#ninjago preeminent

[drowsydregon]

average mcdonalds in the cursed realm

[morroodle]

I have a vision

This preeminent design has been sitting in my brain and I want to draw it so bad but man am I bad at drawing. I've been putting off doing even this much because it's just so overwhelming. I will never finish this drawing.

But The Preeminet!!! She's so cool and so pretty and I love her my queen. Honestly if I had money or confidence I would pay someone to draw this for me.

[juniperjellyfish]

[nagasthia]

Preeminent

I had sooo much fun on this one!

I mean, after THAT pythor drawing I had to give yall something decent. Sorry about that thing, I was in the blockiest art block I’ve ever seen

@legogeek33​ was my muse this time pals, clap clap clap

And if you could reblog, it would help me greatly! You don’t have to if you don’t want to

[emptyelixir]

the preeminent but she’s ✨ mother ✨

I thought giving the preeminent a humanish design would be fun, she’s kinda loosely based off of the harionago yokai

[sea-jello]

this is how i practice drawing

[monstershowdowns]

[ratherbeabrcharacter]

Thinking about Movieverse!Morro

Maybe Morro was adopted by Wu when Lloyd was young, so he ended up babysitting Lloyd when Koko was too busy working double shifts. He ends up warming up to Lloyd.

One day, Garmadon burns down Wu's house in the middle of the night, and Wu barely makes it out of the collapsing building trying to help him. And so, wanting no, needing to help somehow, Morro ends up being trained as the Green Ninja. The duo fights together and have each other's back, and for a while, things are good.

However, on the day he was supposed to receive the green ninja gi, Morro almost gets eaten alive by a shark while fighting Garmadon's generals, nearly drowning. Wu has to hear Morro's screams as he's being eaten alive before ripping the shark off him. Afterwards, Morro loses his legs, and fearing a worse incident, Wu benches him indefinitely. Not only that, he enrolls Morro to a faraway college where he won't get hurt in the future when he has to move.

And so, Morro ends up feeling confined in his own body. Needing to train somehow (and help pay the bills), he starts working at the library, simultaneously training his mind, desperately looking for a cure so he can fight again, and prove to Wu he's still very capable of earning his keep. (This is a very toxic mindset btw, not helped by the rumors after his "disappearance" from duty. Wu did NOT mean to make Morro feel this way)

Meanwhile, his pseudo cousin/brother starts making friends at school (he's very happy for him in that regard, poor kid needs some friends he's, not lonely he isn't being replaced) and in a similar vein to Morro, Lloyd really wants to help in some way to stop his father. Wu outright refuses and even bans the subject from coming up again.

Lloyd constantly tries to sneak on missions and almost gets hurt. So resigned, Wu figured that if he was going to stick around anyways he might as well learn some self defense and basic attacks.

When Garmadon tries to burn down his house again, Wu reluctantly starts training ninja again, but in fear of what Morro would feel, he left out telling him anything and swore the ninja team to secrecy.

During research for a ninja mission, Zane realizes that the only place to find any good primary resources was in the Ninjago City Library -where Morro happens to work.

The ninja have no luck trying to navigate the mixed library system (not just organized under by dewy decimal system I'm afraid) Morro overheard their struggles and decided to help them out. They accept his help under the guise of doing a research paper. Still, I imagine, books with the title of "How to Deal with and Defeat evil Villains: A Guide" is very conspicuous. Morro figures out who they are how he's been left in the dark -

abandoned

replaced by someone better

-and confronts Lloyd and co. about it in the back alley of the library.

In the end, he finds himself begrudgingly understanding where they're coming from, the need to do something and they call out a truce. Not wanting be left behind, Morro offers his assistance in exchange for being in the loop.

This isn't exactly the healthiest for him mentally, since similarly to Kai, he's the kind of person who has to take action, to feel in control. But being injured, he becomes a liability on the battlefield, so he's held back and has to sit back and wait. (for his cousin and little group of friends to be injured while he sits on his hands and does nothing)

Morro understands the kid didn't ask nor intentionally tried to replace him, and he's happy for him but-

He's feels a vindictive part of him happy every time Lloyd's hurt

He could be so much better if they'd just let him-

In his final year before college (Ninjago High will teach both middle and high for plot convenience) everything boils over into an explosive argument at school with Morro leaving and moving out in the middle of the night.

He uses his savings to move into his new dorm and ignores his text messages, only saying he won't bother them anymore, since he's at college now.

