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#and by god that’s what makes Garmadon so great

frostystorm12 · 2 months

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Ethereal AU ~ Lloyd

oh god the quality is bothering me so much

this is quite funny to me when people say these Ninjago characters are like their OCs- well, let me go on a tangent. Lloyd (Arnau) is pretty much my oc LMAO

I was gonna go into my corruption AU, which slides right into my Ethereal AU. So for the full picture, let me start with this. A good person to start explaining with is Lloyd!

So Lloyd's real name is "Arnau". It's the biological name of his elemental soul. In this universe, all fields of nature can reincarnate - so every original Elemental Master is the embodiment of their natural element. Unlike the others, Lloyd's always been called by this name, Arnau, as it became his legal name because Wu told Misako about it. (These biological names are also used by the ninja during missions, but it is seen as disrespectful to use in other regards.)

These names help the ninja connect with their elements.

Garmadon and Wu are embodiments, deities of Darkness and Light. They have no parents in this AU, and aren't biological brothers, though they see each other as such. Garmadon evolved from the Oni realm, while Wu evolved from the Dragon realm. They were adopted by the FSM.

So technically, Lloyd was born half-human and half-oni, though, to protect Lloyd from Corruption, Wu used his powers to give a part of himself to Lloyd, giving him Dragon blood.

Niko is just Lloyd's pet raccoon, lol. He found him in the jungle. (A not-so-great place to find a raccoon.)

ANOTHER MAJOR THING FOR THIS AU: Lloyd never aged from that potion. He is canonically a year younger than Nya, and three years younger than the rest of the Ninja. When releasing the Serpentine, Lloyd was old enough to know what he was doing, but too young to understand the consequences of his actions - hence making him a redeemed-ish Anti-Hero?

Despite this, the ninja still see Lloyd as their little brother :)

#ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago fanart #frostydraws #ninjago lloyd #ninjago au #ninjago headcanons #lloyd garmadon #ninjago corruption au #ninjago ethereal au

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spicyicymeloncat · 7 months

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Um so. Idk how to format this overlord/time twins theory/rewrite at all so I’m just gonna paste my brain into tumblr

The overlord is the embodiment of evil and all things bad.

He is the series finale villain back when it was just two seasons and it makes sense that he is because he’s the evil counterpart to ninjago’s god, the fsm.

The time twins are the series finale villains when Ninjago was just gonna be 7 seasons. And it makes no sense at all other than the vague symbolism around the concept of time. But they aren’t connected to any previously established lore. They’re just guys.

But what if they were… connected?

After all the overlord has a big clock and time can certainly be a gimmick of his.

And there’s no explanation of how the overlord always comes back.

What if… time is on his side. The time twins have an infinite control of time and destiny connecting them to the overlord who represents an inevitable doom, a cycle of violence doomed to repeat itself.

More on the time twins, what if they were always present in the series, due to their ability to time travel they are always setting up some key plot point, like they may have spread tales of the golden master to the serpentine, created the celestial clock, nudged Chen in the right direction, lead Nadakhan to the realm crystal.

What if they were there, always in the background? They are after all, currently lost in time. It might not even be the versions of them we know, placing the pieces. It could be them from a far distant and desolate future, having seen a world under the overlord’s rule, where they reign, and as the hands of time, the hands of the overlord itself, it’s their duty to see that destiny take place.

It also links to my favourite rewrite idea for season 7, where a lot more time travel takes place and the ninja travel to all sorts of different time zones, and Lloyd ends up at the day of the great devourer’s attack on Ninjago city. A child meets him only to watch him disappear through a time portal, abandoning her as her family is killed in the attack.

This child is Harumi and this is why she hates the green ninja specifically. She goes on to resurrect Garmadon, only to die and fall victim to the manipulation of the overlord. And the portal that was opened was of course the work of the time twins, using Harumi as merely a cog in their grand design to bring the overlord back.

I don’t know what the hands of time are to the overlord, maybe they’re just guys who decided they want to work for the overlord and the overlord gave them powers, or maybe the overlord created them as an extension of himself. Maybe they were the ones to give time it’s name.

The overlord is a looming presence of darkness upon Ninjago but he does not have much presence from beyond the grave, and instead relies on the slow dread of the passage of time to sprinkle seeds of doubt.

#also something something the time twins represent wanting to stick to destiny #and since HoT is very kai focused they are foils as kai has to learn to choose his own destiny rather than the destiny laid out for him #(or not for him)#i felt the urge to write this because of that Harumi post I made #Harumi is a pivotal pawn in all this #idk I think the overlord and the time twins are both villains that should have more significance but are kinda just slapped in there for the #the vibes #ninjago #ninjago overlord #Ninjago Krux #ninjago acronix #Ninjago harumi #Ninjago rewrite #probably

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sunflowerandstrawberryspice · 6 months

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Morro: The fandoms favorite ghost

Look what I have for y'all! I heard you liked feral ghost men who are glorified rats? Whelp I've got one for you!

[Before we begin remember this is all for the funsies so be nice]

But in all seriousness I do have many opinions about Morro and his impact on the show and ESPECIALLY on Wu as a character and how we view him. Because yes I do have an English teacher essay for everything lol, anyway moving on.

So Morro is such a complicated character because Young!Morro is very tragic: An orphan who was taken in by a son of this worlds version of GOD and told he was special, shows great promise and potential training his entire childhood for a roll he's been told he's made to fit. Finally the day comes that he's meant to assume his destiny and... nothing, everything he'd ever done and worked for had been for nothing. He's told everything he's ever been told and ever done has been for nothing. And so obviously he doesn't accept this fact doing more and more dangerous stuff until eventually it ends up getting him killed. Which is pretty depressing seeing Morro seemingly wasn't that old when he died.

We obviously know all the stuff he did when he was a ghost, he was a fucking asshole AT BEST a monster at worst. I am NOT excusing the shit he did or saying it was good it wasn't it was reprehensible and awful, but I do kind of understand the mentality he had. He see's this random ass kid get EVERYTHING he ever wanted without trying (we know Lloyd didn't get it without hardship but Morro doesn't) so it's not much of a surprise that he hates Lloyd. Morro is also a pretty good foil/parallel to Lloyd, both were abandoned at a young age before being taken in (by the same person mind you), both trained as children and "lost their childhood" in different ways and both were told they were destined to be the green ninja (only for one that you know wasn't true)

And it's really interesting to me that in the end Morro's death (idk what else to call it) was pretty much a suicide. He gave up. "You can only save those who want to be saved." Were his exact words which are pretty depressing, it's his admittance of final defeat. It's a pretty fitting end for his character, one steeped in a mixture of evil and bad circumstance, after all Wu calls Morro his greatest mistake for a reason.

Honestly Morro is a character I have such mixed feelings on, like i hate him but I also feel kinda bad for him. He make Wu a more interesting character cause we get to see the mistakes Wu makes, which in my opinion very much so mirror the FSM's mistakes with raising Wu and Garmadon. Honestly Wu and Morro are kind of an example of a cycle of bad parenting tbh. Wu was raised with high expectations and still never got his fathers approval (see Spinjitzu Brothers) and so when he was trying to raise Morro he set a high expectation (being the green ninja) and just like Wu Morro also tried to reach this goal he would never be able to achieve. I do NOT think Wu did this intentionally, but ingrained patterns and all that stuff.

But what do I know. I just find these characters interesting and decided to throw my 2 cents in. I hope y'all are doing well, I hope yo have a great day/night! PEACE OUT!

#ninjago #ninjutsu #spinjitzu #ninjago secrets of the forbidden spinjitzu #wu ninjago #ninjago morro #morro wu #ninjago possession #ninjago season 5 #possesion #lloyd garmadon #garmadon ninjago #ninjago fsm #first spinjitzu master #toxic cycle #I'm labeling this as #familial trauma #cause I don't know what else to put

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jamisafan · 7 months

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Okay, it's time for my thoughts on Dragons Rising part 2. (This is super long by the way.)

(Spoilers below the cut.)

I'll get into my Cole rant in a bit because, oh boy, do I have things to say. But Soras story feels too important to leave for last.

