#Ninjago - The Hatching

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This is the Elemental Master of Ice, I wonder how he knew Dr. Julien. Did they create Zane together?

[crossroads-of-the-raven]

When your Sibling doesn't like your Love Interest - Ninjago: Jiang Smiths Siblings

Kai about Jay liking Nya

You know how Kai looked ready to kill Jay when he first met him, just for showing an interest in Nya.

How Kai would mess with Jay in Season 1.

But he accepted the relationship in Season 6/7 (just so long as he doesn't have to see a Jaya kiss).

And even helped Jay practice his proposal in Season 10.

Yeah ...

Kai is not the only Jiang Smith Sibling who doesn't like the idea of someone dating their sibling.

First the slightly backhanded complement:

"Skylor's right, look at her, she could have inherited her father Chen's evil empire and ruled the world but instead dedicated her life to spending her day bent over a hot stove to provide low cost quality noodles to the people of Ninjago city."

There was definitely a nicer way to say that, Nya, especially when Skylor's response to that statement was the following:

Skylor had brought out two bowls of noodles, the type that always cheered her up, so as to cheer up the siblings but in hearing Nya, she then says,

"Gee, when you put it like that. *Sigh* Let me get some of those"

And then takes Nya's untouched bowl to cheer herself up

But also:

(And before you say, but maybe Nya just doesn't know because she and Kai didn't have their parents. First, a dedicated parent can get their kids properly using chopsticks by age five; but even if you say that they just don't know the rules on etiquette - your telling me that there wasn't at least one busybody old lady that would reprimand a small child for bad manners - not to mention Wu when the siblings start living with the Ninja)

Yeah, Nya's much more subtle but I don't think she's quite ready for the idea of her brother dating.

That or she just doesn't approve of Skylor being Kai significant other.

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P.S.

To me Nya, sometimes, kinda comes off as that girl who was raised by her single father. She's moving out of the house, ready to have her own life away from her dad only to find out that he's started dating - and she is not happy about it.

She also, sometimes, kinda comes off like she knows that Kai, for her, was more than a brother, that he was her father - but she doesn't want to acknowledge it / is not ready to acknowledge it, because that would mean talking about the bad parts of their life, while growing up.

[maydayissleepy]

I'm just now realizing I never shared this drawing

This one's for you, Krux enjoyers

[captainbrookeworm]

Hey, remember the great idea I had to put Morro in the “ I’m no longer a danger to society” shirt and that I might draw it, here you go

I also gave him a cat

YES EXCELLENT!!!

Morro + cat is ALWAYS a welcome edition!! Thank you!!!

[yells-of-the-not-so-danged]

Serpentine ninjago-tumblr! tell me your hc on why there are snake lookin snakes and why there are humanoid lookin snakes!

[pillowdrawz]

Ninjago Abaddon Au: Athena The Great Devourer?

Also Lloyd can transform like Charlie in Hazbin hotel when angry.

LLOYD IN MY AU AGE NORMALLY OKAY Okay I'll explain Like in this Au Kai Got his true potential BUT He didn't know why he just assume that he needs to let go of his pride and became his own Ninja and Save Lloyd They didn't know Lloyd is the Greenninja okay. SO Moving on Garmadon Still Defeated the Great devourer but They found Garmadon and has the golden weapons So After The Great Devourer got defeated (And AGAIN THE GREAT DEVOURER HAS A WEAK SPOT ON THE FOUR HEAD) A Tiny Egg was found by Lloyd and while at school yes he still goes to school at darkleys Him and Brad take care of it boom She hatched.

That was until they found out Athena keep growing and realize oh Shes like the Great devourer but don't worry she's good cause Lloyd and Brad raised her with love and care.

Idk about Harumi tho hehehehehe

.yes Greenflower is canon in My Au cause I said so. And also Geo x Cole and Jaya etc-

[hawkflame999]

Ninjago Au/Concept About the Dragons.

What if, when she first came to be, Firstborne had no names for the things she had power over......

What if, the first little dragons she had were just four, quadruplets hatched at the same exact time.

One had her Fire Power, One had her Lightning Power, one had her Earth Power, and one had her Ice power. Though she had no name for these Elements.

Firstborne would have named the four when they were born, But the dragon cubs wanted to name themselves.

One called himself Fire. One named herself Earth. One called himself Lightning, and the last named herself Ice.

Firstborne decided that she would name the Elements she controlled after her first born four- Lightning, Ice, Fire and Earth.

And after that, the next Dragons either had one of those Elements, but sometimes they'd have a new element, and that dragon's name would be the name of that Element.

