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jade harley loneliest girl in the world (physically) vs jane crocker loneliest girl in the world (emotionally)

John’s entire narrative is about growing up, and yes, this aspect of his character arc IS resolved. He’s the closest to having a complete narrative satisfaction by the end of the comic. John’s disconnect from everyone around him is never satisfied, however. He watches his friends all die, he has Roxy, and he has davepeta and both Nannasprites. There’s something sad there, watching the one guy who we’ve been with since the beginning change over the comic, that even by the end, he’s no longer who he was to his friends at the end of the comic. The one they knew died a long time ago, and he is just filling in the space. It’s unspoken knowledge that John killed this version of himself. He does not get to go back from that, and his friends know he is not the one they knew. Especially Jade.

Jake English began and ended his story being the butt of a joke (pun unintended). His trials aren’t taken seriously, and thereby are never given a satisfying conclusion. His physical separation from everyone around him. Jake’s like Jane in that people take him saying he wants to be alone at face value, and just… let him be alone. He’s just a lonely kid. That’s it. He doesn’t ever stop being lonely, and even at the end, he sits separated from everyone else to fight on his own.

Jade Harley is the loneliest girl in the world no matter the universe. Her arc begins with her finally connecting to others, her being close to Dave is presented as so important! She even saves the day in Cascade, a dog-us ex mutt-ina. And yet by the time she rejoins the rest of the cast after her three years in isolation, much like her years in isolation on that island, she’s used as a tool in her grimbark state, there to be a new obstacle, and lose her agency once again. In the retcon, she’s been given the opportunity to speak with Calliope, a girl she’s never met before, to talk about what happened as all of her other friends put her to sleep, out of sight and out of mind. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Jane Callie and Jade scene, it’s sweet, it’s just it rings hollow to have Jade sit with people she’d never met before, rather than speaking with the friends she grew up with.

Where's the emotion I saw earlier?