Respect the American Dragon, Jake Long(American Dragon: Jake Long)

[u/lazerbem]

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(Special thanks to Darker/Dark-Carioca for helping with this thread)

Jake Long is the American Dragon, the dragon tasked with protecting the magical creatures of the United States of America from harm and solving their disputes. He is the grandson of the Chinese Dragon, who mentors him to improve his abilities as a dragon. Jake can take a human form if he so chooses and often does so in his daily life to avoid being discovered by the outside world and to hang out with his human friends. Jake is brash, cocky, and prone to acting immature due to being only around 14 years old. Nevertheless, he has matured greatly ever since first becoming the American Dragon and takes his duties far more seriously in the present, leading to him becoming well known and respected among the magical world. Still, Jake has lots of growing to do and is nowhere near the peak of his powers(best exemplified by his massive increase in size and strength after being aged by seven years at one point).

Jake would fall in love with a girl named Rose who also happened to be a member of an anti-magical creature cult known as the Huntsclan. Huntsgirl(Rose’s identity in the Huntsclan) would brawl with Jake several times before the pair of them realized the identity of the other. This marked a change in Rose, making her stop believing in the ideals of the Huntsclan and help Jake subversively from within the Huntsclan. Rose would end up sacrificing herself to destroy all Huntsclan, but Jake refused to accept it and wished on the Aztec Crystal Skulls that she’d have never been taken by the Huntsclan. This resulted in her being brought to life, but with no memory of her past life or love with Jake.

Jake would face his ultimate challenge in the Dark Dragon, a renegade dragon who wished for the destruction of humanity and the supremacy of magical creatures. Jake was able to restore Rose’s memories, and together they defeated the Dark Dragon for good. Jake is still active in his role as the American Dragon and has earned great renown for having faced off against both the fourth and first greatest threats to the magical community(the Huntsman and the Dark Dragon respectively) and beaten them.

The American Dragon does have some weaknesses. Initially, only parts of his body would transform and his abilities would be uncontrolled, though he later improved his control to avoid this. Jake’s underbelly is also a relative weak point as is the spot behind the left ear, the latter of which can lead to death with a single good strike from a Huntsclan weapon. Dragons also have a vulnerability to sphinx hair that depends on the concentration(trace amounts are unbreakable by a dragon and may make them lose their transformation, pure sphinx hair is fatal with prolonged exposure).

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Dragon Physiology

As a dragon, Jake can fly with his wings, has a long tongue, fire breath, enhanced senses, claws, and a prehensile tail. Jake also possesses certain magical chi abilities.

• His dragon transformation is very quick

• His tongue is long and strong, able to rotate quickly enough to throw back a launched sphinx hair net back at the Huntsman

• His tail has enough precision control to catch and coil around a punch

• He can manifest a power known as the eye of the dragon, giving him the ability to see perfectly in the dark. In this case, shadowy figures become clear to him

• Jake’s eye of the dragon also lets him see long distances with clarity

• He has enhanced hearing as a dragon, good enough to pinpoint Huntsgirl and her quarry in the forest

• His eye of the dragon lets him draw a bead on Huntsgirl from very far away and through a blizzard. It doesn’t protect his eyes from snow though

• The eye of the dragon lets him see in the near darkness of a subway tunnel

• His tail is able to snatch a key without Huntsgirl noticing

• The eye of the dragon allows Jake to see in total darkness in order to plan while hidden

• Jake is able to manifest his chi through his body to form a perfect doppelganger of himself even while his chi is getting drained. He then proceeds to drain away part of his evil half’s chi. Worth noting that making doppelgangers weakens him

• Jake’s eye of the dragon lets him see all of the names on pieces of paper in a hat

• After some practice, Jake has essentially mastered his doppelganger ability so that he can reabsorb them on short notice to essentially negate the energy drain problems of the technique

• Jake can pick locks with his claws

• Jake can transform from human to dragon form very quickly and doing so has enough force to throw others off of him

• Jake’s ear of the dragon lets him pinpoint a hideout from several hundred crevasses and caves in the mountains

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Fire Breath

Jake has the ability to spew out fiery attacks with precision control from many parts of his body

• The fire can be manifested as a ball in the hands

• A fireball from him melts through the support struts of a water tower in an instant

• He farts fire which sends the Huntsman flying across a street and through a billboard

• Getting slugged in the stomach can trigger an involuntary burst of fire which is hot enough to burn on water