These dragons would name themselves, since the other Dragons decided that they had the right to name the elements they controlled.

(i mean, it makes sense that there would be dragons for each element)

That would make more sense, right? i mean,

'Long Before Time Had A Name'..........

What if the first dragon to have the element of Time took a while to be born, and to name themself?

What if they were born after FSM? After Wu and Garmadon? (since those two seem to have known the days Before Time Had A Name.)

Then the 'Long Before Time Had A Name' would be a little easier to understand.

Just an idea.

[user-without-a-cool-acronym]

The fact that Gandalaria yells „eureka“ upon finding the escape hatch, means that ancient Greece existed at some point in the history of ninjago

[riptide0602]

Hc/lore theory(idk what to call it)

Wojira was a dragon-oni hybrid from the first realm.Water and wind dragons have always been sort of an outcasts and stayed neutral during the conflict between dragons and oni.So when Wojira was born,both sides hated her.She left,taking nearly all the water and cool breeze with her,leaving the FIrst realm a deserted land.She created her own realm that would be known as ninjago later.It was after she left that dragons and oni realized how powerful a child of both sides could be and later,when FSM was born,they fought over him.He found ninjago and like in canon,helped merlopians and keepers in the battle of nine days(in which there might have been some realm travel involved that would explain people from Never-realm naming a canyon after Wojira).Let's go back to time before FSM arrived.In ninjago keepers and merlopians lived rather peacefully.Wojira didn't touch them and they didn't bother her,despite their fear.Wojira had two eggs,twin children that inherited her powers.A small group of merlopians and keepers that wanted to kill Wojira sneaked into her cave and took the eggs,planning to destroy them before children of the serpent could be born.Wojira killed them,but failed to retrieve her eggs.By that time twins have hatched and got seperated.One washed up to the island of the keepers and other was found by merlopians. Oni and especilly young ones have a natural instinct to blend in using their shape-shifting,so dragoni hatchlings were mistaken for merlopian and keeper children and raised there.The twin that ended up with merlopians grew up to be a master of water named Nyad, while her brother was master of wind that grew up with keepers.Both were unaware of their true nature and heritage.Wojira assumed her children were killed and went on a rampage to punish the mortals that did it.By that time Nyad and em of wind lived long enough in their homes for their dragoni aura to be suprassed by merlopians and keepers,so Wojira didn't recognize her children.During the battle of Nine days FSM managed to lock the serpent's powers into two amulets in hopes of defeating her at the cost of wind em's life.But since true power can't be taken,amulets were still with Wojira and would take great amount of power to be seperated or destroyed.The amunt of power that FSM didn't have.So Nyad merged with the sea, you know the rest.Both twin children of the serpent were gone. Elements of wind and water passed on to their children and from them to their descendants.All masters of wind and water are direct descendants of Wojira(I realized it means Morro is related to Kai and Nya).Meanwhile,other elements,specifically tame ones,didn't stay in one bloodline.Powers would get passed to some other people when an em didn't have a child,either chosen by the em themselves or the element.Which made em of wind and water more in tune with their element.For example,wind or water master can hear their element at any time if its present,but fire or earth?Only if the element calls loud enough.It also means that wind and water masters are the only ones able to merge with their elements(Lloyd may be too since he is a direct descendant as well,but that's another thing on its own).

[lavful]

hcs for the Ninjas' Favorite Desserts!

*warning: don't read this post if you're hungry*

Cole - Cake. Let’s start with the obvious one. But specifically chocolate cake with ganache frosting. His dad made it for him every birthday growing up but stopped when Lilly passed away because it made him too sad. After Cole and Lou reconnect when Cole comes out tells him he’s a ninja, Lou starts making him the cake again and sending it to the monastery for his birthday. He also likes coconut-based desserts like Thai sweet rice with mangos and Vietnamese chè

Nya - Chewy butterscotch cookies. I’m not sorry. One of the Smith siblings’ neighbors made them for them occasionally when they were younger. Their neighbors overall looked out for the kids and made sure they were fed. Nya is also a milk tea boba girlie. 

Jay - Edna’s crumble cake of course. Also a fiend for sour candy and cupcakes, especially highly decorated ones. He was hyperfixated on the “is it cake?” trend and Nya once had to wake him up from a nightmare reassuring him that not everything is cake. 

Lloyd - Candy. Was a candy fiend when he was a kid, is still a candy fiend as a teen/adult. All kinds, sour, sweet, chocolatey, etc. Didn’t go to the dentist when he was at Darkley’s so Wu takes him shortly after adopting him and he has like a million cavities. Lloyd doesn’t like the dentist but tooth pain is worse. Lost his mind when he tried Turkish delights (lokum) for the first time. His favorite is the traditional rosewater-flavored jelly candy. Also a fan of mints and chocolate mints ofc. 

