Jade

Name

Jade Leech

Appearance

Jade is a boy with fair skin and a height considerably taller than his peers. His appearance mirrors that of his twin brother, Floyd Leech. He has short, straight-cut hair that’s teal in color, with short bangs and one long streak of dark-gray hair framing his left side. His eyes have complete heterochromia, with his left eye being yellow, and his right eye being olive-brown. Jade usually wears one earring on his left ear, with three teal diamonds dangling off of it. His eyes angle upwards, and he usually has a polite smile on his face. His teeth, when shown, are sharp.

Uniform

Jade’s uniform is similar to the rest of the Octavinelle students. Jade has purple coloring under his eyes while in his dorm uniform. The uniform’s top consists of a black, double-breasted suit, a lavender-gray scarf, a button-up undershirt, and a bow tie. The uniform also comes with black, high-waisted dress pants, white gloves, and a black fedora. His undershirt is light-purple, while his bow tie is white and neatly tied. The double-breasted suit has a purple underlining, and Jade keeps it completely buttoned. Jade also wears a white pocket square in the left upper pocket of his suit. His lavender-gray scarf drapes over both his shoulders and under the suit’s lapels. The scarf has fringed ends, with the symbol of Octavinelle printed on one end. Jade wears black and white wingtip shoes with wedges and black laces. His white gloves are buttoned at the wrist. The black fedora has a lavender-gray band wrapped around it and tied with a neat bow, over which is a purple pin in the shape of a spiral seashell.

Personality

Jade often presents himself in a polite and formal manner, putting on a friendly smile; which often leaves others with the impression that he's humble and gentle. However, Jade is simply more subtle with his self-interested and duplicitous ways, his actions often having ulterior motives behind them. He also likes to cause discomfort or problems for other people for his own enjoyment. Jade often acts like a supervisor for Azul and Floyd, monitoring their actions. Jade's the quiet one, his in-game art is drawn and animations emphasizes his carefully cultivated and reserved nature. (Hands touching his face, mouth not opened wide, his more closed stances and body poses) and yet, he frequently has a mocking expression on his face (usually coupled with the slightly open-mouthed smile) Unlike Floyd, who always shows his teeth, Jade lets you see just enough to remind you that beneath the veneer of civility, he's just as much a predator as Floyd and just as savage. It's that facade that Jade has that makes him terrifying. You know Floyd's going to squeeze the poor sucker who fails to meet his contractual obligations, but Jade will be the one to surreptitiously lace someone's food with a new mushroom just to see what happens. (exactly what he did during his stint in the Culinary Crucible)

Overview

Vice Housewarden of Octavinelle and twin brother to Floyd. He is soft-spoken and courteous to everyone he deals with.

Trivia

Jade and Floyd are based on Flotsam and Jetsam, a sinister pair of moray eels that served as minions to Ursula in The Little Mermaid (1989). Jade's first name can refer to both a precious gemstone and its signature green color. His last name, Leech, references the aquatic worm of the same name, but it is also a title given to those who exploit others, usually for money. He is the founder, and seemingly the only member of the Mountain Lover Club. As preparation for the influx of new Octavinelle students, Jade is in charge of collecting a lot of personal info on all of them. This is used both to be able to appeal to them, and also as possible blackmail. The information collected is as follows: Home countries, Hobbies, Tastes, Least favourite foods, Worst Subjects and a catalogue of the students' Magicam accounts, including private or secret accounts. One of his biggest hobbies is collecting mushrooms and making terrariums with them. His and Floyd's signature earrings are made out of sturgeon scales. Before entering middle school, a sturgeon challenged them to a fight, and the twins made a bet that if they won, the sturgeon would give them some of his scales. According to Jade, sturgeon scales are seen as lucky charms in the Coral Sea.

Setting

A dorm based on the Sea Witch's spirit of benevolence. Twisted from The Little Mermaid. Octavinelle is an underwater dorm and students from it are known for their intelligence. When not attending lessons, they run a campus café called Mostro Lounge. Rumour has it that their housewarden can grant a student's any wish or desire. A restaurant in the Octavinelle dorm where all students of Night Raven College can come and relax. Azul is the founder and owner of the place after making a deal with Dire Crowley. If a student doesn't purchase a drink, they'll be kicked out without hesitation. Students are welcome to help out around the lounge but they should be prepared to work hard as Jade, Floyd and Azul aren't lenient. It is ne of the seven dorm buildings. All seven are as follows: Heartslabyul Dorm, Savanaclaw Dorm, Octavinelle Dorm, Scarabia Dorm, Pomefiore Dorm, Ignihyde Dorm, Diasomnia Dorm. Night Raven College is an academy and the main setting of Twisted Wonderland. It is a four-year magic educational institution located on top of a mountain on the north side of the Isle of Sages.

Setting Trivia

In the center of Octavinelle's crest is the spiral seashell, similar to the one that Ursula wore around her neck in The Little Mermaid (1989). The flower-like symbol at the top of the crest resembles the crown Ursula steals from King Triton in the movie's climax, and the tentacles on the sides are very overt allusions to Ursula. Members of Octavinelle are known for their intelligence. It's mentioned that this dorm and Scarabia are consistently neck-and-neck in the academic rankings, as both dorms are home to a number of smart and cunning students. All three notable characters from this dorm have names that reference colors, typically those associated with the sea: "Azul" is the Spanish word for blue; "Ashen" refers to being pale gray in color. "Jade" refers to a precious green gemstone. "Floyd" is a name that means "gray" or "gray-haired". The name of the Mostro Lounge may be a reference to Monstro, a giant sperm whale that served as an antagonist in the film Pinocchio (1940). The word Mostro also means "monster" in Italian.

Height

Jade is roughly 190 cm (6'2). He's pretty tall, so definitely no pushover.

Age

Jade Leech is a young man, aged seventeen (17) years old, although his maturity is much higher than his age. He always presents himself in such a manner that someone might assume he was older.

Gender / Pronouns

Male + Young Man + He + Him + His

Eel Form

Jade actually doesn't look like he usually does while on land. His natural body is actually that of an eel merman's, and he uses potions to convert his tail to legs to be able to walk and look like a normal human. When the majority of his body comes into contact with water, he looses his legs and develops his eel merman lower half; he's a lot more agile and capable in that form. While in his natural form, Jade's skin takes on a slightly paler, ivory like colour, and he has different pigmentations on and about his skin. The majority of his body holds a speckled teal and cadet blue shade, and that goes for his tail, back, sides, arms, shoulders, collarbone, and the sides of his face. The rest of him, his face, his hands, his pectorals, his abdominal and front torso area fades to a light ivory with a slightly blueish tint. He has three gills on each side of his ribs (six in total) and skinny fins that go along the sides of his forearms, and two fins where his ears should be. His lower body is that of a moray eel's, and he has two slightly curved darker markings at the sides of his hips, four in total. He also has webbing on his hands, and the nails at his fingers also elongate and become quite like claws. His face shape, upper body shape, and hair remains as before, with the exception that his teeth seem a tad sharper (even though they're already extremely sharp). He does NOT have legs in his eel form. He does NOT wear clothes in his eel form. He can swim very quickly, and can wrap himself around things to constrict them or squeeze them.