A Who's Who from the "Dark Tower" (Part 4)

See, he died once already....but didn't die. 
 
 

Confused? So was he. 
 
 

See, there is a bit of time paradox happening here. 
 
 

First time around, back (or ahead....can't tell since time is running screwy on Mid-World) on May 9, 1977 in his world Jake is pushed from behind in front of a large luxury car. The car can't stop in time and Jake is ran over....and dies. Last thing he sees before death is the man who killed him....a man dressed in black who is first believed to be Marten the Incomplete Enchanter (The Man in Black), but in reality it's Jack Mort, resident New York sicko and murderer. 

With his death, Jake ends up on Mid-world, out at a weigh station (death is one of several ways into Mid-World). Roland is able to hypnotize Jake and learn of the memories that Jake is supressing (one's own death is rather tramatic). Soon, Roland and Jake travel together out of the desert Roland had been chasing Martin through, through to a opint on a railroad bridge. Roland has developed (despite himself) an attachment to Jake....something like a son he never had. But something happens and Roland is soon faced with the heart breaking decision of either letting Jake fall to his death or catching up with Marten (who's now in sight). If Marten gets away, then Roland can kiss his quest for the Dark Tower (and saving his world.) goodbye. Roland does what he must, but...... 
 
 

Later, after Roland is drawing forth people from other worlds than this through a strange set of eerie door, along the way he kills Jack Mort, the one who killed Jake BEFORE Mort can push Jake to his death in front of a car. 
 
 

Good and bad here, folks. Oh, Jake was alive, but due to his prior (or future) encounter with Roland....he'd interwoven into Roland's world or something. Time being as it is and how it works, while one can change the past like Roland did (second time around Roland didn't find Jake at the Weigh Station in the Desert).....it created a time paradox that was tearing both Roland's and his mind in two. One part knowing that he'd died under the wheels of a car. The other knowing that he's alive. This was something akin to going insane. 
 
 

Jake skips school and finds what will prove later on to be a key to a door back to Mid-world and a rose that is growing in a clump of purple grass in an empty lot that had been an "artistic deli". The rose turns out to later represent the Tower, apparently. Something to be protected at all costs. Later, Jack comes across a man named Towers who owns a bookstore. There, he gets a riddle book and child's story book with what turns out to be a foreshadowing of Blaine the Mono (the psychotic train they now all are riding on). 
 
 

On June 1, 1977, Jake has a dream where he meets Eddie (who's he's never met before) and Eddie tells him to go to "co-op city" and find the young Eddie and Henry Dean. By following the younger version of Eddie and his brother. Eddie does just that and finds a house supposed to be haunted, but is in actuality a way to the Gunslinger's world. Ah, but the way to this other world isn't left unguarded. The guardian comes alive to prevent Jake from passing through, but it fails and now Jake is in Roland's world. This cures the troubles caused by the time paradox. 
 
 

Soon, on their quest to get to the Dark Tower they all come to the embattle city of Lud. Jake gets captured by Gnasher, a member of the Pubes (a gang in Lud). He gets rescued soon by Roland, but must flee for the relative safety of the Mono. 
 
 

And that, my friends, brings us to the last member of this little play! His name is Blaine, and he's a pain!