Zane - Who likes ice cream? He does! Seems like a mint chocolate or pistachio ice cream type of person to me. Bites ice cream. Does not get brain freezes. Zane had taste sensors and a digestive system in his first body and decided to include taste sensors in his second because he thinks it’s fun. (He has a hatch at the back of his neck where the food comes out, it’s easier than full digestion.) He really likes trying new and sensational foods like sili ice cream (spicy chili) and ruby chocolate. He would be such an Instagram foodie if they weren’t saving the world all the time. 

Kai - Chinese egg custard tarts. Also coffee-flavored desserts like tiramisu, Korean rice cakes (tteokbokki) with honey, and Spanish churros with chocolate. Random ass assortment, I don’t have an explanation here. 

P.I.X.A.L. - French patisserie. She doesn’t have taste buds but if she did or was a human, I think she’d like desserts with more delicate and subtle tastes. Tiny fancy desserts like mille-feuille and macarons make her indescribably happy. 

Bonus: All of them like boba/bubble tea and make regular trips to Ninjago City after missions to treat themselves. I might make a separate post with their specific preferences because I’m a boba fiend.

[crying-over-cartoons]

INTRODUCING:

The Elemental Serpentine AU!

In this AU, each Serpentine species is getting reworked! They're all getting new, more varied designs, and I'll be making a lot of new species to align with each elemental power in the show!

I'm also reworking much of the lore surrounding Serpentine, since what we are given is inconsistent, and quite vague.

As of now, I have new designs for each of the Serpentine species that appear in the show! Designs for new species to go with the missing elements will come later.

Please note that this AU is a work in progress; the designs I have here are subject to change!

Details about each species are included under the cut~~~

GENERAL AU STUFF

I decided that I want all of my Serpentine to have tails, instead of just the generals. If they have legs, they end up looking more like anthro lizards than anthro snakes. I'll let them keep the arms, though.

In the show, the Serpentine are covered in intricate details. As nice as these details are, they make it difficult to draw Serpentine in 2D. So, more for my own sanity than anything else, the patterns are getting toned down.

CONSTRICTAI - EARTH

I genuinely hate a lot of aspects of the canon design for the Constrictai. Their non-existent necks and random spikes make them look more like horrible little dinosaur gnomes than snakes. For my design, I let them keep the spikes, but moved them so they weren't sticking straight up out of their head. Most important of all, I gave them necks.

Inspiration: Boa constrictor

HYPNOBRAI - MIND

In spite of how it may seem, I did not remove this species' hood! Real snakes with hoods only 'hood up' as a threat display. I decided to incorporate this into my AU. It's not visible here, but my design has false eyes on the back of the hood. I noticed that the original design has snakes in the patterns, so I've incorporated that in a few places. I think I may have gone too far with simplifying their design, so we'll see how it changes as I continue to iterate.

Inspiration: Spectacled cobra

VENOMARI - POISON

This one has received some of the biggest changes in the AU. I felt the Venomari's extra eyes looked quite out of place in my new lineup, since it would be the only one out of a now larger number of species to have four eyes, so I lowered the number to two. I don't like the original colour scheme all that much, so I decided to take a page out of the poison dart frog book and make them bright and varied in colour. They can have a variety of colours and patterns. Like the Hypnobrai, the Venomari have a hood that can't be seen in this image.

Inspiration: African bush viper

FANGPYRE - FORM

I changed the shape of the head pretty drastically, but the colours are the same, even if the pattern is different.

Inspiration: Coral snake

ANACONDRAI - LIGHT

The colour-changing ability of the Anacondrai is so underutilized that I literally forgot about it until I started rewatching the show with my brother, so I've decided to make it more prominent. In this AU, Anacondrai change colour as a method of communication and expression. They can also change their colour to disappear, just like in the show.

Inspiration: Green anaconda, RainWings from the book series Wings of Fire

VERMILLION - FUSION

Each of the Serpentine are born or hatched without visible limbs, appearing as ordinary snakes to the untrained eye. While most species undergo a metamorphosis at a young age, emerging with two limbs, Vermillion do not, and remain in a larval state for their entire lives.

Inspiration: Garter snake, axolotl

MAARAY - WATER

According to the fan wiki for Ninjago, these guys are supposed to be eels, but I thought they were Serpentine when watching the show, and they have the same head model as some of Aspheera's lackeys, so I've made the executive decision to make them Serpentine in this AU.

