Jake Long, a 13-year-old, must balance typical teenage life with his secret identity as a dragon guardian for the magical world hidden in Manhattan 4 Jake Long is a 13-to-14-year-old Chinese-American teenager who shapeshifts between two vastly different forms. In his human form, he is a trendy, skateboarding New Yorker sporting spiky brown hair, a green-and-white jacket, baggy cargo pants, and red sneakers. In his dragon form, he transforms into a powerful, bipedal red dragon with glowing yellow eyes, a horned head, yellow underbelly, and a whip-like tail