Jacob Frye

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{{Dialogue2|Evie|You're relentless!|Jacob|That relentlessness will see me become Master when we finish this.|George would allow nothing of the sort. Whatever's left of the Creed would perish under your control.|Jacob and his sister, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = ACS Jacob Frye.png
|birth = 9 November 1847<br>[[Crawley]], [[United Kingdom]]
|affiliates = [[Assassins]]<br>[[Rooks]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
|voice= [[Paul Amos]]}}
'''Sir Jacob Frye''' (1847 – unknown), born to [[Ethan Frye|Ethan]] and [[Cecily Frye]], was a [[Master Assassin]] of the [[British Assassins|British Brotherhood]] of [[Assassins]] active in [[London]] during the [[Victorian era]], and the younger twin brother of [[Evie Frye]], later becoming a member of [[Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria's]] [[Order of the Sacred Garter]], and the grandfather of [[Lydia Frye]].

Born in [[Crawley]], where they were raised as Assassins from birth, Jacob and his sister eventually moved to London after their father died of natural causes.

Alongside Evie, Jacob led the [[Rooks]], a criminal syndicate opposing the Templars. At some point in their life, the twins came into contact with the novelist [[Charles Dickens]], the biologist [[Charles Darwin]], and the inventor [[Alexander Graham Bell]].

== Biography ==

=== Early life ===
Born four minutes after his twin Evie, Jacob and his sister were raised by their grandmother as their mother Cecily died in childbirth. They were later trained by Ethan Frye in Crawley, teaching his children the Assassin ways. Unlike Evie, Jacob dismissed his father's education and came to resent them, exploring factories and gambling dens in Crawley late at night as Evie trained with Ethan.<ref name="Syndicate">[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate|''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'']]</ref>

Sometime after their father's death in 1868, Jacob and Evie traveled to the [[Ferris Ironworks]] with [[George Westhouse]], a fellow Assassin, to eliminate the Templars [[Rupert Ferris]] and [[David Brewster]]. Jacob infiltrated the Ironworks and assassinated Ferris. Escaping the enraged [[Blighters]] gang thugs by train, Jacob narrowly survived its sabotaged derailing and crash.<ref name="Syndicate" />

The twins later returned to Westhouse, having each completed their tasks. Impatient to journey for London, the twins were scolded by the older Assassin, warning them that it was not Ethan's plans for them. Despite Westhouse's sermon, Jacob and Evie hitched a train to London.<ref name="Syndicate" />

=== Arrival in London ===
After arriving in [[Whitechapel]], the twins sought out the [[Assassin leader|leader]] of the London Assassins, [[Henry Green]]. Informed of the Templar control over the city, Jacob proposed to form a gang called the Rooks to challenge the Blighters' power in the area, disagreeing with Evie's plan to recover [[Pieces of Eden]]. While discussing this, the three Assassins bumped into the writer Charles Dickens who invited them for a talk sometime. After losing their [[Blighters]] tail, the twins joined Henry in his hideout, and the Indian Assassin explained his contacts within the city.<ref name="Syndicate" />

The twins later encountered a disguised Sergeant Frederick Abberline, who gave them a list of Blighters thugs whom they should kidnap and bring to him for arrest. Jacob and Evie also liberated abused children from the local factories, in order to satisfy their young contact [[Clara O'Dea]], in exchange of information. Together with the new recruits, the siblings assassinated [[Rexford Kaylock]] and took out the rest of the Blighter's control in Whitechapel, forming the Rooks in the process.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Following a street battle with Kaylock’s Blighters, from which they emerged victorious, the Assassins won the deceased Blighter’s train, and started to utilise it as their hideout, gaining [[Agnes MacBean]]'s services as a financier in the process. They proceeded to traveling to [[Southwark]] to meet Henry Green's accomplice and inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, to fix the broken rope launcher for the [[Assassin Gauntlet]].<ref name="Syndicate" />

After Bell returned from installing fuses with Evie, the inventor showed Jacob the first messages of the telegraph and made him a new rope launcher. The twins then headed to their hideout where they met [[Ned Wynert]], an American entrepreneur, who gave them his business card. The Assassins planned their next motive, with Jacob determined to strengthen the Rooks and eliminate [[Crawford Starrick]]'s associates, whilst Evie searched for the [[Shroud of Eden]].<ref name="Syndicate" />

=== Rise of the Rooks ===
Although in disagreement with Evie's hunt for Pieces of Eden, Jacob aided his sister in recovering an artifact from the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne's shipments. He eliminated the guards as Evie searched the chests. However he was caught and chased by Blighters members as he returned to Evie forcing the twins to flee on a carriage; Jacob took the reins while Evie acted on the defense. Ultimately, their pursuers were closing in, forcing the twins to abandon the carriage and its cargo, though Evie managed to keep hold of a journal belonging to the late-Assassin [[Edward Kenway]].<ref name="Syndicate" />

