Jak and Dexter

Jak

Jak (birthname Mar) is the main protagonist in the Jak and Daxter series.

A quiet, headstrong, often troublemaking boy in the first game, he never spoke, with his few attempts ending in interruption from Daxter.

His personality would take a dramatic turn in Jak II.

He grows angry, impatient and reckless due to his desire for revenge.

However, he still has some good left in him.

In Jak 3 he has come to handle Dark Eco more effectively, and is also granted Light Eco as a gift, which acts a counterbalance.

Due to the Eco shortage in The Lost Frontier, he is unable to use Light or Dark Eco.

Jak was born in Haven City where he lived as a young child until he was taken from his father Damas by Count Veger, only to have him lost to the Underground movement, which was headed by a Young Samos and Torn, which led to the events in Jak II.

Young Samos then took Jak back in time, to Sandover Village in The Old World in the hope of protecting him.

Here he raised and guarded him and is where the events of the The Precursor Legacy took place.

Soon after, Jak, his friend Daxter, Samos and his daughter Keira, activated a Rift Gate found at the end of the first game.

They were sent through the warp gate, as many metal heads came swarming out, including a large figure.

They arrive in Haven City and Jak is then arrested and integrated into dark warrior program, where he is experimented upon with Dark Eco.

After being freed by Daxter, they come across a young boy and Kor, who is later revealed to be the metal heads leader.

Kor takes them to the Underground, where they meet a younger Samos.

While doing jobs for the Underground, Jak learns that Haven City was built on the ruins of his old home Sandover Village.

He later finds Keira and an older Samos, and discovers that Baron Praxis is working with the metal heads, in an attempt to keep them at bay.

Jak finds Praxis as he is killed by Kor in his metal head form.

Jak later finds Kor in the Metal Head Nest, where another Rift Gate is found, along with the young boy.

Before being decapitated by Jak, Kor reveals that the young boy is Jak.

Young Samos and the young boy then head through the rift gate back in time to Sandover Village, which leads to the events in The Precursor Legacy.

The player learns that Jak is in a paradox, with these events destined to repeat again and again.

The large figure seen emerging from the Rift Gate is revealed to be Kor in metal head form, and that it was through the paradox, that the metal heads came to exist in the world.

When the young boy, now revealed to be Jak, first traveled through the Rift Gate from Haven City, he was to grow up and lead the defense against the metal heads, and start the building of Haven City.

In an interview, Naughty Dog's creative director said that "Jak is the hero you want to be...Jak is the stellar guy who is going to make it happen, who is going to save the world".

Jak has a special relationship with an energy called "eco" that allows him to have certain abilities.

In The Precursor Legacy he absorbs different colors of eco that give him different powers, such as speed, strength, life, and shooting balls of eco.

In Jak II, he gets experimented on with Dark Eco by Baron Praxis, which gives him the ability to turn into a form called Dark Jak.

Throughout the game, talking to Precursor statues allows him to gain certain abilities when in Dark Jak form, being dark blasts and bombs, invincibility, and a giant form.

In Jak 3 the Precursors gift him with a new set of dark powers, including invisibility and a powerful strike, as well as being blessed with a Light Jak form, which gives him abilities such as flight, freezing time, healing, and a shield.

In The Lost Frontier Jak gets new eco powers, such as the Rocket Jump, and the Construct Power, which allows him to create platforms to leap from.

But he is unable to use his Dark Jak and Light Jak forms in this game, due to unstable eco.

Daxter

Daxter first appears in Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, where he and Jak take a boat to Misty Island, a place Samos the Sage warned them against visiting.

Daxter accidentally falls into a vat of Dark Eco, and he is turned into an ottsel (half otter, half weasel).

Daxter's accident leads the story's plot as he seeks help from the main antagonist, Gol, to turn him back to normal.

In Jak II, a gate opens that sends Jak, Daxter, Keira, and Samos into Haven City, a future version of their world.

As they appear, guards take Jak away to jail.

Two years later, Daxter finds Jak and helps him break out of jail.

They begin a quest to find out where they have been sent to, and meet back up with Keira and Samos.

Along the way, they take jobs from a slum lord, Krew, and Daxter meets his love interest, Tess.

After the events of the plot, Daxter takes over Krew's bar, and renames it the "Naughty Ottsel".

In Jak 3, Jak is thrown out of Haven City, into the wasteland, and Daxter follows him.

Near the end of the plot, it is revealed that Daxter is same species as the Precursors, a group of ancient beings said to have created the world and the Eco in it.

As they save the world, the precursors grant Daxter the thing he most wishes for; a pair of pants, and turn his girlfriend, Tess, into an Ottsel so they can be together.

Daxter takes place right after Jak and Daxter go through the warp gate, and are separated.

An old man named Osmo offers Daxter a job exterminating Metal Bugs.

Daxter accepts the job, and completes missions while also looking for Jak.

In The Lost Frontier, Daxter goes to The Brink with Jak to help escort Keira in her quest to become a sage.

Daxter is exposed to more Dark Eco and undergoes a further, but temporary, transformation into a form known as Dark Daxter, similar to Dark Jak.

While as Dark Daxter, Daxter grows to about eight feet tall, can shoot Dark Eco blasts, and can spin around like a tornado.

His personality also changes while in this form, becoming more aggressive and reckless.

Both Jak and Daxter has appeared as one of the playable characters in the crossover fighting game PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.

Daxter also makes a cameo in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, where Daxter is shown on the arm of a wetsuit which says "OTTsel" on the front of it.

Links
Wikipedia> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jak_and_Daxter_characters
Jak and Daxter Wiki 1> jakanddaxter.wikia.com/wiki/Jak
Jak and Dexter Wiki 2> jakanddaxter.wikia.com/wiki/Daxter

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