JADE

""I'M ALLERGIC TO TAZERS!" Jade Hiraya is a character role-played by Suzalesca.
 * ''— Jade"

Description
Jade Hiraya-Bennett is an Intern Artist from XTC Entertainment. Her stage name is JADE.

Appearance
Jade is a 29 year-old mixed Filipino and Caucasian female with black-brown hair, brown eyes, and olive skin. She is of petite stature with natural black-brown hair and brown eyes. On her right arm is a tattoo of a woman, resembling one of her favorite horror manga characters. Her left arm has a red abstract tattoo, her right leg has a rose-shaped tattoo, and her left leg has a tattoo resembling a dagger with flowers.

Jade tans relatively easily and can be seen with varying degrees of skin tones, depending on the weather or how often she visits the beach. She has one flat mole on her upper lip and always wears gold hoop earrings. Her hair naturally dries into waves and she is a fan of braids.

Personality
Impulsive, loud, and easily-distracted would describe Jade. She has a rebellious attitude and has no respect for authority in any form. Wherever there are rules to break, Jade would be the first one to test those boundaries.

She has 0 tolerance for disrespect and often will go on endless, angry rants when she is unable to take revenge on people who have wronged her. She once burned a man alive for calling one of her girlfriends a 'bitch.'

Due to her diagnosis of ACDC, Jade sometimes has the attention span of a goldfish. If something is not very particularly interesting, Jade will often zone out and pretend she is listening by saying "That's crazy/wild/intersting.." or any form of that phrase.

Being an only child, Jade can be extremely selfish at times and is fiercely devoted to her chosen family AKA her friends. Even if she may not have been directly affected, she is a huge advocate for her close friends and would kill for them.

Background
Born in the small town of Waimea, Jade grew up seeing two halves of a world that would often collide with each other. Her parents were both peerless and well-established medical doctors that viewed her life with a magnifying glass and kept her safe inside a bubble of artificial happiness. When she was young, she got very ill and spent months, almost a full year, in the hospital. Her parents, in their needless hunger for control, micromanaged every aspect of her life, berated hospital staff, and curated their own rules that Jade would have to live by as long as she lived under their gold-stained roof. However, that did not stop Jade from wondering what laid outside of her carefully-crafted circle of hapless invincibility. Being recognized doctors in their respective fields, Jade lived financially comfortably and never had to worry about money or where her next meal was to come from. They lived in a large house on the top of the hills of Waimea, but seldom looked down onto the actual townspeople who suffered in silence and in the shadows.

To get away from the endless micromanagement from her parents, Jade spent most of her time in their family library, reading anything from fiction to nonfiction, absorbing as much information as she could– so that one day, she could feel confident enough to stand up to her parents and their condescending demeanor. She became engrossed in obtaining knowledge, and it became her own safe space, where she could get lost in the pages of a book, a story, that was away from the silent chaos of her household. Unfortunately, this meant that she spent less time hanging out with other rich, distinguished kids and more time with her nose in a book, leaving her to feel and look ostracized from the high societies that constantly walked in and out their front doors.

As Jade grew up into her adolescent years, she explored the island more often and became acquainted with many of the native townspeople– many of them struck down with illness, poverty, drugs, and violence. Her parents always told her to never go into certain parts of the town, and she often questioned why– almost vehemently arguing against why she shouldn’t associate herself with different people. Rebellious in nature, her parents viewed Jade as a liability, not as a daughter. They often criticized her for her thought process, her outlook on life, who she hung out with, who she didn’t hang out with, why she barely has passing grades, why she did anything in life. There was no way to please them, to make them happy, so Jade stopped trying. She marked her own path and once she graduated from high school, she got involved in several gangs and became close with a man who her parents would have highly disapproved of. He was a product of the island’s impoverished state of affairs and often would get himself in trouble with the law, either selling drugs, robbing stores, or anything of that illegal state.

