Things Jade Hates is a dark Victorious fic by Angel_of_the_Starz. It revolves around Jade and her relationship with her family.
Jade and Tori are assigned as partners on an important project. Around the same time, Jade's abusive mother comes back home and sends everything haywire.
Things Jade Hates can be read here
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This fic provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Jade's mother is emotionally and sexually abusive towards her.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In canon, Holly and David Vega are shown to be borderline neglectful, albeit inconsistently. While Tori occasionally lampshades this by mentioning incidents from the show, on the whole they're portrayed here as being far more consistently attentive to their daughters' needs, and Holly is also able to notice that Jade is both suffering emotionally and being actively endangered by her own mother despite not having the information that David does.
- Adaptation Name Change: Downplayed. Jade's name is short for "Jayden".
- Bad People Abuse Animals: At one point, Lily buys a puppy for Ash in a bid to gain his trust. As soon as everyone else's backs are turned, she's shown throwing the puppy in a closet without any food and locking the door on it.
- Big Brother Instinct: Jade has a soft spot for her little brother Ash and would do anything to protect him.
- Calling Parents by Their Name: Jade calls her parents by their names because she doesn't respect either. She hates her mother and thinks her father was complacent in the abuse.
- Children Are Innocent:
- Jade's six year old brother doesn't realize how abusive and dangerous his mother is. He doesn't remember why his mother was arrested and doesn't pick up on the animosity in the house.
- In chapter five, Jade has a PTSD-induced flashback to when she was six; it shows her failing to recognize abusive behavior by Lily because it wasn't physically painful and was framed as a bonding activity between the two.
- Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Jade's part of the fight that leads to her and Beck breaking up amounts to this - she disapproves of his decision to call the police on Lily, feeling that she could've handled it and that he robbed her of personal agency by doing so. Notably, she responds more positively to Tori's less intrusive approach to offering her support, and a conversation between her and Beck ends with him encouraging Tori to keep with that approach, lending credence to Jade's point.
- Dark Fic: Things Jade Hates explores Jade's personality. It largely stems from past abuse.
- Dead Fic: The story last updated in March 2021.
- Domestic Abuse: Jade thinks that her father allowed her to be abused by ignoring it. The possibility is also brought up that David West was abused by his wife into keeping quiet.
- Flashback Echo:
- Jade has one in chapter two in response to being offered a tissue by Tori. She is driving at that moment and nearly crashes at an intersection due to the distraction, which causes Tori to reference the events of "Driving Tori Crazy".
- She has another in chapter five, in response to Lily's use of a once-Affectionate Nickname during a confrontation at the Vega house. This one leaves Jade vomiting over Tori's toilet minutes later.
- Hypocrite: Lily at one point speculates that Jade may be having sex with multiple partners, and displays particular distaste at the possibility of her sleeping with women. This is particularly galling given her prior sexual abuse of Jade.
- Named by the Adaptation: Jade's family were left unnamed in canon. In this story, her brother is called "Ash" (short for "Asher"), her mother is named Lily and her father is named David.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted; in giving Jade's father the first name David, the author creates an overlap with the canon name of Tori's father, who ends up being an important figure in this story as well - he was personally involved in Lily's arrest, and Jade goes to him for help when she begins to fear her mother is grooming Ash for future abuse as well.
- Parental Incest: Jade's mother sexually abused her in the past.
- Parental Neglect: Jade's father David is distant.
- Police Are Useless: Jade expresses this sentiment at one point.
- Saying Too Much: When talking to Beck about Jade's situation, Tori contemplates going to her father to ask him if he had ever heard anything regarding Lily's arrest. Beck's attempt to dissuade her from this is poorly worded and tips Tori off to the fact that he was directly involved in said arrest.
- Self-Harm: Jade is shown cutting herself with scissors as a response to post-traumatic stress.
- To Be Lawful or Good: David Vega is faced with this dilemma at one point, as Jade asks him to search the LAPD's files for prior incidents involving her parents so she can try to build a case for removing Lily from the house. He points out that this request would force him to violate department protocols since Jade lacks sufficient evidence to make formal accusations regarding her mother's post-prison activities, but ultimately chooses Good and asks for three days to fulfill her request. It ends up being moot anyway - more than a week later, all he could find was a handful of callouts to the West residence from before Jade's birth, none of which resulted in police reports of any substance.
