Jake Long (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

Jacob "Jake" Luke Long is a character featured in the AngieYaz/RoseOfSharon reboot of the Sonic Underground television series, emigrated from the American Dragon:Jake Long television series. He is a young Dragon who appears as a Chinese-American human/dragon hybrid teenager who lives in a city on his Earth and serves as its Magical Protector.
==History==
Jake lives with his parents, Jonathan and Susan, and his younger sister Haley. A descendant of a family of magical dragons, his two best friends are the feisty Trixie Carter and seemingly dim-witted Arthur "Spud" Spudinski. Before his thirteenth birthday, Jake started getting glimpses of his dragon heritage. For example, while younger, during a race with Brad at Camp Mugwomp for the Mugwomp Cup, he unintentionally breathed fire, startling himself into tripping over a log to fall face first into mud, losing the race.
On his thirteenth birthday, his magical abilities emerged fully and he was set to protect an underground magical community existing within his city and throughout the world. The emergence of his dragon powers also made him the first official magical dragon guardian of America; "The American Dragon". Under the training of his grandfather, Lao Shi, and his animal guardian, Fu Dog, Jake would be taught in the methods of his dragon abilities, and his duties as a magical guardian. Due to his youth and while still in training, his territorial home base has initially been mainly restricted to the area of New York. However, anytime he is anywhere else in America, such as the forests of New Jersey during a camping trip with his father, his authority extends to these other areas as well as he is destined to become the representative dragon for the whole country.
At first, he thought inheriting Magical Powers would be cool, but instead due to Jake's responsibilities as the American Dragon, his grades started slipping. He could not spend the same amount of time skateboarding with his friends as he used to, and began to grow tired of Lao Shi's training techniques which he could only see as stupid. It made him wish he were only human but he had to deal with it no matter what.
Although Jake is still in the early training stages to be the American Dragon, his destiny includes being the guardian, protector and champion to magical creatures secretly living alongside humans in and around New York City, and eventually the rest of the country. Among them are a herd of unicorns in Central Park, leprechauns on Wall Street, gargoyles nesting atop the Empire State Building, the Triborough Troll Bridge, a mystical community between NOHO and SOHO, and mermaids in the East River. According to his grandfather, the Greater New York is the American Dragon's territory and if he can make it here, he can make it anywhere. However that means Jake must figure out how to control his newly awakened dragon abilities, such as fire breathing, flying and shape-shifting; allowing him to perform his duties. Meanwhile, Grandpa must figure out how to decipher his hip-hop grandson's colloquial language style.
Jake lives in a West-side brownstone at 182 Shorn Eagle Dr. His father, a human businessman, is completely unaware he married into a family of dragons. Jake's mother is a professional caterer who is also a dragon except she is human-locked, meaning she is unable to transform or utilize typical dragon abilities as often times they may skip a generation. Jake tries to ignore his brilliant yet pesky younger sister Haley, a nascent dragon, to no avail. Jake's Dragon Master is his wise Grandpa and the former Chinese Dragon who, upon arrival to the United States, established an electronics shop on Canal Street and took Jake under his wing. Despite the generation gap, Grandpa is patiently training Jake to master the fundamentals of being a dragon, unlock his potential, and to be on time for his lessons. Grandpa's sidekick, the not-so-patient Fu Dog, acts as Jake's animal guardian.
Jake initially comes off as the average, laid-back and flirtatious at times teenager who tries hard to present himself as a king of cool, and to a certain degree he is pretty cool. This is frequently proven by his tendency to keep up with the newest developments and styles, or personal interests such as video games, popular music, extreme sports and hot girls. Jake is shown to have a particular passion for skateboarding and is very proficient at it as well. Unfortunately, more often than not, Jake has a tendency to be stubborn and, at times, careless, both of which tend to come back and bite him in the end. He frequently looks for shortcuts in his day-to-day life and usually pays the price for this when he fails to think things through. Though, in Jake’s defense, the responsibilities that he has do prove to be rather overwhelming. Another flaw in Jake’s character is that he occasionally loses his focus of the task at hand, but he does usually regain it when he has to.
