I feel so bad for Jacob, no one ever takes him serious and he is always yelled at even when he tries his best, in the final of sequence 9 he is thrown around and hurt and neither Evie or Greenie ever goes to help him. All of that just for him to get killed by the one he loved most.

I actually preferred him over Evie, he’s one of my top three favorite Assassins.. Thanks for doin him some justice, he be gettin too much hate…

Love the character analysis, this man needs love

That moment he hesitates with Roth. That split second you see his eyes widen as he looks at him. That was the point he saw everything he didn't want to be and to see the hope removed from hopeful eyes shook me for the rest of the game

This video is genuinely amazing to see a positive side of Jacob for once, rather than just going on about how he's just a trickster guy or how he's a fool. It's refreshing

It's nice to see so much love for Jacob with the fans. He has a bad name on most channels I've seen but I was like 12 when I played syndicate and I loved Jacob. I thought he was like a cheeky action hero.

I never really considered that most of the game's writing is probably from Evie's perspective before - but when you think about it, that arguably makes so much more sense! Both in and out of the AC Universe when you look at the development of the game and how Evie was originally meant to be the only character for a long time. Also we see Evie be more brash and jumping at opportunities than Jacob during cutscenes as well! Just look at when she meets Dickens and Marx - need I also mention the road rage-y quotes?! (also Jacob *really* needs a hug ngl. He deserves complete happiness) A superb video all around 1000/10!

I didn't catch on to Jacob being bi the first time I played it, but in hindsight it makes so much sense. Wonderful analysis! I already like him a lot, but now he's definitely one of my favourite Assassins :D

This were exactly my thoughts about Jacob omg I've never seen someone see him like I did. I would like to note that Ethan was *probably* not homophobic as the Assassins in general are very progressive I would also like to add something. A general critique that Jacob gets is that his jokes are childish don't land so he's a bad comedic character but I always thought it was part of his charm? His humour is childish and sometimes even cringy but he's confident and proud of it. Jacob never thinks of what ppl would say/think of him and it reflects on his humour, saying every dumb thing he wants to say

I really love your channel, found it recently when I looked up the sacred phrase "Jaskier bi icon"

I'm so glad you're doing Jacob justice, he honestly deserves it. While you were taking about Jacob being a mature Master Assassin in the Jack The Ripper DLC you said you had many theories about the DLC as a whole, and I was wondering if you would still be up to doing a video on your theories? Sorry if it sounds a bit forceful or something, I'm just really interested.

This is amazing omg, I’ve never realised how much of a father Jacob was to the other assassins he trained, your character analysis was great!! It deserves so much more attention 😍

What you said at 11:35 about “Knowing before you know” is spot on, probably the best way I’ve ever heard that feeling described. I always knew, long before I really knew. It’s one of those things that can define your life’s path depending on how you’re able to put it together and come to terms with it

This sucks because this guy was one of the first characters they introduced that felt like a character and there is no character continuation because of how bad the story writing is.

Thank you so much for this analysis! I remember before playing the game I had friends telling me they loved Evie and disliked Jacob, so playing the game I was surprised to feel myself relating to Jacob so much and really liking his parts. He's one of my fave assassins, and you worded perfectly why :)

This is 2 years later, But I really want to thank you for doing this for our boy Jacob, Assassin's Creed Syndicate was my first game and I instantly fell in love with him. Some people call him a Idiot and that really saddens me because he isn't one. He really tries his hardest and he likes joking around, If both Evie and Jacob were serious it wouldn't be as nice to see them interact, Jacob's more fun personality is what I like most about him, So once again I thank you. May The Creed Guide You.

