#Dark Jak

[smug-wolf]

RAAAAUGH

sorry i hit him with the furry beam hes a big kity now

very slight alt under the cut

[assassyart]

Happy 22nd anniversary, Jak!

[preservedcucumbers]

quick Dark Jak doodle

[theheartofmar]

Flats update on the Jak 3 piece!

[funsexydb]

[ecokitti]

I, and I think a lot of us in the Discord server, headcanon that Dark Jak behaves like some sort of street cat that rummages through trash cans and brings home prey as gifts...la creatura. Daxter tries his best to deal with it without freaking out 🥹

[jak2gooberglub]

Me when characters are poisioned/hurt from the powers they posess:

Me when characters who get abilities got them in a traumatizing way and doesn't like to use them because of said trauma:

Me when the character who is super powerful is afraid to hurt anyone:

Me when a character who got powers in a traumatic way is shunned because of said powers:

Give me moreeee

[mystigaron]

she went ham

[segaphantom]

BREAKING NEWS

I REPEAT

BREAKING NEWS!!!

BOB RAFEI'S WEBSITE UPDATED TO INCLUDE TLF'S ORIGINAL CONCEPT ART!

AND DARK JAK WAS GOING TO BE IN IT!!!!!

[who-u-calling-pinhead]

As someone that has dark jak as my favorite form of jak finds the whole concept of "dark jak" interesting, seeing how it's just so... unused in jak 2, story wise AND gameplay wise just hurts.

Story wise, literally the ONLY times the dark form pops up is when daxter first finds jak in prison, and in the cutscene before the kor fight.

Gameplay wise, it's useless without its area clearing abilities. You just save up a bunch of dark eco, and when you have enough, you can't even get out of dark form once you activate it, you HAVE to stay in it until you run out of dark eco. There's no changes to your attacks too, other than your punches locking onto enemies.

They could've done some cool shit with it but naughty dog was like "Nah, im'ma do my own thing."

You know what they could've done to make the whole "dark form" a bigger part of the game?

Have jak struggle to keep it hidden. Not only in story cutscenes, but in gameplay too.

Yes, he may be an eco channeler, but this is dark eco he's dealing with, it's unstable and unpredictable, you never know what will happen with it.

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Just imagine, during gameplay.

If you decide to just save your dark eco when you have enough to go dark jak, overtime, there can be a random chance where jak just automatically goes dark without your input.

The chances increase the longer you go without using dark jak.

Only differences I think there could be from if you manually went dark is that you just can't control jak for the time this happens, he'll attack anything nearby, metal head, guard, or citizen.

Of course, when you don't have anymore dark eco, you regain control of jak. But, you're left with half health, since I can imagine holding back all that dark eco for so long can cause harm to jak.

Basically a way to encourage the player to use it more or end up having the game use it for them.

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Now Imagine, story wise.

I can imagine in moments where praxis or errol are present, considering the fact that these two are responsible for putting jak through... whatever he went through in the dark warrior program, of course, he'd hold a grudge against the both of them. Whenever one of these two are present, jak would get a little mad just by their presence, which would cause the dark eco to act up.

Praxis and errol aren't really effected by it, since with the whole dark warrior program, that's what they've been wanting from him.

When it comes to anyone else though, yeah, he'd try to hide it.

The dark form would only just... slip out as jak would actually put in effort to keep it at bay.

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Of course, jak would learn to control it and not really care about hiding it at the end of jak 2 and for pretty much the entirety of 3, Yada Yada Yada.

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Thank you all for listening to my insane ramblings about some guy from a 2003 Playstation 2 game.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Jak II is highkey one of ballsiest video game sequels ever made.

Like, imagine if someone at Nintendo said, “For the next Zelda game, let’s send Link to a cyberpunk dystopian future. He can talk now and most of his lines are cold as fuck because he loves danger and wants revenge for what Ganon did to him. Also, he shoots guns, drives hovercars, can turn into a monster version of himself called Dark Link, works with smugglers and openly flirts with Zelda. Also, get rid of the orchestra, we need hard rock/metal for the soundtrack.”

[paperartist23]

Am I the only one who wants more Dark Giant Jak content? like fanarts, fanfics, etc.

imagine the possibilities; the reaction of his friends seeing him like this, Jak's own reaction when using this ability for the first time, the havoc it would cause, what it would be like if he used this ability on Spargus (because I am sure that the reaction of the citizens of Haven and Spargus would be very different)

just look at him

Why aren't there more fanarts of him???

[tsubaki94]

Dark Jak, worried Daxter

(Anyone got any good JND Fanfics to recommend?)

[radioactivepeasant]

But what if Dark Jak was basically Nezuko from Demon Slayer?

And sometimes he just wants to be Small And Silly? (Especially because Tess will make sure he gets away with it)

The duality of DJ: demon teen if he wants to kill something, demon kindergartener if he just wants to inconvenience someone instead.

[sova-dozhd]

did a quick marker mock up of a painting idea I want to do with light and dark jak -- the finished piece will have a bg but xd decided to go w painting instead of marker for the next one because i was using this as an excuse to experiment w glowing light w marker but i hAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING WRT THAT so painting it will be lol

[ecokitti]

The kids are angy