🍑 : He's definitely more meticulous than not when it comes to appearances! It's not even that Jade's necessarily fussed about his physical self-image, particularly--he just likes being put-together on a given day, because it's comfortable, and dovetails nicely with his preference to conduct himself professionally in company even when he's not actually working most days. So, he's certainly cleanly and takes good care of his hair and keeps himself clean-shaven and even likes wearing cologne normally, etc etc. No makeup applied or anything tho (this flawless complexion is 100% natural babey ✨✨) Outside his uniform he also generally prefers clothing that skews more towards the business casual/formal end of the scale than not.
It should be noted that none of this is to the point of impracticality, though! Sensibility and efficiency still takes priority at the end of the day for Jade ofc, and so if necessity demands sacrificing the time for certain appearances and such, he wouldn't be too distraught about it. This also means that on a normal basis he actually rather impressively doesn't take very long to get ready for the day in the mornings at all! Gotta be speedy about these things when you're in the military lmao
13. He has no overt disabilities or long-term illnesses or allergies and such...! But I headcanon that he does have at least one pretty goddamn gnarly scar, so imma talk to you some more about that yes hehehe B)))) It's hinted in canon text, and further established in side content, that the last experiment Jade attempted before giving up on resurrection by fomicry failed so spectacularly that it straight up almost killed him! Explicitly, because it involved attempting to draw replica data with memory attached via pulling memory particles pertaining to the subject directly from himself; when the process backfired, those memory particles also backfired, essentially sort of exploding from several fon slots especially in his torso area. Extremely fortunately for him, this occurred in a lab environment and there were Seventh fonists pretty close at hand, but I feel the damage could have been severe and fraught enough with residual memory particle Weirdness that the healing process couldn't entirely close the wounds before scarring set in.
This left a large and messy sort of gash down the center of his chest, as well as a second gash of weirdly matching shape down his back. Nowadays they look sort of like burn scars, but not quite; they've also healed about as much as they're going to by now, and will probably never entirely fade at this point. Almost nobody knows about these scars really, except for whoever was on the scene at the time of the lab accident, and for his own part Jade would rather prefer to keep it that way. Which is fortunately pretty easy most days, considering his natural preference for sleeved layers. He'd basically have to be shirtless for them to be visible, which he pretty much never is in company anyway! So!! There's an easy way to dodge any inevitable questioning about What Happened right there!!! (Hohoho maybe the bath robe spa costume wasn't just about hiding the Peony-assigned speedo huh though tbf the speedo is still infinitely more terrible lbr)
26. Jade's biggest regret is still inventing fomicry, at the end of the day, even if he's been trying to come to terms with the fact that it did produce some good things--like Luke, who never would have existed at all without it. (To say nothing of how it almost certainly had a hand in breaking the Score + its doomsday predictions wrt the plague-ridden fall of Malkuth, too, but Jade...still. Does not like to think about that tidbit. So let's not, actually--!) Fomicry aside, Jade also fundamentally regrets killing Professor Nebilim with his own arrogant carelessness as a child, on top of refusing to truly let her rest for so many years afterwards. To think of how he could have spent that near-decade of time he burned on fruitless resurrection doing literally anything else more productive...it's still a pretty bitter notion to this day, but there's nothing to be done about that now, save to move forward and try to do better from here on out.
38. Nerd Shit, tbh, in keeping with his fundamental Huge Nerd nature. Analyzing aspects of fonology or workshopping fonic artes, either on paper or by physical casting trial-and-error, are things that Jade genuinely enjoys! And they also tend to demand a level of complexity that takes up enough brain mileage to drown out whatever it is that's actually bugging and draining him for at least a small window of time. Writing in general is also a little therapeutic to him in this sense, actually, especially on the ship where pastime variety is a bit thin on the ground otherwise. Of course, he's also writing about Nerd Shit pretty much all the time, so to the outside eye it's just the driest stuff imaginable...but shut up he just enjoys doing it! Ok!!
......Lately he's also found that hanging out with (and/or being affectionately obnoxious at) friends can be a pleasant recharge-distraction in its own way too. Literally never admitting this out loud though--
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It should be noted that none of this is to the point of impracticality, though! Sensibility and efficiency still takes priority at the end of the day for Jade ofc, and so if necessity demands sacrificing the time for certain appearances and such, he wouldn't be too distraught about it. This also means that on a normal basis he actually rather impressively doesn't take very long to get ready for the day in the mornings at all! Gotta be speedy about these things when you're in the military lmao
13. He has no overt disabilities or long-term illnesses or allergies and such...! But I headcanon that he does have at least one pretty goddamn gnarly scar, so imma talk to you some more about that yes hehehe B)))) It's hinted in canon text, and further established in side content, that the last experiment Jade attempted before giving up on resurrection by fomicry failed so spectacularly that it straight up almost killed him! Explicitly, because it involved attempting to draw replica data with memory attached via pulling memory particles pertaining to the subject directly from himself; when the process backfired, those memory particles also backfired, essentially sort of exploding from several fon slots especially in his torso area. Extremely fortunately for him, this occurred in a lab environment and there were Seventh fonists pretty close at hand, but I feel the damage could have been severe and fraught enough with residual memory particle Weirdness that the healing process couldn't entirely close the wounds before scarring set in.
This left a large and messy sort of gash down the center of his chest, as well as a second gash of weirdly matching shape down his back. Nowadays they look sort of like burn scars, but not quite; they've also healed about as much as they're going to by now, and will probably never entirely fade at this point. Almost nobody knows about these scars really, except for whoever was on the scene at the time of the lab accident, and for his own part Jade would rather prefer to keep it that way. Which is fortunately pretty easy most days, considering his natural preference for sleeved layers. He'd basically have to be shirtless for them to be visible, which he pretty much never is in company anyway! So!! There's an easy way to dodge any inevitable questioning about What Happened right there!!! (Hohoho maybe the bath robe spa costume wasn't just about hiding the Peony-assigned speedo huh
though tbf the speedo is still infinitely more terrible lbr)26. Jade's biggest regret is still inventing fomicry, at the end of the day, even if he's been trying to come to terms with the fact that it did produce some good things--like Luke, who never would have existed at all without it. (To say nothing of how it almost certainly had a hand in breaking the Score + its doomsday predictions wrt the plague-ridden fall of Malkuth, too, but Jade...still. Does not like to think about that tidbit. So let's not, actually--!) Fomicry aside, Jade also fundamentally regrets killing Professor Nebilim with his own arrogant carelessness as a child, on top of refusing to truly let her rest for so many years afterwards. To think of how he could have spent that near-decade of time he burned on fruitless resurrection doing literally anything else more productive...it's still a pretty bitter notion to this day, but there's nothing to be done about that now, save to move forward and try to do better from here on out.
38. Nerd Shit, tbh, in keeping with his fundamental Huge Nerd nature. Analyzing aspects of fonology or workshopping fonic artes, either on paper or by physical casting trial-and-error, are things that Jade genuinely enjoys! And they also tend to demand a level of complexity that takes up enough brain mileage to drown out whatever it is that's actually bugging and draining him for at least a small window of time. Writing in general is also a little therapeutic to him in this sense, actually, especially on the ship where pastime variety is a bit thin on the ground otherwise. Of course, he's also writing about Nerd Shit pretty much all the time, so to the outside eye it's just the driest stuff imaginable...but shut up he just enjoys doing it! Ok!!
......Lately he's also found that hanging out with (and/or being affectionately obnoxious at) friends can be a pleasant recharge-distraction in its own way too. Literally never admitting this out loud though--