Knuckles Was Always There To Protect Them

ao3 turns 15 today

reblog if youre older than ao3

(there's a lot of people asking about this, but the legal age to use social media is 13, except in few countries. so yes, there are people here under 15)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40253781/chapters/166907605

Spark 2 Flame & Trickle 2 Ocean update!

summary: Kai makes a decision. Nya starts to…notice some things.

Excuse me while I forever gush over this wonderful family and their serotonin filled wholesomeness

Next chapter of Miwa AU is out!

Characters' handwriting in rise (in episode order)!

"Mystic mayhem". Splinter's handwriting is very unique and cool! Love how angular it is, his "o"s are more like triangles

"Origami Tsunami". It's not shown who wrote these signs (multiple turtles?). We see mikey put the "paper on sale" sign up but we don't see him write it. However, after gathering all the samples of the turtles' handwriting, i couldn't find one of leo's and this sloppiness doesn't quite match donnie's, raph's or mikey's, so i'm inclined to say this is leo's handwriting

"Shell in a Cell". Donnie's signature. Donnie writes in cursive in "origami tsunami" too

"Stuck on you". Raph's consistently shown to write in all caps. Also he wrote this on his right palm. Is raph left handed? But! In "pizza puffs" raph writes with his right hand. Maybe raph's ambidextrous orrrrr the artists just forgot

"Pizza Pit". Mikey's handwriting. His letters are offset. How interesting! Mikey writes in all caps in "bullhop" but a bit neater

"Warren & hypno, sitting in a tree". I LOVE that we can see this evolution of april's handwriting through the years, or at least her signature, from elementary school to highschool. I also love that we see her without her jacket

This list of shown handwriting is far from comprehensive, unfortunately, but handwriting is a great opportunity for characterization that i think's often overlooked. Idk if the crew sat down and chose unique handwriting styles for each character but that'd be cool if they did! I noticed most of the handwriting in rise is all caps across characters

its been leo lately

THIS

EVERYTHING OP JUST SAID

THIS IS WHY I LOVE NINJAGO

THIS IS WHY I LOVE KAI

THE ULTIMATE BIG BROTHER

Can I just say something I really appreciate about Ninjago?

I really, really appreciate that they didn’t fall into the “Kai being overprotective of Nya’s love life” trap.

Like he’s an older brother who has one of his most important traits being his protectiveness. Hell, he joins the team to rescue/protect Nya. It would’ve been so easy for the Ninjago crew to default to that trope.

But no, Kai is completely supportive of Jaya—in fact he’s one of their biggest supporters. He literally helps Jay practice asking Nya to be his yang. He’s genuinely happy for one of his closest friends and his little sister. And I just think that’s a nice subversion, and it’s great they didn’t make Kai an overbearing, overprotective big brother.

Especially after the Samurai X reveal, Kai recognizes Nya can handle herself, and I like that he never oversteps into her love life.

I honestly love to see it.

shadow gets adopted into the wachowski family and becomes the resident listener in a family that’s full of yappers send tweet

“because we’re heroes”

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