Jade tried her best to stay out of trouble, as she needed to always bail him out of country jail whenever that occurred. She stayed clean for the most part, but realized the reasons why many people decided to take this route. They didn’t come from generational wealth, like her family did, so they had to make due with the increasing costs of living on the island. She understood their struggles and often would sneak food and supplies from her house and give them out to children and struggling families who lived in the slums. Her skin grew thick from confrontations from other gangs who ran into what they called “charity work,” and that man that introduced her to the life of the slums eventually became her boyfriend, someone she could call a partner and an associate in her line of work.

It didn’t last as long as she would have liked. As Jade continued to provide security and safety to the impoverished people of the island, her boyfriend went missing for a few months. She tried to look for him, but she often knew that when he went away for a while, it was because he was caught in some illegal activities. After those months, she spotted him with one of her girlfriends, acting like a true couple. From this revelation, Jade grew weary of men from that day on. She often uses sarcasm to get out of confrontations, especially with men who are trying to hit on her and her guard is often up when it comes to men.

She learned more of her own culture from the impoverished people of the island than from her own parents. Being born half-Filipino, her mother never much taught her how to cook traditional Filipino foods or much about the culture– her mother seemed to think that all of that was beneath her medical achievements. But Jade learned more from the panhandling women on the street, who taught her how to go far with little food, make a meal for 10 out of 5 dollars, and what being Filipino meant. She grew proud of her heritage and often remarks on it when questions about her ethnicity.

As she continued to get to know the impoverished people on the island, she bore witness to several atrocities and exploitations of the island’s people by law enforcement and the rich, powerful few who lived along those hills of Waimea. She saw two worlds often colliding, never truly understanding each other. She saw children thrown into jail for stealing a loaf of bread and elderly homeless being kicked off the streets, like they had any choice. These moments often angered Jade and made her resentful towards the authorities that be. She would often argue with the county police and make her case in front of them, to allow people visitations or argue for their dignity and reasons why they would commit crimes. Often people would remark, “why not just become a lawyer, then?” and eventually, she took them up on their offer. In order to get the right certifications,

Jade decided to move to Los Santos to enroll in law school and eventually, she successfully passed the bar exam. Wanting to become a voice for the voiceless, Jade decided to apply for the Public Defender position, where she successfully helped many souls in need of proper defense from police brutalities and exploitations. Her caseload was increasing day by day and eventually, she realized that she needed to specialize in a certain type of litigation. When she first arrived in Los Santos, she met Jeremiah Gold, an aspiring record label CEO of Beach Boiz Records and eventually started working for him during law school for simple and odd jobs in between. Once she became established as a lawyer, Jeremiah reached out for her to become his personal attorney, or legal counsel on retainer, which she accepted as they moved to another county within Los Santos. Jade eventually left Beach Boiz Records to pursue her own musical career and joined XTC Entertainment when she met Molly Rollin on her first day in the city.

Trivia

 * Jade carries a baseball bat at all times. For reasons.
 * Placed 2nd place in two consecutive fight nights and didn't place in her last one, causing Jade to avoid them.
 * Her favorite vehicle is a Penumbra Retro with the sunflower-type livery and orange body color.
 * There isn't a single job in Los Santos that she hasn't been employed in. She is a jack of all trades.
 * She was initially hired as the janitor of Beach Boiz Records, but never did any actual janitorial work.
 * Never pays attention to anything and will often says "That's crazy" to conversations she unintentionally ignores.

Quotes
Fox: "Who's ready to get pegged?!"

Jade: "MEEEEE!"
 * "That's crazy/wild/interesting.."
 * "I just got stuck in the dryer one time."
 * "I'M ALLERGIC TO TAZERS!"
 * "She's a Do-Not-Resuscitate, DNR."
 * "I stole your fuckin' cookies, bitch."
 * "Fuck you, Vinny!"
 * "Hey Jade!" (to Lizzie)
 * "No, YOU'RE drunk!"
 * "Wait, wait, I'll beat her ass." (proceeds to Superman Punch a local)
 * "Don't forget about that child support, okay?"
 * "I had to break up with him over Twatter."