Ninjago AU: What If Lloyd Sacrificed Himself Instead Of Garmadon?

Ok, so i know that we already established that hellspawn hates harumi with a burning passion. But i need more than that.

How is their dynamic?

Does harumi still tries to "connect" with her only for her to retort with an impressive amount of sass for a 4yo? Does she think of how when all of this is over she will bash that brat's head into a wall?

Does hellspawn cling to her daddy's leg and give her death glares in every possible situations? Does she try to prevent any "romantic" moment/chemistry between the two?

And after harumi is revealed and the ritual "failed" is she going "I told you so" to literally everyone? Does she try to comfort lloyd saying stuff like; "you can't be sad because of her daddy thats what she want" or "there are far better possible mommies out there" or maybe even "im pretty sure she snores in her sleep anyway"

And lastly will there ever be a situation (maybe in s16?) That suddenly golden blond hair becomes long platinum braids, eye color becomes one she saw in the mirror every day, and even the scared look on her face became suddenly painfully familiar as harumi watched for mere few seconds as the green ninja's daughter image was replaced with her younger self

I have to say...that this is by far, my favorite ask from you.

I think Harumi would still try to connect with her, even though their dynamic is initially , 'seemingly nice princess tries every possible way to make a wary child as comfortable as possible in her presence' — I'm saving most of the sass for s16, when hellspawn's only sees this woman as a psycho.

But for s8, (at first) it's more like she's clinging to Lloyd's leg looking visibly uncomfortable. She knows that something is off, but she can't tell what. The ninja don't see anything wrong, and neither does Lloyd. Maybe she's shy. Or maybe the princess' makeup is scary. That's probably why she's acting like this.

Then in Dead Man's Squall, we get to see the death glares thing, which Lloyd reprimands her for when they're alone. The other ninja think it's cute because it just looks like she's jealous of the attention the princess is getting. And when Lloyd tries to stand beside Harumi in the control room, hellspawn reaches for his hand. She doesn't like it when her father and the Harumi are alone in the same room and FSM does something feel off.

But fortunately, after Dread on Arrival, Lloyd finally apologizes to her for dismissing her suspicions. We get to see some father-daughter comfort after that but it's mostly hellspawn doing the comforting because her dad just got himself some trust issues and a broken heart.

"And lastly, will there ever be a situation (maybe in s16?) That suddenly golden blonde hair becomes long platinum braids, eye color becomes one she saw in the mirror every day, and even the scared look on her face became suddenly painfully familiar as harumi watched for mere seconds as the green ninja's daughter image was replaced with her younger self."

YOUR MIND. OH DAMN, WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT

To answer that one, there should be. I hate Harumi's redemption arc in crystalized but it would be nice to see this lol — especially because, now that I think of it, hellspawn does look a lot like Harumi. Even though this woman's prepared to make this girl's dad's life a living hell and throttle his midget, I can see this happening. Maybe these two could get into a situation where Harumi has to choose whether to save this child or let her die. Or maybe the Overlord needs her for something — she was created with Lloyd's Golden Power, you know. Gosh, I love this. Thanks for the idea!

Do you wish that garmadon didn't become evil?

I do, because first of all, this family definitely deserves to be happy without a baby snake's venom screwing it over — but then again, Garm not being evil would take so much away from the show and make it boring without the whole "doomed to fight your own son" thing so I guess...

It was right making him evil.

BUT SOMEBODY GIVE THIS GUY HIS HAPPINESSES PLS😭

Wilted... 👀👀👀

A.k.a an attempt at writing dysfunctional Lloyd & Misako content 🤣.

This takes place some time after Prime Empire. The ninja begin noticing that Lloyd's been acting a little off for the past few days, and he's a lot more distant than usual. Nya immediately assumes that he's hiding the fact he's sick or something but when she checks on him, she soon realizes that he isn't. Kai and Cole try talking to him as well, but Lloyd keeps assuring them that he's fine—that he's just tired and every other unbelievable excuse in the book. Jay suggests to the others that the kid might've had a secret break up that none of them know about, while Zane & Pixal decide to do some detective work.

Eventually, it spirals into Lloyd actually losing control of his powers — something that really takes the team by surprise because this hasn't happened ever since Lloyd was literally a child. (It's kind of like what happened to Nya in the beginning of Seabound, but just replace Water with Energy) That means flickering lights, breaking bulbs, exploding toasters, blowing up transformers and Lloyd himself being more exhausted than ever because most of his power is unintentionally being used in excess. It's around this time everyone realizes that there's something seriously wrong.

Of course, when they ask green bean about it, Lloyd keeps denying it and says that maybe it's because he hasn't been training with his powers that much recently. Everyone around him knows that's pure bull, because 1) how on Earth does an Elemental Master who spent years mastering their element suddenly forget how to control it, and 2) it's Lloyd talking. Even Wu's already had enough with his nephew at this point, and sternly tells him to stop playing games with the team because this was clearly serious. There's even a moment when Wu loses his patience by threatening to strip him of his element with Chronosteel if he doesn't explain at all, but Lloyd still doesn't tell him.

However, the ninja really have to do something about his powers blowing up every nearest electrical appliance so they make the decision to put a vengestone bracelet around his wrist that he himself can't remove. This pisses Lloyd off so much, but at the end of the day, it was definitely necessary. And considering that green bean's still not saying anything, it's gonna be a long time until they'll take it off because they can't solve his issue right now.

So this goes on for a while until Nya suggests something that just might work; finding Neuro. (Honestly, you would've thought this would be the first thing they would've thought off) The ninja and Wu waste no time doing this, and soon, they find out what's going on.

Needless to say, it's something that is definitely the most unexpected, but at the same time, it's not surprising.