Jacob begun his investigation into the source of ''[[Starrick's Soothing Syrup]]'', which was ravaging London’s poor. After chasing a merchant and locating the distributor to the factory, stealing his files in the process, Jacob managed to track down and kidnap the distribution boss in the [[Southwark]] Foundry, learning from him that Starrick's Soothing Syrup were produced in the distillation building.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Arriving there, Jacob witnessed an elderly man attempting to break inside, and hiding when the guards appeared. After eliminating the Blighters guards, Jacob broke the lock of the factory and entered with the man. The duo investigated the tank and its ingredients, learning that the Syrup contained opium. They then turned the pressure valve, destroying the distillation tanks and setting fire to the building which Jacob narrowly escaped by jumping through a window. The man introduced himself as [[Charles Darwin]], who showed the Assassin a document that indicated batches of the Syrup sent to the [[Lambeth Asylum]].<ref name="Syndicate" />

He later found Darwin arguing with the asylum owner [[Richard Owen]] whom Jacob chased and hijacked his carriage, damaging it to scare Owen’s into revealing the creator of the Syrup - the doctor [[John Elliotson]].<ref name="Syndicate" />

The twins headed to Alexander Graham Bell who upgraded their gauntlet with a dart mechanism. Brother and sister provided assistance to the inventor by recovering cable lines taken by the Blighters in the shipments in College Wharf. They also discovered poison in the shipments from Starrick.<ref name="Syndicate" />

After informing Darwin of his latest exploits regarding his hunt for the Syrup creator, Jacob infiltrated the Lambeth Asylum where he discovered the doctors brutally experimenting on patients for medical purposes. He assassinated Elliotson who mocked him, calling him childish for not thinking of the consequences of his actions.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Continuing their fight against Starrick and his control of the press, brother and sister returned to Bell's laboratory where the latter told him Starrick's efforts of bribery to coax the inventor to his side. Aware of the Blighters capability to attack him, he invented voltaic bombs which may stun assailants and offered them to the twins with insulators to protect the Assassins from harm. Suddenly, the infuriated Blighters arrived; they took this as an opportunity to test the bombs as Bell distracted them through talking.<ref name="Syndicate" />

The Assassins further aided the inventor in the telegraph station to keep Starrick from spreading false information throughout London and show people the truth about his operations by distracting the guards and defending Bell with their newly acquired weapon.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Jacob introduced himself to Starrick's cousin and fierce business competitor [[Pearl Attaway]], unaware that she was a Templar, to discuss a business preposition. He killed an employee of Attaway's rival company, [[Millner Company]]. The pair traveled to Millner's storage yard where Jacob destroyed their enemy's omnibuses, making [[Malcolm Millner]]'s profit plummet quickly.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Soon enough, Jacob suddenly entered Attaway's carriage, obviously disregarding her request for an appointment. The businesswoman gave her a job to secure internal combustion engines being delivered to Millner. Knowing the man he needed, Jacob freed the arrested Ned Wynert from his police convoy and asked for his aid to transfer the package cargo. Climbing aboard the moving Blighters trains, the young man searched the cargo for the engines and detached its wagon for Ned's train to recover.<ref name="Syndicate" />

With his sister, the Rooks eventually took control of London's boroughs, eliminating the Blighters threat with their Templar leaders [[Bloody Nora]], [[Lilla Graves]], [[Victor Lynch]], [[Octavia Plumb]], [[Cletus Strain]], and [[Edith Swinebourne]] by launching a gang war between the two rivals.<ref name="Syndicate" />

===Later life===
Jacob eventually married and had at least one child, a son, who was also invested into the Assassin Order; in time, a granddaughter, Lydia Frye, was born. With Lydia’s parents often away on the continent performing missions for the Brotherhood, responsibility for Lydia’s training fell to Jacob and Evie.

