Jake

A logoless Jake.

Jake is a AJHQ employee who works on Layer 3. As deemed by The RGVhZA, he is the first (and the best!) BITCH BoY of AJHQ. What an honor!

## Appearance

Jake is a One Would with pale grey skin who is just SO fucking sweaty. He has to ~~steal~~ borrow cooking spray from the kitchen so he can put it on his entire workspace, lest he gets stuck to his desk again. Sticky little bastard. Don't worry, though, he has good hygiene otherwise.

Jake dresses like some motherfucker who never left the Victorian Era, except he was born in 1993 so he wasn't even remotely in the era in the first place. He wears a light purple collared shirt paired with a lavender ruffled ascot. Jake also has striped sweat pants which are noticeably unsymmetrical, either because the pants just Look Like that or he's wearing them crooked and nobody has cared to point it out yet. Atop all of this is his moderately long dark purple coat, which match with his heeled shoes of the same color. These don't seem to help with his short stature, however.

Under his logo, Jake has short black hair with two horns peaking out from the top. By extension, his left horn is broken. Alongside this, Jake's long antennae droop down the sides of his head to his chest, ending with a single loop. His eyes are lavender, and it seems he puts mascara of a similar color on his bottom lashes to match.

## Known Personality

Due to his relatively isolated upbringing and little to no knowledge on the modern world, Jake suffers from anxiety, particularly the social type. While he does have dreams of being an incredibly elegant and courteous member of society who throws epic and cool parties and whom everyone adores, the fact he couldn't even simply ask someone if he could use the no-stick cooking spray instead of taking it and fucking off goes to show that he is nowhere near that point, unfortunately. Despite this, Jake still tries to be well mannered when he can, although this tends to be hard when he almost never talks to his coworkers by choice, save for Robin and sometimes his fellow L3ers if he's feeling somewhat confident that day.

Jake's anxiety seems to especially flare up due to the entirety of the circumstances in which AJHQ operates, causing him to live everyday in fear that some new fucked up thing is about to happen and all he can do is sit by and watch, Bigfoot forbid it effects him too. Sometimes these worries get overwhelming to the point where Jake is unable to focus on anything else, and is usually left to wallow in his own misery until someone, who is usually Robin, to come over and comfort him, even if this form of comforting is just speaking about utter nonsense and saying "STAY SAFE" over and over, it still helps. Jake actually seems to be closer to Robin compared to anyone else in AJHQ, and tends to use him as some sort of emotional support. In turn, Jake tends to assist Robin with the latter's shitty eyesight and other problems and issues. Just dudes being dudes.

When Jake isn't constantly living in fear, he tends to enjoy the literary arts. He used to take a liking to painting as well, but unfortunately, as soon as he offered to work as one of the artists for Animal Jam, he was cursed to only be capable of drawing in The Art Style instead of his preferred realism. Despite everything, he is still an active writer and, in particular, a poetry enthusiast. ~~Although he isn't very set on sharing any of his own work yet.~~

Jake's also an absolute pushover, especially towards his higherups. Even after everything that happens in Sexybirds, he still seems to think the managers and The Boss know best, aside from Robin, of course. Jake trusts Robin more than anything!

While Jake attempts to talk like any average person, there are times where the language he uses isn't all that darb, and, paired with his excessive use of idioms, frankly sounds like a load of piffle, to be on the up and up. And, By Jove, he utterly despises using any curses he considers "harsh" or "crude". Only mild oaths may do, or, goodness me, it may be going way too far! He also seems to, well, have a minor stutter, which is, uh, expressed through, goodness gracious, an excessive use of commas, as he also has trouble getting down to brass tacks, to put it nicely.

## Lore

### Pre-Locus

this is no longer relevant and also kinda sucked ass tbh. rewrite MAYBE.

### Locus

#### Pre-PAJ

When Jake had finished freaking the fuck out as soon as he first arrived in AJHQ, they were quick to notice his talent in the arts and went straight to utilizing it by making him have the position as a concept artist for their wonderful Project. During the first year or so of being in AJHQ, Jake preferred to stay confined to his workspace and rarely ever talked to anyone else, presumably out of pure paranoia alone. When he was paired with asset designer Robin, however, it seems the two connected rather quickly, and by extension, soothed Jake a tad bit overall.

#### PAJ

Jake does not have any major role in the first few arcs of PAJ, aside from a few minor mentions or background appearances. He is more properly introduced in Sexybirds, when he discovers Dave & Simone's disappearances as well as Robin's body passed out on the ground. At first he panics, but is quickly interrupted when The RGVhZA returns, and begins ranting about bullshit that Jake can't understand, due to the fact they speak in Base64. When Jake begins to panic even further, The RGVhZA finally has enough, and temporarily steals Jake's mouth to get him to shut up, and possesses Robin. Using Robin's body, they demand Jake to lead them to Layer 13. Out of pure fear alone, Jake complies.

Uhhh I know there's a lot of bullshit banter segments between the two but I can't remember for the life of me what happens during them. I do know that at one point when he's leading The RGVhZA he gets tired and has to held in The RGVhZA's big strong arms and they call him a BITCH BoY several times. And Larry also encounters the two I guess. then at some point The RGVhZA falls down the stairs and drops both of the on the hard concrete and this time Jake doesn't break his other horn but he does get lose in the infinite fucked up maze that is Layer 13. He just sorta walks around for a while until The RGVhZA finds him again and is like "SoRRY BITCH BoY, YoU MAY BE MY FAVoURITE BUT ALSo THIS MoTHERFUCKER HAS A JoB To Do" or something like that and possesses him instead due to the fact that Eric murdered Robin, their previous host. and uhhh he's just possessed for the rest of Sexybirds! yea! don't worry he's okay now probably

## Trivia

* Jake is seen almost constantly fiddling with his fingers, likely due to stress.
* He's British.
* Despite everything, he wasn't originally based on the H\*mestuck character of the same name, although I admit he did pick up a few traits from him, unintentionally or not.