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OOC INFORMATION
Player: AnNika
Age: 19
Personal Journal: bread
Contact Info: (AIM) Maypie Lord, yeastofeden
Other Characters: n/a

IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Jane Crocker
Age: 15
Canon: Homestuck
Canon Point: [S] Act 6 Act 3; http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006720
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Orientation: --

History: http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Jane_Crocker
Appearance: http://i.imgur.com/LBmvccq.jpg
Personality:
Despite all the oddities and abnormalities in Homestuck, I’m pleased to say that Jane Crocker is probably one of the most ordinary things about the series, and being ordinary in Homestuck? Well, she gets thrown into some pretty kooky situations anyway. Jane is a young girl not unlike her grandmother counterpart from the start of the series. She’s polite, grammatically correct, very clever, but all in all no different than you or me.

Throughout the series Jane is shown to be very polite, not only through her manner of speaking, but through Hussie’s narratives as well! In one instance, when Lil’ Seb (her robo bunny companion) is occupying the computer she need to use, she takes the time to politely ask the little fellow to step away so she can get on with her business. She’s also a very generous soul, as stated in one narrative; being rich with Boondollars (in Jane’s case, promotional money for the Betty Crocker corporation), Jane is more than happy to hand out any of it should someone ask.

Roxy frequently calls Jane a “tightass,” but more accurately, Jane isn’t the sort of person who likes to dilly dally on unimportant matters, or partake in generally reckless endeavours. One great example comes right after Jane enters the game: she’s quick to explore the new world, but midway through, Roxy stops her to have “boy talk.” Jane (also upset about being rejected), insists Roxy drop it, because she has a mystery to get on with!! Jane likes some jokes, too, but others (like being PAGED by Jake, as Roxy jokes) she can only sigh at and think “Oh you.” One of her favourite shows is Arrested Development,

As a hard-boiled detective, Jane—okay, not HARD-BOILED, but Jane certainly does love detectives and their work. One of her favourite things to do is act the part of a detective, because what good is living without solving mysteries and busting crime!! Trying to escape from her bedroom and check what’s in her mailbox, Jane puts on a silly Fedora-and-moustache disguise. Shortly thereafter, a narrative appears, describing her life as a TRUE hard-boiled detective. Again, upon entering the medium, Jane is instantly excited to go forth and explore the region, solving puzzles and the like. (Because unlike Jake and his puzzle sylladex, Jane can actually solve them!!) As I mentioned before, Jane takes mystery solving as priority over most things, even boy talk.

A lot of her personality, too, coordinates with her love of detectives. Jane is a skeptic: she puts everything presented to her to doubt, because not everything is true until irrefutably proven to be true!! Many times, Roxy, Jane’s best friend, attempted to persuade Jane into believing that the corporation that Jane was about to inherit was evil, and that the Batterwitch was an actual thing that Jane needed to be aware of. Jane, however, refused to believe this. More mildly, Jane also puts Roxy’s habit of mistyping into question: after Roxy types out “wonk” without error five times in a row, Jane comments “I honestly think you misspell things intentionally more often than not, regardless of blood alcohol content.” She’s also very inquisitive; frequently delving in to understand situations beyond what people might be willing to admit. During a conversation with UU (Calliope, otherwise) Jane uses her super sleuthing skills to dig out extra information about SBURB that Calliope had not meant to reveal.

She will own up when she’s wrong, however. After finally coming to the conclusion that Roxy was indeed right about the Batterwitch, Jane admits to it, and explains to Roxy that she’s sorry, and is prepared to believe anything she has to say from then on! (Well, probably only ALMOST everything. Can’t be too quick to believe everything!!) Dirk even tells Jane that she needs to be more like Jake in this sense, and that she needs to trust her friends more. Jane, regardless of how well she knows someone, will put nearly everything into doubt.

Jane is also practical and sensible. These sort of habits are seen as a sort of consistent undertone throughout her dialogue. One great moment comes up much later in canon, when Jane is seen in her new get up. Unlike the others, who have decked-out-to-the-max gear, Jane Is rocking a standard pair of sweats and T-shirt. There are instances, though, where she goes against this. While Jane is generally sharp as a tack, occasionally disbelief or excitement gets the best of her. When there’s a chance that the SBURB alpha is waiting in her mailbox, Jane is thrown into a fit of joy, unable to express herself trying to describe the red flag on the mailbox. Even if Roxy attempted to tell her that the red flag doesn’t mean something has arrived, Jane doesn’t hear her out and immediately needs to go investigate.

Moreover, on her way out, Jane decides that the most PRACTICAL way to escape from her room (having been permanently grounded) would be to put on a silly disguise so her father would never recognise her. Let’s be real, this isn’t all that practical: it’s just having a bit of fun, because Jane really does like to goof around sometimes too. Jane likes her silly disguises as much as she likes pranks, and though we haven’t seen much of Jane’s pranking in canon, she is much like John and her Nannasprite-counterpart in that she LOVES a good prank.

It’s been referenced a few times in passing, but it’s about time to lay it out flat. Jane is actually the heiress to the Betty Crocker corporation! It’s mentioned quite a bit too, considering the Batterwitch (Also )(er Imperial Condence, Queen of the trolls), is one of the (presumed!) main bad guys of Homestuck. Jane, of course, is only recently made aware of this. She loves the company regardless, and uses their products probably more than anything, regardless of its tendency to be extremely spammy. Baking is something that runs in the family as well, as both she and her father love it. Jane is something of a daddy’s girl, too, being very devoted to her father. When exploring the medium, Jane spends a great deal of time trying to locate her father. Unlike John in the beginning of the series, Jane gets along well with her father, and they ceased to strife over random things some years ago. However, just as John did, Jane wants nothing more than to find and be with her father again.

