Jake Keller

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-Jake Keller, February 7, 2008

**Jacob "Jake" Austin Keller**, portrayed by Nicolas AVO, is the main character in Comedy Garbage. He's the leader of the Seattle rejects gang, the best friend of Amber Neiman, the apprentice and surrogate son of Crazy Drunk Guy, the friend and caregiver of Dainslief Silverman, and the older twin brother of Jim Keller.

As a resident of Seattle, Jake was raised mostly as an introvert, he is quite reclusive to anyone he didn't know and is a very shy individual. With his friend group gradually building up members as time went on, he became more extroverted and confident to be in pubic, though he still carries shyness and is very quiet when his friends aren't around.

Jake, despite being introverted around strangers, is a completely different person when around his five friends, showing a more jokingly rude, narcissistic, and prideful personality, however, Jake, deep down, is a very sensitive person, he really cares for anyone he manages to form a connection with, he's very empathetic with anyone, and sees that, no matter how corrupted or evil a person can be, there is still good in their hearts. He's the second most normal member of the gang, behind Amber, and in front of Jim. The one thing holding him back from topping the list, is his surface-level personality.

Jake harbored an interest for gaming and technology early on in his life, he wanted to know how things worked and frequently played videogames. Despite his average-level academic performance, he's incredibly smart and knows how to solve hard equations in minutes, he knows how to code programs, write scripts and other stuff. He was diagnosed with ADHD at birth, and was frequently inattentive in school.

Born on February 12, 1995, Jake's journey through adulthood unfolds against the backdrop of evolving societal norms and cultural shifts. The series continues to explore themes of identity, family, and the pursuit of happiness, all while maintaining its signature blend of humor and eccentricity. As Jake confronts the challenges of adulthood, the Comedy Garbage series remains a unique and entertaining exploration of the human experience, offering viewers a refreshing take on family dynamics, friendships, and the pursuit of a meaningful life amidst the absurdities of modern existence.

## History

### Background

Jake was born on February 12, 1995 in Tacoma, Washington to unnamed parents of Mexican ethnicity, he is the first in his family to have been born in the United States, and earned a dual ethnicity of both American and Mexican. No mention of his parents is ever made throughout the series, but Jake hints at having a healthy relationship with them, frequently being in touch with them off screen.

Jake was the second attempt from his parents at having a non-stillborn child, since his brother died at birth due to a lack of oxygen. Apparently, his first word was "Bitch", due to him watching a movie with said profanity, turning him into a potty-mouthed child. A few months later, his brother Jim Keller was born, in a surprising twist, he was a twin who got stuck as a sperm. And as Jake said hi to his new baby brother, Jim reached out and scratched his chest, causing Jake to slap him in the face in response, they both cried.

In 2000, Jake and Jim broke a neighbor's window, however, their mother wasn't mad, but rather tired, and made them pay for the window, causing both of them to strengthen their friendship.

In 2006, Jake came across a video named Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES) by a channel named *JamesNintendoNerd*, despite the swearing, Jake found the video funny and became interested in gaming, convincing his parents to buy him a Nintendo Entertainment System, after going to a Goodwill and purchasing it for $10 dollars, the first game that came bundled with the console was Contra, which he and Jim played for hours and hours before beating it. This increased Jake's passion for gaming searched up "best games of all time" and came across a Metacritic ranking of the best games ever made, but not one catched his attention until he came across Half-Life. He searched through his attic and found a disk copy of the same game, he mounted it on his Windows NetVista computer and played it for hours and hours on end, and it became one of his favorite games ever made.

When he was entering middle school, Nintendo announced that a new Mario game named Super Mario Galaxy would release in November of that year, which hyped him up for a new game in his favorite game franchise, where he put effort into his grades to convince his parents to buy a Wii and a copy of the game. This was the first time where he aced all his grades, and in Christmas 2007, his parents gave him a Wii and a copy of the game, and for the rest of the week, Jake and Jim would continuously play the game in all nighters, becoming his favorite game of all time.

