Not Dead.

not dead.

but heres somethin i worked on a few weeks ago .

somewhat concerpt designs of the bombat boys

chaos goblins

How long did it take Pandora to believe Jak he wasn't an Ai? Like I know the world is made by your friend so not sure how well you can answer this one but.

Is true sapient ai not a thing? I know in other posts you said a lot of other bots were running around with other purposes outside fighting (i would guess like, maids, personal assistants, nannies etc) but you also mentioned with Pandora's robot fucking habits the more simple the ai the more she liked it.

Lol I'm just super curious if at first she thought someone *actually* managed to hack her pc, then maybe thought she stumbled upon some illegal level advanced ai (know some sci-fi worlds outlaw sapient ai to avoid the whole issues that usually causes) until she finally believed this conscious on a drive he was a human despite remembering basically nothing about his human life and using media to make references to who he was.

GREAT QUESTION i've thought extensively about this actually

SO! greater worldbuilding questions I may not be the best at answering, however from what I understand, sapient AI is ABSOLUTELY a thing in this world. Androids, and robots sometimes get built with that kind of ai, and(I think, @pinkanonwrites can confirm or deny) it certainly exists in silicon based life forms, and sentient alien robot species that appear in pink's world.

There ARE also body guards and other androids like that from what i've seen, and so hyper complex AI is absolutely around. In the main campaign we've met sapient robot body guards that like. have off time and play magic the gathering and stuff(ingo and eres my loves).

BUT!

Pandora absolutely initially thought she might have been hacked, and she might have thought he was an ai. She initially was just taking a peek under the hood at what was in the processor, and when she found it was mostly a bunch of random files, most of which were corrupted in some way, she was going to just wipe the hard drive.

And it didn't really matter if it was an AI. because she'd never seen a computer virus beg not to die like JAK did.

Was it cheesy? sure. Was it stupid of her to keep him? absolutely.

If this was a prank or a dupe or an attempted hack, they were certainly going for it in terms of production value, considering the drive had footage of a person's entire life from the moment he began to form memories to a hard roadblock of corrupted files.

don't worry, she hasn't seen everything thats in there, just skimming it was a bit much for her.

She honestly didn't start fully believing he wasn't an ai until she put him in her bot and saw how odd his code meshed with a body.

Do Jak and Pandora have an official color pallette? Asking for a friend (who is me, I am curious)

INDEED THEY DO!!

I'd also have to look for it, but i had some alternative colour palettes for jak bc I couldnt decide on his colours at first

I decided red looked too evil, green looked too edgy, and i love the blue decora looking one but alas.... the orange and blue reign supreme.

if anyone made fanart of any of these designs though id shit.

Currently writing some sub Ultra Magnus with Roddy, and your little hypno doodle made me!!! It’s like you took the thoughts and vibes straight from my brain!/pos

Also super glad Pandora’s set up memory safety stuff for Jak but it made me curious. How good are they at bot fights?

AAA THANK YOU!! I really had a great time drawing it, Mags is so fun to draw like that ehehehe

ANYHOW THO!!!

Short answer- They're VERY good. I'm not talking like, mary sue come out unharmed good, but Pandora was a professional bot fighter for a reason, she's an incredible mechanic and JAK's body is modded and armed to the teeth with a comprehensive database of dozens of styles of fighting and wrestling, and two of the most overcharged impact boosters to ever be attached to a lightweight class robot.

With that coding in mind, JAK is programmed and built to be the perfect fighter. His human brain's coding has been known to get in the way sometimes however, as it sometimes underestimates the durability of his new form.

This was most evident in his earliest fights in the new body, he was very visibly a lot more skittish than the other bot fighters in the ring, which got chalked up to some fancy coding from pandora, luckily.

Tangent- A lot of bot fighting rings don't accept bots with any amount of ai, but there are underground rings like the ones pandora and jak frequent that are specifically catered to bots with high functioning but non sentient AI. JAK is not non sentient, obviously, so he kind of has to play at being a machine whenever hes around the ring.

But anyways, JAK is a very good fighter after he becomes more accustomed to his body.

One other thing though, just as a tidbit. i think his human coding and his body coding sometimes clash but one of the few ways they work together is that JAK receives a LOT of endorphins whenever he does well in bot fighting because it's his coded purpose in his body, which registers as self actualization in his human coding. Essentially, fighting feels emotionally like it's what he's supposed to be doing, and for human brains, doing what youre supposed to, doing what feels like your purpose feels VERY good.

Initially, pandora was going to let him try out bot fighting with him in his body(since the fight purses on high ai are VERY sizeable and you know shes chasing that bag) and if he didn't like it she would have just removed his consciousness from his frame to use his frame for her fights, but JAK seemed to enjoy it so much afterwards that she let him keep piloting.

There are some safety codes however. If ever a glitch occurs which severs JAK's consciousness from his body, Pandora keeps a secondary controller on her so she can pilot his body for him in case of emergencies.

So yes! they make a VERY good team. TY FOR ASKING EEHEHEHEH

I could draw serious stuff but…naw 🐱