Jaspers

Jaspers was Rose Lalonde's pet cat. He died when she was very young, and was later revived in Sburb as Rose's sprite.

Appearance
Jaspers was a black kitten with a perpetually content expression and red button nose. HS 929 (In life), Jaspers wore a small gray suit jacket and pants, and a small white dress shirt underneath. These were visually identical to the clothes HS 414 (he was laid to rest in), although they're technically different suits, as Jaspers's original suit was ruined after he died when he washed up on the riverbank.

After being prototyped into Rose's sprite and becoming Jaspersprite, Jaspers wore a princess dress and hat and had long tentacles for arms that could extend very far. His whiskers were also replaced with small tentacles.

Exposition

 * Jaspers used to belong to Rose and her mother HS 930 (when Rose was just a baby). Rose used to play pretend therapist with him.
 * During one of these pretend therapy sessions, HS 935 (Jaspers told Rose a secret) and was HS 936 (appearified away).
 * A week later, HS 937 (he washed up on the riverbank), dead. He was HS 414 (taxidermized) and HS 225 (laid to rest in a mausoleum) built especially for him in response to young Rose's request to hold a funeral. The mausoleum HS 757 to the nearby Skaianet laboratory.
 * Not knowing the meaning of Jaspers's secret torments Rose for many years. The truth is that this secret is a genetic code. Rose subconsciously scrawls the genetic code on her walls, HS 1668 (using the letters MEOW instead of GCAT).

April 13th, 2009

 * During Rose's misadventures playing Sburb, she enters Jaspers's Mausoleum. While escaping through the secret passageway, Rose captchalogues Jaspers's corpse.
 * In the Skaianet laboratory, Rose HS 863 (accidentally drops the corpse on a transportalizer), and it is HS 939 (sent to her mother's bar room).
 * Rose finds the appearifier terminal in the laboratory that was locked onto Jaspers and HS 940 (she appearifies him back to her).
 * She immediately HS 941 (escapes the lab through the transportalizer), seconds before an enormous meteor strikes.
 * After Dave connects to Rose as her host player and Rose's Kernelsprite is released, HS 1149 (Rose prototypes Jaspers's body into it), and Dave prototypes the eldritch princess doll.
 * Rose creates her entry artifact: a cruxite bottle. Whirlwinds from the forest fires pick up the bottle and take it away. Rose jumps off the edge of the waterfall for it, and Jaspersprite saves her from falling using his long eldritch tentacles. Rose smashes the bottle and is brought into the Medium to the HS 1407 (Land of Light and Rain), taking Jaspersprite with her.
 * After exploring LOLAR for a bit, Rose HS 1626 (talks to Jaspersprite). He tells her that the denizen of LOLAR ate all of the fish in the ocean. He also tells Rose that she needs to "wake up" and "learn to play the rain". This makes Rose think of Jade, so HS 1627 (she contacts her next). Jade is asleep, but responds anyway HS 1629 (with her Dreambot). Rose tells Jade about what Jaspersprite told her. Jade explains the concept of dream selves to Rose, and that Rose's dream self is asleep and needs to awaken. Jade lets it slip that Rose has writing on her wall that Rose can't see, similar to the harlequin drawings that John drew on his wall. Rose is not aware of this writing. Jade says that Dave told her that he would tell Rose about the writing.