Inspiration: Yellow-lipped sea krait

[icy-watch]

Uuuuuh, did you just forcefully hatch them before they were ready? That's not good for them, you know. You have to let them escape the shells themselves.

[crossroads-of-the-raven]

When you and your sibling have the same taste in significant others - Ninjago, Jiang Smith Siblings

Clearly they're both into Redheads.

...

Okay, but seriously, both Jay and Skylor were hit with a type of Serpentine transformation (if I had a nickel ...).

Still makes me wonder, what if it's just a Jiang Smith thing (like a curse) that you're future significant other ends up with a Snake transformation when doing something important with said Jiang Smith.

Jay going on his first date with Nya

Skylor getting rescued by Kai

After all, clearly these two are just as interested.

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Makes me wonder if Ray and Maya ever went through this kind of thing. They did fight during the Serpentine War - plenty of chances to get bitten by a Fangpyre. Could Snake!Maya have been apart of the Serpentine War.

Of course, the "curse" could be on Maya's side of the family, thus giving us Snake!Ray.

It's just a thought.

(*Edit: why did I write Venomari, I ment Fangpyre. It's fixed now*)

[jamisafan]

Okay, it's time for my thoughts on Dragons Rising part 2. (This is super long by the way.)

(Spoilers below the cut.)

I'll get into my Cole rant in a bit because, oh boy, do I have things to say. But Soras story feels too important to leave for last.

Sora's story can reach out to so many different people that have issues with their parents and that kids really don't owe their parents anything. Sora is one of THE BEST role models I've ever seen in a cartoon. The fact that all her problems still weren't solved when she cut contact with her parents is realistic. The fact that they didn't give her parents a redemption was satisfying. And her just actually coming to the conclusion that she doesn't need to have her biological family in her life was beautiful. You are able to choose your family, and Sora showed that perfectly. Her character is amazing, and I don't even have the words to describe how absolutely beautiful her character is. She is perfect, and it makes me all emotional and stuff. I love her 😢

Arin has so much potential, and I think his whole spinjitzu thing is super important and cool. I think he'll get the MK treatment, maybe get thrown into an identity crisis, the works. Maybe he has a whole chosen one thing like Lloyd, who knows. All I know is that I love him and his little fan boy heart.

Kai and WyldFyres relationship is so great. I love seeing how far Kai has come and him referencing Nya becoming the ocean and how Master Wu helped him work through his emotions. This was exactly what the show needed. And having Kai be WyldFyres mentor was a fantastic choice because they are seriously alike in many way. Their struggle with not being patient and their hot headedness just gives me life. Kai has a freaking kid, and there little reunion hug was so freaking cute oh my god!!!!

I felt like Nya should have had a worse reaction to seeing a Djinn again. She was definitely traumatized from that, but maybe this was also some good closure for her, seeing that not all Djinn are evil creepy monsters. Nya and Soras' relationship is cool, too

Zane needs some more done with him. I need them to address the weird egg thing he hatched out of, but hopefully, it will be resolved soon. I think Zane got pushed to the side a bit, and it felt like he was jumping everywhere (like, he was just, at the administration? I know he got in trouble for portal stuff, but..... yeah). I'm sure he will get something eventually.

Lloyd is someone I never know how to talk about because he's just such a main character that it makes him less interesting to me. Don't get me wrong I love him, and him working on becoming the master of the monetary is cool and stuff. But he still needs a form of closure from past seasons, especially with garmadon. Unless they never bring him back then that's chill. I love garmadon but he always causes so much problems. Lloyd is learning how to be a good teacher though and that's really sweet.

Jay is a sassy shit Manger, and I love it. Can't wait to see more with him.

And Cole........ Cole is perfect in everything single way, and no one can deny that. Like actually, if someone doesn't like Cole from Ninjago, that's a red flag. He ended up in the place of lost things. THATS PERFECT FOR HIM! Cole Who almost got forgotten by everyone he loves, who literally ran away from home. It's perfect! He's perfect! He's the best! I love him! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! And now he's going on his own mission to follow Master Wus voice and figure out why the earth is screaming?!?!? God I love him. He's the best 😢

Also, I've had thoughts and ideas about Cole hearing the earth screaming, and I'm SUPER curious to see what that means.

Okay, now that I've ranted about how perfect Cole is...... I need to say it.

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I already made a post about this but I'll never get over how perfect they are. It felt borderline canon.

People are talking about how Cole just straight up left him to chase master Wu, but I'm positive that Cole either talked to the others beforehand or right after leaving Nya about it. About how he would totally come back for them and figure out some way for them to leave the land of lost things and get in all those good tearful see you laters.

