much like the rest of sck's cast, jake rogers is more of a paper-thin sketch than a fully-realized character, but ... i kind of love him? i think one of the best things the remake did was retcon the little hidden messages into part of his master plan. there's something compelling about a high schooler planning so carefully for his own death while also feeling so stupidly confident it won't happen ... and then violently dying due to his own overconfidence ... which itself justifies all the planning and paranoia that he thought would never have to justify. jake was, explicitly, textually, not as smart as he thought he was. but you still play the whole game feeling like he's leading you around by the nose, making fun of you for being two steps behind.
