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sibling shenanigans

[id: it is a comic of Nya, Kai and Lloyd from Ninjago. In the first image, Nya is walking towards a couch, looking exhausted. She then throws herself onto the couch, landing face first. As she lays there, Kai peeks in from the side before throwing himself over the couch and on top of Nya, falling on his back. Lloyd then peeks in from the other side, smiling, as Kai looks up at him from where he is laying on top of Nya. Lloyd then throws himself, grinning, belly first and with his arms extended over both Kai and Nya, Kai scoots backwards and looks at Lloyd with wide eyes while Nya’s face, also wide-eyed, is peeking out from between Kai’s feet. The last image is of Lloyd, mumbling a “sorry”, laying on top of Nya with his arms resting curled on her back, Nya is once again face down and she is clenching her fist in pain while Kai is laying on her legs, leaning back on the armrest with one arm on the back rest of the couch, amused./ end id ]

ninjago fame hcs

- cole goes into spotify hunts to find new unknown music and then shares it on instagram and twitter.

- jay comments on people’s posts bc he genuinely enjoys seeing people excited that he noticed them.

- zane has socials that jay set up to him and he has tons of followers but he doesn’t use them unless jay helps him.

- kai has the most of popular magazine photoshoots. (e.g. vouge)

- lloyd gets “never in my life have i seen a man this blond” comments everyday and he laughs every time.

- pixal never really posts unless it’s with nya and zane.

- nya specifically only goes on twitter to get on the guys nerves when they tweet something.

- lloyd rarely posts pictures of himself but when he does everyone panics and the internet goes feral.

- kai publicly flirts with harry styles. period. cannot convince me otherwise. every time anything has to do with that englishmen kai is the first to say something about it.

- the only time any of the ninja got canceled was jay for saying that he didn’t like parrots 😔.

- cole purposely makes dead mom jokes on the daily.

- the amount of times he’s been tagged on the ‘fuck me emo boy’ song is slowly but successfully driving morro insane.

- morro wasn’t expecting it but people adore his style.

- the moment people found out nya wears glasses everyone couldn’t stop talking about it for weeks.

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ninjago fame hcs

- they’re considered to be A-list celebrities in ninjago for obvious reasons.

- every couple of months twitter goes on a hunt to figure out cole’s sexuality and every single time it ends in “all we know is he’s definitely not straight”.

- lloyd has a lot of thirst edits of him on tiktok and he likes them bc he likes seeing ppl freak out when they see he saw it.

- jay has thousands of these “jay walker being the funniest ninja in interviews” on youtube.

- from seasons 1-7 everyone was whipped by kai but after season 8 even if you’re not interested in the ninja you’ll eventually see a nya edit somewhere.

- ppl make zane and vision (from marvel) completions.

- one of the most popular threads about them is how pixal is underrated and should get included in interviews and red carpets more.

- jay has those “the gender envy he gives me” comments. (he does man 😔)

- kai and lloyd have a very close amount of instagram followers.

- i just know that cole does finneas (billie eilish’s brother lol) type tiktoks. (if u haven’t watch his videos where he stitches other tiktoks he’s very dry in a funny way 😭)

- nya is rarely on social media but when she is she has the funniest tweets.

- jay tweets like kurtis conner. (a hilarious youtuber)

- skylor definitely is hella aesthetic on instagram kind of like emma chamberlain.

- pixal has millions of followers and she has like 5 posts 💀.

- lloyd makes and reposts tiktoks about daddy and mommy issues.

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ninjago fame hcs

- lloyd, kai and jay make sturniolo triplets videos.

- zane is usually quiet in interviews but in every interview he’ll have one of the most if not the most funny thing you’ll hear.

- i think i said it before but skylor does emma chamberlain type content. (the new style)

- morro made a video like the iconic scarlett johansen tiktok “i’ve seen the edits.”.

- nya has no shame and will tag the others on anything even if it’s not necessarily appropriate.

- cole watched popular shows/movies and then has a live reaction on twitter.

- lloyd makes so many trauma jokes on tiktok that at some point people started to worry.

