homestuck au where everything is the same except all the beta kids were raised as siblings by johns dad because jade didnt deserve to be alone, rose didnt deserve to be ignored and dave didnt deserve to get his ass beat on a regular basis. bro is in jail
they get in the game and find out theyre actually two sets of legitimate siblings and instead of being like “why were these two people were not related two raised as our siblings” (because dad is clearly john’s bio father) john and jade are just like. “awwww WE wanna be related to dave and rose too. this isnt fair”
they meet the alpha kids and rose turns to the derse kids and is like “im rose. i think im your daughter? this is my brother dave, my brother john, and my sister jade. what are your names” and dirk actually literally has a fucking stroke
john and jade have lived together their ENTIRE lives as siblings even though theyre technically second cousins? but dave and rose came later. john and dave had been internet friends and one year when theyre in like fifth grade dave comes to visit and when dad sees all these fuckin bruises all over him hes like “what the FUCK” and when dave goes “oh yeah bro and i were fighting. hes training me for something i guess its no big deal rly. the swords are p badass” dad is like JOHN….JADE……SLEEPING BAGS ARE DOWNSTAIRS and later when daves supposed to go back home john and jade go with him and dads like “im taking your kid because youre incompetent and a monster” and bros like “fair.” and then they call the police on him
roses mom and johns dad were dating for a while like two years later and they were all INTIMATELY aware of the fact that she had no idea whatsoever about how to take care of a kid. one day she was like “hey can you babysit rosey for a few hours i gotta do something” and dad went “yeah” and then mom like. never picked up rose. she just kind of skipped town. so dads here with his two Actual children plus johns internet friend whos brother beat him up and this goth eleven-year-old with a negligent mom and hes just. “guess i need a bigger car”
oh also john and jade are on the meteor during the game. thats a thing. the trolls are all like “???????moirails?????” but thats just kind of how the kids have always acted with each other and they see zero reason to stop now. theyd always been super close for siblings (rose thinks its because theyre all roughly the same age) but for some reason they never grew apart like some kids do and just. stayed really close. they love each other dammit
john and jade legitimately do forget that they arent really related to dave and rose btw. like they straight up are like “remember when this thing happened when we were five” and dave is like “i didnt live with you until i was like 9 dude” and john and jade are like “what really”
also like. since jade was raised around people (including john) theyre both EXTREMELY touchy and even though theyd NEVER say it out loud dave and rose are extremely hungry for like. healthy physical contact that didnt involve fighting ESPECIALLY dave so they have movie nights and shit and they all fall asleep in one big pile??? jade’s got her arms around rose who’s holding hands with john whose legs are tangled up with dave who’s got his face in jade’s hair and despite the logistical speed bumps its literally the most comfortable any of them have ever been as some dumb movie plays on the television and they dream
john’s a prep jade’s a jock dave’s a nerd and rose’s a goth. they all go to public school and have no friends aside from each other for almost two years because since the strilondes dont look like theyre related to the harleyberts people assume that john/rose and jade/ dave are couples and therefore Do Not Interact
one day jades like “blah blah blah my brother dave” and whoever shes talking to is like…..”dave strider? i thought he was your boyfriend” and jade says without skipping a beat “his name is dave egbert and no offense but i would actually rather die”
dave and rose have simultaneous identity crises in sixth grade. “oh jesus oh fuck were not legitimate harleybert siblings what if john and jade dont think were valid” so they sneak out one night to the 24-hour drugstore, pool their allowances to buy enough black hair dye to make rapunzel a goth, and spend two hours together silently destroying their hair as they soak it in cheap dye long enough to literally make it black almost permanently. john gets up to get a glass of water at 2 am and opens the bathroom door to see dave wearing a shower cap and rose frantically scrubbing off the dye stains on the sink and walks right back out again. jade wakes up the next morning and sees two dark-haired people she doesnt recognize asleep next to her and almost has a fucking heart attack
this whole damn webcomic it’s like she’s being punished for wanting to be with her friends. she didn’t even get to be with her grandpa that long before he got murdered [which she though was suicide, and being a kid, jade thought it was her fault].
she was finally about to meet dream-john after waiting her whole life? prospit destroyed and she died saving him before he woke up. her dream-self apparently gets to be with a group of friends in the afterlife? nope too bad she’s revived as jadesprite and COMPLETELY distraught at being back ‘in the game’ saying she wants to go back and be with her friends. she then loses her only irl friend, becquerel, from the prototyping.
finally meets dave? ends up accidentally killing him almost immediately and feels incredibly guilty about it. about to get a genuinely nice thank you from karkat and have him tell her how amazing she is? she fucking dies again before she can hear it.
then act 6 happens and we see… almost nothing about jade. apparently she had a train-wreck of a relationship with davesprite for a few months off-screen. and then the A6I3 games happen and LOOK we get to see all our favorites! oh WAIT, jade’s not there! in fact, we don’t even have a talksprite for jade!
then they finally arrive in the new session and she gets to meet everyon- no wait, nevermind! GRIMBARK! then she is forced to be horrible to them and dies. new timeline happens on the condition that JADE takes on all of their suffering [like she hasn’t suffered enough already]. typheus was vague about that at first but once john got to the new session we saw that the “one closest to him” that was to suffer was his sister.
so now we have this new timeline, [s] cascade happens, yay jade gets to see john and davesprite!! who quickly die in the explosion of lowas, THAT JADE THOUGHT SHE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR. she didn’t know that typheus destroyed the planet. she was the one who shrunk them down and had control over the planets. she thought it was a horrible accident and she would have felt solely responsible for it.
so now she has 3 years travelling alone in a void [which is known for having mostly empty dream bubbles, which means not even many interactions with ghosts] and only lizards and a couple sprites [who she has had no former association with] to keep her company. she gets depressed and can’t even tend to her plants anymore. gardenGnostic can’t even bring herself to garden.
3 years of isolation and depression and she arrives in the new session, and gets immediately taken over by condy again, and just as quickly she’s knocked unconscious. and she gets to meet some new people so maybe things are looking better for her? maybe she’s finally going to get to spend time with her friends and get some dialogue-heavy heart-to-heart convos with them, you know, like everyone else is getting?
or not….
ok well at least after the battle and endgame stuff she’ll have to wake up, and maybe we’ll get some dialogue then right? and she’ll do something epic in the fight when she wakes up, it’ll work out and she has a good chance at EVENTUALLY being happy right?
OR NOT…
jade has never intentionally done anything to hurt anyone. and yet she seems to be eternally punished and used by paradox space. her only purpose at this point seems to be being treated like a tool because she’s so overpowered. she just exists to be a powerful chess piece whose sole purpose is to take on the suffering of a doomed timeline. she’s not allowed to be a person or have her own life. she’s just getting dragged along by fate and losing more and more pieces of herself along the way.
this is the most unfair thing in this whole comic in my opinion. and honestly, with everything that has happened and CONTINUES to happen to jade, i can see why jadesprite would rather be dead than play this game.
john gets home from school and jade and rose and dave are all IMMEDIATELY messaging him and hes like “what do you guys normally do when im gone??” and theyre all like “wait for you to get back”
just moving along like everyone else 