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How did most of the kids take to finding out kai was a blacksmith. Cause the idea of any one of them finding him making a sword or repairing weapon and maby even asking if he can make them one is cute

Ok so idea that probably won't happen but what if the reason Jay is evil is because he somehow rembers kai but like only the name face and that their vaugly friends and through manipulation from ras and he just keeps ignoring the rest of the Ninja. Idk just a funny thought

lego Ninjago movie meets show would be funny if it's during dragons rising and show Lloyd is just trying to find his kids in all of the caos of whatever is happening. Adittionally the exstistential crisis you could give each version of the characters would be funny

Ok but like what if in the part 2 nya starts acting a little bit like how kai did in the pilots. Like angry and kinda avoiding everyone and it would be cool if wyldfyre who (based off her shorts trailer) seems to come to terms with a lot of things.

Adittionally I just think seeing nya be a bit more hotheaded would be cool

y’all how old is arin. I’m not talking about age, I’m thinking in terms of the show timeline. If he was only a kid pre-merge, ain’t no way he was alive to see most of Ninjago in person. omg what if he was being born during the fire chapter or something. Obviously he’s heard about the ninja’s exploits, but to do you think he got to see any of them? Before the intro to Dragons Rising of course.

the first in what I hope is a series of crossover posts. i’m still practicing the styles but i’m happy with this one, even if arin is a bit crunchy.

ALSO, arin and mk are better parallels than mk and lloyd could ever be (⁎⁍̴̛ᴗ⁍̴̛⁎)

OMFG YES PLEASEEE THIS IS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT, arin and morro are hitting me so hard being parallels AAHHDJSJFJ

both lloyd and wu may be putting too much pressure or expectations on arin and morro being their first students akdjajdjsjdjjd and now they’re turning away from their masters

and I need to see morro back omg CRYINGJDJSJD

morro. morro please stop lloyd from repeating wu's mistakes. morro im begging you. and stop arin from going down your path. morro please. morro

Masterpiece!!

Since you guys liked my Pixal return to Dragon Rising design idea so much, I figured you guys would appreciate a little comic about how her return would go if I had it my way still

Where is hellspawn jawing dragon rising?

As much as I'd like to keep her with Lloyd throughout the entire time he was alone, it's uh...*sweats nervously*...it's not gonna happen.

(Fuck, this feels like commiting a crime, but I need to keep things realistic)

Does Lloyd deserve to be happy during his time alone? Well, yes. Is he going to be? Um, no.

:(

...I'm so, sorry green bean.

So she gets separated from Lloyd during the Merge and he hasn't been the same since, just staring at the damaged stuffed dragon in his hands as though that's gonna tell him where she is. Kai does his best to be there for him but there's only so much he can do. In the end, he makes a promise to himself to bring her and everyone else back to his baby brother and leaves with the bounty.

What's the time skip between crystalized and dragons rising again? 5 years? If that's actually confirmed, that would make her a teenager. FSM, how time flies.

And poor Lloyd. He knows he's missed it.

Every time he looks at Arin and Sora, he ends up thinking of her—especially when he sees Sora. He initially maintains a cheery teacher persona around his two students but it slips when Sora finds a photograph of a blonde haired little girl who's with Lloyd somewhere in the monastery. She calls Arin to check it out, and Arin—the ever obsessed fan boy tells her everything.

Ninjago Dragosn rising spoilers!

I’ve stated I love this season, I enjoyed it a lot. It was fun, humorous, and filled with interesting characters! The main charters Arin and Sora are really great I feel like they did a good job establishing them as characters and can’t wait to see more.

Lloyd was great! He’s one of my favorite characters and seeing him serve as a mentor was fun. I love that he got some source dragon powers, and I’m super excited for more world-building.

I love Arin. He’s hopeful, energetic, and determined, he’s interesting to watch and has a lot of potential to grow. I love how he learned spinjitsu and hope he isn’t revealed to be an elemental master. I would be ok with him becoming one via some external means but I really like the idea of this kid just learning spinjitsu through pure determination.

Sora was awesome. Also she feels trans coded with the whole changing her name and having to run from home. Her technological prowess is fun, and I’m really I trested to see more of her elemental power. Her backstory was interesting and she served as an interesting contrast to Arin in terms of how they expirenced the merger.

