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Ninjago Rewrite

Working on a Ninjago Rewrite There's some stuff that happens before the series even starts so here they are

Morro was being mentored by Wu but ran away. He is Misako’s brother’s son, making him Lloyd’s cousin. He ends up dying at the age of 19. Cole and Jay are childhood friends, meeting at the age of 6 and 7. When Jay was 9 and Cole was 10, Jay got ran over by a car and lost his left leg, he ended up getting a prosthetic. Cole was traumatized when it happened. Every year, during the anniversary of that event, they put stickers on Jay’s leg. Kai and Nya lost their parents at the age of 6 and 4. They have a dog named STick that Kai got when he was 5. STick is a weird dog, having a much higher intelligence than other dogs and some humans! Zane grew up with Dr. Julien and the past elemental of ice. The elemental master of ice eventually ends up dying but he gives Zane his power before he does. Zane doesn’t lose his memories here either. He’s half nindroid and half human, more nindroid than human. He was in an accident and had gotten lost in the forest. The elemental master of ice and Dr. Julien find him and take him in, and in an attempt to save his life, Dr. Julien replaces some of his body parts with robotic parts. Lloyd never got aged up during season 2 because he’s gonna be the same age as the others. He was abandoned by Misako while Garmadon was banished to the Underworld. He was abandoned at Darkley’s Boarding School For Bad Boys Kids. He meets Brad, Gene and Sally and they have their own sort of group where they go piss off the teachers. Lar exists! Wow! So, there’s some weird thing where sometimes, elemental powers can split between two people. This happened with the water element, it split between Lar and Nya. When Lar was born, he was a surprise. Ray and Maya couldn’t afford to support another kid so he was given away to a family friend, Dr. Saunders. But when Nya was born, they could so she stayed with her parents. Lar dyes his hair blonde when he gets older, he actually has brown hair like Kai.

Anyone who talks about Jaya with kids and says that Nya would not be the dad and Jay would not be the mom are wrong. Full-stop.

Jay is the one driving the soccer mom minivan. He is the one who is making sure that everything is packed correctly and no, Nya, he did not play ten years worth of Tetris for you to pack the car like a fucking lunatic. Everything must be rearranged to fit in as tightly as it possibly can. The cooler must be left accessible.

Nya is also definitely the parent who passes on the responsibility of saying no.

Kid: Mama, can I eat candy for dinner?

Nya: did you ask your father?

Jay: No! You cannot have candy for dinner!

Everyone says that Jay would be the one to indulge his kids but I honestly think it would be Nya. She didn't have parents growing up, and she had to grow up really fast, so she would want her kids to have as much fun as possible when they're young.

On the other hand, Jay recognizes the gaps in his upbringing, and wants to try and be a good dad. He's old enough to recognize that a lot of the discipline his parents did was good for him and that kids need it in their lives, even if he would love to indulge them like Nya does.

So yeah, give me tired and stressed stay-at-hom soccer mom Jay who drives a minivan and loves it. Give me chill as fuck dad Nya who lets pretty much anything fly and would probably join in your shenanigans.

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,,

Btw the Administration has some dark fucking mysteries because what is this place?

My entry for @rainofthetwilight ‘s dtiys! Took me a while with this one, the longest time I’ve spent on a drawing, lol.

Hope you like it! :)

sometimes, i wonder, what if mr e was harumi's only friend?

Sure, she had UV and Killow and the rest of the S.O.G gang, but sometimes, I just want to hc that Mr. E was the only one Harumi really, actually, opened up to.

So this hc is just that they were besties bc she rescued him from the lighthouse and he didnt judge her at all so she found him easy to talk to.

and the rest of the s.o.g werent rlly her friends, they just wanted garmadon back

ninjago but instead of zane figuring out he’s a robot by finding his blueprints Jay just accidentally sticks a fridge magnet to him and they’re all like wtf ???

Okay, we've got height headcanons, face headcanons...but you know what we need? Name headcanons.

Okay, yes, I know, the ninja already have names. But their names originate from Earth cultures and Earth languages, which, uh, don't exist in Ninjago. Like!! The name 'Lloyd' is Welsh, but Wales isnt a place on the Ninjago map! And 'Zane' is German - but again, Germany doesn't exist in this fictional fantasy world either. How can Zane's name be German if Germany is nowhere on the Ninjago map?

Realistically I know this is because this show has painfully messy worldbuilding and they gave all the main characters simple European names that their young American audience would be able to easily identify and pronounce. BUT I love to overthink things so that's what I'm gonna do.

