Fan:Jake Thacher

Jacob "Jake" Thacher is a fanfictional character in the Digimon Cinematic Sagas. He is one of the main characters in the DigiDestined Saga.

Description
Jake was born in 2002 to unrevealed parents. He was born the second son of his family. His big brother James "Jim" Thacher is four years older than him. Jake has lived in Los Angeles his whole life. When he was only 3 years old, he was one of the four people who were able to see the imperfect temporary bio-emergence of Parrotmon into Los Angeles. This led him eventually to be chosen as a member of the DigiDestined.

Jake had very strict parents who wished him to be better any other student. Even though he has done his best sometimes, every bad grade has made his father angry. Jim was always there to defend him. He eventually moves away for his medical studies, but always advised Jake to sometimes stand against his parents. Jake has been friends with Troy Dawkins and an English-born loner named Seamus Maitland, since their 5th elementary school year. Jake is able to understand them both, since he slightly resembles both of them by his personality.

Digimon: First Adventure
The film describes how Jake becomes a DigiDestined. His school was visited by Kevin Harmon, he showed biggest interest on it. He had already finished his schoolwork and had a time to hang out for a while with Troy and Seamus. But suddenly, the Bio-Emergence Fog appeared and one of the six Digivices that emerged through it was given to him. Later at home, he finds Pukamon at his home and it knows his name. He is informed by Troy and Seamus that they have their Digimons with them as well.

Later at night, they are alerted by Kuwagamon's Bio-Emergence and arrive there with Miyuki Koharuno, as well as Kevin and his son Edmund. Their partners Digivolve into their Rookie forms, with Pukamon Digivolving into Betamon, and they destroy a Black Gear controlling Kuwagamon who then returns to the Digital World. He was asked tomorrow to arrive into the Streamix Corporation office of Los Angeles with other four children, but the Black Gears attacked them and disrupted the barrier between the real world and the Digital World. The five children were sent into the Digital World, and Jake was sent with Betamon to the underground sewers in the File Island.

In the sewers, Jake and Betamon explored the area while receiving message from Kevin Harmon about the origin of the Digimon and instructions of using the new uploaded mobile applications. After evading a group of dirty Numemon, they were attacked by Drimogemon controlled by a Black Gear. Betamon learned to Digivolve into Seadramon and after reuniting with Troy and Agumon (who had Digivolved into Greymon), they freed Drimogemon. Then Troy told Jake that the island was ruled by an evil Digimon named Devimon.

They regrouped with Seamus and Miyuki to save Edmund and Patamon from Leomon controlled by several Black Gears. After Kevin and Tentomon arrived to help them, they used the light of the Digivices to free Leomon. Then Leomon, along with Elecmon, told about the origins of the battles between good and evil in the Digital World. They decided to follow Devimon and his evil forces to Kyoto, Japan.

During the first phase of the battle, Jake, Troy and Miyuki and were trying to destroy Bakemon forces as well as free Unimon and Centauromon from the Black Gears. After they were defeated, Jake's group joined the others and faced Devimon who had grown himself into large size. Leomon and the Partner Digimons were not powerful enough to defeat him. But Devimon was later destroyed by Patamon's Champion form Angemon when he sacrificed himself and transformed into a Digi-Egg to wait for a rebirth.

After the battle, the Streamix Corporation started to form a special office for the DigiDestined to use as headquarters. One month after the battle, Jake and his friends (excluding Edmund who was traumatized by his partner's death) were informed that the headquarters were now complete, so they arrived to take a look and prepare for searching ways to defeat enemies that would be even more powerful than Devimon.

Trivia

 * Jake is originally meant to be based on Michael, since his original partner was Betamon. Jake was also planned to be killed in Network Battles with Betamon turning evil and eventually becoming MetalSeadramon. But in order to make the each of the Chaotic Masters (a name change from Dark Masters) more equal, the idea was cancelled and Betamon was made to return back to his In-Training form and Digivolve into an alternate Rookie form: Gomamon, same as Joe Kido's partner. That's why Jake was given some parts of Joe's life, like using glasses, having a big brother to study in medical school, and making both him and Kevin Harmon as mediators in arguments between Troy and Seamus.