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The ninja ninja too often they need lives man

I can imagine Cole using his free time to do arts and crafts and just go on huge drawing sprees after not being able to draw for so long. He uses charcoal and ink the most.

Kai steals as many random clothes that no one wears or are ripped and either fixes them up with or creates the most stunning designs on them with his amazing sewing skills.

Zane has a little area in his room where he practices and sometimes even records break dancing videos for others to help learn off of. He also sometimes runs and ice cream cart in the city park and holds up a sign whilst break dancing.

Nya enjoys gardening near ponds and rivers. She enjoys making the surrounding area beautiful because then the water also looks beautiful. Whenever there’s fish there too, she starts gossiping with them.

Jay likes go visit really random and small shops that have the most weirdest and coolest and nicest stuff. Sometimes he goes to this coffee shop that sells fake skulls and cute plush cats, and then he’s at this small book store that also gives away shiny rocks. If it’s a place he can sit at he sometimes brings his laptop to start programming for a bit, making websites or games.

Lloyd likes bungee jumping and exploring really supposedly paranormal areas to see if there’s actually something going on because he is so bored. He also likes to play football with kids in the park and sometimes he lets them win, other times he holds no mercy, and other other times those kids demolish him in the game.

Pixal goes and paints her nails, but also opens up a little stall to do others nails and talk to them so she can start socialising with people other than the ninja.

Imagine how weird it was for four only children to suddenly live with the most chaotic and unruly siblings known to man.

Kai and Nya is the current gen of elemental masters stupid sibling duo, and Wu and Garmadon was every other generations.

No because imagine the way Cole, Jay and Zane probably almost had a breakdown the first time Kai and Nya had an argument.

“AT LEAST I ACTUALLY HAVE A BRAIN MR ‘whats 4x4’, DONT COME AT ME WITH THAT SHI ASS VOCABULARY.”

“OH SUREEEE MS OVERACHIEVER AT LEAST I DIDNT ALMOST PASS OUT AFTER MY FIRST ALL NIGHTER, COULD NEVERRRR BE ME.”

“GO BACK TO THE RETIREMENT HOME MR CANDY CORN TEETH.”

“DONT COME AT MY TEETH WHEN YOURE OUT HERE LOOKING LIKE EDNA MODE-”

And then they’re eating cookies as Nya asks again if Kai can finally cut her hair. You have Kai saying he can’t fix that rats nest and Nya saying it’s better than the mop on his head. Those three have never been the same.

And then Lloyd suddenly has Nya and Kai acting like the most irritating people alive after they all became siblings. Cole, Jay and Zane already suffered through those two breaking into their rooms and not leaving, their stuff disappearing, the petty arguments, the random insults, the having to split things fairly and evenly, suddenly being lovingly attacked by one of them, the random staring contests, so on. It’s Lloyd’s turn and he hates every moment of it.

Love to think it was these two’s comfortability with each other that really made them all become family when that comfort spread to all of them. They don’t understand social cues people.

You can’t tell me Kai didn’t start flying around like iron man when he first found out he could shoot fire from his feet. Just picture when tony stark was making his suits and kept flying into stuff but its Kai trying to be cool before flying headfirst into the TV.

He’s using all his upper body strength to make sure his head doesn’t go bang against the ceiling his feet really like guiding him too. He’s literally yelling ‘INCOMING!!’ Like some cartoon character and for some reason he and Jay thought it would be a genius idea if Kai and his untrained ass tried to fly with fireworks attached to him. Best part? Jay made extra sure that the strings that light them are near his feet.

A flying Kai who eventually has the time of his life and learns how to use his fire feet and a beautiful colour filled sky for Jay to show Nya and the others definitely seemed like a win win to them.

No one else did when Kai was littered in burns and Jay’s asthmatic ass was covered in ash and smoke because Kai kept flying close to the ground.

Since Jay proposed to Nya and almost accidentally accepted Kai’s (practice) proposal, that means he moved to both smith siblings. Who’s to say that since his new forbidden minifig is with Morro’s in the leaked new set, that he won’t be trying to move to both of the Wojira duo too.

And its because he also looks similar to Nya, like how Kai does.

Jay: man for some reason you look really attractive.

Morro, who looks similar to early seasons Nya: what the hell.

Bonus+

Jay: i really wanna make out with you for some reason :(

Morro: you are a MARRIED MAN.

Everyone to Kai when a video of him showering was shown to his students:

Plasma except they platonically hate each other

A few sketches i did today because I’m genuinely obsessed with this pencil brush i found its sosososkd good ots making all my sketches look sm better.

