Jaya - Blog Posts
I love the Saruyama alliance!!
that's it, that's the post, please appreciate my boys!
Everyone dancing with their partner
Meanwhile Lloyd
Ya’ll.... This ending FLOORED me!
It hit me in SO many personal places. The water animation and emphasis on drowning (you just HAD to poke a place of trauma for me Tommy?!), the possible death of my oldest childhood ship, the character animation and ACTING!!! BENTHOMAR?! MY NEW SON!!!! Just- the BEST finale of the series and I am STILL CRYING!!! (but master of the mountain is my favorite still... Cole my mannnnnnsss) I wasn’t even able to finnish this drawing cause.. Damn.... this shit HURTED!!!! My heart BURNS!!!
I don’t even care if it takes away from her sacrifice- GIVE ME MY DAMN JAYA WEDDING!!!!!!! (I will write it myself if I have to)
(I just realized how old this piece is sorry.... I didn’t watch the full season until yesterday....)
Ayyyyyyyy have some Ninjago drawings that have been WASTING away in my sketchbook (cause I haven’t finished it yet and I’m too lazy to Finnish editing the sketchbook vid I already started...) Also even though the shadow kinda covers it up, I draw jay with heterocromia because.... I can.
I NEED TO RANT ABOUT DR S3 EP1 RIGHT NOW BEFORE I COMBUST
I love Frak (praying that his arc is at least somewhat about his struggle trying to switch over from Ras’ anger and hate techniques to the ninja’s) HE’S SO CUTE SOBS I love how he’s like the super nice character but he’s trying to channel his hate LMAOO
I love his relationship with Sora
Idk if I ship them just yet or at all but they’re both so silly and he called her attractive (my jaw dropped)
AND ZANE CALLING PIXAL ATTRACTIVE SOBS HYSTERICALLY MY BABIES I KNEW HE WAS REFERRING TO HER (my jaw dropped more)
Frak saying he’s Arin’s always best friend to Sora I’M LITERALLY GONNA JUMP
oh and Cole and Lloyd SOBSJSJSJSKS
and Frak’s thing with intelligent George HELP ME i get the puppet thing but gravity is most definitely real (i can’t really prove it either)
OH AND THE JAYA IM GONNA AHRHRHFJFHTFJH
Wyldfyre and her silly costumes 😞
impatiently waiting for episode 2 in english
I would die for any of my ships, which is a problem cuz last time I checked I don’t have 58 lives.
Hey, so I got kicked out of my original accounts, yesmagentaflower, elemental masters, and wings-of-fire42, so this is my new one. Yea, I can't get back in, so if someone sent me something, I didn't get it. if you just stumbled across this post, and have no idea what I'm going on about, plz ignore this.
This is Pure Golden!
sleepover!!!!! theyre all cozy ^__^ i also think theyd do that bit where everyone takes turns saying goodnight to each other in the pitch black darkness before actually falling asleep
i know i'll see you again
Y'all need a little Jaya Juice.
For all jaya fans(ik its rusty but i tried)
New Ninjago au idea :)
A „10 things I hate about you“ Au with the Smith siblings, but less angsty cuz wdym u paid a guy to get with ur sister 🤨
Nya would not do that and also there is not a universe where the ninja aren’t friends imo
Plot Basics: nya wants to date jay >jay also wants taht > ray and maya are a bit hesitant about that > the sibling clause is coined so Kai has to date someone in order for nya to date > nya and jay think about it and start playing matchmaker with Kai and cole > cole could already have a crush it noz and jay maybe just convinced him taht it’s a good idea idk or he’s calling in a favour > the movie plot more or less happens > everyone is happy and we have two couples
Ofc it can be jsut like the movie but I like when AUs take the inspiration and also the source material anf make a new brain child out of it cuz the characters are not the same which influences the choices they make etc.
But yeah I’m leaving this here and letting it sun :)
Shoutout to @emiko-talks83 <3
movie mudshock would be so funny because it would kind of be a situation where Cole never left. Nya and Jay got together and Jay needed Cole as moral support, and Cole just ends up staying and no one notices it. He’s just there now.
I did a sketch in English class today and turned it into this
Ignore the bitch in the corner she made pissed me off after making a comment about something I said so I drew her accurate side profile
ALSO omg feel free to use as a pfp if you want
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
If somebody says one more time that Kai deserved to not only get kicked but also beaten up by jay in that one fight scene in crystallized I will THROW HANDS. No, I DO NOT hate jay. But I DO HATE tommy anderson
we know why jay acts the way he does. we have information about his past. we have an entire season about him and how he perceives himself (sky bound). Nadakhan literally pointed out that jay uses jokes to cover up insecurity. His true potential showed that he was insecure about being himself (until nya talked to him etc). We got like three seasons of him being the hero and saving entirety of Ninjago.
