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Background
Jade is the protagonist and player character of Beyond Good And Evil. She's a sassy but strong tomboy who throughout her whole life grew up on Hillys where war is the only subject of discussion. She has been an orphan through her entire childhood and has no memory of her parents or where she came from. She was taken in by her adoptive uncle Pey'j, who raised her like she was his own daughter. Her camera, apparently given to her by her parents, is the only tangible link to them.
Jade eventually gained a love and job as a photographer and started her own business - "Jade Reporting & Co." - earning money on commission from various companies that are interested in her photographic and reporting skills. Along with Pey'j, she lived at the Lighthouse shelter with six other orphans and a dog named Woof. All the orphans look up to her as their big sister since Jade tries her best to protect them at all costs from the DomZ or any other threat.
She eventually becomes a member of the IRIS Network - working under the pseudonym "Shauni" - after having some doubts about the Alpha Sections' claims of being heroes. She believes that the only thing that will help bring this war to an end is by learning more about the secretive elite organization and stop it before it's too late. At the end of the game, Jade received cryptic information from the DomZ High Priest that hints to her true identity. She is, supposedly, an entity called "Shauni" that the DomZ regard as the source of their power. Who or what Shauni exactly is remains unclear, even after the ending credits of the first game. The High Priest also hints that Pey'j knows the answers that surrounds this whole situation and has kept it all from Jade for unspecified reasons.
Primary Skills and Abilities
Curious mix of high technology and mystical equipment
'Abilities: Martial arts, agility, stealth, mystical powers;' (Taken from IRISwiki)
"Jade has learned and acquired many different abilities throughout her life. Expert in martial arts, she can defeat enemies with nothing but a combat stick, her trusty Daï-jo. Also, because of her light figure and agility, she can perform numerous stunts: leaping, somersaulting, climbing, sidestepping, dodge roll, and even hang from ledges. She has the stealth and cunning needed to infiltrate highly secured facilities and bypass guards without being detected. Working side by side with her companions she solved complex puzzles, infiltrated military institutions and taken down an evil galactic overlord, and can also drive both a hovercraft and a spaceship.
Toward the end of her adventure, Jade discovers a strange power within her she was unaware she possessed. Because of the mysterious Shauni entity supposedly living inside her, Jade was able to revive other people. She activates this power when she founds her uncles corpse in the DomZ lunar base and unknowingly brings him back to life. She also uses this ability to rescue all the other remaining victims of the DomZ war. The full extent of this power remains unclear, even after the end of the game." Taken from IRISwiki, Character Page Jade
Equipment:
The Synthetical-Atomic-Compressor (or S.A.C for short)(Sack) is a backpack-like object used to carry other items. The S.A.C's most common use is to digitalize objects and compress their atomic structure (like the Camera) and being able to carry them around without hindrance; within the S.A.C, the user can then un-digitialize the object into the real world again for use, some S.A.C's also have an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), as is shown by Secundo. (Holds the data from photographs taken with the camera. Secundo not included!)
Weapon: Daï-jo (Daï-jo staff meaning Great Staff) A precious gift from her uncle; this telescopic staff appears to be wooden with a gold inlay design at either end. It retracts to about half its length for storage. Able to channel some form of energy, empowering its strikes after a moment's charge. Jade receives the daï-jo from Pey'j after the sarcophagi invade the Lighthouse Shelter. She uses it to take out the DomZ monster and continues to use it for the remainder of the game.
Camera: The VP-H263 is Jade's camera and the most important item she possesses. Connected to the S.A.C. storage unit it maintains and manages all of her photograph storage, uploads and downloads. But the Programs within the S.A.C. allow recording and displying of species data and recorded information, translation of a photograph of a map into an extrapolated 3D model and some general known information on scanned targets.
Character Statistics
- Knowledge: 5
In terms of her Martial and work related skills like Photography she has spent years working day to day freelance work to support the orphans housed at the lighthouse. Keeping food on the table and a shield over their heads. She is also from a more technologically advanced civilization, used to the concepts of spaceflight, personal shielding/Augmentation and laser detection grids. Her understanding of mechanics and technology is such that she has always been helping run and repair things. Problem solving and kludging together fixes within a budget are right within her strikezone.
- Magical Knowledge: 1
It's just like science right? *NO FEAR*
- Physical Ability: 5
Jade is an accomplished martial artist and has faced down several monsters or opponents single handedly, but prefers to fight with friends at her back or ideally... not fight at all. She has acrobatically squeezed through factory ducts, military base ventilation and complex detection networks all in the name of the saving a friend or getting that next big story.
- Superhuman Ability: 4
A martial artist who has trained extensively under her Uncle Pey'j Jade has more more of a focus on finding her own inner peace and tranquility than its use in combat, cultivating her internal well being and peace of mind. (Spoiler free)
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Though human in appearance Jade is also Shauni, a massive fragment of stolen power from the high Priest of the Domz (A race of interstellar conquorers.) Though it was her connection to the high priest that allowed her to restore the life energy drained by him to her people (in the games conclusion) it should be noted that she was born without parents. A literal incarnation of a defeated evil big bads power which was spirited away by the heroes whom defeated him. (not space Jesus)