#damas jak and daxter

[hecketernal]

IT'S THE HORNS AU

Descendants of Mar have a remarkable tendency to grow horns.

Every Ex-Havenite old enough to remember the family of Mar knows this. They come in all kinds of colors and shape, and even the horn growth pattern seems completely random. A parent often having entirely different looking horns to their child. Damas wondered if Mars' horns would be so different to his own. They hadn't grown in before he was taken. Most descendants didn't start budding until at least their teens.

Mar, the warrior who built Haven city, bore two thick, tusk-like horns that framed his jaws. Damas' mother had had blackened ram horns, meanwhile his sister had had a bright neon blue pair that grew out of her temples angled out like a second pair of ears. It had always made his older sister look rather intimidating. With the sharp cut of her eyeliner drawn in angular slashes around her eyes, he had watched no small number of men quail under that glare.

So yes, those that were old enough (or just brusque enough as native wastelanders tend to be to ask the king to his face why he had horns coming out of his noggin') knew exactly what having horns meant to their leader.

This is the reason why the arena grows hushed, when the newest recruit transforms into a pale frenzied thing with black little horns standing out clearly from the white hair.

[preservedcucumbers]

Illustration for chapter 19 of Torque by @latenightowl

[troblsomtwins829]

Kid wants his cheese cubes, lay off!

[radioactivepeasant]

Fragile Things au (the one where Damas time travels and snatches TPL Jak before Errol can -- leaving Errol in a decidedly worse state than he found him)) Damas and Jak trying to make their way through the Forest to get to the rendezvous point

Bonus, Jak discovers burritos and Damas can't get over how small he is. (Because I did a little investigation and realized TPL Jak only comes up to about the middle of his ribcage 😅)

He still hasn't figured out Jak is Mar. He's operating on the assumption that Jak is an ancestor 🤣

[sonicringnoise]

I am cursed with a burden of shitposts. And now, so are you.

[jakndaxter-imagine]

Imagine you defeat Damas, in a spar easily over and over again and that's where he starts to fall for you.

Submitted by @bonniekf8-blog

[woelfin-sheeps-clothing]

Sneak peek of the first Jak and Daxter pin-up available on my Patreon, King Damas! More to come soon.

[adhdavinci]

jak and daxter bring a new daredevil sport to spargus: slap king damas' bald head

slapping damas' bald head has consequences. first, he'll kill you for it. second, those spikes

it's a game of stealth and precision. one wrong move and your palm is speared right to the king's dusty scalp

anyway like to slap damas' bald head reblog to slap damas' bald head

[hexdaxter]

Ever wondered where Jak got his good looks from? Well enjoy my young Damas sketch °w°

[valen-f-f]

Listen to me, what would happen if Jak does an undercover mission as a Drag queen and after finishing the mission King Damas immediately calls him to Espargus for an emergency meeting, Jak without being able to change goes there.

This can go in two ways, he arrives at the meeting with his costume on Jak: what? or he sneaks into the room he has there and tries to change before going but is interrupted by Damas and the situation is like:

D: Jak I know he's there, we have a meeting right now.

J: I know but let me change my clothes first.

D: We don't have time for this.

J: give me 5 minutes.

* Damas enters the room by force *

D: FOR THE LOVE OF MAr i don't have- *Jak is changing when he is interrupted *

* awkward silence *

D:. . .

J:. . . . .

Jak exclaimed: DAD!!

D: SORRY!!. and he leaves the room and slams the door.

Jak realized he called him dad by accident.

Damas realizing he called him dad, and how uncomfortable Jak must have felt interrupting his room, feeling his paternal instincts. He ends up having a father-son talk with Jak, and Damas being a supportive father.

[hecketernal]

Everyone Thinks Jak Is Dying AU (Aka everyone miscommunicates to some pretty ridiculous and angsty levels but Jak's totally fine) ((pls read I swear I still have some comfort with this hurt some funny with the tragedy pls hear me out))

Explanation: I had had this weird impression that Jak was flat out dying from dark eco poisoning, when I was a kid. It seems kid me had made some assumptions from listening to Baron Praxis' propaganda stations where he flat out says, "The dark eco inside you will eventually kill you, Jak," and the way Jak first reacted to getting light eco.

