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Player Information

Name: Amanda
Personal Journal: daintily
Age: 20
Contact Info: daintily
Other Characters Played: N/A

Character Information

Character Name: Jane Strider
Character Series: Homestuck
Character Age: 15
Character Gender: Female
Alternate Universe
Canon Point: Before she enters the Medium.
Background Link: OU Background
AU Background: It had all been a mistake, obviously. The meteor carrying baby Jane took a detour and dropped her off at not only the wrong home, but the entirely wrong century. Jane was 400 years in the future than where she was supposed to grow up, and that can really change a person.

Jane was raised by robots, which had just…always been there for her. She never really questioned the how, or the why, and she simply assumed everyone had robot nannies until she got old enough to read. She never knew that she was one of two remaining humans. She never knew about a psychotic alien that killed the man who was supposed to raise her, or how she was majorly displaced or anything like that. She had never known a lot of things, until she could read the books that were left by her guardian and the notes she had made and sent to herself.

She still didn’t quite understand when she began to read. She was still very young, only six years old when a robot called Sawtooth taught her how to read. She assumed they were simple stories, but on her seventh birthday she was finally taken out of her small apartment and saw for herself there was nothing but water as far as the eye could see. There was no life at all but the fish and monsters in the sea. Sawtooth taught Jane how to swim and fish, and now Jane would be able to support herself with just Squarewave, a smaller, less complex robot, and the occasional help of a strange cat with a tendency to bring Jane odd things from the past.

When she turned thirteen, Jane began to look more into her guardian, as well as the guardian of her close friend Jake Lalonde, who lived at a carapace colony. She read about Her Imperial Condescension, or the Batterwitch as her guardian called her, and how she took over the Earth and tried to make it a copy of her lost home planet. She read about the human experiments, the monsters called lusus she brought to Earth, the political figures she forced into office. How she had been on Earth for years before she made herself known, using the Betty Crocker Corporation as a guise.

Jane read about the systematic killing of humans. She learned that the planet had been flooded by the Batterwitch, and how her guardian had tried to make a stand against him. Dave Strider had been a movie director, and an all-around businessman. He made his fortune off of shitty jpeg artifacts, and used that money to fund movies that seemed stupid and ridiculous, but which were attempts at outing the Batterwitch. He had gone face to face with the Batterwitch, but she killed him. She killed everyone.

Jane was left with the Strider legacy, and she vowed to do her best to follow in her Bro’s footsteps. She became more serious about learning how to sword fight, she tried to master his unique brand of irony. He was a great man, and she had no right to not be as good as he was. She would learn as many things as she could, in hopes that she would be able to make him proud.

She also hoped she would be able to make friends, sometime, when she read about the game SBURB that would be released by Crockercorp, and how that game would be important to saving the world. There was no choice. She had to play this game, but she couldn’t play it alone. So Jane found a chat program that would let her send messages to the past, because it didn’t matter if her players were 400 years in the past, they could still play it together. This was how she met Jake, the last male human, as well as Roxy English, who quickly became her BFFsy as the girl called them, and Dirk Crocker, heir to Crockercorp. She grew close to all of them, and she tried to leave hints about what the future had in store for their planet, but whether any hints stuck is another story.

Soon, the four of them would play SBURB together. They would play the game that would reunite families, and then they could save the world from fish aliens.

The Batterwitch was not the only alien that Jane had to deal with. She had been contacted by two people claiming to be inhuman, one of which was kind, helpful. uranianUmbra would offer advice about the upcoming SBURB session, and give Jane information about the game. undyingUmbrage, however, was antagonistic and threatening. He was nowhere near as helpful as his “sister” UU, and talked about the death of her friends and everyone else. She didn’t know who to trust, but they would help shape Jane’s feelings about playing SBURB.
Personality: Jane Strider is very different from the other Striders. She’s just not very good at being ironic or closing off her emotions. She’s very sincere, and tends to fumble her way through her words. She wants to be honest to everyone, because she would never want somebody to feel like they couldn’t tell her the truth. She told Roxy about the future, and what was in store for her and the rest of humanity. Keeping secrets is something dislikes, but she picks and chooses what to divulge. Secrets that directly involve her, like crushes, are ones she holds close. She obsesses over how to tell things, and can ramble before getting to the point of what she’s trying to say.

Despite her penchant for honesty, Jane is remarkably skeptical. She has a hard time believing what she hears about the past, and can’t understand how people lived that way. She doubts anything she can’t see for herself, but she’s making an effort to try to be more understanding. It’s hard, though, believing things that she can’t see proof for. For all the extraordinary things she knows and has seen, she can’t believe the simplest aspects of historical life. It all just seems very bizarre to her, and she doubts that her friends are being truthful about their ways of life.

Jane tries to be serious, because there are serious things happening. Not to mention she has big shoes to fill, and she can’t get anything done with silly antics. That doesn’t mean that Jane is serious at all. She loves pulling pranks on her friends, and she loves comedy and practical jokes. She tries to be ironic and cool, but that’s really not who she is. The more she tries to be like her Bro, the more she feels like she’s lying to herself. She does love him, and she does feel like she can’t be anything less. However, she loves more lighthearted, straight-forward things. She is a jokester and a pranker, and it’s all in good fun.

Not that everything is fun. Jane Strider is remarkably headstrong, and she tends to snap at people who frustrate her. The antagonistic undyingUmbrage has met the brunt of her anger, but not many else have. It takes a lot of button pressing to make Jane angry, but when she does she has a tendency of screaming and lashing out at the objects littering her home. She has many a puppet that’s been hacked apart. She’s not very good at keeping any of her cool, and is a very reactive person.

She hates that fact. She wants to be a Strider; she needs to be just like Dave Strider. She feels like she’s failing him, and that if they were ever to somehow, some way meet that she would disappoint him. She tries to emulate him, and sometimes closes herself off and doesn’t act very much like herself at all. She pretends to be something she is not, but she feels that it’s for the best. This is how she has to be. Ironic, cool, serious, and with no one able to see how she truly feels. Sometimes she is successful in this, but it’s just a mask that is easily cracked.
Abilities: Jane is a capable sword fighter, though not an exceptional one, and can “flash step” short distances. Flash stepping involves moving extremely quickly, but she can only do it over a distance of 10 to 15 feet.

Jane is an unrealized Maid of Heart. As a member of the Maid class, it’s speculated that she could counter enemy attacks using her aspect, or is capable of providing herself or others with her aspect. Heart is analogous to “soul”, or sense of self, so she is essentially given the duty of finding her true self. Heart players often have a tendency for “mind splintering”, which is shown in Jane’s attempts to emulate her Bro.
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