#onin

[adhdavinci]

i drew old people for the Jak 2 20th anniversary banner!!

[1-nexomon-a-day]

2/20/24 - Onin

[seirei-bh]

A theory about Maia and Onin

Reading through J&D TPL's design bible, I realized that Onin and Maia have one thing in common: they can both predict the future and can hear and interpret prophecies.

The description about Maia in TPL design bible says Maia was able to predict the future and shout prophecies with a voice that was not her own. In addition, Maia is said to have used a "dark socery" and it is even hinted that she was so powerful that she created an army of enemies (it may refer to her creating the Lurkers or at least experimenting with them to mutate them in different ways). Onin is also renowned in Haven City as a true sort of fortune teller and sorceress. The two are the only human characters who have these powers so strange and uniques.

But why do they have these powers? Why does Onin know so much about the Precursors? And why was Maia going into a trance and speaking in a voice that was not her own? Why did Maia and Gol wanted to experiment with dark eco?

Here we go, theory time!

I believe that Maia and Onin are people "chosen" from birth, just like Jak, to fulfill a role that guides Jak to be the hero he is today. But Onin and Maia had an opposite role. One was chosen by the Precursors, and the other by the Dark Makers.

Onin was born blind and mute, therefore, the Precursors spoke to her and gave her a gift of light eco, so that she used her gift for good, and was, like Samos and Damas, a key person to guide Jak on the good path of his hero journey. Meanwhile, the voice Maia heard was not the voice of dark creatures who used to be Precursors: the Dark Makers, who tempted her and Gol to the dark side. On the one hand, this would cause the future, Jak and Daxter to have to embark on their path as heroes and become stronger, but it would also be what would trigger Jak and Daxter to find the Rift Gate and with it the metalheads could reach their world, destroy, conquer, and later the Darkmakers might also come to that world and destroy it.

However, it's true Onin came to do things that can be considered not very good, since it was she who told Erol that Jak was "special" and that is why the KG took him to prison, but we need to remember that the Precursors are gods who play with people as game board pieces, So Onin knew that Jak needed to go to prison to gain the power of the dark eco to defeat Kor, in the same way Samos also knew it was necesary Jak needed to go to the past and later go to the future.

And in certain way, Samos also is a opposite parallel to Gol, both being sages with an important role in Jak's journey. In both cases, we have a sage and a sorceress.

It was necesary that also Jak had people in both sides of that coin that helped him to become in the hero Mar. Since he achieved both eco powers: light and dark. That's whay the Symbol of Mar represents: the balance.

//extra side note: I also have some headcanons (for fanfics that I never couldn't finished and I hope I can back to write them some day) about Onin being a long lost member of the House of Mar (a Damas's great-aunt or something like that), and that was why she knew so many things about the tomb of Mar, and Jak's mother being a distant relative descendant of the Acheron clan -not directly of the evil twins, of course, I mean descendant about other non-mentioned members of Acheron family. Being those things even here more representative and symbolic to Jak's light/dark sides, but I'll talk more about this in other post~)

[whimsicalwhespir]

I AM THE MOST REGULAR ABOUT THEM

[nerdywyrds]

Some J&D art from a few months ago.

[hecketernal]

What if the reason Veger knew Jak was Mar was because of Onin? Veger takes it as a sign of his right to ascendancy; meanwhile, Onin just breathes a sigh of relief. Thank fuck. She needed someone else to get turned into a Precursor. It would have spelled their doom otherwise. She didn't know what the gods were thinking.

[jay-cuchita]

Life Goes On in On in On in 🎶

¿Lo leíste cantando verdad?

[trashartisan]

Oninon

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Caplan Kent Onin, 2023

[radioactivepeasant]

In lieu of Free Day Friday (didn't have time this week 😭) I offer a very silly comic I drew

Premise: in Jak 3, is Damas's "death scene", it's fairly obvious that just his legs are pinned because 2003 software constraints I guess. Brain said "what if they'd brought him into Jak X without retconning the end of Jak 3 at all?" And this is what resulted

GT Blitz on pre-recorded video: "This is it, folks! The holy grail of tracks: the Arena of Death!"

Keira: "I'm sorry, Jak. I know it must be hard, being back in Spargus after losing your father."

(Her speech bubble is only partially visible because Jak is distracted when the footage switches to live)

Sig and approaching Wastelanders: "Hey! Let me see that camera for a sec."

GT Blitz: "We'll be right back folks-"

Sig (pulling camera lens towards him): "Jak, you better have a really good reason for running of to Kras now, of all times!"

Sig on the tv: "Don't run, kid. He's already there."

Keira: "Um...Jak?"

Jak: "ah...should've called, I guess...Still. What's he going to do? Call my da-"

(Door slams open)

Damas: "YOU."

Jak, Keira, and Daxter: "I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!"

[adhdavinci]

something something precursor onin

this is the REAL cause of all those destroyed planets

[biograftwhereitshoudntbe]

its behind me, isn't it?

[baltharino]

@animangacreators ♡ Challenge 13 Adventure Genre: Favorite Adventure Companion -> Sinon

[morethansalad]

Hoisin Cauliflower & Coconut Rice Noodles (Vegan)

[mizuno-marmalade]

happy birthday @transboykirito‼️🥳🥳 the one of kazuto & sugu is based on this fic (coincidentally also by taylor 🤔 jk it's not a coincidence lol) ignore the wonky hands i drew these in pen

[madamutzsar]

taking a small break from my other projects, for funsies I am once again cloning a Jak and Daxter mini game, this time the Onin mini game, call that the Clonin mini game. Coding it has gone swell, playing it is KICKING MY ASS. The prototype was brutal, I lowered the score goals and added x5 miss forgiveness on level up which has helped me survive a bit… does it seem a faithful recreation? whaddoya think it needs?

I'll make it a free browser game on itch.io in due time; my ♡ patrons and stars ♡ can download and play it RIGHT NOW !