I shall speak with all awe and appreciation on the matter of Jake’s power, though he only occasionally ever gets to tap into it. I perceive that Jake going full-power in the Hopesplosion seems to be Homestuck‘s equivalent to the Avatar State — rarely used, immensely powerful, downright destructive, associated with a glowing aura, and seemingly set off in moments of great emotional distress.

Several times when Jake has tapped into his powers it has been in response to people he loves being in mortal peril. We saw this in the Masterpiece where he whooped the heck out of Caliborn’s ass for almost beating Dirk to death. We saw this in the flashback where candy Jake unknowingly cured Tavvy of his peanut allergy after seeing him nearly die of anaphylactic shock. We saw it most spectacularly in 8r8k, where candy Jake essentially turned into a one-man force of nature in response to the sheer danger Tavvy was in as well as Jade dying (she got better, he made her better). It speaks volumes as to his nature, the lengths he would go to when the lives of people he cares about are on the line.

It’s also absolutely fucking terrifying. Even in the original comic itself the uncontrolled Hopesplosion that preceded the timeline careening into a Game Over was powerful enough to devastate a whole chunk of Derse, and the more conscious one Jake unleashed in the Masterpiece was basically impenetrable to the clockwork majyyks that would one day be strong enough to crack the fabric of the Furthest Ring itself. And in Beyond Canon? In 8r8k, Jake’s Hope field straight up does to mortal bodies what Lord English’s rainbow barf laser does to ghosts — utterly incinerate them until not even dust remains.