Jacob

"*You've been avoiding me all day. Could you sense that I was there? Is that one of your powers? What other powers do you have? [..] This is, by far, the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. I knew aliens were real. I can't believe that I'm friends with one.*"
—Jacob to Naomi[src]
**Jacob** is a main character on The CW's superhero drama *Naomi*. He is portrayed by Aidan Gemme.

Jacob is sweet, shy, and a bit nerdy. He's been dating Annabelle since the fifth grade and treats her like a queen.

## Biography

### Lookout at Zumbado's car lot

Jacob and Annabelle attend Nathan's party. Days later, after hearing about the Superman stunt in the Square and Naomi fainting at the debate, they help her break into Zumbado's dealership in search of the disk he took from her in the woods. Inside, they find a locked safe, but they are forced to leave when Zumbado returns.

### The UFO crash

Jacob gives Annabelle and Naomi a ride to Falls Creek after learning that they are investigating the mysterious UFO crash of 2004. He joins them in the woods with his kit, as unlike Naomi, he is a firm believer in aliens. However, short of a few photos, they leave empty-handed. After developing the photos, they meet with Steve O'Brien, who shares his personal near-encounter with aliens. From him, they learn that the crash wasn't in Falls Creek, rather a few miles away. Using a Pacific Logging map, they find a mill just a few miles from Falls Creek, as Steve described, and investigate for themselves with help from Lourdes, who gives them a ride after Jacob's car breaks down. Inside the mill, they come across a wall with markings. However, they don't stay long, as Zumbado's arrival scares them off.

### Testing the disk

Jacob participates in college week and speaks with college reps about his fascination with robots and how he wants to build one to go to Mars. Later, while on a tour of Central Oregon, he learns that Naomi stole the disk back from Zumbado and offers to help her run tests on it. So, they sneak off to the geology lab. However, the machine malfunctions, the alarm goes off, and they are apprehended and taken to the principal's office, where Jacob worries if they'll have records.

### Cracking the code

Jacob finds Annabelle and Naomi to inform them of Esme's latest actions. She's replaced all the snacks in the school's vending machines with fruits. For this, Jacob and Anthony pressure Naomi into running for Class President. Later, he assists Naomi with attempting to decipher the code that she transcribed from the disk that she got back from Zumbado, When that fails, they participate in an escape room in order to use it's Turing machine to crack the code on the disk.

### Alien hunt

Jacob overhears Annabelle and Naomi discussing aliens and suspects they're referring to the explosion at S.T.A.R. Labs, where he believes there were actual aliens, as well as technology to detect aliens. Jacob is working on a prototype himself. And that night, he breaks into the facility, where he runs into Naomi, who is doing a bit of alien hunting herself, so they decide to work together and find Dr. Bell's hard drive. Suddenly, Jacob's energy reader goes off, and he tries to track down the source, putting him in danger, as a piece of the building nearly falls on his head until Naomi catches the debris, saving Jacob but also outing herself as an alien. The next day at school, he bombards Naomi with questions, including how long has she's known that she's an alien and if anyone else knows, which Annabelle does, but Naomi has been trying to keep her from getting further involved.

After school, Jacob goes over to Naomi's, where he explains that his prototype functions a bit different from Dr. Bell's, but if they combine his prototype with Dr. Bell's work, they'll be able to track aliens. Once the prototype is up and running, Jacob discovers multiple readings on the device, the most notable being what seems to be an alien hiding out in a storage unit in town. However, upon closer investigation, they discover that the unit actually belongs to Naomi's parents. Later, Jacob attends Naomi's parents' anniversary party, where he reveals to Naomi that he recalibrated the prototype in hopes that it will track a person instead of an object, but he will have to test it out in a quiet environment, such as Naomi's room. Before departing, Jacob tells Naomi about his favorite scene from Lord of the Rings, and how it relates to her situation with Annabelle. Upon running the prototype, he discovers that the alien is at the party.

Jacob, Annabelle, and Naomi discuss the supposed alien among them. Whoever it is, they need to find out before the party is over. The trio begin checking alibis for the people on her street the night that her disk was stolen. They go through the party and obtain the social media names of those in attendance, which Jacob uses to triangulate their location three nights ago to determine who was on Naomi's block when the disk was stolen. Unfortunately, their three main suspects are Nathan, Anthony, and Lourdes. Hesitant to believe that any of their friends are the alien, they have to at least rule them out by tricking their friends into playing a game of "Never Have I Ever" while Naomi uses her super senses to act as a human lie detector. But this fails to bring them closer to learning the identity of the alien.

Luckily, Jacob has a breakthrough. In Dr. Bell's research, she hypothesized that aliens might emit a unique energy that would distort photographs. If viewed with the right exposure, their eyes would emit a blue glow, but only on film and if it's processed with a specific chemical solution, which they can get from the dark room at school. Naomi simply needs Annabelle and Jacob to keep everyone put until she returns. So, they claim that there's a surprise main event coming up and seek out Dee's help for the murder mystery game. However, the party eventually ends, with only Annabelle and Jacob remaining, until Naomi returns from the school and thanks them for their help.

### Prom

Jacob and Annabelle attend prom with Naomi and Nathan. However, there's a blackout not long after their arrival, which Naomi and Annabelle discover to be the result of a force field around the school. With their phones down, they try to make contact with Dee on his CB radio by stealing a radio from the main office, where Annabelle remarks that she and Jacob are like *Mr. and Mrs. Smith*, minus the killing. They manage to get word to Dee of their predicament, though only briefly before being interrupted by Naomi's assailant, Julian, who tells her to come to the east wing alone, which she does. When Annabelle, Jacob, and Nathan go searching for her, they end up trapped in a room, forcing Naomi to choose between saving them from being incinerated by a force field or saving the junior class. Thankfully, she doesn't have to pick and manages to save everyone.

### Joining the fight

Jacob is playing a round of paintball with Nathan, Lourdes, and Anthony when Naomi and Annabelle arrive unexpectedly and take them to Dee's shop, where they explain that they're being targeted by Naomi's enemies in order to lure her out and take her back to Earth-29. With Jacob's alien tracking device, they locate Naomi's abducted guardians. Initially, she tries to rescue them alone, but they insist that they're a team and join Naomi on her mission, where they shoot Julian with paintballs while also shutting down the power to the warehouse as well as the dampening technology, allowing them to rescue Naomi's guardians. With their enemies defeated, they attend a party at Nathan's.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* "Don't Believe Everything You Think"
* "Unidentified Flying Object"
* "Zero to Sixty"
* "Enigma"
* "Fellowship of the Disc"
* "Keep Your Friends Close"
* "Worst Prom Ever"
* "Ready or Not" (mentioned)
* "Who Am I?"

## References

1. ↑ Season 1, Episode 1: ***"Don't Believe Everything You Think"***
2. ↑ Season 1, Episode 2: ***"Unidentified Flying Object"***
3. ↑ Season 1, Episode 3: ***"Zero to Sixty"***
4. ↑ Season 1, Episode 4: ***"Enigma"***
5. ↑ Season 1, Episode 8: ***"Fellowship of the Disc"***
6. ↑ Season 1, Episode 9: ***"Keep Your Friends Close"***
7. ↑ Season 1, Episode 11: ***"Worst Prom Ever"***
8. ↑ Season 1, Episode 13: ***"Who Am I?"***