Logic would dictate that although their names have specific cultural contexts within our world, they have different contexts and origins within the world of the story. Their names would logically have some kind of different meaning in relation to the cultures, languages, and dialects that exist within Ninjago itself.

This is already canon, to some extent. The name 'Nya' already has a canon in-universe origin, with her being named after a legendary Merlopian hero - from this we can assume the name Nyad and its derivative Nya are Merlopian in origin. Which suggests the idea that the same is true for all the other characters as well, we just haven't gotten the chance to get backstories for their names yet. And there is so much untapped potential in exploring what their names could mean in-universe.

Here, I'll start with my own personal headcanons about the subject:

Most names in this series come from 'Classical Ninjargon', the ancient dialect that was spoken in the time of the FSM but gradually evolved into Modern Ninjargon, which is the dialect commonly spoken by the characters to this day. However, a lot of words, terms, and names still rely in some part on their classical roots.

'Kai' isn't really a name, so much as it is a noun. It's commonly used in the names of towns and villages. For example, Jamanakai Village. 'Kai' means 'shelter' - or, more specifically, 'a form of barrier or protection that defends against cold weather.' It's not a very common name to give to children, though, but it appears in the names of villages and settlements all across Ninjago. It seems fitting, considering the kind of person Kai is. His parents gave him that name as a reference to its more specific meaning. Shelter from the cold. During the Serpentine War, Ray and Maya's dreams of starting a family were what gave them comfort and kept them going. Kai wasnt just named as a shelter from the cold, but a shelter from despair as well.

Nya's name has its obvious origins - she was named after Nyad, the storybook hero who befriended whales and defeated Wojira. Nyad was also Merlopian, where her name means 'courage'. Likewise, Nya's name has similar connotations. Of course, Maya hadn't known that meaning when she named her child, as Merlopia was just a myth and its language much the same. She did know of the fairytale, though, and Maya's own mother had told her that story as a child, so she wanted to give her daughter a name that was meaningful in that same way.

'Jay' comes from a regional dialect of Classical Ninjargon that became prevalent in the Sea of Sands. The name itself originates from the term 'jairu', meaning "blessed storm." Some historians speculate the name goes back further than that, with the term 'jairu' originally meaning "Wojira's favor"...but there is much debate about that. Both Jay and Jairu are pretty popular names in the Sea of Sands. Jay was an unexpected but highly valued gift to Ed and Edna, just as a rainstorm is in a desert.

'Cole' was originally the word for earth/dirt, but over the centuries its frequent use in Classical poetry led to it acquiring a myriad of more specific meanings - 'solid foundation', 'stable ground', 'dependable and reliable', 'steady and unshaken amidst conflict', etc. The word itself has a lot of very poetic, very vivid interpretations, and when most people name their children 'cole', thats what they're referencing. But not Lily. No, she knew the name historically meant 'earth', and she wanted his name to be a pun. It was 100% intentional

'Zane' isnt so much a name as it is a colloquial term, from the Birchwood region. Even though the word has Classical roots, it still remains widely used in that region. The word 'zane', a noun, is in reference to the constant, unmelting snowcover that blankets the region year-round. In Classical Ninjargon the term means, "endlessly persevering" - but over time it became repurposed as their term for their endless snow. Dr. Julien always thought the snow was beautiful, and named his son after its remarkable endurance

Lloyd's name has an interesting history to it. In the time of the Stone Wars, when the FSM initially split Ninjago and sealed away the Overlord, the people of that era celebrated the occasion by turning it into a holiday. They called it "belloid", which Classically means "victory over darkness." Eventually a new tradition emerged where children who were born on the holiday were named after it - and so the name "lloyd" came to be. And although the holiday evolved and is now more commonly known as Festival Day (yes, thats a canon holiday), with its history and origins fading out of public awareness, the tradition still persists. But heres the catch: Lloyd wasnt born on that holiday. His dad's reasons for naming him Lloyd were twofold. First, because he made a promise to himself to resist the venom's corruption for the sake of his son, and the name "victory over darkness" served as a testament to that promise. And second, because 'lloyd' sounds like 'lord', and giving his child a pun name sounds exactly like something Garm would do

And of course, since the ninjas' rise to fame, they have inspired some increasingly popular baby names. 'Lloyd' has been the baby name of the year for four years in a row now, which is something the others tease him relentlessly for.

For @pawzofchaos :)