Listen i know they’re all facing the same direction but i couldn’t be bothered to go out of my comfort zone today okay

I can draw other angles they just require more brain power that i don’t have access to at the moment

TRUST ME the kai one was supposed to be sm better like with the same effort i put into my recent harumi and nya art works but then i couldn’t be bothered and then i slapped a bunch of those blending modes on Ibispaint together till it looked at least some what like fire. I probably gonna go back and make that one nicer one day. Maybe.

OHH I JUST REALISED I DREW ALL THREE GREEN NINJAS. Two being wannabes but still.

Was thinking about Skylor and i miss them and their TENSION

A sketch i did a few days ago and i can’t be bothered to finish it

bah i used a reference->

All of the ninja are workaholics and i wholeheartedly believe that if they weren’t ninjas they would work in the same office and get coffee with each other and make small talk like “ohhh yeah the game last night!” Or “ahahah yeahhhh then he said ‘ohhhh nooo i already did it!’ And so i said-”

I BELIEVE that Kai would be that one guy who everyone likes like how they say in shows.

“And then…there’s Kai Smith. Head of the department of negotiations and the most handsome and popular man here.” Shii with a scene of Kai being surrounded by coworkers.

Lloyd would be the ceos son bull crap except before he was the bratty type that demanded respect, until idk his dad died and he had to take over and got responsibilities and got all cold and shi.

Nya would be that one hard working woman who “everyone should strive to be like!” Yet she hasn’t gotten a promotion or actual acknowledgment and cusses everyone out if they do bad in their work.

Jays that weirdo in the back no one likes because he never does his work yet always is on the good side of everyone. Could probably become ceo of he tried.

Zane is the guy everyone knows could be ceo. He’s that guys everyone relies on but for some reason he has a specific club of haters (Cryptor and Mr E) who want him dead. Like genuinely dead you work in an office why do you have a knife why is there an assassin but the damn gun DOWN

Cole was like the son of a friend of the previous ceo and is like besties with Lloyd but wishes to run away and become a singer or smth.

Listen its 4am and i really needed to put office based cartoons/show stereotypes on these losers because of jay

I SWEAR TO YOU RN

if Dragons Rising season 3 doesn’t at the VERY LEAST have a scene of Kai addressing all the voice recordings Wyldfyre sent him i will SCREAM

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

Okay but imagine the Ninja’s elements were like somewhat conscious and could have a little buddy form or smth.

Like Imagine Morro with a very specific leaf always following him.

Nya having a small cloud (since some clouds are made out of water) surrounding her head.

Kai having one piece of his bangs on fire at the tip, and the fire never spreading or burning his hair off.

Zane with a thin layer of ice around his neck. Or a snowflake always chilling on his nose.

Jay having one small piece of lightning traveling across his body all the time.

Cole always has a little rock buddy on his shoulders.

Lloyd already has his powers whispering to him, alongside the whole oni dragon thing, he does not want a little guy following his around to pester him.

Kai except he adores annoying everyone.

He might not be the oldest, but he is the only one who is an older brother (Zane’s possible family not included)

He adores walking into Nya’s room and not leaving even when she starts getting angry. He’ll be standing there, poking her, laying across her knowing damn well he’s heavy, snatching stuff out of her hands, using that voice people use when talking to babies, all because he got bored and loves seeing her get annoyed.

He play fights with Lloyd all the time and always is the one who initiates it. Suddenly Lloyd is in a headlock, is getting thrown onto the ground and now he has Kai sitting on his back pretending he’s sitting on a sofa. “Man, why is the sofa talking??”

He loves to go into Zane’s room and act like it’s his own when Zane isn’t there. Full on laying across the previously pristinely made bed with his stinky socks on the bed and Zane walks in and promptly has a heart attack. He then grabs Kai’s ankles and does his absolute best to drag him out. Then because Dr Julien thought it would be funny and because Kai loves using it to his advantage, he starts poking in specific areas he knows will send what Zane says is small electrical pulses to random areas that makes Zane start giggling on the ground. So, tickle wars. Zane never wins.

Kai loves to take horrible photos of Cole and then show them to the other years later. In a meet up with Vania he shows her a photo of Cole standing waist deep in a puddle of mud, his face covered in mud, staring at a now ruined cake staring up at the camera with the most heartbroken expression ever. Cole promptly began chasing Kai around the room demanding he deletes it. Kai retaliates by playing a video with Cole sobbing over a romance movie about horses.

Jay has gotten sick of telling Kai no, you can’t touch it. Kai adores annoying Jay by asking if he can have something of Jay’s, taking it even when he says no, changing things when Jay didn’t want him too, etcetera. Now Jay sees his calendar say August 5th when it’s December 26th, wondering where half his hoodies went, questioning why his pants are where is socks are supposed to be and why his socks are now covered in motor oil. Kai also enjoys asking the well known and very annoying “why?” Question continuously when Jay is working.