• His fire melts through a giant monster made out of teeth

• His fire melts through a lamp post

• His fire has a physical force behind it, seen in this case by pushing a thrown net away

• He explodes some targets with his fire and shows some good aim and reflexes for it too

• He melts various ice sculptures and when put into a sneezing fit, his fire blasts end up tearing apart a warehouse before one fireball explodes an arch and some steps in a very strong blast

• His fire blasts through volcanic rock to give him access to the inside of a volcano

• He uses fire to turn a snowman into a perfect sculpture of Rose

• He lights up a campfire instantly

• Jake instantly incinerates some coconuts in mid-air with a blast of fire

• He melts down the barrel of Gantu’s cannon, which is made to fire plasma blasts

• He turns a fish to ash, even the bones

• His fire melts down the front end of a truck

• His fire blows the arm off of the Kumo, a giant spider powerful enough to smash through a giant bank vault door made of unicorn horn

• Jake’s fire causes pain to the Krylock Demon, a beast that lives in the middle of a dimension made entirely out of lava

• Jake’s fire melts through heavy duty chains that can hold up a giant stone block and a Kraken monster

• Jake’s fire blasts a hole through several layers of wall

• Jake’s fire smashes the Huntsman against a pillar hard enough to break it in two

• Jake’s fire superheats a pillar of water so that it evaporates before reaching him. The steam caused by the blast is so intense that a sea serpent caught up in the steam is given heat stroke and falls unconscious from a few seconds of exposure

• Jake’s fire can be controlled to the point that he melts away all the ice from a frozen over base in Greenland very quickly without actually damaging any planes

• Jake can use his fire to propel small objects without burning them, used here to send a paper dollar plane across a room

• A thrown fireball from Jake slashes through some metal cannon arms

• A fire blast causes a cave-in

• Jake uses his breath to solder an enchanted cup

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Durability

Save for the back of the left ear, dragons are heavily armored and Jake is no exception. Even the relatively weak underbelly is fairly tough.

• He got stomped by giants and was still around

• He shrugs off a dropkick to the belly from Huntsgirl

• He gets bearhugged and blasted by a djinn with magical flames and he’s fine

• A djinn punches him across the room and through a painting and while it stuns him a bit, he’s fine overall

• The Huntsgirl punches him hard enough to crack the roof of a building but he recovers immediately

• A trashcan gets dented on his head and he’s fine

• He’s not harmed by lots of rubble crashing down on him

• He smashes into several trees hard enough to break them in two and isn’t harmed at all

• He gets headbutted by Stitch into a tree and gets several coconuts dropped on his head but is pretty much unharmed

• A tree crushes him into the ground up to his chest, but Jake is unharmed

• The Jersey Devil headbutts him into a cliff and while it makes him drop his dragon form, he isn’t really too hurt

• He’s bodyslammed by a giant from quite a high point in the air and unharmed

• A load of bricks falls down on his head from the top of a building and he’s unhurt

• He got smashed in the face by the downtown express subway train and while it does knock him out, he doesn’t lose his dragon form nor suffer any kind of brain damage from it

• He gets blasted by a Huntsclan spear, powerful enough to punch through concrete, melt steel, and shatter chains reinforced with unicorn horn(the strongest substance on Earth). Jake is sent flying by it but is otherwise unhurt

• The Krylock demon ragdolls him with its pincer and Jake is fine

• The Krylock Demon slams him down onto some cliffs hard enough to break off chunks of the volcanic rock but Jake is okay after this

• Yang Jake, a powered up and evil double of Jake, kicks a heavily weakened Jake through the side of a building and Jake is fine

• Jake is smashed through a brick wall and embedded into another brick wall by a kelpie who had drained Lao Shi’s power. For reference, Lao Shi is strong enough to stop a speeding subway train car

• Jake is kicked in the stomach hard enough to dent the surface of a train and then sent flying through two metal doors by Haley Long, neither of which hurts him very much. Haley Long, for reference, can easily lift up a truck

• Jake gets smashed around by some very powerful demons, among the more noteworthy showings being him getting embedded into a brick wall and being hit by a beam with enough power to make a crater in the street. The latter hurts him, but he’s able to work past it anyway

• Jake gets blasted through several pillars of stone and is fine

• Jake holds some of his own fire in his hands without trouble

• Jake gets blasted by fire even stronger than his own after losing a beam struggle and then gets a water tower smashed on his head. Jake is unhurt by this

• Jake gets slammed by the massive Dark Dragon and then tail swiped into a table, neither of which slows him down for very long

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Strength and Skill

Jake’s training has focused mostly on his melee combat, so he naturally favors it and backs it up with claws, teeth, and tail.

