Jake McKenzie

Jake, a character in the "Endless Summer" series, is a pilot. He is one of Your Character's love interests. His is first seen in book 1, chapter 1.

Appearance
Jake has shaggy light brown hair, cerulean blue eyes, and fair skin. He normally wears a black T-shirt, a green jacket and dog tags.

Personality
He is sarcastic, relaxed and charming. Loves giving nicknames to almost everyone, including Fox and IRIS.

He protects the ones he likes.

History
Jake was born on a rural town on Shreveport, Louisiana. Back then, during his military days on the naval academy as a fighter pilot, he met his bunkmate Mike. He was his only friend and loved him like a brother, and one of the best times of his life was when they were assigned on the same deployment. One time when they were running recon missions off the coast of Kharzistan aiding a rebellion, they discovered their commander Rex Lundgren was selling military weapons illegally to tyrants. Jake and Mike were caught before they turned out the evidence, and their commander pointed out false accusations to them instead. On a standard recon mission turned into an ambush, Mike got shot down while Jake ejected in time. Heading back to the base, Jake was to be arrested by the military police before he punched his commander and became a fugitive resulting to a bounty of $750,000 over his head. Jake currently resides in Costa Rica running ever since. Jake has been extremely reckless, most likely stemming from his past career as an Air Force pilot. He has trust issues and doesn't make friends easily after the incident with Mike. Seemingly to cover for this, Jake is also extremely sarcastic and witty from time to time, in a fruitless effort to diffuse the tension.

Your Character
Jake originally finds Your Character annoying and calls the college student "Boy Scout" or "Princess", depending on gender. He will start to respect Your Character after he/she breaks up the fight between him and Sean. Your character has a chance to improve her/his relationship status with him after you chose him every encounter. There are options where you can track the progress of your relationship status; hiking to find a nearby shelter (chose the option, "wanted to spend time with him" in order for him to like you), go out with him on a jet ski getaway (gaining his friendship). If you chose to take his offensive technique of combat and spar with him, you'll get to be close with him. And finally, ask him to come to your room with you gaining an increase in 5 points. Jake seems to be sarcastic, satirical and acerbic at first but when your character chooses to get along with his banter, he'll open up more to you. Over the course of the game, he will show concern over your character, willing to protect you at all costs. He's an actions over words kind of person, he'll eventually care and sometimes be affectionate to your character.

Sean
To begin with, Jake and Sean are not very friendly with one another, which eventually boils over during the debate about whether the group should leave the resort or not, where they have a punch-up. However, their issues are eventually resolved and the tensions are greatly decreased.

Everett Rourke
Although they've never met, Jake thinks very lowly of Rourke. He is more than willing to believe the rumors that Rourke is a criminal involved in illegal experiments. He believes that the King Crab and the Sea Monster were biological weapons created by him.

Trivia

 * Jake is shown on the cover of "Endless Summer, Book 1".
 * His Hadean Zodiac sign is Lupus, the Wolf.
 * He is the oldest of the group.
 * Jake appears to have nicknames for people in the group. For example, he calls Michelle "Maybelline" and he calls Grace "Brain Trust". Oftentimes, the nicknames are linked in with Jake's perceptions of other group members. This most likely relates to how he sarcastically calls Aleister "Malfoy" after Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter series.