Anonymous asked: My boy, Jake
I’M NOT EVEN GOING TO PUT THIS ON ANOTHER POST BECAUSE JUST. YES. JAKE IS MY BOY. HE’S THE BEST BOY. HE’S DOING HIS VERY BEST AND I LOVE HIM SO MUCH.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE JAKE BECAUSE OF THE ACTIONS HE TAKES DURING THE WAR, I DISAGREE BUT I RESPECT YOUR OPINION. IF YOU DON’T LIKE JAKE BECAUSE YOU THINK HE’S INCOMPETENT AND/OR BORING, I INVITE YOU TO MEET ME BEHIND THE HAUNTED EX-DENNY’S AND WE CAN SETTLE THIS PROPERLY.
Anonymous asked: Yes to your Jake headcanon. 'Big Jake' to me always meant that he was broad shouldered and tall and just solid (which means Tom was probably even taller if he called him midget but that could have also been a big brother teasing thing). No offense to anyone if they want to headcanon Jake as being chubby, but that's not how I interepreted his nickname at all.
I have read some EXCELLENT chubby Jake headcanons and I’m here for it, tbqh, but yeah, IDK I knew a lot of just…really big dudes when I was younger, the gentle giant types who seem kind of bemused by being the size of a fridge. And Jake always struck me as the type of guy who seems kind of bemused about being so tall. Also, who else is with me that Tom used to call Jake midget because Jake was shorter than him as a kid and then Tom got infested with a Yeerk and the Yeerk never changed the nickname even though by the end of the war Jake is three inches taller than his big brother. Obviously in an AU where Everything Is Okay this means that Tom calls Jake midget as like an ongoing family inside joke that makes people very confused because Jake is Tall.
Anonymous asked: In my mind I will forever refer to Jake as "Roach Boy"
Oh my God, the YELP of laughter I let out when I saw this, you have no idea. Roach Boy, with a Roach Motel on his head.
On a somewhat related note I think it’s fucking great that he gets called Big Jake, like, point me toward the fanart where Jake is just. A big dude. Not fat–he’s an athlete, even if he’s not great at basketball–but just big. I have a friend who’s a football player (like…one of the positions that does a lot of running, I know nothing about football) and he’s like six foot and he’s ALWAYS been a really huge dude, tall and broad shouldered and kind of benevolently looming at all times, even when we were Animorphs-age. Draw me Jake like that dude. Just. Real tall and real broad through his shoulders with real big hands and generally kind of unsure about what to do about it. Talk to me about how he goes from kind of cheerfully slouched (I know a lot of friendly huge dudes, you know the slouch I mean, of like “I’m really tall and I’m trying to look approachable”) to ramrod straight and menacing as fuck during the war. He goes from being totally friendly and adorable to…genuinely kind of intimidating?
…listen, I’m sorry for this drastic change of topic, I just have a lot of feelings about Big Jake.
Jake made a deal with Fenestre–as long as he was inside his own house, he was safe from retribution.
Rachel knows that there are some things that only she and her cousin can do, and this is one of them.
We all know who did the arson at the end of Book 16.
Alternatively, the one where Jake and Rachel do terrible things because who else would be able to?
Which is honestly a genre of Animorphs fic I feel to be sadly lacking, but I digress.
ladysugarquill asked: Hi! I'm following your Animorphs reread and I just wanted to add to your pain by mentioning that the two lines Tom says in the pool are the last time he will talk to Jake of his own free will IN THE ENTIRE SERIES. You're welcome <3
You.
I like you.
Also, I raise you the fact that Jake does eventually hear Tom–the real Tom–one more time. In Temrash 114’s memories of Tom begging for Jake to be spared.
I have loved since you. But when the new paint gets scratched, there you are underneath. (My heart is layers of scar.)
Ronnie loves her, is the thing here. That doesn’t make it easy, and that doesn’t make it what Cassie needs.
It’s what makes you so brave. It’s what makes you so dangerous.
STOP THIS AT ONCE
(Source: sawthefaeriequeen, via demenior)
Okay but a serious question.
Is there literally any canonical evidence for Jake being a history buff, or is that just a headcanon that bb!me got really committed to?
Like, I am fine with either one and I will not be moved on this matter, Jake is a history buff, but seriously, which one is it.
He never explicitly mentions liking/studying History, but he can name half a dozen battles (several of which I, a decade older, don’t remember) off the top of his head in book 17, and knows the specifications of an aircraft carrier aT LENGTH, SERIOUSLY SO MUCH LENGTH on that one Ax book.
I’d say well-supported fanon.
*fist bump* Thank you my friend, you’re a champ.
Also in #33 he goes off on a rambling monologue that suggests he knows military history and has deliberately been studying famous leaders.
I know there are other examples. At one point he talks about how General Sherman revolutionized warfare, I think. (#31 or 47? IDK.)
I’d say Jake deliberately studying military history out of necessity (not passion) is cannon.
All right, awesome, I knew this couldn’t be something I’d made up wholecloth.
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