We were given Information about Cole’s past. We saw his childhood with his gorgeous mom. We saw in his true potential how he desperately wanted to be accepted by his dad. We saw Zane’s past. We saw how he sacrificed himself for the Ninja, understanding and acting upon the same words Kai had told him, “it’s about family, not numbers”. The writers could dive into Zane more, but we got something. And we also got some Nya, why she’s a perfectionist, why she isn’t that verbal, why she’s Independent; Kai said so himself, after all. Even though I wish we saw her talk with Nyad more, we still got her. And the entire series is about our boy Lloyd. And even though every one of them could be explored so much more, we got something. And for a few ninja, we got a lot of something’s. But not Kai. Rarely Kai.
Kai’s true potential was protecting someone. And I loved that, I did. But that’s it. If anything, it literally points out that no, he is not selfish. We never got a season truly revolving around Kai’s childhood struggles/trauma. Why is he reckless? Why is he protective? Why does he never cry? While the other ninja have their spotlights, Kai never had his. He is such a complex character (that ninjago refuses to dive into) and that’s why I love him so much.
I know. I know Kai can be rude to Jay sometimes, and bully him, but if it came down to it, Kai would die for him. Because this is the man that makes his sister happy, because jay does mean a lot to kai. Kai doesn’t show it - frankly, he doesn’t show a lot of things. And I know this doesn’t entirely excuse the way he acted toward jay before, but why. I want to know why he acts like that. But the writers never dwelled on it. Jay is allowed to confront and express his feelings about how Kai for ‘bullying’ him, but not like this ( by the way, idk if I guys noticed but lately Kai has been complimenting/hyping jay up a lot now.)
And when jay, who is grief stricken, leads him self to believe only he loved nya in the entire world, kai is allowed to get angry. Kai is allowed to feel anger towards someone acting like no one else loved nya when Kai raised her. Protected her. Did everything for her. Just because we did not see as much of Kai grieving as we did of Jay, does not mean Jay was more upset. For all we know, Kai was dying on the inside. She was his sister for gods sake.
Kai did not “deserve” that kick. And if you genuinely think that, i honestly do not know what to tell you.
I know a lot of people are saying that Kai and Nya had a babysitter and whatever, but guess what.. who cares? Allow me to explain:
A Babysitter is someone who comes for a short amount of time to take care of kids. A babysitter needs money. This ‘babysitter’ definitely had her own family and I don’t think a random stranger or even if the babysitter was a good neighbor would raise someone else’s kids and provide for them and support them and love them for free. She most likely came in only to feed them, and left. Or left the minute Kai turned ten. Maybe she gave up when no more money was coming her way, and she only came to feed them for a year and that’s it. We don’t even have enough information to conclude any of this, especially not if she was a good, loving babysitter, which she was likely not. Because if she was, Kai and Nya would be mentally healthier.
When kids are growing, they look up to their parents, because they are emotionally connected with them. Kids mimic emotions from their parents, and look up at them for validation of their own. Nya was really young when Maya and Ray were captured. Kai was very young too, but old enough to know what love is because he most likely remembered his parents loving him. Now on the other hand Nya probably had little to no memory recall of her parents at all, much less the idea of what ‘love’ is.
When Maya and Ray were captured Kai was the only person left who Nya was emotionally connected with. Kai was the only person who could fill the role of being a loving person in her life, someone she could relay on and trust with vulnerability. I don’t think some children would just suddenly trust a random adult in their life, especially not Kai (remember how hesitant and suspicious he was when he first saw Wu). 
If this babysitter was that awesome, dependable, or trustworthy, Kai would not have trust issues, Nya would not need to feel independent, etc etc. Again, Both siblings would have a little more healthier mindsets.
Kai, as a child, loved Nya since the beginning. When Maya and Ray disappeared, he did raise her. You could interpret this sentence in many ways- raised her by love, raised her emotionally, raised her by providing for them both, raised her by protecting her. I strongly believe in every one of these and more, but this furthers on to my point: babysitter or no babysitter, at the end of the day, Kai did raise Nya. And I think for a small child who was just as lost and scared, he did his very best.
A child forms their idea of love normally by looking at their parents relationship, and by observing how parents treat them. Kai had a slight foundation in this already, since he loved Nya since the beginning. Nya however, as I mentioned before, likely had little to no memories of her parents. So, everything Nya learned about love, how to love, etc was from Kai. And with this, Nya had understood and developed her own love languages, and proceeded to use what she learned from Kai and reciprocate it. This was undoubtedly Kai’s biggest mental support during his childhood. And with what she learned from Kai, she started to also love Jay.
