My interpretation of Jas’s story: Before Jas was born, Shane was great friends with a married couple. I think Shane was in a much better place at the time, and only a casual drinker at this point. Well, that married couple ended up having Jas, and they decided to make Shane the godfather. I don’t think that Shane ever expected that he’d ever ACTUALLY gain custody of Jas. He never expected a terrible accident that would kill his two best (and possibly only) friends. I think Jas’s parents died in a car accident or some similar tragedy that no one could see coming. Shane just lost two very important people in his life, and became extremely depressed, even starting to self-medicate with alcohol. Very soon after, however, social services reached out and told him that Jas was now his responsibility. Shane was in no condition to raise a child, who at this point was very likely no more than 2 years old (judging by the picture of her with Marnie). He decided that he needed help, so he reached out to his aunt Marnie. Marnie is a kind soul, and of course allowed them to stay with her until Shane got back on his feet. I don’t believe Marnie ever expected this arrangement to be permanent. Marnie is, of course, happy to lend a hand, but she never really agreed to be a parent. She is a good caretaker to Jas, yes, and makes sure she has nice things and a roof over her head and food on the table, but she takes a backseat when it comes to actually raising or parenting her. After all, that’s Shane’s job. But Shane is still dealing with the trauma of losing the people close to him. He’s still depressed and suicidal, and in no state to raise a child. He’s never mean to Jas, but he does get drunk, talk about death, get angry, and is generally unpleasant to be around while drunk. He does his best to shelter Jas from the reality of what he’s going through, but Jas is a perceptive child who can tell everything is not okay and is definitely scared by all this. I also believe that Jas moving in is what convinced Marnie that she needs to take her relationship with Lewis public. I think they’ve been sleeping together for a long time. Long before Jas or Shane ever entered the picture. At first, it was just for fun. Marnie was completely okay with just sneaking around and having fun, but having a child around changes things. Jas definitely noticed Lewis and Marnie’s relationship, and (while not knowing the whole story obviously) figured that they were sneaking around, hiding things from people. I think this had an impact on Jas, who started asking questions about the relationship and why it was so secretive. I think this is the moment when Marnie realized that her relationship with Lewis wasn’t a healthy example for Jas, and decided that she wanted to stop hiding. Lewis doesn’t feel the same way, though. He’s still completely okay with just sneaking around and having fun. I don’t think anyone in Pelican Town would really care about their relationship, and I think Lewis knows that. But going public would mean committing to an ACTUAL relationship, not just fun anymore, and he isn’t really interested in it going any further than that. I’m not surprised that Jas thinks most adults are boring and mean. Marnie is nice and caring, but distant and uninvolved, and Shane is not the nicest person on the planet, especially when he’s intoxicated. I think the Jack-in-the-Box in her room is an indication of her being a bit rough-around-the-edges due to her upbringing. Maybe she saw Shane destroy something when he was angry. She might have gotten upset one day, and emulated Shane by taking her anger out on one of her toys. However, she’s a sensitive soul and immediately regretted what she did, which is why she doesn’t cover it up. She feels remorse and wants to make it up to her toy, and make it feel better after what she did. Maybe that’s why she asks Harvey about what he does at the clinic. I think Penny has also had a HUGE impact on Jas, and it isn’t something I’ve seen brought up much by anyone. Jas’s caretakers are pretty distant, but Penny is completely dedicated to Jas and Vincent, and she’s the only adult who actually takes an active role in Jas’s life. In a way, going to school and getting to play with Vincent is the most normal and healthy part of Jas’s life. I think that Jas appears so intelligent because she wants to grow up to be like Penny, her most influential role model. She studies hard and tries to make Penny proud because Penny is the person she has the strongest connection with out of anyone. Overall, I don’t think there’s anything “creepy” or “mysterious” about Jas. She’s a sweet, kind, and sensitive little girl who is going through a lot, but she’s going to end up okay in the end, thanks to Penny, and thanks to Shane bettering himself. She may need therapy, but, hey, we all kinda do. She’s actually one of my favorite characters in this game and her relationship with Penny is a big reason why Penny is such an amazing marriage candidate to me.