- the first time kai was trending world wide on twitter was because he had one of those rain photoshoots.

- pixal and zane only post when it’s pictures of them together or pictures of their shared garden.

- jay didn’t open twitter for a week or so and then he came back to everyone asking if a genie will ever be a villian for the future and he panicked but pretended to not have seen anything.

- nya publicly has a crush on maya hawke and she doesn’t hide it she fuels the fire when people ask if she in fact does.

- morro in the early times before he understood social media one time he accidentally twitted “fuck?” and it’s his most liked tweet.

- kai purposely likes edits of him because 1, it rises his ego and 2, he enjoys seeing people panic when they realise he saw it.

- cole draws amazingly to the point that his fans convinced him to make an art account on instagram.

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[ninjago] ig lloyd just couldn’t handle genuine familial love.

Gotta love it when the gang splits up into two groups which are usually these guys

who are mature and responsible whenever they’re together, always stay on task, and generally go about things in a sensible way. And yet somehow they never get anything done.

While on the other side of town it cuts to these idiots

Doing some random-ass shit, being incredibly stupid and inefficient and yet somehow doing everything they were supposed to do and more just by pure luck.

We as a fandom do not talk about this scene nearly as much as we should

Like, I had already headcanoned that Nya's independent personality was a result of her upbringing, but the fact that this scene officially confirms it is just *chefs kiss*.

What I find so interesting about Kai and Nya is that their childhood trauma has very clearly effected personalities and overall characterizations. Both of them have lone wolf tendencies (albeit more so in earlier seasons), often tending to go their own way and handle their problems on their own instead of relying on the team. They both have anger issues and short tempers, struggling to process their emotions in a healthy way. And neither of them are comfortable with weakness and vulnerability, and tend to lash out when they feel cornered.

There's also the fact that, due to growing up as two kids forced to raise themselves and learn survive with limited assistance from their community, both of them are understandably afraid of feeling weak and vulnerable. What I find to be perhaps the most interesting part of all this is that despite sharing a similar fear, both of them have vastly different coping mechanisms for dealing with it.

For Kai, his fear of powerlessness manifests in a desire for more power - a desire to be the green ninja, a desire to protect his friends, a desire to be strong and heroic, and of course a difficulty with accepting the situation when he loses his powers. He has pretty seamlessly integrated his power into his persona as well, frequently referencing his abilities and praising his status as the master of fire arguably more so than any other character. He's quickly turned his power into a huge part of his identity. Every time he loses his powers, he tends to go into a bit of a depressive episode - in season 5 he developed a fear of water, and in season 11 he became so upset that he nearly quit being a ninja altogether. When he failed to save the Never Realm villagers from Boreal, he blamed himself for it by lamenting that he wasn't powerful enough to save them.

You get the idea. Point is, Kai doesn't like feeling weak, he doesn't like vulnerability, he doesn't like being the weak link or a liability holding everyone back. Personally, I would point to that insecurity as being the primary driving force for his determination to become the green ninja, but that's definitely up for debate.

And as for Nya, this fear has manifested as her being a fiercely independent perfectionist, equating mistakes and failure with weakness, and fearing failure to such an extreme extent that she either gives up anything she's not immediately good at, or completely ignores her problems and pretends everything is fine. Like in season 5 when Wu was training her to become the master of water. "I'm not weak, this bucket is weak! I'm good at everything else, why do I have to be good at filling buckets?!" Or her struggles to get along with her mother all throughout Seabound, knowing full well that she can't blame her mom for leaving but still not quite ready to have her mom in her life again. She also isn't good at asking for help either, often preferring to handle things on her own even at her own detriment, and often she has a hard time admitting when she's wrong as well.

Whenever traumatic things happen, she just steamrolls right past it, refusing to acknowledge her own grief for very long. At Zane's funeral the first thing she said was, "So...what happens after this?" In the face of Maya's repeated attempts to reconnect and talk about Nya's childhood trauma, Nya would often shrug her off or storm away or change the subject.

Maya tried to explain her reasons once - tried to explain that sacrificing yourself comes with immense collateral damage, often hurting the same people you're trying to protect, and says "That's just the way the cookie crumbles." But Nya can't bring herself to address what Maya is really getting at, instead swimming away and saying "I don't like crumbly cookies."