Sora's story can reach out to so many different people that have issues with their parents and that kids really don't owe their parents anything. Sora is one of THE BEST role models I've ever seen in a cartoon. The fact that all her problems still weren't solved when she cut contact with her parents is realistic. The fact that they didn't give her parents a redemption was satisfying. And her just actually coming to the conclusion that she doesn't need to have her biological family in her life was beautiful. You are able to choose your family, and Sora showed that perfectly. Her character is amazing, and I don't even have the words to describe how absolutely beautiful her character is. She is perfect, and it makes me all emotional and stuff. I love her 😢

Arin has so much potential, and I think his whole spinjitzu thing is super important and cool. I think he'll get the MK treatment, maybe get thrown into an identity crisis, the works. Maybe he has a whole chosen one thing like Lloyd, who knows. All I know is that I love him and his little fan boy heart.

Kai and WyldFyres relationship is so great. I love seeing how far Kai has come and him referencing Nya becoming the ocean and how Master Wu helped him work through his emotions. This was exactly what the show needed. And having Kai be WyldFyres mentor was a fantastic choice because they are seriously alike in many way. Their struggle with not being patient and their hot headedness just gives me life. Kai has a freaking kid, and there little reunion hug was so freaking cute oh my god!!!!

I felt like Nya should have had a worse reaction to seeing a Djinn again. She was definitely traumatized from that, but maybe this was also some good closure for her, seeing that not all Djinn are evil creepy monsters. Nya and Soras' relationship is cool, too

Zane needs some more done with him. I need them to address the weird egg thing he hatched out of, but hopefully, it will be resolved soon. I think Zane got pushed to the side a bit, and it felt like he was jumping everywhere (like, he was just, at the administration? I know he got in trouble for portal stuff, but..... yeah). I'm sure he will get something eventually.

Lloyd is someone I never know how to talk about because he's just such a main character that it makes him less interesting to me. Don't get me wrong I love him, and him working on becoming the master of the monetary is cool and stuff. But he still needs a form of closure from past seasons, especially with garmadon. Unless they never bring him back then that's chill. I love garmadon but he always causes so much problems. Lloyd is learning how to be a good teacher though and that's really sweet.

Jay is a sassy shit Manger, and I love it. Can't wait to see more with him.

And Cole........ Cole is perfect in everything single way, and no one can deny that. Like actually, if someone doesn't like Cole from Ninjago, that's a red flag. He ended up in the place of lost things. THATS PERFECT FOR HIM! Cole Who almost got forgotten by everyone he loves, who literally ran away from home. It's perfect! He's perfect! He's the best! I love him! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! And now he's going on his own mission to follow Master Wus voice and figure out why the earth is screaming?!?!? God I love him. He's the best 😢

Also, I've had thoughts and ideas about Cole hearing the earth screaming, and I'm SUPER curious to see what that means.

Okay, now that I've ranted about how perfect Cole is...... I need to say it.

Them.

I already made a post about this but I'll never get over how perfect they are. It felt borderline canon.

People are talking about how Cole just straight up left him to chase master Wu, but I'm positive that Cole either talked to the others beforehand or right after leaving Nya about it. About how he would totally come back for them and figure out some way for them to leave the land of lost things and get in all those good tearful see you laters.

If Geo doesn't come back I will fucking riot. And I'm not one to swear super often. Mostly for dramatic effect. So you know I'm serious. Geo and Cole left me feeling high for days. I need them in my life. They can't just introduce new characters and then LEAVE THEM!!?!?!!?!!!?

Anyways, my full ale thought on Dragons Rising.

It was good. It felt risky at first to add all these new characters, especially main ones but they did it perfectly. I love me a well paced story that doesn't feel like it's going to fast or slow. Beatrix's story is very interesting but I'm still super excited to see what happens with my boy Lord Ras. He's just so cool and evil and stuff :D I wonder who his boss is?

The show felt somewhat nostalgic but also super fresh and the writing was good.

Also

Does anyone know what this symbol is? I can't tell if this is new or if I'm just stupid and it's been there before. Sorry if it's a dumb question.

#ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #dragons rising #i could spend time tagging every character i talked about #but im lazy #ninjago spoilers #dragons rising spoilers

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amigac0debasic13 · 4 months

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hey guys. Do u even care about what I have to say. Thats right baby. It’s a mini rant. Young Garmadon edition and the horrors of white boy Star Wars core.

Okay so. Erm.? I don’t like garmadons child design in the show. This guy is way too twink coded as a young adult for me and that’s wrong. He’s a beast. And also))??? Lots of paragraphs on Wu depression. Thats the synopsis now look below for further horro r

Hello??? Dang man tatooine is calling ???? IM. SORRY THAT WAS MEAN. I’ve always felt like the spinjitzu bro books did a better job with his design, but brunette just isn’t it. Black hair. Right now. Make it naturally white but also make him fucjing stupid so he dyes it with Ink because he doesn’t want whit4 hair cause he’s DUMB.

Look alive. Make him wear a ponytail and give him the black dyed hair COWARDS.

Anyways that parts over. Now I’m going to talk about my issues with how people draw him in his human form a lot.

I feel like the twinkification is real. All human designs I’ve found of Garmadon that don’t use legos ambiguous yellow color are pasty white and this madness must STOP!!! I think if u wanna make him a cracker it’s ok. It’s fine. But it is a little boring seeing the same designs scatter my Garmadon picture wall(/J I DONT HABE THA)

‘And also while I’m at it, I’m gonna be real and say that any design for wu in the series is pretty good. Still mad he looks like a normal guy. TBH. Many fan designs give him more dragon like traits, and I think that’s so cool, but I’ve always had a specific idea I’ve never seen executed personally. I think Wu would chop his horns off if he had them permanently out.

Wu clearly isn’t a fan of just showing off his dragon or Oni traits. He straight up doesn’t do it, even as a kid (he should honestly be shown with those traits cause he really doesn’t give a fuck as a child) and I believe that his tormented old man position (see the many drawings and tweets from the shows authors and writers) he wouldn’t exactly be drawn to having his traits on display. The completely reasonable solution? Scar himself permanently by wacking them off with a blade. Sounds like something he’d do in young adult hood. His horns being out insinuates he can’t just shapeshift to make them go away, so erm!! Pretty smart solution ngl!!!

‘’Now it’s time for Wu trauma oooooooo!!!!! Oh my god part of his soul is GONE????

In one of the spinjitzu bro books Wus soul is forced into a little puppet. At the end of the book, the puppet is still alive and moving. When the ninja ask to see a puppet show before Wu recounts this, he has a physical reaction.

so. Wu is having a great time. Also, in one of the comics (forgot the name and I can’t for the LIFE OF ME remember where I read this) he confronts. Basically the embodiment of his fears. Basically he doesn’t want to become like his SHIT father who is literally god. leave him ALONE.

So. Uhm. In conclusion. Whirlwind (wus canon nickname) and Softie (Garmadons canon nickname) need to get their shit together <33333333

#ninjago #lego ninjago #my rants #rant post #wu ninjago #ninjago garmadon #lord garmadon #young garmadon #very specific tag but ok #who made that #young wu #THERES ANOTHER???

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xdxenon · 6 months

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Harumi Doesn't Deserve Shit (A Harumi Rant)

So I was rewatching Sons of Garmadon and once again realized just how much I despise Harumi. I'm all for the "villain turns out to have justification for all of the bad things they did and they don't deserve what happened to them' trope. Morro and Tai Lung come to mind instantly, along with Fizz from Helluvaboss and it's newer episodes. I love finding out why a villain is the way they are and finding out they're not actually so bad, and that they're loving characters to. But Harumi doesn't even begin to qualify for that category.

She lost her parents to the great devourer and blames Lloyd. But it's NOT EVEN HIS FAULT. Lloyd didn't unleash the great devourer, he tried to kill it, they sent Garmadon to destroy it, and he lost his dad in the process. And because he was an indirect reason for the Devourer being unleashed, she decides to

dedicate the rest of her childhood and adult life to getting revenge on the grandson of God for being an indirect cause to the death of her parents when he was like 8.

Emotionally blackmail and use him in order to gain his trust, break his heart and kill his entire found family.

Kidnap him to watch his mother drown and evil father resurrected from the dead.

Make him fight his own father who has disowned him, causing even more emotional abuse and trauma.

Switch teams multiple times, still using his emotional attachment to her in order to confuse him.

Blaming Lloyd even though he tried to save her telling him "you didn't look hard enough.

This is the most entitled bitch I have ever seen in my entire life. There is no saving grace for her and anyone that likes her is either psycho or lying. (llorumi shippers are almost as bad as green flame imo) She had no reason to go after him, absolutely none, and I'm glad that when Lloyd told the ninja she was on their side, none of them trusted her. Because Lloyd, despite all that she put him through, everything she did to him physically, mentally, and emotionally, he still wanted to save her. He still wanted for her to become good because he still loves her.

