmstink Buttlass while she was sleeping and thus she couldn't object to the name like the three other kids did -- however she wrote a note in advance about it. She lives with her Grandfather, a world-renowned explorer. She describe him as "intense" and "charismatic", but fears bumping into him for fear of being subjected to another of his stern lectures.

She has long black hair, round glasses, and a bucktoothed grin. She wears a shirt with a constantly changing blue picture on it, a belt, and a button-up skirt. Jade's Fetch modi is not a regular data structure like the other kid's, instead she opts for fetch modi that resembles the children's games like PICTIONARY or MEMORY, where one has to match up pairs of cards. She has an uncanny knack for getting it right on the first try. Her Strife Specibus is rifleKind; she is a skilled markswoman with a supply of firearms that her grandpa insist she carry with her when leaving the house. She may have a second strife specibus, Pistolkind.

She has a pet dog who is her guardian named Becquerel, which Dave describes as a "fucking devilbeast" that should be "[taken] out behind the woodshed [where Jade should] blow its head off." Jade says she couldn't accomplish such a task if she tried, also stating that her "cross-hairs would never settle on an innocent creature, ANTHROPOMORPHICALLY PERSUADED OR OTHERWISE". She does appear to make an exception for Bec, as she attempts to shoot him during their Strife, but Bec's reality-warping powers made it impossible for Jade to inflict any actual harm upon him. It seems she was simply playing with him in any case, as it ended with her having him fetch a bullet, in mid-air.

Unique among John's chums, Jade is evidently not a gamer and seems to have little interest in Sburb. Online, she has been shown to have a very excitable personality and she loves to plaster her pesterings with large amounts of exclamation points and emoticons.

Jade sent John a green package, which he has thus far been unable to open. In Act 2, it fell into the abyss along with Dad's car and John's copy of the Sburb server application. Currently, there is no obvious method by which any of those objects can be retrieved. However, Jade apparently knew that this incident would happen beforehand and claims that John will get it back when he needs it. How she knew it would be lost or knows that John will get it back are currently unknown. Jade may have psychic - or "gnostic" - ability, to some extent.

Jade has a very quirky personality, and often dozes off to sleep, then wakes up without any recollection of ever falling asleep. She is completely unaware of her narcolepsy, possibly never sleeping by her own choice, and only makes it into bed with the help of Bec.She is forgetful and wears colorful reminder rings on her fingers. She has been seen with a flute which she plays, though in a very silly and bad manner. She is however able to play the Eclectic Bass. She has interest in older cartoons, the furry fandom, nuclear physics and high-tech gadgetry, and is a skilled markswoman (though perplexingly, she is also a pacifist).

Jade lives in a very remote part of the world on an island; she sent her gift to John several months in advance because "mail takes a while to get anywhere from here" and Rose talked about "whatever screwball cranny of the globe [Jade is] tucked into." Living in isolation like this would explain her lack of pop cultural knowledge and enthusiasm. The end-of-Act-II montage coordinates placed the volcanic island that is home to the Frog Temple at the same coordinates as the pumpkin that the Wayward Vagabond appearified in Act II. The appearifier was set to the pumpkin's location and time when the Vagabond first saw and used it. This suggests that Jade, or her grandfather, may be involved with the Underground Base somehow. There is indeed an island (unnamed) at the coordinates mentioned, -0.955766, -174.759521.

Jade, like the Wayward Vagabond and Dave, has her own unique loading screen for flash animations about her, featuring a slowly spinning flower and her silly green font. However, during her Strife with her Grandfather, this is replaced with a second loading screen featuring a portrait of herself hanging over a purple and yellow fireplace mantle.

Jade's Associated Item is (probably) Uranium.

Jade is the first person ever to put a pumpkin in their inventory. It vanished however, just like always.

She almost never uses the Stairs in her house, preferring to transportalize between the many floors.

Jade has Pesterchum Enamel, a version of Pesterchum which advertises itself as being "Much Shinier!" Along with having the chumhandles of John, Dave, and Rose, she also has a TROLLSLUM with a number of Trolls, all of them in a Rancorous mood and with rather dark sounding chumhandles, including arachnidsGrip, twinArmageddons, and the most infamous of all, carcinoGeneticist. Their chumhandles appear to relate to the signs of the Greek zodiac. Her web browser of choice is Echidna, who is coincidentally the mate of Typheus, the namesake of John's web browser. (See Homestuck Kids.)

Jade was originally speculated to be the Seer of Light mentioned in Nanna's letter. However, this role has been given to Rose. By process of elimination, this leaves Jade's role to be the Witch of Space. Understandable considering her pet Bec's ability to warp space at will.

Recently, as the Reckoning approached rapidly and Jack Noir went on a rampage that sent Prospits' moon flying towards Skaia, Dream Jade died whilst saving the still-sleeping Dream John from the falling moon. Her Dreambot exploded as this happened, destroying her room and sending her careening out of the tower, unconscious.

