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weekend-whip · 4 years ago

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At long last, the promised proper reference sheet for my OC, Jesse! He is the Elemental Master of Surprise and based on the Fuchsia Ninja from the movie who had only one line and little other relevance. Yeah!

For more (potentially but not actually) spoilerish info, press onward!

AIGHT so he’s a little bit different from the last time I drew him since I wanted to design an alternate outfit + a new hairstyle (which is much, much closer to what I wanted in the first place. He’s going to get a haircut in-story sooner or later~).

Anyway, infodump time!

Jesse Marvell is the only son of a family running a small food stall at the street market in south Ninjago City, consisting of his grandmother, his mother, his little sister Miranda, and his father (who is never home due to traveling for work). He is the only member of his family with bizarrely-colored eyes (initially desaturated pink eyes and white pupils), which has puzzled them all for years, but otherwise had no answers for it and accepted it as a just quirk.

His True Potential came as a...surprise, and to this day he’s still not entirely sure why it occurred when he did nothing special for it (and this is why he cannot/hasn’t activated his NRG Ability). Seeking answers, a lady from a Tea Shop sent him towards the Monastery of Spinjitzu to talk to Master Wu. Master Wu explained that he was the current Inheritor of Surprise, along with how Elemental Inheritance works, and offered to train him in the ways of Spinjitzu and become a ninja to maintain control of his powers. Jesse declined, even as he saw another ninja currently training (which just so happened to be Cole, who he eventually forms a crush on—surprise). At the time, he felt that becoming a ninja just wasn’t his path to follow.

About two years later finds him and his family in the wake of the first invasion led by Lord Garmadon. After his sister gets injured and having to be bailed out by “the Girl on the Lion” (Nya), Jesse realizes that had he trained properly and learned to use his powers, he might’ve been better equipped to protect his family. But too ashamed to go back to Wu, he instead trains at a local dojo within the city, and attempts to pick up the slack where the Secret Ninja Force falls short.

The Element of Surprise is one of the four Derivative Elements derived from Lightning (with the others being Sound, Speed, and Wind). Unlike the rest of the elements, Surprise is not inherited through bloodlines, nor can it be passed on willingly. Instead, whenever the current master dies or is no longer able to surprise others, the element automatically transfers to the least suspecting individual, guaranteeing that it is always a surprise to both gain and lose the element.

This is the reason that while Jesse and Harumi may share the same eye color variant, they are not related. Jesse inherited the element from the previous master with no blood relation (and no knowledge of who they even were), while Harumi is simply a descendent of someone who had the element in the past with no elemental inheritance whatsoever.

His powers very closely resemble magic, and Jesse runs with it, becoming an amateur magician to better control his powers all without anyone suspecting what he’s really doing. At its base, his powers manifest as a series of pink and silver sparkles, which he can blast at people, though that alone doesn’t do much. He compares his powers to having a series of magic tricks up his sleeves (as magic tricks have a series of effects they can achieve) which Jesse can pull off by fusing his powers with attributes of the other Elements (except the Green One).

For example, he can use the Effect of Lightning to stun people (Reaction), the Effect of Gravity to hover slightly (Levitation), the Effect of Speed to short-distance teleport (Transposition)...or something more simple, like using the Effect of Nature to make flowers appear out of his sleeves (Production).

The less the intended target expects the trick, the stronger it will become. However, if the intended target anticipates the trick, the less effective the trick will be. This is why Jesse tries not to use his powers in public too often, otherwise it will speed up how fast he’ll end up losing his powers. Specific effects also will not work on the equivalent elemental master either, as they’d have the ability to nullify the effect (so for example, the Effect of Fire would not work against the Master of Fire).

His elemental ability is called Inverse Anticipation, which ultimately means that not only does he has the ability to mask his presence and catch people off guard, other people can do that to him as well. Good for getting the jump on enemies and spying on conversations, bad for when your crush walks up trying to talk to you or trying to make new friends.

His NRG Ability (which in Legacyverse are the signature powers that activate post-True Potential, like Cole’s super super-strength or Jay’s long lost ability to fly/teleport) is Random Roulette, which ensures that whatever Effect he uses next will be guaranteed to surprise the intended target...with the trade-off being that the move is also a surprise to Jesse as well, meaning he’d put himself at great risk while using it. But of course, he can’t even use this ability until he figures out what his True Potential was supposed to be...

Aaaaand here’s the version of his ref with his ninja suit instead: