It’s What They Deserve

academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”

I miss the soft British inflections in Zane's older voice :')

@nyasyang you might've meant the "I sense" compilation as a joke, but I will take any excuse to make a list, so Ta Da!

Here's a compilation of every time Zane says "I sense"

A few notes:

I didn't include any shorts in my checks

In Possession ep 7: The Crooked Path, he says "My senses pick up" which I didn't add to the compilation because it's a bit too different

In Skybound ep 8: The Last Resort, Echo Zane says "I sense", but I didn't include it because he is a different character

I did not (could not) check DR s2p2, so don't worry

Bro can someone like remind lego this is a kids show

Why is he LIKE THIS. get this guy an anxiety and depression diagnosis STAT

Screencap redraw yayyyyyyyy!!! Wanted to be really experimental w this one to get better at rendering Legos 💪💪💪

Alt ver + og screencap under cut

Can we. Can we talk about. Ok consider. We all know about kids developing trust issues because of their parents. But I almost feel sometimes like Zane is the reverse? Like his dad raised him completely isolated in the middle of the woods and then erased his memory and left him completely vulnerable and alone. And we know from his behavior, especially in the first seasons, that Zane has a hard time adapting to people and grasping social boundaries, which already sucks for him but I feel like the implications of his upbringing go a lot deeper than that? I know I already made a post that was really similar to this but I'm on a slightly different track rn so hear me out

Like I feel like, intentionally or not, he made Zane COMPLETELY dependant on him in every conceivable aspect and then (by giving him straight up amnesia) he abandoned him without what little preparation he might have had to set him up for the outside world. And in doing that he simultaneously made it practically impossible for him to develop normal, constructive relationships with other people and also failed to give him to ability to discern when to trust people and when to be wary of their intentions.

So basically he put him in a position where he would be completely defenseless and wouldn't have the emotional or social maturity to protect himself from exploitation or abuse. It's super heavily implied (if not outright stated) that Zane was essentially homeless for however long he was wandering around before Wu found him, and it's like??? Can you imagine how traumatic that probably was all on its own? And if anything serious happened to him during this period there's a strong likelihood that he doesn't even realize it was wrong.

It'd be super interesting to have a clearer look into how he functioned pre-season one and the types of experiences he must have had. Plus I think it could serve to give some background to some of his behaviors and thought processes. Also I want to project my trauma on him as is my god-given right as an american

Works Cited:

My feelings which are always correct every time

Maybe an obvious detail but Nya actually comes out of the same glass of water Kai knocked over, so in a way, Jay was actually right -- that water did bring him closer to Nya.

Just r/ninjago having a normal one

i know you like chickens but i have to ask

what is your opinion on the T-Rex (ancient chicken)

(whiteboard drawing cuz im at work) I LOVE T REXES THEYRE SO CUTE big ancient chickebs...... raptors gotta be my favorite dino tho

I’ve seen the posts talking about how corny Lloyd’s early seasons dialogue was but rn on my millionth rewatch I just saw s1 Zane go “watch out Pythor… we’re coming to GET you…” like ok are we on the playground. Okay girl