Cannot express to you how much I enjoyed your analysis. Jacob seems to be the most hated and loved Assassin in the fandom at the same time, at least from what I've seen. I think it's very good that you talked about Jacob's Bisexuality IN DETAIL, instead of just brushing it off or thinking that it makes no sense or that it's unnecessary. It adds SO MUCH MORE depth than he already has lurking underneath his charm, witty humor and chaotic personality. Anyway, I'm off to reading more Jacob/Freddy fics. 🤌

This video did so much justice to Jacob thank you so much , I related to him so much especially as another bisexual male who had issues with his father

Imma be honest I wasn’t expecting this but I love this so much. You summarised my thoughts so perfectly.

You think differently than others, i appreciate that. Thank you for explaining jacob like you did, i never thought he and I were one and the same

Thank you so much for doing him justice. Thank you for fleshing him out fairly! I love this video it's a beautiful and perfect character analysis. He was and remains to be one of my all time favorite characters. I it's nice that you didn't just pin him a comic relief. I couldn't agree more with many of the points you outlined.

i am so glad a video like this, truly understanding jacob, exists....almost all the other youtubers that make ac related videos call jacob the stupidest assassin for some reason and it infuriates me because i genuinely want to know what has he done to earn this title

"The assasin Assasin; the type of assasin who focuses on assassinations" I think you just overthrew Shakespeare!!! Also, the fact that it was you who did that Jaskier video

Great in-depth analysis! Jacob and Evie remind me a lot of Dante and Vergil from Devil May Cry and also Vash and Knives from Trigun. It's not unusual to see twins portrayed this way - one easy-going the other more serious - and that doesn't mean the less serious twin is stupid or incompetent. Most of the times he is actually more the "hero", or at least the one we find ourselves rooting for the most. I usually like these raw diamond type of characters, they're the ones who are more fun to see evolve and mature.

I never liked how much hate and blame Jacob got especially from Evie. Your character analysis summed up alot of my feelings on Jacob being a good character and innocent character. Well done!

I love your analysis. I always loved Jacob and I’m always obsessed with misunderstood characters. But I think what changed the way I look at him is I didn’t know he was Bi-Sexual. And as someone who’s struggled with being misunderstood I really love his character way more. I’m glad wrote a character inspired off of him.

This is still one of the best video game character analysis videos, I've ever watched.

Love this video, is exactly what i need it, thank you so much!

I really loved syndicate and i really loved Jacob... he is my favourite Assassin. Jacob really reminded me of myself whenever I play. I use humour, focus on assassinations and I also don't play stealth all the time... he is very underrated

I really love these types of videos, and this one is now one of my favourite videos, I honestly wish I found this earlier. If you don't mind, make more videos like this please!😊😊

Great video! Really good analysis! I wished the game was longer and had more time to tell about Jacob's and Evie's backstory and more room for character development.

HOLY SHIT I HAD NO IDEA HE WAS BISEXUAL! Im bisexual and this revelation gave me a mini spike in excitement and solidified him as my favorite character

Such an underrated video, spot on

This video is really amazing, I understood possibly more than 50% and that is a breakthrough for me, lol (I am Spanish speaker). I like the points and the reasons you give because they make a lot of sense. I enjoyed the video and you have a nice voice! :)

Great video; really well done and reasoned!

Jacob is my favourite, he deserves more love and I love your analysis of him.

Jacob was one my top 5 Assassin's Creed characters I always like his mischief side

I always like Jacob, but could never find the words as to why, this video really gets right to it. Great work!

Why is Jacob like really attractive

Great analysis and video, thank you so so much for this!

When I had first played Syndicate I couldn't help but hate Jaocb, until I realized he was Bisexual, then I started to see him in a new light. When I had explained to everyone around me, they simply thought it was just because I am a member or the LGBTQ community and so is he, so they called me biased. However, as I watched this video, I realized that I didn't just switch over because he and I are one in the same when it comes to sexuality, but rather because I understand him. I understand his feelings and why he acts like he does, and I think it helped open my eyes to Jacob's character.

