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I love so much how Jay and Nya's love for each other compensates for their insecurities.
Nya: I'm strong and independent! I don't need anyone to help me! I really really don't want to burden or inconvenience people. I hate being vulnerable and I hate needing to be taken care of.
Jay: okay but like I really love you and want to take care of you and be a good boyfriend and good boyfriends take care of their girlfriends so can I pretty please help you 🥺
Nya: ...ok.
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Jay: I'm just like insecure about existing in general. I hate my freckles I hate my voice I look weird I sound weird I bet people think I'm annoying.
Nya: all those traits belong to you and I love you so actually I think all those things are super awesome.
Jay: :D
happy international Amberphoenix year !!! please note Amberphoenix year is 24/7 365!! Anywayzzz u all deserve women kissings tonight ty ily all
My Nya is Bi and my Skylor is Lesbian
(RBS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED PLS AND TYY!!!)
went looking through the sketchbook I had recently finished
ignore my bad handwriting
“you dare challenge my knowledge on my signature special interest, boy?”
more jay-centered content bc he is what made me want to draw ninjago again, fsr
with pavitr having his hair out of the mask, and hugging gayatri when he saves her, and having The Worst attempt at disguising his voice out of all the spiderkids (which is saying something, when you're up against miles and gwen) - i love the idea that everybody in mumbattan absolutely knows that pavitr prabhakar is spider-man, but all have an unspoken agreement to never actually acknowledge it, because he's sweet and helpful and god, he's just a kid.
tourists and visitors and people just moving there will gesture to his very visible and easily identifiable hair and open their mouths to comment on it, and the nearest Seasoned Member of the Pavitr Prabhakar Defense Committee™ will slap a hand over their mouth and wrangle them in the opposite direction before they can blow his cover and get him arrested
i understand the appeal of the in-universe memes about ninjago city getting destroyed constantly but there is so much more of ninjago to talk about!!!! give me ignacia memes about them bragging about kai. give me cole’s fiercely defensive hometown. show me JAMANAKAI VILLAGE so much oddly specific shit has happened there. idk. shintaro. stiix’s lingering resentment for them. the sea of sands unites behind jay like he’s an olympic athlete and then trashes on him for falling for the city life (becoming a celebrity). the samurai x fanclub discourse. there is so much to do with an in-universe meme format!!!!
"Haha." Jay presses a finger to his forehead. "Tricked ya." Jay lightly pushes his head with a flick and drops his hand with a light thud, like he lacked the energy to spare to bother lowering it gently. "You really thought that the winner got to stay in the ring, boulderbrain? ...Yeah, I did too. Can't blame you for wish—" Jay suddenly trails off, mid-word. After a pause, he continues, "Positive thinking..."
"No. No, no way." Cole whips his head to Nadakhan, who has a grand old grin slapped up on his face like he’s watching the show of a lifetime.
maybe you can't grasp how much love and effort went into this comic. but I hope some can. I did my very best... pls read my favorite whump fic yet and leave a comment if you like it
Drawing I did of Kai during my history class :)
I’m rewatching tournament of elements and I love how Jay randomly breaks his leg and then it just randomly heals the next episode. Like??? Literally what was the purpose of that LMAO
No because Jay should have been allowed to swear during skybound. No other season has swearing but during skybound it’s free game.
