unknownseas first impressions

[hardnosed]

☄ First Impressions ♚ VISUAL: Her Big. Jasper is large, muscly, and offensively orange, with a giant head of hair that's a very diluted version of her skin color. She cuts a very imposing figure and never self-effaces with her posture. Everyone has to know she's here and they have to fucking deal with it. In keeping with the actual gem she's supposed to be based on, her skin is banded with a deeper red-orange. This makes her look like a Thundercat. There's a diagonal stripe over her eyes, a little curve of a stripe on her left cheek, a band on her right bicep, another curve just below her left shoulder, and her entire left hand and forearm are red. Her nose is a fucking rock. Her eyebrows are black and sweeping. Her eyes are yellow and kind of catlike, and her eyelashes are sometimes there and sometimes not but when they are there they are immaculate. In this game specifically she's taken from Crack the Whip, so she hasn't got any of her post-corruption markings or horns; I have icons that might contradict this but will mostly try to use ones where the horns at least aren't as visible! ♚ FASHION: Always the same bodysuit from her pre-Change Your Mind icons! It's got a yellow diamond in the middle of the neckline and is also part of her body, so. ♚ DEMEANOUR: Jasper is a deeply insecure person, and she uses her physical bulk and strength as a cudgel against others even when she's not being overtly aggressive — there's never going to be an attempt to downplay any of her various characteristics, or to hide her reactions to things she finds distasteful. When she's bored or smug, she'll have a more casual, dismissive stance. She may not even bother talking directly to whoever she's having a conversation with. When she's angry, she punches things and physically lashes out, and she'll deliberately try to make herself look even bigger and more intimidating than usual. She does have to hunch over to go through most doors here, and is pretty much always going to pick standing over sitting because none of the chairs are built for her! Too bad, so sad. ♚ SOUND: Kimberly Brooks after gargling steel wool! Jasper has a deep, growly voice and pivots to yelling very easily if someone sets her off. She's fairly well-spoken and will tend towards the most overdramatic anime villain dialogue possible. ♚ SCENT: like... like a rock. She smells like a rock. ♚ MENTAL INFORMATION: Her consciousness is located in the faceted gem that is her nose, and she's never happy about anything. There's a lot of bad memories that can easily get reactivated, a lot of rage, and a lot of self-loathing. She's also always going to size up new people and areas in terms of combat. ♚ MAGICAL INFORMATION: Gems are technically magic, sort of, and we don't know what that means! The locus of this, again, is her stupid goddamn Who from Whoville nose, which is the wellspring from which her hardlight form and all the magic/gem power things she possesses originate. In-game, it's been pretty much deactivated. ☄ OOC ♚ BACKTAGGING: Hell yeah! ♚ FOURTHWALLING: I don't think it's going to particularly come up here. ♚ PHYSICAL AFFECTION: IT'LL BE WEIRD AS HELL FOLKS BUT WHO AM I TO STOP YOU however be advised that her reaction is going to be "standing around bewildered" at the best and violent at the very worst. ♚ PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: can you even have a thread with Jasper without this... ♚ RELATIONSHIPS: Jasper has absolutely no concept of what a healthy relationship is and is space racist, which means she's really only interested in other gems (or people who also use she/her pronouns and resemble gems, after 7000 years of character development), and also she's fucking terrible, but yeah sure in an absolutely wild scenario where such a thing develops let's go for it! ♚ PERMISSIONS: Jasper was part of a mutually toxic fusion/unsubtle abusive relationship metaphor with Lapis Lazuli which, at this point in canon, she has incredibly positive feelings about. She's self-destructive in the extreme because she not-so-secretly loathes herself and her origin, will do reckless things with no regard for her own livelihood, and her internal monologue will sometimes reflect that. She's also drunk Homeworld's kool-aid and internalized its toxic ideology wholeheartedly, which means she treats her own life and the lives of others as disposable and has a lot of extremely shitty beliefs about "defective" gems which verge on eugenics rhetoric. She manhandles others and doesn't care about their bodily autonomy, and her entire purpose on earth is basically to stone cold murder a 14 year old boy who she stubbornly refuses to recognize is a 14 year old boy. Since she's part of a species of agender space rocks who all use she/her pronouns, and is also a big space racist, she will occasionally slip up and call people (especially those she hasn't actually met, i.e. the Professor) "she", but obviously the last thing I want to do is casually misgender people so I'm going to mostly not play this out! Jasper has also been a soldier since her birth 5000+ years ago and will literally never address the profound emotional damage this has caused in her. While this is a kid's show, she's responsible for untold amounts of death and destruction, and complicit in the annihilation of organic life which is inherent to the Diamond Authority's expansion of empire. She treats the lives of her fellow gems cavalierly at best and doesn't see human beings as people, full stop. So, uh, I guess what I'm saying in this endless TED Talk is war and misgendering and abusive relationships? Comments here are automatically screened, so you can let me know here or on her HMD if you'd rather I not touch on certain topics or just not tag you with her! I'll be trying my best to warn in the subject line for anything regardless, and the only thing Jasper's really inclined to infodump on at first blush is Homeworld's caste system. GET CODE HERE