Jake was apparently very shy and introverted at high school, he rarely spoke with anyone outside of Jim, who was more extroverted, and every time they went to a party, Jake stuck with Jim the whole time, since he was too afraid to speak with anyone else, his mother, thinking this to be something wrong with his emotional health, checked him into a psychologist, who simply declared that Jake had an ISTP personality type.

Jake and Jim won the lottery and bought a house for themselves in 2008, however, in the same city in Seattle nearby his parent's home.

In June of 2008, Jake went through an event that would change his life permanently, when his favorite Subway in the city was being shut down, he actively protested on the street against the foreclosure on the property, when suddenly, a teenage girl named Amber Neiman of about his age crashed into him with her bike, she nearly took him into questioning, but Jake convinced her with his unusual sense of humor to let him go, yet Amber found him funny, which began their strong bond and friendship.

### 2009

The earliest series of strange events in Seattle that Jake participated in can be traced back to February 2009. In February of the same year, Amber was peacefully reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in the kitchen of her home, when suddenly, a meteorite crashed into her backyard, stunned, she went outside to check the noise, and found an empty shell in a crater the size of a Buick, after she went back inside, she found what she thought to be a home invader, but it was later revealed to be Dainslief Silverman, an idiotic demigod in an ancient greek Toga with an olive wreath. When Amber got to know a little more about Dainslief, she phoned Jake who arrived almost instantly. They decided to take him to the main library to investigate about Dainslief's history, background, and biological information.

However, while Amber and Jake where reading Dainslief's information on a book about Ancient Greece, Dainslief messed around with the librarian's cigarrette pack and some discarded papers, setting the library on fire, though Jake, Amber and Dainslief escaped before anyone suffered injuries.

#### Season 1

##### Pilot

When Jake and Jim went into summer vacation, it was relatively uneventful until June 17, where Jake found out their bread stock was empty, and he embarked on brief quest to get bread to craft the perfect ham and cheese sandwich. However, when he forgot his wallet, he raced back home and grabbed it before the bread stock went empty on his convenience store. In the end, it all worked out and he crafted the perfect sandwich, biting it in peace, marking the end of his first quest.

##### Jake the Backflipper

A few days later, the IRS sent a letter addressed to the twins, revealing them to owe over $43,000 in tax payer dollars, Jake and Jim brainstormed over what they could do to fix the issue, and Jake suggested a backflipping video to become popular, earn money, and that way pay the debts, and Jim reluctantly agreed to the idea. Jake was put into a strict training routine in order to achieve the capacity, coordination and strength to do a backflip. However, after one entire week of training, Jake broke his leg, depsite his failure, Jim published the video anyway, grossing over $57,000, paying off their debts and getting the IRS off their shoulders.

##### Steamed Bread

That same week, Jake and Jim organized a dinner in order to discuss personal thoughts, however, it ended up in disaster as Jake nearly burnt down his home, an oblivious Jim keeps eating dinner and praises him for the good food and service he provided.

##### Midnight Snack

In June 28, Jim prepared Jake some dinner, however, the latter wasn't hungry, and stayed up to 12:00 AM playing Half-Life 2. They both went to sleep, but at 3:00 AM, Jake and Jim woke up, Jake complained to Jim over his hunger needs, who in response, prohibited him eating anything, however, Jake manipulated Jim into making him think that he was making himself dinner, and clanged pots and pans together on purpose, Jim angrily responded by permitting him to go to a convenience store to buy some food. Jake, despite Jim's behavior, bought chips for him as a token of appreciation for permitting him to go and making him dinner.

##### The Test

In July 2, Jim questioned Jake's intellectual capacity, designing a test for him to ensure he wasn't sharing a house with an idiot. Against Jake's will, Jim urged him to take the test, threatening him with a gun. Jake angrily responded the test and threw it over at Jim and stormed out of the room. Jim checked every answer as correct.