If Geo doesn't come back I will fucking riot. And I'm not one to swear super often. Mostly for dramatic effect. So you know I'm serious. Geo and Cole left me feeling high for days. I need them in my life. They can't just introduce new characters and then LEAVE THEM!!?!?!!?!!!?

Anyways, my full ale thought on Dragons Rising.

It was good. It felt risky at first to add all these new characters, especially main ones but they did it perfectly. I love me a well paced story that doesn't feel like it's going to fast or slow. Beatrix's story is very interesting but I'm still super excited to see what happens with my boy Lord Ras. He's just so cool and evil and stuff :D I wonder who his boss is?

The show felt somewhat nostalgic but also super fresh and the writing was good.

Also

Does anyone know what this symbol is? I can't tell if this is new or if I'm just stupid and it's been there before. Sorry if it's a dumb question.

[the-ninjago-girl]

I'm back with another ninjago au babes let's fucking go

I've decided to call this au the prince of darkness :)

Alright, so this takes place after s4. The ninja wary of Kai after his 'betrayal' and what he did while under the unfluence of the staff of elements, kick him off of the team and abandon him somewhere in ninjago city.

Unfortunately for future them, where they abandoned Kai at just so happened to have a recently hatched baby of the great devourer. And it ends up biting kai. Thus as a result history begins to repeat itself. :)

Even worse for kai(like the bs he's gone through wasn't already bad enough for him-) wasn't a legal adult as of yet, being just 16 at the time, was found out to no longer be with the ninja and thus no legal guardian since he wasn't 18 just yet, was placed in a temporary home to be adopted. And adopted he was. By the emperor and empress of ninjago.

Now, him being adopted by the 2 wasn't a coincidence. It was all planned out by harumi. :)

Thanks to her connections and her newly formed biker gang, the sons of garmadon, she was able to find out about his role in helping to stop the great devourer(finding the weak spot, creating/the idea for the ultra sonic raider, ect.), what happened with the ninja, and most importantly, that he got bit by the baby of the evil snake. So much like garmadon, she definitely admired him a lot more when she found out. And her hatred for the other ninja grew and festered even more.

And eventually after some time of Kai being there she reveals that she knows everything that happened to him. And convinces/influences him into succumbing into the darkness in him to make the ninja pay for what they did to him/them both.

So harumi gets an evil brother. :)

Some other bits of info I think are neat:

When Kai starts developing white hair from the venom the emperor and empress just assume he was very stressed from what had happened in the home he was in before they found him/whatever happened with the ninja and give him lots of space to get comfortable and adjust to his new life(which is the complete opposite of what you 2 should be doing for these traumatized kids get them some GODDAMN THERAPY.)

Eventually some spots of his skin turn black from the venom like garmadons' did,(think like vitiligo) and thanks to all the good quality make up in the palace they were able to hide him slowly turning more oni till the grand reveal >:)

They were also able to pass the glowing eyes as a part of kais elemental power(since I like to hc that kais eyes are naturally red.)

Harumi definitely rubs Kai being HER big brother in Lloyd and nyas faces after what happened to him is revealed along with them being a part of the sog(so when they steal the bounty/have Lloyd put in a cage for the ritual)

I'd like to think sometime after garmadon was cured that he ended up legally adopting Kai and nya as his kids, especially since they were already like siblings to Lloyd. So the newly revived lord garmadon gets his eldest son back and is evil like him! And gets a new evil daughter! The evilest family to exist!

Idk what I could do for Crystalized. I haven't thought that far a head lmao

[colesstar]

FINISHED DR PART 1 EARLIER TODAY WAS VERY HAPOY TO SEE MT NEPHEW HATCHING

anyways i was initially scared to start dr cuz its like. Different. Scary tthings whatever but i really like the new characters took me a bit to warm uo to sora tbh but i LOVE her!! Arins a sweetheart i hate him. I LOVE DRAGONS THEYRE SO CUTE

alos tge claws of imperium and rapton i think theyre silly and dare i say cute in general i would squash them

also dorama when he said “three ninja against one thespian” i thought he said lesbian instead and i was like craziest way coming out mid fight but i support tou girl and then i replayed it fifty times before i realised he said thespian

i dont have many complaints apart from how quickly zane just flew into battles hes been off for years and then. They just gonwithout explaining anyhing to him? Like :(((( he must be confused. Glowy lloyd…. ALSO I CANT WAIT FOR SORA TO REACH HER TRUE POTENTIAL

i also really like kreel ninjago i saw her and GASPED i live her shes my discord pfp atm

great way to heal from that crystallised ending