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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 ofcharacterize 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 variationtype 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 hadhas a cathartic effect on Jake; he muses on how that was the first time he had ever heard his father say that he loved himhis son, 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 theabout "Mad Dog"'s" service time, and how it affected himJake's (Mad Dog)father and the people around him.
===Reformed Jake===
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