#Baron Praxis

[torn-slander]

random relatives headcanon time

The Mayor is the Praxis' ancestor, insert generations feeling spited that Mar just showed up, built Haven and took over the government, Baron Praxis taking the chance to overthrow Damas to put his family back where they belong

The Blue Sage is Vin's ancestor, blue sage helped w the power grid, it went down the line as a family trade

The Gambler is Daxter's dad (same type of accent, same type of lifestyle/attitudes, and he's the ONLY person in TPL that Daxter doesn't say a word to, my whole headcanon is that Daxter was originally from Rock Village but ran away from his gambling father and ended up with Samos, who only took him in because he knew his role in everything with Jak later, and got a maid while he was at it)

and whoever Erol's ancestors were, they came from Rock Village

[who-u-calling-pinhead]

Yall they got errols design wrong, so I fixed it

[tumb1rprincess]

Been thinking lately about how Jak 3 just randomly makes a 180 when it comes to shipping and suddenly slaps Jak and Ashelin together. I didn't like it when I was young and I still don't like it a whole lot now. And I feel like a major reason for that is that Jak/Keira and Torn/Ashelin have a long history when it comes to their relationships, whether it's outright stated or up to fan speculation.

Like, even before Jak and Keira kind of get together at the end of the first game, you can tell they've known each other for a while. And it makes me wonder how they met, how they became friends, when did they first start falling for each other. Like, I'm guessing they were childhood friends, and the two of them and Daxter were almost like a Ed/Winry/Alphonse from FMAB type of situation. And then Jak II happens and suddenly, Jak is not the silly, happy kid Keira used to know, and you can see she kind of doesn't know how to feel about that, let alone process that. I wish Jak II could have delved more in to that, but I guess that leaves us fans to fill in the blanks. Did Keira learn the details of what Jak had to go through? Did she find out Errol was behind half of it? But with them together in Jak X, I feel like it kind of shows that they worked past that, and while Jak will never be the same as he was, they flirt and play around with each other almost like they did when they were younger.

Torn/Ashelin are kind of the same in a way. They've known each other for a while before the start of Jak II and it makes me wonder how they met. Was it when Torn was a Krimzon guard? Did Ashelin have any role to play in him quitting? She did say she's always wished Haven City was better ever since she was a kid. Did she encourage him to join the Underground, or did he find it first and she decided to use her position as Praxis's daughter to help? And while Torn refers to her as a friend in Jak II, he's probably already fallen for her at that point. He gets so touchy when Jak goes "Did you say 'she'?" and even more defensive when he asks later on about Torn's connection with her after finding out she was Praxis's daughter. Hell, he pretty much betrays the Underground in order to keep her safe when Praxis threatens to kill her. And if that doesn't scream love, I don't know what does. And does Ashelin ever find out what he did for her sake? Also, I'm just a sucker for the "knight/ruler" kind of ship dynamic. Like, Torn serves under Ashelin not just because it's his job, but because he loves her, and she's the only one to get past his "tough guy" exterior.

I just have a lot of feeling about these couples and I'm glad Jak X finally made things right and got them back together.

[jak2gooberglub]

JAK FANS

YALL

I FOUND ON THE MAP WHERE JAK AND DAXTER ARE TRANSPORTED TO

(Jak is the blue triangle on the map btw)

Now the route(s) to the prison:

(Video order: Cutscene first, then location, then route to prison)

ITS EVEN GOT A GUARD ATTACKING ME AT THIS LOCATION LOL

(the whole reason I did this was because I wanted to know how far it was from the prison)

I FOUND IT BY WATCHING THE CUTSCENE WHERE THEY SHOOT THROUGH THE RIFT AND USING THE SIGNS AND LEDGE/PLATFORM THINGIES AS MY REFERENCE

AND

I

FOUND

IT

Also jak was transported in a prisoner's zoomer. Like this:

Sure he could've squeezed through the bars, but maybe they've got an electric field like MANY THINGS IN JAK 2 THAT THE BARON OWNS

LIKE FORCE FIELD WALLSS AND STUFF THAT ARE IN THE FORTRESS.

