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Even MORE episode descriptions...
Theory: I think the first one will have every scene of Lloyd running in the temple, from Mr. F and Vangelis, as well as the Overlord walking in front of the crystal, and awakening his army. The second one is the one where Lloyd falls from the sky, runs from Harumi, and Nya saves him before he falls.
I ALSO think Aspheera is the unlikely ally, as a way to repay him for freeing her and helping her escape the monastery.
random ninja fam hcs?
anon YOU READ MY MIND I WAS GONNA POST SOME JUST NOW LOL
--ummmm of course they all collect squishmellows
-Cole, Kai and Jay would inflate an air mattress for the sole reason of riding it down the stairs
- The team makes clay rings together and for eachother (wu comes home and it’s a clay-tastrophe)
- WATER BALLOON CHALLENGE but nya kills everyone so its over in the first five seconds
- BLINDFOLD COOKING with zane and kai but somehow they always end up making the best food ever (the others are not allowed to participate bc they can’t even cook with their eyes open)
-everything jay owns has his name on it but the others still steal his stuff.. sorry jay..
- lloyd always wins prank wars. everyone is a victim except kai bc kai has older brother privileges
-KARAOKE NIGHT..... but cole is banned from singing. dw he can dance though
- kai hosts face mask parties bc he has a drawer dedicated to facemasks
-who needs a slushie machine when you have ZANE!
-kai does nyas makeup +hair +chooses her outfit when she goes out on dates w/jay
part two
I don’t think we talk enough about the scene where Lloyd farts on screen
lloyd is the epitome of that one quote
“he didn’t need to be stronger, he needed to be safe,”
literally all the ninja are
just slap them on a poster with that quote and boom therapists come rushing
hes jumping up kicking back flipping around AND spinning
Idk about you guys but in my opinion, as much as i love lloyd, we should give Kai and Nya an entire season so we can see how they really grew up without ray and maya and see them confront their childhood trauma and insecurities
And in the process come out bigger and better and with much more of a bigger bond than before and we can finally see more found family with them and in the upcoming seasons they always have eachothers back whether the other know it or not
Idk just my opinion
its.... flashback time!!!
Prev // Next
1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 dialogue written by me and @shadesofvermillionvoid , art by me ANYWAY HI THIS IS PART 4 WEEEEEE this one is by far my favorite HDJKWDW, hope the wait for this was worth it. this one is only longer because i wanted to keep the whole flashback sequence in one post PLUS the quick palette change HDJKWKJDW, excited to see what you think and hey! what corrupted kai says in the panel before the palette change is actually "Don't you wanna know what it's like, Lloyd? To be destroyed by your OWN power?!" just... so you know :) (please dont tag this as gr//nf//e, i see them as brothers)
Lloyd, Nya, and Zane vs Cole, Kai and Jay in an escape room:
Team #1:
Lloyd (the leader + idea maker ): nya you search that area and be on the lookout for map coordinates and zane can you please help me with these pots I think these designs are hinting something
also lloyd: *oni growls* at everything…
Nya (the theorizer + hint refuser): ok guys so according to my theory these coordinates should be the password to unlock the safe because the ID card numbers are proportional to the- NO LLOYD WE DONT NEED HINTS WE ARE BETTER THAN THAT.
also nya: smash smash frustration BASH
Zane (the analyzer + clue organizer): according to my database this is a long, forgotten language used by an ancient civilization decades ago. no one has ever deciphered it before. i shall translate it in a few seconds. apologies for the delay. allow me to organize the clues, I’ll section them in different categories and label them individually.
also zane : [grabs a detective hat and wears it, declares his newfound ownership over it] oh? what do you mean it’s the property of the escape room?
Team #2
Cole (the muncher+ the holy observer): guys look I found a trail of crumbs maybe if we follow it we can find something! [is staring at his own crumbs]
also cole: hmmm that painting MOVED. let’s check it out. yes it’s totally a color wheel it’s certainly hinting towards a certain art type we should investigate all the painting in that art type let’s go woo!! guys is that a THREAD of string on the floor? that’s the same fabric on the coat!!
Jay (the toucher of everything + the creative one ): what’s this what’s that hey guys check this out ew this is sticky don’t come here everyone I’m gonna touch everything
also jay: ok guys I made this mini electronical gps by myself with the limited materials we found! slay!
