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Jade was born in 2000. She lived with her grandfather until 2003, when he disappeared while exploring an ancient temple on a nearby island. After that, toddler Jade was raised by a computer system called Bequerel which is literally her entire house. Bec is programmed with her grandfather's voice.
Bec supplied her with school every day until halfway through 2010, when she was looking through the old books and found a demonology book. She decided that that was what killed her grandfather, and became determined to study them, biologically (and anthropologically to a lesser extent). She sets nets in the sea, and captures her first demon in September, after some modification to the nets. She asks him if he's a demon. He glares at her. She asks if there is a king or queen. He glares at her. Finally, she gives up and straps him down and dissects him. Then she shoves him in a cage. She waits before asking the same questions again. He answers. She, in the next year, captures two more demons. She does basic anatomy tests and dissections. She doesn't have the experience or the resources to get an imaging machine to see organs without actually cutting people open.
She finds Eridan while walking along the beach in December 2011. He is passed out and has hypothermia. He's floating in the water, bobbing with the waves. She warms him up, questions him, rinse and repeat. The other 3 eventually die off, the first from a reaction to medicine, the second from old age, and the third wedged his head through the top of the cage and hung himself. After that, she put Eridan in the tank(2012).
She hired bounty hunters in 2012, giving them descriptions. Because of the sheer number they brought in, each class was assigned a number. She asked each one's class name herself, and matched them in her electronic journal of findings. Not many of the demons she brings in die. Right before the beginning of the story, Gamzee is brought in. He warns her of the consequences. She doesn't listen.