Vs. Me, A Reader:

I just found this and now I'm going into my microwave

I guess I’m calling this the Lightningbot AU now???

Basics:

- Ed and Edna wanted a child, and having access to all the scrap in the junkyard, made one of their own! They never told him what he was, because they didn’t want him to feel different.

- Jay booted up for the first time without a power source being added at all. His element powers him on its own. This baffled his parents at first, but they just went with it.

- Contact with vengestone causes Jay to shut down if he touches it, which the ninja chalk up to him passing out. The second vengestone is no longer in contact with his body, he reboots. Before he knows he’s a robot, he refers to this as a “freak vengestone allergy”.

- Jay finds out that he’s an android during Hunted, where a rough landing from the portal severely damages his body. The group struggles to repair him with their limited resources. A scrap of foil isn’t gonna fix your face, sorry Jay.

- Over the course of Hunted, he acts largely the same as he does in the original, and treats his robot body’s reveal as something funny and insists everyone just “go with the flow” and not worry about it. Meanwhile the others are OBVIOUSLY concerned, and wonder if the crash is making him malfunction. At some point he snaps out of it and it hits him all at once and he freaks out for real.

- Pixal knew the whole time, literally since S3, and never mentioned it because she assumed they all knew already. Queue Jay having flashbacks to all the little hints she dropped in previous seasons (ie: implying he may need “repairs” or a “tune-up” after a fight, which Jay would shrug off as her simply wording her concern awkwardly).

- When they make it back home, they cannot figure out how to recreate the artificial flesh on his body, and he goes home to the junkyard for repairs and confronts Ed and Edna.

- The “junkyard boy” insult hits him much harder after he finds out, and is extremely self-conscious about the fact he was literally built out of trash.

- He returns to the lighthouse out of guilt and brings Echo back home with him. They bond over being made out of actual garbage.

- His head is a plasma globe filled with a mess of electrical impulses that make up his brain. When people touch it, it acts like a plasma globe, and makes Jay feel odd things (tickling sensations, lavender smell, the taste of kale).

- Once he’s aware he’s an android, he can learn to “possess” other electronics with his element/soul. His mastery over electricity gives him an instinctual understanding of electronics and how they function, which has unknowingly contributed to his love of inventing.

- Much to everyone’s dismay, being a robot opens up a whole new world of puns and terrible jokes for Jay to abuse.

dude I feel the same way ;-; I'm scared to rewatch all ninjago just because of how much cringe I felt at JUST THE FIRST EPISODE

I'm trying to watch season 8, but every time harumi and lloyd are on screen together I cringe in second-hand embarrassment. Like knowing what's gonna happen somehow makes it worse.

So I'm pausing every 11 seconds to recover and I can tell it's gonna take a week to get ep 3.

happy january :)

bonus content; the aftermath

Why would I write when I could imagine my characters going through the story and then get upset when a copy of the work doesn’t magically appear in front of me

@consistently-illogical I've become reobsessed with Flights Flown and Cards Shown ;-; There's just something about fate and serendipity that gets me. 🥹🥹

alright, ya'll got me. I'm rewatching rottmnt.

I KNOW I KNOW, but I need to go through it again after knowing everything that I know now ;-; 💖

OUch

*dramatically holds hand against heart*

Have some angst *poof*

Edit: to be continued....

I've been cooking up a couple things....

dude if someone randomly came up to me at a club/bar and said "so anyway. ninjago. Thoughts?"

..

instant swoon.

out tonight. Terrified i’m gonna corner some poor soul at the club and be like “so anyway. lego. Thoughts?”

Might as well

Me: *takes one look at Kai* Me: *stamps BOTTOM on his profile*