Changes: Jake the Foreman

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Jake is a character who appears in Disneyland Paris' Phantom Manor.

History

Jake was a mine foreman working in Big Thunder Mountain for the Thunder Mesa Mining Company. Jake was in love with the daughter of the company's owner, Mélanie Ravenswood, and when the two made plans to run away together, they were constantly separated by Melanie's controlling father until his untimely death in the earthquake of 1860.

After the earthquake, Jake and Melanie were to marry inside Ravenswood Manor but before the wedding Jake was lured into a secret chamber in the rafters of the estate where he was violently murdered by a malevolent Phantom, hanged by a noose.

To the public, Jake's fate remained a mystery due to the room's secrecy, resulting in his corpse being left in the rafters to rot.

Appearances

Jake appears twice on the attraction, once physically and once in the form of a portrait. Jake's first appearance is in the Stretching Room where he is shown in a portrait where he is shown having a picnic with Melanie while playing the guitar but as the portrait elongates it reveals the picnic being approached by several ants, a scorpion, a beetle, a tarantula, and a rattlesnake. Jake's second appearance is still in the Stretching Room from when the ceiling vanished and displays Jake's skeletal corpse being hung by the Phantom.

Letter

In Mélanie's boudoir, several tear-stained letters can be seen on a table at least one of which is written to Mélanie by Jake. Jake's letter reads:

"Dear Mélanie,
Il est temps maintenant d’annoncer à votre père votre amour pour moi. Je ne supporte plus de voir votre beauté...(unreadable)...qui lorgnent sans cesse sur votre douce et volumineuse poitrine. Il est donc temps de vous offrir à moi.

Je baise...(unreadable)" which translates from french to:

"Dear Mélanie,

It is now time to announce to your father your love for me. I can't stand any more to watch your beauty...(Unreadable)..who peer endlessly at your sweet and voluminous chest. It is now time to offer you to me.

I kiss...(unreadable)"

Trivia

It is unknown whether or not Jake's soul became a ghost after his death as there is no evidence to support it, although it is possible that the Phantom trapped Jake's spirit in the corpse in order to torture him, similarly to how he trapped Melanie.
Jake in part serves as a counterpart to the Ghost Host as they both are shown as skeletal corpses hanging in the cuppolas above their respective stretching rooms.
Despite being a vital character in Phantom Manor's past, he is never given an official full name. It is often held to be "Jake Evans", though use of Jake as a last name, with the full name being "Jonathan Jake", is also sometimes found in fan circles. "Jake Lockheart" is used on the fanonical Thunder Mesa Wiki.

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 * It is unknown whether or not Jake's soul became a ghost after his death as there is no evidence to support it, although it is possible that the Phantom trapped Jake's spirit in the corpse in order to torture him, similarly to how he trapped Melanie.
 * Jake in part serves as a counterpart to the [[Ghost Host]] as they both are shown as skeletal corpses hanging in the cuppolas above their respective stretching rooms.
-* Despite being a vital character in Phantom Manor's past, he is never given an official full name. It is often held to be "Jake Evans", though use of Jake as a last name, with the full name being "Jonathan Jake", is also sometimes found in fan circles.
+* Despite being a vital character in Phantom Manor's past, he is never given an official full name. It is often held to be "Jake Evans", though use of Jake as a last name, with the full name being "Jonathan Jake", is also sometimes found in fan circles. "Jake Lockheart" is used on the [[w:c:thunder-mesa:Jake Lockheart|fanonical ''Thunder Mesa Wiki'']].
 [[Category:Males]]
 [[Category:Deceased Characters]]