#ninjago #ninjago headcanons #lego ninjago #ninjago harumi #fuck harumi #poor lloyd #ninjago lloyd

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pepmint-art · 7 months

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May we have some badguyshipping headcanons? And maybe learn Wu’s reaction to seeing his son date former(current??) bad guys?

Wait… Did Harumi try pulling what she did to Lloyd on canon on Morro? And she dragged Echo along with her?

IT'S LORE TIME, BABY~

ninjas' team and lloyd (who did not want to be there) met harumi (and echo) in line with canonical events and it was a love at first sight, but only for morro. harumi had other plans, in which she ignors and doesn't acknowledge his existence while having a typical teen girls' crush on older guy who, reasonably had many reasons to try and run away from them. and we goes like that till crystalized.

and to explain a little more, harumi doesn't hate lloyd in here. while the team and garmadon were dealing with great devourer in season 2, lloyd knew he couldn't do much as he's not a fighter, he can't use his powers intentionally (he does it accidentaly in the end but still), he would go for a sure death, so he did all he could and helped escorting people out from the danger zone and he actually rescued little harumi. garmadon was a hero, he saved ninjago, but lloyd was her hero. she litteraly wanted to reunite son and father in season 8, but it all went wrong and we have exactly same shit going on as in oni trilogy.

harumi is obsessed with lloyd in the end understanding that he's old and she's a god damn weirdo (girl, leave him alone, he has a puppy and boyfriend and HE'S TOO OLD FOR YOU), morro has multiply mental breakdowns and grows up to accept that he can't make someone love him, love will come by itself to him (give me cute cousins moment with lloyd being intelligent for the first time in his life), and echo is happy to be there (he deserves all the hugs)

and than, no one knows why or how, things happened AND BOOM they're in love.

for the headcanons:

-their love aroused over my chemical romance and my little pony

that's all. the rest is just FACTS and facts only.

echo is a true romantic. for him love always wins. for him, there always his partners to love. he's neat.

also them getting to have their teen years as a couple is what i live for. even if only a little, it still works. were they drinking heavily? no, it was a capri sun. were they smoking? no, they're too cool and poor for this. were they doing crack. yes.

morro is bi. bi himself. and two bad bitches he pulled out by being autistic.

like, rumi and echo are walking fushion icons, baddest of the bad bitches, they slay while doing crimes, charming and deadly beautiful/handsome

and wu is surprisingly supportive :)

and really competitive with misako. they hate each other so badly. trans woman that destroyed his (also trans, but he forgets about this. he actually refused to remember he ever had a sister in his life, because he didn't, it never happened, life is a simulation and everyone made it up) brother (not really, actually made him really happy) and garmadon was never the same

oh, and one more thing

in dragons rising, they are divorced

I DON'T BELIEVE IN THE HAPPY ENDING FOR THEM

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blackypanther9 · 9 months

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Uncle x Papa – Nephew!Kid!Lloyd x Adopted Son!Morro x Father!Uncle!Male!Reader (Ninjago)

Part 2

WARNING!: Violence, mention of close to death experience, snake attack, accusation of being an abuser x sexual harrasser, fighting AND MORE ! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!

Morro stared at Wu’s back with no emotion. He just made Lloyd lose his Dad. He knew that Wu caused Garmadon to be poisoned in the first place. The Great Devourer. Now Lloyd is Father and Motherless. And they had no idea where Lloyd was.

-Two years later-

M/n was losing hope. He looked for Lloyd everywhere. He doubted that Garmadon sent Lloyd to Jamanakai. He needed a way into the Underworld. To his luck, he soon enough found a way.

“Morro, pack your sword. I found a way to the Underworld. Let us find out where Lloyd is at.”, M/n said one day.

Morro was fast as lightning and snatched his sword. M/n teleported to a camp with Skeletons and he looked at Samukai.

“So ? Where is Garmadon ?”

A shadow appeared of him and it was in shock.

“M/n ? Morro ?”

“Garmadon ? We need to talk in person.”, M/n said.

“Bring them to me.”, Garmadon demanded.

Samukai nodded and Morro and M/n jumped onto their vehicle. They sped up and soon vanished in a portal. The Skeletons lead them to Garmadon and he just stood there.

“Oh little Brother... Look what happened to you. Are you okay ?”, M/n asked softly.

“I am just fine. How are you two and Lloyd ?”, Garmadon asked.

Morro looked at Garmadon worried.

“We are worried sick. We searched all over Ninjago, but we haven’t found Lloyd anywhere. Where did you sent him to ?”

Garmadon froze in place.

“I...I sent him into the boarding school near Ninjago City. Darkley's Boarding School for Bad Boys.”

M/n nodded.

“I will search him there then.”

“Me too !”, Morro insisted.

M/n nodded his head.

“You too.”

“You have been looking for two years and didn’t look there ?”, Garmadon asked.

“We didn’t have any clues where you left him. I thought he was at a Kita or at one of the places we hid as kids at, but nothing. Then I looked around everywhere, but not inside SCHOOLS. God, Garmadon, Lloyd was FOUR. A FOUR year old doesn’t GO to SCHOOL. Especially NOT a BOARDING SCHOOL.”

“You have a point...”, Garmadon muttered.

“Are you sure you are okay ?”, Morro asked.

“I miss my child, but that is all.”

Morro looked at him saddened.

“I bet he misses you too.”, he replied.

Garmadon looked at Morro.

“Do me a favor, Morro.”

He looked at the banished man.

“Protect Lloyd at all costs, for me, okay ?”

Morro gave Garmadon a determined look.

“I will. I promise.”, he replied.

“Thank you.”

He looked at M/n next and hugged Morro and M/n tightly.

“Find my Son and keep him save, please.”, Garmadon whispered.

“We won’t let you down.”, M/n replied.

-Time skip-

After a while they left and instantly went to the boarding school. They said that they were about to kick Lloyd out, for not being bad enough.

As the Director led them to Lloyd’s room, Morro saw him getting picked on by two other boys. He ran over and pushed them away from Lloyd.

“Oww ! Hey ! Do you know who I am ?!”, one of the two boys yelled at Morro.

“I don’t know you, nor do I CARE ! Leave my COUSIN alone, you little crybaby ! If you wanna feel better about yourself, pick on yourself, Coward !”, Morro yelled.

The two boys got up and saw Morro, shielding Lloyd from them. He looked at Morro in awe. He remembered Morro, even if it was just barely.

The boys laughed.

“That Baby is YOUR cousin ?! Man I would throw him out of my Family tree !”, the other boy said, laughing.

Lloyd looked away, saddened and hurt. Morro was angry. He punched the second boy hard in the face, breaking his nose and the other boy he kicked down. They were both crying and looking at him scared.

Morro scoffed.

“You weeping little shits, DARE to make fun of my cousin, even though you are fucking Crybabies ? Get out of my sight, before I make you wish you were never born.”, Morro threatened.

They quickly got up and ran for their lives. Morro turned around and looked at Lloyd, worried.

“Are you okay ? God, finally we found you. Who else bullied you ? Do I need to kick someone else’s ass ?”, Morro fretted over Lloyd, checking on him.

M/n glared at the Director.

“You better keep these brats under control, before I file a lawsuit on your asses.”, M/n threatened.

“I can file one against your child, Sir ! He hurt two children !”

“And they hurt MY NEPHEW ! And you didn’t do SHIT about it ! File a report, I will file multiple against your Bitch ass !”, M/n yelled at him angered.

The Director shut up instantly. M/n meant business and it scared the man.

Morro smirked at the Director darkly and stuck his tongue out. After that they collected Lloyd’s belongings and left. They went back home and M/n instantly gave Lloyd his own room.

“Are you sure you are okay, Lloyd ?”, the 15 year old Teenager asked.

“Now I am.”, he replied softly.

Then he hugged Morro tightly. He hugged him back.

“Thank you, for helping me and getting me out of there.”

“Of course. We were looking for you everywhere.”

“Did anyone visit you, Lloyd ?”, M/n asked.

“No... Uncle Wu didn’t. Mom didn’t and Dad didn’t either...”, he replied saddened.

“Well, your Dad is banished to another place, right now. He is unable to come visit you. But I am sure he will send you cards.”

Morro was angered that Wu didn’t even bother to visit Lloyd. What a prick !

-A few months later-

Morro was running after Lloyd in Jamanakai.

“Lloyd, no more troubles ! M/n will kill us !”