• He does well against the Huntsgirl in close quarters combat, someone who is strong enough to leap across city streets and has trained to fight dragons since birth. His tail also has enough power to throw her up and backwards through the air

• A tailswipe slashes through a metal sewer pipe

• He kicks a troll hard enough to send him off his feet and smash him through a wooden stand. He then tosses a goblin with his tail and throws the roof of a stand on top of both of them

• He has enough strength to dig his claws into a ceiling backwards to cling from it

• He rips away a large electronic screen and tosses it without much issue

• He picks up the Huntsgirl with his tail and tosses her into a clothesline

• He tags the Huntsgirl with a tail swipe despite her coming from behind him. Also shows off more use of the tail in a brawl

• He shakes around an armored truck with his struggles inside of it

• He slashes through metal chains that were strong enough to hold another dragon with ease

• He catches a punch from the Dark Dragon, though it doesn’t do much good due to the disparity in size

• Jake easily handles a group of goblin thugs. Among the more specific showings are kicking back a thrown trashcan hard enough to send a goblin flying and throwing trashcan lids hard enough to make a pair of goblins smack against the wall of the alley

• He flips over a dumpster full of fish guts without much trouble

• He catches a falling boulder in his tail without much effort and then tosses it away with enough force that it flattens an ogre, someone who would be throwing the boulders to begin with

• Jake rips free of chains that are attached to the walls and then uses them like flails with ease, crushing a table leg in the process. He eventually ends up swinging them around hard enough that the wall chunks left on them are crushed and he’s tied up, but he shatters the chains a second later without much of a fuss

• He blocks a series of kicks from Huntsgirl and then kangaroo kicks her across a building

• He’s pinned under concrete and other rubble from a collapsing building but quickly breaks free

• A flap of his wings makes a gust of wind wrong enough to shake down all the snow from a tree

• He carves up a snowboard from a tree’s bark with his claws

• He has really good aim with some thrown icicles, pinning Huntsgirl up against a tree

• He shreds a log apart with his claws to make it into firewood

• He smacks back a coconut thrown by Stitch

• He throws Stitch off of his tail by whipping him off

• He easily breaks a containment orb from Captain Gantu that can hold in some very strong experiments

• He picks up a boulder and throws it hard enough to break down a tree

• Jake tail swipes the Jersey Devil hard enough to send it through the air and smash its head through a tree

• He matches the Jersey Devil in strength. The Jersey Devil being strong enough to rip a tree in half while its head is stuck inside of it

• Jake balances himself on just one finger

• His claws slice through the metal and clothes of someone using robotic enhancements strong enough to punch down the posts of a wrestling ring

• He bites through the cables of a wrestling arena and then uses them to truss up a giant in mid-air

• His claws slice through the cables of a wrestling arena

• Jake tosses a pair of wrestlers in mid-air and then catches the punch of one with robotic enhancements before using him like a human club

• He’s able to toss a giant over his head several times to use him like a hammer with enough force to drive some wrestlers into the dirt

• He slices a tree in half with his tail

• He throws the Huntsman hard enough to embed him in a roof and crush the concrete under him

• Jake rips away a hole through what appears to be thick concrete in order to gain entry to a museum

• Jake matches the Krylock Demon in terms of strength with his feet and uses his tail to break free of a grapple and knock the beast backwards

• Jake catches the Krylock Demon’s stinger in his tail and then breaks it at the joint in order to impale the Krylock Demon with its own stinger, killing it

• Jake does a flip kick off a wall while pinned to it in human form to throw the Huntsman back and also stuns him for quite some time with a tail swipe in dragon form

• Despite Jake being incredibly weakened from dividing his power up among doppelgangers, his tail swipe still has enough power to slam Yang Jake into metal hard enough to embed him in it

• Jake rips metal apart with his claws

• Jake picks up the Aztec Guardian Serpent, a truly giant snake, by the tail and swings and tosses it so far that it’s thrown out of Central Park

• Jake supports the weight of two trolls, a unicorn, three brownies, and a mermaid with some strain. A giant then leaps onto the pile he has to hold up and Jake still manages to hold them up. Unfortunately, the floor does not hold up

• Jake matches the strength of the Huntsman, a guy who can punch into brick walls and rip apart elevator pulleys

