#jd night wanderlust

[nightswansarmy]

Can you please do Night Wanderlust and Night Sara? Love your art btw!

I know you're being controlled by Night Swan and all but you guys have no need to be so rude !!! >: <

[h3ll0-3lli0t]

Holy shit Night Wanderlust’s outfit was impossible to draw

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[localsimpissleepy]

The Just Dance 2024 storymode:

(I gave up on the Treasure one lol-)

[karis17love]

When that one friend matches your energy

[makotospadeheart]

Night/Tainted Dancers

Hi, yes, just wanted to show art of the evil Just Dancers, because Tainted Love is rotting my brain.

Night Sara:

Night Brezziana:

Night Wanderlust:

Night Mihaly:

(None of this art is mine! The credit is in the links!)

[dani-dance]

Which soda/drink would the Night Dancers drink?

A followup to this post. This assumes that Night Swan would let them drink anything other than like, plain water.

Jack’s (if he were to become a Night Dancer) wouldn’t change, it’d still be Rose Lemonade. Do what you will with the implications of this.

Sara is drinking Cherry Bubblegum Soda. It’s overly artificially sweet and absolutely disgusting to the rest of the dancers. They don’t know why she drinks that but they can’t question her without her forcing them to take a sip “to show them it’s good” so they’ve learned to just look away and ignore it when she chugs yet another can of that monstrosity that calls itself a drink. Night Swan keeps getting rid of Sara’s stash of them but somehow she manages to always have them on hand anyways.

I first put Fanta Lemon as one of two options for regular Brezziana. I’m changing that - it’s Night Brezziana’s drink now. It’s like the evil twin version of orange sodas. It’s good, but it’s very distinct from her soda choice in her regular form.

Similarly, Wanderlust drinks 7up. You cannot convince me that 7up isn’t evil sprite. Every time I order sprite and get 7up I feel betrayed. It’s good, but it’s just different enough to be jarring and Not What You Wanted.

Mihaly drinks vitamin water and vitamin water only. No carbonation and they’re super pretentious about it. I’m gonna say their favourite flavour is lime-lychee because that’s my favourite flavour and I’m not above that effecting this.

Night Swan only drinks plain water and has a big superiority complex about it btw.

[s4mubr3zz1]

Night Wanderlust if he were a youtuber (Just dance meme)

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[not-so-brave-toaster]

😔😔

[surr3al1sm]

You know what? Fuck you Ubisoft.

If this is a confirmation of two coaches dating,

And so is this,

Then the same logic applies to this,

[averokagejd]

The story of a swan - Song: Dernière danse

[nightswansarmy]

Finally!

the JD youtube channel released a short where they show off the designs for the just/night dancers not only on costume but alongside their concept art! i finally have clear references !!!

images under the cut in case you don't want to check the video

Sara

Wanderlust

Mihaly

Jack

Brezziana

i am so in love with them

[lightning-and-sparks]

Just saying….

[sunshine-zenith]

Rebellious relationships

(Si’ha Nova and the Traveler’s reaction)

[karis17love]

This TikTok trend is everything

[croftersforlife]

First thing I thought of when this came across my dash 😂

[halfratsalready]

The "What if the Traveler is Jack's Dad?" Dilemma & The Power of Character Design in Just Dance’s Storytelling

Originally I had an entire post of all of my thoughts on the worry that the Night Swan event will confirm that Jack's father is the Traveler, but this part made up well over half of it, so I made it a post of its own. I might post the rest separately at some point (I don't even know if I actually think that Ubisoft will make it canon, but I did this anyway).

I went a little crazy on this one, but stick with me here. I am well aware that people don't have to look anything like their parents, but in the world of things like video games (and especially in a game that has to rely entirely on visuals in the absence of dialogue), it's not a bad idea to make related characters visually similar enough for the audience to put their relation together, and the Just Dance team has done an excellent job of this with Wanderlust, so I thought I'd do some analysis on it in relation to the "Jack is the Traveler's son" theory we're all so worried about. This is a very long post - you have been warned.

Disclaimer of sorts: I'm not a costume designer. I'm not a character designer. I'm a musical theater composer, though, who has worked closely with artists on costume design, and I like to think that I have a pretty decent handle on the basics of visual storytelling through character design, which is what this entire post is based off of.

(This post also contains a small spoiler for Sweet Dreams, though it seems that it won’t be a beta for much longer…)

One of the cool things about Wanderlust's appearance is the way that the designers managed to give him his own unique look while also paying homage to both of his parents. It's important to note here that both Si'ha Nova and the Traveler were already well established characters by the time of Wanderlust's first appearance in JD23, so it was important to give him those visual similarities to make his connection to them more apparent.