Just Jay screaming “FUCK YOU NADAKHAN”
Er, y'know animal jam? The furry economy game? Yeah, I have an AU for it! :D
Info under cut! :) Long read btw :P
Mira's Child
I've been trying to come up with a name for years help i just started using this name recently I've been working on this story for at least 8 years, since I first started playing AJ. And it didn't even have a plot back then? It was just "emo wolf has powers his older brother hates him and he also has powers so emo wolf is abandoned and now lives with phantoms ALSO HE'S THE SON OF GREELY BC GREELY IS EVERYTHING"
Anyways, here's the new version: Zios is bad here btw. Sorry! Anyways, Mira is trapped in this magic river. By, you guessed it, Zios! They basically fought over the land and Zios trapped her in the river so he could have it. Other then that, they have no connection. They were just two beings fighting over Jamaa. Zios, being lonely, brings the animals, who were living in different areas dedicated to their species, and welcomes them to Jamaa. Mira, slowly dying, wants to pass on her powers to someone. Welcome Void, a young pitch black wolf who accidently stumbles upon the river. She teaches him her powers and how to use it incase of an emergency. Sharing her powers with him, she and him become friends. Then the war between the animals happen and Void is called to battle for the wolves. Mira wishes him luck. The war is almost over, with only a few species left standing. The rabbits, the monkeys, and the wolves. And then, Void is slaughtered brutely. Part of Mira's powers die with him and she is weakened further, also saddened by her friend's death. A few more years pass and more jammers are picked. A rabbit, a panda, anyone who happens to find the river. But Mira doesn't trust any of them as she realizes they would be consumed by power and would have ill intensions. And then the battle between the Phantoms and Jamaa happens, a few of the animal species reuniting. They fight over the land and Zios picks 6 animals, the Alphas, to help fight. A wolf named Greely is one of these chosen animals. Meanwhile, his sister, Minnie, is jealous and practices her fighting alone in the forest, accidently finding the river and Mira. Mira sees good in her and tries again to pass on her power. Minnie, however, is too weak to control the power and causes more harm then good. She feels awful and apologizes to Mira before letting Mira take her power back and Minnie runs away. And no one is picked as the next 'Mira's Child' again for a few years. Until Greely has kids. Two twins, Dash and Dare, a daughter named DJ, and his youngest, Junior. Having powers is rare and usually only descendents of power-wielding jammers have power. Dash and Junior have powers but Junior's is more powerful and Dash gets jealous. This leds to him bullying his youngest brother. One day, the siblings are playing in the woods and Junior finds the river. Mira's glad to see him and tries to make him come closer but Junior is hesitant. He goes closer and soon is able to connect to Mira. She tells him how she needs her help but him being just a pup, is confused at first. So she tells him to come back so she can explain more later. And he does the next day. And the day after that. And the day after that. But she doesn't give him her power yet.
As time passes, the Phantoms attack their hometown. Dash hides Junior somewhere, telling him he'd be safe but only for him to abandon Junior while he escapes, their mother desperate to find her son but failing. And like that, Junior is taken by the Phantoms. In this AU, the phantoms aren't that bad. They kinda are but kinda aren't. Anyways, feeling bad for Junior, they welcome him. And he now lives with them. That's basically the beginning of the story for now. I'ma end it here for now. Uh, hope that was somewhat understandable.
While Lloyd is dumb for talking about breaking out of prison in front of a guard, can we just say that guard there is a real one for not saying anything to anyone immediately?
Edit: My mother said it would’ve been funnier if the guard added tips.
Okay, we've got height headcanons, face headcanons...but you know what we need? Name headcanons.
Okay, yes, I know, the ninja already have names. But their names originate from Earth cultures and Earth languages, which, uh, don't exist in Ninjago. Like!! The name 'Lloyd' is Welsh, but Wales isnt a place on the Ninjago map! And 'Zane' is German - but again, Germany doesn't exist in this fictional fantasy world either. How can Zane's name be German if Germany is nowhere on the Ninjago map?
Realistically I know this is because this show has painfully messy worldbuilding and they gave all the main characters simple European names that their young American audience would be able to easily identify and pronounce. BUT I love to overthink things so that's what I'm gonna do.
Logic would dictate that although their names have specific cultural contexts within our world, they have different contexts and origins within the world of the story. Their names would logically have some kind of different meaning in relation to the cultures, languages, and dialects that exist within Ninjago itself.
This is already canon, to some extent. The name 'Nya' already has a canon in-universe origin, with her being named after a legendary Merlopian hero - from this we can assume the name Nyad and its derivative Nya are Merlopian in origin. Which suggests the idea that the same is true for all the other characters as well, we just haven't gotten the chance to get backstories for their names yet. And there is so much untapped potential in exploring what their names could mean in-universe.