Kai ( secret passageway finder, the riddle solver): ooo is this a lever how about this maybe this is the lever oh man THIS IS DEFINITELY a SECRET passageway oh wait no it’s not oops sorry
also kai: so I solved all fifty riddles and found 68 secret passageways do u guys think that’s good enough?
guess which team always wins.
Imagine little Kai walking around the village with little Nya. They find some pretty lil flowers and Kai helps do up Nya's hair so he can put the flowers in her hair, she takes one from her hair and puts it into Kai's hair...
Kai 🤝 Lloyd 🤝 Nya
Everything bad that’s ever happened is my fault
MORE RGB HEADCANNONS PUHLEASE
here you go love:
-kai and nya WOULD do the ‘thats my f-ing evil twin’ tiktok trend with eachotehr. they’d slay it tbh
-zane taught kai origami so now kai leaves origami hearts in random things that nya and lloyd possess and he thinks they don’t know it’s him but they know ( and they love it).
-when the rgb siblings go to a pool lloyd and nya tip over every floaty kai rests on
-they have a 3 minute long handshake.
-if lloyd nya and kai are on the same laser tag team the opposing team is SLAUGHTERED within SECONDS.
-lloyd and nya are cooking?? my dear, the only thing they cook is disaster
-LISTEN hear me out : kai does ballet
-lloyd loves sour patch and sometimes kai will throw a handful of sour patch at him. randomly. for no reason. lloyd NOMS THEM ALL UP. not a single one lands on the floor.
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crying screaming sobbing on the floor because no one loves nya and lloyd the way kai does
he’s always looking at them with unconditional love
people ask me why I’m so distraught over ninjago ending and when you tell them it’s because your emotionally attached since it’s been there since your childhood and you’ve grown up with it and even though it does injustice to your favorite character it still has your favorite character and you sound like a crazy person when in reality you just can’t let go of something that brings you comfort so easily even though it’s just some stupid tv show
Do you think the sibling banter between the Smith siblings goes over the head of thecrest of the ninjas from time to time since esentially they are only children, and don't always get it?
certainly does my dearest anon
honestly I feel like half of the smith sibling banter is things the others have absolutely no context of and it’s funnier if the others deliberately don’t want to have any context because then you’d be a part of the battlefield and oh boy
when the smith siblings argue it turns into a banter field. get it bc it’s a battlefield now everyone laugh I’m so funny and btw of course the arguments have their limitations, and don’t last more than three minutes
but also I do personally feel like Lloyd doesn’t argue like he’s just not that kind of person, he’d talk things through and whatver
and it’s also funny to imagine the three at literally any store and there you see a short hedgehog aka kai + the 6 ft ocean gal aka nya both starting world war three and then ur average window cleaner aka lloyd dead on the ground waiting to be buried 6ft under (cause of death: secondhand embarrassment)
Kai Version: Isn’t it so incredibly interesting how both smith siblings handled their trauma in drastically different ways?
Kai has low self esteem/self worth (depends on people, powers, and statements to determine his value), constantly needs to prove himself, and is immensely dependent on external validation (his obsession social media is a prime example of this). He invalidates himself, dismissing his emotions/feelings, and needs regular reassurance (tendency to blame out-of-control situations on himself, likely derived from the mindset that his parents purposely left him because he wasn’t good enough, and i’ll bet my soul he stayed awake nights wondering that if nya was firstborn, would his parents still leave?) .
His fear of being useless is also likely derived from that same mindset and as such he portrays himself through a cocky/prideful ‘persona’. This is false portrayal of himself, simply to appear stronger in the eyes of others, because if others think he’s of value they won’t leave him, because with or without this ‘mask’ not even he knows who is truly is.
He tends to dissociate during emotionally intense/overwhelming situations, or go into a state shock/confusion. He developed unhealthy coping mechanisms (violently self destructive) with situations regarding loss and grief. All of these things are results of and/or mechanisms he developed from his childhood trauma.
but. despite everything i’ve written above. he loves nya. raised her. protects/supports her. took lloyd under his wing. he loves lloyd. throws heaps of physical affection towards cole. he loves cole. accepted jay as a brother in law, was so supportive of jaya and helped jay in proposing. he loves jay. makes things fun for zane, reassures him. he loves zane. showed master wu to believe in himself. he loves wu. he loves his entire team and expresses it in ways that value each of them individually. he makes friends with dragons. he loves dragons. he taught/worked with kids. he loves kids. despite what the disappearance of his parents did to him and nya, despite nya’s refusal to show her parents love (valid, btw) kai loved maya. he loved ray. he loved his parents all over again, he loved his parents again so easily. he loved and loves and keeps loving.
trauma gave him self-destructive mechanisms. trauma instilled insecurity in him. trauma took away his sense of self worth. trauma emptied him of self-love. trauma stole his sense of identity. but kai held on to the ability to protect others, to care for others, to help others. he held them close to his chest. because like hell he’d let his trauma take that.
kai refused to let trauma strip his ability to love. his ability to love is unmatched.
