Jake Sterling

*This character **Jake Sterling**, is made by RozyClozy.*

**Jake Sterling** is a major recurring character in the series who Asia befriends.

## Description

### Appearance

Jake has honey blonde hair shaved at both sides with coral ombré tips. He has light brown eyes and maroon eyebrows. He also appears to have two loop-shaped piercings on his ears. He also has a necklace with a white pendant.

He has a grey shirt with a noticeable color difference in the shoulders to black - it is unknown whether this is a part of his shirt or a shoulder padding. He has the sleeves rolled up to elbow-length at all times. He wears a navy blue jacket with a high collar and a musical note just below the elbow on the sleeve. He wears a light grey shirt with the symbol of two swords on the chest area. He wears black ripped jeans and dark grey trainers with lighter details.

When younger, he has the same, messy honey blonde hair fading into a coral colour, but the sides not being shaved this time. He wears a blue-grey hoodie and navy pants with a small rip at the knees. Under the hoodie, he wears a dark red shirt. He also has desaturated blue sneakers.

### Personality

Despite being portrayed as quite confident, Jake is a person who often submits to peer pressure and comments easily. He was willing to hide his favorite hobby, singing, for the sake of not being teased. It's implied that he is often only friends with Drew, Liam and Henry for the sake of not being bullied and to help hide his emotions. He even went along with taunting Zander and Hailey for the sake of maintaining his social perception and friendship with his friends. He only had Drew and his friends to rely on and didn't know who to choose between as friends.

Despite his intentions, his true personality is revealed after *He Can Sing?!*. He can be hurt extremely easily by insults, or, by contrast, very happy with compliments, especially ones from Daisy, his crush. Jake is also strong-willed and will go through with whatever he puts his mind to. In *Pink-Haired Devil*, Jake even goes to the extent of blackmailing Zoey to get Milly's diary entry back, demonstrating qualities of persistence and determination. He is very loyal to the people he trusts, and gets visibly concerned when they seem upset, analyzing their emotions and previous conversations to try identify the root cause. As shown by his reactions, it's also implied he isn't used to compliments and simple/platonic affection.

He also tends to show quite a sarcastic demeanour, especially when with trusted friends. He often jokingly compliments himself as a joke attempt in conversations or to subtly add extra information. He is quite clearly an optimist and sometimes shows stints of confidence when he's alone, when he's fully able to be himself, especially shown during his performance of Just Breathe in *He Can Sing?!*, although he can also be a bit arrogant when it comes to him talking about his singing voice.

Jake also seems to often participate in escapism. He has the tendency to get lost in fantasies and dreams, as it is implied he frequently dreams about becoming a singer and performing in front of a large audience. It is also implied he uses singing as a coping mechanism when he feels as if he has no one to speak to, of which he will try picture himself and assert his confidence through the song he is singing. However, he has yet to share this information with anyone in series.

Jake also makes an attempt to hide his emotions when he is upset, but it doesn't work very well, as seen in Episode 7, Out in The Open, Hailey consults Jake and asks him if everything is alright, but he claims that he is fine. Despite this, Hailey can see right through him, and even though he tries to hide his emotions when upset, he does seem to be able to talk to people about what's bothering him if they ask, as seen in Episode 9, Wavering Between, where Drew asks what's going on with Jake, prompting Jake to talk about Sean and Daisy. Jake also has the tendency to zone out when he's thinking about something, and this is part of the reason why it is easy to tell if he's upset.

## Trivia

* Jake uses his phone as an alarm clock.
* Jake is the first and only TMF character to have been made into a marketable plushie, however it was limited edition and has been discontinued since August 2022.
* In the original release, Jake's favorite food was peaches and his favorite color was blue. However, in the official code, his favorite color is peach and his favorite food is cheese.
* RosyClozy describes him as "Simp".