I Was Looking At The New Warriors Figurines And Saw Longtail, And It Got Me Thinking...

Ninjago AU where everything is the same, but Jay never loses his brow slit.

What if Wu's "finish the training course before I finish my tea" thing came from Morro?

Morro was getting better and better at the training course and one day he made a bet with wu: "I bet I can finish the training course before you finish your tea"

And he did it. So Wu asked him to do it again, double or nothing style, but this time he made his tea faster and Morro failed. So he trained, and he got better, and he challenged Wu again and won. Eventally it became a habit, a regular part of Morro's training until morro was zipping through the course and wu was making and drinking tea at lightning speed.

And so when Wu takes on a new student years later he tries the challange, except he was so used to Morro being incredibly good and having to drink his tea incredibly fast to the point where he had given his new student a near impossible test

Leafpool smokes

Okay I have to know, is it just me, or do y’all get this giddy feeling when Ninjago confirms smthg small?? This show likes to either heavily imply things or leave stuff up to the imagination a lot, so it’s nice when things are explicitly said.

Or in other words;

✨Small canon things in Ninjago that aren’t necessarily important to the plot, but important to me✨

(feel free to add on)

lloyd has ptsd from harumi

everyone knew lilly passed away prior to s13

the ninja’s parents were very close

the ninja are used to paparazzi and red carpet events

nya’s stubbornly independent, to the point she’ll hurt herself before asking for help

the ninja call each other family

zane and jay can sing. like really well

cole cannot sing; but cole can dance

cole has excessive knowledge of the performing arts

the ninja have been training together for several years now

lloyd is too young to know what a VCR is

jay was angry at his birth parents at first for abandoning him

jay is short

lloyd can have trouble concentrating

lloyd moves around a lot in his sleep

lloyd tends to flip and twirl around like an anime protagonist when in battle

cole snores very loudly

jay can’t sit still for long periods of time

jay fidgets a lot

jay has anxiety

kai is overprotective of everyone he cares abt

kai tends to be more protective of the younger ones (i.e. lloyd, nya, and jay)

kai is good with kids

all the ninja came from broken homes

kai’s first response to grief is denial

jay’s prone to panicking; so much so that everyone gets worried when he doesn’t freak out

cole talks to himself when he’s stressed

zane likes to cook

zane is the mom friend

zane can absolutely be an asshole when he wants to be

nya scares everyone when she’s angry

nya’s temper is just as bad, if not worse, than kai’s

everyone knows to steer clear of nya when she’s having an outburst

nya’s not very physically affectionate

nya often shows her love through actions, rather than words or affection

lou neglected cole after lilly died

cole thrives off of positive reinforcement

cole is afraid of disappointing people

cole has ptsd from his fall

ronin cares about the ninja a lot

ronin won’t put the ninja in direct danger; commit crime under their watch and mess with them, absolutely, but he’d never hurt them

dareth sees the kids as “his ninja”

dareth would sacrifice himself for the ninja

jay’s afraid of spiders

jay’s afraid of being alone

everyone has ✨abandonment issues✨

kai can’t skate

not necessarily canon, but jay displays symptoms of adhd (fidgeting, sensitivity to loud sounds, rambles when he’s nervous, etc)

lloyd can’t act

lloyd bites his lip a lot

zane, nya, jay, and pixal are the most tech savvy and inventive

kai picks on jay more than anyone else

people swear on the first spinjitzu master

the ninja have been living with each other for the better part of their lives

a lot of trauma could’ve been avoided if wu would’ve just told them things

Making up a silly backstory for why Arin has those golden horns as a headband (headguard?)

hey hello i did a thing ^_^

this is all about wukong btw!!

the song is To The King by TyKim, I really think the pale king fits wukong a lot...

more analysis under the cut!

about wukong and the pale king being so similar:

they are both willing to sacrifice everything for their goals; wukong's being immortality, and the pale king's being to preserve his kingdom as long as possible.

they have also both used multiple people to guarantee their success, pk used the vessels and the knight/ghost, and wukong (technically) used macaque and the brotherhood.

OH. ALSO. MK.

MK very much resembles the hollow knight, in a sense that they've both been used as a means to further goals; hk being used to stop the infection (not really) and MK being used to basically fix all of wukongs past mistakes. also, both of their minds are being "rotted" or being taken over in a sense. hk has the radiance and the infection, and MK has ink MK and his monkey form.

so tl;dr, HOLLOW KNIGHT AND LMK AU WHEN??? (/hj)

probably going to do more song overanalyzing sometime,,

Ninjago Season 1 was great

Nadakhan could’ve just told them he needed to get married and Flintlocke would not hesitate

I know I couldn’t make this exactly gwody, but EMO Cody coming out of no where Gwen would just be like... 👀👀

While Lloyd is dumb for talking about breaking out of prison in front of a guard, can we just say that guard there is a real one for not saying anything to anyone immediately?

Edit: My mother said it would’ve been funnier if the guard added tips.