Jake is still very much a brooding, quiet, intelligent young man - although now he's almost in his thirties. The wonderful powers of morphing mean he doesn't have any scars to show. Physical ones, anyway. Another five years of war have taken their psychological toll on him and despite the fact that he's mostly succeeded in his self-appointed penance - saving the ones he couldn't save before - he's still haunted by war and conflict.

With the war mostly over, he's gone back to solitude and quiet reflection, sitting on his own most of the time. He'll spend hours simply staring into space, lost in thought and his own memories. He rarely, if ever, morphs. He rarely talks to anyone outside of his small circle of friends.

It's like part of him never truly came back from some of the combat they'd been in.