@@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis Feel free to post it! You don’t have to credit me, but send me a link to the post if you do end up sharing. I’d like to see what others think about my theory lol
I may be the only person in existence who doesn't get freaked out by Jas. I love her. She's a small impressionable kiddo! The Yandere Jas mod, however, is an ENTIRELY different ball game.
It’s basically confirmed, yeah. Shane mentions that he used to be in GOOD shape, and played sports on a college / university team. IIRC, he was going to go pro? Think Alex but with an actual SHOT at the dream. Think the hit 2008 Disney movie The Game Plan, but with Shane in place of the rock lmao
Shane doesn't really look like a very athletic person, but it is true that he takes the farmer to a football match, and he is probably REALLY out of shape due to all the drinking and... Well, depression 😅
Everyone in this town are angry or sad or both. I'm not surprise if Jas and Vincent will grow up twisted and Leo would be most normal one who talk in bird language while his friends commit crime and killed Leapalot in his sleep.
I think about dusty, Alex's dog, too. I wish he brought him when you marry him. Shane and Jas situation is the same for me. It would be more consistent if they brought them after the marriage
@@colette5149 no it’s a common misconception, but i think that she just calls marnie her aunt because that’s what shane calls her a lot of kids call their parents’ friends uncle or aunt, despite no blood relation i think it’s just one of those situations here
@@pamelahoney874 when i was a little kid, one time a friend of my aunts i think? honestly i was really young so details on that part is a little fuzzy anyways, i heard him being called uncle(insert name here), and so little kid me was like, "do i also call him uncle?" and i actually ended up doing that and my sister corrected me that he is not my uncle so i dont call him that cant remember how old i was, but i dont think i was even 10 years old yet
To be fair on the grandpa thing, it's not uncommon for young girls to have absolutely wild stories going on with their toys lol. A lot more Barbies have played the role of "ritual sacrifice victim no. 5" than any career Barbie is technically supposed to have. Throw into that the fact that Jas's guardians are inattentive at best and she has reason to be drawn to escapism to cope, so yeah maybe one of the dolls murdered grandpa and hid his body under the bed, but that doesn't mean Jas witnessed an Actual Murder or is willing to stab someone (her interactions with other people that we see indicate that's very much not the case), more likely she's just putting her toys through drama for the fun of it.
Can confirm. I did this a lot. Nowadays if someone saw how I used to play with my dolls they'd probably call CPS. But I wasn't being abused at home, so, shrug.
My knowledge of how kids develop is useful here. Kids typically "play" what they see around them. Like how when one kid starts running around the rest start doing it to, or how they like playing with whatever they see on TV. This way of play can also show trauma, even if the kid themselves don't remember exactly what happened. In one of the secret notes there's a picture of Marnie and presumably Jas, who looks to be toddler age in it. Assuming that picture was taken after Jas' parents died and she and Shane moved to the valley, I'd be willing to bet that Jas either saw her parents died, or saw pictures of the accident and while she can't remember it clearly now, it left a bad impression on her brain, and that's why the jack in the box is the way it is, and probably why no one picks it up or something.
But... Marnie said Shane, including Jas, moved in with her few months before the farmer came to the valley. If we follow that it is possible that Marnie had met Jas before when her parents were alive...like they visited her ranch or something but other than that it is quite inpossible for Marnie to have a picture of Jas when she was a toddler.
Being that jas is Shane's goddaughter, and Shane and Marnie have a close enough relationship that they moved in with her i don't think it's a stretch to say that jas and Shane had visited Marnie before. Going to see "aunt" Marnie with all the cool animals in the valley seems like a normal weekend trip
I don’t see anyone talking about mayor Lewis, what you said about him possibly being mean to Jas is like eye opening, that makes a lot of sense and further confirms him being trash.
