Come to think of it, Jake exhibits shades of three classic fairy tale archetypes.

1) He wants to be the hero -- the gentleman adventurer, the guy who charges in all gallant and brave like in so much of the media he’s consumed over the years.

2) Several times he is the damsel in distress -- the object of others’ attraction, the one actually in need of saving, whether from the local wildlife or from Evil Red Riding Jane or from the Big Bad Spider.

3) He’s also surprisingly dragon-coded -- his room is full of hoards of his own kind of treasures (gun pile, movie posters, comic stash) and he still wants to acquire more (artifacts from adventuring), and there’s plenty of fire imagery around him (living near a volcano, having to cremate his grandma, Hope powers incinerating people, even the first glimpse of Grandpa in front of the fireplace). Heck, the argument can be made that his loved ones are another hoard of his, as Jake only ever willfully unleashes the Hopesplosion when someone harms them (as in the Masterpiece against Caliborn, and in [S] 8r8k against Jane’s army).