2023-10-27 4:26:18 ¶ ●

tangential Jade / Jadesprite / general sprite thoughts.

the Condesce can only control Jade through a mixture of scorpio and taurus powers; seemingly she puts the human half to sleep and awakens the animal half. we know that having her “animal half” awakened doesn’t turn Jade into Bec; the “Grimbark” Jade still expresses Jade’s personality and inner feelings, simply in a more uninhibited, animalistic manner. so she doesn’t have Bec’s feelings or personality, but simply Bec’s “nature”.

this makes intuitive sense when keeping in mind what we already know about sprites, which is well-trodden ground; they’re ghost images, which contain the “essence” of someone and not really their lived experiences. and most people, i think, understand this intuitively when it comes to Jade. we don’t refer to her as “part Bec”, but as “part dog” (or “part first guardian”).

so we can probably universalise this for other characters who contain sprite essences. we know, for instance, that Lord English is “part Arquius”. but it should also be understood that Lord English always has been chiefly Caliborn, in exactly the same way Grimbark Jade never stopped being Jade. so we should probably think instead of English having Equius and Hal’s “nature”, without actually having their personalities on any upper level of consciousness.

(Gamzee is still a wildcard, even with this considered, since we’re not dealing with a sprite Gamzee but a “real” Gamzee. I still maintain that Gamzee is essentially subservient to Caliborn, and therefore would remain as such in the same body; but are we still dealing with a character who is just as much Gamzee as he is Caliborn? or does it only being “half a Gamzee” included in Lil Cal’s gene pool change things?)