#Ferl!BBY AU

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This was the AU that came before StrayCat. The Desert Cryptid, also known as "Feral!BBY" for...i hope obvious reasons. Instead of being offed in the fortress, The Baron has Jak sent out to the wasteland to die.

Along the way, Jak goes dark and ends up making the ship crash. He survives, and doesn't ever go...back to normal? Instead just slowly changing over time as the limited food options in the wasteland have him eating metalheads and even people just to have something to eat after so long with nothing. He survives with limited mobility and the most vague idea of what a person is and that he used to be one.

Rumors spread across the sands, between marauder bases and even to Spargus, about this mysterious creature that will attack anything and everything.

Sig is the one who ends up finding and sticking with Jak, could not for the life of me remember why, something about being ill or injured, and Jak saves him rather than kills him because Sig "smells like home." "Home" being some nebulous feeling he can barely recall after spending two years surrounding by concrete and feeling nothing but pain.

Daxter's a hu'men in this AU. Can't remember how it happens, just that it does, and he's still looking for Jak even after all the crap in Haven takes place.

Oddly enough, this AU was also inspired by the NOVEL of Dracula in terms of pacing and the amount of withheld information from the reader.