With the fact that both Jay and Nya have said that without each other, the team is falling apart, i would like to say how the ninja don’t realise how much the actually depend on one another. They’re like a well oiled machine, and we all know that when one part is missing, the whole thing falls apart.
Without Zane (in the tournament) they were all apart and away from each other for possibly a year because it didn’t feel right to be together yet not be whole. During the Ice Emperor situation, each Ninja fell into hard insecurities and grief and the only thing that really kept them going was the idea that they could save Zane.
Similarly to Zane, when Nya merged either the ocean, the whole team fell apart for up to a year because again, it felt wrong to not be whole.
When Cole ‘died’ they quickly split apart across the bounty in grief. If they weren’t in a situation of possible doom at that moment they would’ve absolutely split across Ninjago instead with the excuse of each of them needing space.
When Lloyd ‘died’ the ninja quickly scrambled to find a way to bring him back, yet they were also constantly disagreeing and already falling apart without Lloyd to keep them calm. I mean they literally started arguing with his corpse laid in front of them.
Based on Wyldfyre’s voice recordings the ninja were handling Kai’ss loss HORRIBLY, what with each of them feeling guilt at not having done enough or barely keeping themselves together. I think the only reason they were able to was because before this they were split apart for so long, were still not fully back together again in the first place, and now had kids to look after.
And now we have Jay, who is a mess. Can’t speak much on his situation since i haven’t watched all of Dragons Rising but it obvious quite a few of them are struggling with dealing with Jay being someone they must fight now.
Over all, whilst it has mellowed out and isn’t as strong as it was before, the ninja depend on each other so much as a unit that when one person is their already messed up family falls, they fall too. Yet they all fall in different directions, unable to collide back together until that one person comes back. They so wholeheartedly love each other it’s actually so sad. They all have been with each other for so long that they can’t imagine a life that is complete without such an important person. It’s like the second they all met things just clicked for them. They knew they would fight and die together. And only ever together would they be happy.
Man i love them i love how much they love each other their so found family iguhajsheheh