Jake is generally a laid back guy... until anything happens, then he turns into a worry wart of the highest degree. Because his life had mostly been about preparing for the worst, he’s always doing just that, even if the worst could be anything from “We’re going to die” to “We’re out of Poptarts”. 

When he isn’t worrying about something Jake can be a very sweet, somewhat rational voice of reason, and quite friendly. If he could get away with it he would sleep most of his day away in the softest bed with a hundred blankets cocooning him. He also likes long, warm showers, and using Tyrone as his pillow.

(WIP so this may change A LOT) 

Jake is a regular guy that wants life to be simple, but unfortunately it isn’t. Raised by his father after his mother died, his relationship with his father was tense and volatile at the best of times, and vicious and rage-inducing at worst. At the age of 15 this all came to head and Jake ran away from home, heading towards the big city with getting away from his father being his only plan. He lived on the streets for a few years, then came across a hidden away and very ominous want ad recruiting workers for an undisclosed job, and out of desperation he applied.

What followed after was years of a different kind of hell he was not expecting. The job he had applied for required him to become a “body disposal” unit and “entertainment provider” for an underground crime ring. The crime ring would bring in their victims, mostly people that missed payments on their services, political figureheads that tried to screw them over, etc, into a “Colosseum” type establishment. Only the victim wouldn’t be given the choice of freedom for victory, instead they would be sicced upon by multiple predator-type Animals that have been gassed up on a feral-inducing chemical, and torn apart in front of high paying customers and would-be double crossers to send a message. No one knows exactly where this Coloseeum is; everyone, including the paying customers, only enter it after being transported to the arena with thick sacks over their heads. The only way to get a ride to the Coloseeum is to drive out to the middle of nowhere and wait for a ride that would arrive at a very precise time. If you are not there, you don’t get in, and depending on your role for the night, that may end badly for you.

Jake has tried many times to break his contract, but the contract is air tight with no possible loopholes or ways of escaping. The only conditions of the contract that hasn’t made his life a complete hell is that Jake is paid very, very well, and he is allowed to live his life like normal. But if he is summoned for a “show”, he must attend, or risk being chased down and forced to attend, or worse, become the new centre stage entertainment.

His nickname “Psycho Orange” is the edgy cool name he had picked for himself when he first got the job, and before he had realised what the job entailed. He was told to pick a “codename” to be referred to for all communications so that his real identity couldn’t be linked back to him. He would change the name, but he’s already neck-deep in this shit, and nothing would improve it anyway.

Now for the good parts of his life. Jake lives with his partner Tyrone and Tyrone’s older sister Mira. Jake met Tyrone at age 18, after Tyrone had also answered an ominous want ad and ended up in the same situation as Jake. Jake at first wasn’t too friendly towards Tyrone, only because he was trying to deal with his own issues. After the two were dropped back at their pick up point and Tyrone realised that Jake lived in the same city as him Tyrone offered him a ride home and a place to stay for the night. One night became two, the three, then eventually Jake moved in with him. By then love between the two of them were blossoming (albeit somewhat awkwardly as Jake didn’t know how to deal with feelings, or love, or people, or anything) and they had been together since.

Jake also met Blaze some years later, after she had crashed through the roof of his non-evidence-hiding day job’s place. From there he became a sort of mother hen to Blaze as the fox-hybrid had a habit of getting into situations that although they worked out in her favour, he still felt the need to watch over her in case whatever god was watching her happened to look the other way.

Negative Angel is... a work in progress for him. But they get along surprisingly well considering she is a demon. Outside of Tyrone and Mira, she is another Animal that Jake will sometimes confine in, or is able to have a very frank conversation with.