##### Say Hi to Dainslief

In July 5, Jake's alarm system ringed, the latter, alarmed, grabbed his shotgun and met with Jim in the garage. There, Dainslief entered and revealed that he had an evil clone, who was killing everyone in Seattle one by one, until it was revealed that that "evil clone" was the real Dainslief, his dumber persona, who killed the smarter Dainslief in cold blood.

##### Lonely House

In July 6, Jake and Jim were playing a round of Team Fortress 2, Jake, as a personal thought, went to the pantry downstairs and searched for potato chips, however, they didn't have a single bag. Against Jim's wishes, Jake went out to the store to buy chips, leaving Jim home alone.

As a sensitive kid, Jim was terrified of the situation he was in, and hid under his bedsheets, recording a video on a VHS tape incase those were his last moments alive, however, curiosity got the better of himself and peeked through to verify there were no threats, after realizing the positivity of the situation, he enjoyed his time alone, but due to a power loss, all these feelings vanished, leaving him extremely vulnerable. Before recording a goodbye video to Jake, the door on their room opened by itself.

Armed with a shotgun, Jim went downstairs to check out the threat and encountered a terrifying entity that chased him back upstairs, ending up in a fight between the two, resulting in a ceasefire, the next day, Jake encountered Jim, drunk and tired in the couch of the gaming room, after waking him up, Jake asked Jim what he did when he was absent, causing Jim to reveal everything he went through that night.

#### Season 2

##### The Alien

As a way to distract Jim from his traumatizing events, Jake took him on a vacation to California, however, they both returned disappointed as the high cost of the state caused over fifty percent of their money to deplete. As the Moving Truck Guy helped them with their luggage into their home, Jake and Jim both complained about California as a state. However, the Moving Truck Guy said that during their time away, multiple reports said that aliens and other outer space creatures were visiting the West Coast.

After the Truck Guy left, Jim went up to watch TV, and then, a program about hunting and investigating paranormal and unusual entities, which scared him. He ran to Jake and explained his newfound belief that aliens were real, however, Jake dismissed these thoughts as just a side effect of his recent encounter with the Skull Devil in his nightmare. However, Jim phoned Dainslief and Amber and begged them to come over to film a video to proof to Jake that aliens exist. However, they spent from 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM outside on the balcony trying to find proof about the existence.

After a long time waiting, a saucer landed on the backyard, much to the shock of the trio, Jim, against the warnings of Amber and Dainslief, approached it, when suddenly, a bright light yanked him away, alerting Amber and Dainslief. Jake, who was inside sleeping, was abruptly waken up by Dainslief, who warned that Jake was abducted by an alien, yet Jake was still dismissive over their beliefs, claiming that Jim's idiocracy was contagious, and threatened Dainslief to remove his ham and cheese sandwich privileges. Yet Dainslief dragged him outside of the house.

Amber, after seeing Jake's disinterest in their encounter, she slapped him in the face and blackmailed Jake into believing them. Jake saw the desperation in her voice and realized all of this was true, and wasted no time trying to attract the alien in order to somehow liberate Jim. However, it took him all night trying to lure it back into their backyard. Defeated, Jake began to retreat back inside, when suddenly, Jim was smacked back outside the backyard. Much to Jake's relief, he checked on Jim, however, due to his unconsciousness, Dainslief brought a magazine containing a picture of Lea Thompson, Jim's crush, bringing him back to life.

After Jim was put in his bed to recover, Jake asked him some questions about his brief encounter with the Alien. Yet Jim interrupted Jake with feeling something shoved up his butt. Jake assumed it was a tracker so that the Alien would come back for them again. Nervous, Jake searched Jim and found nothing of concern, aside from a broom handle, a Wii remote, a picture of Austin Butler, and a joystick. Jake and Jim then went back outside later than night and were immediately abducted by the Alien himself, after bringing up his reserve pistol, they escape back into the ground and rushed back inside to their room. Jake, armed with his shotgun, prepared for any dangers. However, the Moving Truck Guy, who was walking his dog outside, heard all the commotion.

