Jacob Philips

Jacob "Jake" Philips was Kensington Young's boyfriend back in her high school, before she became a mutant. She hospitalized him in a coma, where everyone thought he was brain dead. But he woke up, and he does not believe it is entirely over yet. He is going to save his girl!

Background
Jacob Christian Philips was born to god-fearing parents, the real conservative type. He never cursed his upbringing however, finding that he loves God, church, helping others, and believing in the divine.

Many would state how much faith Jacob seemed to have, how strong it was. He never seemed to flirt with girls no matter that he was a good looking young man; he never really caused any mischief except for that time when he was ten and accidentally removed the emergency break of his dad’s truck on a hill when he was playing in it.

When fifteen, he met Kensington Young, who went by Kenzie. To him, it was love at first sight. She seemed different, special, like she was meant for wonderful things! He would talk to her about his dreams, and how he wanted to go to college and become an engineer. He already helped out a lot with his dad’s mechanics shop, especially during the summers and weekends.

Jacob and Kenzie never really kissed, though Jacob was always watching her. He loved her eyes, like light or glory of God was trying to shine through them. When her sixteenth birthday was coming up, Jacob had just won a big state competition for his robotics team. He team was the first small town team to win like that! As a result, he was having a chance to attend New York University! He wanted to surprise Kenzie for her birthday, asking her to marry him and move out to New York City with him once they graduated. Sure, it was a big step! But Jacob always knew what he wanted.

At the party though, the spin-the-bottle game made him a little nervous and uncomfortable, but Kenzie was really happy about it, so he went along with it. When Kenzie was spinning the bottle, his heart was pounding so fast he thought he would die! Then it landed on him! He was surprised when Kenzie pounced him like that, but also really happy that she wanted to kiss him really bad too.

Then there was a terrible burning pain, and his nerves started to feel numb, and then nothing. Jacob knew nothing for months and months, before he finally woke up from his coma in the hospital. His body had healed up well, but there were minor burn scars that remained. He was told that Kenzie had run away, and he was to stay away from that family of hers! She was a freak, a mutant, cursed by God.

Jacob didn’t by that though, and he was really angry. He decided that he would go by a nickname too like Kenzie, he would go by ‘Jake’. Also, he began to study even harder in school, and actually decided to take the S.A.T.s early. He was already taking AP classes in high school, and asked to take those exams early after studying very hard on his own, reading everything of import he could get his hands on. He was going to find Kenzie!

When he finally got acceptance mid-year from NYU, Jake skipped church for the first time to go speak to Kenzie’s mother. And that is when he found out that she was found all this time, and she was at Xavier’s Institute for mutants. His heart hurt, as her mother seemed hesitate to give her contact information to him, and she seemed like she was holding secrets from him! He left angry, he was angry a lot these days. His only comfort seemed to be in his school books and with God, he didn’t even enjoy his car like he used to because he had to spend time with his dad.

It was when he was driving home and got a flat tire that opportunity presented himself. He was kicking his tire, wanting to cry and scream to the heavens at the unfairness of it all, when some finely dressed man in a car pulled to the roadside. The man helped Jake change the tire, and started talking to him, really talking to him about his interests, where he wanted to go with his life, his dreams.

That is when the man pulled out a tablet and played a video on it, a video with Kenzie that had been shown on national television, something he never really watched anymore. Jake’s throat constricted. The man spoke to him about a great many things about mutants and about his missing girlfriend. He then handed Jake a plane ticket.

Jake went home and started packing; he was going to New York City early! And he was going to save his girlfriend!

Personality
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