Does JAK Ever Get Nightmares About His Human Life?

Does JAK ever get nightmares about his human life?

Yes :]

Phone doodle of a Calamathian turbofox.

Their ancestors (and possibly a few other cybertronian critters) were brought to Calamathos by the titans millions of years ago, most likely to be kept as pets.

Since the landing of the titans, the turbofoxes have adapted to the hot, dry planet, shrinking down in size, minus their enormous ears, and becoming small, lightweight and quick-footed counterparts to their larger cybertronian ancestors.

Amplunaris’ city has a decent population of domestic turbofoxes. These pampered pets can be trained for a variety of different tasks, and can come in a small variety of unique colors and ‘fur’ textures. The more fancy turbofoxes are kept by the rich, as they can afford the resources needed to keep their unique pets healthy.

There is a small feral population of turbofoxes in Magnoheli’s ruins. Unlike the domestic population, this group do not have a variety of color, sticking to more natural sandy shades, and have kept a more wild personality. They are very shy and skittish creatures, and have gotten very good at hiding.

Praxian metro raptor

The Praxian metro raptor is a mechanimal domesticated for law enforcement. They are social and intelligent but difficult to keep, demanding a lot of space, enrichment, and fuel.

Metro raptors are some of the few beasts that have vehicle alt modes, able to transform into an odd sort of motorcycle. Their altmodes make it easier for them to keep up with their handlers while on the road, and chase down fleeing suspects. Once they are tasked in tackling a suspect, metro raptors will pin mechs down and try to restrain them with their weight, arms and teeth.

In relation to their long extinct ancestors, metro raptors have soft mouths and blunt teeth that are better suited for gripping. While it their bite can still hurt and require medical repairs, it’s rare for them to be lethal.

—

Prowl had no intentions on working with Praxian metro raptors during his career as a detective, however when Red and Blue (pictured above) were specifically programmed/ trained for investigative work and imprinted to his spark signature, he was stuck with the two. Red and Blue were adept at sniffing out chemicals, spark signatures, spilled energon and so on, and were able to send the information directly to Prowl in real time.

When not working, both of Prowl’s raptors tended to be nuisances, laying in inconvenient places and sticking their noses in things they shouldn’t be touching. Green at least kept them a bit more in line as she made it very clear to them that she was in charge.

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

insp from What Fortune Favours - @fascinationex

yeah