Robo Barry - Tumblr Posts
i'm posting a lot about Dan The Man today aren't i? one of my absolute favourite things about this game is that there's a Robo Barry costume you can get for your custom character, and if you've played the game, you'd know that depending on what gender your custom character is, their costume changes accordingly.
if you make your character male, Robo Barry looks exactly as he does normally with the red eyes and all. but if you make your character female? she's the exact same but with green eyes and she's considerably happier than her male counterpart, wearing a smile on her face. this is so trans to me. shoutout to transfem Robo Barry <3
saw this new image uploaded to the JJ wiki in the JJ2 Demo article and oh my god i love this character select screen i'm going to hug all of them
it's always great to see my two favourite boys get some new art of them, and Betty looks SO COOL with her angel wings!! look at her go!!!
new short. has appeared. i was woken up at a more reasonable hour this time so my reaction isn't going to be incredibly unhinged again BUT i really really like this one :D so cool to see Robo Barry again!! and we're getting more dialogue from Barry this time!
"I thought AI was supposed to be good at drawing now!" oh barry you little dickhead XD also Robo Barry is so me. literally all i do is just sketch and scribble stuff and i have papers piled up everywhere, like all over my desk, in boxes, there is just so much. kinda love the implication that Barry can't draw but Robo Barry can, it's these little things that make these two more separate characters and flesh them out further and i really like that a lot :D
in terms of wtf is happening with Craig's character though,,, i still got no clue. what is even happening with this man. who are you and why are you in my jetpack game. JJ2 and the shorts seem to still be a separate thing, like they're not taking place at the same time, and considering that piece of dialogue from the new event happening in JJ2 right now that implies Barry was taking Craig's observations that he was glowing as something more than a platonic compliment.... yeah i don't know wtf is going on. is he related to Barry or not. is this short series canon or just a "what-if" thing. what is happening. also not really sure how Barry would know Craig has a moustache considering he really only saw the back of his head before Craig got dragged away?? how would Robo Barry know either? has he perhaps seen him unmasked before? very intriguing. it's nice to see new stuff come out, even if i'm really confused as to where it's all going. the art style is super cute and expressive!! and some of the drawings on Robo Barry's walls are just so so silly i love them <3
wait how much of the original Robo Barry do you think they were able to salvage after he got blown up. like in the short he first appears in, you see a little bit of broken metal Barry picks up when he grieves Robo Barry's death but there had to be more of him left right. do you think some of his memory was salvagable. do you think he remembers dying. holy shit. imagine being able to remember your own death in full or partial clarity. do you think he lies awake at night thinking about it over and over. do you think he's the only one who actually has to grapple with his own mortality even as a mechanical being. Barry and Betty can easily just revive themselves with as many hearts as they need, but Robo Barry probably has to work harder to maintain himself. he's stronger than both his human counterparts but he's also more fragile than them at the same time. getting repairs has to be harder than a simple revive, surely. and eventually his parts would begin to wear down. he has to rely on other people more to maintain his body and when those people aren't around anymore, what is he supposed to do then? i think that would actually be such an interesting thing to explore and there's a lot of irony to a robotic metallic person who is weaker than his human peers despite how strong he is. damn. maybe Brains made Robo Barry a little too much like Barry Steakfries. dude gave him his own mortality crisis lmaoooo
HAPPY 14TH ANNIVERSARY JETPACK JOYRIDE!!!!
14 years!!! 14!!!! to think it has actually been THAT long since this game came out is absolutely insane. holy shit i am old lmaooo. i'm so glad that i've known this cool little game and that it's stuck around for so many years. it has stood the test of time as one of the most well known and iconic mobile games, and i bet it'll continue to do that for another 14 years!! happy 14th anniversary to Jetpack Joyride!!!
last year i did a drawing for JJ's 13th anniversary so i'm doing it again this year!!! probably won't make this into a digital drawing though as i don't really want to,,,, also this is the first time i've posted drawings of Betty and Robo Barry!!! i still cannot do lettering.
everyone is here!!!!!
+ some WIP photos under the cut
