#ashelin praxis

[funsexydb]

[tomb-of-mar]

aw man ah dang i cant believe we have to do this race, im so mad just like you guys >:(

[renegadeful]

The second piece for the Jak and Daxter Discord's anniversary banner !! Cant wait to see what everyone else does for their characters 👀

[2parka]

A Scene in Jak 2 Probably

Oh man, after a month of not drawing, I finally decided to push through artblock!

I hadn't drawn Ashelin yet, so I needed to give her a little love. :)

[glassfisharts]

[adhdavinci]

digitizing my piercing headshots, starting with a new one 💖

ashelin praxis aka mommy - sorry! i mean mommy??? s-sorry!!!! i mean, mommy????????? so--

[katealpha]

Comm from Randomgirl1265

As if being queen regent of a city wasn’t hard enough. Now Ashelin’s got all those responsibilities, as well as having to carry around a couple kids in your belly. Who’s the father exactly? She’s not telling. Nobody’s business but her own. But what she WILL tell you is how much she wants to get these little ottsel wannabes out of her. They slow her down, make her bump into things and people, make her bladder act up, give her the strangest cravings, and overall make poor Ash feel like a bloated yakow.

[radioactivepeasant]

Project "make Jak and Daxter characters look like they actually have internal organs" continues

[seirei-bh]

Resolving Ashelin plot holes in Jak 3

I originally wrote all of this essay in a Word document for myself, trying to find various possible solutions for those plot holes, as something for my fanfic, but since I've spent months thinking about it and trying to figure it out on my own, I wanted to share my entire struggle with these issues here with the fandom too XD because maybe they could help to some people who also writes fics or we could just share opinions about it.

The plot holes were big and I don't know how they could have gone unnoticed the first time I played Jak 3, omg~

Ashelin's main problems and plot holes were:

1) Ashelin knew that Damas was still alive, but she didn't tell anyone.

2) Ashelin knew that both Jak and Damas belonged to the House of Mar since she gave the Seal of Mar to Jak in the oasis, and because she knew Damas before he was banished, but she never mentioned any of this to either Jak or Damas. Maybe she didn't know for sure that The Kid of the Underground was Damas's son, but she could have at least deduced that they were family and that Damas could be his uncle or something similar.

3) There is no explanation about how Ashelin managed to find out that Damas was still alive after his banishment, how she found him, and why Ashelin had a beacon to call him (the beacon she gave to Jak at the beginning of the game).

4) Ashelin had the power to directly dissolved the Grand Council without any problems, but she didn't do it before Jak was banished.

Okay, let's first resolve the issues regarding Damas:

1) The first problem can be solved simply by Damas making Ashelin promise that she would never tell anyone that he was still alive, so Baron Praxis wouldn't try to go find him, kill him, and wouldn't find out Spargus's existence. And she didn't tell this to the Underground either probably because Damas was already king of Spargus when Ashelin found him and he had no intention of ruling Haven again.

This issue actually could have been solved just with a line of dialogue and it's something at least to can imagine easily, but the other two problems are more difficult to solve, especially the second.

2) I can understand why Ashelin didn't tell Jak about Damas being his family at the beginning of the game because she was busy fighting a civil war and ruling a ruined city, also because she needed Jak to return to the city, and also the promise she (maybe) made to Damas. But she had had other opportunities throughout the game to mention it to Jak after Jak met Damas in the desert, or at the very least to tell him that Damas was perhaps his relative, without specifying why or how. I can also understand that it would be very difficult for her to explain the whole time travel mess to Damas, but still, it's no reason not to at least tell Jak. Or to tell it to Samos, Keira or Daxter, because they are the ones involved in the time travel and the characters closer to Jak since his childhood, so some of them could help her to explain all that to Damas. So a possible option that I have thought of is that Onin told Ashelin that she should not say anything so as not to intervene in the fate that the Precursors have in store for Jak. It's still a cheap excuse, but Onin is the character who always seems to know more about the future than everyone else. So my final conclusion was that Onin convinced her not to tell Jak, while Damas convinced her not to talk about his own existence to others or reveal that he was the king of Haven City. Besides in this way Onin's role in this game would be useful, lol, because I swear she got the same writing problems than Keira.