I always saw Roth and Jacobs relationship as Jacob found a friend slash father figure that is similar to himself

Jacob Frye was the heart and soul of the London Bureau, whilst Evie was its mind, Henry its eyes and ears and the Rooks their limbs. When Evie left for India, she took the sanity from London. I blame her, and only her, for London's collapse into The Ripper's Terror. Frederick Abberline had Evie escorted to his office mostly as a friendly scolding - commanding in as polite a tone possible, "Clean. Up. Your. Mess." For all of his flaws, Jacob Frye is a Masterwork of an Assassin and while not perfect, he is by every means exactly what London needed in his time.

He is not as charismatic as an Ezio or Edward, he is not as strong as Connor, but he is the most original of all the assassin we play. He is tragic as Arno, but goes on with luck and a smile.

I never realized Jacob was bi after seeing this video he is now growing on me

Thank you for understanding him. I hate when people say that he is stupid.

a notice from the book (partly told from the perspective of Henry, Ethan Frye, and Aberline): Ethan Frye is described both by other assassins and a young Henry as being brash and mischievous, as well as a smidge sloppy in some of his cover ups, I think another aspect you could read into their dynamic is that sense of Ethan seeing too much of his worse qualities in Jacob and wanting him to be better, not realizing that it ends up being the thing pushing them apart. This is a great analysis that i love a lot and i appreciate the emphasis on Canon Bi Jacob Frye (even if i am a lil annoyed it was a Word of God confirmation, not that it would make sense otherwise)

I would've liked to see these characters have a sequel game & be given more development, especially Jacob & his love life

I think I was maybe 13 when I played Syndicate, so I didn't realize most things, especially not that Jacob is bi. But still I quickly started to identify myself with him. Over the years I realized, that I mostly feel drawn to troubled persons and characters. Maybe a part of me noticed his problems. Till this day, Jacob is my favorite assassin and I highly doubt that it will ever change.

I loved this video! Jacob is such a complex character and it kills me how people boil him down to just a, “Worthless, reckless, Jackass”.

I've always liked Jacob more than Evie due to the fact that Jacob is more interesting due to his personality while I find Evie really boring because she is so cliche and is seemed to be made as this flawless perfect assassin.

He is growing on me

hi I recently found your channel and this was my first video i seen . i really like your analysis of jacob fry i'm a twin and i have a younger twin sister. (i'm a boy lol) i can relate with evie but i'm bi like jacob. keep up the good work i can't wait to see more of your analysis video in the future

Honestly, hot take but id say Jacob is the sexiest assasin in the series

This is really good. A great analysis.

Underworld is a really good book to get some sort of perspective on Ethan, you also get small snippets of young Evie and Jacob but the book mostly talks about Henry

I know I'm like a year late but I love this video honey

I feel the best to spend my money with this game season. I was fascinated by the character Jacob Frey. His eyes were of many things, and at times his trying to be like an adult and realistic.It looked as innocent as a child and that was the charm of this character.

His relationship with roth was really interesting

Brilliant analysis. Bravo. ❤

I really recommend the book Underworld. Changed my view on the game so much.

I just want to say that i agree. Jacob is one of the coolest characters in the franchise, but all of them are cool as hell. I think you touched on the things I agree with perfectly. He isn't perfect, but he does his job the best he can, improvises, and of course, he has a little fun. Who wouldn't have fun traveling on rooftops in London? He matures later in the DLC, but I think just like other AC games, if they had more time, every single one of them could be game of the year contenders.

WHAAAAAAAAAAA Jacob is Bi. HOW DID I NOT KNOW

Replaying Syndicate now, and I must say, Jacob is one of my favourite Assassins in the entire franchise. It’s a shame how much hate he receives and it’s just mind boggling to me why he still isn’t getting the love he deserves, while Arno is all of a sudden.

So what I'm hearing is..... Jacob is just Arno but in the Victorian era?

Its been so long since I played this game. I lost my account where I had this and lost the discs aswell.