“Just one last time. I want some Candy...”

“Lloyd, just ask M/n, he will give you some money to buy sweets.”

“I know I won’t get any, but at least I’ll have fun, right ? It’s just gonna be a joke. Also, you KNOW that I wanna be just like my Dad, one day, Morro.”

Morro grimaced at that. Garmadon doesn’t want that for him though. Before Morro could say anything, he started to scare everyone and demanded for sweets. All he got was vegetables and fruit. Morro chuckled, caught an apple and took a bite from it, grinning at Lloyd.

“I hate vegetables !”, Lloyd complained, but almost smiled in the middle of it.

Sure he hated vegetables and fruit, but he expected something like this and it was fun to Lloyd. Yes his clothes will later be dirty, but he WANTED this. That was why Morro didn’t step in.

Morro chuckled and took another bite from his apple. He even looked at the salesman who threw it and gave him two yen for it, which the man thanked him for. (I don’t know how yen work, I just go with 1 yen = 1$.)

Morro got unnerved though, as he saw four colorful, hooded dressed people pick Lloyd up and telling them that nothing was there to see. He followed them and watched what they did. Then he saw that they hung him up in a Dragons maw of a roof, he got angry.

He attacked the Ninja and then saw the weapons. Golden Weapons.

‘Wu !’, Morro thought with distaste.

They had no chance to react and were on the floor.

“Who do you think you are, to do that to a CHILD ?! He doesn’t KNOW better ! And what are you supposed to be, huh ?! Bullies ?!”, Morro yelled angered at the men.

With Wind he got Lloyd down gently, who was actually sad and felt humiliated.

“Then teach him how to behave !”, the one dressed in red yelled like a snotty kid.

“Were you NEVER children ?! He was just fooling around, like damn ! He is a KID !”, Morro yelled.

“He is the SON of EVIL itself !”, the red dressed man yelled.

“YOUR SENSEI IS THE EVIL ITSELF ! HE ALMOST KILLED ME ! HE NEVER VISITED HIS OWN NEPHEW ! HE ABANDONED BOTH HIS OWN BROTHERS ! HE ABANDONED ME ! And what are you now supposed to be ?! The next laugh figures ?!”, Morro yelled at him angered and pissed off.

Lloyd hid behind Morro, scared.

“M-Morro ?”, Lloyd called softly.

He turned to look at Lloyd.

“What is it, Kiddo ?”, he asked, voice soft.

“C-can we just go home ? I don’t wanna play anymore...”, Lloyd asked softly, tears in his eyes.

Morro looked at him with sympathy and hugged Lloyd softly.

“Give me a second, okay ? Don’t run off.”, Morro asked.

Lloyd nodded and let go of Morro.

He used his Wind to blow the other Ninja after himself into an alley.

“How did you-?!”, the blue one wanted to ask, but Morro interrupted him.

“Lloyd was just messing around. Have you all never been a kid ? He never knew his Mom, Wu, his own Uncle, didn’t even visit him and Garmadon was the only one who cared for him, until he got banished to the Underworld. For you it might sound like some sob story of a kid, but he only had his Father to look up to. Sure he wants to be just like him, but mostly he just pulls pranks and other things. He knew he won’t get any candy, he just wanted to play. Leave a kid alone and let them be a fucking child, will you ?”, Morro said, heatedly.

They stared at him.

“We-we had no idea. Wait...Wu is his Uncle and he never visited him ?”, the black one asked.

Morro made a sour face.

“Not even once. He was on the boarding school for bad boys and we pulled him out of it, a few months ago. Everyone bullied him for not being bad enough. He lives with M/n and me now. M/n is Lloyd’s other Uncle and I am his adopted Son, which makes me Lloyd’s cousin. M/n has been pretty busy lately, to get food on the table and I am taking care of Lloyd. He barely did any damage, just messed around and tried to have some fun. I would have been more worried, if he stole items.”

“Sensei Wu never told us about a M/n, Lloyd and Morro. How do we know you are not lying ?”, the white one asked.

Morro’s face darkened.

“Mention our names and ask him about us. That you met us here. I bet he will be surprised to hear that I am still alive.”, Morro answered darkly.

“Still alive ? You mentioned he almost got you killed. Why ?”

Morro stayed silent for a while.

“It is a taboo thing to talk about in the household I live in, for Lloyd’s sake. But let us just say, Wu made me believe in something...Something I was so determined to be, that when he said I am not it...I tried to prove him wrong. I left as he continued to refuse to try and told him I will prove to him that I am worthy. I almost died in the Caves of Despair. M/n and Garmadon found me just in time, before I would have either suffocated to death or burned into my death. The exit was blocked and M/n got me out in time. Lloyd was a baby when it happened and Garmadon was still....well...Garmadon. A Father, an Uncle, a Husband and a Brother. And he was great in all of that.”

They stared at Morro, who gave an angered and betrayed smile.

“Turned out, that Garmadon and M/n were trying to find me, even though M/n doubted I was still around. It was a close call. But Sensei Wu, who had claimed that he cared for me like I was his Son ? He didn’t even BOTHER to look for me.”, Morro spat out.

They were in utter shock. Then Morro left, saying nothing else. He looked for Lloyd and he didn’t find him.

‘What is he planning now...?’

Morro looked around and suddenly...

“BOO !”, Lloyd yelled and jumped out of a corner.

Morro looked at him bored and Lloyd lost his smile.

“I didn’t scare you ?”, he asked saddened.

Morro then grabbed his heart and made a show out of it.

“Oh ! Oh my God ! How could you ?! I can’t breathe !”, Morro fake coughed and then fell to the ground.

He pretended to be dead and Lloyd giggled, until he noticed that Morro didn’t get back up.

“M-Morro ? Morro, it isn’t funny anymore ! Please wake up !”, Lloyd panicked.

Suddenly Morro snatched Lloyd, held him on top of his chest on the floor and tickled him, making the boy yelp and screech in laughter.

“Nohohoho ! Mohohohohrrhohohoho ! Ahahahaha !”, Lloyd laughed out loudly, struggling to get free.

“Never ! I will punish you with tickles !”, Morro yelled.

They both didn’t even notice that the Ninja still watched them, feeling disgusted with themselves how they treated Lloyd a few minutes ago. Lloyd laughed out a stop and Morro did stop, noticing that Lloyd couldn’t breathe.

“You good ?”

“Yes !”, Lloyd chirped.

“Still wanna go home ?”, Morro asked.

“Can we...take a walk ?”, Lloyd asked sheepishly.

“Sure. Come on, on my back you go.”, Morro said, leaning down.

Lloyd jumped onto Morro’s back and he ran away with him, making Lloyd laugh.

“Faster horsie !”, Lloyd laughed out.

Morro made noises of a horse and they left Jamanakai together.

“We were absolute assholes to a child...”, Cole said.

“He didn’t even ask for our names.”, Zane informed.

“Why would he ? He made it clear that he hated us for hurting Lloyd.”, Jay deadpanned.

Kai was silent, but he didn’t like Morro all that much. They left Jamanakai, while Morro and Lloyd walked together, Lloyd kicking stones around. Then they found the tomb of Hypnobrai and got curious.

Morro never heard of the snakes and the tombs they were locked up in. They thought they found a treasure chamber, no one else found. Maybe, if they find a Treasure in there, they can help M/n to not overwork himself anymore ! So they opened it and fell inside. Morro used the find to give Lloyd and himself a soft landing.

“It is just Ice, no Treasure...”, Lloyd said saddened.

Morro saw something in the reflection and backed away. The 15 year old had a very bad feeling about this. Lloyd was about to get hypnotized, but Morro pulled him away and they escaped the tomb. This wasn’t good...

They got in big trouble again.

-Time skip-

Morro promptly went home with Lloyd and M/n looked at the two boys in worry, as he saw Morro’s panic.

“What happened ?”, he asked.

“I...It’s all my fault, Papa ! Lloyd and I, we opened something and there were hypnotizing snakes in it ! We-we thought it was a place where a treasure was hidden away, that no one else found ! I’m so sorry !”, Morro exploded with tears running down his face.

He knew M/n will get mad. He told him many times to not do anything stupid.

M/n surprised Morro when he hugged him tightly.

“It’s okay, Morro. It’s okay... Shhh... You opened the tomb of the Hypnobrai. One of the five tombs, of the Serpentine tribes.”

“I am so sorry, Papa. I didn’t mean to. We really thought it was just a treasure, we thought maybe we can help you out that way, because you are always so busy.”, Morro explained quickly.