I timed with a timer how long it took from the first location (where jak showed up and was taken captive)

Through the city (walking) then on a zoomer, i took one of the bigger slower ones to copy the movement of a prison transport zoomer, arriving to the prison, inside the prison, AND TO A PRISONER'S CELL(where you start the jak 2 gameplay)

what surprised me is that the route to the prison is quick.

From basically anywhere in the city.

(Except the slums and racing place)

It was 4 minutes and 8 seconds from where jak was caught, to the prison, to a cell, but with the usual haven city zoomers driving slow, it may be about 5 minutes.

No wonder daxter had a rough time finding him, the zoomers are fast and the city is big for him lol.

[renegadeful]

I dont know!! The idea of Mickey Kingdomhearts being replaced as Baron Praxis gave me enough motivation to draw it !!

Bonus image under the cut

[glass-teeth01]

@adhdavinci, this is the actual reason why Baron Praxis banned Hoverboarding. He failed to do a Kick Flip and was subsequently vibe checked by the Universe.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how the Jak and Daxter series was able to survive having a sequel that was drastically different from the first game. For most series, I think they wouldn’t be able to survive having a sequel that went against the prior installment, especially if the execution was bad. Yet Jak II didn’t sink the franchise. In fact, I’ve noticed that the 2nd Jak game has received better reception in the years since it was released.

As a kid, even though it took some getting used to since I loved the 1st game, I wasn’t put off by Jak II being this cyberpunk GTA title. But I never understood why.

After revisiting the game (I watched a playthrough on YouTube), I think I have a working theory:

1) Jak and Daxter only had 1 game out at the time.

So, the expectations for how the characters would be portrayed wasn’t that strict. Think of it like this; Nintendo wouldn’t get away with turning Link into an unhinged, smartass killer who openly flirts with Zelda. Neither would Sega with Sonic, that’s why Shadow exists. Link and Sonic are too well-known and established that people have expectations on how they should be portrayed, thus not a ton of room for experimentation/deviation. Naughty Dog had some leeway since Jak and Daxter weren’t really household names.

2) Turning Jak into an unhinged, bloodthirsty killer who openly flirts with Keira and has serious anger issues wasn’t that drastic.

This one’s pretty self-explanatory. You start off as innocent Jak, then he got pumped full of Dark Eco. Also, he was tortured for several years, so it’s not hard to see why his character turned out the way he did.

3) The game still feels like the 1st Jak and Daxter, even with the change in tone.

It controls the same. It looks the same (as in the artwork still feels like it was made by the same team). You’re still doing puzzles. And, aside from Jak, the other Jak 1 characters are pretty much the same. I think it’s Daxter and his obnoxiousness that really makes Jak II feel like it’s not a completely different franchise. Without Daxter, I think players would notice the dissonance from the 1st to the 2nd game a lot more.

4) Continuing from point 3, the new gameplay elements only build on from the 1st game rather than take away.

Sure, you get guns, a hoverboard, vehicles, and Dark Jak. However, everything else is still the same. If you remember the controls from the 1st game, you shouldn’t have any problem jumping into the 2nd game, which I feel helps in easing veteran players in with the new tone and setting.

5) Even with the change in tone and setting, the game doesn’t really deviate too far from how Jak was in Jak 1.

Even though Jak is unhinged, angry, and hellbent on revenge in Jak II, he’s still an overall good dude who goes around helping people. Jak still feels like Jak, albeit traumatized and angrier for valid reasons. It helps that Jak was sort of a blank slate in the first game. Because he was a blank slate, there was more room for Naughty Dog to develop his character in Jak II.

Jak is also a bit of a meathead dudebro in Jak II, which isn’t really how he was portrayed in Jak 1. But Jak being a dudebro isn’t that crazy when you consider his best friend is Daxter. And the open flirting isn’t that crazy since Jak already had a crush on Keira.

6) Jak II commits to its dark and edgy tone without going too dark or too cartoonish. It feels like a genuine attempt to take the first game and just “edge” it up.

What my point says. Jak II feels like a genuine continuation of the first game, but darker and edgier. But the game doesn’t go too edgy to the point that it takes you out of the story. It’s not like Jak is going around dropping f-bombs and chopping people’s heads off. It’s a solid balance, that’s what I’m trying to get at.