Everyone else seemed to die in the Dark Warrior Project. Hell, they flat out acknowledge Jak should be dead himself from the amount of dark eco pumped into him. Even if a slow death via eco poisoning isn't what the games were going for, it would still make sense lorewise. The game will insta kill you for falling into the stuff.

Buuuuut for a moment just consider...applying that misconception to Damas and Jak's growing paternal bond.

Jak, in his freshly betrayed wariness, decides to hide his dark eco abilities. He's tired. He can't trust anyone except for Daxter, but Daxter is The Exception in capital letters and everything. Jak has found a force he can't or isn't equipped to beat within the long, hot stretch of the desert with no Keira to build a contraption to get them out. He doesn't even know... if Keira cares enough to build some zoomer with a heat shield or whatever would come to her mechanical mind for them anymore. None of his "allies" spoke up very loudly to defend Jak, so Jak stashes his otherness away. Well, he hides it to the best of his abilities. He'll never be a spy, but he can manage a few marauders in some Arena of Death with just a gun and some effort. Transforming had always been last resort anyways. With fear from his betrayal instead of anger leading him, he never transforms in front of all of Spargus to see. He's doesn't want to be Baron Praxis' renegade weapon, the man made monster that slipped its leash. He wants a moment without that. He can't go back to the kid from Sandover. He doesn't want to, but the idea of being just another exile like everyone else is...heady.

Jak doesn't know that he can't hide what's already been seen. Dark eco scars are distinctive, and Jak's were very visible during his stint with unconsciousness and heatstroke. The monks had attended to the two boys, but they had not done so silently. Precursor monks did not care to censor their muttering about dark eco corruption. Their prayers for salvation or less pain for the boy were easily overheard by the alert King of Spargus. It's likewise impossible to hide the way dark eco skitters towards Jak. The way it sinks into his skin. The way his pallor goes white. His face pained. The way the newest recruit sometimes clutches an arm, angling it away from view. Jak does manage to hide the growing claws with this action, so good for him. Bad for Damas.

Damas is under the impression that Jak is dying. Dark eco poisoning is an unpleasant but often inescapable death sentence for even the strongest warriors. He's known good Wastelanders that had to be buried after just a brush with the energy. It might be slow with this new recruit, but it will come all the same. Won't it? Damas tries his best to remain distant. His heart has already been shattered from the loss of one child, but it seems those broken shards are destined to break a little more. Jak is so damningly earnest for someone who tries to act jaded and tough. Damas can't remain distant. Every wall Damas builds is blasted away by the young warrior's newest actions. Damas is doing his best to hold himself together, but inside he is a mess. He doesn't want to lose another son. When Jak spoke of not knowing his father, Damas realized there was one thought more agonizing than losing another son, a lonely son dying fatherless. It catalyzes the father for he cannot stop thinking of himself as anything but a father. Isn't this what he always told himself he would do anything for? Another moment with his child? Damas will not squander the time they have left. Besides, the desert is rough and fickle, and violent death has come for all of Spargus' other kings. He might worry for naught. His death might come for him sooner than Jak's.

[ratchet-jak-sly-incorrect-quotes]

Jak: Who are you?

Damas: I'm Damas. I'm looking for my son.

(Daxter and Pecker gasp)

Jak: You lost your son?

Damas:Yes. Many years ago.

Jak: I lost my father.

Damas: I'm very sorry.

Jak: Thank you.

Daxter: …

Pecker: …

Damas: Well... good luck to you.

Jak: You too. I hope you find your son.

Damas: And I hope you find your father.

(Daxter face palms)

[troblsomtwins829]

[radioactivepeasant]

Give the boy some dad hugs, dangit

And a therapist! He needs both!

[shenzuul]

Re: Damas’ head spikes:

Totally normal body mod in Spargus, like other types of body piercings

Absolutely NOT normal body mod in Spargus, he had those welded to his skull when he became king to make himself even more intimidating

Terrible accident with his Haven crown that occurred in the fight when he was overthrown

Extremely stupid accident with an armored headpiece that happened on a Spargus desert run, do NOT ask about it

Tinfoil hat equivalent to prevent his weird freak monks from reading his mind

Irreversible mutilation inflicted by either Praxis during/post-coup or by marauders at some point during his time in Spargus

Sticks ‘em on with body glue every morning for the Aesthetic

Those are his horns, you bitch

[segaphantom]

I would like to thank @softkoa for the inspiration behind this 😏