What Would You If There Was No Tablet

Some cute sketches before sleep.

My precious boys.

Red Son's ship attacked by sirens.

It turned out as bad as I expected!

@ninja-knox-ur-sox-off

also sorry, I'll probably bother you often from now on...

Yaay. I love them.

ninja team in season 7:

Back when “Repairin’ the Baron” first aired, I was like “I’m worried about Mikey being alone with Draxum and this “giant reptilian monster” imagery, Draxum’s going to play them all for fools by faking his redemption and then he’ll mutate Mikey as part of a scheme or just out of spite.”

But now I have an idea that’s so much worse. :)

Let’s say Draxum truly does grow fond of Mikey and begins to feel parental towards him. After all, who doesn’t love Mikey? He’s such a sweetheart, so small and cute and helpful and naive…

And Draxum gets worried. This beautiful idiot child is going to get himself killed, trying to befriend every villain he comes across! He called Foot Recruit “frenemy” even after she tried to smash his shell into powder! He’s approached a cannibalistic mutant multiple times because he wanted to learn how to make pork risotto! He got an apartment for the guy who nearly wiped out humanity!

If only Mikey was better able to defend himself… if only he wasn’t quite so friendly, or so small… if only he was a bit faster, stronger, tougher…

So Draxum stages a little “accident” with an oozesquito, not out of malice, but out of a misguided attempt to keep Mikey safe.

The scene is staged so we think we’ll get a repeat of the monster!Don situation from 2k3, but… it actually works! Mikey gets an upgrade, and he’s still himself!

He’s a little taller than Leo, Donnie, and April now, and has a grand old time teasing them about it. His family doesn’t baby him when they spar anymore! It’s a lot easier to thrash villains now!

It is so much easier to thrash villains now…

Mikey’s “Doctor Delicate Touch” moments start to get more frequent, and more severe. He’s full of restless energy at all hours of the day and night. The flames of his kusari-fundo burn brighter and hotter, it’s laugh sounds more sinister. Sometimes it screams with rage, instead.

And then he goes too far. Maybe he gets pissy that Donnie insists on running more tests even though he’s fine, he feels great, Donnie’s just mad because he doesn’t like his little brother being stronger than him, FUCK OFF-

Donnie gets burned. Mikey runs to Draxum. Maybe he figured out the oozesquito accident wasn’t really an accident, maybe he didn’t, but right now he desperately needs someone else to blame. Scared and ashamed, the tears and snot sizzling right off his face, he grabs Draxum by the shoulders and shakes him, screaming “I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE FIX ME.”

This would be the worst possible time for the Hidden City police to track Draxum down, so of course they choose right then to kick in the door and attack.

Mikey retaliates. It doesn’t matter that they’ve brought a small army this time, or that they’re the yokai equivalent of a SWAT team, or that they’ve got every possible exit surrounded. There’s nothing they can do against him. Mikey is a blur of flame and fury, mowing them down and leaving ash in his wake. The room, and then the building, and then the block lights up and New York starts to burn around him as he laughs and laughs and laughs.

Draxum can only stare at his perfect, ultimate creation. It took centuries of research and experimentation and setbacks, but he finally did it! He made a soldier capable of tearing through foes like the cheap paper those Foot idiots use! An agile, graceful killing machine, whirling and dancing like the devil against a backdrop of hellfire.

And he is sickened with himself, because how could he do that to his son?

Draxum sighs and grits his teeth. This is going to hurt, but it has to be done. Summoning every tendril he has, he wraps them around Mikey’s limbs and mouth and pulls him away from the fight. They smoke and shrivel as they touch Mikey’s glowing body, wiring hot agony back into Draxum’s nervous system. But Draxum does not cry out. He can’t risk the Hidden City’s remaining forces hearing him.

Just for a moment, Mikey is too surprised to fight back. And that’s all Draxum needs to pull him into the sewers. Steam billows up before Mikey even hits the water, choking and blinding them. But it cools him down enough to realize what he’s done, and he doesn’t protest when Draxum hoists him onto his back and starts trekking towards the lair.

