This, my friends, if the first glimpse into the far-future world of The Ruby Key, eventual sequel to The Heart of Mar. Obviously TRK won't be posted until THOM is finished--duh--but I'm working on it right now anyway, because I know exactly how both stories are going to turn out and only really need to make sure the petty details match up.

I sketched this out today waiting for fireworks to start--they started a half hour late thanks to a couple stupid pyrotechnicians--in my notebook, and was so happy with it that I decided to post it. I intend to do proper linework and color it, so when that happens--or when I get tired of looking at lined paper on my front page, whichever comes first--I'll throw this one in Scraps.

Here we have Daxter all decked out for the final--and somehow first--war with the Dark Makers. See, the Dark Makers come to re-terraform the planet in the far future, when even Kras City has fallen to ruin and Haven is a pocket of about four hundred people, when Spargus is the biggest city on the planet with a population of two thousand. Things don't go as planned, and a swarm of their advanced troops--Hora Quan, Metalheads, whatever you want to call them--end up jumping through a Rift to escape, drifting around in the space between times until the last Rift Gate finally opens and the Core Metalhead can push his way through in an attempt to stop a fifteen-year-old Jak from jumping to the future to eventually live long enough to become the greatest of heroes.

I love writing paradoxes.

In any case, this is Daxter. In his Precursor armor--a gift from the Precurian troops that arrive to fight the Dark Makers on the planet with no name--complete with a gem-tipped staff not unlike the Precursor Leader's from Jak 3, though the actual design leans much more towards Damas' staff. I can't say how old Daxter is here, but I will tell you it's a significant amount of time since the trilogy closed, even with the time travel involved.

Okies, enough ramblings. I'm going to bed now.


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