Lloyd is the type to always overthink every action he has ever taken, and worries if it will affect the relationship or reputation he has. It’s always clouding his mind and he can never seem to forget any mistake, any bad deed, and negative actions he might done (or perceived to have done) and it always weighs him down. Lloyd has always been weak to his mind, and his mind affects his heart, so can you really blame him for feeling like he’s about to throw up and cry whenever he is near the person he has ‘wronged’?

Zane can never look at his body the same anymore. He remembers clear skin, smooth and soft that children enjoyed to hold hands with and elders teased him about. He remembers rusty old metal clinging to him as old as his existence, despite him mind and soul being much younger. Even when the skin peeled off to reveal said metal, that was still his body. It was his, and nothing can replace that. Yet as he keeps being destroyed, tampered with, hurt, and killed, his body is rebuilt over and over again. It is no longer his own body he stared at in the mirror, but a shell that his soul is forever stuck in. This is not his body. His arms were not that long, his hair was not that sleek, his skin not so shiny, and his mouth, so hard to move some days that he just wishes to sit in silence in front of a mirror, looking at everything wrong.

Nya has to be useful. If she is not someone others can use, others can depend and rely on, then what is she other than useless? She has to be good at what she does, she has to protect those who have always protected her, she must always stand tall and sure, even when she wants to wallow away in her brothers-mothers-fathers-lovers-arms. She cannot let her withering thoughts and weakened heart hold her hostage. And as she tries to escape from what she believes will make her useless, she falls deeper in to her insecurities, the shackles she has had on since young growing tighter.

Cole no longer wants to be someone seen. He feels the eyes of others digging into his skin as they wait for his wise words of wisdom, waiting for him to help, to always be a rock when he was always a pebble crumbling from the splashes of responsibility, of expectations warring their way through him. He wants to be free as a bird from the weighing eyes on his back.

Kai cannot live as his own person. He is not just ‘Kai’ but he is ‘Nya’ when he is protective. He is ‘Lloyd’ when he is fighting. He is ‘Cole’ when he is planning. He is ‘Zane’ when he is comforting. He is ‘Jay’ when he is talking. He is ‘Wu’ when he is teaching. He is ‘Garmadon’ when he is tired in grief. He is ‘Misako’ when he must find a way to fix everything. He is ‘Skylor’ when he teases. He is his parent’s child when he looks in the mirror and speaks with his voice. Kai is not just Kai. Kai is everyone he has ever met and cared for. And Kai’s worth is not in how he lives, but in how he sacrifices and changes. Kai is not a whole of who he once was anymore, and Kai cannot see his own worth when everyone else around him is so much more worthy then he has ever been. Kai will always sacrifice, over and over again, whether it be his life or a loved ones, whether it be something he wants or something he needs. He is more dependent than ever and cannot fix such an addicting emotion after being independent for so long.

Jay must always keep himself in check, making sure he is playing his part perfectly. He cannot make a mistake, he cannot be a shadow and he cannot be in the centre stage. He must be in the middle as he plays his role of something he isn’t. He is scared to be insignificant yet the eyes of judgement digging into him terrify him like nothing else. It scares him to think that one fatal mistake can ruin it all for him, set him back years of effort and of work of pretending to be someone he isn’t.

Bah i got lazy for a few but this is all i can throw at you lot for now

Do you think Kai’s room is filled with random flammable spray bottles or do you think the ninja have to hide them away from him so the monastery doesn’t go kaboom again

Its 8(almost 9) am and I’m now going to sleep, just wished to tell you all one simple thing before i do:

Kai smith would’ve been the sh*ttiest green ninja ever.

-jay walker.

I have a small AU where on the Day of the Departed some souls are able to go down to Ninjago to see their loved ones.

(Such as souls who have recently died, souls who are remembered, or souls who are trusted enough to go down (when a dangerous soul is one of the first two they either are not allowed to go down or must travel down with a ‘Guardian’ such as Garmadon with Morro (yes this is a Morro AU are you actually surprised)))

So imagine how Cole feels when years down the pipe line something triggers his previous ghostly-ness (maybe evil Garms resurrection) and he sees Morro and Garmadon bickering near a Lloyd, Cryptor making fun of Zane and Pixal, Dr Julien admiring all the changes that has occurred, his mom admiring how big he’s gotten, and the damn First spinjitzu master snorting at Wu and (evil) Garmadon bickering.

No Kai he’s not hallucinating Harumi’s birth parents and adopted parents hovering over her what the hell.

Imagine how baffled he would be when he sees some random blonde woman and a guy who looks way too familiar babying a Jay who has no idea why Cole both looks traumatised and amused when looking at him.