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===Darth Jake===

There are a number of stories which postulate that the emotional trauma Jake suffered through as a child would have serious future ramifications in his future. "Darth Jake" stories almost always focus of the characterization of Jake as horrifying, vicious, cruel, and acting out a pathological desire to show that he's a better father than [["Mad Dog" Morgendorffer]]. Examples of this psychotic variation include [[The Angst Guy]]'s [[Darius]], [[LyinTamer]]'s [[Night of the Storm]], and [[Scissors MacGillicutty]]'s [[Where's Mary Sue When You Need Her?]].

There are a number of stories which postulate that the emotional trauma Jake suffered through as a child would have serious future ramifications in his future. "Darth Jake" stories almost always focus of the characterization of Jake as horrifying, vicious, cruel, and acting out a pathological desire to show that he's a better father than [["Mad Dog" Morgendorffer]]. Examples of this psychotic variation include [[The Angst Guy]]'s "[[Darius]]," [[LyinTamer]]'s "[[Night of the Storm]]," and [[Scissors MacGillicutty]]'s "[[Where's Mary Sue When You Need Her?]]."

A fic that subverts this variation is [[Chosin Fate]], where Daria finds audio tapes of her grandfather before and after the wartime events that transformed him into 'the Mad Dog'. In the fic, listening to those tapes had a cathartic effect on Jake; he muses on how that was the first time he had ever heard his father say that he loved him, and considers how his father was a damaged soul who wasn't trying to abuse him, but to toughen him up for the dangers of the world. We also see this in [[It's All About Respect]] where Jake and [[Lauriel de la Ribas]] speak on the 'Mad Dog's' service time, and how it affected him (Mad Dog) and the people around him.

A fic that subverts this variation is "[[Chosin Fate]]," where Daria finds audio tapes of her grandfather before and after the wartime events that transformed him into 'the Mad Dog'. In the fic, listening to those tapes had a cathartic effect on Jake; he muses on how that was the first time he had ever heard his father say that he loved him, and considers how his father was a damaged soul who wasn't trying to abuse him, but to toughen him up for the dangers of the world. We also see this in "[[It's All About Respect]]" where Jake and [[Lauriel de la Ribas]] speak on the "Mad Dog"'s service time, and how it affected him (Mad Dog) and the people around him.

===Reformed Jake===

Now and then, a fanfic will present Jake as overcoming his broken past and stalled present to be a better husband and father. In [[Kara Wild]]'s [[Driven Wild Universe]], Jake's friendship with [[Anthony DeMartino]] spurs him to teach classes at a nearby community center ("[[All But Forgotten]]"). However, his newfound independence proves to be one of the many causes of a widening rift between him and Helen, eventually leading to their separation ("[[Memory Road]]"). The separation forces Jake, for the first time, to really work at getting to know his daughters and to take care of himself.

==See Also==