He burst inside of Jake's room and threw a frying pan at the Alien, knocking him out almost instantly, and he dragged his body outside to bury it, after warning Jake and Jim that he was telling the truth this whole time.

##### The Stuck Ring

A few days after the encounter with the Alien, Jake shaved at night, but when he opened his blade drawer, he found a ring. He liked it, so he put it on. After checking it out in the mirror, he decided to take it off but realized the ring was stuck on his finger. He tried to pull it harder, but there wasn’t any success. He ran towards Jim, asked for help, and Jim told Jake to stay still while he pulled the ring out. However, the ring turned out to be so stuck that when Jim let go, the impulse threw him to the floor.

Jim told Jake to stay calm, and they would call Amber. Amber picked up the phone, Jim told her about the situation, and Amber said that she would be there the next day. They hung up. The following day, Amber knocked at the door, and Jim answered. He brought her to the patient, Jake, who showed her the finger. Amber warned Jake that if they didn’t take off the ring soon, it would cut circulation, and Jake would lose his finger.

Later, the trio was on the balcony, and Amber formulated a plan that included dropping a brick attached to a string, which was attached to the ring. They launched the brick, but the ring’s grip on the string was so hard that the string snapped the brick in half. Jake suggested that they should call Dainslief since he possibly had super strength and could rip out the ring.

Amber mouthed his word, and Dainslief materialized in front of them. Jake asked Dainslief if he could take out the ring with super strength, but Dainslief had something much better in plan. Turns out, Dainslief’s plan was to pull the ring with a car. Jake nervously doubted the idea, but Amber and Jim encouraged him on and asked Dainslief if he even knew how to drive a car. Dainslief responded by saying that he didn’t even know what a car was.

Dainslief turned on the car, Jake begged him to stop, but Dainslief put the pedal to the metal and drove off, causing Jake to tumble across the asphalt. They came across a street bump, and Dainslief drove over it, causing Jake to receive a bruise on the forehead as he was dragged over the street. Dainslief then brushed off his pain and stopped the car. He went to check on Jake, who was badly mauled, bleeding from the head, nose, and mouth, with many broken bones, and the ring was still stuck on. The others ran up to check on Jake, and they were shocked, and Jim threw up.

Amber called an ambulance, and Jake was taken to the hospital. Jake ended up being wrapped in a cast, except for his finger. After the doctor asked how all of this happened, Dainslief, due to his stupidity, confessed to planning this, and the doctor threatened Dainslief with attempted murder and reckless driving.

However, Jim bribed him out of it, and the doctor said that the most efficient way was to apply skin cream and washing soap to the finger and twist the ring left and right until it came out. He also added that Jake would have to be in that cast for 2 months.

Back home, they tried the method the doctor talked them about, and it turned out not to work at all. Jim suggested one final method, and that included shooting the ring out of the finger. Jake said, “Let’s get this over with.”

The next day, Jake held his hand out, Jim pointed at the finger with a pistol, and then fired. The ring broke in half, and Jake finally had his finger back. He thanked Jim, Amber, and even Dainslief, even though he nearly killed him in the process, and Jake suggested celebrating with a small party.

Later that night, Jake stumbled across another ring and was tempted by it, but in the balcony, Jake threw the ring out.

## Personality and Traits

Jake is shown to be sarcastic, morally compassionate, and highly committed to his friends, usually going to great lengths to help them. However, he shows his care and love for his friends in his own way, being sarcastic, rude and strict, however, this is just in a playful manner and he shows to really sacrifice himself for them, and even when he is treated badly, most of the time by Jim, he does show strong care and forgiveness, such as in Midnight Snack, where despite Jim's condescending attitude towards Jake, he bought him some chips as he knew that Jim was improving himself. Even though he's quick to forgiving everyone who harms him, he does stand his ground and is even willing to resort to violence in order for people to stop picking on him or taking advantage. However, he is sometimes a bit selfish and prideful.

## Abilities

* **High Intellect:** Jake is shown to be incredibly smart and wise, knowing exactly how to do things, though he tries not to show it in order to outsmart his enemies