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| Name | Jade |
| Films | Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess |
| Shows | Sofia the First: Royal Magic Sofia the First |
| Age | 8–11 |
| Occupation | Student of Dunwiddie School Buttercup Scout Dazzleballer of Dunwiddie Ducks |
| Alignment | Good |
| Homeland | Village of Dunwiddie |
| Family | Unnamed father Fredericka Assemblia (great-great aunt) |
| Pets | Coco (donkey) |
| Friends | Princess Sofia, Princess Clio, Princess Amber, Princess Hildegard, Princess Vivian, Lucinda, Ruby Hanshaw, Prince James, Prince Zandar, Meg and Peg, Prince Khalid, Princess Jun, Mossy, Ms. Candoo, Prince Desmond |
| Enemies | Vor |
| Likes | Laughing, fun, blue, green, her friends, Prince James |
| Dislikes | Not having fun, bees, Sofia going behind her back, losing |
| First Appeared | Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess |
| Voice | Isabella Acres |
Jade is one of the supporting characters who appears alongside Ruby Hanshaw in the Disney Jr. animated series Sofia the First and Sofia the First: Royal Magic. She and Ruby are Sofia's village friend from before she became a princess. She is very excitable and admires Sofia, remaining friends with her even when she becomes royalty. Jade is voiced by Isabella Acres.
Personality
Jade tends to be excitable and energetic, traits she shares with her friend Ruby, such as Sofia her excitement at going to a royal princess slumber party in "The Big Sleepover". However, Jade tends to be temperamental, and gets frustrated very easily, such as how she got annoyed with Sofia in "The Amulet and the Anthem". She also held a grudge against Lucinda in "The Little Witch".
Jade may not be so forgiving in the beginning but realizes that friends are very important as she did make amends with Sofia later in the episode, and became friends with Lucinda despite the mean hexes.
Physical appearance
Jade is a young, fair-skinned girl with very dark brown hair, brown eyes and a huge forehead. She wears a blue and yellow dress that is common village attire. She bears a striking resemblance to Fredericka Assemblia, the original architect of Royal Prep and presumably her great-grandaunt. In Season 4, Jade wears blue circular glasses.
Role in the Series
Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess
Jade makes her debut appearance with Ruby when Sofia leaves Dunwiddie Village for Enchancia Castle after becoming a Princess. She wishes Sofia good luck and tells her not to forget her. Days later, Queen Miranda invites Jade and Ruby to the castle to cheer up Sofia, who has become increasingly quiet and introverted. Sofia is delighted to see her and has a tea party. Jade is last seen watching James helping Sofia get ready for her ball.
Sofia the First
As a friend of Sofia's, Jade is a major supporting character in the series.
Jade makes her first major appearance in "The Big Sleepover". Jade first appears with Ruby when they arrive at the castle for the Royal Sleepover Sofia invited them to. However, although Jade has a good time at the party at first, and is delighted to see James again, her fun comes to a stop when Sofia tells her to act like the Princesses which leaves her in a state of boredom. To make matters worse, Sofia accidentally says she and Ruby were embarrassing her. A hurt Jade storms off with Ruby, even though Sofia did not mean it and that Amber had been saying nasty things about them. Jade is about to leave with Ruby when Sofia runs up and apologizes for what she said. They then resume partying together.
A part of Jade's nasty side is shown in "The Little Witch": She can't control her temper and does not forgive easily. She also has a tendency to jump to conclusions without even trying to get the facts first. This is shown when she does not accept Lucinda's apologies for all the times the little witch hexed her and refused to invite her to her birthday party even after Sofia told her Lucinda was being sincere when she said sorry. It is further shown when she set a trap for Lucinda even though Ruby told her she had seen with her own eyes that Sofia was right and when she yelled at Lucinda when the trap wrecks her party even though the mess was her fault. However, she can acknowledge when she has made a mistake as shown when she apologized to Lucinda.
In "Four's a Crowd", Jade and Ruby are invited by Sofia to be part of the Flylight Pageant. While working on the coach, Jade and Ruby finally become friends with Amber and tells Sofia how much fun she is having, not noticing that Sofia is not happy about this. However, she does notice Sofia's increasingly erratic behavior. After Sofia accidentally ruins the coach, Amber, Ruby, and Jade demand to know why Sofia is so upset: She is afraid that she and Ruby would stop being her friends. However, Jade assures her that she and Ruby were just excited that they made a new friend.
Another part of Jade's nasty side is shown in "A Tale of Two Teams": Even though she loves having fun, she loves winning more to the point of being a bad sport. This is shown when she gives Sofia the enemy treatment when she played for the Royal Redhawks and didn't forgive her even when she rejoined the Dunwiddie Ducks. It took Sofia helping them win to make Jade forgive her. It's also shown that Jade needs glasses to see.
After being absent during season 3, Jade returned in "Princess Jade", now wearing blue circular glasses. She visits Royal Prep for School Swap Day with Sofia as her guide. As the duo took in the Hall of Royals, they find a painting of Frederika Assemblia, who bears a striking resemblance to Jade, who claims to have a great-great-aunt named Frederika. Because the portrait was in the Hall of Royals, Sofia and Jade presume that Frederika was a princess, meaning that Jade herself is a princess, too, much to the latter's joy since it means going to Royal Prep every day with Sofia. However, a stray comment from Ruby makes Jade realize that she'll miss seeing her friends at Dunwiddie School, and she has a hard time explaining her feelings to Sofia, especially since Sofia is being nice to her to help her feel like a real princess. Before Sofia introduces the new princess to her friends, Jade flees to a nearby stream, where Sofia finds her and Jade explains how she feels about missing her friends at Dunwiddie School. Sofia says that she, too, is disappointed but only because she misses going to school with Jade. After Sofia tells Jade that she doesn't have to go to Royal Prep, Jade realizes that Sofia has already announced the new princess and that someone will present the portrait of Frederika. Once the duo return to the auditorium, Amber accidentally removes the sheet covering the portrait and announces that Jade is the new princess. Jade says that she doesn't want to go to Royal Prep only for Flora to reveal that Frederika Assemblia was no princess but the original architect who designed Royal Prep. This discovery makes Jade happy that she's not really royal.
Episode Appearances
- Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess
- The Big Sleepover
- Blue Ribbon Bunny (cameo)
- Baileywick's Day Off
- The Little Witch
- The Buttercups
- The Amulet and the Anthem
- Tea for Too Many
- Four's a Crowd
- King for a Day
- Sofia the Second
- Mystic Meadows
- In a Tizzy
- A Tale of Two Teams
- Buttercup Amber
- Princess Jade
- The Birthday Wish
- Sofia the First: Forever Royal