[black-eco-sage]

Name: Cpt. Jolt Scytere

Affiliation: Krimzon Guard [Praxis Regime]

Occupation: Krimzon Guard Elite (KG-E). Heavy Artillery, Shock-Specialist

Patron Precursor: Haest (Precursor of Wrath)

Weapons/Armor:

[+] Vulcan Fury VF1000 (not pictured here)

[+] RE/YE Gauntlets

[+] KG Knife

Abilities:

"Rage Light": Jolt has a Berserker Mode that utilizes the Dual-Channeling ability. She gets stronger with every hit taken up to 10 times her base strength, and becomes an unstoppable juggernaut.

"Dual Channeling" - Being a Scytere, Jolt has the ultra-rare genetic ability to channel two Eco Types at once. Specifically, has an affinity for Red and Yellow Eco, the two most destructive types on the planet (sans Dark Eco of course).

Combat:

Jolt is a legendary rage junkie. If there is enough Eco in her system, they can trigger the Rage-Light ability, a nigh invulnerable state that boosts their offense and defense tenfold. This is used sparingly and in dire situations; if used for too long, Jolt's system could literally burn up, and/or run out of Eco.

The RED Gauntlet is for short range, point-blank power attacks, and the YEL gauntlet is for ranged offense. For typical melee, Jolt uses them both to fire-punch her enemies in the face. >:)

For Heavy work, the VF1000 is the full version of the Vulcan Fury, with armor-piercing rounds that can punch through the bio-mechanical hides of even the toughest Metalheads.

(Bonus) When low on Eco, Jolt can absorb her own Red or Yellow Eco Shells from the gun or gauntlets.

[theshiaxartist]

Mayhaps 'Under the Baron's heel' shouldn't be so literal. One can only imagine the hell this kid went through on the daily.

[sparguscityangel]

every time i see this quote, i think about baron praxis. for context: the quote is said by an old tyrannical father who is the head of a company that holds power in the oligarchy of america. the family as a whole is often referred to as ‘the last great american dynasty’. the father is often compared to king leer in terms of character and motivations as he decides which one of his three children will inherit the company when he dies/retires. in this scene, he is speaking to his son, kendall, who he has promised the company to when he was only seven years old and later strips it away from him, and tries to convince kendall to accept the blame for a company wide scandal that will ultimately land him in jail (a scandal that kendall himself was not responsible for and is in fact, a scapegoat so that his father avoids going to jail). there are a lot of ways to analyze logan roy, but i won’t for the sake of brevity. the point is: logan ponders something his wife told him while they read together.

“what could you possibly kill that you love so much it would make the run rise again?” what is something you love so much, that your sacrifice of it would be so great that it would be enough to make the sun rise? the answer? your child. your own flesh and blood. a part of you that you created from nothing and have sworn to keep safe and alive. that kind of love is the only one that would get the gods’ attention. it’s why there are so many stories about the sacrifice of a child being required to save the many —jesus, iphigenia, isaac, lavinia, kendall. to us, we see these stories and say, ‘yes. sacrifice them. why is this a hard decision?’. to the parents, it would be kinder to rip their hearts from their chests and boil in oil. or we shun them, cast judgement down on them for even considering it. to us, it is vile and we cry, ‘how dare you? how dare you even entertain the thought?’. to the parents, it is to uphold a belief or structure they need in order to survive. every time i see the quote, i think of the baron. the angry, violent, ruthless man who ruled haven with an iron fist he kept pressed into the backs of his citizens to keep them compliant. the man who spewed propaganda through machines that demanded loyalty and ordered havenites to adore him for his sacrifices. the man who was a father. the man who loved his daughter. and that’s the thing, isn’t it? why this quote reminds me of him: he loved his daughter. he never said it. we never see them together. so what proof is there about his feels for ashelin? where do we see evidence that he even considered her a daughter in the first place?

