"Miami Mall is trending".
Sigh. Another morning in America. I wonder what horrors happened there
"Hundreds of police cars showed up..."
Of course
"...when it's rumored on TikTok a ten-foot tall shadow alien appeared inside the mall."
It's sad how this is so expe-
wait what?
Redamancy AU is what I affectionately call my Ninjago re-write. I'd thought I'd share some changes to the main cast's pre-main story lives for funsies :D
Kai:
He and Nya are raised by their mother's bestfriend(Tomoe Kobayashi) and her best friend's husband husband(Hikaru Kobayashi).
Kai got his fire element from his mother Amara.
He lives in a village that lays at the base of the mountain that the monastery lays upon.
Kai works with the Kobayashi family since it was easy work and it gave him daylight hours to do whatever.
Kai has Dyslexia and ADHD(Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
His full name is Kai Isamu Smith. He is sixteen years old. His birthday is August 1st.
Nya:
She and Kai are raised by their mother's bestfriend(Tomoe Kobayashi) and her bestfriend's husband(Hikaru Kobayashi)
Nya operates as Samurai X and prefers to work alone rather than as a team anyway.
Nya listens to a radio station called 'South Eastern Archipelago Oceanic Radio Station' or SEAORS that reports the ever changing status of the South Eastern Archipelago. She likes the pirate stories.
Nya had an apprenticeship with an inventor named Marnie Grace who lived in the village Nya grew up in. Nya eventually ends it to become Samurai X.
Nya has a special assistant she built named Ruth who keeps her lab clean, as well as alert Nya to disturbances in Ninjago and keep track of correspondence between Destiny's Bounty.
Her full name is Nya Tomoe Smith. She is fifteen years old. Her birthday is October 29th.
Lloyd:
Lloyd had a caretaker named Delphi who acts more like an older sister than a mother. But Lloyd doesn't care. He's just happy to have someone. Not like he'd admit it or anything.
Lloyd has purple eyes and very sharp canines from being conceived by Misako and Lord Garmadon while Lord Garmadon was very much so a demon-like man.
He wanted to be a comic artist before he got sent into the Ninjago foster system.
Lloyd has ADHD(Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and ASD(Autism Spectrum Disorder)
Garmadon is not Lloyd's actual last name nor is it Lord Garmadon's actual name. Garmadon was an ancient word in a now long dead language of Ninjago. Garmadon meant 'Dominant, In Control'
Lloyd's full name is Lloyd Montgomery Ito. His birthday is July 5th. Lloyd is eight years old.
Zane:
Zane causes extreme feelings of unease around normal people and people feel extremely cold when around him.
Zane has been chased out of 16 villages because they thought him an Oni desperately trying to hold onto a human form.
Sensei Wu found Zane when he went to investigate the claims of a shapeshifting Oni. Sensei Wu brought Zane to The Monastery under the promise of a family and not being chased out of another village.
Zane is specifically built to function and grow like a human because although an artificial automaton, the remnants of the last Elemental Master of Ice live and breathe within him, making him an elemental master in wait of finding his old life.
Zane is very friendly with the Yōkai that Master Wu employs to keep his information webs strong. He is especially friendly with the kitsune on the coastal village of Hayami in the South Eastern Archipelago.
Zane's full name is Zane Boreas Julien. His creation date is February 18th. He is sixteen years old.
Jay:
Jay's biological parents are a swindler named Flynn Watts and a school teacher named Mary Walker. Mary Walker offered Jay to her brother Edward and his wife Janis because Mary didn't have the salary for raising Jay. Edward and Janis jumped at the opportunity to raise a child. No one told Jay his Aunt Mary was actually his mother.
Jay had a pet guinea pig as a kid named 'Scraps'. Scraps fell into a trash compacter.
Jay was homeschooled by Janis and Edward until fourth grade. He exceled so hard he ended up skipping a few grades and being a high school sophomore at age thirteen before Sensei Wu found him.
Jay took online classes while training with Sensei Wu and is the only one of the ninja to have finished high school.
Jay was taught how to ballroom dance by Janis who used to competitively ballroom dance before getting too old to safely do it without hurting himself.
Jay's full name is Jay Benedict Walker. His birthday is September 10th. He is fifteen years old.
Cole:
Cole has a childhood bestfriend/girlfriend he calls Aster who he writes letters to. He sends her letters scented with his cologne. Aster sends dried aster flowers enclosed in her letters to him.
Cole is a naturally big boi. His father used to hate this.
Cole loves cake so much because he never was allowed to have any as a kid and to him cake tastes like freedom.
Cole ran away from The Martin Oppenheimer School of Performing Arts after two days. He was fourteen. Sensei Wu found Cole and convinced Cole to come with him.
Cole was the first ninja taken in by Sensei Wu.
Cole's full name is Nicholas Claude Brookstone. His birthday is December 30th. He is seventeen years old.
It's VERY important Tokoyami, he swears!!
I’d also like to reiterate to the migrants:
This is not the kind of place to have a perfectly aestheticized “blog”. Reblogging posts 1) shows you aren’t a bot 2) helps you gain followers 3) helps your followers find more people to follow 4) makes your mutuals feel loved
And most importantly
Which is the spiritual essence of this website.
Also tagging is kinda bullshit. Yes tag for topics, but also you can put your thoughts in the tags in whatever disorganized fashion you want.
Also also, watch out for porn bots. They’re getting smarter with each wave.
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So what movie are we seeing? 😀
Mewtwo in Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
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I've talked a lot about how I wish we lived in a world where children weren't assigned a gender other than "child" at birth and are given a temporary name they can keep or change whenever they please as they age and they can decide based on their own life and upbringing what gender they feel like if any gender at all
And this is my perspective as an intersex person and an autistic person with a strong drive for autonomy
And I've gotten the weirdest pushback, as if this would ever actually happen. But the biggest critique I get is "well I WANT to have an assigned gender otherwise I wouldn't be who I am today" like yeah no shit, neither would I
Yall can't remove yourself from the bigger picture for a second and use your imaginations? Yall can't imagine a better system than the one we live under? The binary gender and sex system that harms and kills? The fact that it's not usually cis people who say this shit. Usually cis people just don't even understand how "child" could be a placeholder for a gender and don't engage in the convo lmao or just call me slurs and go away
Assigned genders hurt many people but yall straight up don't wanna hear intersex perspectives on what else we could be doing as humans