Hey you 🫵 hand over the James Lore Dump! …..Please 🥹
YOU 🫵 YES I WILL LORE DUMP JIG, THANK YOU FOR ASKING 😼
AKA, James Marlow is the personal assistant to Zach Varmitech. At first, these guys were merely meant to mirror the ship stobotnik and their dynamic because I found it funny and fun, but they kind of grew into their own thing!! Stobotnik below!! Basically Agent Stone x Doctor Robotnik from the Sonic Movie universe.
I like the idea of an eccentric evil doer and their ecstatic assistant who follows them and praises their boss for everything they do. And for a man like Zach, who trusts nobody but himself and his robots, to have one genuine form of human contact break through those walls and becomes a pillar of trust and respect, it’s fantastic to me.
James, for connections to the Wild Kratts world, is the uncle of Jenny! The Kratt Kid! James has an older sister, and this is her child! These two tend to get into little stifles over James working for Zach. Since technically speaking, they both joined their respective roles around the same time, Jenny with the Kratt Kid program and James with Varmitech Industries.
James had worked in Varmitech Industries after he moved out East from Minnesota to Massachusetts, where Zach’s main tower resides. (Seen Below.) James was about the age of 20, and he worked various secretary jobs, inventory, etc. Eventually, he got promoted at age 23 and asked to take the one job nobody was able to keep. The personal assistant for Zach Varmitech himself. Nobody was able to keep the job for more than a week, the longest anyone lasting about a month or so. James, stubborn and ambitious, took the job in stride.
Now Zach, for what it’s worth, does not believe in the role of personal assistant. He’s got his own army of robots. He doesn’t want some meaningless groveling sycophant to ooze out human error at any chance they get. He doesn’t want another person in his space. So, like the absolute jackass he is, he makes the job a living hell. He makes it hard. He throws challenges at the assistants and isn’t very kind to them. This is why nobody can last more than a week.
Yet James persists. Which aggravates Zach to no end. The Zachbots do exactly what they’re told when James orders them around, the Zachbots seem to like James, and James has yet to actually mess anything up. For what it’s worth. James seems to be perfect. Too perfect. And Zach doesn’t like it. So he keeps James to the wayside, going along with canon antics while James stays back at headquarters taking calls and scheduling stuff for Zach. Zach only really taking James to places when he can’t have his robots but needs a bodyguard.
It takes time, but before you know it, the two of them are a unit working together, and James is having the most fun he’s ever had in his life. He’s joining Zach’s antics, he’s lowkey helping the Wild Kratts out by pointing out animals to them, and James is even helping Zach escape his father’s whims and the Villain Society (because turns out! the villain seminars are very dangerous elite parties and once you’re in, it’s very hard to get out!), all the while encouraging Zach to really shine in his technology.
James is just always like. “Don’t let the little critters limit you Zach, you can be more. Your inventions are changing the world!” And of course, since it’s feeding Zach’s ego, he listens.
James essentially makes Zach mellow out a bit and become a bit more competent while still being an overall whiney failure of a man. But now he has company and isn’t so alone in this world anymore!!
I plan to actually make a comic for these guys, even if it’s a bit ambitious. But RAGHGG.
James is also meant to be a character foil to Koki! as well!! He respects her a TON!!
But that’s just some basic info!! I have so much on these guys but sharing info can be hard LMAO