That's why her final words are so important to me. "Tell my mother I understand now. That's the way the cookie crumbles." Nya has finally come to terms with and accepted her mother's decision, accepted that not all solutions have perfect answers, and has finally confronted her own baggage once and for all. She understands why her mother left, she forgives her, and above all she, the team perfectionist, is making a decision that isn't perfect. A decision that will leave a lot of collateral damage, and will cause serious trauma to her loved ones. She knows that by leaving her friends behind and becoming one with the sea, she's hurting them the same way her mother's absence hurt her - but she does it anyway because it's the only way to save their lives.

And as she looks back to say goodbye to Jay one last time, she cries. She mouths the words "I love you" - something she'd never said out loud before. She lets herself be truly raw and vulnerable. Even during her death in Skybound, she was still trying to keep her up her strong and defensive facade, saying things like "I never wanted to be part of your boys' club anyway". Even on her deathbed, in that moment she can't bring herself to let down her walls all the way. But here, several seasons later, she has finally let herself be vulnerable enough to cry, to say goodbye, to say "I love you."

Nya may not be my favorite ninja, but she does have my favorite character arc. Her going from samurai to ninja was a controversial decision, but I really do think it was a good choice in the long run because it almost feels like it's symbolizing her growth - going from a lone wolf who insists on doing things by herself, to being part of a team and relying on her friends just as much as they rely on her.

Just...I love Nya so much. She needs a hug.

this came to me in a dream

protectors

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

part two

rgb siblings + sensei wu

part one

Lloyd has oni horns. Nya has those tendril thingies from her sea dragon form. Kai has his stupid hair. This means all three RGB siblings have some kind of unusual head growth. Theyre matching. Peace and love on planet earth

Additional contents include:

Found family, trauma, lots and lots of trauma everybody need therapy at this point, banger soundtracks

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Shout out to @lloyd-got-a-knife and @kristoffs-lullaby for giving me your thoughts and suggestions for the captions :') <3 /p

I changed some of the color pallate so ye!

[Ninjago] Almost forgot to post these…anyways lloyd art, s5 doodles, plus rgb siblings bc I love em :)

saw a clip of this scenario in twt and its been infesting my mind so i had to do a quick doodle

Thinks about colour coded found family elemental ninjas for FAR too long.

Happy Birthday to Ninjago Movie-Lloyd, my sweet sad lil boy since Im 3 days late Im making up for it by showing u all Lloyd centric comics Ive done.

Kai: "stop asking me if i'm straight, bi, gay or whatever. i identify as a FUCKING THREAT"

Kai: "what doesn't kill me should run, because now i'm fucking pissed."

Some of The Ninja playing Twister

Zane: "left foot blue"

[Kai and Lloyd kick Jay with their left foot]

Jay: "WHAT THE FUCK, THAT'S CHEATING"

[Kai and Lloyd chuckle like maniacs]

Zane: "right hand green"

Kai: "i'm sorry, but there can only be one winner"

[Kai pushes Lloyd]

Lloyd, offended gasp: "TRAITOR"

Zane: "on a scale from 'damn daniel' to 'fre sha vaca do', how are you feeling?"

Jay: "in between 'it’s an avocado, thanks' and 'how did you defeat Captain America', but as a solid answer i would say 'i don’t need a degree to be a clothing hanger'. how about you, Cole?"

Cole: "probably 'road work ahead' "

Kai: "i speak many languages, and this is not one of them."

Jay: "Zane... how do I begin to explain Zane?"

Kai: "Zane's flawless..."

Cole: "one time he punched me on the nose... the face he made when he saw my nose bleeding was so adorable..."

Jay: "he could kill someone and look glorious doing it"

Kai: "one day i'm gonna ask him to give me cooking lessons just to be close to him"

Cole: "HEY! he already gives me cooking lessons, get another excuse"

Jay: "HA losers, I help him with repairing himself"

Lloyd: "you're all fucking simps"

Kai: "what are you talking about?? we don't simp for Zane"

Jay: "yeah LLOYD, get your facts checked"

Cole: "i do"

Kai: "dude..."