Wu never moves the house key from under the doormat, just in case Morro wanted to visit or needs something - anything (what has he done)

Lloyd is a mess the kids at school were right about him-how could he drive his own brother away

And the ninja team have mixed feelings

we should've noticed - done better

How could he make Lloyd feel this way

I hope they're okay

We need to give them all some space

Search result for: what should I do I'm confused and sad and mad and

The only (one) time he ever visits is when Garmadon burned down their Wu's home again.

He feels numb, hollow, like a ghost of his former self

In college, Morro roomates with Goultar, who introduces him to his gang of friends Bansha and Soul Archer. They help him out with his living situation since he doesn't want Wu's charity.

He can't go back to Wu like this. no way.

Turns out, they're part of a revolutionary group called the Winds of Change, with the goal of "reshaping Ninjago City as we know it to build a new and better world". Morro thinks they're kinda shady, but chooses not to say anything since his friends (who've done a lot for him, who he trusts) are fervent supporters of the group.

He doesn't want to (can't) be alone

Morro eventually joins the group, and soon, with the help of his friends (and his own merit), rises to the top as 2nd in command. During his time in the group, he's grown more paranoid, snappier, and generally more volatile as he struggles under the weight of balancing schoolwork and attending midnight meetings.

As a final test, the leader of the group, Yang, tasks him and his generals (friends) to steal the realm crystal, an old artifact being on show at the Ninjago city library - where he used to work. The group plans to use the artifact to revive their founder, a woman reverently titled as "The Preeminent" to lead them "into the new age".

Morro's extremely hesitant, even opposing his orders, but his "friends" pressure him into it. "haven't we done so much for you? The old museum curator won't even remember it! Why can't you do just this ONE thing for us?"

And so, using his employee access card (it feels so long ago he was working in these empty halls, he never returned his pass) they break in.

Suddenly, an alarm sounds

Shit! We have to run. They have the ninja on standby here.

What!? You never told me this!

Well duh! The artifact belongs to the Garmadon Family!

Stop! The secret ninja force is - Morro?! Why are you here?

At this point, Morro realizes that he's way in over his head, but it's too late to back out.

In the end, its Lloyd who has to restrains him and turn him in to the cops.

Morro ends up getting a prison sentence, but due to a anonymous word from the Green Ninja is lessened to 2 years.

He refuses any and all visits

In jail, Morro meets Karlof, and they form a tentative friendship. They look out for each other, and despite having some differences, both share a strong sense of determination and stubbornness.

After he gets out of jail, Karlof (who was released first) helps him get back on his feet and offers to let him stay in his apartment. Morro didn't refuse. (He was jus so tired) He knows that Karlof isn't going to ditch him, but when his friends come over he can't hep but fear he's being replaced even tho he was here last.

When Karlof finds out, he looks Morro in the eye and promises that he won't leave him - no matter what.

It's at this point that Morro just breaks - at this point he's just been through so much - from having nothing to a family to a future to being a failure to feeling so so lonely all those pent up emotions just comes out in one big storm. He tells Karlof everything, and I mean everything.

He expects Karlof to drop him - there's no way he would want him around now, but Karlof just gives him a huge hug (it reminds him of home).

Maybe things aren't so bad

Idk where to go from here, but in the end they reconcile with each other and Morro now has a support system (yay!) Karlof's friends welcome him into their group with open arms. I'm still debating wether or not Garmadon will build him a prosthetic (that works like a real arm? Or with limitations he has work around creatively or turn into an advantage?)Will he be a ninja?

Edit: I think maybe at one point the gang members/cult members from the preeminent gang escape and with plans to kidnap Lloyd, fight the ninja. Morro has a choice: to back to them or fight alongside his family. He chooses the latter.

Things aren't perfect, but I'd like to think they're all happy and content together.

Sidenote: I came up with that karlof sideplot on a whim as I was writing this.

Adding one more headcanon - Bansha and Morro bonds over emo makeup and cool music.

Ideas, c&c are welcome and this idea is free to use with credit!

Just if anyone does, please PLEASE send me a link to it cuz I need more morro in my life.

