#gogo-Jetters

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This might be the ONLY time I make a 100% non-GJ post on this account but while I have your attention, Octonauts fandom, here are my gijinka designs for the main 6 characters of the group. These were so much fun to do ahh.

I might draw some more GJ x Octonauts crossover content soon. You may not know it, but we are fandoms-in-law now. 💙🩵🧡

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They're obviously biologically related-

If Xuli's purple/pink hair is natural, what would be the scientific reasons?

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More Octonauts + Go Jetters crossover content. Posting Twashi & Xyan double date because I love drawing my favourite ships together 🩷💚 💜🧡

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I’ve always found the way the Go Jet Academy is structured to be really fascinating, especially in terms of the focuses- or really, the lack of them. Canonically speaking, there are only 5 (Pilot, Sport, Engineer, Strat, Ecology), and that already doesn’t match up with the much wider variety of staff we see on-campus, as well as the studies and teachings going on. So I wanted to take a crack at expanding upon the idea a little bit, by changing one factor- broadness.

The names used for the GJA tracks are never really consistent- Lars’ focus has been listed as engineering and mechanics in different places, and Foz’s has gone from “genius”, to “science”, depending where you look. Not to mention, the pitch bible also calls Lars a botanist, while in s3 Tala is introduced as an ecologist. So what’s the fix? Changing the wording, because technically, canon never actually defines these boxes, and how tight or broad they are.

Instead of hyper-specific roles, my pitch is that each colour of uniform indicates a “track”- a broad group of studies, each of which revolve around a particular topic. Each track links back to the Academy’s goal, of learning about the Earth, and helping to preserve it. This allows for two cadets to be under the same track, but studying two different things, kind of like a “major” system !

I also wanted to add more tracks alongside the original ones- there’s no way the Academy doesn’t teach more, and these are just some of my ideas for other fields of study, as well as their associated colours and logos. Some of these tracks come from the fact that we see teachers for them, others felt like a natural fit for the academy based off of canon context, and episodes.

All of these ideas and concepts are free to use ! If you repost this graphic, just be sure to tag me (:

This is a surface level dive into some of my ideas revolving around the academy, it’s education system and the tracks, so if you’d like to hear more, please do let me know !! I’ll post a more in-depth explanation of the system itself, as well as each of the 11 tracks if enough people are interested !!

Bonus transparent version of the track info plaques because I think they’re pretty cool (:

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This came to me in a vision a while ago but since I’m posting more crossover art…

Ubercorn & Captain Barnacles ex boyfriends??

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They’re best friends you guys

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I think it would be really funny if we made a thing to fill this in for our GJ sonas (if you have one)

This is from the magazine !

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Zeaxel vibes

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The grimbots and their place in the timeline is kinda weird to me. We don’t see them in any of the childhood photos of Glitch at the Go Jet Academy, but according to the S1 Christmas Special, he got his first ever Grimbot as a Christmas present, BEFORE he was ever a cadet at the Go Jet Academy.

A lot of people don’t consider the Christmas Special to be canon, but here’s my proposal, which kind of keeps the childhood flashback scene AND the lack of grimbots at the time of Glitch being a cadet intact, in a way that I think makes sense, and also allows for “glitch invented the grimbots” to somewhat coexist?

What if The first Grimbot Glitch ever got wasn’t a Grimbot? Not in the sense we know them, at least. My personal theory is that this was a toy robot of sorts. The only real functionality of it would have been exactly what we see in the episode- it flies, it can record voice messages. Naturally, he’s very attached to it- similar to his attachment to Cuddles, who we know he’s had for a long time as well. After being expelled from the GJA, he built his first Grimbot, using the parts from this toy for the physical body, making the more advanced code, tech and AI himself, in order to create the “perfect companion”, after losing Ubercorn. One that’s loyal to a fault, doing everything in his best interest. So with what little resource he had left after hitting rock bottom, the first Grimbot comes to light.

Making more came later, naturally, perfecting the tech and making alterations to the looks to be more personalized to the image he was making for himself, which explains things like the Grimbots having differently coloured buttons to the first Grimbot, and the expansion on abilities. Tweaking and nailing down the AI they use to think- likely a “learning AI” where they function under the objective of “what is the quickest / easiest way to accomplish (goal)”.