• Jake supports the weight of a large pillar and stops it from rolling further

• Jake casually overpowers a group of three hobgoblins. Notable feats include catching a strike from a club and brass knuckles, swinging around two hobgoblins with ease, and then smashing the third into a dumpster hard enough to dent the lid, dent railing of a fire escape, and crack a brick wall. Hobgoblins for reference are strong enough to tear through the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge

• Even in human form, Jake easily one shots some giant magical bugs. The latter three he drops in a single flowing kick too

• Jake catches a swing from Huntsgirl's Huntstaff with ease and proceeds to smack her away with it

• Jake holds up a falling lightpost and then pushes it back up

• A tail swipe from Jake snaps the Huntsman’s spear in half and smashes him through elevator doors along with smashing apart an elevator’s cables and crushing the Huntsman’s dragon skull helmet

• Jake matches the Huntsman for strength and holds his own despite the Huntsman’s skill

• Jake’s claws slash through the wood and metal of a roller coaster track as he’s being pulled back by it and he has enough strength to support its weight until his claws slice into the metal. His kick also throws a troll through a roller coaster hard enough to dent the seats

• Jake rips through the roof of a police van

• Jake slams the Dark Dragon from the air and through the roof of a building

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Flying Ability and Speed

Jake can fly at a decent clip using his wings and is also quite agile for a creature of his stature

• He stops himself in mid-air after a djinn spins and tosses him and then turns to rush back at him

• He flies around a giant tooth monster quickly enough to tie it up in steel cable...though he also ties himself up

• He dodges two gouts of fire from the Dark Dragon and also dodges a tail swipe from him. Given the Dark Dragon is powerful enough to have killed various other dragons and is renowned for having been beaten by only one dragon in his lifetime, it does show some level of dodging ability

• He’s able to flap his wings hard enough to break free from the Dark Dragon’s grip and take one of the Dark Dragon’s claws with him. The Dark Dragon, as a reference, is strong enough to survive the rockslide in the gif without any injury

• He’s able to fly at 179 mph so that the impact of a 180 mph boulder feels like nothing but a harmless tap

• He flips in mid-air in order to redirect the momentum of a tackle from Stitch so that the alien smacks into a tree

• He dodges some thrown coconuts from Stitch

• He dodges shots from Gantu’s cannon

• He bounces back from a spin toss immediately

• He uses his wings to stop the momentum from a giant’s toss and then loops back around to fly into the giant hard enough to knock him off his feet

• He flies up to a giant to catch him in mid-air before he’s finished falling after a jump, showing some speed

• While flying, he’s able to carry a mermaid, leprechaun, brownie, and a giant. For a little while, anyway

• Jake weaves through some security laser beams while carrying a cauldron of gold easily, though he does get caught at the end by getting cocky

• Jake dodges a barrage of energy beams from Fury followed by many, many strikes from her snake hair. He does eventually get tagged though

• Jake dodges some strikes from the Krylock Demon

• Jake loops under the Krylock Demon through some very thin pillars of rock in order to land a blast of fire on it. He also dodges an attempted bite from it

• Jake dodges multiple strikes from the Huntsman’s spear

• Jake circles an island 13 times very quickly

• Jake dodges autocannon shots

• Jake blitzes the Huntsman

• Jake dodges some energy shots

• Jake dodges a blast of dark power from the Dark Dragon

• Jake dodges some slashes from the Dark Dragon

• Jake is able to fly with enough power to keep himself from being sucked into a vortex despite the vortex being powerful enough to suck up a giant castle and the Dark Dragon attempting to drag him into it with his tail for part of this flight

[u/Chcolatepig24069]

I can’t exactly but can dragon snort fire (or at least smoke) in their human forms? Been looking to write a fanfic and wondered if it’d be realistic to include this for a scene where Jake is pissed

[u/lazerbem → u/Chcolatepig24069]

I can't recall if he ever does that specifically in human form, but I've seen him straight up create fireballs in his hands in human form, so yeah I'd say it's possible.

[u/Chcolatepig24069 → u/lazerbem]

I mean, if fire can come out of his butt as a fart, I guess it’s possible to come out of his nose as a snort

Btw was wondering if you’d be open to helping me with a fanfic about the show (specifically with Jake’s powers)

[u/lazerbem → u/Chcolatepig24069]

Depends on what you mean by help, but to a certain extent, sure, hit up my dms.

[u/Chcolatepig24069 → u/lazerbem]

It’s really nothing too intense more so just would one pt I’m really struggling with.