To be fair, I was a relatively untraumatised child with a fairly normal family dynamics and some of the plots I put my poor Barbies through were *unhinged*. Little kids have wild imaginations and something about handing them a bunch of small humans to act out stories with will bring out the morbid in them.
I think Jas stirs the creative mind of people because she really is the culmination of all of the weird/notable things about Stardew valley converged in a single character. Her parents, her guardians, the weird shit involving Marnie and Lewis, the fact the valley is trapped in a time loop. The list goes on and on. Both of the children have little in the way of characterization, but Jas' backstory and the things we know about Marnie and Shane make that lack of characterization much, MUCH more interesting to theorize on. Unlike Jas, Vincent is...boring...I guess I'd say. His home life is fairly normal, Kent's PTSD not withstanding, and he acts like a normal young child. No drunken godfather who leaves you behind when he gets married. No Marnie's weird affair with the mayor. I think we should focus on the "Stardew valley is purgatory" angle. We can find a reasonable explanation for everyone being dead with unfinished business right?
Ok but think about, do we ever see Marnie being nice to Jas? We see Penny and Shane being good to her (well, at least most of Shane's dialogue is he wanting to be good). But Marnie almost like... ignores her? Idk, I find it weird
I thought the jack in the box meant something else that is also creepy. What if her parents died from a car accident or something else that puts pressure on the body and that thing is shaped like their bodies were.
I want to know if ConcernedApe is going to expand on that. That it may be a placeholder to remind him to write a story there like intended a while ago. And what Shane may know about it.
Yes I thought I’d like that memory to dang it Dangerously funny What they are the one who did A series on the MOD And then I get that out of my head and now it’s right back in there
TBH I’m not so bothered by Jas and Vincent never growing up as I am about the player’s kids being permanent babies that never grow beyond first-steps age. They’re functionally more like extra pets than human children.
I know! I really want them to grow up, develop some sort of personality, and start being part of Penny's classes with Jas and Vincent. The proposed personality scheme would be a combo of their non-farmer parent influence times what the farmer spends most of their game doing then altered by how much time and attention the farmer gives their kid then affected by whether they're the older or younger sibling and their sibling's personality.
I'd like to see you talk about Sandy, she's apparently from pelican town even though Emily is the only one who ever mentions her, she says she misses the valley but still stays alone in a shop that is only visited by the player and is a front for a shady casino. AND when you take her to the Movies (in her words, an excuse to go to the valley) she seems weirdly nervous to get back by the end of the movie, she doesn't really comment on it even if she loves it. After you fix the bus she doesn't go to the valley even for events or Emily's birthday (all valid excuses to visit home). And like if she comes from pelican town who is she related to? Is she one of Marnie's long lost nieces? Is she Jodi's sister? (I say that bc Vincent's hair is the closest match to Sandy's). And why doesn't anybody else mention her??? Maybe she lived in the abandoned house but left after some tragedy? Maybe something to do with the powerful person who everybody seems to fear and who has access to a memory wiping statue? A powerful person who lives right next to her alleged old house? Maybe that would explain why she's stuck at Calico. Maybe Qi is one of the few entities who can grant her protection and she only dares to go back when his pupil (the farmer) is with her and even then she doesn't stay that long out of fear. The evidence is purely circunstancial but it is one the few ways to explain her behavior...
I'm sure I once read about someone finding Jas outside in the middle of the night in winter, walking around in a white dress, and that her portrait was all creepy. It was probably made up but it definitely stuck with me!
Her schedule it pretty well detailed, but that's the kind of horror story I'd love to see in Stardew Valley. Imagine running into her coming home from like a late night fishing or something. You try to talk to her and the portrait is all messed up and she just says, "he's coming." Then laughs.
