Jade caste

Rust • Bronze • Gold • ~~Lime~~ • Olive • Jade • Teal • Blue • Indigo • Purple • Violet • Fuchsia

“Jade Signs are the zodiac's caretakers. Intelligent and steady, they are excellent organizers and planners. They are detail-oriented, and can tend toward perfectionism, never satisfied with their endeavors. If you hire on a Jade Sign, be prepared for an excellent product, but also no peace until that project is flawless. They are fussy and particular, which can cause friction with those around them, although a Jade Sign holds no one to as high a standard as they hold themselves. Since they are shy with strangers and slow to open up, Jade Signs can often come off as timid or doormats, when really they just prefer to come at conflicts in a less combative way. Naturally loyal and loving, they make wonderful doctors, parents, and caretakers, whether they are taking care of people, pets, or plants. In relationships, they can be slow to open up, and need someone willing to be patient enough to go at their pace. If all of this makes Jade Signs sound soft and nurturing, they are, but keep in mind that they can also be fiercely destructive if those they care about are threatened. It takes a lot to make a Jade Sign snap, but if they do, take cover.”

— The Extended Zodiac

The jade blood caste is one of the twelve troll blood castes, higher than olive and succeeded by teal.

Extended Zodiac Signs[]

Many jade signs were shown in Homestuck prior to the release of the full Extended Zodiac, making them the only non-"True" signs to appear in the comic proper.

	Prospit	Derse
Time	Virist The Protector	Viries The Mother
Space	(True) Virgo The Fruitful	Virga The Pure
Void	Virittanius The Deliberate	Virittarius The Patient
Light	Virpio The Hearth	Virpia The Perfectionist
Mind	Virra The Sage	Virza The Puzzle
Heart	Virlo The Foundation	Viro The Redemptive
Rage	Viricorn The Lethal	Viriborn The Stringent
Hope	Virnius The Fierce	Virrius The Vindicated
Doom	Virmino The Inexhaustible	Virmini The Abiding
Life	Virsci The Alchemist	Virsces The Roborant
Blood	Vircer The Accountable	Vircen The Liable
Breath	Virus The Adaptable	Virun The Eager

Physical attributes[]

Jade blood is a blue-green color similar to that of the mineral jadeite, commonly known as jade.

Andrew Hussie has described the lifespan of a jade blood as somewhere higher than a century, with Kanaya's ancestor evidently having lived "quite a long time." Jade bloods are “almost exclusively female”^[1] and are described as a rare class, with Hussie further suggesting that jade bloods "probably have the smallest population of any individual class, aside from fuchsia."^[2]

Kanaya is one of the few of her kind who can withstand the blistering Alternian sun, and becoming a glowing undead rainbow drinker is “A Trait Confined To Those Of [Kanaya's] Caste”.^[3]

Most jade bloods seem to have a hook on one or both of their horns, as well as prominent vampire-like canine fangs protrude over their lower lips.

Roles and culture[]

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Jade bloods are “assigned strictly to serving the mother grub in the caverns”, “hatching the young and proliferating the 8rood”,^[4] and during at least the Dolorosa's time were “forbidden from visiting the surface.” Those working in the caverns are sometimes called “Auxiliatrices”^[5] (singular Auxiliatrix). A jade blood can also be selected and raised by a virgin mother grub ; however these cases are “so rare as to elude documented precedent.”

The "midwife" is said by Lynera Skalbi to be an adult jade blood who assists the Mother grub in birth; though Daraya Jonjet believes this to be a myth, Lynera suggests the midwives remain unseen because they have been "cloistered".^{[citation needed]}

The transformation into a rainbow drinker is considered sacrilegious to members of this caste.^[6]

Members[]

Homestuck[]

Earth C[]

Hiveswap[]

References[]