[ninjagobrackets]

[drowsydregon]

the preeminent vaguely sounds like chewbacca

[morroodle]

New AU I've been brainrotting about: The Preeminent adopts baby Morro

Somehow for some reason baby Morro (maybe like 6 months - 1 year old) ends up in the cursed realm, and he's alive. Like not a ghost. And of course that's weird as hell so one of the generals scoops him up and brings him to the preeminent because that's what you do with weird shit. And she fucking adores him. It's love at first sight and she adopts him on the spot. He is tiny and fragile and precious and she will protect him and he will grow big and strong <3

Unfortunately the preeminent knows like nothing about babies so the generals have to help her out. She is very confused why he does not have teeth. It's adorable.

[juniperjellyfish]

[beybladeninja]

A while ago, I came up with a human design for the Preeminent.

Here’s a little bit about her!

In this AU, the Preeminent is not necessarily evil in the events of Possession. She was greatly irritated that so many people in Ninjago were repulsed by death, and in turn were repulsed by her. Sure, she was created as a prison for the most wicked of souls, but she was still a natural part of life. All she wanted was to be understood and respected by others.

So she got a little greedy. She thought that if she was somehow able to cross over into the Realms of the Living, she could show the humans that death was something to revered instead of feared. She thought that she could show them her importance, the importance of death.

When a portal opened in her stomach and released the souls of cursed Anacondrai admirals, she saw her chance. She sent Morro, one of her most trusted warriors, into the Realm of the Living to begin preparations for her arrival. Little did she know, however, that Morro had unfinished business in his old home. His actions would paint the arrival of the Preeminent in a very negative light, and you pretty much know what happens next.

After being defeated by the Elemental Masters during the Battle of Stiix, and then again by Samurai X, the Preeminent was renounced from her Realm status and reduced to nothing more than an ugly slug slithering in the shadows of Ninjago. Most of the cursed souls left her stomach when she was defeated the first time, which left her in a very weakened state. She was still the determined prison for cursed souls, though, so as time passed, more spirits automatically traveled into her. Her strength returned with each new soul, eventually granting her the ability to take on a different form.

She returned to Ninjago City when she was able to move easily once again, traveling in the shadows and learning the language by watching the people. But what she also learned shocked her. After her defeat in Stiix, she was considered to no longer be in existence entirely. They no longer feared death, but it was so much worse than before. Now people not only didn't respect her - they also didn't believe in her!

The apparent truth made her angry. She decided to take it upon herself to remind others that she was still alive, and that her version of death still waited for those who sinned. She started to hunt down various big time criminals in Ninjago, killing them and taking their souls. Her victims consisted of those who schemed, those who lied, and those with too much hubris for their own good. Each new soul made her stronger, which allowed her to kill in greater quantities. News started to spread that death stalked the streets of Ninjago and people started to fear it once more. The Preeminent was finally getting what she wanted.

But it was only half of the picture. The Preeminent used to be the embodiment of the Cursed Realm, yet she had been reduced to a common killer. Her one true wish is to be restored to her former Realm status... and to be relevant in Ninjago's culture again.

Fun Facts:

1. In her new form, she is dressed in a revealing manner to symbolize that death can be tempting, especially to those who truly do not want to live anymore.

2. She introduces herself to her victims as death; more accurately, she is the death that awaits those who sin against Ninjago.

3. She takes a dark/unassuming palette when she's calm to symbolize that death can come when one least expects it, from the most unlikely of places.

4. The veil in both versions of her is supposed to represent an armillary sash that I often see in Asian folklore. I don't really know if it has any significance - I just thought it looked cool. Though I did find a legend in which it was used by Nezha to disrupt the ocean, and well... the Preeminent technically did something like that.

5. Is she inspired by Death from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish? Yes. Because he is an awesome character.

6. Her one big eye can narrow and widen, but it can never close all the way. This symbolizes that death is constant and is always collecting new souls.

7. Like during Ninjago: Possession, she can summon some of the wicked souls inside of her to assist her. She especially likes to use this ability to scare the shit out of her prey.

Playlist that I listened to constantly while daydreaming her:

“Death Sings a Song” by Aaron Fraser-Nash

“Death” by CG5

“Return to the Motherland” by DAGames

I also whipped these up a few days ago:

[oshawottarchive]

Looped

Jay woke up, rubbing his eyes. It was a day like any other day; get ready, eat breakfast, go on patrol, et cetera.

Today though, something was. . . Different. He checked his calendar. Tuesday. Wasn’t yesterday Saturday? Maybe his memory was messing with him, or maybe he had slept through a few days.

He chuckled slightly. *Yeah right. Cole would’ve woken me up by then.* He squinted at the calendar again, shrugged, then stepped out into the hallway.

