Jake Taylor

Jake Taylor is the Blue Cyber Ranger, although he was originally intended to be nothing more than an emergency replacement.

Character History
Not much is known about Jake's childhood, other than that he already knew Walter Jenkins and Jeremy Simms, and that he decided the full scholarship offered by S.P.D. looked like a pretty sweet deal. Encountering them outside S.P.D.'s Recruitment Center, he launched into an argument with Walter that resulted in both teens signing up for what turned out to be the Cyber V project.

Jake did well enough in the various tests to become an alternate, which did not make him happy. Upon meeting the Venturas twins, he was immediately attracted to Wendy, and barely waited for the full explanation of what was going on to ask her out. Her complete disdain and threats of physical violence did nothing to dissuade him.

When Emeralde attacked, Jake followed the Venturases and Cindy to the weapons lab to retrieve the Cyber Ops. When the morphers failed to work, the twins ordered them into the bomb shelter in back. Jake was resistant, thinking they had no chance against Emeralde on their own, but was eventually sent to hide with Cindy. Despite his desire to help "Brain Babe," he kept Cindy from intervening when Kalask's assassin defeated the Venturases, knowing that they only had a chance if she left.

Thanks to Matt's severe injuries, Jake was promoted to active Ranger status, which he accepted with no complaints. As Cyber Blue, Jake fought with confidence, not seeming to notice how badly the loss of their powers hurt the twins. Despite his inexperience, the new Cyber Blue was gung-ho, both in the battle against evil and his new quest to impress Wendy.

Noticing that the scientist was upset over her broken glasses, he took them into   Horizon to get them repaired--and was attacked by Cybrilla. After the inevitable victory, he went to return the repaired specs, but overhearing Wendy complain that his arrogance, inexperience and stupidity almost lost the team one member did what flat-out rejection and food dumped all over him couldn't. Disheartened, he dropped the glasses and left. Wendy found them, and did begin to soften up, just a bit. She still inflicted minor physical violence on him, but only when he asked for it. Sometimes literally.

New York, New York
The revelation of the twins' true nature as Venjix Hybrids didn't change how he felt about them, but it was probably what led him to his next, drastic move. Interrupting Jindrax and Toxica's Late Show, he announced the upcoming press conference where the Rangers would reveal their secret identities, unknowingly giving Kalask inspiration for his next attack. Jake's plan was to get himself booted from the team to let one of the twins back on. Once Assassin was defeated, Jake and Cindy switched places with the Venturases to let them take down Emeralde, but instead of reinstating them, the paranoid President exposed them on national television. Jake blamed himself, but Cruger said his effort was noble.

After a battle with Midnai and her pet, Precious, Wendy had recovered enough to ask Jake to show her around Horizon. Jake didn't understand the switch, but he was glad for the chance. Walter turned up while they were at a Ranger exhibit in the local museum, to Jake's annoyance, and warned him that Cruger was worried Kalask might attack Wendy.

At the restaurant, Jake verbally defended Wendy from a few patrons, who had been scared by the news reports framing the twins as evil. Now Wendy brought up the glasses incident, and the couple very nearly kissed--but a waiter interrupted with a bottle of wine.

Unfortunately, said wine was enchanted by Midnai, and after a fight with Dreads, Jake and Wendy were put under the Fiddler's spell, unable to stop dancing. The others arrived and helped Jake morph, freeing him from the spell, but Wendy was forced to punch him and Walter and then join the villains, who began trying to extract her nanites. The Rangers managed to stop them, but the loss of a third of her nanites left Wendy weakened. Jake proceeded to ruin the moment by propositioning Wendy, and was knocked into a (thankfully clean) bedpan. As usual, this only seemed to increase his infatuation.

Being ignored by the self-overworked twins, Jake discovered that Cindy was being harassed by an adult magazine editor who wanted a photo shoot. He offered to help, and although she was dubious, Cindy accepted. The arrival of the Master of Weapons delayed everyday life, but after the monster's defeat, Jake delivered, scaring the man with a vivid (probably accurate) description of the monster attack that would inevitably occur at said photo shoot.

When Matt was kidnapped by Infiltrator, Wendy turned to Jake specifically, asking in tears for them to bring her brother back. Jake responded with a thumbs up, and fought hard on her behalf. In his and Walter's attempt to talk an enchanted and hostile Jeremy down, Jake handled the situation with a little more tact than usual (not much), but thanks to General Sauder's bad timing, the Red Ranger still ended up fighting his way out of Fort Myers. Jake was trapped in an invisible box by Emoti-Con, though Anya managed to free him partway through the fight.

Personality
Jake maintains a deliberately cool, cocky attitude, with a lot of snark. He is very stubborn and competitive, and thinks outside the box, albeit often recklessly and with mixed consequences. He is motivated mostly by his desire to win Wendy over, although their personality clashes make this a three steps forward, two steps backward process.

Arsenal
Data Ray Data Blade Data Shield MortarTread Cyber Cycle Output Cannon

Appearance
Jake is Latino, with a casual athletic build and spiky, blonde-tipped hair.