↑ Openbound part 1. “ARANEA: On 8eforus, well 8efore her drinker a8ilities had awakened, she grew up in the caste almost solely devoted to tending to the mother gru8, hatching the young and proliferating the 8rood. The jade 8loods were also an almost exclusively female caste, and she 8egan to resent the roles she was hatched into, designated for 8oth her class and gender. She challenged these roles wherever they existed in 8eforan society, as well as where she found them woven into our session, in kingdoms, class assignments, consort culture and the like.”
↑ Andrew Hussie. "Another (Jade-like) pattern-breaking feature of Kanaya's character is that she's diurnal and thrives in the sun. Most trolls have a dash of cheesy pop culture linked to their profile. With Kanaya, if you're detecting notes of Twilight, you're not crazy. This also signals that jade bloods are rare relative to populations of other classes. Hard to say how rare, exactly. Considering she gets the "one of the few of your kind" refrain, jade bloods probably have the smallest population of any individual class, aside from fuchsia (which numbers exactly one on the entire planet, as you'll see soon). It's a class that has more to with breeding administration than other types of grunt work, for which much bigger populations would be more useful. Even so, Kanaya seems to be more notable than the average member of her class (which, admittedly, is true for most of these characters), in that she was chosen by a virgin mother grub. Her later-revealed vampiric qualities also seem to be unusual for her class, although I don't think it's ever really confirmed how unusual or common that trait is among jades. Since in the main Homestuck narrative we only ever get one solid example of each blood type, it tends to be left as a point of speculation how representative that one character is of the rest of their class." Homestuck: Book 4: Act 5 Act 1, p.120. October 22, 2019.
↑ Openbound part 3. “ROSE: Was [phosphorescence] a biological feature common to other trolls?” / “KANAYA: Um [...] KANAYA: Im Told Its A Trait Confined To Those Of My Caste”
↑ Openbound part 1. “ARANEA: On 8eforus, well 8efore her drinker a8ilities had awakened, she grew up in the caste almost solely devoted to tending to the mother gru8, hatching the young and proliferating the 8rood. The jade 8loods were also an almost exclusively female caste, and she 8egan to resent the roles she was hatched into, designated for 8oth her class and gender. She challenged these roles wherever they existed in 8eforan society, as well as where she found them woven into our session, in kingdoms, class assignments, consort culture and the like.”
↑ Openbound part 3. “KANAYA: Or Perhaps It Was A Measured Defect Imposed On Us / KANAYA: To Keep The Auxiliatrices On A Short Leash”
↑ Aysha U. Farah. “[]its more centered around the main character doing pretty much all the sacrilege its possible to do, of Which becoming a rainboW drinker is one[]” Hiveswap: Act 2. November 25th, 2020.

[1] Openbound part 1. “ARANEA: On 8eforus, well 8efore her drinker a8ilities had awakened, she grew up in the caste almost solely devoted to tending to the mother gru8, hatching the young and proliferating the 8rood. The jade 8loods were also an almost exclusively female caste, and she 8egan to resent the roles she was hatched into, designated for 8oth her class and gender. She challenged these roles wherever they existed in 8eforan society, as well as where she found them woven into our session, in kingdoms, class assignments, consort culture and the like.”

[2] Andrew Hussie. "Another (Jade-like) pattern-breaking feature of Kanaya's character is that she's diurnal and thrives in the sun. Most trolls have a dash of cheesy pop culture linked to their profile. With Kanaya, if you're detecting notes of Twilight, you're not crazy. This also signals that jade bloods are rare relative to populations of other classes. Hard to say how rare, exactly. Considering she gets the "one of the few of your kind" refrain, jade bloods probably have the smallest population of any individual class, aside from fuchsia (which numbers exactly one on the entire planet, as you'll see soon). It's a class that has more to with breeding administration than other types of grunt work, for which much bigger populations would be more useful. Even so, Kanaya seems to be more notable than the average member of her class (which, admittedly, is true for most of these characters), in that she was chosen by a virgin mother grub. Her later-revealed vampiric qualities also seem to be unusual for her class, although I don't think it's ever really confirmed how unusual or common that trait is among jades. Since in the main Homestuck narrative we only ever get one solid example of each blood type, it tends to be left as a point of speculation how representative that one character is of the rest of their class." Homestuck: Book 4: Act 5 Act 1, p.120. October 22, 2019.

[3] Openbound part 3. “ROSE: Was [phosphorescence] a biological feature common to other trolls?” / “KANAYA: Um [...] KANAYA: Im Told Its A Trait Confined To Those Of My Caste”

[4] Openbound part 1. “ARANEA: On 8eforus, well 8efore her drinker a8ilities had awakened, she grew up in the caste almost solely devoted to tending to the mother gru8, hatching the young and proliferating the 8rood. The jade 8loods were also an almost exclusively female caste, and she 8egan to resent the roles she was hatched into, designated for 8oth her class and gender. She challenged these roles wherever they existed in 8eforan society, as well as where she found them woven into our session, in kingdoms, class assignments, consort culture and the like.”

[5] Openbound part 3. “KANAYA: Or Perhaps It Was A Measured Defect Imposed On Us / KANAYA: To Keep The Auxiliatrices On A Short Leash”

[6] Aysha U. Farah. “[]its more centered around the main character doing pretty much all the sacrilege its possible to do, of Which becoming a rainboW drinker is one[]” Hiveswap: Act 2. November 25th, 2020.

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