M/n ran his hand through Morro’s hair, something that calmed him down, M/n found out.

“It’s okay. I am not mad at you two. I didn’t tell you and they didn’t really make it obvious. Let us just hope that the tribes won’t become friends again.”

Morro and Lloyd hugged M/n, glad that he isn’t pissed off with them.

“By the way, Wu has four new students. They are big bullies. Lloyd fooled around in the village Jamanakai and they wanted to hang him up by his pants on someone’s roof.”, Morro informed.

M/n froze at that and his grip tightened on the both of them.

“Are they a danger ?”, he asked.

“No. I got them down easily.”

“Good. Then I will not have to lock you up in here, for safety reasons.”

“Can’t we make friends with the snakes ?”, Lloyd asked.

M/n looked at Lloyd sharply.

“You NEVER trust a snake, Lloyd. They always fool you. They promise to be your friend, but as soon as there is something they don’t like, they turn their back on you. NEVER EVER trust a snake, okay ? And don’t look Hypnobrais in the eyes, okay ?”, M/n asked.

Morro and Lloyd nodded their heads.

“Good. So...Lloyd, do you want some candy ? I saw that your stash was empty.”, M/n asked.

His eyes widened in wonder.

“Can we get some, Morro ? Please ?”, Lloyd asked.

Morro sighed and smiled at Lloyd.

“Fine. But remember that you will get a limit. I want to get myself some things too, is that okay, Dad ?”, Morro asked.

“What do you WANT to get, hmm ? Hopefully not some naughty comics.”, M/n said suspiciously.

Morro made a disgusted face.

“Daaaaaaaaaad ! No ! I just want to get myself a few pens, coloring pencils, notebooks and maybe one or two history books. Please ?”

“Fine, fine.”, M/n said chuckling.

He gave Morro the money and he eagerly took it. He and Lloyd got pocket money, but M/n wants them to save the money for something they really want one day and M/n can’t afford it.

“Can you also get some apples for me and a few vegetables ?”, M/n asked Morro.

“We can !”, he answered with a bright smile.

With that they went back to Jamanakai, or better...flew. Lloyd loved flying with Morro.

They got the vegetables, candy, apples and were now in the writing utensils store, as people started screaming. Morro got concerned and he put everything down on the floor.

“Watch over this, Lloyd, I will be back shortly.”, Morro said softly.

Lloyd nodded and hid with the stuff behind the shelves. Morro left the store and saw the snakes, they accidently freed. His eyes widened. He opened the shop doors again.

“Lloyd call Papa ! You, Sir, lock up your doors and windows ! Hypnobrai are slithering outside on the streets !”, Morro warned.

The man looked unimpressed, while Lloyd fumbled with the small phone he had gotten from M/n. He quickly called him. A Hypnobrai entered and the man yelled and jumped into action of shutting down everything. Morro kicked the snake out and left the shop altogether.

“MORRO, DON’T LEAVE ME !”, Lloyd yelled in fear.

Then M/n picked up.

“Lloyd what is it ?”, he asked.

“Hypnobrais in Jamanakai ! Morro is fighting them off right now ! I am in the writing utensils store ! The owner closes the shop down, please do something ! I’m scared for Morro !”, Lloyd yelled in panic with tears in his eyes.

The owner of the shop wanted to kick Lloyd out for his stunt earlier, but when he heard how scared he was, he let him stay and locked the doors instead.

“I am on my way, Lloyd. Stay in the shop, behave, stay brave and do NOT look at Hypnobrais !”

“Okay !”

Then they hung up and Lloyd just sat there, sobbing and worrying for his cousin.

-With Morro-

Morro had his eyes closed most of the time, while he fought them. He used his Element to feel any changes and to not bump into anything. He punched, kicked and sent snakes flying. Some villagers were already hypnotized, so Morro had to be careful to not hurt them.

He needed the staff. Either the staff controlled them, or it had the antidote ! He needed it !

He jumped on a roof and opened his eyes, to see that he did kick some snake ass. He saw the leader with the staff and then the colorful Ninja.

‘Them again ?’

They saw him and joined him.

“What is going on here ? Are these real snakes ?”, the black one asked.

“Oh well...Lloyd and I took a walk and we THOUGHT it was a hidden treasure place and opened it, we couldn’t close it again and now they are free. M/n never told us, so....sorry ? They just attacked the village. I think we need the staff.”

“How are we supposed to fight them, if we can’t look at them ?!”, the blue one yelled frustrated.

“Jay, calm down.”, the black one said.

“It is easy actually. Don’t look at them. Look at the floor and just until you see feet. At least that is how I learned to fight blindly.”, Morro answered.

“You THOUGHT it was a hidden treasure place ?!”, the red one yelled.

“It was badly signed to be a serpentine’s tomb ! There stood nothing about it, so what were we supposed to think ?!”, Morro argued back.

“He has a point, Kai.”, the white Ninja stated.

“Shut up, Zane !”, Kai replied.

“We can argue later, do you think you can manage ?”, Morro asked.

“Sure !”, Jay replied.

With that they jumped down, landing like fools on their asses and stomachs. Morro face palmed himself.

He watched them a few minutes, trying to fight them and they were rookies in it. Morro was amused as they ran away from them. He followed them with a cocky smirk.

As they were hidden he looked at them.

“You were saying~?”, he asked teasingly.

“Oh shut it ! You didn’t do anything !”, Kai replied.

“I kicked ass before and I was interested how you would do. But you are such bloody rookies. My god, you were worse than I was for my first training session.”, Morro replied with a smirk.

The black one still tried to recover and get air into his lungs.

“Are you okay Cole ?”

“I’m okay !”, he replied.

Then a girl appeared.

“Nya ?! What are you doing here ?!”, Kai asked.

“I wanted to go grocery shopping, if you forgot. They hypnotized everyone in the village.”, she said.

“Sexy and smart woman. I like her.”, Morro said.

She turned and looked at him.

“Who are you ?”, she asked.

“Oh, Pardon. My name is Morro. I am here with Lloyd, but he is locked inside a shop, safely.”

“Stay away from my Sister !”, Kai yelled angered.

“Your Sister ? Man she has more brain cells and skills than you then.”, Morro said bored.

“How do we heal them, smartass ?”, Kai asked angered.

“I guess the staff. Either it controls them as a whole or it has the antidote. Mix it with water, it should make a fog they need to inhale. I read about something like that in a book.”, Morro said shrugging his shoulders.

“That is right. You need the staff and put it into the water fountain ! It will let out the antidote after !”, Nya said.

They all stared at her and then at Morro, who smirked in triumph.

“This Nya girl is very smart. Why can’t you be just as smart, red head ?”

With that Morro left.

“Hey !”, Kai yelled and followed him.

The others did too, until Nya, she stayed behind, blushing at what Morro said. She felt charmed. Morro jumped from the roof and ran for the leader of the tribe, closed his eyes and used the Wind to navigate.

Soon he was behind the leader and kicked him harshly down. He fell and Morro snatched the staff, using Wind to make the others be blown against a wall. The other Ninja just watched and didn’t notice that Cole was getting hypnotized.

Morro connected the staff to the fountain and the fog rose. Many inhaled it without help and those who needed it, had help from healed villagers. Then M/n appeared out of nowhere and saw the snakes escaping.

He didn’t follow them, he looked at Morro instead.

“Morro ! Are you alright ?! Is Lloyd okay ?!”, M/n asked worried.

“Hello, Papa. I wanted to check on Lloyd right now. He is in this shop.”, Morro answered and pointed at it.

He disappeared and appeared in the shop again. He saw Lloyd there, sniffling, while the shop owner tried to cheer him up.

“Hello, Sir.”

The man looked up and saw M/n.

“Hello.”

“You can open your shop again now. The snakes are gone. Lloyd, are you okay ?”, M/n asked.

He got up and hugged M/n tightly.

“Uncle !”, he yelled and cried into his pant leg.

“Hey, hey, shhh... I’m here....I’m here...shhh...”, M/n tried to soothe the boy.

“Is Morro okay ?!”, he asked in worry.

“Morro is just fine. He saved the village.”

The owner opened the shop and Morro came inside.

“Thank you for keeping my Cousin save, Sir. Is your shop still open ? I wanted to buy a few things...”, Morro asked.

“It is open again. Pick what you want, I will be at the counter.”, the man replied kindly.

Morro nodded in appreciation and then went over to Lloyd.

“Hello, you three cheese high. How are you ? Are you alright ?”, Morro asked.

