Jacob Fraser

Jacob James Alexander Randall Fraser is the fourth child of Claire and Jamie Fraser. He didn't know the story of his true parentage until the man he thought was his father, Frank Randall, died and his mother took him and his sister, Brianna Fraser to Scotland.
==Personal History==
Jacob was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, to English expatriate parents Claire and Frank Randall. Frank was a professor of history at Harvard University, and Claire was a homemaker during Jacob's early years.
Jacob attended a private Catholic school with his sister, Brianna. When Jacob reached school age, his mother started medical school. One day when Jacob was seven, his mother was late coming home so she hired a babysitter to watch him and Brianna. The babysitter left them alone and Brianna went outside to look for their mother and Jacob tried to move her out the way from the slow-moving car but he didn't make it on time. After this, Claire decided to quit her program so she could care for Brianna full-time, Jacob rarely left his bedroom for roughly a year, he himself felt responsible for what happen to Brianna. 
When he was about twelve, he left with his mother to a history program about the Scottish back in the 1700s. Jacob was deeply connected to the history and wanted to hear more about it from his mother. So every night before bed, Claire told him a story about a Scottish solder, Jamie Fraser, but of course, Jacob didn't know that he was his father.
When he was fifteen, Frank taught Jacob to shoot a gun. He continued to take him to practice shooting, with a pistol, rifle and shotgun well into his teens with Brianna. 
Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, his father was killed in a car accident. In the fall, after having take history courses at the university while in high school, he enrolled as a history major.
In spring of 1968, Jacob's mother took him and Brianna to Scotland, ostensibly for a sight-seeing tour. However, soon he found out that Claire had other reasons for bringing them there. Claire revealed the truth to the twins: that their biological father was an 18th-century Scottish Highlander named Jamie Fraser.
With a little time and first-hand experience with the stone circle at Craigh na Dun, Jacob came to accept that his mother's story as true. Jacob told his mother to traveled back to the 18th century to be with Jamie. Jacob return to Boston and made it home to his lovely wife, Alice Randall. But a while after, she died of childbirth and delivered a stillborn daughter.
==Events of the Novels==
===Dragonfly in Amber===
In 1968 Scotland, Claire Randall brings Jacob and Brianna Randall to the town of Inverness and introduces them to Roger Wakefield, home from Oxford to settle the belongings of his adopted father Reverend Reginald Wakefield, recently passed away. When Claire asks Roger to go a bit of research for them, he helpfully explains to the twins that Culloden was where Bonnie Prince Charlie was defeated by the Duke of Cumberland. 
Jacob and Brianna agrees to go with Roger to some of the battle sites of the '45 rebellion. When Jacob and Brianna excuses themselves, Claire ask Roger to promise her he will not take them to the stones at Craigh na Dun. When Roger asks about the list of men she gave to research, he tells her he noticed that their leader Jamie Fraser wasn't on the list. She tells him Jamie Fraser died at Battle of Culloden. She asks him not to mention Jamie Fraser to them.
When Claire and Brianna went shopping in Inverness, Jacob stayed back at the house and studied in the library. He then noticed a book of Clan Fraser, he looked into it and noticed Jamie Fraser was it and also his deceased child. Later on when the girls came back, he hid the book and took it.
Roger takes Jacob, Claire, and Brianna to St. Kilda, a small village near Broch Tuarach. He brings them to the church there, which has become a little run down since the Reverend died. Jacob looks around and saw a gravestone for Jonathan Randall and waves Claire over. She's shocked angrily when she sees it. Jacob expected her to be excited to see the stone, not angry. Claire insists that they go see the inside of the church while she sits in the shade.
While inside the church, Jacob heard a scream from outside. He rushed to find Claire kneeling on the ground in front of a gravestone. The stone is inscribed with Jamie's full name with the words "Beloved husband of Claire." Claire tells them that he was her husband and Jacob and Brianna's father.