Jay: "don't admit it"

Cole, setting down a card: "ace of spades"

Kai, setting down a Uno card: "+4 change it to yellow"

Jay, pulls out a Pokémon card: "jolteon, I choose you!"

Lloyd, slowly pulls out a Yu-Gi-Oh card:

Zane, with Go Fish cards, trembling: "what are we playing..."

Nya: "i thought we were playing cards against humanity"

Zane: "good morning"

Jay: "good morning"

Cole: "good morning"

Lloyd: "you all sound like robots, try spicing it up a bit"

Kai: "MORNING MOTHERFUCKERS"

@crystallizabethine ‘s tags

It all makes so much sense now

The funniest thing about the ninja being color coded to me is the fact that they’re color coded down to their underwear and, as of season 11, weapons.

So basically:

Kai’s katana has red accents:

Jay’s kusarigama has blue accents:

It looks like the markings around Cole’s first initial on his hammer are orange, his main secondary color:

Zane’s shurikens are gold and white with cyan accents; notably, since Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu, Zane’s belt color has been cyan:

Lloyd’s sword has green accents:

And Nya’s spear is mostly gray with a wave pattern near the top:

It’s ALSO notable that Kai’s always been partial to katanas and swords, Jay’s always been partial to chained weapons like nunchucks and his kusarigama, Cole’s always been partial to weapons he can hit the ground with (scythes and hammers), Zane’s always been partial to shurikens, Lloyd’s always been partial to swords, and Nya’s been partial to spears since season 8.

What I’m saying is there is literally absolutely no reason for the ninja to have color coded weapons (and, for Kai and Lloyd in season 8, weapons with their names engraved on them!!!!!) because their weapon preferences are so different. The only time they use each other’s weapons that I remember (not counting Kai’s use of the Scythe of Quakes in the pilots) is briefly in season 15 with Jay using Cole’s hammer.

Garmadon: Looks like we can't mansplain, malewife, manipulate our way out of this one

Wu: Manwhore it is then!

Garmadon: Brother, your manwhoring makes things worse! We need another option

Misako, holding up an ancient axe twice her size: Manslaughter

Can you do Nya for the doodle/ramble? :o

Nya!!

DISCLAIMER: sorry sorry sorry this is so dang late, I have been sitting on this essay for like 2 months and I feel really bad about it. I just had so many passionate thoughts about Nya until school and work and assignments meant I lost flow and I probably won’t finish it. Tbf I did write lots so Oop lol. I’m just gonna post it unfinished like this so take away what you will :)

Awww hell yeah! So in the last post of this series, I said that Cole is probably the best written character, but i think Nya is the most interesting, and Cole’s only higher because sometimes Nya falls into kinda sexist cliches sometimes. But for the most point Nya is such an inspiring character who goes through so much strife. Honestly I think that her writing is actually a really good commentary on modern day misogyny, which is unexpected since this is just a Lego show marketed to mainly boys, and even if it wasn’t, Nya’s arc hits so much harder than you’d expect. But either way, regardless of the societal analysis, Nya is generally a really strong character who gets a lot of development simply bc was more of a side character who basically fought her way into the plot.

So the main themes of Nya is her struggle with destiny, whether she has free will or choices or if she just has to do what other expect her to. Like so many of her arcs are her struggling against what other people have told her to be or what she tells her self she has to be.

First of all, her time as samurai x and how she initially kept it a secret. In s1, in like, the first episode, we see Nya training on the training course trying to beat Kai’s score, wishing she had a dragon, and generally trying to tag along with the guys despite not being included in their team. Maybe you could argue she always wanted to be a ninja, to prove that she could do that too. However it never really caught on (until much later), and she ended up abandoning that idea in favour of becoming something else; samurai x.

