A Little Kai Sketch Because He’s Trying To Worm His Way Up The List Of Favorites

i would love a quiet realization for jay rather than a big one. like something subtle. maybe a distracted ras telling jay to go find something in the ninja's quarters, and when he goes there he comes across something small, like nya's side of the pendant and realizing it matches with his. Or another small yellow pin that he goes with the one he used to have.

And when it starts coming together in his mind slowly, he looks back to ras, whos talking normally with cinder or jordana about something. jays whole world falling apart and no one notices.

cinder might clap him on the back, asking if he wants to go for a drink. Jay shrugs him off. And later maybe, in the dead of night, when Cinder offers Jay a drink in his room -

"What would you do?" Jay taps his pen against the mirror, "if you find out everything was a lie?"

"Find a way to un-find out, probably," Cinder takes a drag of his cigarette. "There is nothing better than ignorance in this world."

got kind of fic-y but still.. just the quiet turmoil going on inside jays head in the middle of a battle when ras slips up and says something he shouldn't have, when something matches up a little too well and the battle wages around him, people fighting - and jay just standing there. Feeling sick.

Maybe he won't even try to find out more. Maybe he'll concoct his own delusion, his own world to escape the horror of his reality. So deep in denial that nothing can break him out of his fantasy realm.

The other wolf mask warriors will say it's a waste, probably. that such a pretty face - jay's face, a face made of all sharp edges and porcelain and looking like he was wielded with deadly precision - is bestowed upon a person who's fucked in the head.

It won't matter to cinder, though. He just prefers Jay that way.

HE WOULDVE MADE SUCH A LOVELY BRIDE WHAT A SHAME HES FUCKED IN THE HEAD!!!!!!!!

cant believe taylor wrote champagne problems about jay walker actually

but yes yes yes, id love for it to be a slow realisation.

i actually like an interpretation where walker knows he used to be a ninja, even before the tournament.

Thats why he resents nya and the others. And one thing about jay is that hes an excellent liar when he wants to be.

jay knows that used to be his family and he sees them with new kids, going on walks hand in hand with new people, and all he can think about is the wounds he suffered from after running away from admin. because in all this loving, powerful family, after half a decade none of them searched for him. none of them found him and none of them saved him.

he was alone, without even a ghost of himself, planning his way out of the realm of madness, running from the entire world that wanted to kill him until ras saved him.

i think he slowly pieced it together. a post online here, a person at admin talking about a blue ninja there, an archived photo from a pre merge magazine.

none of it brought any memories back. not a dream, not a feeling of recognition.

no memories dont stop the cold anger when ras slips up. knowing ras is lying to him in his face. no dreams of them dont stop him from laying awake at night, tracing his scars and tattoos and wondering which one of them patched them up. no recognition doesnt stop him from fury when seeing them for the first time.

but yes i believe hes very fucked in the head and most of the wolves think of him as the crazy one of ras entourage. the mastermind behind ras, someone you can trust to plan extremely well and someone you do not want to piss off unless you have a death wish.

and yes i think cinder loves all sides of walker - the cold and calculating, the white hot rage, the shaky confusion. he enjoys all of him. simple as that.

and gods thank you for "there is nothing better than ignorance in this world". such a good quote for cinder characterisation.

but also the mental image of jays world falling apart around him and no one noticing - spectacular and i hate how vividly i can relate

"he's so babygirl coded" (he has killed so many people. and he will kill more)

Jinx/Jay parallels will always be my fav thing

Idk who out here watches arcane and ninjago but I feel like jinx is the type of villain Jay walker could’ve been. Manic, laughs a lot and kinda in their own head. Inventor, electric lazer guns, super human speed…..blue? The fear of being ‘left behind’ really could’ve worked with Jay’s character too.

happy halloween. I am cringe but I am free. 🦇🦇🦇

ig a continuation of my vampire Ed drawings lol. I wanted to make Oswald a wolf but I chickened out and made him more vampiric for this drawing lol, oh well.

Jony

Does anyone else fw the idea of Kai just being incredibly embarrassing for Nya, Lloyd, and Wyldfyre.