When I first found out about the grandpa doll under the bed I thought Jas was maybe abused in some way (verbally and physically to match the 'adults are boring and mean' dialogue) by her real grandfather and she put the doll there because 'the monsters hide under your bed' or something like that. Also I don't know how child custody works if you have a godfather, but if she has grandparents shouldn't they have custody over her unless there were legal reasons preventing them?
If the parents dictated in their will that custody should go to Shane, it wouldn't matter if grandpa was still alive. Often, but not always, a godparent assumes that responsibility. I know that I would have moved across country if my parents died, instead of about hundred miles to my grandparents. I could see that as a representation of her actual grandpa as well, and considered it. But I think working with the stuff we see in the game made me lean toward Lewis.
@@marcycoly1754 As a former CPS worker, my first thought was that either Grandpa had been molesting Jasmine (thus hiding under her bed), or that someone in her immediate family had killed grandpa and Jas saw them hide the body under the bed. The wording that grandpa was “wedged” under the bed always made me think she saw his body being stuffed there. But, that’s just me.
I always had this back story in my mind: Jas‘ parent were killed in a car accident that was caused by Shane being drunk at the wheel. Only ha and Jas survived. That was how Jas saw the mutilated bodies of them as represented in the JiB. But because Shane had been named as her godfather he was to be responsible for her. However he had to move them back to his aunt due to his alcohol problem. That’s how they both ended up at Marnie‘s. As for the grandfather under the bed, I always thought that he represented Lewis who hides under the bed whenever Jas enters Marnie‘s bedroom in the night after having a nightmare.
I always liked Jas. I find it endeering how smart and well-behaved she seems to be despite her unusual family circumstances. Vincent technically has a more "traditional" home life, but that little bugger is a mess
He's a disaster sandwich. Of all the villagers I have left, Vincent is going to be one of the toughest to make a video on. Because.... he's just there.
i really liked this video! i always speculated that maybe the dollhouse is her acting out a very old and somewhat repressed memory of her parents’ death maybe the doll under the bed is an intruder that waits for her parents to go to sleep before robbing the place, but accidentally wakes jas’ parents up and kills them out of fear, and then escapes when he realizes what he’s done (hence why jas is still alive), or hell, maybe he even commits suicide out of guilt maybe jas caught a glimpse of the intruder while walking to the kitchen for dinner but didn’t think too much of it, most likely because she was very young in one of the secret notes (forgot which number, sorry) we see marnie standing next to a toddler jas, presumably when jas and shane first came to live with her so we know jas was very young at the time of the death, too young to maybe articulate what she saw or understand what happened, so she just acted out the scenario with her dolls (she could also have done this when she got older, subconsciously recreating a very faded memory from her toddlerhood) i also speculate that the jack in the box is connected to the theoretical murders, too if, hypothetically, her parents were murdered in their home, seeing as jas has no siblings, she would have been the one to find them either when she heard a commotion and was woken up or when she woke up in the morning, she likely would have toddled out of her room looking for her parents and when she entered their room, she would have been met with the grisly scene of her parents (and possibly the killer as well) lying sprawled on the floor maybe this is another memory that stuck with her and ended up subconsciously manifesting itself in the form of her toys seeing as most every toddler doesn’t know how to call 911, maybe jas just stared at the scene, not understanding what was happening her parents likely weren’t discovered until they were noticed to have stopped contacting people, or maybe didn’t show up to an event or maybe, shane was scheduled to come pay them a visit that day, and when he arrived all he saw was little jas and her brutally murdered parents if this was the case, then maybe the trauma of seeing his friends’ corpses and having to handle everything that came from that, combined with now having to care for a child and not being able to financially support them is what led to his alcoholism anyway, that’s probably a much darker take and maybe even more of a stretch, but that’s what i always figured happened
Could Jas be Stardew Valley's version of Spider-man? Sounds far-fetched? Well consider Jas lives with Aunt Marnie and Uncle Shane. Her parents died just like Peter Parker's parents. The only missing components are age and a radioactive spider.
