Jaspers



Jaspers is Rose Lalonde's deceased pet cat.

He died when Rose was 4 1/3 years old. Rose, being a fan of psychiatry, often held psychoanalysis sessions with Jaspers while he was alive. During his last session with her, he told her the stunning secret that would haunt her mind for years to come: MEOW. This seemingly insignificant phrase unlocked a genetic code in Rose's subconscious, which she spent years scrawling on her walls not knowing what it meant, and then suppressing the memories of it, until her dream self woke up. She wrote the same sequence in one of her journals, which Dave replicated with his Alchemiter. In Act 4, the Draconian Dignitary steals this code from Dave's home and uses it to create Becquerel.

Unfortunately, after he told her this secret, Jaspers disappeared into thin air. A couple weeks later, his body was found in the river that runs through the manor. Rose cared for Jaspers enough that she asked her mother to hold a funeral for him. Her mother, naturally, went ironically overboard with the proceedings, giving Jaspers to a taxidermist to prevent decomposition, fitting him with a new tiny suit, placing him in a coffin meant for an infant, and sealing him in a Mausoleum in the backyard of the manor while wearing an all-black version of her suit.

Interestingly, underneath the dais in the mausoleum is a secret door leading to an underground passage to the SkaiaNet Laboratory next door. It is opened by entering a password into a keypad in Rose's house. Cruel irony may not have been the only reason Rose's Mother built the mausoleum.

Jaspers is responsible for Rose's desire to play Sburb, as Jade predicts that the game will allow Jaspers to return to life. Rose tells herself "it's pretty much all his fault you're in this mess in the first place", indicating a stronger desire to revive Jaspers than she let on, initially describing her feelings about the animal as "lukewarm".

Rose tries to use the Appearifier located in the Laboratory under her house to retrieve Jaspers from the past, hoping to close some sort of double time reacharound, but instead causes the machine to Paradoxify. The resulting green goo is sampled and used by a nearby Ectobiology apparatus, which proceeds to clone a small, two-headed fetal kitten from it. Rose finds another mutant kitten, this one with four eyes, which she names Vodka Mutini, or Mutie for short.

Where Jaspers went before he died is unknown. As Rose is unable to track him with the Appearifier during the week he was missing, it is possible that Jaspers was appearified to some time in the future or an alternate dimension and Sendificated back after he had died. Jaspersprite later revealed that, after his appearance, he spent the rest of his life with an unfamiliar woman or girl.

Jasper's body is accidentally transportalized to Rose's Mom's room but is brought back and re-captchalogued by Rose before she leaves in the same way.

Jaspersprite
Rose Lalonde's Kernelsprite was initially prototyped with Jaspers, and Dave prototyped it with the Eldritch Princess. Jaspersprite is shown to be very reliable, as it grabbed Rose with a tentacle to rescue her from a fall. It was hinted that Rose would prototype the sprite with Jaspers after Jade mentioned Sburb might be able to bring Rose's dear cat Jaspers back from the dead. Notably, it was prototyped not only both times before it entered The Medium, but the (formerly) living element was introduced before the nonliving element, though this had no visible effect on the sprite. Interestingly, Jaspersprite initiates direct physical contact to save Rose, whereas the Nannasprite uses indirect means.

After its first prototyping, Jaspersprite appears as a disembodied cat head surrounded by an orb of light, like John's harlequin sprite. Between its double prototyping and Rose's entry in the Medium, it has the full sprite body still surrounded by the orb of light. When Jaspersprite is seen again in the Medium, the orb of light is gone.

As Rose prototyped twice before entering the Medium, the changes undergone by the denizens of the Incipisphere were more drastic: the opening to Act 4 shows new types of imps taking on all possible properties; Cat, Cathulu, Princess and even some Cathulus and harlequins wearing Jaspers' suit. Like all sprites, Jaspersprite can talk, although he prefers to just make cat noises. He seems to be privy to a lot of important information, but he doesn't quite understand it. It is mainly his fault that Rose was corrupted by The Noble Circle of Horrorterrors and influenced by, since he should've made her finish the main quest but didn't want to, since he was actually Rose's cat and didn't like his position as her supervisor.

Rose releases Jaspersprite from his job as her guide, giving him her laptop. Nepeta seems to have pestered him a few times, due to her love of cats and how Jaspers reminds her of Pounce de Leon.