After watching this video fully i think i actually view Jacob in a more positive light. He defo needs a hug😭 Evie will always be my favourite twin if I'm being honest😭 Her drip and character is more my type. I wish she wasn't done dirty and had equal missions with Jacob like how it was supposed to be in the og storyline. I felt forced to play with her brother ngl. I live in a homophobic country so the kiss between Jacob and Roth was cut out and i had no idea that Jacob was bi till i watched the gameplay online💀 Assassin-wise Jacob isn't my fav but I'm glad for the representation🙏

He is an ASSASSIN SASSIN Jacob got dat SASS

I feel like outside of his queerness, Jacob works very well for ADHD representation

What a cool character

Jacob is my favorite in assassin's creed syndicate

After watching this analysis I realized the ONLY difference between me and Jacob is, I'm American and he's British lol. Are you going to do more analysis in the future? I hope so 🤞

Jacob the bi king

I haven't finished Jack the Ripper DLC and I paused immediately at the last few mins towards the end of the video... gonna save some spoilers for later after I beat the DLC! XD

Jacob is my favorite in syndicate

This analysis is so good! I love that syndicate can get some credit too for its characters. I would love to see an Evie analysis from you. You’re perspective is really interesting.

cool video kate

Is Jacob bi or is roth because it was roth that kissed him and Jacob was disgusted but did this moment change Jacob idk though

You sound like Evie and i just got confused all the time😂😂😂 Great vid tho

I love my bi boy Jacob!

Before I get into what is likely to be a long comment, let me first say that I think your analysis was excellent and I agree with almost everything you said. Most videos and articles about Syndicate are years old (so I feel odd commenting on them), but I only played the game back in June, so I hope you'll indulge my babbling :) I started to watch this video last night, and I'll admit to initially rage-quitting at 3:15 when you said that Evie's missions were "padded out". In my -- admittedly limited so far -- experience with the Syndicate fandom (not game reviewers, but people posting fanfiction, fan art, memes, etc.), there seem to be two very popular opinions that drown out almost everything else: 1) that Jacob and Evie should bang (gross), and 2) that Evie is a b**** whose selfish obsession with the Pieces of Eden prevented Jacob from doing more good in London. So when you said Evie's missions had been padded out at the expense of Jacob's character, I thought you were one of the latter. When I was playing the game, I actually thought it was pretty obvious that Evie's story had been cut short in the main game and then they'd tried to make up for that by making her the star of JTR and giving her more time in the novel. I don't know if you've read the articles that came out in July, about Ubisoft executives forcing the team to reduce Evie's role in the story (and Aya's and Kassandra's as well), but apparently she and Jacob were initially intended to have equal scripted time. I feel cheated wondering what story line we missed out on because Ubisoft is run by misogynists. Would Evie have had a mess of her own to clean up at some point, or would we have seen her fulfill her promise to Clara instead of having the child liberations relegated to side missions, maybe? But I also feel that both JTR and the novel would have been stronger if we'd spent more time with Jacob or gotten more insight into his character. The novel would have been a perfect time to tell us more about why Ethan and Jacob didn't get along, but all we really get is.......*****novel spoilers ahead*****.......that they loved each other, Jacob was sad when Ethan got sicker and died, and Ethan thought both twins were ready to go to London, though he died before he could start making any concrete plans for them beyond their blooding. **End of novel spoilers** I came back to your video today with the intention of arguing that it is possible (preferable, even!) to defend and explain Jacob *without* assassinating Evie's character, and was pleased to learn that I wasn't going to have to do that after all. :) Without giving out any more spoilers, reading the novel made me wonder whether Ethan might have been bisexual himself, though likely in denial about it, and if he recognized that in Jacob -- maybe catching him giving another boy "inappropriate" (or so he would have thought) attention -- there might have been an element of self-hate there as well. I'm not LGBTQ myself, so it's quite likely that I'm reading into things that aren't really there, but I thought I'd mention it in case you read the novel (or planned to) and would love to know your opinion on that. Either that, or Ethan saw other aspects of his own personality in Jacob, recognized what those traits had cost him, and wished better for Jacob. I had a bit of a different interpretation of Aberline's instructions to Jacob regarding Twopenny than you did. I don't remember the exact line, but Aberline said something to Jacob about needing to catch Twopenny in the act and not to interrupt him, so before regaining control of Jacob, I thought the objective would be to kidnap Twopenny at some opportune moment, or maybe let Twopenny complete the theft and then tail him, leading the police straight to his hideout with the stolen goods. I was quite confused when the objective was instead to assassinate Twopenny, because in my mind, that's exactly what Aberline *didn't* want. That gave Jacob more culpability for the fallout, although the police are still partially to blame. I hadn't thought of it that way, but I think you're absolutely right in that regard. Finally, I'm with you 100% on the nature of the sibling relationship and what it tells us about Jacob. I almost feel like, even though we get Evie's own words from her journal, we actually get a more honest picture of their relationship by the looks they give each other at various points in the game. Fond amusement when Jacob gets his first kukri or when Evie fangirls over Charles Dickens. Tears in their eyes when they fight. Regret as they head off to the ball for their "last" mission together. And yes, jealousy from Jacob that Evie isn't spending as much time with him anymore. It's such a well-done relationship that these two are among my most favorite characters in any medium, ever. Anyway, great video, and thanks for reading!

