Jade Nagisa
'9th Grade Kunoichi'
Aliases/Nicknames: Nagisa, Kuno, and girly
Species: Human
Age: 14-15
Affiliation: Good/Lawful Good
Occupation: Norrisville Kunoichi; High school student; Norrisville High Orchestra member; Seaside Flower band member; Norrisville High Art Club member (later on)
Residence: Norrisville
Voice Actress: Tress MacNeille
Personality
Jade is a quiet and introverted, yet fun-loving and adventurous girl. She's very curious about the world around her, and likes to do things just to see what will happen. While it usually has humorous results, it can lapse into impulse and poor judgement, unintentionally make situations worse.
Jade isn't very sociable, and thus, doesn't really have any friends outside of Randy, Howard, Theresa, and (later) Debbie. While she's awkward and quiet around others, she's more relaxed and confident around her friends, even showing a more exuberant and playful side to her. She's a bit of a tomboy, mostly thanks to growing up with Randy and Howard, but still has a girly side to her.
Thanks to being raised in a Japanese household, Jade is polite, respectful, and hardworking. She has some habits that conflict with her peers' western culture, such as taking off her shoes at the door or sitting in a seiza position, even in chairs. However, her upbringing also means that she values maintaining harmony, and thus ends up being non-confrontational and a bit of a people pleaser.
One of Jade's notable characteristics is her strong willpower; she's very protective of her loved ones and Norrisville, and won't hesitate to fight anyone who threatens them. She takes her role as the Kunoichi seriously, seeing it as her God-given role to defend people.
Jade is a devout Christian. She brings her Bible wherever she goes, attends church on Sundays, and, as the Kunoichi, prays before going into battle. Her faith in God is one of the most important things to her, and she tries to produce the Fruit of the Spirit however she can. Of course, she loses this battle more than once, causing her to temporarily grow anxious and beat herself up.
As part of a running gag, Jade and Randy both get annoyed whenever someone assumes that they're dating. The duo sees each other as platonic childhood friends, even honorary siblings, and Randy has a crush on Theresa. When someone teases her about Randy, Jade usually replies with an annoyed, "Dude, he's just a friend."
Likes – Her friends/family, her mother's cooking, hanging out with her friends, video games, adventures, chocolate, doodling, reading, the color pink, and sci-fi/comedy movies.
Dislikes – Her enemies, spiders, algebra, public speaking, writing essays, spicy foods, and when someone assumes that she and Randy are dating.
Appearance
Jade is a slim, athletic girl of average height (about an inch shorter than Randy) with a peachy complexion, reddish-brown hair that's thick, wavy and ends at her shoulders, and brown eyes.
During her debut, Jade usually wears a pink zip-up hoodie with a black tank top underneath, a pleated white tennis skirt, black tights, and flat pink boots. And she wears her Kunoichi Suit device, which is a black hair tie with a single pink strawberry pin, around her left wrist.
Jade's Kunoichi Suit resembles Randy's Ninja Suit, as it consists of a black full-body suit with pink markings, a long pink scarf, and a pink sash around her waist. A contrast to the Ninja Suit, however, the Kunoichi Suit doesn't cover Jade's face (though it covers the back of her head and her hairline); instead, it has a black mask that only covers the lower half of Jade's face, and a black hood with pink trimming. As the Kunoichi, Jade has her hair pulled into a bun (hidden under her Suit), and wears pink waterproof face paint over her eyes that resembles a mask. Interestingly, her eyebrows are also painted pink (slightly darker than the mask).
Abilities
Fighting Style – As the Kunoichi, Jade uses a mix of traditional and freestyle fighting, usually depending on what the situation calls for.
Weaponry – As the Kunoichi, Jade wields many weapons. Her main weapon is the Kunoichi Naginata, though she also wields a metal staff (that can extend or shorten via a button on it), a pair of nunchucks, smoke bombs, and others. Like the Ninja, her scarf can also be useful, such a grabbing objects and grappling from a long distance. She's also been known to use technical weapons, such as an Air Cannon, a Fire Bomb Launcher, and an Ice Gun, but is not above using the makeshift weapons that she, Randy and even Howard and Theresa come up with, including the Soda-and-Breath-Mint Gun.
Physical Abilities – Thanks to years of gymnastics and training, Jade has displayed impressive physical skills. However, she acknowledges that, due to their physiological differences, Jade is still physically weaker than the Ninja, their male enemies, and even the Stanked males. It's because of this that, instead of all-out physical attacks, Jade prefers to rely on her weapons, the environment, her wits, stealth, and surprise attacks.
Musical Skills – Jade can play the violin, and is a member of her school's orchestra, in the second violin group. Alongside Theresa, who can play the piano, they formed the band Seaside Flower for the Battle of the Bands. Jade is also a pretty good singer.
Bilingualism – thanks to being raised in a Japanese household, Jade is fluent in both English and Japanese.
Notable Possessions
Kunoichi Suit – stored inside the Kunoichi Suit quantum device (disguised as the strawberry pin on her hair tie), Jade dons the Kunoichi Suit whenever she goes into battle. She usually keeps it on her left wrist. She pulls her hair into a bun using the hair tie, and presses the strawberry "button" to activate the Kunoichi Suit.
Holy Bible – While Randy carries around the Ninja Nomicon, which both of them read together, Jade takes the Bible everywhere she goes.
Schooling
English Language Arts – Jade is doing alright in ELA. She enjoys the books they read in class, but calls essays the "bane of her existence".
Science – Science is one of Jade's favorite subjects. She admits that she loves learning what makes someone or something tick, and wants to take different science classes in the future (chemistry, botany, geology, etc.). But as much as she loves learning about it, Jade doesn't want a career in science.
Physical Education – Jade doesn't have any problems with her P.E. class. But like the rest of the students, she is terrified of Coach Green's teaching methods.
Spanish – Jade admits that she's doing alright in Spanish. She can pick up enough words while reading to understand a sentence, but struggles with writing it, and has particular trouble with the grammar.
Mathematics – Of all her subjects, math is the one Jade is worst at, to the point of admitting that she's only passing "by the skin of her teeth".
History – Jade doesn't have any problems with her history class, and even enjoys learning it at times.
Orchestra – Jade has been playing violin and been an orchestra member since 6th grade. As a result, she can "read" treble clef sheet music.
Study Hall – Jade occasionally does schoolwork in study hall, but mostly uses it to read her Bible, doodle, and/or goof around.
Trivia
Jade was adopted by a Japanese family (it's currently unknown who her biological parents are or what happened to them). This is why she has the last name "Nagisa", which means "beach" or "water's edge". In Japanese naming order, her full name would be "Nagisa Jade".
It's strongly implied that Jade has mild autism, displaying symptoms such as unusual sensitivity to sensory changes, passionate but limited interests, often described as quiet or shy, avoids eye contact, and in a flashback, it was shown that she used to rely heavily on Randy to guide and speak for her.
Jade has arachnophobia, the fear of spiders.
As part of a running gag, if Jade is standing next to Theresa when Randy and Howard do something foolish, she'll whisper to Theresa, "Boys." (Bonus point to anyone who gets the joke)
