#while the first born of the FSM and Master of Destruction was just chilling on the sidelines

[coolestzed]

YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES-

au where Wu and garmadon were invited to the tournament of elements as the masters of creation and destruction.

Even better would be if the ninja didn’t know they had elemental powers up until that point.

[barcode-kid]

ninjago genetics. sorta. a confused ramble. (spoilers)

So after seeing an obscene amount of people say that they'd like to see/think that whatever is coming after Crystalized will be about the ninja's children (personally, hate the idea), I began to think about Ninjago genetics--more specifically, in relation to powers.

So. We know that elemental powers can be inherited, received after a master dies (i'm assuming. otherwise, there'd probably be some weird 'royal' lines), and… possibly given away…? What happened with Zane and the previous master of ice isn't clear to me. Anyway, it seems only one elemental holder can exist at a time (ignoring time travel), so that made me wonder how the powers are transferred. Kai has fire. His dad had fire. Did Ray's powers automatically just 'transfer' to Kai the moment he popped out of the womb? Or did Ray's power gradually dwindle after Kai's birth? Because we've seen some of the ninja as kids in flashbacks, yet they are never shown or mentioned to have powers. But we know that Kai and Nya had to take over the blacksmith shop young, meaning they may have had to use their powers. I'm also wondering how one figures out they are an elemental, especially if they have no parents. I attribute Nya not knowing about her water to writing/production, but her not assuming she's an elemental could also allude to the fact that children of elemental masters don't always receive their parents' powers (but honestly i can't remember if the siblings even knew their parents were elemental masters). So what determines if a child gets genetic power? Is it chance, or does it happen 100% of the time? Ignoring that the writers probably just wanted to match Nya and Kai to their parents, what was stopping Kai from inheriting water? And then we have Cole. His mother was an elemental master, but his dad was not. Does this mean Cole had a chance of not receiving Lilly's power? Jay also falls under this category.

I have so many questions, especially about Lloyd. According to the wiki, his energy isn't an element but an essence from the First Spinjitzu Master's powers. As we know, all the powers come from the FSM (except amber?); this includes creation and destruction, the first which is possessed by Wu and the latter by Garmadon. The FSM basically materialized the brothers (iirc), so we're just gonna ignore genetics there. But since Lloyd's dad is Garmadon and Garmadon still has his powers, does that mean essence isn't passed down and instead simply inherited? Neither of the brothers have energy power, but Lloyd has it anyway, so it might just be about being connected to the FSM. This makes me wonder if Lloyd had a kid, would they inherit one of the four essences? Or Lloyd's essence? Anyway, moving on and coming back to Zane. Zane has technically died. Same with Cole. And Kai's heart has stopped. How long do elementals have to be dead before their powers are 'transferred' to someone else? Do they have to go to the departed realm first and chill there for a while? Were there just no babies being born during the times the ninja in question were dead? WHY IS THERE NO NEW MASTER OF WIND? Like don't get me wrong; I don't expect some AtLA avatar council to scour the globe (island) for newborn elemental masters, but idk man. Returning to Zane once more--he is almost as confusing as Lloyd. Personally, I feel like he can't really ever die. But that's a whole other conversation. Basically, he could technically possess ice for eternity, but if he didn't want to anymore, how the hell would he give it away? While we're on the topic of parents, big rip to Jay. IIRC, he would have gotten his powers from his mom. Wish we knew more about his parents and backstory. k side note but if elements are transferred to children immediately upon birth, can you imagine ed and edna with a damn lightning baby? now i wanna see the ninja as kids…