Reminder that this is all just speculation!

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The G in LGBT is for Go Jetters

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GJ Families - Headcanon Mini-Post

I’ve wanted to do this for a while, but because I’m very busy at the moment, it’s hard to find the time to make big posts. So, I’m trying my best to be okay with making smaller, more simple posts, and this is kind of testing that format. And what better than sharing some headcanons about what I think the Go Jetters’ families are like?? It’s been a long time coming, haha.

For now, I’m only doing the Funky Five (Xuli, Kyan, Lars, Foz and Tala), but maybe in the future I’ll drop a thing or two about the others. Each character has their own little section, with a mini-Drabble about what I think their family structure is, and maybe even some little HCs about some of the members. I hope you like this layout, and feel free to ask questions ! Any rude comments will be deleted.

XULI

Xuli is adopted! She has two mothers, Alejandra and Lina, who adopted her when she was two. Additionally, she has an older brother, Sol, age 19- who is her biological brother- and a younger sister named Aurelia, age 12, who is also adopted. Xuli’s family is upper middle class, her Mum (Alejandra) working as a lawyer, and her Mama (Lina) working as a hairdresser. Xuli’s family is very loving and supporting of her endeavors, and she has her Mum’s stubborn personality and her Mama’s love for sightseeing !

KYAN

Kyan was raised in a multi-generational household, living with both his parents and his grandparents in California. His grandparents and parents are all immigrants from China, with Kyan being the first of their family to be born in the states. His Father, Mako, along with his grandparents, run a popular Chinese restaurant on a boardwalk, which Kyan used to work at as a child, while his mother, Daiyu, works as a dentist. Kyan is particularly close with his grandparents, who were very supportive of his athletic dreams in particular.

LARS

Lars grew up in the countryside, on a small farm, with his single Dad, Dominic, Aunt Cheryl and Uncle Benjamin, as well as his little sister, Juno, and his younger twin cousins, Aria and Piper. While living on the farm instilled a love of animals early, his love for machinery came from there too, watching how the different machinery there worked, and learning to fix tractors and farm gear by watching his uncle- and quickly becoming better than him at it! Lars is very close with his family, but has a specially strong bond with both his sister and cousins.

FOZ

Foz is from a richer family, and is an “age gap” kid- meaning that there’s at least 10 years between him and his siblings. He lives with his Mother and Father- the owners of a jewelry company, and an emerald mine, while his three older siblings, Stephanie (27), Andrew (23) and Austin (23), have already moved out of home to peruse their own careers. Foz isn’t particularly close with the rest of his family, having attended boarding school before the GJA, and not growing up alongside his siblings.

TALA

Tala’s family is very well off- after all, with a family history as incredible as the Glitches have, how couldn’t they be? Tala lives with her father, Gabriel Glitch - who is Grandmaster Glitch’s twin brother, and her mother, Reagan Cade-Glitch, as well as her half-brother on her mom’s side, Callum Cade, in the Glitch Estate, which has been in their family for years. Tala spend much of her time as a child in the garden, talking with the family’s gardener about new and fun plant or bug facts.

Thank-you for reading all the way through !! Again, I hope that you guys find my personal headcanons fun and interesting! I wanted the GJ to all have different kinds of family groups, as opposed to just having “nuclear” families, because I think that it’s just boring if they’re all very similar, and different kinds of family representation is important to many people, including myself !! Feel free to ask any questions you may have in the comments, and I’ll try my best to answer them ! (:

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questions:

What is your favorite season?

what is your favorite episode

Why do you the show so much?

How you would rank the main cast+Tala

Hi ! Thanks for the ask!

My favorite season of the show is probably Series 2! It's the one that got me into the show, and I also think it has the best animation, and most consistent quality of storylines, as well as a great balance when it comes to character focus and interactions.

My favorite episode? There are many I like, but nothing will ever beat s2 e11, Harbin Ice City, for me. It has a fun and engaging plot, the character interactions are great, the location is interesting, the Glitch is very unique when compared to other surrounding episodes, and of course- the climax of the episode, where Kyan almost dies. Love the high stakes, followed by the relief he's okay. It's quite fun to think about the aftermath of it, and look further at the stuff the show itself wouldn't, because of the target demographic.