jacob is better than evie,evie too much passion behind his father word,only focus of piece of eden but jacob?he almost slaught all master templars in london,and

Nice video

He and Alexios would have been awesome together

Like yea his bi but why would the creed care it’s literally about freedom but carry it with honor

Ar-are you saying I'm not dumb?

Late to the party, but I'd also like to point out that Jacob seems to be attracted to more..mature people. (ie "old" lol). He's attracted to Roth, but he was also, I think, obviously attracted to Pearl as well. He even has moments where he looks very fondly at Darwin. We don't ever see him flirting with people his own age; he's always flirting with the older, more mature, characters.

EXACTLY

Such a W video, as a bi man with father issues as well i truly reasonated with Jacob, hes my most favorite Assassin's creed character his humor always put me in a good mood. Jacob is one of my biggest inspirations, hes truly an underrated character. I always prefered him for than Evie since Evie is the opposite of my personality, shes more like my older brother.

Great video - it's certainly given me a different perspective on Jacob. I have to ask though…what’s your opinion on Evie? I only ask this because, I’ve done a video on how to me, Evie is the redeeming aspect of Syndicate, and commented that Jacob is quite annoying. It’s a throw away comment and based mostly on the fact that I didn’t want to play as him, but I never EVER considered the fact that I saw him as a bit annoying because…well…Evie did, and she’s the twin I tried to play as much as I possibly could (despite the limitations of the story). I just find the idea that whichever twin you favoured is the one you would take the side of - much in the same way if they were real people venting about their sibling. I’ve always felt the sibling relationship between the two is probably the best part of the writing in Syndicate, it feels so authentic at times. Quite frankly, if me and my younger sister were assassins my last words to her before a mission would most certainly be ‘don’t die’ just like Evie’s were to Jacob at the start of the game. I find the Frye twins broken down to Evie is the straight man to Jacob’s joker and I just don’t think it’s right, I think they’re both so much more than that character wise. Both twins suffer from a very bad story - or in the very least a story that needed more background. I think Syndicate NEEDED to see some of their life with their father to truly understand their characters. There was just something missing in the backstory to fully round the two off. I won’t lie, it’s put the idea in my head to do a video along the lines of how both twins are viewed depending on who you spend most of your time playing as and if it influences how you feel about the other Frye sibling.

Jacob does have a child cause you play as his granddaughter in the ww1 missions

W vid

Wow

If you are you are my dearest youtuber m'lady

As a bisexual and a fan fic writer THANK YOU! ❤

This is good but why does everything have to be gay now

I just don’t like him because he’s BRITISH!!!