#jakey d

[mossolantern]

MLP au Jake Dillinger moment?? I looked up the deifnition of jake, and apparently it's an adjective as well as a name..so..i used it for his pony name lmao.

[secretlordofthefandom]

I don't even know, I just see bmc everywhere

Okay, ya know the Ferdinand the bull the new animation? His friends remind me of some characters of Be More Chill

He just reminds me of rich, like I can't even...

Is this just me?

Or he like he gives me so strong jake vibes I cannot

And Ferdinand kinda reminds me of Michael

I just know the soundtrack of bmc but they give me so strong vibes like

[username-not-spoken-for]

Ok listening to the OCR of BMC, something felt a little off in A Guy That I'd Kinda be Into. I wasn't sure what, exactly- maybe the way Jeremy's voice didn't sound like his own, maybe the way it was the only ensemble song where you couldn't immediately distinguish every cast members' voice...

After listening to it on a continuous loop (for research purposes), I figured out what it was about the song that unsettled me: no one is acting according to "plan". Christine is being goofy and loud and herself... but is she?

I mean, "I don't always relate to other people my age- except when I'm on the stage. There are so many changes that I'm going through- and why'm I telling this to you?" Doesn't that sound like what a third party would think Christine feels? Someone incredibly analytical, and almost 100% accurate? But it's off-putting in the way that modern "coming of age" movies make teenagers act like that (you know what I'm talking about). It's like, yes, whoever is writing this is definitely in contact with teenagers, but they aren't a teenager, per se. Except whoever "wrote" Christine's lines... Has been observing her. Has been listening in on her.

And I know, I know: "Well, duh, Joe Iconis is in Christine's mind. He's observed, and he's listened and one could argue that he is Christine!" (Seeing as how he wrote her in the musical).

Except every scene she's in feels right. It feels natural to her.

So why doesn't this one?

Well, let's go back to Be More Chill Pt. 1. The Squip makes Jeremy see stuff that isn't there (i.e., everyone in the mall singing about him being a slob). What if the Squip realized that the only way to get Jeremy to go "all the way and more" is by completely breaking his heart, making him believe that Christine was in no way shape or form interested in him? That the only guy she was so kinda into was Jake? But obviously sweet little Christine Canigula wasn't going to admit that straight out, so what was the Squip forced to do? Invent an entire conversation where she stomps on Jeremy's feeling. Remember, prior to AGTIKBI, the Squip takes over Jeremy's body and has him PREFORM A SCENE HE MOST LIKELY HADN'T READ THROUGH YET.

He's a supercomputer. If VR is that effective, that realistic, imagine what a quantum computer can do if it is implanted in your brain. The possibilities are literally endless.

Now think of the abrupt change from Christine admitting that she likes Jake, deciding he's "worth it," and then ignoring him before his verse in Upgrade. I'm a girl, and girls just don't do that. (Not any that I've met, anyway- myself included.) Now go back and listen to the original cast recording. Feel the change from "I head to drama practice with CHRISTINE!" to "That guy that I'd kinda be into... Is JAKE!" to "You're not even gonna say hi?" It just doesn't... sit... right. Wouldn't it make more sense if AGTIKBI didn't happen, so it really went like this: "The only reason why he isn't here, is because he's bored of you," to "Is this seat taken?" "I don't know," to "You're not even gonna say hi?" "I was... At rehearsal."

The Squip might have realized Jeremy had a shot with Christine. Afterall, she admits she likes him in The Play, and even agrees to go out to lunch, just the two of them (gah!) in Voices in My Head. The odds of her developing a crush on him from AGTIKBI to The Play are low, because they hardly interact inbetween. So, if Jeremy got with Christine, he wasn't gonna need the Squip, he wouldn't have squipped Jenna Rolan, and the Squip would have had no chance of taking over the world.

What was the solution? Project an imagine of Christine admitting she likes Jake, force Jeremy to become even more reliant on you, and manipulate him into doing your bidding.

He got the feel for her personality by accessing Jeremy's memory of Play Rehearal, and that's why AGTIKBI has always felt just a little... off.

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Disclaimer: I am not by ANY means saying I dislike the song. I adore this song. It's the song that convinced me to listen to the whole musical, seeing as I'd previously only heard The Pants Song. AGTIKBI is the song I jam out to when I'm getting ready in the morning. This isn't a hate post, it's just something that my fevered (is that a word? It is now) brain came up with.

[thesquirrelqueer]

I wanted to draw Jake as a meme and this happened

Please don’t repost (reblogs are appreciated)

Dm me, I do commissions

[the-squip-needs-to-fucking-chill]

Jake: I want to see my little boy

Michael, holding struggling Rich tight: heere he comes

Rich: THIS PLACE IS A FUCKING NIGHTMARE

[todays-jake-dillinger]

Uh oh sisters! *Breaks both my legs*

[officialazucenaa]

Rich woke up at the hospital and had Michael take this to send to Jake (for some reason i thought it might be offensive because of the fact joe confirmed rich setting the fire was a suicide attempt so i apologize if anyone is offended by this i just thought it was funny idea)

[great-grauntie]

Jake Dillinger

I just started thinking about Jake Dillinger. He lost everything and he wasn't even close to being the main character, or represented as anything more than a douchey jock. At least Jeremy and Michael had a happy ending. (Not together.)

Jake lost his house in a fire that his best friend started, and we can headcanon that he forgives him and that everything worked out all we want, but that's unlikely. He probably lost Rich too. Not even mentioning that Rich wasn't the same person that Jake thought he was their entire friendship. Not just that, but Rich's S.Q.U.I.P used Jake as a way to get Rich his objective, meaning that he was taken advantage of by his best friend.

So, he lost his house, his girlfriend, his best friend, the mobility of his legs (And from using them before they were healed, probably lost that for longer than he would have originally), his parents left him, and he's remained mostly calm and collected. Not only that, but he has the pressure of popularity, and not to mention all of his clubs.

I really love him a lot, and I really respect him. I saw the fan wiki for him, and I'm gonna try my best to quote it.

"Lacks empathy"

I'm pretty sure it said something along those lines. But cut the dude some slack, I mean yeah, he called Jeremy a freak, but he was trying to impress a girl and usually, for him, that kind of thing works.

I see a lot of people try to say that Michael had it the worst, and I see where they're coming from, but Jake didn't get a sad song. Jake didn't get to tell his story. Jake had to sit back and let his emotions swirl inside his head, while he waited for his legs to heal. He was such a "minor" character, in the sense that he doesn't often get noticed, and it takes a while to add all the things up about him for most people. And not everyone who's seen Be More Chill is a huge fan who watches it over and over. Which means that a lot of people can gloss over him entirely.

Even I'm guilty of that. I didn't realize how big of a character he was until the third time of watching Be More Chill.

Not only that, but he also got his free will yanked from him. Yes, everyone else did too, but that on top of everything else is just heartbreaking.

Long story short, I love my boy, and he deserves more appreciation.

This also makes me appreciate Joe and Joe's writing more, since every character is deep and relatable in some way, and Jake is absolutely no exception.

@todays-jake-dillinger