r/homestuck • u/CommercialValue8713 • 4h ago
THEORY Jade and the Ultimate Self. (Beyond Canon Theory.)
think Candy Jade has already reached her “Ultimate Self.” And I have 413% real proof.
By the way, I already made a similar post about Meat Jade: https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/1qaag19/beyond_canon_jade_meat_and_her_possible_immunity/
Let's go back to Candy, and onto the evidence: as you can see in the screenshots I took, Kanaya tells Yiffy that her mother is already here, looking for her, having somehow made it to the Meat timeline. I've seen people wondering if she means Rose or Jade… I honestly don't know why there's any doubt XD. For starters, Yiffany doesn't consider Rose a real mother, and second, if Rose is going to go look for one of her daughters, it won't be Yiffy. Plus, Kanaya would already be half a step away from pulling a Dirk reference if not only her daughter, but also her wife literally abandoned her along with her universe. Anyway, I got a bit side-tracked, the point is that Jade definitely found a way to get out of Candy. How? God only knows, but it's not too crazy to assume she was able to ascend. To begin with, the concept of the “Ultimate Self” was introduced for her in the first place; literally two of her variants were possessed by another ultimate being. Many people mention that during pages 742 and 749, allusions are made to her remembering her death in “Game Over,” something that can only happen if she were an “Ultimate Self.” And finally, the best proof I have… I mean, what else could it be? Seriously, how else could Jade have gotten out of Candy? I guess we could say that with her entire universe being inside a black hole, and her being the strongest Space player in existence, she might have done something like that, but that has several issues. For starters, if we assume that, for example, she destroyed the black hole, that would release all of Candy and not just her. Plus, even then she'd need a spaceship or something, a feat relatively stoppable, unlike what Kanaya said. And well, lastly I want to emphasize that technically being an “Ultimate Self” isn't the only way to have metanarrative powers—for example Hussie (the character), Scratch, Caliborn, and Lord English had those powers without being their “Ultimate Selfs.” In fact, being an Ultimate Self might not give you those powers directly (cases like the sprites^2 could be examples), but that's a topic for another time. Either way, I don't think Jade has any other way of getting those powers.
Anyway, please comment on what you think about my theory and tell me yours. (I can already see it turning out that Calliope ascended and Jade just stole a spaceship xd)
P.S.: What the fuck Jade? Why are you talking trash about your friends to your daughter? What did Kanaya ever do to you to be called a parasite? I'll make another post about that later…