Inspired by this post:
https://sugarglider-s.tumblr.com/post/692022087001473024/every-single-day-of-my-life-i-think-about-how-kai
more ninja headcannons (cole-centered) <3
cole definitely paints on the gang when he’s stressed out or for fun
like one day kai and nya are wearing sleeveless and they want cole to paint matching animals across their arms
or jays sleeping and cole paints a mustache on him
or maybe zane wants to spice up his apron so now it’s covered in coles art
or lloyd wants to get better at painting so they both experiment on kai’s back bc kai loves being painted on
it’s like a stress reliever and a fun hobby at the same time that cole loves doing and he’s spectacular at it too
or maybe like one day cole is really upset and the ninja are like cmon guys let’s paint him instead and in less than an hour cole is covered in dragons and flowers and monkeys and chickens and all sorts of things that they all take pictures of and laugh about and coles forgotten why he was sad in the first place
If reading a fic about Kai dissociating from his own sense of self after realizing he only ever lives for other people and that he has never had time to consider who he is as an individual human being sounds like a good time to you you’re in luck ✌️
Kai Version: Isn't it so incredibly interesting how both smith siblings handled their trauma in drastically different ways?
Kai has low self esteem/self worth (depends on people, powers, and statements to determine his value), constantly needs to prove himself, and is immensely dependent on external validation (his obsession social media is a prime example of this). He invalidates himself, dismissing his emotions/feelings, and needs regular reassurance (tendency to blame out-of-control situations on himself, likely derived from the mindset that his parents purposely left him because he wasn't good enough, and i’ll bet my soul he stayed awake nights wondering that if nya was firstborn, would his parents still leave?) .
His fear of being useless is also likely derived from that same mindset and as such he portrays himself through a cocky/prideful ‘persona’. This is false portrayal of himself, simply to appear stronger in the eyes of others, because if others think he’s of value they won’t leave him, because with or without this ‘mask’ not even he knows who is truly is.
He tends to dissociate during emotionally intense/overwhelming situations, or go into a state shock/confusion. He developed unhealthy coping mechanisms (violently self destructive) with situations regarding loss and grief. All of these things are results of and/or mechanisms he developed from his childhood trauma.
but. despite everything i’ve written above. he loves nya. raised her. protects/supports her. took lloyd under his wing. he loves lloyd. throws heaps of physical affection towards cole. he loves cole. accepted jay as a brother in law, was so supportive of jaya and helped jay in proposing. he loves jay. makes things fun for zane, reassures him. he loves zane. showed master wu to believe in himself. he loves wu. he loves his entire team and expresses it in ways that value each of them individually. he makes friends with dragons. he loves dragons. he taught/worked with kids. he loves kids. despite what the disappearance of his parents did to him and nya, despite nya’s refusal to show her parents love (valid, btw) kai loved maya. he loved ray. he loved his parents all over again, he loved his parents again so easily. he loved and loves and keeps loving.
trauma gave him self-destructive mechanisms. trauma instilled insecurity in him. trauma took away his sense of self worth. trauma emptied him of self-love. trauma stole his sense of identity. but kai held on to the ability to protect others, to care for others, to help others. he held them close to his chest. because like hell he’d let his trauma take that.
kai refused to let trauma strip his ability to love. his ability to love is unmatched.
Inspired by this post:
https://sugarglider-s.tumblr.com/post/692022087001473024/every-single-day-of-my-life-i-think-about-how-kai
Isn't it so incredibly interesting how both smith siblings handled their trauma in drastically different ways? But isn't it also beautiful that everything they went through together simply made them love & support each other in bajillion different ways!?!!
Nya’s mindset of, ‘’I don't need anybody, I can do everything myself. I can rely on only myself,” just means that “My parents betrayed me and let me down when I needed them the most, which has damaged my ability to trust.’’