I’ve always thought it was weird that she kept samurai x a secret when there wasn’t really any consequence to it when everyone found out. I think that maybe she felt a little bitter about not being included with the ninja so she decided not to share in what she got up to. Also I bet she just kept it up because the guys’ annoyance at not knowing who she was, would’ve been actually hilarious. But also she may have kept it a secret because no one could tell her how to be if no one knew it was her. Samurai X was her way of having freedom and independency, and her way of proving that she was useful, most importantly, in her own way on her own. She wanted the power to make her own choice and in order to do so, she didn’t even risk letting other people in the know in case they took it from her.

Short mention of s2 but the scene where we see Nya get corrupted is actually so horrific and invasive but it completely fits Nya’s narrative of getting her choices taken away as she’s corrupted by the dark matter. Ooh, quick s2 rewrite concept but the dark matter doesn’t immediately make you evil, but it only builds upon already dark feelings present, and in Nya’s case its her struggle with being alone, presently the fact that she was captured and overall how she gets singled out for not being a ninja or how she has to work harder to be seen alongside everyone else. With both her and Kai, they both seem to equate their worth and right to be in the family with how much they can contribute, and Nya especially puts a lot of pressure on herself, to be just as good or even better than the other ninja.

Now s3. S3… is a mixed bag. Bc it’s notorious for having a god awful love triangle that arose out of nothing but then if you think hard about it, everything after the set up kinda makes sense. Jay and Nya have kinda a strained relationship, where if we view s1 and s2 skeptically, their feelings aren’t really justified further than “jay likes girls and Nya is girl” and “Nya happens to like the colour blue”. It feels very forced hetero 2011 writing because it kinda was, but at least s3 is consistent. If you’re generous and are invested in making the most of a Lego show’s writing, then you’ll be happy to know that all of that accidentally works really well. Because we can assume that jay and Nya were quite young and it’s very common for kids/teens to just get into relationships in only name, for the pure reasoning of “we are guy and girl who hang out sometimes” Nya and jay being in a loveless, one sided relationship where neither are on the same page is pretty realistic actually, and the show tells us that Nya isn’t as invested as jay is and how there seems to be a fundamental imbalance of affection between them. Whilst I hate that Nya changes her whole mind as soon as the computer tells her to, it kinda works in that its consistent with Nya’s incredibly surface level reasoning for attraction. Her mind set is basically: if she was told a guy liked her, then she’s supposed to like them back right? That’s just what you do! Compulsive romance is so real and it’s how I personally see Nya in s3. Also it links in either s3’s theme of relying too much on technology, with Nya being swayed because of it.

Now the actual love triangle links back in with Nya and choice. She’s forced to pick between Jay and Cole but even if she does pick one, she’ll let the other down, or they might not accept it. It looks like she has a choice but there are no good options. And when she feels like she’s fighting against the grain, just like when she gave up from being a ninja, she too retreats from the conflict, avoiding giving an answer that she knows wouldn’t be accepted. She just lets them duke it out until they’ve forgotten about her and any relationship she had or could’ve wanted. By not picking a side, both sides left her after s3 and she just accepts it.

…or maybe I’m looking into to it too much as a way of coping with awful love triangles.

Quick note about s4, bc Nya kinda just kicks ass that season and I honestly don’t have too much to say. She’s just very cool. I will say that’s it’s interesting that she stayed home with wu Lloyd etc when the rest of the team dispersed. You could say she again was left behind. She stayed rebuilding the bounty, which may have been in tribute to zane considering he found the bounty. You could say zane brought the family together and found them a home, so when he died, Nya tried to fix it by remaking their home. Im gonna make a separate post about this actually.

