I think I'll leave you all to your own devices to try to figure out what's going on here...

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Hm... On second thought, I suppose I should explain myself, lest I inadvertently start the biggest character crackpairing controversy the Jak fandom has ever seen...

You've probably already got a few questions about this piece, I'll bet. Why is Shiv trying to give Ashelin flowers? What's Cutter doing lurking around up there? What the hell was Nano smoking when he came up with this idea?!

Well, I can already answer that last one for you: I'm not smoking anything! Scary, isn't it? But that still leaves two questions...

So! Siddown, shaddup, and listen well, 'cause I've got a story to tell ya...

It all started a couple weeks ago while I was playing an Assassin round in Jak X with my sister. For those of you that don't know what I'm talking about, the goal of an Assassin round in this game is to score points by taking out a specific player (as opposed to a straight-up deathmatch, where you get a point for every kill you make). Once you kill said player, your target shifts, and you do the whole thing all over again. My sister was playing as Ashelin for this match. I forget who I was (probably Keira, like usual )... but that's not important for this story! Now, during one of the instances where my sister was my intended target, one of the computer players would keep throwing itself between my car and hers. Said computer player was Shiv. Now, as is usually my practice, I would proceed to blow up Shiv's car just for the hell of it. Because blowing stuff up is fun! Granted, I'd have to go get a new set of weapons after this...

So this process of me chasing my sister and Shiv throwing himself in the way and getting himself killed went on for about three or four times. So, my sister and I decided on a reason for Shiv's seemingly suicidal acts. We decided... Shiv must like Ashelin, and doesn't want to see her get hurt out on the battlefield. So the lovestruck thug selflessly throws himself in harms way, allowing her to escape unscathed while he falls victim to my short attention span.

There's a twist of irony to this story... During the same match, sometime after I had finally succeeded in killing off my sister for points, she ended up getting killed several times in a row by none other than Shiv. Guess he was kinda mad that Ashelin didn't return his feelings of affection...

Okay, so that explains the whole deal with Shiv and Ashelin here (at least, it should... )... But what about Cutter?

Well, Cutter doesn't really have anything to do with this whole situation whatsoever. Hell, I don't think he was even in the Assassin round where this whole thing formulated in the first place! Cutter just found his way into my train of thought while working on this, and I couldn't get him to leave. Besides, there's not enough fan art with Cutter here on dA.

So anyways... Comments are welcome. And please leave a comment if you're going to fave it.

Yup... I draw some pretty random shit...

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*runs away*

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*runs back*

You can check out the uncolored inked lineart if you want:[link]

*runs off again*

Shiv, Cutter, and Ashelin belong to Naughty Dog.

ARTIST'S NOTE: I do not support any of that stupid character cross-pairing crap that often goes on within a fandom. Character relationships with each other are set up the way they are because that's the way the developers made it, dammit. And what the developers say, goes.