Here, I'll start with my own personal headcanons about the subject:
Most names in this series come from 'Classical Ninjargon', the ancient dialect that was spoken in the time of the FSM but gradually evolved into Modern Ninjargon, which is the dialect commonly spoken by the characters to this day. However, a lot of words, terms, and names still rely in some part on their classical roots.
'Kai' isn't really a name, so much as it is a noun. It's commonly used in the names of towns and villages. For example, Jamanakai Village. 'Kai' means 'shelter' - or, more specifically, 'a form of barrier or protection that defends against cold weather.' It's not a very common name to give to children, though, but it appears in the names of villages and settlements all across Ninjago. It seems fitting, considering the kind of person Kai is. His parents gave him that name as a reference to its more specific meaning. Shelter from the cold. During the Serpentine War, Ray and Maya's dreams of starting a family were what gave them comfort and kept them going. Kai wasnt just named as a shelter from the cold, but a shelter from despair as well.
Nya's name has its obvious origins - she was named after Nyad, the storybook hero who befriended whales and defeated Wojira. Nyad was also Merlopian, where her name means 'courage'. Likewise, Nya's name has similar connotations. Of course, Maya hadn't known that meaning when she named her child, as Merlopia was just a myth and its language much the same. She did know of the fairytale, though, and Maya's own mother had told her that story as a child, so she wanted to give her daughter a name that was meaningful in that same way.
'Jay' comes from a regional dialect of Classical Ninjargon that became prevalent in the Sea of Sands. The name itself originates from the term 'jairu', meaning "blessed storm." Some historians speculate the name goes back further than that, with the term 'jairu' originally meaning "Wojira's favor"...but there is much debate about that. Both Jay and Jairu are pretty popular names in the Sea of Sands. Jay was an unexpected but highly valued gift to Ed and Edna, just as a rainstorm is in a desert.
'Cole' was originally the word for earth/dirt, but over the centuries its frequent use in Classical poetry led to it acquiring a myriad of more specific meanings - 'solid foundation', 'stable ground', 'dependable and reliable', 'steady and unshaken amidst conflict', etc. The word itself has a lot of very poetic, very vivid interpretations, and when most people name their children 'cole', thats what they're referencing. But not Lily. No, she knew the name historically meant 'earth', and she wanted his name to be a pun. It was 100% intentional
'Zane' isnt so much a name as it is a colloquial term, from the Birchwood region. Even though the word has Classical roots, it still remains widely used in that region. The word 'zane', a noun, is in reference to the constant, unmelting snowcover that blankets the region year-round. In Classical Ninjargon the term means, "endlessly persevering" - but over time it became repurposed as their term for their endless snow. Dr. Julien always thought the snow was beautiful, and named his son after its remarkable endurance
Lloyd's name has an interesting history to it. In the time of the Stone Wars, when the FSM initially split Ninjago and sealed away the Overlord, the people of that era celebrated the occasion by turning it into a holiday. They called it "belloid", which Classically means "victory over darkness." Eventually a new tradition emerged where children who were born on the holiday were named after it - and so the name "lloyd" came to be. And although the holiday evolved and is now more commonly known as Festival Day (yes, thats a canon holiday), with its history and origins fading out of public awareness, the tradition still persists. But heres the catch: Lloyd wasnt born on that holiday. His dad's reasons for naming him Lloyd were twofold. First, because he made a promise to himself to resist the venom's corruption for the sake of his son, and the name "victory over darkness" served as a testament to that promise. And second, because 'lloyd' sounds like 'lord', and giving his child a pun name sounds exactly like something Garm would do
And of course, since the ninjas' rise to fame, they have inspired some increasingly popular baby names. 'Lloyd' has been the baby name of the year for four years in a row now, which is something the others tease him relentlessly for.
doodles from mspaint jspaint
sad kia lego kai kai and STick hugging the jay design i settled on i love drawing on my touchscreen chromebook
ninjago but instead of zane figuring out he’s a robot by finding his blueprints Jay just accidentally sticks a fridge magnet to him and they’re all like wtf ???
Testing out Jay designs
oh and a drawing of STick, Kai and Nya’s “dog” in my rewritten au
Nadakhan could’ve just told them he needed to get married and Flintlocke would not hesitate