Jas, to me, seems like a little girl who is bright, intelligent, proper, well-mannered and lowkey curious but keeps to herself a lot due to adult's preconceived notions of children. The dollhouse could be her knowing of Marnie and old man Lewis but, again, keeping it to herself. The jack in the box could be reminescent of a whacky, silly toy that isn't whacky, silly nor fun anymore -- a bit of her childhood buried deep into the background and into the corner due to her being a lone child without immediate family bloodline relations. I think the creepiest part in this video is: How you followed her and befriended her in a *TRASH SUIT AND CAN, LEAPALOT* _This had me dying so hard out of laughter, that I couldn't even breath my laughs out into audible wavelength!_ 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
I heard somewhere once that the jack in the box is supposed to represent how her parents died in either a car crash or some other gruesome accident, I think it’s a little bit of a stretch but it still stuck with me
@@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock Kids tend to call people who aren't their family "Aunt" or something like that when they get close to them. So that's what Jas is doing. So Jas's parents were friends with Shane, they made Shane her godfather, Jas's parents died somehow, so she went to live with Shane, Shane knew he couldn't take care of Jas alone since he was depressed, so moved in with Marnie. And there you go.
Not to get too dark with this theory … but what if the Jack in the Box is meant to represent how Jas found one or both of her parents when they died? Like that’s how their bodies looked like, with empty eyes and weirdly positioned bodies. 😳 I mean it’s most definitely not the case and I’m thinking too much into it, but it’s just a thought I had when you were talking about it in that section. Great video as always.
I always found it quite interesting that Jas is meant to be the “smarter” of the two children in The Valley despite the fact that they both get taught by the same person, In cutscenes like the one with the children and penny Jas is clearly more eager than Vincent to answer questions/ do good despite the fact that nobody around her other than (maybe) penny is encouraging her to act that way, it’s odd that she seems so wise (she even likes gifts like flowers and some spring forage that Vincent says “isn’t very fun) yet her room would tell you she’s a messy kid with artistic hobbies. I would have thought that her room would be neat and tidy just like her personality so maybe that’s why seeing things like the jack in the box is unsettling.
I always assumed it was more of a case of Vincent being a bit more hyperactive and less interested in just sitting still and listening, so he's not as "book smart"
I don't know if you know this, but ConcernedApe grew up around a generation of people who taught girls that they needed to like pretty, womanly things like flowers and stuff, and awed and cooed over them if they did naturally, but gave you a little frown if you didn't and told you you'd appreciate roses when you're older. People are starting to move away from things like "girls should like this" and "boys should like THIS" nowadays, but I even find myself forgetting not every little girl is going to adorn her room in pink and be unwilling to speak her mind when I write my own stories. Those things have been ingrained, but they aren't the universal truth. Jas' interests might be CA's bias about what little girls are "supposed" to like, or she might just like flowers because she likes flowers. My youngest cousin isn't really a flower kind of girl but she likes taking care of plants, likes the shrub her mother has, likes my tomatoes. I was the same way, but I was raised in a generation that thought it was okay to tell a kid they have to like and be grateful for whatever people assume you want to be given (I wanted Hot Wheels and coloring books, not daffodils and shoes, but, you know, thanks, I'll tell my grandmother to put them in a vase and wait for them to die, I guess). On that note, what do mean "despite" being taught by the same person. Did you become a clone of your school teacher or something? Everyone's a little different. Some kids take to book studies better than others. ADHD affected me a little differently than the boys in my class, causing me to seesaw between hyperfixating and daydreaming until someone said my name, but the teachers always thought I was "gifted" since I could fully comprehend what they were saying after actually focusing on it for more than two seconds, just long enough to learn long division (why did they teach us that?) in a single class period. I suppose I should've been "stupid" like my classmates, in your view of the situation, or my classmates should've been as "gifted" and neurodivergent as I was since we were all taught by the same people. Your assumptions about the world are a bit baffling, to be honest, but I do kind of agree that I expected Jas' room to be unrealistically clean when I first started the game... but that's because her room is the most personalized in the way that it's messy. There's plenty of interactables in everyone else's rooms, but things aren't strewn about like how I live--- how I expected. Jas' room was just oddly realistic from the lens of my own life.