Okay s5 is where we really get going and tbh, this season should’ve been more officially Nya. Because she’s actually becoming a ninja. I think with Nya interpretations, people usually see Nya being a ninja as a bad thing, something that was again forced upon her, which is true. I’ll talk about this again when we get to crystalized. But idk if this is a hot take but I think ninja Nya is a good thing, if you interpret samurai x as being a last resort because she didn’t become a ninja. It’s her learning to not give up, to keep at it, which is how she unlocks her true potential. That she’s just as valuable, in fact, uniquely valuable on the team. Idk I think it’s nice if you look at samurai x being her giving up on trying to be a part of the ninja. Her arc of needing to be perfect at what she does, without allowing herself to be messy or vulnerable or confront what makes her weak because she always thought that if she was a ninja, she’d be the weak link, and confronting why she hadn’t become a ninja makes her vulnerable. And her facing that fear and realising she’s more than she gives herself credit for is so so so good. Nya actually has such a low self esteem and tbh you can’t blame her when it looks like she has to fight tooth and claw to be as good as everyone else, but I’d bet on her being the strongest ninja, in some ways stronger than the green ninja. It’s very fitting that she wears the green gi in s5’s finale, because when the ghosts realise she isn’t the green ninja, they’re actually more terrified. Because she is something more feared than the green ninja. The water ninja. One of the only elements that the fsm couldn’t control. She single handedly drowned the preeminent (and destroyed an 1/8 of the universe but shhh).

And then we get to s6, which is only really good because Nya. Because even when she figures out she’s super op, society hasn’t. We get the whole news stuff in the first episode where the ninja deal with their acquired fame (nice acknowledgment of the rest of the world tbh), and we’re highlighted of how, whilst Nya took down a literal eldritch monster in the last season, she’s still only known for the love triangle, and it feels a little meta because I bet that’s what a lot of fans knew her for too (and I say this because unfortunately 13 ye old me was that, but I’ve rewatched since). We see Nya having to face everyone else’s expectations of her and the media doesn’t see her as anything but the girl ninja and she’s just told to accept that. And even when she’s trying to go against the grain, the fact that she’s only doing it to prove or disprove someone else still means she’s technically still controlled by something else. This is how I interpret the (admittedly mess of) the romance plot. Nya has and does love Jay, but she’s scared of that being all there is to her, that doing what the media expects her to means giving in to it, and losing her sense of independence. She basically can’t do what she wants because she’s holding herself to standard in response to other standards placed on her. It’s like a form of toxic masculinity but for feminism, where women feel like they have to be tough and never vulnerable because they’re trying to fight against being defined by those traits of vulnerability. Nya and Dogshank in particular, have a very specific relationship, they’re on opposite sides but play exactly the same roles, women who fought against the grain and did what was not traditionally expected of them, but in they’re fight to do so they ended up sacrificing their own freedoms anyways (Nya stops herself from getting close to the others in her need to be independent, Dogshank traded her life to be Nadakhan’s pirate just so she could win at something once). And say what you will about s6 but Nya’s death scene will always be the saddest thing, because we truly see Nya just give up her life. She’s so resigned to her fate, finally giving up on changing it and tells Jay that she never wanted to be apart of their boys club anyways. The reference of the “boys’ club” comes up 3 other times in the show: when Nya reasons why she became samurai x - she felt excluded in the group, when Nya is corrupted with dark matter and the guys fight her - Kai quipping that the “club” just became boys only and when the love matcher machine in s3 describes Nya as an independent self confident young woman who refuses to be part of a boy’s club. The evolution of the use of the quote, going from the reason Nya felt excluded, to Nya being defined by it and lastly as an acceptance of her own death, sums up what I mean, Nya internalising that “othering” and just growing to accept it. Nya then says that she guesses it’s true, the greatest love stories end in tragedy, which I think shows how she’s been told and sold so many expectations of how she wouldn’t end up happy, and it further shows how she’s given up. And the resolution of the plot isn’t perfect but I actually do like how Jay essentially bent time and space to show her that it doesn’t have to be true. Metaphorically, Jay erasing the timeline feels like he’s erasing the proposed bad end Nya’s predicted of herself. S6 is definitely flawed but I do like the theme of inevitability and the defiance of that with Nya in particular.

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Yeah sorry friends that’s where I stopped. But I’ll paste my little planning stage so you guys know what I would’ve started writing about?? Anyways Nya good!!

Intro- hell yeahhh - good writing altjough ppl don’t think so

- boys club - choices

- Samurai x inventing her own identity but in retaliation

- Water ninja - child of destiny

- S6 choosing her own fate - crystalise

- S11 powers significant + seabound

- Crystalised

- Tidbits such a cool narrative but like s567 could’ve been even cooler

Conc honestly I get emotional bc she’s actually so cool man