Jacob Nesme

Jacob Nesme is trying to save the life of a person who doesn’t exist in our
heroes’ timeline, Helen.  Trying to get
back into a timeline where she exists. 
He has a scanner device that tells him if a person, place, or thing
shares a timeline with Helen, the person he lost.  The scanner lets him know how close he's getting to a world in which Helen exists. He knows how to build arches of crystals that
allows people who walk through them to travel through time.  He was the antagonist of
Trood Awakening, episodes 31 and 32.     
 More info from the character designer: 
He was based on the show Stein's Gate, where each time they "time travel" they're actually jumping between parallel realities. So if you "save someone's life" what you've actually done is jump to a timeline in which they lived. The Stein's Gate show didn't go into details about how that would affect the protagonist's opinion on the value of human life, but in my mind that's what Jacob Nesme is: a person who isn't evil per say, but has devalued human life because to them everyone is always alive and always dead like Schrodinger's Cat, it just depends on what timeline you're in what your perspective is. And that's why Jacob is willing to kill people in his attempts to get to the timeline where Helen is. Named after the famous Helen of Troy, who is worth killing for. But uh we didn't really get into that in Trood Awakening. This leaves Jacob Nesme open and available to use as an antagonist in a future adventure.   
Also, if you haven't yet seen Stein's Gate, go watch it. That's one of the best animes of all time.     
His influences are:  the protagonist from the show Stein's Gate 
Adventures: 
Trood Awakening
We Don't Talk About It
Season 1 Finale
He was also in the season 2019 finale. He was based upon the protagonist from the show Stein's Gate, an anime about time traveling by changing minor things to jump from one parallel universe to another. The idea is:  what if that technology, where you can jump to parallel universes, which is used in the show to bring back someone who died, was abused by someone with worse ethics to really, really change the world? Kind of like a smashup with Mr. Glass from the movie Unbreakable, where he causes big catastrophes to change the world to jump timelines?  Sort of like how the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the world trade towers changed our history, Jacob Nesme initiates tragedies to change the world's path so he can try to find a world in which his lover, Helen, exists.  The season finale is that he does finally find a world where Helen exists, and she learns about all the horrible stuff he has done, and rejects him.  
There's a fun ending in the season finale where the crystal from the arches is revealed to be a crystal they found while exploring together, which he had fashioned into a wedding ring for her.  She would have worn the wedding ring but she died.  Jacob kept the wedding ring and then noticed when the crystal grew bigger and broke the prongs used to constrain it as jewelry.  He discovered that the crystal grew bigger as it captured and stored time, so like, as time went by.  And that by making an arch of the crystals and zapping them, you can release the stored time energy to go back in time. He used time loops to farm the crystal. (Crush it into dust, go back in time, scatter the dust, and then in the present day the dust has grown from seed crystals into bigger crystals.)  He used arches of these crystals to go back in time, cause a variety of calamities (such as the volcano destroying the town of Trood) and try to find a timeline Helen was in.  He doesn't find Helen in Trood Awaking, in the podcast, but he does in the season finale. She's sort of like a stormwing from The Immortals quartet by Tamora Pierce; or a valkyrie; she's a blonde woman who's got razor sharp metal feathers and winged arms and can fly as well as hold a sword.  In theory she can't die from old age, only trauma wounds.  
   
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