The most obvious visual similarity between Si'ha and Wanderlust is their blue skin, which makes it pretty clear upon first glance that they're related. A non-genetic but still obvious visual similarity between the two is the use of triangle motifs. Si'ha has one on her head and more on her earrings, for example, while Wanderlust has them on his crown, one on his glove, and one on his belt. I think that it's also worth noting that the golden accents on Wanderlust's sleeves are vaguely reminiscent of the ones on Si'ha's purple glove. They both also have purple, gold, and pink in their overall designs.

Wanderlust has fewer “genetic” visual similarities with his father than he does with his mother, but they're still there. The only "genetic" similarity that they really have is the blue hair (granted, Wanderlust's is only a streak of blue, but it's still there, and his eyebrows are blue, as well). They have a ton of other visual similarities in their designs, though. Just like Si'ha, the Traveler has several triangle motifs throughout his appearance. The one he wears on a chain around his neck is very similar to the one on Wanderlust's glove and belt. They both have their own unique triangle symbols, but they're quite similar. Also notable is Wanderlust's half-cape, which is dark with gold accents, much like the Traveler's cloak. Once again, those gold lines on the Traveler's cloak are similar to the ones on Wander's sleeve. Additionally, Wanderlust seems to have the same eye color as both of his parents.

Even when he's been transformed by Night Swan's spell, Night Wanderlust (or, as I like to call him, Swanderlust) has several visual similarities to both of his parents that he doesn't have in his "normal" form. Though not the same shape or color, he has a shape over one of his eyes like the Traveler does, and those shapes on the black part of his shirt are, to me, very reminiscent of the circles on Si'ha's blue glove. And that little triangle on his crown is remarkably similar to the one on Si'ha's head, black surrounded by gold (I also think the blue of the feathers on his cape are similar in color to the Traveler’s shirt).

I know that Sweet Dreams is a beta (though it might not be for much longer) and that it's very possible that if they do release it, they might change this shot, but for now, I want to use it. When I first saw this shot of Night Swan at the end of Sweet Dreams, I was really thrown off because something felt very wrong with it, and I realized that it's her eyes. They are such a bright green here. It felt like such an intentional choice, and it made me think of the fact that all of Jack's avatars (though you can see it most clearly in his legendary avatar) have green eyes. Does he have green eyes in the actual game? No. But I thought it was an interesting enough detail to include here. Personally, my headcanon is that Night Swan had green eyes before she became Night Swan, at which point they turned yellow, meaning that her eyes are naturally green and that she passed that trait on to her son.

Though they're rather lacking in "genetic" similarities, though, Night Swan and Jack have plenty of those visual similarities that Wanderlust has with his parents (I also think it's worth mentioning that, save for that one teaser in Season 1: Astral, Night Swan and Jack were introduced in the same game, meaning that the need to make Jack as visually similar to her isn't necessarily as important, because Night Swan isn't an established character like Si'ha and the Traveler were prior to Wanderlust's appearance). The pink feathers are an obvious visual similarity between the two. They also both wear gold earrings and have a golden chain (Night Swan on her coat and Jack hanging from his pocket), and Night Swan's golden claws are represented by the golden glove on Jack's hand.

I also want to throw out there that Wanderlust is the son of two "good" characters, and his visual similarities to them indicate that he has that same "goodness." Jack, on the other hand, is the son of a villain, and making him stand out from his mother visually is a good way to represent from the start that he's supposed to be a sympathetic character who isn't anything like his mother. Because it's a dancing game, we don't get any sort of dialogue from him that could indicate that he's not a villain, so we're left to rely on his expressions (which Mickael did a fucking phenomenal job on) and his overall design. Making him stand out from his mother visually is a good way to show us from the start that he's not inherently on his mother's side.

Assuming the Traveler is Jack's father, there is essentially no similarity between the two save for the inclusion of some gold accents. I would say they have the same eye color, but I feel like Jack's dark eyes are overridden by the green eyes in all three of his avatars. Granted, it makes sense for Jack's appearance to be influenced by his mother considering she's the one who raised him, but I think that, from a storytelling perspective, it would have been a smart move to include some semblance of a visual similarity between Jack and the Traveler if they had really intended from the start for the Traveler to be Jack's father. If they did intend on this being a plot point from the start, they intentionally kept it a secret by not including a single visual clue, which is, to me as a storyteller, a sort of annoying thing that makes it seem like they’re more focused on pulling the rug out from under the audience than they are on making sure that the plot twists make sense. But hey, that’s just me.

If you actually, read all of that, I love you and you are the best and thank you for actually taking the time to read my ridiculous rambles. I hope it was at least mildly interesting and made some decent points.