I Feel Like Canon Doesn't Appreciate That There Was Really Literally No One There For Kai And Nya During

I feel like Canon doesn't appreciate that there was really literally no one there for Kai and nya during their formative years and it's made worse by the idea that they're teenagers. Cause like ok working backward:

Starting when the line got said in s 8/9. Jay says theyre "older teenagers" so that's what? 17 18? Probably 17 because most 18 year olds I've met identify as young adults.

I'd say there's about a year time skip between s7 and s8. That accounts for the appearance changes and gives Lloyd enough time to hit puberty the way he did. Personally I think it could've been 2 years but 1 makes more sense here. So that puts us at 16 in Hands of Time.

I'm willing to accept that s4-7 happened in one year. That's chill.

But there was definitely at least a six month time gap between s3 and s4. I feel like that one was also a year but I'm more willing to believe this gap was shorter. So we're still looking at 16, maybe 15 years old in Rebooted.

However this is where things get fucky bc at the beginning of this season they're teachers. Why???? Who knows. But if they're 16 here that was a poor choice, Wu.

Love you 16 year olds but I don't trust groups of you to manage children for more than a week. That shit is STRESSFUL.

Anyway.

There seems to be a time jump between s2's end and s3's beginning. Id clock that as around one to three years, personally.

And I think the pilots through Legacy of the Green Ninja all happened within the same year.

MEANING

That puts pilots Kai anywhere from 15 to 13 and working in a blacksmith shop ALONE except for the help of his baby sister who is nebulously younger than him but younger enough that he was child-sized when she was born.

And don't yall start on the babysitter bc if they had one

Where was she?

The one time she's mentioned Kai and nya seemed to have bad memories of her and often conspired to trip her and make her stumble.

Babysitters get PAID and with no parents around who was doing that paying?? Kai? Krux???

Either Kai was deemed old enough to handle an entire business by himself or all of Ignacia really just said "fuck it. Not our problem. They live or they dont." And even if he was old enough they seemed to have said that anyway. But like.

Canon does not want to explore that beyond a few lines. It goes on and on about Lloyd's tragedies (which make no mistake are HORRIBLE and he goes through way way too much) but beyond a few lines in seabound and kind of a hands of time plot it really doesn't get any light and I wish that they explored that more. The toll it takes on someone to be a kid. And be utterly alone. No help in sight.

And then the true end of the story: finally finally getting that help and more than that forging a family with people you've fought back to back with who you know would die for you as much as you would for them but even more than that that will be there during the dark and terrifying nights and hold you when you're crying and be there when you come home.