ya!! the combination of isolation + Intense feelings for the people around them is the common thread bw our two space players, w jades years long yearning to see her friends despite her literal isolation on an island, and kanayas over-involvement w vriska/her friend group despite being stranded in the middle of a desert. its a weird juxtaposition in whichst the space player is put at odds with who they wanna be by their environment
their lands did the same thing, kind of. jade lived on a green leafy island her whole life, only to have it twisted into a clean white icy tundra. kanaya thrived in her desert home, only to have her world flooded by a literal ocean