#ninjago on coffee

[crappy-coffee]

I think the Ninja running a tea shop should’ve been expanded on. Not for any important reason, I just wanna make the Ninja work in customer service.

I NEED Lloyd to be a tired teen who snaps at a Karen for complaining her iced tea isn’t hot. She mumbles “kids these days” and Wu has to (unfortunately) stop his nephew from lunging across the counter to grab her throat.

Cole has to explain way to many times that NO they do not serve peanut anything, no not even in their cookies, because Jay is deathly allergic and it’s posted on a sign up front and if they want to complain they can Kiss his Boots

Kai’s on kitchen duty because tea is easy and needs heat. But goddamn some if the orders people come up with are weird. Like it’s a tea shop why are we combining candy floss with green tea. Why are people asking for whipped cream. What is happening.

Zane helps with baked goods (bc who doesn’t like a cookie with warm tea :] ) and struggles significantly less but he also has to do runs to tables. Some people complain to him about the food and he’s like “I have 7 more orders to do Please talk to your server :[“ but that doesn’t stop people. Plus people keep asking him to cool off their drinks. I desperately need Zane “I know I was built to protect but I Swear To All That Is Holy if one more customer makes an Ice Machine joke I’m freezing Borg Tower” Julien.

Words cannot describe how much I need a scene of a customer screaming at Nya to get the manager, and she pulls a “I’m the manager.” Bonus points if the customer then says to get the owner and Nya gets out Wu and/or Ronin.

[ninjas-and-coffee]

[cool-chocolatebouquet]

What if two big strong former leaders of a team of color coded ninjas with a love of food and protective and caring natures and dad issues and who have gotten mind controlled at least once interacted with each other?

Looking at my interest of 10+ years vs my interest of about a year and a half . . . I have a type of favorite character methinks

[universesrising]

storybook au where lloyd is the underpaid and extremely tired librarian who has to deal with 5 random villains coming to life from their books every full moon

he’s not too worried about it cause all they do is argue at each other about who gets to take over the world the whole time until the sun comes up and they disappear

zane is the only competent villain being the ice emperor and all but since all he does is sleep the entire night there’s about 0 worry that he’ll wake up and actually destroy the world

cole isn’t even a true villain he’s just the ghost in a spooky mystery book where random people go into a haunted house and are surprised it’s haunted

one of the books gets checked out and lloyd has an aneurism trying to find who did it before the full moon because the only time anyone is competent is when there’s no one else to argue with

[xseekingsaturnx]

have we made the executive decision as a fandom to collectively write nya as being highly caffeinated/an avid coffee drinker? we just headcanon she’s a coffee kind of girl? is there any canon evidence to back us up?

i love that we just looked at her and thought yeah…this one’s definitely addicted to the buzz juice.

we’re funny asf for that. evil never sleeps and neither does nya apparently

[sexiestwerewolf]

do you think Lloyd doesn't even like tea all that much bc before he wasn't seen drinking it but now he drinks it to be more like Wu

[galactic-gilly]

I saw a stock photo version of this earlier and immediately thought of office worker Jay.

There's not enough coffee for how many times Judy broke the printer today.

[juniperjellyfish]

(Yes, I know there's three people)

[someloserinajaywig]

I think the love triangle arc in rebooted is as stupid and bad and vaguely misogynistic as the next guy, but one thing that made me laugh my ass off upon rewatch was nya’s reasoning as to why she liked each of them

Oh Jay? yeah he’s a cutie he’s so funny, he’s the only one who can make me laugh we have so much history

Cole? he isn’t jay, and that’s more than enough for me

[llannasvsp]

We always talk about the way Morro and Kai reacted to not being the Green Ninja. I live for those fanfics, textposts, edits, fanart, literally anything. However: as the resident Lloyd girlie / kin / whatever, I need to know how he feels and what he's thinking when people get obsessively jealous of his destiny.

Everyone sees the power and the glory that goes with the title. What they don't see is the pain, hardship, and loss that goes with it. The glory comes from destroying the people you love. The hardship happens because no matter what, it's never over. Evil will always re-manifest itself, meaning your destiny is never complete.

People like Kai (formerly) and Morro long for the title. But I can only imagine Lloyd hates it. Wishes he could change his life. Wishes he could just hand it on to someone else, but he knows he can't, because he is the only one who can take the burden of it. He wishes he could explain how horrible it is, but no one will ever see, because he keeps the darkness inside (I have a whole rabbit trail on this that I will probably talk about later).

"We never chose these mantles we hold." "I know. It's hard to live a normal life." - Harumi and Lloyd, Sons of Garmadon

I'm rambling about Lloyd again... but seriously. I want to know how he feels in these moments.

[coleisunderrated]

Since Pixal was initially built as an assistant by Cyrus Borg and probably spent most of her time helping him before meeting the ninja, I think shes knows a lot about running a business. but if she were around Wu's Teas wouldn't have happened in the first place

[crappy-coffee]

Lloyd combat redesign reveal

[ninjas-and-coffee]

remeber that one cool scene from the trash fire of the crystallized ending???

[rainofthetwilight]

please ninjago let office jay parable be real please ninjago let office jay parable be real please ninjago let office jay parable b-

[irl-morros-account]

Do you guys ever realise that your eyes are randomly fucking struggling to focus and keep up. And also shadowy shapes move in the corners

[razzle-zazzle]

talk about the new imposter au please? you have captured all of my attention

Yeah! Been debating whether to outright state the twist or try and wait until the whumptober piece comes out, but yanno what I'm in a sharing mood so. yeah:

Basically, at some point during his fall in MotO, Cole and an oni who doesn't have a name yet but I've been using Eri as a placeholder... swap memories. Like, entirely. Eri wakes up in the form of Cole with all of Cole's memories and none of his own, and is thus convinced that he is Cole and not once does he question any of it. Cole wakes up convinced he's an oni serving under Omega, and is eager and ready to get back to it... as soon as he can manage to shift back into his true form and away from this weird disguise he doesn't recognize.

This, as you might imagine, is going to cause problems. The ninja don't realize that "Cole" (ericole??? coleri??? actually yeah for eri-disguised-as-cole we're gonna call him Erico, and then we'll call cole-convinced-he's-eri Coleri) isn't Cole, and Erico isn't about to realize he's not Cole either! And then while Coleri gets left behind when the oni are driven back, he also doesn't realize the obvious and thinks it's because he's a shit oni who lost the ability to shapeshift! There's gonna be a lot of imposter syndrome going around in this AU, hence why I didn't change the name 😌

so yeah tl;dr cole and a random oni swap memories and thus identities and this causes problems both for others and for themselves