I thought Jas have pseudo adult personality because of her childhood trauma and that make she know how to read people and act in way they would like. And Vincent's loved gift is Penny's hated gift. If one summer Vincent give Penny his favorite grape, Penny might not yell at him in anger like she would do to us but I think that would make she have some favoritism. Penny have really strong hate toward what she doesn't want to hear (from all of her heart events) I think it would be too much for kids to reading her difficult line and be what she would give high score
I think her parents died in a car crash, and the jack-in-the-box is alluding to it. If the doll house is Jas creating something she'd seen, maybe the Jack-in-the-box is the same.
Out of everyone in stardew, I wish Jas had more story to her, Vincent gets Sam and I guess technically Jas has Shane, but barely. (EDIT: I guess she also has Penny, but having her teacher being Jas' biggest part of her story is just, disappointing?) She lives in a house with 2 of the most talked about characters in all of stardew while she's there left on the sidelines, with the thing most people know her for is just a mod.
Maybe Jas got her impression of adults from before she moved into the valley with Shane. Since Shane is a alcoholic, not sure when he became one, he might of not gotten immediate custody of her so she might have been passed around a lot before being released to him.
I'm surprised y'all are freaked out by a neclected little orphan girl but maybe it's because of the horror trope, movies like the orphan... I feel sad for her and Shane and marnie are just trash for both going to gus instead of one being with her. Shane even leaves her when he married you? If penny gets her own house she can adopt jas it will be like Matilda and ms honey
I think Jas is a sweet kid, but she says some odd things. She just has a weird vibe sometimes, but a kid that loses their parents can definitely act in a weird way. I have a soft spot for her bc she just has some depth that we don’t fully know and I think that’s really interesting Also, I’ve always sort of assumed that Shane was a lot better off when he knew Jas’s parents, but when they died that made everything worse and that’s when him being someone who might have just had some mental health issues and enjoyed drinking turned into him being severely depressed and alcoholic. He would’ve had to be very close w Jas’s parents to be her godfather, so losing two people that are so important to him is probably why he ended up the way he is when we meet him. I kind of think that he could have been there when Jas’s parents died, or that they both could have been. But idk
I always thought the wizard's child was caroline. My theory is he had her with the witch abigail would share his genes and thus inherit the weirdness this would explain why caroline has seemingly natural green hair(like the witch) while I believe Abigail's is dyed, and why she can be found near the tower.
A lot of people believe Caroline cheated on Pierre with the Wizard and had Abigail, Pierre has dialogue where he has doubts that Abigail is his daughter, and Abigail herself says she has only dyed her hair once and it just..Never faded for some reason. Caroline has her own obsession with green tea so-a lot of people chalk up her green hair to that :/
Real good stuff, love this series - I think you could've gone a bit more into detail about her personality and her dialogue; she feels a bit too mature at times, especially compared to the constant childish naivité that is Vincent, and many of these theories/aspects in her environment really emphasize that
I never checked out the Jack in a box, or even knew that’s what it is. The immediate thing it reminds me of, is an episode from the original Twilight Zone, “It’s a Good Life”. Everyone in town is frightened of 6yo Anthony, who controls everything with his mind. He turns one man into a jack in a box. Conclusion: Jas is the Wizard’s daughter. She lives with Marnie and Shane because they live closest to the Wizard. The Jack in a box may be her non-biological father, or her mom.