===Drums of Autumn ===
He travels to Scotland with Brianna to search through Jamie's things and saw that his parents death in 1776. Jacob and Brianna travels to the past but both ended up in different places. Brianna in Scotland and Jacob in France. In 1769, France, Jacob travels towards his cousin, Jared Fraser. Jacob arrives and Jared immediately knows who Jacob is, implying that he looks exactly like his mother but has his father eyes.
Later on, Jacob and Jared goes on a walk around Paris, Jacob asks questions about his father, Jared replies with "He was stubborn as are ye." Jacob then stays quiet as he thought that Jared didn't really want to talk about Jamie. As the night fall came, Jared and Jacob went to the King's ball, which Jared was invited but he brought Jacob along. Upon entering, Jacob turns a lot of heads and Louis Philippe II walked over and told him he has nice taste in his clothing choosing. Jacob nods and told him that this clothing was his fathers. Louis then asked who was his father, Jacob replied with James MacTavish. 
At the party, Jacob then meets Catherine Buchanan, a raising duchess. Catherine found Jacob amusing and told him that he isn't like most men she had met. Jacob found this wonderful and tried to gain her trust by offering her a dance, which she accepted. As they dance, Catherine reveals that she knows who he really is but didn't tell the guards because he isn't like his father at all. Jacob is confuse at this and asks for a explanation. Catherine then reveals that Jacob's mother, helped her mother in the past, and she is returning the favor and telling Jacob to sail west to reach Scotland. 
Jacob tells her that isn't the way he needs to go. Catherine is confuse at this but before she answers him, guards came in and arrested Jacob and held him in Bastille. While in prison, Jacob met Henry Gales, Jacob asks Henry what he did to get arrested. Henry replies in French to "piss off." Jacob laughs at this and tells him that his british betrays him. This startled Henry a little and then he asks Jacob what he done. Jacob then says to him "My father." implying that Jamie got him into this mess. 
Later on in the prison, a couple of men got word that Jacob's father is Jamie Fraser, they challenged to fight but Jacob refuse and the men laughed and said he was a coward. Jacob gets up and punches the men and started a fight with them, this signal guards to come and take Jacob away from the fight. 
Officer Lucien Saint sat down with Jacob and says to him that he is really his father's son. Jacob is confuse at this comment and asks what does he mean by that. Lucien then replies that he met Jamie at a prison in Scotland. Jacob then got hold down into his chair while Lucien burns him with a stick onto his hand. Lucien tries to get Jamie location out of Jacob but he wouldn't budge. 
Days later, Jacob sits in prison waiting for his death date to happen until there was riot outside of the prison, Jacob and Henry made plan to escape and then Catherine came to help Jacob to escape. Jacob offered to take her with him towards Scotland, but she declines saying that her duty is in France. Jacob and Henry escapes the prison and went onto a boat to sail towards Scotland to hope to find Brianna and his parents. 
===The Fiery Cross===
===A Breath of Snow and Ashes===
===An Echo in the Bone===
===Written in My Own Heart's Blood===
== Personality==
With a combination of the Frasers' stubbornness. Jacob is a force to be reckoned with in both the 18th and 20th centuries. At first, it shown that Jacob is charming and amiable, with a highly good sense of humor that he had gotten from his father. While practicing with medicine, Jacob keeps a cool head in situations, a trait he gotten from his mother.
==Physical Appearance==
Jacob said that he look a lot like Claire but has Jamie dark blue eyes. He is described as very tall at six feet, with thick curly brown hair and with slender shape dark blue eyes. With his height and build, he has muscle and is very strong. He has a very dark spot on his hand as when Officer Lucien Saint burns him to tell him where Jamie Fraser is. 
== Relationships ==
===Claire Fraser===
Main Article: Claire and Jacob
Main Article: Frank and Jacob
Main Article: Jamie and Jacob
Main Article: Catherine and Jacob
==Name==
== Trivia==
*Jacob James Alexander Randall Fraser is named after his father, Jamie Frasier.
*He has a talent of hunting and fishing, a skill he gotten from his father.
*James has type B blood.
*James has taken on many aliases throughout the series that often feature his father, including: 
**Jacob MacTavish, when he arrives to Paris.
**James Alexander, when he arrives to Scotland.
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