it’s when torn sells out jak and daxter. ashelin isn’t even in the scene, and as jak approaches the disheartened and guilty torn, he raises his head and says, “the baron threatened to kill ashelin for spying. his own daughter.” like logan says in the quote above, he thought the incas were savages for sacrificing their children to make the sun rise. in this scene, torn thinks of the baron as a savage for threatening his child to save the city. the outside observer will think one is a savage for considering to kill their child, but to the parents, it is logical. baron praxis is losing. he is running out of eco to placate the metal heads and his weapon is hellbent on revenge and there are rumors of an heir from a man he thought he had rid of forever. his iron grip on the city is slipping. he won’t be able to hold on much longer, not when the anger and resentment and hope from the citizens are melting the iron fist. in his eyes, he is the only one who can save them. he alone is the sole protector of the city — the one he saved from an incompetent monarch, the one who mutilated himself in battle for, the one legacy he can establish for his bloodline. his saving grace is the precursor stone, and here’s why i know he loved ashlein: he knew she was a spy. praxis knew his daughter’s affiliations with the underground. she wasn’t exactly subtle in her interactions with jak, going as far as defending him in front of a guard by pushing their gun away from him. praxis knew his daughter’s involvement and still looked the other way because he loved her. as much as he loved the city, he wasn’t going to kill her for her betrayal. so the fact he threatened torn with her death tells me that he is desperate.

[ratchet-jak-sly-incorrect-quotes]

Baron Praxis: Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race has had a dream; to kill him so we don't have to learn his language or his new way of looking at things.

[radioactivepeasant]

Primary Characters in the Previously Unmentioned Riftfall AU:

(Quick explanation, this is something @sparguscityangel and I kept throwing back and forth at each other until one day it grew a Plot and legs and now its just sitting here, looking at us ominously.)

The premise is that when the Rift Rider blew up at the beginning of Jak 2, where each person fell out determined what year/location they actually landed in.

Daxter landed one year before they were supposed to, but falling one year back through the timestream undid his ottselification so he's as confused as you are. He ends up befriending Ximon and becoming the unofficial third member of Ximon and Osmo's family. He learns to drive, to shave, to pay taxes...and just how messed-up life in Haven City is. Osmo teaches him how to support the resistance when it's not safe to openly rebel. Daxter gets very very good at talking his way out of most security checkpoints. And all the while he wonders where everyone else landed.

Samos landed the same year, and got arrested on suspicion of being The Shadow. While he doesn't sell out Jak exactly, he does mention his existence. This will come back to bite everyone later. He also begs them to tell him if his daughter is alright, assuming they've all been found like last time. He tells them she studies dark eco, in order to make them interested enough to spare her.

This will also come back to bite everyone.

Keira fell out second, after Jak, so she lands further back. She crashes into the agricultural sector as a skinny twelve year old and immediately gets stuck in a tree. Ashelin Praxis is the one who finds her, and when the Baron realizes a year later that the "inventor orphan" his daughter brings food to out of pity is the sage's kid, he starts Plotting. Keira is brought into the palace and offered "sage" training, made to believe she's the only survivor of the crash. Devastated, the thirteen year old turns to Ashelin for advice and comfort. Considering Praxis's similarities to Samos as a cranky, strict, "I'm doing this to save the world" guy, the poor kid ends up being manipulated into seeing him as a surrogate father.

Dark eco is slipped into her food and drink, little by little, in an attempt to build her tolerance to it. Likewise, the kind of propaganda Ashelin has bought into is also slipped into her daily life until Keira, sheltered from the reality of life in Haven, believes it. She's praised and thanked for her inventions, told she's helping the war effort. When she begins to show dark eco symptoms, they're brushed away as a particularly gnarly puberty and she begins combat training. Keira is paraded around upper class schools to spur recruitment for the Junior Krimzon Guard cadets. Posters spring up around the city: "Our Girl Genius is Helping the War Effort, What About You?" and "Darling Dark Angel says, "Many Hands Make the Work Light! Let's Make our Quota Together!"

She's called Girl Genius so many times that when the KG start jokingly calling her Little G.G. Praxis, she doesn't correct them. It's something to distract her from the sorrow connected to her own name and her past for a while. She can't have Jak and Daxter and her father back. But she can make darned sure nobody else in this city will lose their loved ones to metalheads like she must have. Praxis is right: now it's her turn to be the hero.