This is hyper-independence, and that is a result of trauma. It was likely one of her prime ways to protect herself from vulnerability, building walls to protect herself from feeling a pain similar to what she felt when her parents disappeared, making it hard for her to love. She shows signs of ‘self-sabotage’ because she refuses to ask for help, and does not show vulnerability. She declined any affection (except kai, bc he was the only person who had not betrayed her/only dependable & trustworthy person in her childhood) in the earlier seasons, and has trouble doing things if she cannot execute them perfectly. Kai undoubtably worked hard to support her, and so Nya pressured herself to meet certain objectives for Kai’s sake, to ensure Kai’s work didn't go to waste. This likely lead to her habit of perfectionism, which with time, became a bigger breeding ground for severe toxicity.
Despite Kai offering her unconditional support, Nya likely did not want to overburden him with her troubles so she kept a lot of things bottled up. Her independency also probably derives from her will to try and make things easier for Kai (and later the team) so she minimizes asking for help. Rarely asking for anything at all, insisting on dealing with issues herself. She dragged this habit with her throughout her life, likely in fear of rejection. When it comes to grief and loss, she has a very unhealthy habit of pushing it down, trying to not feel anything especially when others are around (ex. in Hunted when nya and lloyd thought the others were dead, she pushed the grief down/started hiding it and distracted herself by focusing on/helping lloyd). When it comes to grief and certain other things she puts herself below others, prioritizing their needs instead of hers. All of these things are results of and/or mechanisms she developed from her childhood trauma.
Nya requires a lot of verbal affirmation and physical touch to open up (kai is an exception). A lot. Remember, it took a long time until she actually told Jay she loved him. But what Nya needed is was patience, and Jay was displaying that, and never criticized her for not saying ily back.
She could have chosen to leave all the burden on Kai, but when she couldn’t remove it, she did everything she could to lighten it. Trauma gave nya so many reasons to be an untrustworthy person. Trauma made loving people hard for her. Trauma made love a battlefield for her. Trauma made future relationships difficult for her to ease in. But despite this, Nya chose to be trustworthy. Trauma didn’t make her brave. She made herself brave so she could accept Jay’s (and the teams) love, and in time, selflessly tore down her walls so she could love him back. She chose to be there in the times of need for others, just as her brother was there for her. Her trauma gave her opportunities and opportunities to be scared, but she chose to stand her ground. She chose to be brave.
Kai’s <3
https://theatlasrealm.tumblr.com/post/692060841958408192/isnt-it-so-incredibly-interesting-how-both-smith
Every single day of my life I think about how Kai has so so SO much love in his heart. He loves people so genuinely and he wants them to know it. He hugs Nya SO MUCH and always encourages her. He supports Cole with words of affirmation and physical touch. He playfully teases Lloyd and ruffles his hair. He has so much love to give and doesn’t hide it even when he’s been through so much. It’s not in his nature to be angry and prickly, that’s a defense mechanism. It’s in his nature to be caring and loving.
every ninja has their own unique telltale for lying that no person but the people within the ninja can pinpoint
when lloyd lies they can tell by his voice, it has the slightest unsure and unsteady tone
when jay lies he sometimes stutters and fidgets with his hands
zane doesn’t do lies [ except for white lies that are beneficial (thanks to kai) ]
cole cannot lie.
whenever kai or nya lie ( both siblings are the best liars on the team ) you can tell by studying their eyes; since they are the most expressive part on their body, and I don’t mean darting or dilating pupils. I mean if you have enough practice you can gaze into their (very beautiful) eyes and study their eyes to see if they are smiling or sad. like yk the “he’s smiling but his eyes aren’t” type of stuff. idk how to explain this ok. it works in my head (and sometimes only the other sibling can tell when one sibling is lying.)
uhhhhhh au where kai sacrifices himself and becomes one with his element except... not really
the others try so hard to bring kai back but every time, it's a different person. it's then that they realized that all these people were previous masters of fire (i'd like to think ray is also there but as a partial vestige, kind of like all might's vestige in one for all) for they came from fire and therefore to fire they shall return. and yet, kai isn't one of them.
it's only until much, much later that the ninja find out where kai went: his fire was different because it was always fueled by his need to protect his loved ones with everything that he had. and what better way to keep them safe than to become one with the sun, where he could always watch over them?