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prev would never EVER disappear for months at a time, making all their mutuals worry NPT: @iobsesswaytoomuch and @death-is-a-simp and anyone else who wants to join! (usually i tag like 5 people but the last 3 were of those 5 lmao)

(also im just messing with you mintleaf, im glad youre back lmao <3)

New REBLOG Game

Just fucking lie about the previous poster

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kai absorbing dragon fire like a badass

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Just a giant robot and the sad angry cat he picked off of the road I think that nothing bad will ever happen to them 😊

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One thing has been bothering me about Lloyd. Not necessarily in a bad way, I just want to see if anyone else has noticed it.

Outside of being a ninja, Lloyd doesn't have much of a personality.

We know he likes pillow mints, Fritz Donnegan, and the occasional video game... but not much else. If he didn't have the constant pressure of saving the world/ leading the team/ raising the next generation of ninja, I'm not quite sure what he'd want to be.

I could maybe see him being a teacher. Or an archaeologist/ historian with his mom. Maybe working at the Dairy Dragon or whatever is Ninjago's version of Starbucks. But nothing completely fits, you know? I think he would be a little lost without his job, as much as it adds to his trauma.

Which then makes me sad. Because the poor kid was even younger than the other (tween/ teenage) ninja when he was forced into saving the world. Even before then, he was stuck at Darkley's. Lloyd never got a chance to develop hobbies and passions, other than his destiny and loving his family, and with all of the chaos he's endured, he still hasn't had that chance.

I love Lloyd. He is the sweetest Green Bean, for sure. But every arc he gets is always about his terrible family/ trauma. The others get that arc, for sure, but their arcs tend to focus a least a bit more on their specific personality (Cole with Krag or becoming a ghost, Nya's misogyny bit, Jay trying to figure out how to propose, Kai helping Skylor break free from her dad's manipulation, Zane rebuilding himself and rediscovering his identity, P.I.X.A.L. talking sense into Milton Dyer, their individual True Potential episodes, even the terrible love triangle at least didn't step from their family history) Lloyd has sort of been boiled down to either the son of Garmadon or the savior of the world, and there is no in between.

Maybe this is just me. I totally could have missed or overlooked something. What do you think?

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Every body say thank you Rusty

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Current Kai my beloved 🔥🔥🔥

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He is so disappointed

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they're letting just anybody order a happy meal nowadays

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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YOOOO AWESOME QUIZ DIVA <3 No pressure tags: @death-is-a-simp @iobsesswaytoomuch @delusional-ninjago-fangirl @apoeticwasteoofspace @mintleafkitty72 and anyone else who wishes to join!!!!

This is the most dogshit thing I've ever spent time making but fuckit which side character are you?

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I hate r*hanna because one time my mom took me to the petting zoo and this big ass goat bit my hand and chased me around the farm and I know in my heart that it was her doing

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I think I wouldn't mind Zane's NPC-ification quite as much as I do, if it didn't feel like they were also retconning the fact that he was ever a person to begin with.

Like, sure, I totally understand. Dragons Rising has a huge ensemble cast, and the RGB trio + new ninja are the clear focus. And I don't mind that! Everyone who does get proper narrative attention is written so wonderfully and I adore what we have. But...sometimes it feels like they're just kinda divvying up everything that makes Zane who he is and giving it to everyone else, and never even briefly acknowledging Zane's ties to those traits.

Remember when Zane used to have prophetic dreams foretelling future events? Me neither. Hey Lloyd, how are your visions coming along?

Or, y'know how one of Zane's most integral plot lines, character details, and motifs is his struggles with memory and identity? Remember that time he got amnesia and was then both manipulated and magically corrupted into being a villain? Nah that never happened, anyway check out what Jay is up to now

Or, does anyone recall how Zane is a canonically really good cook with pies so delicious they made Jay cry on screen? No that's Arin's thing, actually

Heck, we even have our quota of ~Silly Robot Beep Boop Bop~ jokes fulfilled by Lobbo!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating on any of the other characters for having these traits. Nor am I arguing that Zane should have a singular monopoly on these types of storylines. But when they take traits that have for so long been primarily associated with Zane, like cooking and visions and amnesia, and share them with someone else without even briefly acknowledging Zane's prior involvement...idk. It just feels like they're trying to repackage all the things that make Zane interesting while still writing him out of the narrative. It feels like they're going "whaat? Zane, have personality outside of being a generic robot character?? That never happened!" Like they're just trying to have their nindroid and kill him too.

And I mean, to some extent I can understand their hesitation. It's the same reason the Mr. E/Echo reveal got scrapped in s8 - theres just way too much going on right now, and the narrative load required to explain somwthing this complicated during a reboot/sequel would just bog down an already very complicated story. Zane has a very convoluted backstory that, for new fans dropping in to the sequel series for the first time, may be difficult to explain. How do you recap Zane's history with amnesia in a neat an tidy way for the next gen story, when there's already so much going on?

Like i said, i get that. But they could at least make, like, brief blink-and-youll-miss-it allusions, yknow? Like how they played the Ice Emperor theme during Zane's existential crisis during drs1, or when Zane told Zanth not to follow dancing birds in drs3. Tasteful, subtle, doesn't require much insider knowledge and newer fans could easily interpret it as a noodle incident comment without losing out on their comprehension.

Maybe after Jay gets eliminated from the Tournament, Zane offers to go after him saying, "I've lost myself once or twice before. If anyone understands what he's going through, it's me." And if you want to preserve the plot unobstructed, maybe you can have it so that either Zane fails to get through to Jay or Jay is gone without a trace before he can get to him. Maybe there's a brief scene of Zane making a pie to try and cheer Sora up, but she can't eat it because it reminds her too much of Arin. Or maybe Lloyd has a panic attack over his visions and Zane is the one to offer him the advice about not fighting the vision and letting it come naturally.

Don't you see how easy that is? You would change literally nothing about the story at large, and you're not detracting from the main plotlines or character arcs that are quite validly dominating this series. But you're also throwing a bone to the people who actually like Zane. Like???? I'm not even asking for much here, man :/

Idk. Maybe I'm just bitter and need to touch grass, who's to say

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TW BLOOD , SLIGHT GORE

cauterizing a wound

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Ninjago as Tarot cards PT 12

P.I.X.A.L as The High Priestess