Also, there are times when Jake is far too cocky and a bit too quick to leap into action, which has often backfired on him, especially when dealing with opponents who are smarter than he gives them credit for. Fortunately, though, when all is said and done, Jake proves to be a very responsible teenager, he is always quick to acknowledge when he is the one at fault and always takes it upon himself to set things right no matter what. He is also shown to be very resourceful when he has to be, frequently coming up with multiple plans and strategies on the fly and knowing when to use his Grandfather’s lessons when they are needed.
Jake is shown to care deeply for those around him, but he is not always sensitive toward other people’s feelings. For example, he once spoke out against his father, Jonathan, which led to Jonathan feeling a bit hurt. He is shown to have a longstanding rivalry with his little sister, Haley, and he absolutely hates it when Haley lords her accomplishments over him and makes him look inferior by comparison. However, despite Jake’s issues with Haley, it is shown that he would not hesitate for a moment to help her when she needed him. Jake is, at times, put at odds with his grandfather, but even so, it is shown that he has nothing but respect for Lao Shi. He also has a very close bond with his animal guardian, Fu Dog.
Jake has nothing but loyalty toward his friends, Trixie and Spud, and they reciprocate this by being unquestionably loyal to him as well. At times, Trixie and Spud are often quick to inform Jake when his courses of action are not always right, but there are times when they go along with it and allow Jake’s actions to play out. Jake is also shown to be very trusting of his friends with almost everything, including his secret.
Finally, the person who Jake cares the most about is Rose. In one occasion, it was implied that he cares for her more than his own life. While many of his associates felt that Jake was making a mistake by having a crush on Rose, mainly due to her also being the Huntsgirl, Jake still trusted his love interest fully, mainly because she once had the perfect opportunity to slay him yet passed it up. Jake had trouble letting Rose go at first, but it did seem clear that he genuinely wanted to move on. Though when all is said and done, Jake loves Rose more than anything and would never allow anything to happen to her.
It may seem Jake is a bit superficial, but in truth, he does put some stock in a person general personality more than he does their appearance.
==Physical appearance==
In human form, Jake is a teenager with semi-long black, spiky hair with green highlights. His general/casual wear consists of a red jacket with yellow patches that somewhat conceals a white T-Shirt, blue cargo shorts, white socks and grey and blue shoes.
For formal wear, Jake wears a dark navy dress suit with red dress shirt, yellow necktie, and black and white dress shoes. At times, Jake wears a purple and black tuxedo.
In the first season when he turns into a dragon he looks like a tall, muscular, red dragon with a yellow underbelly, black hair with green ends, darker red wings and green spikes on his back and tail. He also has five-clawed hands and four-clawed feet. His claws are bluish-grey. His first dragon form's appearance is a combination of his Asian heritage and his American heritage, although it is worth remembering that in his first dragon form, Jake resembles a Western dragon.
In the second season, his dragon form's design changes drastically. He's more skinny and a darker shade of red, and he now has four-clawed hands and two-clawed feet. His claws are black and small. His second and current dragon form's appearance is a combination of his Asian heritage and his American heritage, although it is worth remembering that Jake now looks like an Eastern dragon with some Western dragon traits.
While this article shows him with his appearance from the ADJL television series, in the Sonic Underground reboot he is redesigned to be more in line with the typical designs of Sonic characters and drawn in the Sonic Underground art style.
==Powers and abilities==
*Dancing Skills: Jake is a great break-dancer this is also one of his natural skills. It is also worth noting this is not a dragon trait. Although it seems to be common in Jake's family, as his grandfather Lao Shi was a great dancer as well.
*Skateboarding: Jake is also great at skateboarding. He can do cool tricks and air flips with his board. His skateboard has a dragon similar to Rose's birthmark painted on it. While in human form, Jake mostly uses his board for transportation. Before Jake got his dragon powers, he used to hit the skate park with Spud and Trixie, but his dragon duties began to take up too much of his time spent with his friends.
*Gifted Athlete: Jake is great at acrobatics and can do somersaults, backflips, and many other acrobatics, but this may be due to his dragon heritage. Also, this ability is mostly used while Jake is in human form.
==Trivia==
*All of Jake's personal athletic equipment has some form of a dragon on it (mainly his skateboard and snowboard).
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