So recently I made a post about the Thoughtwave Tiaratop AI that’s controlling Jane at the beginning of the split between the retcon and Game Over timelines.
After looking at a lot of the responses to it, and doing more research into the whole section of the comic, I’d like to make a small revision.
I am not saying that the actions she takes are somehow entirely removed from Jane’s persona, only that her being under the control of the AI absolves her of what would otherwise be damning guilt.
Jane is clearly not the type of person who would kill Rose out of jealousy, or enslave Jake in order to breed an “empire” of human children. And she definitely isn’t the type to tackle someone and attempt to kill them while sleeping.
The point of this preamble, and the original post was to explain that she isn’t acting of her own accord, because recently a frightening number of people have been ignoring that fact.
If, and only if, you understand that Jane is not fully responsible for these actions, please continue reading. If you refuse to admit that she wasn’t in control of herself, don’t bother looking at my posts.
This post is glorious and if this is the root of all this Jane discourse that sprung up today I am glad for it. I never parsed Jane’s tiaratop breaking that way and I’m not 100% sure I buy it in the sense that if Hussie was going for that he maybe didn’t establish it well enough…
…but one could also say that about Brain Ghost Dirk and I like this reading a lot so frankly I’m adopting it, Jane loves her friends and that love breaks tiaras fuckers thanks. In fact this reading dovetails really nicely with the Classpect stuff I wanted to talk about soon re: Jane, so I might be citing you on it if that’s alright.
Anyway Jane Crocker owns as does every Alpha, thanks
I’ve always interpreted the tiaratop’s controlling intellect as a modified version of Jane, downloaded and modified by the tiaratop itself in a manner not unlike how Hal works. By that logic, it could easily be inferred that the reason the tiaratop is removed post-roxydeath isn’t just because Jane overcomes it, but also because it/she overcomes itself/herself, ceding control of Jane after recognizing how harmful it/she’s being to herself. Not a certainty at all, what with being a theory built on another theory, but a fun thought at least.