#samukai was dum he could've had an advantage but n o o o

[sketch--booked]

Tired brain thought.

If Samukai realized, when he revived Julien, that if he kept Zane as a bargaining chip a little longer, he could’ve had an element of creation on his side.

You know how easily Samikai could’ve done what Vex did, and manipulate him into being his buddy. Especially since his memory switch would've just been flipped, he’d be incredibly impressionable.

If Samukai had played his cards right, he would have had a huge leg up on Wu and the ninja during the pilots. 

Imagine with me, that Samukai kept Zane around. Maybe the original plan was to keep him for as long as he had Julien making weapons for him. But then he begins to train Zane (freshly memory wiped) since having a robot on your side is awesome and a sick advantage when your entire army are skeletons who’s intellect rival that of a worm.

So that’s all fine and dandy. But then he’d soon figure out that Zane ain’t just a robot, he’s an elemental master. And his element is one of the main four elements of creation, ice.

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Garmadon could probably care less about this other than “he might retrieve the golden weapons slightly better than the skeletons” or he’d be totally into having an elemental master on their side since his brother would only have 3 of the 4 at most.

Lets then say that the pilots go about the same, but with Zane being on the opposing side. Samukai gets the weapons, he explodes, and Garmadon flees through the rift it creates to the realm of Madness.

This in canon leaves the underworld with no ruler. So either, Zane goes off with the Ninja and having been trained by Samukai for the last god knows how long,, that’s gonna end well, or he would be the closest legitimate ruler of the underworld...

If Samukai had played his cards right--

My guy could’ve been a king. But no, Samukai was stupid. I love the guy but he was an idiot. In life, in death, and in being the living dead

#ninjago #ninjago zane #zane julien #i would so happily make this an au ngl #like-- the man is the master of ice and he'd be an epic king of the underworld #ice is cold and being dead makes you cold it w o u l d w o r k #ninjago samukai #samukai was dum he could've had an advantage but n o o o #big dumn stupid #idk i'm actually so exhausted for once i wanna pass out ghghghg #take my last thoughts of consciousness