“I-I’m okay. Are you ?”, Lloyd asked.

“I am okay. Everything is save again.”, Morro replied.

Then the Ninja entered, with Nya. They saw all three of them instantly. Nya blushed as she saw Morro again.

“I will pick my items and then we can go home and watch a Movie, okay, Lloyd ?”, Morro asked softly.

Lloyd nodded. Morro got up and left their sides, looking around for the things he needed. He found the perfect coloring pencils, some lead pencils, a new pen and then some notebooks. Then he spotted gel pens, that had different colors, but they were a bit over his budget to get. He turned to M/n.

“Hey, Papa ?”, he called.

“Yes, Son ?”, M/n replied.

“Can I have these pens ? I could mark my stuff better with them.”, Morro asked.

M/n looked at the gel pens and the price.

“How much are you over your budget ?”

“Uhm...three yen...”, he said softly.

M/n looked at Morro.

“Lloyd need anything ?”

“He didn’t say anything.”

“Can I have this coloring book ?”, Lloyd asked and held up a coloring book of animals.

“How much, Lloyd ?”

He looked at the price.

“Two yen, Uncle !”

“Give it to your Cousin.”, M/n said.

Then he pulled out five more yen and gave them to Morro. He had a bright smile on his face as he got the five more yen. He went to the counter and put everything on the counter. The man didn’t pull the gel pens and coloring book over the scanner though and said a price.

“But the two things are still missing.”, Morro said.

“They are for free.”, the owner said with a kind smile.

Morro was in surprise and paid the 17 yen. The man bagged the items for Morro and then gave the bag to him.

“Have fun with these things and come back again.”, the man said kindly.

Morro gave him a smile and then wished him a good day. With that they left the shop, were about to go home, only to be stopped by the Ninja, who stood outside again.

“So that is your Dad, huh ?”, Kai asked, mocking the word ‘Dad’.

“Leave Morro alone, you big, ugly bully !”, Lloyd yelled, standing in front of Morro, protectively.

Morro put his hands on Lloyd’s shoulders.

“Lloyd, I’m okay. He can’t bully me with such silly things.”, Morro said softly, with a smile.

“I suggest you leave my Son and Nephew alone, Kai Smith. Otherwise I will be forced to teach you a lesson.”, M/n said darkly.

Cole and Jay backed away in slight fear, while Zane studied him and Nya only eyed Morro, but she was surprised that M/n knew Kai.

“What lesson ? How to look ugly ? Hahaha ! Bring it, old man !”, Kai provoked.

M/n didn’t look old. And it didn’t faze M/n that he called him old. He tapped Morro’s shoulder and he backed away with Lloyd.

Kai went straight for M/n’s valuables, but M/n teleported out of the way and as he reappeared he kicked him in the ass harshly, making Kai yelp in pain and smack face first into a house wall.

Everyone stared at him in shock, besides Lloyd and Morro. Morro smirked at Kai’s misery and Lloyd looked at M/n with amazement and wonder.

“That was so COOL, Uncle ! I want to learn that too ! Teach me ! Teach me !”, Lloyd said excitedly.

“When you are older, Lloyd.”, M/n assured.

Morro only chuckled and then caught Nya staring at him. She turned away, blushing. He crooked his head to his left side and then approached her.

“Hey, Nya, wasn’t it ?”, Morro asked with kindness.

She flinched.

“Huh. Mynameyes,uh....Hi...”, she talked too quickly and then sheepishly only said hello.

Morro chuckled at that.

“Want to meet up tomorrow somewhere ? Maybe in the woods ? Around after Lunch ? We could take a walk and chat with each other, watch the sunset and I can bring you home too, if you want.”, Morro offered.

“Sure !”, she said excitedly, then cleared her throat.

“I mean, sure, if you want.”, she said, trying to sound less like a child.

“Hey ! You have to take care of me tomorrow !”, Lloyd protested.

Morro rolled his eyes with a small smile.

“Oh no, then you will have to deal with another member in the Team tomorrow, Lloyd.”, Morro teased.

“I HATE girls ! They are yuck !”, Lloyd yelled.

Morro laughed and turned back to Nya.

“Don’t mind him, he will warm up to you.”, he told her.

“I won’t !”, Lloyd protested.

Morro laughed again and gave her a smile.

“We meet at the entrance of the woods. I will find you, don’t worry. And Lloyd won’t be annoying.”, Morro said the last sentence teasingly.

Lloyd crossed his arms and muttered something under his breath.

“Okay. I will try to be there on time.”, she replied.

Morro smiled.

“Hey ! No, no, no ! You stay away from MY Sister ! Who knows what you will do to her ! Maybe you will hurt her or force her into something she doesn’t want !”, Kai accused.

“Excuse me ?”, M/n said very slowly and darkly.

Kai’s eyes widened in horror, he forgot about M/n. Morro took a breath. He was unsure who M/n meant.

“My Son is NOT a Rapist, nor is he abusive, BOY ! You can’t control HER life either. If Morro would ever be doing something like that, you can be damn sure that I will send him to jail myself.”, M/n said darkly and slapped the back of Kai’s head harshly, making him yelp.

Then M/n looked at Morro.

“I hope you will NOT piss off this girl. She looks like she can kick your butt, if you make her angry.”

Morro smiled.

“I don’t plan to, Papa.”

“Good.”

“Can we take the staff ?”, Nya asked and pointed at it.

Morro looked at it and shrugged his shoulders.

“Sure. I don’t want it. Have it.”, he said with a smile.

“Let’s go, Son. Lloyd wants his Movie.”, M/n said.

Morro nodded his head to Nya as a farewell and then went to his Father’s side, then they teleported away. Nya was so excited. They flew back home on their Dragons and she ran away from Kai, before he could lecture her.

They decided to talk to Sensei Wu about Morro, Lloyd and M/n. So they entered his room and he was there.

“What do you need ?”, Wu asked, sipping his tea.

“We met some people that said you know them. They aren’t...very fond of you.”, Zane stated.

“What were their names ?”

“Morro and M/n.”, Jay answered.

Wu spat out his tea in shock.

to be continued...

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amalsoappickle · 1 year

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I have no title for this survivalshipping fic I made

Note ahead of time: this was all written at 1am at night after watching the Christofern episode, and I don’t write often Garmadon lays awake on the couch, Christofern on a table next to him. He was trying to sleep, but he never really rested unless he severely needed it. But with the lifestyle he's been going with while living with Vinny, he's gotten more used to it. He's been trying his best to be good for a while, and he thinks he's improved quite a lot. Some part of it was getting used to sleeping, especially so he didn't keep his roommate up. Vinny with his infinite wisdom has helped him, little by little, and he feels he's truly learning to understand the words Vinny said on that day they first met. He hears the door open to Vinny's room, and he seems exhausted after his work. "Vinny you seem tired." You say to him in your usual simple and straightforward voice. "Yeah... Ninjago's being attacked again, as usual, the news is getting a WHOLE lot harder with gale always going straight into the chaos." Vinny says exasperated, flopping onto the couch next to Garmadon. His eyes reach Garmadons and then onto the TV. Garmadon seems to have been watching NGTV News, which he watches often, just because Vinny works there. Vinny smiles a little and he straightens his position on the couch. "Vinny, do you need 'pizza'? From what I've learned, pizza is a great source of energy. And it would be doing something good." Garmadon says, leaning in and looking at Vinny like a child curious about something, but really that's just Garmadons typical look. "Haha sure g-garms, I think I could do with some pizza right now..." Vinny does a mix of a panicked and shy expression. Garmadon opens up his phone, which Vinny got him as a gift to teach him about giving gifts. He opens an app for Buddy's Pizza and orders the meatiest pizza. He's learned that Vinny's favorite pizza is the one with ALL the meat, while personally, he prefers Hawaiian. He ordered his own box of Hawaiian as well. While Garmadon was ordering, Vinny accidentally snuggled up on Garmadons arm. Not realizing it's Garmadon, Vinny snuggles in even more since Garmadon was actually quite soft and warm, contrasting his stare. Eventually, Vinny ends up hugging Garmadon fully, and his oni companion is getting more and more confused. "Vinny... what is it you're doing?" "Is this some sort of... attack? Or some strange... ritual or binding?" Garmadon is SUPER fucking confused. But he seems to enjoy it the longer it lasts. "O-OH GOD- sorry garms I didn't even notice I hugged you-" Vinny stutters out before getting cut off. "No no, I wish to know more about this... "hug", it makes me feel... nice.. inside." Garmadon uses his four arms to wrap around Vinny and pull him closer. Vinny not pulling back and even snuggling in further. "W-well... this is like.. a friendship thing! O-or love, like I mentioned before haha." "Hugs are more... advanced and i-intimate compared to holding open doors, and smiling at people." "Y-you do it with your friends... or family, people you like! A-and care about." Vinny tries his best to explain with his "endless wisdom". "...friends?" "Y-yeah! Like companions... people who are always there for each other... like the ninja! O-or like what we are. I mean I care about you and want to help y-you and I like you!" "Friends... yes... I think I understand." "I like you too, Vinny." The small cameraman's face goes red after hearing that. Something about the way Garmadon said that it was definitely more than friendship. "...what about love? What is that? A disease? It feels familiar." Garmadon asks with genuine intrigue. Oh boy, he did NOT know how to explain this one to Garmadon. "Love? It's a feeling, like... when two people feel... close, it's when you care a lot for someone! Like how you care for Christofern, but with another person. A-and it's more intense, and you stay with that person forever. And sometimes you desire their affection..." Vinny tries to explain this abstract concept to Garmadon. "Hm. I see. You are so wise Vinny of NGTV News." "Is this... hug, affection?" "Y-Yeah it is!" "...I like your affection." "I desire it more." Vinny blushes even more while Garmadon pulls him into his lap and hugs him closer. This causes the smaller man to relax on top of Garmadon’s chest. Garmadon speaks up again. His deep voice accidentally making Vinny get more flustered. "I..." "Can we stay like this forever?" "..." "Yes." "Yes we can garms."