SDV might be a purgatory and they may have died based on what we see around them.. Possible that Shane committed suicide out of his depression, Jas may have died because of the fire hazard outside her room, Pam and Penny nay have died out of DUI, of Robin and her family died because of the land slide? Idk
I do wish the children in Stardew Valley would grow up over time. Imagine them becoming teens around year 4 and then becoming adults year 8 or possibly 10. At that point they wouldn't grow up any further like everyone else in Stardew and personally I wouldn't them to be marriage candidates cause it's just.. weird... But they're is so much you could do with that idea! Maybe you could even influence Jas as she grows up by befriending her when she's a kid?
One theory you never brought up is that Jas is not Marnie's niece but her daughter with Lewis, one of the mysterious notes you find is a picture of Marnie with Jas still very little (toddler or so) and when you think about it as Jas is Shane goddaughter and he's renting at Marnie's we suppose at the start that Jas parents died, Shane got custody and so she came to live with him there but it's never said, we only suppose. Shane also doesn't act as if he's the one raising Jas it's Marnie. We also hear Shane and Marnie talk about him paying rent for himself, nothing is ever said about paying for the big room for Jas. We also never hear about Jas birth parents ever, she calls Marnie auntie but as far as I know is not the child of Marnie's sibling is she even has/had them (we don't know either). Could be just what she calls her because they live together but she doesn't call her godfather Shane anything but Shane
It's funny. I've played tons of farm rpgs, nobody ages usually. But this game is so deep, it's weird that nobody ages. But, that would be a lot of work
I was restarting my Stardew Valley save file, and chatting with Linus. Does anyone else ever question who throws rocks at his tent? One of his early dialogue options are, “Someone was throwing really rocks at my tent last night. I just need to wait it out.” And I recall another one stating, “Please don’t tear down my tent. Its happened before.” He’s so harsh to the player at first, because he’s scared of loosing his home. But most of the villagers in the Valley seem to keep to their own. Hmm. . .
Just so you know, you weren't wrong in the last video. When you get close to Marnie, she will say things like "my niece loves fairy rose," obviously referring to Jas. Of course we don't know how or if they are really related, but she's still Marnie's niece. I think Jas, Marnie, and Shane could more than likely be related, especially since Jas and Shane have similar hair colors and face shape. It's common for some godparents to be cousins or siblings of the parents (speaking in the Catholic tradition, unsure about others, let alone Yoba devotees). People seem to have a headcanon that Jas is absolutely unrelated to Shane or Marnie in a biological way, but I don't think there's much to ascertain this.
Was nice while it lasted, but I think Jas knows where you live. Hope you don't end up as that jack in a box. Thx for the whole week or so that I watched this channel xD
Honestly I relate to jas's questionable toys. As a kid and still to this day I was never scared of jack n boxes, clowns, things coming alive, ect so I just left my dolls and such staring at me while I went to bed. That and I could totally see myself sticking one of my dolls into a random place in my dollhouse either for story or because it got in the way.
I don't get why people keep saying Jas could be the wizard's child. It's said in the game that the wizard's marriage fell apart due to a "mistake" he made. Having an affair and getting his side chick pregnant would be a pretty big mistake, so it's reasonable to assume that this is why they separated. He also says he was married "once", implying that quite a bit of time has passed since then. Jas seems to be 6-8 years old so she's way too young. It seems way more likely that the wizard's child is an adult at this point.
okay but. marnie is referred to as both shane AND jas' aunt. you're relatives can also be ur godparents - trust me, my godparents are both older siblings of mine. presumably, jas and shane are bio cousins, and marnie is the sister of their respective parents. meanwhile, shane was close enough with his now-presumably-dead aunt and uncle that they made him her godfather
I love Jas! I wish there was a mod where you’re able to let her move in with you if you marry Shane, at least having her stay with you for one or two nights per week. I think that’d be a nicer use of Shane’s room.