p.s.: I've read somewhere that some people think that Ashelin never told him just so that Jak would return to Haven City and not stay in Spargus, but Ashelin is not a villain like her father nor a manipulative person (that's Rayn, lol .And Onin-Pecker-Samos too in some way, but only for the greater good) so I doubt it. As I said it could have been a believable excuse at the beginning for tense moments in the war and having to take drastic decisions, but not throughout the entire game. She's a good person, dammit. However I admit this could have been an interesting idea but only with a better and longer writing and with a proper character development of both or the to create more drama and tension between Jak and the City, and even a reflection for Jak himself on whether he should put his personal affairs above the good of others or if the right answer is the opposite, and a post conversation with Damas about this and what means to be a hero and a ruler...

3) Now we are going to try to solve the third problem… here I came up with three options: A) Ashelin gave Damas that beacon so that he could tell him that he was still alive and Damas activated it only years later to ask for help at some point . B) Sig, any other wastelander spy or even Damas himself, went to Haven City and asked Ashelin directly if she knew anything about The Kid's kidnapping, and then they stayed in touch because she promised she would try to find out where the kid was. C) Ashelin ventured into the desert at some point before Jak2 events or sent someone to look for Damas to see if he was alive and perhaps ask him to return to the city, which he refused, but Damas still gave her a beacon to keep in touch because he appreciates her.

4) Now there is the matter of the Grand Council. Well, this isn't exactly a plot hole, it's lazy writing XD There's no logical excuse in the game, unless at that time Ashelin had more power than before for unexplained reasons or just scrapped democracy and became a dictator like her father, lol. She also might have gained more political power over the war issue, but this is conjecture. Personally my decision with this has been to change this completely in my fanfic for another type of more coherent path, so Ashelin would not have the power to resolve the Council just like that in that scene, but she would have to balance the power later and gradually take power away from Veger (I didn't post the chapters with that subplot yet, so I won't be very specific, but it is based on Ashelin gradually acquiring more power and influence among other politicians in a slower, but also more rational and cunning way, GoT style~)

As a side note, we also have the issue that they completely removed the romantic relationship supposedly established between Torn and Ashelin at the end of Jak 2, and replaced it with Ashelin with Jak, forgetting about Keira's existence as well, but that's not exactly a plot hole either, it's forced rewriting, and at least it was solved in Jak X.

OOHH, and there is a problem also related to her design, and I'm not only referring to her soldier uniform is totally sexualized and that's not funtional for a soldier either for a ruler who wants to be respected, but there is also other problem: she still wear the symbol of the old KG on the shoulder, while she should be wearing the symbol of the Freedom League, and probably also some blue/yellow colors instead of only red.

Well, that's all... it's amazing how I used to think the biggest problem with Jak 3 were the writing of Keira, Errol and the Dark Makers. Because the more you write, the more you find plot holes with other characters and subplots.

[cloudofdarkness]

Some girls from a totally normal PlayStation game

[incorrectjakanddaxter]

Daxter: If being sexy was a crime, I’d commit several felonies a day.

Ashelin: You already commit several felonies a day. And yet you still look the way you do.

[funsexydb]

[tomb-of-mar]

Fancy jak outfits for a gala arc

Plus these 3 but I want to do touch ups for them

[woelfin-sheeps-clothing]

I finally drew something for Jak and Daxter that doesn’t have to be cropped!

[bufonmedieval]

I made a little mental image/idea, that they, as soldiers of the Krimson Guard, would have to do joint parullages in the Zoomers, equally for all, whether they were day or night controls.

Explaining; Eventually I wanted to add Torn (before he deserted). So therefore, I changed the military ranks they held. We know that Erol was promoted to Commander once Torn left the Krimson Guard, so, before all that happened, in the military hierarchy at that time (I will name the hierarchy from highest to lowest rank), Torn is the one who carries the rank and writing Commander, on the shoulder. Then, he's followed by Erol, who would be Captain, and finally, who is of lower rank, Ashelin, Lieutenant. ✨️

To make things less complicated, eventually in Jak 2 scenarios, Erol would already be promoted to Commander, and Ashelin to Captain.

[renegadeful]

Ashelin, who probably benches more than Jak weighs. Just some rough sketches of ya gal.