Donnie is a genius, nobody doubts that, but he’s a programmer and engineer, not a biologist. His lab just doesn’t have the equipment Draxum needs to start working on a retromutagen. The only place in the world that does is Draxum’s lab, which was confiscated by the Hidden City police.

Draxum doesn’t hesitate. He appears before the Council of Heads to strike a deal. Give him access to his lab long enough to remedy the wrong he has done, and he will surrender. The Council agrees.

Some days later, Mayhem appears in the lair with a little pink vial tied around his neck, as well as a handwritten note. It simply says:

Here is the cure. Don’t forgive me. -Draxum

Kimono boys ahead

ELEMENTAL HEADCANONS!

ELEMENTAL POWERS:

Elements are actual elements that are crucial to the creation of ninjago. They all work together to create a complex system with its own physics and form the universe. Some elements are physical while others are spiritual.

Physical elements - elements that have physical affect whether they create material, control physics, or change form.

Spiritual elements - elements that create no visible affect

Some things:

Some powers come across literally like Gravity while ones like speed are more obscure, (probably representing the law of motion) but still important for maintaining ninjago.

Elemental powers can manifest differently depending on the generation. (Pale Man is the current master of light but his predecessor was completely visible, probably wielding it like a weapon).

Elemental powers have magical effects that don’t have to behave like they do naturally. (Kai’s fire works in space and Zanes ice defies gravity)

Elemental powers are passed on through a process of genetics or chosen successor, but if no one is chosen it will go to someone “random”

Elements can differ between realms (gravity probably works differently in the cloud kingdom and Djinjago)

Elements can not be destroyed, only transfered or contained

Multiple elemental masters can exists (dragons count!)

Elements also have naturally opposites that keep each other balanced, they usually have opposite energies but not always

Note: this is also prone to change besides the main 6 elements (missing time)

*element of emotion is not canon (but common in the fandom)

*element of amber is an artificial element (100% headcanon, you can ignore that if you want but I will make a whole post on its own explaining it)

ELEMENTAL POWER SCALE:

(I’m going to describe this terribly) All the elements exist on a 3D chart determined by energy levels.

Note: this graph is a beta version and will definitely be prone to updates and changes (missing amber)

High and low energy is very straightforward meaning literally how much energy the elements uses or produces. Positive and negative are not meant literally energy wise but more as moral alignments (like in dnd). The four main elements are at the ends of this chart (which is why they are the main elements) with destruction and creation at furthest corners.

There is really no such thing as having high negative energy or positive low energy for some reason? The elements only exist in a diamond pattern (perhaps reminiscent in a yin-yang symbol?) I don’t know why this is but it seems consistent.

The spiritual plane runs perpendicular to the physical plane. There really is no organization besides mind and emotion being the forces that make up sapient life. Time is defined as the 4th dimension so it goes into spiritual organization as well.

ELEMENTAL ABILITIES:

all elemental masters have the same basic ability’s that make them just slightly different from normal humans like...

Elemental Resilience - They are tougher then normal, and less likely to become injured. Bones are harder to break, skin is tougher to cut, muscles are stronger. Low energy elements have higher resilience then high energy elements. (Earth -> Lightning)

Elemental Healing - Elemental masters heal faster then normal. Low energy can heal most injuries within 1-3 days. High energy can take a few hours to a day. Bruises and small cuts will heal the fastest while sprains and broken bones will take longer. (Lightning -> Earth)

Aka low energy elements can take a hit better but high energy can heal heal faster.

If you want me to explain anything else just send an ask I love world building stuff like this

I’m GENUINELY curious. I’ve kinda picked up that a lot of us have at least 1 part of the drawing process that we just fuckin,, hate. I know a lot of us have strong opinions on lineart. Mine is doing the flat colours, that shit is so boring. Rant about what you hate and why in the tags. This is a safe space to be a whiny bitch