Smith sibling headcannons ft jay and cole <3
nya uses Kai and Jay to workout like who needs weights when you have your surprisingly light brother and yang (cole fights over kai and jay with nya bc he needs some ninja weights too!!)
nya cannot touch her toes and kai does take advantage of this (nya doing touching toe exercises and kai touching his toes AND bending his body into a pretzel to show off)
kai is a feral cat and kid!lloyd was his feral accomplice in crime (present Lloyd has a part of him that still is..)
kai and nya as kids used to have a tradition of having a ‘sleepover’ and doing each other’s hair when either of them were upset. this passed down to Lloyd too
jay falls asleep during a movie? let’s hope Lloyd and Kai are far away from any nearby sharpies. just saying…
Out of the three smith siblings kai is the best cook but it’s not his fault the kitchen keeps lighting on fire he swears by this and yet we have no proof..
all three of these lads (kai, nya, Lloyd) suck at art (Lloyd is considerably decent since cole helped him with this since cole is the teams artist)
kai likes to read, preferably historical fiction (he became a history teacher guys+ I think it would be really cute that someone as energetic as Kai would like to read and I love that ) and Lloyd likes comics and so whenever nya goes out with jay or alone or something, she makes sure to bring back a book and comic for two certain people
Respectfully, some of you in the ninjago fandom REALLY need to get this in your ears:
the amount of grief jay felt about nya’s death IS NOT LARGER THAN THE AMOUNT OF GRIEF KAI FELT.
familial love and romantic love are two different things. and yes, depending on circumstances and the people themselves, one can be stronger than the other.
BUT NOT IN NYA’S CASE. KAI AND JAY LOVE NYA EQUALLY. JAY DID NOT MISS NYA MORE THAN KAI. KAI JUST HID HIS GRIEF, AND MAYBE IS COPING IN A DIFFERENT WAY. KAI AND JAY ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE. BUT THEY LOVE NYA EQUALLY.
so stop saying jay was more upset over nya’s death when kai literally held her when she was a child and raised her and was there for nya her entire life. nya missed them both, and they both missed her. thats it.
Tonight
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Happy Valentine’s Day
If you guys don’t STOP with the angsty Jaya hcs for DR I might actually lose it💔 I’m not making it to September
WILL I EVER FINISH THIS VIDEO???😭😭😭help
SORRY FOR SPOILING!!!!! 😭😭BUT I CAN'T!!!!! I'm overwhelmed with emotions, I feel so sorry for both of them, I think about them all day! Let them have a happy, calm life. And please leave Jay that hairstyle, I really like drawing it!💔🫠
I’ve decided instead of a master post with all the characters, I’ll just post 2 each until I finish the rest. ((I’ve only got these two and the Serpentine OC done with one WIP pending plus the obstacle called my my shameless procastination—))
ANYWAY BIOS UNDER THE CUT
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Hiro Walker
Age: 14
Gender: Nonbinary ((He/They))
Parents: Jay & Nya
Element: Water
Bio: Hiro is the (at first reluctant) water ninja. His parents had always tried to shield him from the eventually inevitable fact that he’ll have to be the water ninja because they want him to have a normal childhood, and not deal with the ninja stuff until later. Hiro himself is indifferent on the matter, and just doesn’t want to disappoint their parents. One day, they meet the mysterious new kid from school, Yun. The two later befriend a group of school deviants and become the incognito group of colorful heroes.
Momoko Walker
Age: 9
Gender: Female (she/her)
Parents: Jay & Nya
Element: Lightning
Bio: The happy and kind younger sister of Hiro! Momo loves dolls, animals, and new friends! She barely ever has a care in the world!
Just don’t make her angry
Momoko’s powers are abnormally strong for her age, and although she wouldn’t hurt a fly, a temper tantrum could lead to a severe ass beating.
Ausha
Age: 4 (32 in cat years)
Gender: Female
Bio: Ausha is the ninja’s lovable cat, always tagging along on missions and being way more helpful than most would think a cat could be! Weirdly enough, she seems to always be there at the right time, and knows what people are saying.
Unixphreak, a.k.a Yun Borg Julien
Age: 16 (Technically 14, but her production took 2 years, in which she was consious.)
Gender: Being a robot, Agender, but as a person, female. (She/they)
Parents: Zane & Pixal
Element: Ice
Bio: Unix is a peppy, chipper, and adventure seeking ice nindroid that doesn’t know when the plan is too reckless! Along with the bot companion she built who she named Zip, Unix deems herself unstoppable. Despite being probably the most responsible one in the group, she has a childish and excitable personality, going as far as riding her signature skate board on her ice slopes, and using her baseball bat in hand-to-hand combat. This recklessness seems to not come from her parents, but why? Well, her parents went missing on a mission when she was 4, and as she barely remembers them and feels as though she didn’t matter enough to them to stay. She vows to become a great ninja, as its the closest she can ever do to relate to them. Unix has a love for music, as she has a very popular online persona called “NixtaBlix” that makes various music albums on their vlog. One day, her grandfather (Cyrus, whom she lives with) decided to send her to a school close to Borg Industries because Unix seemed a bit lonely not hanging out with kids her age, and despite her thoughts against it, she agreed, wanting to execute her plan to try to create a hero group with other elemental masters, which she found out was attending the school through hacking its database. She then creates yet another alter ego called “Yun Borg” to go to school, meets Hiro and the school’s other deviants, and tries to live up to her goal.
Happy end of Pride Month from my Ninjago Next Gen!
Remember that we are all valid!