So apparently Lloyd has some unresolved abandonment issues with Misako which have recently worsened for reasons they do not know yet. And yeah...she isn't here right now either.

Kai & the others aren't really happy with Misako after finding out about this, while Wu is kind of in denial because he thinks Misako's been quite present after reuniting with Lloyd in the museum. It takes him a while to realize that the answer is actually... no, just no.

So unbeknownst to Lloyd, the ninja & Wu start trying to get hold of Misako to get her to come back to the monastery. That's easier said than done by the way, but after a while, they manage to do it. They don't tell her about what they found out from Neuro though.

As for Lloyd, he's like really surprised that his mother finally came home after like...(2 seasons) And he's also not stupid either. They all know — that's why she's here — it's as simple as that. The ninja don't admit it when Lloyd confronts them, which frustrates him. Thankfully, Wu interrupts the argument and tells Lloyd to make the most out of what his friends have done for him by finding Misako, and leaves. Lloyd utterly hates that.

Then the next few days are literally just the ninja trying to set up Lloyd with his mother. (Imagine your friends setting you up despite your protests, but instead of a date, it's bonding time with your parent) This goes on for like multiple chapters until Lloyd's powers go back to normal, and him and Misako have a relationship as close as the one he had with Garmadon.

And that's literally the wip.

Oh this is a horrible idea

What if Kai taught Hellspawn "self-defense" or whatever these kids did to the Kalamaar cut out during the time skip?

No it's a GREAT idea.

It wouldn't happen during the time-skip though but I can see it happening throughout the time between s11 & seabound, when Lloyd isn't looking.

I just think the ninja were estranged from some point after seabound, so during the time-skip to crystalized, hellspawn didn't really see the rest while Lloyd cleaned windows.

And after finding out, Lloyd asked her to put some moves to use the next time they see Dareth. He still remembers the bruise he got when Dareth taught her one of his own.

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Hate to break it to you, but that snake is the descendant of the Great Devourer. It was nice knowing you as a hero Lloyd.

...... I come home. without a snake. and with three bites

I don't think they were bites of appreciation :( bye noodle noodle. leaving you in the woods. Going to treat this stuff now

Anyone remember this post?

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Sorry to interrupt your scrolling but hear me out; SOG season...but with Lloyd's hellspawn.

So I'm just gonna pretend the kid's kid is around 4 or 5 by the time Sons of Garmadon rolls around. And.... she's a girl — Basically Lloyd's carbon copy with pale blonde hair and red or green eyes etc. I have no idea on what Lloyd would name her, but he loves her to death, and of course, she's also got four super-powered uncles and two aunts who love spoiling her...you get what I mean.

Now back to what I was saying about SOG. So I was thinking about Lloyd junior living with him in the city during the year they're searching for Wu. And then I wondered about how she would react to...(cough, cough) a certain Jade Princess.

Long story short, she hates her. Loathes her inside out. She doesn't know why, but something really doesn't feel right with Harumi. It doesn't help much that she knows her dad is smitten with her. And then when the ninja have baby Wu on their hands, Lloyd's kid and her are best buddies, but Zane and Jay both know that actually means chaos. Then when Lloyd and Harumi get stuck together in Prime Evil's Eye, she's basically ballistic on the bounty. I hate to say this but...the ninja don't realize that she's actually right until they find out. They just think she's just upset her dad won't pay attention to her anymore because of Harumi or something. Well, it's no surprise that they'll soon feel like jerks when they realize Harumi's the Quiet One.

And here's a bit that no one asked for about Hunted. Emperor Garmadon has kind of a...soft spot for her I guess? Damn, idk how this will even fit. 😭

But just hear me out, please. What if the same soulless demon resurrected from a satanic ritual who also just recently beat the shit out of his own son, has something left in there for his grandkid?

Okay, I'm shutting up now.

Inspired by thay one MP100 post but Trans Lloyd meeting Garmadon for the first time in *checks watch* since he was a baby and Garm is like "Hello my daughter..." and Lloyd just blurts out "Dad, I'm a boy." And Garmadon, who was 1) dead 2)then stuck in the realm of madness and 3) not, like, at his peak mental state is like oh no. Did I forget my kids gender? No it's fine I can save this and just goes "I knew that."

This is adorable. ❤️

Here is a full piece to celebrate me finally watching ºNinjago: Dragons Rising.” It was really good and so far my favorite is Arin❤️

Also don’t mind the little girl in between Lloyd’s legs, that is an un-named fan daughter I got him.(he’s doing her hair for her In pigtails)

Arin: SORA HOLD HIM BACK

Sora: : I CAN’T HE’S SLIPPING-

Arin: AHHHHHHHHH-

Bb dragon: Get ‘em Ryuu! Get ‘em!

Lloyd: *Ahhh, sweet sweet chaos… how I’d missed it…*

Under the cut there is the un-blurred version’s

I’m gonna be honest with you this AU was heavily inspired by @namelysane ‘s Hellspawn au, only that my un-named hellspawn was born during the merge where all the dimensional chaos caused Lloyd’s sealed golden magic to go haywire and create the dragon baby.

The idea for this au came to me while watching dragons rising and realizing that Lloyd spend a very long time alone in the monastery after the merge (I head canon in this au that it was give or take about 7 or 6 years?)

I thought that was hella depressing to be alone for so long with zero to very little knowledge of how your friends and family are(honestly a terrifying situation)

So I gave him a daughter who he will be able to put his attention and care into, who will help fill in the void left by his /now missing/ family somewhat, to remind him to eat, bathe, and sleep, someone who can help him live in and not just survive while alone.

IDK, I might be wrong about this and it might change but this is my au canon so you have to deal with it❤️