remember when kai smith became the first enemies-to-lovers booktok boyfriend by saying “was it his idea to make me fall for you or yours? because it worked.”
Drop my traumatised green eyed blorbo Lloyd Garmadon into any sort of ‘kid follows the parents path as a destiny’ assumed thing, Ever After High, Descendants, doesn’t quite matter, and watch everyone’s perspectives get SHATTERED.
Like, this boy is a shitton of trauma with a more childish mind in an aged up body, a gods grandkid with a secret-keeping uncle and a shell of a father, plus a mother who ditched him before he could even form a memory of her, he probably wouldn't even have been born if his dad wasn’t corrupted as a child, he was prophesied to destroy the very being that was possessing his dads body at one point, SAVED his father from it, LOST his god-mode powers, he was maybe ten when he learnt of a prophecy, was taught to be evil, pretty much gave up the idea as soon as his weird uncle and five people were nice to him, had to lose his dad, got possessed, got aged and sent into a sword, got his heart broken, got traumatised even more and lost most of his friends, had to deal with the revival of what was left of his fathers evil side which was never even the true him, almost lost one of his closest friends, got cubed, got stuck dealing with a drawn out ATLA episode, lost one of his closest friends for a year, got arrested again, had to destroy the overlord again, and then his realm got merged with a bunch of others.
Like, he needs therapy. And I’m not sure any of these worlds have therapists.
so many reasons he could become a villain, and he stayed good
You can bet those kids of villains would be under his protection
For the record, I choose to ignore anything that takes place AFTER Nya's death. That should've been the end, don't even FUCKING try to explain why it was a good Idea to keep it running. Everything after Nya's death is a fucking cash grab with the "new ninja" and Mya FUCKING coming back after that incredibly emotional episode.
Imaging Brad meeting the Garmadon family at a family dinner.
Brad has a big fat crush on Lloyd and everyone is aware of it. Expect for Lloyd. He has no idea. Sally and Gene encourage him to ask Lloyd out on a date and maybe confess his feelings so one day he tries doing that. He goes up to Lloyd, plan ready, and goes to ask Lloyd only for Lloyd to ask if he wants to join him for dinner. Out of the blue, on warning at all. And of course he said yess.
When he got ready for his date, came with the biggest bouquet of flowers he could find and meets up with Lloyd at the restaurant. As they walk in, Brad tries to confess his feelings to Lloyd only to come face to face with an archeologist with the strength of an Earth Elemental who can challenge the son of god and win, an Oni warlord who would and has killed for his family, a dragon master who can create whatever he wants, an ex-ghost trained by the dragon master and the goddess of death, a psycho princess who knows any and all dark magic, and Vinny from Ninjago City News.
Brad was not told about this and is panicking in every way imaginable. Turns out that Lloyd inherited his uncle's miscommunication skills
i already posted them together last year but i love my little info cards a lot…. 😭 i tried my best to find an accurate ancient greek translation of Cole’s name…..
YOUR CAUSE IS LOST. HAVE THE GRACE TO ADMIT DEFEAT!
Almost a year after drawing the original sketch I finally got to finishing it up... _(:3 ) enjoy!
Original sketch: click here!
Edit: Fixed the shading on Vangelis’s hand- I think this is one of the best foreshortened hands I’ve drawn in years so I’m not letting it go without good shading.