Jane’s mannerism of speaking is important to mention. Jane speaks in a somewhat antiquated kind of English, something you might hear from your grandma. She has a large vocabulary, and tends to be somewhat of a grammar stickler. A couple times in canon we see Jane calling out people on their usage, such as correcting Jake on his usage of “you and I.” She also almost never swears, preferring words such as “gosh!” or “drat!”. Otherwise, she uses perfect grammar, proper syntax, and loves to use emoticons such as :B. The only exceptions to these cases are when Jane is upset or excited. In one excited case, Jane breaks her infinitives. (“To boldly go” is breaking an infinitive. You SHOULD say “to go boldly.”) In another, she uses full caps when excited to see that the red flat on her mail box is up. In a case of anger, Jane has sworn, such as after being rejected by Jake, Jane uses the word “shit” to the Auto-Responder. Later in canon, when Jake is being his standard-typical dunce, Jane goes off in a string of swears. However, let’s note! This is a Very Rare Moment Jane, and an issue that was balled up for months.


Abilities: Jane has a certain level of "lifey" powers, however she isn't concious of them, and consequently has no control of them. However, it has been seen in canon that after Jack Noir (he of the Alpha universe) stabs Jane and essentially kills her, her dream self is able to regenerate itself. As a result, she is completely repaired.
Other:

SAMPLES
First Person:
((Text;))
Oh, consarn it!
Of course the one day I plan to have a party it would rain. :(
Unless this dreadful downpour lets up, it would seem the party needs to take a rain check, quite literally!
A shame really. I spent most of today working on a cake for the festivities only to have it rained on while my back was turned.
If there’s anyone near 1480, we could use a hand or two pulling down the decorations. Don’t want them looking like the cake.
I better skedaddle myself to help out, actually!
If anyone has an idea for a different party date, let me know. I’ll be back later.
Thanks! :B


Third Person:
Jane peered through her spy glass, one eye wide as a dinner plate through the convex lens. Things were happening around her house that most certainly did not belong. It started with one of her last eggs disappearing practically right before her eye. Strange, she could have sworn it was there a minute ago!! But of course it was not, nor in the box she came to find as she doubled checked its container. That’s when it began; the assassination attempts, that is!! It went from there. A false diagnosis of diabetes and gluten allergy required Jane to leave the house just slightly more than she would have needed; both times resulting in the same fiery explosion that quite often posed a threat to her life. Even the dentist’s office wasn’t safe they found after a misdiagnosed toothache and cavity!! But they escaped that one, thanks to Jane’s excellent sleuthing skills. She knew it made hardly any sense given her record for near perfect hygiene!!

Why always explosions? Certainly, Jane deduced, it was part of the assassin’s motif! For her fifteenth birthday, about a half a year after the trouble started, Jane pleaded for a Junior Detective kit—a proper one was a bit far out of the budget, and she just wanted to try some of the stuff in the kit first. She dusted the whole house over, humming each time she found an out of place clue. She remembered her father chuckling from behind. They had their disagreements, sure, and she won’t deny having hammed it up a little, but the matters of mystery on hand were too much to let go.

It was almost six months after her birthday when the stove exploded, spraying pastries across the kitchen. Yesterday’s cake was smouldering on the floor now, too. Jane came out alright, but despite the potential danger, she rushed back to the oven to inspect it. Surely, she considered, there had to be something here to lead them to the dastardly culprit!! She searched high and low before, and for a single instant as she burst out the door thought perhaps she had seen the man who had done it, fleeing the scene of the crime. Alas, she was scooped up by her father only moments too soon, and whatever shadow she saw was now lost to the night.

Placed into her room, her father grounded her. Confused as she was, she insisted to understand why she was suddenly in trouble, explaining everything that had happened in the kitchen and pressing the issue. If there’s one thing Jane hates, it’s a mystery unsolved (or just any perplexing circumstance). Question after question, eventually she reached her conclusion, even if her father skirted around the problem quite a bit. It was because he worried about her, and grounding her was for her safety. Finally he left, and with a heaping sigh fell backwards on her bed.

Pulling her fedora over her face, she sighed a moment. A year had passed since this had begun, and still she was no closer to finding out who exactly wanted her offed. No doubt some enemy of Crocker Co. Soon she fell asleep, dreaming that she would suffer from food poisoning and become a god. Of course, in the morning she knew it was a very silly, very outrageous dream, but it was a strange and funny dream no less. As if, she thought, she would ever achieve god powers! Unsure of going downstairs, she peered out and called for her fathe. She was disheartened to find that her father was as serious about this permanent grounding as he was. Sometimes, it was rough to be so lucky to have a dad who cared so much.


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Comments

[bread]

cake on the ground

Food fight with wasted pastries.

stale cake

Diagnosis of diabetes.

Or just a gluten allergy.

tooth ache

jane gets a cavity

Jane's trying to make a cake and the last egg was stolen by Roxy.

the cake gets burnt

The stove explodes.

the alpha kids get food poison

They go godtier from food poisoning.