Like Lloyd completes one (1) simple task like finishing laundry and Kai’s yelling “YOURE DOING SUCH A GOOD JOB! I’M SO PROUD OF YOU!” to Lloyd’s dismay

or Nya comes back from a successful mission and he’s bragging like “GUESS WHAT MY LITTLE SISTER JUST DID????” As she’s just wanting to unwind and rest.

Or Wyldfyre gets a move or stance down that he was teaching her and he insists on taking a photo of her. He puts it on the fridge and shows it to everyone, like “LOOK AT MY STUDENT GO!!”

I think we as a fandom should make him more annoying.

So I was thinking that it seems odd if Jay, (experienced to make his own circle group when he's alone though he forgets) but when he is an Admin manager, the narrative trying to show that he's lonely? What about? His subordinates?? Their connections? none? huh? Then how he became a manager if he hadn't formed Any Bonds, to get trusted enough to be the manager but the narrative trying to show us as if he's lonely?? It's been 5 years.. (?)

And now with the whole Rogue situation I'm starting to understand his motif.

It's like.. the inability to express yourself- like.. those people around don't really accept you. Not as in they shunned you away but they want You-that-They-Supposed-to-Know. Yes, he's adaptable he could try to fit in. And as the result they know fit-in-jay.. their idea of him, not this current how-he-is-now Jay. (*This is the big picture, applies to both the Administration & the Ninja).

In the Administration maybe he has their respect, but I'm not sure he felt that way because he Knows he shouldn't be there, due to him being the master of lightning. At the end he knows they'll against him. Even if there's any compliments towards him, or any sort of appreciation would felt Fake, because it's not directed to him, but to someone he pretends to be.

Those years he's trying to fit in, to be acceptable to their standards, contrasting to Jay who's more.. (y'know how ).. Thus he has to kill some parts of him for them, making him losing himself. Maybe he realized this afterwards, so then he started to feed his "ego" (like playing games while working), doing anything that makes him felt "good" or suits him, anything that screams "This is Me".

And that's also why he accepted ras' offer, he accepted him as ele master, he "rescued" him; Though at the end he dumped him anyway ^_^

Plus the ninja wants him back, "Him" as in his family, But He doesn't feel that way. He's Not someone they expect to be. He can't pretend to be someone who they want. He knows for sure. He's tired, he wants to find his own path. He doesn't want to feel stuck/trapped. He want to be able to be himself. He wants people to see him as he is now.. not "Jay" they supposed to know.

And Tralala.. He picked a name: Rogue, his new identity to distinguish himself from Jay (whatever they think Jay is like).

He does whatever his intuition told him to, goes wherever the skies let him be.

Now I have mixed feelings if they bring him back to the ninja again hhh. It has to be good.

Thinking about the “brought back wrong” trope but with DR!Jay recovering most of his memories but still having his soul shattered.

part of why the riddler is my favorite Batman villain is because in the comics he is always without fail drawing with the fattest ass and the most snatched waist possible. Like ok whore

every single character focused season has been about the ninja finding new ways to use their powers and rising up to whatever the challenge as elemental masters. All Except For Jay. both skybound and prime empire put him in places where theoretically he should have the biggest advantage because of lightning and electricity (the sky+a literal game) except the circumstances take his power away from him completely. because his mastery over his power is completely unquestioned and unconquered. his seasons and each and every character arc he has is about him as a person.

jay never in all 15 seasons had any issue with his power that he himself needed to overcome. never in all 15 seasons did jay receive or need any guidance towards his power. hes the first to learn spinjitzu and airjitzu from the og 4, he figures out how to cleanse the nunchucks of lightning on his own and does it in a second with no struggle at all.

even after losing all his memory and training he can go toe to toe with nya, arguably their strongest fighter with his loss being a strategic one.

each trick and move we see of his is developed by himself off screen because he is the one character whose power was never brought into question. the only way he ever lost his power was when all the protector's powers were taken from them.

that boys elemental mastery is fucking unmatched.

and thats not even counting all the different weapons weve seen him use, and how he excels at gymnastics (bro did back to back to back and back again backflips as stimming)

in conclusion, FSM had to make that bitch crazy and traumatised and obsessed with a single person who didnt like him or he would be too powerful because when others has to fight against their own powers multiple times just to control it, jays only enemy has always been his mind.