SUBJECT: JADE
observation active
"A mask is most convincing when the wearer forgets it is there."
collected record recovered from the second archive.
jade,
would you know how to control a storm?
subject: Jade
cooperation rating: 4 / 10
intellect rating: 10 / 10
physical rating: 4 / 10
magic rating: 6 / 10
water response: yes
reported fear: Security (to a degree): With the life she had, she had come to the understanding that security and safety is all temporary. The only way to ensure your own is to risk another's.
Death: Jade will do anything to keep herself alive and safe, open to throw people under the bus and betray then at a moment's notice - again, merely to ensure her own security.
Her own ability: Not because of the damage its done to others, but because of the damage its caused to her. Her burn is hidden under a tattoo upon her collarbone and she has a false eye, and when trying to handle her own ability, she has gotten temporary electrical markings when she overloads herself.
Being known: If her true identity is discovered or her way of thinking, she could be sent back home, or if the latter, she could be harmed or betrayed instead.
ambition: To survive and live freely, and she will obtain this by any means necessary.
trusted names: No one.
untrusted names: Everyone.
childhood record
Juliya “Jade” Domański was born into a wealthy Polish family but was never fully accepted as legitimate. After her mother was assassinated when Jade was eight, she was left unprotected in a household where her siblings despised her, the staff mistreated her, and her politically occupied father ignored her. Years of cruelty hardened her. When her personal maid was dismissed, she warned Jade that survival required fear. Jade took that advice literally. By twelve, she had become violent and ruthless enough to terrify the household into leaving her alone. At sixteen, her father arranged a political marriage for her. Jade spent two years planning her escape, fleeing a week before her eighteenth birthday in disguise. She lived on the streets, turned to drugs and dangerous work, and deliberately damaged her reputation so her family would see her as useless. She later joined other young musicians from a homeless shelter and formed Silken Abyss, an experimental nu-metal band that quickly became famous. During the first show of their world tour, Jade lost control of her electrical ability, causing an explosion that killed seven people, including the drummer who had first befriended her. Jade lost an eye and suffered severe burns, while the incident was publicly blamed on faulty wiring. Her surviving bandmates knew the truth and could no longer look at her the same way, reinforcing Jade’s belief that fear was the only reliable protection. She disappeared again, rebuilt herself under a new identity, gained attention as a graffiti artist, and was eventually invited to attend Shadewick University.
fears
Security (to a degree): With the life she had, she had come to the understanding that security and safety is all temporary. The only way to ensure your own is to risk another's.
Death: Jade will do anything to keep herself alive and safe, open to throw people under the bus and betray then at a moment's notice - again, merely to ensure her own security.
Her own ability: Not because of the damage its done to others, but because of the damage its caused to her. Her burn is hidden under a tattoo upon her collarbone and she has a false eye, and when trying to handle her own ability, she has gotten temporary electrical markings when she overloads herself.
Being known: If her true identity is discovered or her way of thinking, she could be sent back home, or if the latter, she could be harmed or betrayed instead.
secrets
- Her identity
- The cause of the electrical fire
- Her past in general
love record
No
recorded symbol: thunderstorm
Thunderstorm symbolism centers on emotional turmoil, radical transformation, and divine power. Across literature and mythology, the sudden clash of elements represents conflict, intense passion, or sudden enlightenment, while the subsequent rainfall symbolizes the necessary release and purification that leads to personal growth.
Tonight, and tonight only, Jade will dream of a thunderstorm. Not an ordinary storm, but something violent enough to feel alive. Wind tears through the streets. Rain lashes sideways. Thunder cracks so loudly it seems to split the sky open. Through brief flashes of lightning, she sees a village being torn apart. Roofs are ripped away. Trees bend until they break. People stumble through the wreckage, crying out for help, but their voices are swallowed by the storm before Jade can reach them. Then, in one final flash, she sees Oswin. He is standing somewhere within the destruction, watching her as though he knows exactly why she is there. When Jade wakes, the image of him remains clearer than anything else in the dream. Whether she feels compelled to seek him out is up to her.
— STRIX