At the outbreak of [[World War I|war]] in 1914, Jacob and Evie were removed to the safety of the countryside, while Lydia remained in London to protect the city from German spies and Templar agents.<ref name="LydiaFryedatabase">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' - [[Database: Lydia Frye]]</ref>

==Personality and characteristics==
{{Quote|I'm no criminal. I just do as I please.|Jacob Frye.}}
Unlike his level-headed and stealthy elder sister, Jacob was a reckless and rebellious individual.<ref name="ACS YT" /> While he was brought up as an Assassin, he did not appear to be a fervent believer in the Creed's tenets like his sister, preferring action over philosophical thoughts and a good fight over discretion.<ref name="Ubisoft">[http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-US/games/assassins-creed-syndicate/jacob-frye.aspx Assassinscreed.ubi.com: Jacob Frye]</ref> While "having fun" was very important to Jacob, he was not above altruistic acts and fighting for the disenfranchised.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewA3lw8zWM4 IGN First - ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'''s Jacob and Evie May Be Series' Best Heroes Yet]</ref>

===Equipment and skills===
{{Quote|Leave the sneaking and spying to my sister. Toss me my brass knuckles and point me to a good brawl.|Jacob Frye.}}
Having been trained by the Brotherhood from birth, Jacob was a Master Assassin adept at both stealth and combat, despite his preference for the latter. He was also a skilled [[Freerunning|Freerunner]], able to scale the tall buildings of London with relative ease.<ref name="Ubisoft"/>

An experienced brawler, Jacob was proficient in hand-to-hand combat, using his [[brass knuckles]] for brutal take-downs. Due to the era's restriction on open weaponry, Jacob utilized an arsenal of hidden tools including his [[Hidden Blade]]s, one of which was equipped with a rope launcher – a versatile tool that he could utilize to access and scale areas quickly, as well as create [[ziplines]].<ref name="Walkthrough">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKR42Ci000k ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' Gameplay Walkthrough]</ref>

Accompanying this, the Hidden Blade was equipped with a mechanism that fired [[Poison darts|hallucinogenic darts]]; firing a dart into an open flame would result in a poisonous gas cloud, allowing Jacob to eliminate multiple enemies from a distance. Other weapons in his possession included a [[Machetes|kukri]] blade, a [[Swords|cane-sword]], a six-shot [[Firearms|revolver]] and [[throwing knives]].<ref name="Walkthrough"/><ref>[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassin-s-creed-syndicate-story-characters-and-se/1100-6427217/ Gamespot: ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' Story, Characters and Setting]</ref>

Additionally, Jacob possessed the rare ability of [[Eagle Vision]].<ref name="Ubisoft"/>

==Trivia==
*Jacob's name is of Biblical origin, with the meaning being either ''he who grasps the heel'' or ''supplanter''. Frye is a derivative of the English word ''free''.
*Evie and Jacob are the third and fourth Assassin protagonists from a main installment to wear robes whose primary color is not white, the other two being [[Arno Dorian]] and [[Shay Cormac]] while he was still allied with the Assassins.
*Jacob keeps a shilling around his neck as a memento.
*He possesses a scar on his right eyebrow, as well as one on the left side of his beard.
*Jacob has a tattoo of a raven on his left collarbone.
*He is now the youngest Master Assassin in the main franchise, replacing [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad|Altair]] who was 25 when he received the title.

==Gallery==
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|-|Concept art=
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
ACS Jacob Frye - Concept Art.jpg|Jacob in his standard Assassin attire
Jacob Frye Art 2.png|An alternative outfit of Jacob's
ACS The Creature’s Rags - Concept Art.png|Jacob's "The Creature's Rags" outfit
jacob frye art 1.jpg|An alternative outfit of Jacob's
ACS Jacob's Hats - Concept Art.png|Various outfits of Jacob's
ACS Jacob Frye Cosplay Reference.jpg|References for Jacob's outfit
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|-|Promotional media=
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
ACS Hooded Jacob.jpg|Promotional render of hooded Jacob
Jacob Frye.png|Promotional art of Jacob
ACS-Rooks promo.jpg|Jacob with his sister and the Rooks
ACS Frye Twins Promotional Art.jpg|Promotional art of the Frye twins
ACS Promotional Screenshot 2.jpg|Jacob in combat
ACS-E3 promo 9.jpg|Jacob leading a gang war
ACS Promotional Screenshot 3.jpg|Jacob performing an air assassination
ACS-E3 promo 7.jpg|Jacob causing an explosion
ACS-E3 promo 13.jpg|Jacob hanging onto a speeding train
ACS Promotional Screenshot 9.jpg|Jacob riding a carriage
ACS Promotional Screenshot 30.jpg|Jacob preparing to ignite explosives
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|-|Outfits=
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
01_SimplyJacob.jpg|Simply Jacob outfit
03_OutdoorsmanOutfit.jpg|Outdoorsman outfit
04_MasterAssassin-Jacob.jpg|Master Assassin outfit
08_Ezio.jpg|Ezio legacy outfit
09_EdwardKenway.jpg|Edward Kenway legacy outfit
</gallery>
</tabber>

==References==
{{Reflist}}13. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eurpv61nrII YouTube: ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' - Jacob Frye Fight Club Gameplay]

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