Heading to the kitchen, he paused. Did they have something today? Something. . . Special? *Eh, probably getting confused. I’ll have to ask Zane about that.* He hoped it wasn’t something too bad.

He sat down at the table, leaning back in his chair. Cole sat at the other side, foot tapping the ground. “Hey, good morning.” He greeted the black ninja, who nodded, seeming almost. . . Absent.

“Yeah, good morning.” To someone else, this wouldn’t be too weird; Cole was never a morning person. But to Jay, something was off, albeit ever so slightly.

“Oh, uh. Yeah.” He bounced in his chair, waiting for Zane to finish making the waffles. *Mmm, waffles.* He smiled. Waffles were Jay’s favorite. He looked at Cole. “We are having waffles today, right? Not pancakes?” He didn’t mind pancakes, they were just less-appealing.

Cole glanced at him, fingers drumming the table. “Uh, yeah. I think so. . . .”

Weird, Cole was usually excited for breakfast, but today. . . .

“Hey, are you feeling okay?” Jay asked. This felt weirdly familiar, but he couldn’t place it. The black ninja waved his hand dismissively. “Yeah, yeah. I’m fine.” He looked away.

Jay frowned. *What’s going on, and why do I feel like this has happened before?*

~~~

Jay sat on the back of the bike, watching the trees go by. “Why are we out here, again? I thought we were supposed to be patrolling the city.”

Cole kept driving. “I wanted to find something.” His hands gripped the handlebars, almost crushing them.

“Um, maybe don’t break the steering?” *Break the steering. Hmm. Has that happened before?*

He shook his head to clear it. After a few more minutes, they stopped. They had entered a small clearing bordered by moss-covered boulders, almost like a fairy circle - just without the mushrooms.

Jay got off the bike. “/Why/ are we here?” He looked at Cole. “Are you bringing me to some fantasy fairy land? Are you working with them?”

Cole rolled his eyes, stifling a laugh. “No, Jay. You really need to get better at making up theories. Just because Serpentine and Dragons exist doesn’t mean every folklore creature does, too.”

He walked away a bit, studying the rocks.

Jay frowned. “Okay, well, Oni exist too. Maybe you’re working for /them!/”

Cole’s brown and purple eyes flashed, and Jay realized that he had gone too far.

The black ninja turned to him, eyes narrowed. “Excuse me, but I believe that would make me a traitor.” His voice had lowered to a hiss.

Jay backed away a little. *This has happened before, I’m sure of it. It happened when - /oh no/.* His eyes widened.

“Wait, Cole don’t!” Too late, the black ninja had already done it.

Cole’s earth punch activated, lava dripping lazily onto the ground, burning the grass. The boulders around them lit up with an orange glow, ghostly purple and green sparking in the air.

Jay’s hair puffed up with static, and he took a step back. He was ready for it this time, he wasn’t going to let his best friend get taken by that - that /thing/.

As the boulders lifted inches into the air, the ground cracked beneath him. Cole looked down, breaking his concentration. “I didn’t order it to -“

Ghostly mist emerged from the cracks, slowly moving upwards to engulf the Master of Earth’s legs. Cole’s eyes widened, flashing green and purple. “No no, not again.”

*It reminds him of the Oni smoke.* Jay remembered. *He’s panicking, oh crap.*

Suddenly, tentacles shot up from the cracks and grabbed Cole’s arms, trying to drag him down. “Preeminent?!” His voice rose to an angry, inhuman, screech. “Let go! Go back to where you came from!”

The Cursed Realm didn’t abide, only tightened her grip.

The Preeminent pulled him down, ground splitting open to swallow him. *He’s being destroyed by his own element.*

Jay rushed forward, electricity crackling around him. “Wait!”

~~~

Jay woke up, rubbing his eyes. It was a day like any other day; get ready, eat breakfast, go on patrol, et cetera.

Today though, something was. . . Different. He checked his calendar. Tuesday.

*Oh no.*

[sea-jello]

i can’t be the only one who thought the preeminent looked like an asshole

[dontlookforme00]

Quick fanart doodle of a fanfic by @roguendeavor ! It's a Morro fic where the Pre-eminent and her ghosts are actually a cult. Halfway through and it's great I got inspired so i drew something.

It's called Those who want to be saved (and those who offer damnation). On ao3 go read it!!

Unedited, but higher quality of the two. Seperate

Ok bye now!