I won't lie, I actually relate a lot to Jas. Art and storytelling are both major hobbies of mine and have been since I was a child, and I actually don't own a TV and feel I have no need for one. ,:) As for the toy situation, I can actually relate to that too. I was never a fan of human dolls but I LOVED animal dolls, and those got played with a ton. And sometimes, those games were a little rough, not going to lie. Still fond memories though. :)
It'd be pretty interesting to see if her trauma resulted in some mental problems. I'm speaking as a former traumatized child myself. Kids who go through death as important and close to them as their parents are bound to Express their trauma by doing things like leaving destroyed toys out and acting out scenes like Jas does. It'd be completely understandable if the issues she's going thru as a kid reflect as illness into adulthood. Also I like the idea that Lewis is a $@#$ to her because it supports the fact he hates youth in general and doesn't really value Marnie as a person. Maybe he gave the ugly Jack in the box to Jas (maybe as a shitty apology for being a jerk or as a half hearted attempt to show face for Marnie) and she ripped it up and leaves it out just for him to know how much she hates him back and to never step foot into her room.
I just always found her hard to befriend & not very interesting. Imo she's the weakest developed character in Stardew Valley. I do see that her home life isn't very good & maybe that's why she & Penny get along so well & why she likes to play alone in the forest. And yeah, that dollhouse is creepy.
Idk what info the people saying Jas isn't Marnie's neice are going off of. In the game Jas calls her "aunt marnie" or something similar AND the wikia lists Marnie as Jas' aunt.
@@life_is_no_fairytale Marnie is Shane’s aunt, and Shane is jas’s godfather. That would make Marnie Jas’s great godaunt, but it’s far easier to to just say aunt
I think it’s more likely that Jas played with the Jack in the box once, got startled, and threw it against the wall and just never got around to picking it up like the rest of her stuff is just on the ground
I think the only reason I never found the kids all that creepy in comparison to literally every other person I know who plays stardew, is because I can understand her actions on a personal level. I get the shyness, the slowly opening up. The lack of things to say, and even her responses to the people around her. I think she's a kid who's seen too much, and I feel like there are subtle hints to her having witnessed her parent's death one way or another. I feel like the jack in the box might be a bigger of the hint to this, the lifelessness of it's eyes and the sprawled horror of it's arms. It might be a grim reminder she can't bare to move. Or worse, she doesn't want to move it as she feels it's one of the few things that reminds her of her parents. The trinkets being so out in the open likely means she is still thinking about them constantly. Her opinion on adults makes sense to me too, even if she likes everyone or even just most people in stardew. She likely had to stay with police, social services, or even at the hospital while they waited for Shane and/or Marnie as her next of kin to come see her and sign off on papers. The people there can be very... Blunt and rude. Experiences vary heavily but it's not uncommon to find then always talking legalities with her boring, or their mentioning of her parent's mean. Heck, she doesn't even talk about her parents much herself. Jas freaks me out too, but in the way that she is raw and real, and perpetually stuck in a phase of healing that will never truly come to a happy end in the stardew universe.
i would say the same thing about jack in the boxes just bc they're creepy lmao i think it's just supposed to be funny. but still. good observation i never walk in there to notice anything
I've always felt a little sad for Jas. She seems like a sweet and innocent little kiddo. While the description of the jack-in-the-box was creepy, I wonder if it's possible that maybe Shane might've accidentally broken it, or maybe Vincent was over and accidentally broke it? Either way, I feel kind of sad for her, but it's so sweet how she's happier when high in friendship, and how much she appreciates being treated nicely. :3 (Note that I'm talking about the real Jas, not the one from *that* mod.
I watched a video about the yandere jaz mod. (I say this because I saw the portrait) I wouldn't say I like her but I don't hate her. She's one of those villagers that I don't really notice or talk to that much. Same with Vincent they're quite boring and don't do much.
I love this series! Could you maybe talk about Sebastian? I like him a lot, and I am very interested to see what you have to say about him. He may not be the most interesting tho, a challenge for you?
I don't get why she doesn't move in with us even tho he is her godfather like when anyone married Shane she stays with Marie sorry if I spelled her name wrong😅
