question for the day : has jake ever looked into the history of albert ( and maybe even william ), or is it something he shirks and refuses to have any connection to? does he hold resentment for who his father is, even if he says otherwise, or does he genuinely see him as irrelevant?
He has! But i imagine finding information on someone from the 80’s or 90’s is a little harder not to mention who it is, so he’s trying to avoid the magnifying glass being turned on him. For that he’s turned to black market intel and I actually have developed some hc’s/have a thread with @ubcs where Nikolai (under a fake name) is an anonymous information broker that Jake drops a considerable amount on. Sometimes he gets research papers from him, sometimes its other documents related to bioterrorism. He’s possibly seen a few grainy photos of him, but more specifically about his father is expensive and he doesn’t want to become a larger target.
As far as William, Jake doesn’t want to look into Sherry’s past without her permission. He takes what she says at face value, her father died because of his work and thats what matters.
That being said if/when he finds out they knew each other he… probably wouldn’t react well. The longer she waits to tell him that and if he finds out and it doesn’t come from her, he would certainly feel betrayed/used/ have a lot of negative connotations. (Just like he would really have a reaction to finding out he was ever referred to as a Wesker. Knife to the heart.)
He 100% holds resentment for who Albert was. The events of 6 really thrust Jake into a world where everyone hates him because of some guy he never met. Jake does not even know what wesker looks like and even when given a name is like ok and??? His father has always been irrelevant in the way that Jake never expected to meet the man, that idea died with his mother. But suddenly being enemy number 1 and not even for things he’s done pushed him from irrelevant to resentment. There’s also some heavy resentment that this biologist who clearly had money, could have possibly helped his mother and pay for treatment, or that he didn’t have to be adopted by a bunch of mercenaries as a relatively defenseless child. His resentment and disgust lay in the fact that he finds him and his father so different but almost no one else seems to see it. He feels like everyone is waiting for him to snap and it feeds into the ever growing resentment of who his father was.
