I haven't fleshed out the details but Jake had a run-in with the sahagin as a teenager, and the only thing that saved him was the fact that an early manifestation of the Echo let him understand and communicate with them.
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Jake and Lyse first got together shortly before boarding the ship to the Far East, so they were together for months before they had an actual date. They took the opportunity while they were trying to track Gosetsu and Yugiri to explore Kugane and experience the city together.
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Nobody different helps out, but there a pair of additional scenes after the party walks away. After Papalymo's scene, Yda approaches him and, referring to Jake and his relationship with Lyse, says "So that's the guy, huh? Good for you, sis." And after Minfilia, there's a moment
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Not all (maybe not most) of the injuries Thancred shows up with after his fight with Ran'jit CAME from fighting Ran'jit. Shortly before that fight (during which Thancred kills Ran'jit, btw), he and Jake came to blows over Thancred's treatment of Ryne.
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To answer my own question, Jake and Lyse have a daughter on the way, due date roughly a few months before the start of 8.0, depending on what exactly MSQ does. At some point when discussing names, Lyse mentions (or will mention; I'm a little ahead of them storywise) that she
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A lot later than he should have. Jake and Lyse were obvious to almost everyone but Jake and Lyse (and for some reason Alphinaud) for a while, but both kind of downplayed their feelings for each other. But after seeing how upset Lyse was after seeing the cruelty of
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In general Jake is good with babies and small children, though some find him scary if they aren't familiar with Au Ra. He has one of his own on the way, and he's slightly terrified he's going to screw things up.
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Well, he fell pretty hard for Minfilia, so...
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Jake rarely goes anywhere without the Wayfarer's Necklace, though it was gifted to him by Tataru far earlier in lore than in game. Before the group left for Ala Mhigo at the start of Stormblood, Tataru gave both Jake and Lyse necklaces made from crystals carved from the Aetheryte
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Yes. Jake practically grew up on the Rhotano. He might be more at ease in the water than on land.
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In general Jake doesn't really feel that comfortable shortening miqo'te names. It feels a little overly familiar in a way he doesn't feel he's earned. The one exception is M'naago, but she was very insistent on it. After Ultima Thule, he occasionally lets a Raha or Shtola slip, though.
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Usually in his yard of his home in Limsa if he's not out adventuring. He and Lyse have a morning routine of calisthenics and sparring while overlooking the ocean. He'll work out elsewhere if he has to, but that's his spot.
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Jake remembers very little about his birth family, but he remembers the vague image of his grandfather wearing similar face paint, though he doesn't know why (his grandfather was a worshipper of Tsukiyomi). Jake wears the face paint in honor of his birth family.
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Jake has Ryne, which surprised exactly no one that was on the First. It was a shock to Lyse when he returned to the Source, to say the least, and it took a while for her to get used to the idea. They have a child of their own on the way now, and the general reaction to that news
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Jake is allergic specifically to the flowers in Il Mheg. Judging by the laughter this illicits from the pixies, he suspects its more fae trick than actual allergy.
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Jake's face paint was originally a bit of a joke reference to the old Star Trek episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," and it wasn't until Tsukiyomi showed up in the Stormblood patches that I was able to give it a vague in-game explanation.
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This is also my go-to bad ending "Jake dies and someone summons a Primal version of him with disastrous results" song, but it can work for Arcadion too.
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The biggest one is Ryne. As much as he tried to resist bonding with her at first because of the painful association with Minfilia, she was Jake's daughter from the moment they met. There are plenty of other characters I'd say that he doesn't exactly feel paternal towards but has
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Jake doesn't know that Lyse & Ryne have been writing back & forth with each other & that he's been unwittingly acting as courier, with the letters being packed inside correspondence between Ryne & Thancred. Ryne didn't want Jake to know about their exchanges because she wanted
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The dynamic between Jake and Fordola is a bit complicated, and I don't actually talk about it much considering how important it is to his story. For a lot of Stormblood, he was burning a path towards Zenos, and Fordola was just another obstacle in the way. But after her capture
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It depends on the battle. If Jake's just sparring with someone, he's showing off & having fun with it. It's actually one of his & Lyse's favorite activities together. If it's a serious battle with serious stakes, however, he's doing his best to end the threat as quickly as possible.
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Not a widower, but Jake and Minfilia had a connection that was leading... somewhere. He has a painting of her in his house and kept her dagger. He also has a connection to her through his daughter, Ryne. At the beginning of their relationship, Lyse was insecure about his
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Jake doesn't mind his horns being touched any more than other part of his body, but people rarely do, in part due to his height, and in part because he looks intimidating. The only one that touches them with any regularity is Lyse.
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Both of mine are related to some extremely minor NPCs. I'll answer for both in separate quotes.
Jake was very young when he lost his birth parents and never knew his extended birth family, but after he gained fame on the Azim Steppe, his cousin Saiun (a squadron npc) tracked
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Briefly, near the start of Stormblood. By the end of ARR, Jake had bought into the idea that with the Blessing of Light meant he was basically untouchable. Then the banquet happened. Then Midgardsormr. Then Zenos at Rhalgr's Reach. He started doubting everything he thought being
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It was an unexpected shock for Jake, for sure. He had felt out of place among the Scions from the start, but Yda had become his friend almost immediately and felt like a touch of "normalcy" amongst all of the scholars he found himself with. He understood her reasons and hated
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The big thing that's been written and rewritten and rewritten is exactly what went on between Jake and Minfilia. I gave this no thought at all until I realized how strongly Jake was affected by the Word of the Mother quest and I suddenly had to retroactively deal with his
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Jake started out wearing heavier armors. Over time his relationship with being the Warrior of Light changed, & he began wearing lighter clothing of the kind he would normally wear rather than trying to be the knight in shining armor. His battle style was always based on agility anyway.
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I have an idea of how the story ends in general, with Jake & Lyse's daughter as a teenager beginning an adventure with her aunt Alisaie. This leaves Jake's ending ambiguous, but he's not part of the ending because it's a passing of the torch rather than for some tragic reason.
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Jake's eye was badly damaged by "Zenos" at the battle of Ghimlyt Dark. He nearly lost complete vision in it. At various points in ShB Ryne tried to heal the wound with only moderate success. He had limited vision now, but frequent headaches due to eye strain and sensitivity to
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