#survivalshipping #ninjago #ninjago garmadon #garmadon #vinny x garmadon #vinny ninjago #ninjago fic #i still cant tag #hc that vinny calls garmadon garms

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namelysane · 8 months

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Your Hellspawn au is pretty fun so I wanted to ask a couple of questions

1. How did Lloyd creating her actually go? Did he realize what he was doing in the middle of the process and couldn’t stop it? Was he just fooling around and suddenly heard a baby cry somewhere? I really want to know his initial reaction there

2. Was Hellspawn aboard the bounty when the merge began and was she separated from Lloyd for awhile? I really wanna know how they each handled that if so

1. I guess you could say he was fooling around.

It all started one day when he had a break during his tour and was spending it in Sensei G's new monastery. Basically, he had the thought that if his god grandfather managed to create anything using the same confusing essence that he recently won in the lottery, then he could too, right? And with Garmadon now occupied as a new teacher and Misako often aiding him or studying new scrolls, this idiot realized he needed something to do.

It started small. He managed to make a leaf after several hours and later on succeeded having a flower on his palm. But the problem was both of these were things he hadn't planned to create. All he did was think he wanted to make something and try to focus on that only to end up with a completely different object—unlike the fsm who'd had centuries to master his abilities before fathering two sons.

Lloyd's sessions went on for a few more days until one afternoon when he was concentrating on trying to create a kitten to bring with him when he resumed his tour. Considering his experience so far with all this, he didn't have very high expectations but hey, it was worth a try right? Besides, if he ended up with some other pet, it could still be a great companion. (accepting awards on the other side of the country does get lonely after all)

Slowly, he could feel a strange weight gradually getting heavier in his arms, so he figured he was doing something right and didn't stop. Well surprise, surprise it wasn't a kitten.

The next thing he knew, he was looking at a newborn. Perfectly healthy, ten fingers and ten toes—a living, breathing, baby.

Then, said baby began to cry and he immediately panicked.

Misako started calling him for lunch not long after. He took a long time to show up, and his face was completely bloodless.

2. During the merge, she was on the monastery porch just playing with her toys. And yes, she was separated from Lloyd for about five years, I guess. (That's how long I assume the time-skip between the merge and dragons rising is) Lloyd was a mess for most of that time — thank fsm that Kai was at least with him. For hellspawn though, I'm gonna need to save that elaboration for when part 2 of dragons rising comes out. I need to get a full picture of what kind of world the merge is making everyone deal with here.

#the lloyd's hellspawn au #AU where lloyd's golden power caused him to spawn a kid pre s3 like how the fsm made wu and garm #but lloyd's was purely by accident #ninjago #lego ninjago #lloyd garmadon #lloyd montgomery garmadon #ninjago lloyd #lloyd ninjago #i received another ask asking the same thing before but i'm saving that one to reply fic style #so to the other person seeing this i haven't forgotten about you dw #ninjago season 3 #ninjago rebooted #ns3 #dragons rising #ninjago dragons rising #thanks for liking the au so far!

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ambriel-angstwitch · 2 years

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So I was thinking about Ninjago, as one does, and what I realized is that FSM’s Family has inter-generational trauma.

So there can’t really be any certainty when the spread started since FSM’s parents grew up on different sides of a war that has been raging for centuries, but I’m going to go more in-depth into all the members of his family we know more about.

Seabound Spoilers!

We’ll start with FSM himself. FSM was raised in a war. There is pressure put on him to fight in and/or end the war. This pressure becomes to much so he flees to another realm, unfortunately this realm isn’t free of conflict. He seems to form some kind of relationship with Nyad from what we see and we know how that ends. So he’s lost probably the first friend he ever had. Then from there because of his creation powers and longevity, he is hailed as a god, which I don’t really know if that’s what he wanted, he fled his original realm because of pressure and being a god is even more pressure. He then because of the way he grew up and the status he holds puts pressure on his children. They have to be good. Unfortunately the whole great devourer thing happens only adding to the problems this family has. Now one of his sons is cursed to be bad, no matter how hard he tries he’ll never be that perfect son. FSM seems to be mad at both of his sons for this occurrence but first and foremost he’s concerned, he loves both his sons and tries to help them but he can’t fix this.

Then we have the next generation which is Wu and Garmadon. Garmadon tries to be there for his son and tries to be a good father but then he’s sent to the underworld and when he comes back their destined to fight so well he cares he can’t actually be there for Lloyd. Then he’s actually a pretty good dad once his evil has been cured. But actually where we see the generational trauma more present is in Wu. Wu who used to be the mischievous of the brothers now feels the need to be the good one because his brother can’t be. He feels the need to undo the damage he is partially at fault for. So he studies the ninja ways and the scrolls harder. Then he finds his student Morro who he trains to be the green ninja.

Which brings us to the last generation Morro and Lloyd. Morro was raised by Wu. Wu placed high expectations on Morro because Wu had high expectations placed on him. Morro trains and trains under Wu and is told that he could be the green ninja. But he isn’t, Wu was wrong. But Morro can’t accept this because that’s what his purpose was, he was supposed to be great. So he tries to force destiny and dies and you all know the rest of the story. Then Lloyd has the opposite problem where he never wanted to be the green ninja but it’s forced upon him. So he has to train and he has to fight his dad. Once again there is so much pressure put on a literal child. Lloyd also has to then deal with much more trauma than just the inter generational kind. I mean all the battles and all his friends dying oof.

Also in case it wasn’t clear this is not a hate post towards FSM or Wu. While some of they’re actions may not be the best, they’re people and people are flawed. I genuinely believe that both of them were trying to do what they thought was best, but their experience may have skewed their decision making a bit.

(This has been in my drafts for so long. Oopsie)

#ninjago #lloyd garmadon #first spinjitzu master #ninjago fsm #ninjago wu #ninjago nyad #lord garmadon #ninjago morro #morro #ninjago garmadon #sensei wu #sensei garmadon

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cosmos-dot-semicolon · 12 days

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Your turn for a Ninjago question!

Which season's your favourite?

Hmm. I suck at picking favourites. It's made worse by the fact it's been a while since I've rewatched anything but season 1. So uh, I guess I'll answer this question backwards from worst to best. Have a very rambly, vaguely ordered list :)

I never watched much past S10 - the move to 11 minute episodes was really jarring and only seemed to work well for that one bit of lore for Wu and Garmadon in Crystallised. Which is great, but it's not the actual story, so :/

You've already seen my hatred for the Oni trilogy. Really all I wanted to add there is that I count it as one season, because it has the same plot structure as a regular season, but stretched out over a year for god knows why. I remember making remarks back in the day that it straight up felt like season 4 but longer and edgier, down to the bait-and-switch love interest and end-of-season war.

Hands Of Time I think is generally glossed over in the fandom, and understandably so. I remember they made jokes about iPhones and also captured Borg and there were snakes or whatever. It promised we were going to explore Kai and Nya's family dynamic and then. I'm sure they did something there? Wu's sacrifice was memorable, but absolutely nothing else was. It felt like the new writers were given a script for what Ninjago was known for, but never actually watched the show.

