Jacobin (ヤコブ) is a character in Trails through Daybreak.
Profile[]
Appearance[]
Jacobin wears glasses and a hairpiece in his disguise as Jacob.
Personality[]
Jacobin is vehemently against immigration into Calvard. He is a nativist racist and fears that unchecked immigration will ruin the culture and traditions of their nation.
Background[]
Jacobin is a resident of Oración and a strong opposer of immigration. He's descended from an aristocratic family from the times when Calvard was a monarchy. Jacobin has backing from Daltie, the president of the ETWS company, who has given him permission to hand out fliers and perform speeches in Oración.
Trails through Daybreak[]
Jacobin has a minor role in the game. Van can talk to him in order to listen to one of his speeches against immigrants.
He has a prominent antagonistic role in a quest given by a character named Nelly, to whom he has sent a threat letter demanding that she not sing in the opera. He feigns to be an immigration supporter named Jacob in order to survey people on their opinion on immigration and Easterners. Consequently, he can gather information on the people who support immigration and threaten them. As part of a plan to expose him, Agnes offers to sing. Jacobin then he asks her opinion on immigration, which leads to Van exposing him.
After exposing him, the player can choose to hand him to the Bracers (Law choice) or to Heiyue (Chaos choice), as he's got connections in the police that would make him impossible to arrest. He fears Heiyue who have their eye on him afterwards. He later exclaims regret that Edmond Auclair and Daltie are arrested, and that working in Oración would be difficult, but aims to set up in another city.
On November 30, Jacobin moves to Edith's Blacklight District, but is ostracized by the residents for his anti-immigration speeches. During the Revolution Festival on December 3rd, Jacobin is trapped in Pandemonium and is injured by a monster, only to be saved by a migrant, which he considers a humiliation.
Trails through Daybreak II[]
On March 5th, Jacobin returns to Station Street to preach his anti-immigration views, much to the chagrin of Officer Paul. On March 21st, Jacobin knocks out Rodney, a member of Ingert's pit crew, in order to steal the latter's clothes as a disguise. He plants a bomb in Aslan's car and detonates it when Aslan and Maxim crash off-track, killing them both. Arkride Solutions uses a time leap and exposes him before the race starts, but fails to account for the bomb that Maxim placed in his own car. After the next time leap, Elaine Auclair and René Kincaid arrest Jacobin just before the race starts while Dominique Lanster extracts his bomb from Aslan's car. After time is reset for the final time and the Gardenmaster is killed, Arkride Solutions managed to capture Jacobin yet again and prevent the race from ending in tragedy.