Jak was the first to fall out of the Rift Rider, and was knocked five years back through the timestream. He also fell straight into the ocean. It was not a good day for Jak. Lucky for him, a fishing boat was trawling those waters that day, and when the captain found a shivering ten year old clinging to one of her buoys, she immediately hauled him aboard. It takes an hour or two to find enough common signs between them to have a conversation, but even so it leaves Captain Phobos with more questions than answers.

Unbeknownst to Jak, who -- like Keira -- believes himself to be the sole survivor, he's right between what used to be Misty Island and a place called Spargus. There are more warriors there than he's ever seen in his life, and nobody's heard of his friends. But the woman who found him introduces him to her husband, who is shockingly kind for a complete stranger.

Damas and Phobos have been trying for a child for two years at this point with no success, so when Jak literally falls from the sky into their lives, it doesn't take long for them to start wondering if he's been sent as an answer to their prayers. Jak is bewildered and a little freaked out by this at first, having absolutely no experience with present and intentional parental figures outside of vicariously via Keira and Samos. But after a year or two, he settles into calling them mom and dad. In his heart, however, he still longs for closure about his friends and what happened to Sandover.

When Jak is about to turn thirteen, Phobos becomes pregnant at last. Half the time Jak worries he's being replaced, the other half he worries about whether his new brother or sister will like him. And then little Mar is born and Jak cries, because all he wants is to share this moment with his best friends, and he can't. So he devotes himself to his baby brother. And it goes great! Until it doesn't.

Until he's almost 15 and Count Veger sends spies disguised as monks into Spargus to snatch the Child Heir and "dispose of the spare". Jak barely survives the aftermath of Mar’s kidnapping, and despite his parents growing increasingly protective, he vows that he'll bring his brother home no matter what.

(Next Character is on loan from @sparguscityangel )

Ru has no grand lineage or powers. She's not afraid of blood, buuuut this is primarily because she's a vet tech at the only veterinary office in North Haven. Whether or not that strong stomach extends to human blood is yet untested. Ru, like Daxter, lives the day to day life of a Havenite civilian. She dodges the bullets of bored Guards like everyone else, but where some run missions for the Underground and engage in covert and not so covert warfare, Ru is just trying to get through the day without getting scratched or bitten at work.

She hates walking home in the dark, but her loving parents, grandmother, and slightly pesky little sister are always waiting with a warm meal and a sense of safety. Ru wishes the outside world felt as safe as home. But even home feels a little less safe from the concerns of the city when Girl Genius posters are tucked into her sister's backpack on the way home from school.

Disclaimer: all images I made out of existing Disney faces with a lasso tool and a generic free art app on my phone

[who-u-calling-pinhead]

Here's the full thing

[anarchic-miscellany]

Finally getting around to playing "Jak 2" and it's pretty good fun thus far, thanks, my partner! But having Clancy Brown as the villain? Having David Herman as Erol? Having Krew (William Minkin) just be doing a Sidney Greenstreet impression? These things were tailor made for me.

[jak2gooberglub]

RAHHHHH

EDIT

MORE UNUSED VOICELINESSSS

[artstar1997]

Batch 2 for the Fairy AU is complete. Not much is known, except that their wings are based on different insects. I kinda see the House of Mar in the fairy au are butterfly-winged while most of the Krimzon Guard are moth-winged, with the exception of Erol, who has the wings of the postman butterfly. As for Sig and the Wastelanders, they have the wings of beetles, dragonflies, wasps, and hornets. Wings used: https://i0.wp.com/critterfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/European-Peacock-butterfly-Inachis-io.jpg?resize=1080%2C810&ssl=1 https://i.etsystatic.com/6853575/r/il/e446e7/4523532584/il_fullxfull.4523532584_1dpj.jpg https://media.istockphoto.com/id/175123218/photo/butterfly-papilio-antimachus.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=blDEkwS4mvxDhFS8SdJRWeDpSELUCG3NXWmahLUcBhc= https://t3.ftcdn.net/jpg/05/10/27/48/360_F_510274877_68Yx6TmdJHQvOngkuJpxxgOtsrjFbrF8.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Heliconius_melpomene_penelope_MHNT_dos_Femelle.jpg/1280px-Heliconius_melpomene_penelope_MHNT_dos_Femelle.jpg

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