It's hard for me to cite just one reason I like the show so much, because there are a lot of draws to it! I love the general premise of the show, and I certainly think that the characters, and how they interact with the world and one another is also a huge draw. I also love the light serialization and world building. While the show is episodic, there is a clear order to events, and there is lore implied and scattered across the show, and I love getting to analyze and theorize events. There's a lot more I could say about why I like it. Go Jetters has a special place in my heart!

I don't think I could rank the characters, but I will say that my favorite character is Kyan!

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Ubercorn is gay send tweet (yes this is a real post from his VA)

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Wow I can’t believe that these Go Jetters fact files have been real the whole time !

Disclaimer: no they’re not they’re very obviously fake. Sorry.

Graphic design isn’t my strong suit, but I love a good character bio page! And while the Go Jetters have a few, none of them have been as detailed or informative as I’d like, starting and finishing with just a few sentences. So, I wanted to give a shot at making my own ! And these are the result. (:

The info on these is a mix of both my headcanons and actual information from canon, more limited characters bios. It’s pretty easy to tell which is which, but this disclaimer is still important to make. These are free to use, please don’t spread (more) misinformation that they’re real though. They’re not, I made these.

For now I have just made the Go Jetter team- but I’d love to maybe do a part two, with a few more characters! We’ll see.

Obligatory image credits:

The font I used for this is Plavsky font, by pixel sagas ! The Go Jetters renders are all from the Go Jetters website.

All of the images I used as inspiration or reference for the layout, and the canon information included on the fact files!

Age, name and height headcanons are all mine. (:

I’m sorry for tricking but I hope you like these… they’re so fun to make (:

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A few pages of the Go Jetters Magazine which I got my hands on, plus the two sticker sheets ! Apologies if the lighting is bad. I may share more pages in the future, if anyone is interested !! (:

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▪︎ REDESIGNING JETPAD (JETT)

Part two of what I intend to be my Go Jetters Re-Imagined / Redesigned series !! This time, is a redesign that allowed me to be a little more creative- JetPad !! In the show's canon, JetPad is both the name of the Go Jetters' mothership, and a sentient super-computer who helps to run the GJA, and assists Ubercorn in missions. I wanted to separate the two entities, and allow for JetPad, the sentient super-computer and CHARACTER to have more personality and storyline presence. So, she now has a holographic human form, allowing her to actually go on missions!

Similar to Ubercorn, Jett's design features a 70s and 80s Disco influence, but with Jett, I wanted her to look more professional than party. She wears an orange bustier top, and white flared bell-bottom style pants, with glittery star patches to tie her back into the Go Jetter identity. Mostly hidden, she wears a silk belt, with a star brooch. Over top, she wears what is probably my favourite clothing item of hers, a blue blazer with shoulder padding! Jett also wears orange boots, and winged glasses. All of her design elements in terms of outfit are inspired by the design of the JetPad vehicle, with the glasses emulating the large front mirror, the padded shoulders on the blazer for the large overtop vents, and even the heels resembling the two side jet boosters of the airship. I personally felt that even if the mothership and the sentient Jett were separated as entities, the latter possessing visual similarity would help to keep her recognisable as "JetPad".

I also changed her hair from my last design, giving her something more short, swoopy, and dynamic, as opposed to the rigid state of the old one. Plus- I think that this one is more visually unique. In terms of personality, she is the dead-pan, and slightly snarky foil to Ubercorn, assisting him and the Go Jetters in missions, as she is hooked up to all of the technology they own, as well as the internet. She can interact with the world around her, but people sometimes fall through her hologram body, mistaking it for real. And that's my design deep dive !!

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I hope that you all like my redesign- I am SO SO SUPER PROUD of how this one turned out!! Now that I have that free time I mentioned in my last post, I hope to do the rest of the main cast, and create a full collection of these artworks!! These redesigns bring me so much joy, and I hope that you all like them just as much. Just like Ubercorn, I have made a "Funky Fact File" version of the work, to help you all get to know Jett, with the bio including my headcanons, a little bit of canon itself, and a fun alternate layout. Thank-You for reading through this whole post !! ♡♡♡

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Original JetPad Design (The Mothership) - (For Reference)