You know what? I don’t even care if this is a joke. I don’t care about all the Stacy’s Mom Dave Strider covers in the world. Look at this girl. Look at this sixteen year old girl who has had her affections crushed, who has been called fat and other assorted horrible names by an immature alien, who has put up with Jake English whining about his relationship issues for SIX MONTHS and didn’t say a goddamn thing about how much it hurt her until she snapped, who was reduced to no words when Dirk told her he had been mistaken when he’d made her the leader, who is positive her father is dead, and who is currently possessed by an evil troll empress against her will. Now look at this girl that was the first human female to wear pants in-comic, that enjoys masculine things without sacrificing her love for baking or girly sleepovers, that isn’t ashamed to be a total cutie of a nerd, that never diminished her friendship with Dirk even if they were both crushing on Jake, who never held it against them even though she is often portrayed as the jealous exgirlfriend. Look at this girl that can swing around a giant fucking fork/trident with ease like a complete and total badass and still turn around and use “shucks buster” unironically. Jane Crocker deserves to be called hot. Jane Crocker deserves to blush. Jane Crocker deserves Channing Tatum in a well tailored suit on a bed of roses who will tell her she’s beautiful no matter what and that she is the smartest, sweetest, most down to earth girl he’s ever met. And I am so glad that even for one panel that really amounts to nothing more than a joke, she’s potentially flustered, cute, happy, whatever you wanna call it even if it’s shown through a very Dave-like way and while she’s still possessed. She deserves to have affection shown towards her because when you think about it he is the first person to ever tell her she’s hot, that she is actually attractive, even if his only knowledge of her amounts to “John’s hot mom.” Jane Crocker deserves to be called hot and so much more. And if Dave Strider will write sonnets of weird obtuse metaphors about her hotness while she chuckles along and occasionally blushes then hell fucking yeah I ship it.
thank you for saying thing i couldnt say while i was asleep
I agree with a lot of things except Dirk was right when he said she shouldn’t have been a leader because she was a bad one. And she DID hold it against Dirk when he got together with Jake. She fucking HIT him when Jake kissed Dirk’s head. She never defended Dirk when Jake was saying all kinds of horrible things about him. All she thought about then was herself. And Jake DID ask her if she was interested and she said NO. That was her own fault!
So NO, she isn’t this perfect little princess that everyone makes her out to be. Dave wants to bone her? She’s not the first one. Good for her if that makes her happy but please don’t ignore all the faults she actually has.
First of all, you obviously missed the whole point of this post which was pointing out her better qualities in order for people like you to stop skewing the fandom’s perspective of her. She is not a perfect princess, but she deserves some happiness, and I don’t understand why so many people are against that.
She got angry at Dirk because he killed all of them just so that Jake could be the hero when they entered the session. She never defended Dirk because she never ever ever took a side when it came to them, and listened as well as she could with her heartbreak until her emotions finally boiled over. She accepted that she fucked up, Hussie wrote an entire essay thing on how she accepted she fucked up, and she in no way ever became angry or revengeful or thought to sabotage the relationship. She accepted her heartbreak, and did the best that she could. Dirk and Jane were still friends, as evidenced by the conversation before they went godtier. They accepted that things were tense, but that they never stopped being friends. As for leadership, Roxy was drunk and frankly terribly passive aggressive, no one trusted Dirk enough, and Jake had a reputation for being a little dense. She was the best choice for a leader. Even if Dirk took it back later. She is self-centered and selfish like you said. But she tried her hardest, probably harder than any of her friends, to be what they wanted her to be.
These are my justifications. Sorry if you’re still convinced that the proper characterization for these characters is that Jane’s a bitch and Dave wants to fuck every chick he meets.
I agree with a lot of what’s going on here except this;
‘She got angry at Dirk because he killed all of them just so that Jake could be the hero when they entered the session. ’
that. is not what happened?
people didnt listen to him and that resulted in their deaths and dirk, on the spot, figured out a way for them all to survive (to some extent) to make it into the game.