Jacob Sowersby

Jacob Sowersby
Species:	Human, Cyberman
Place of origin:	Tiestus
Mother:	Jacob Sowersby’s mother
Sister:	Jade Sowersby
Appearance:	Cybermen: Status Update
Main voice actor:	Nicholas Briggs

Jacob Sowersby was a human who lived on the Earth colony planet Tiestus in July 2114. During said time, he was partially cyber-converted during an invasion by the Cybermen, but successfully defeated them and had his conversion reversed.

Biography

By July 2114, Jacob Sowersby was thirteen years-old, and was nearing his fourteenth birthday. Sometime prior to Wednesday 4 July 2114, he acquired a BOB.

On Wednesday 4 July 2114, Jacob downloaded an update for his BOB that gave him the ability to automatically transcribe his thoughts into personal diary entries; he began by using BOB to take a picture of some spaghetti bolognese that he ate for dinner. On Thursday 5 July, Jacob went to school and spoke to Charlie about Meena, who Jacob had feelings for. He contemplated confessing his feelings to Meena, and uploaded his thoughts of these events as another BOB entry.

The Cyberman invasion

On Friday 6 July, Jacob intended to ask Meena on a date, but chose not to, due to Charlie being with her, and suspecting that Charlie had feelings for him. He also gave away his packed lunch and ate a large pork pie instead while he was in Capitol City. Furthermore, Jacob witnessed a Cyber-ship fly over Tiestus, and, mistaking it for a shooting star, attempted to take a photograph of it, but missed his chance. He recorded these experiences as another BOB entry.

On Saturday 7 July, Jacob played football with “Little” and “Large”, and ate tortillas for dinner cooked by his mother. Unable to sleep that night, Jacob decided to watch television, with his BOB uploading a diary entry for these events. On television, Jacob watched TTN24’s live broadcast of the landing of the Cyber-ship that he saw the previous day, and witnessed the Cybermen (PROSE: Cybermen: Status Update) – who resembled the advanced models of Cybermen of the Cyber Legions active by the end of the Cyber Wars of the 250th Millennium (PROSE: Ghost in the Machine, TV: Nightmare in Silver) – murder President Morris and commence an invasion of Tiestus. Jacob, along with Jade Sowersby and his mother, fled their house and attempted to reach a shuttle to escape Tiestus.

Jacob attempted to hide with his mother, Jade, and several other humans, but they fled again when they were discovered by the Cybermen and “Little” and “Large”, who had been partially cyber-converted. However, on the early morning of Sunday 8 July, Jacob and the other humans were eventually caught by the Cybermen, who locked them in a warehouse that they had modified into a conversion chamber. When the Cybermen began taking groups of people for conversion, Jacob volunteered to be upgraded instead of Jade, and therefore was taken with a group of nine humans into the conversion chamber.

Partial conversion

However, Jacob’s conversion was temporarily halted when his cyber-conversion unit detected that his BOB, implanted into Jacob’s brain, was preventing Jacob from being brought under Cyber-Control. As a result of his unstable conditioning, Jacob’s thoughts began to get mixed up with information regarding the Cybermen via Cybercontrol. Shortly afterwards, Meena recovered Jacob from his conversion chamber, and hid with her and a group of rebel humans fighting to save people from cyber-conversion. To defeat the Cybermen, Jacob decided to connect his BOB with those of Meena and the other rebel humans, before using his status as a partially-converted Cyberman to broadcast his, Meena, and the rebel humans’ thoughts through Cybercontrol and into the mind of every other Cyberman connected to the network.

After Jacob connected his BOB to those of the other rebel humans, including Meena, Charlie, Adam, Natalie and Jodie, their thoughts began to mix and were broadcast through Cybercontrol. In response, Cybercontrol located Jacob and the human rebels, and ordered all the Cybermen to locate and kill Jacob, but the thoughts of Jacob and the rebel humans began to contaminate Cybercontrol; by the time the Cybermen located Jacob and the human rebels, they were too confused to kill him or the other humans. Jacob used this opportunity to run and find his mother and Jade, although he noted that he would return to find Meena, who had chosen to hide from the Cybermen. Jacob quickly found his mother and Jade, who were among the next humans to be converted, whilst Cybercontrol shut down completely as a result of the contamination caused by the thoughts of Jacob and the rebel humans; this also caused all of the Cybermen on Tiestus to permanently shut down too.

Humanity restored

On Monday 9 July, following the end of the Cybermen’s failed invasion of Tiestus, Jacob’s partial conversion was reversed. With his school closed for the next week as a result of the invasion attempt, Jacob used his BOB to take a photograph of himself holding a pork pie whilst stood in front of two dead Cybermen and a building, before he left to find Meena and confess his feelings to her. (PROSE: Cybermen: Status Update)

Appearance

Jacob Sowersby had short brown hair. In a photograph of himself, Jade Sowersby, their their mother and father, Jacob wore a formal white ed shirt with long sleeves and a brown jacket. While eating spaghetti bolognese on Wednesday 4 July 2114, Jacob wore a white buttoned shirt.

During the Cyberman invasion of Tiestus, following his partial cyber-conversion on Sunday 8 July 2114, Jacob briefly possessed the chest and power cell of a Cyberman (PROSE: Cybermen: Status Update) identical to the advanced Cybermen of the Cyber Legions that fought in the Cyber Wars of the 250th Millennium. (PROSE: Ghost in the Machine, TV: Nightmare in Silver) The left side of his face also featured a large metal implant (PROSE: Cybermen: Status Update) identical to that possessed by the Eleventh Doctor when he was partially converted into the Cyber-Planner “Mr Clever” on Hedgewick's World of Wonders. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)

On Monday 9 July 2114, in the aftermath of the failed Cyberman invasion of Tiestus, Jacob wore a blue buttoned shirt and some dark legwear when using his BOB to take a picture of himself in front of some dead Cybermen. (PROSE: Cybermen: Status Update)