#and then bway changed it to chrissy saying 'no talking backstage' and no line from jake :/

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Maybe the reason Jake is so "casual" about his parents being criminals and leaving him alone is nobody needs to know that the Golden Boy of the school has it rough because that would fuck with his reputation as the CoolRichAwesomeSpecial guy with a perfect life. Maybe it's framed comedically because he wants you (the audience and a hypothetical peer) to view it as a fun thing. Yeah they're running from the law so they're not gonna notice if I throw a rager on a school night, you comin' or what.

Maybe he's "casual" about Rich burning his house down because he has like 4 spoken lines in The Play and 3 in VIMH (depending on how you count them) and we don't know what his thoughts are on it because why would he talk about that with anyone when he's got a role to kill in Midsummer Nightmare with broken legs, like a badass. Because he's a badass. Don't feel sorry for him just look at how much of a badass he is. He's walking on broken legs because he can't feel pain. How cool is that. Tell him how cool he is.

He wasn't given much doylist development so I'm putting a watsonian spin on its absence. This is what we do with side characters.