Gnostic ability
Jade has been shown to have amazing, nigh-on-prophetic insight into the world around her, though she insists that this isn't supernatural in any way. This has been shown to arise from the dreams she has during the eclipse of Prospit. While she doesn't make much effort to hide these abilities from Dave or Rose, she tries to keep them a secret from John, refusing to say anything until he "wakes up" and mentions that she's "not any more psychic than [John]", which combined with the presence of a Dream John in Prospit, suggests that John may also have latent Gnostic abilities of his own. Though, it is also a possibility that Jade received all of her information from the clouds around Skaia. They are shown HERE to provide images of the future, and it fits with her saying that she is not psychic.
 * Jade knew her gift to John would be lost, but says that it will be found again when he needs it.
 * Jade asked Rose about John's gift to her the second she finished opening it.
 * When Rose mentioned she'd had a pet, Jade knew that it was a male cat. Jade expressed knowledge that a certain game would come out that could bring Jaspers back to life, much like John's Nanna. As such, it was concluded that Rose's Kernelsprite would be prototyped with Jaspers, which it was.
 * Jade knew about Sburb's ability to resurrect dead things in the form of Kernelsprites months before the release of the beta, despite her more technical friends like Rose knowing nothing about the game.
 * Jade mentioned that John had 'company' (two crude ogres) sneaking up on him.
 * Jade knew she would be named Farmstink Buttlass initially, and wrote a note objecting to the name.
 * One of Jade's Fetch Modi, the one she uses most of the time, works like a game of Memory. She has "a knack for always guessing right on the first try."
 * Jade insisted to Rose that today would be a big day.
 * Jade predicted Rose's internet failure down to the last minute.
 * Jade appears to be able to communicate with her grandfather, despite him being dead.
 * Jade cannot foretell when or where Becquerel will appear. "He is completely invisible to [her] intuition somehow, a property almost totally unique to him."
 * Jade knew that the Wayward Vagabond would appearify John's gift and sent a letter on top of it for "Mr. Mayor", containing specific instructions and diagrams which didn't even exist at that point in time. She also enclosed a second letter for one miss mail lady, whom most readers had believed to be male until that point. This was revealed to be a cleverly planned way of sending the gift to her past self, which would cause Jade to start wearing blue and to start gardening.

However, it seems her powers have come to an end due to the events of the End of Act 4 and the death of her dream self. Seeing as only her Dream Self was able to see the clouds.

Shirt Image
Unique among the kids, the picture on Jade's shirt isn't a static image; it changes randomly due to a device in her room called the Wardrobifier. This device can change her shirt design into any of ten different light blue images or have it cycle randomly or between a set number of the images. The images are.
 * Atom: A diagram of an atom, shown right before the view is switched to the Wayward Vagabond in the (supposedly nuclear-powered) Skyship Base. This image seems to be her 'default.'
 * Pumpkin: shown right after the viewer tried to drop a pumpkin on her.
 * Leaf: shown when she was thinking about her interests, mainly horticulture.
 * Ghost: The (Blue) Green Slime Ghost, when reminded about John. The original image on it.
 * Spirograph: The Seven Gates of Sburb. The significance is unknown. It appeared when she was picking a Mandarin Orange from her garden.
 * Squiddle: shown right before she entered her bedroom, which is full of Squiddle plushies.
 * Devilbeast: A silhouette of Bec, shown when she was thinking of feeding him. This symbol also appeared on the pumpkin that was(n't) in her atrium. somehow, even though it was not one of her options for the "set image" cycle, it still appeared during act 4 closeing.
 * Radioactive: A nuclear hazard sign, shown while picking up a rifle near her uranium-littered worktable.
 * Sun: A stylized sun.
 * Flower: A simple flower.

After some debate, she decided to set the wardrobifier to cycle between the atom, Sburb Gate, and sun images. However, the settings were changed during her dreams to cycle through the atom, Squiddle, blue slime ghost, and sun images. It was revealed that she received this shirt from John via a package that was sent by Peregrine Medicant when she was a child, and that it was a matching shirt to John's own Green Slime Ghost shirt.

After Jade's room was destroyed due to her Dream Bot's destruction, her shirt image displayed the Devilbeast, whom will most likely save her from the resulting fall. Evidently, even though the wardrobifier is destroyed, perhaps her shirt is, by default, random? It would explain how it could change despite the absense of the device.

Sburb
While Jade appears to not be a gamer or have any interest in Sburb, she eventually came across Dave's copies of the beta from a time capsule, and thus is hosting Dave. However, she had some trouble getting him in to the Medium, as she had no experience with games and also had narcolepsy problems. She dropped the towel in the toilet and dropped the toilet in Dave's room, and then prototyped the Kernelsprite with the useless crow. However, he managed to get in on time. Presumably, Jade will enter the Medium with John as her server, but John has still not recovered the beta for her. Her meteor has been shown to be very close now, looming over the night sky.

More recently, Jade's dream self flew in and clobbered a Courtyard Droll from Derse for stealing the White Queen's ring from a Parcel Mistress. The ring was in her possession until her dream self died saving a sleeping John from the crashing moon of Prospit. John's dream self took the ring from his fallen comrade.