Season 6 I think had a good initial impact on me because of its sky pirate aesthetic but the longer it went on... Eugh. You Already Know

Season 3 I remember, but only for Zane's sacrifice and Garmadon's moments. There were really good character moments in there, but overall there wasn't much going on.

So that strikes it down to 1, 2, 4, and 5.

4. I think 2 comes last by default. I don't dislike it and find a fair bit of it fun, but they really did sap most of Lloyd's personality once he got aged up. There are filler episodes (which are fun, but still), and a second half of the season that drags on until the final fight that everybody was waiting for.

I think Garmadon had some really good moments in here, both funny and dramatic (and especially with Misako). But I think that's still eclipsed by season 1's setup of him. I've drawn fanart of it before but Misako could've been one of the funniest character premises the series had and it's a shame her character was never capitalised on.

3. Possession, as cool as some of the character moments are, is a season I think I liked as a kid mainly because of its ghost aesthetic. Which is amazing, for the record. The art directors were absolutely on point there, and the atmosphere of places like the caves, the washed-up town of Stix, and the sheer scale of the final battle are still burned into my brain.

Character-wise, it's quite nice in showing Kai's loyalty and caring towards Lloyd, and great in that it actually gave Nya a proper character arc. But a lot of the exploration of other characters feels more like... lip service? Cole is a fantastic leader and willing to sacrifice himself for the team, and now might have to deal with being a ghost. Zane sometimes has to deal with things beyond his control as a robot. Wu's carelessness as a mentor actually got one of his students killed back in the day.

What do we do with that? I don't know. I might be overlooking things but the fact these aren't truly followed up with always felt off to me. I want to say Morro himself is sort of representative of this, but I'd need another post and a rewatch to detail my thoughts on him properly.

1. I don't think I want to decide between them: season 4 and season 1.

Tournament of Elements had practically everything I wanted from Ninjago back in the day. It's got some really heartfelt dialogue about the team having broken up after season 3 (as short as that is), it's focused on the more interesting of the two Senseis, it's got espionage and revolution and this whole grand hotel to have ridiculous fights in.

It's not as laser-focused on adding to the ninja's characters as other seasons, but in lieu of that you get a lot of expansion on what we already had, and the best written plot in the entire show.

Like you know something is up with Chen from the very beginning, and so do the ninja, but you have to keep pushing on just to see what happened with Zane. I kept expecting the plot to follow a clear structure and get boring or drag out the mystery of what was going on, but they just kept switching it up whenever I thought things were going perfectly.

You thought the whole team would make through the tournament? Nope! But Cole did find Zane! Holy shit! You thought uniting the elemental masters would be easy? Nope, one of them's a fucking spy. She's literally the main villain's daughter! You thought this'd just be about Chen stealing everybody's elements? Nope, he wants to revive the long dead and conquer the world. Have fun fighting a war!

It's genuinely fascinating how much the plot evolves over the season's runtime, with everybody doing their own separate things. Not every twist works, but the writers clearly put some amount of thought into all of them, and it makes me love the season despite some of its, well, 'culturally insensitive' plot points, as Pythor might say.

Season 1's strengths lie with its characterisation instead of the story, but I still like it for largely the same reasons as season 4.

What really drew me back into Ninjago out of all the action shows back in the day was that instead of just being another 'dumb action show for boys,' it was about a bunch of friends growing and learning as they prepared to grow up. The ninja have to deal with things kids know intimately: absent parents, self esteem issues stemming from your social status, self-centeredness vs being a normal person, discovering your own heritage, feeling excluded, and coming out.

The side characters are also all fantastic. Pythor's delightfully smarmy as a villain. Garmadon's both the most dramatic theatre kid you've ever seen and the sweetest father to Lloyd. Even Lloyd had a lot to do back here! This is the only time I've seen a sad white(-coded) boy villain work out, because he's a child looking for friends. He's genre savvy due to him being Garmadon's son, and smart in suggesting that the ninja steal back the fangblades from Pythor, but he's also still like, 7.

And while the season doesn't have as strong a plot as season 4, I still think small things like the fangblades being stolen from both sides and having the ostensive 'villain' defeat the Great Devourer were fantastic ideas within the constraints of a very structured story.

#ninjago critical #ninjago #dots dots dots #asks #oblivious aro #i hope. uh. you like reading 👍#GOD I JUST SAT DOWN FOR A BREAK AND STARTED TYPING FOR LIKE A SOLID HOUR HELP #i was supposed to be revising for my next exam but also I'm tired from today's. so. here you go #i'm glad I got this ask. I think I've been wanting to elaborate on my ideas about this for a while #as much as i think the show's. uh. 'culturally insensitive' it did leave a big impact on my psyche and writing style

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morroodle · 1 year

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Back with my mechanic morro au brainrot so have some loose thoughts

In the version of the au where morro inherits wu's creation powers: he uses them exclusively to make explosives and while wu is happy he had them powers god dammit morro that's not what they're for

Morro is a petty little bitch to literally everyone but mostly to wu. It's his personal life goal to dissapoint wu as much as possible. Wu loves him but man is he tired of his shit

He has his own little signature/mark/crest thing that he puts on all the things he makes from a small gun to the ninja mechs. It's design is an eastern style dragon 🐉 wrapped around one of those little bombs 💣. He designed it when he was younger and kept it because he thinks it's cool (it is and i wanna draw it when I find motivation)

Morro cannot be allowed to be bored and unsupervised (or just bored in general). He can and will invent new war crimes.

Speaking of crime: everything he does is completely legal. He has many many licenses and regularly uses legal loopholes to make sure he can never get in trouble. He dosent actually need to because who is going to go after one of the heros of ninjago but still. If anything he sees it as a challenge. Its also the only thing stopping him from committing mass destruction.

He could absolutely take over and or destroy ninjago if he wanted, way more efficiently than garmadon. He has no interest in doing so but fsm help ninjago if he ever changes his mind

His blood stream is either 90% caffeine or he has never touched a cup of coffee. Both are funny and there is no in between

As stated previously he cannot be left unsupervised, mostly because he will commit explosions but also because he cannot take care of himself. His diet is exclusively protein bars and he hasn't slept in 2 weeks. No one knows how the hell he is functional. He would be absolutely disgusting as well but once someone mentioned him needing to shower so he invented a machine that can wash and dry him completely in like 2 minutes.

I love this au it's just fun. Feral morro with guns is great and I will make more (eventually)

#ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago morro #morro #ninjago au #ninjago headcanons #morro headcanons #mechanic morro au

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sunflowerandstrawberryspice332 · 1 year

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Royal AU Lloyd and Skylor

The fanfic in question: All That We Can Give

So in my royalty AU instead of having Chen and Garmadon have a sensei student dynamic (since it doesn’t make much sense to me and also makes me question how old Chen/Clouse are) and instead I had them be friends. I also just love the idea of Chen and Garmadon trying to figure out how to be single parents and just dropping their kids of with the other when they get to overwhelmed, like Chen gets really tired and is like “Alright Skylor you’re going to uncle Haito’s(Garmadon) pack your things!”

So since their dads are friends Lloyd and Skylor were raised together, they bonded over the fact they both had absent moms (Each for a different reason) and so now they’re besties who care about each other a whole freaking bunch.

Also as for Skylor’s design I decided to take Chinese influences since Chen is (from my research) a Chinese surname. I used her original color pallet for her clothes since I... I just really didn’t want to give her bright red hair I’m sorry! I also usually don’t draw pupils (and I’m not about to start, Skylor is an exception) but I just really loved the idea of giving her and Chen snake eyes as an homage to their Anacondrai plot line, and also to give her some extra visual flare!

As for Lloyd I just used the design I chose for him with a slightly more human base skin tone cause in this AU his father and him have a curse as apposed to being part Oni.

So yeah I had so much fun with this and gods do I love the way Skylor’s whole ensemble came out from her hanfu to her jewelry I just had such a great time! Lloyd was fun to but he was very much so in my comfort zone.

Anyway next is either gonna be the the Smart Siblings (Zane and Pixel) or are Eastern siblings (Kai and Nya) or the Southern (kinda) Cousin Duo (Cole and Jay) which ever I feel like drawing first! (Probably Zane and Pixel I just love them to much and I can’t wait for y’all to see what I have planned since I can’t make them robots!)

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