Curate, connect, and discover
Does the fandom still remember that during episode 12 or episode 13 of Season 1, Garm was basically about to buy Traveller's Tea to go back to the Dark Realm? It was only when he saw the Great Devourer destroying the city that he decided to stay in Ninjago to help the ninja. Okay, but what if AFTER THAT he went back to Mystake and bought the tea???
Well the Mega Weapon wouldn't exist, for one — that's unless my dude decided to still take the Golden Weapons with him to do FSM-knows-what though. I just don't think he would've made the Mega Weapon. There's no Golden Peaks in the Dark Realm right?
I'm basically rambling about a Season 2 AU where instead of staying in Ninjago after defeating the Great Devourer, Garmadon went to the Dark Realm like he'd initially planned to. The ninja train Lloyd like usual, and of course — this kid just had to have ended up with double the abandonment issues. Maybe the Final Battle would have actually happened years later, since Garm wasn't in Ninjago so he didn't find the Dark Island. And yeah, the kid wouldn't have missed his childhood because no Mega Weapon = No Grundle. There's no Soto either. No Bizzaro Ninja. But there's still the Serpentine Generals and Skales to cause trouble for the season.