Kai and Nya. They weren’t there for long and while I do hope we eventually get a Kai focused arc I still found his interactions to be fun. Nya was awesome I was glad to see her and enjoyed that she has yet again found herself being a champion. I love RBG siblings and was happy that we had quite a few interactions between the trio.

The world-building was interesting and I’m hoping the merger means we’ll at least get to see Akita, and maybe some ghosts.

I enjoyed the story and am really curious to see what happens next!

Lone wolves

Oh, this season is going to hurt isn't it?

A vision

He was born yesterday in a wet cardboard box

Just finished dragons rising s2!! even though I’ve already seen some spoilers for s3p1, IM STILL SO EXCITED TO WATCH IT !!!!!! more of my hyped thoughts abt s2 are below (WARNING: spoilers for Dr s2! just incase some ppl haven’t watched it yet. oh, and a yap warning.. bc yeah.. I talk a lot. help.)

pros/everything I loved - the overall plot of this season, continuing from where we were in s1, is absolutely AMAZING! the stakes get higher with each episode, creating such an epic buildup that pays off wonderfully in the finale, but still leaves you with questions about what will happen next. the pacing is GREAT. I loved this season EVEN MORE THAN DR S1! if I’m being honest, I think that dr s2 is one of my favorite Ninjago seasons, like ever. s2 and s5 will always be personal favorites of mine, but in terms of writing and story, and even animation (bc the freaking shading is BEAUTIFUL), dr s2 takes the cake for me. from Lloyd’s arc of getting over and adapting to his visions, the mystery during the tournament, to Arin’s well written and ultimate betrayal— this season is seriously outstanding in nearly every single aspect. all of the characters (even if some didn’t get as much screen time as others), are written extremely well and are very interesting and entertaining to watch. every character has so much thought put into their writing, and that makes them so much more emotional and easy to get attached to. for example; despite Arin’s betrayal and ignorance towards Sora, the writing does not make you hate him— rather, feel bad for him, and understand where he’s coming from, which is what makes his character in this season so interesting. and what makes his writing even better, is that this arc for him, was being built up since season 1. making Arin’s betrayal a slow burn affect is 100%, the BEST way they could’ve wrote this route for his character. I also want to talk about Lloyd, because undoubtedly, I find him and Arin’s character writing to be the best out of any of the characters this season. obviously, Sora, Nya, Wyldfyre and Kai all get their important and emotional moments/arcs as well, but I just felt that Lloyd and Arin really stuck out to me in terms of writing. I love Lloyd’s arc of having visions, eventually getting over them, and then having them come back to haunt him during the last few rounds of the tournament; it was just really enthralling to watch how he dealt with it. Nya’s reaction to learning that Jay had lost his memories was so heartbreaking to watch :( I like that Nya was telling Kai about it during the end of the finale, that was a nice touch. speaking of Kai, holy shit? he’s the goat?? he was trapped in the nether-space for idek how long, and the MOMENT he gets out he just starts BEATING THE EVER LOVING SHIT OUT OF NOKT! I kid you not, I replayed that scene about 15 times. like oh? my gawd? the line: “don’t you DARE touch her! ..that’s my sister.” DID NOT HAVE TO GO SO HARD BUT IT DID! there’s still so much i wanna say about how much i loved this season, and i wanna go more in depth about the character arcs and the villains, but this is getting pretty lengthy already, so I’m just going to stop here before i get even MORE carried away.

cons/things I didn’t like - legit my only gripe with this season is that we didn’t see more of wolf-walker/wolf mask Jay. I think it would’ve been better if we saw him for more than just one episode, or at least have him sideline all the other battles with Lord Ras and Cinder, driving the heartbreaking point home that Jay isn’t on the ninja’s side anymore. but I guess if they kept him there Nya would’ve kept pestering him 😭 I understand why they took Jay out early, but depending on power levels it also doesn’t make sense. not saying that Jay is stronger than Nya, but i believe in one of the Ninjago books, we find out how Ras recruited Jay- and while yes, Cinder almost killed him using Shatterspin (before Ras told him to stop), Jay was still one of the longest to last against Shatterspin without using the Rising Dragon technique. it’s also notable that at that point, Jay didn’t even know how to fight? if he lost his memory he doesn’t remember any of his training either, correct? idk, you’d think with Ras’s training AND knowing how to use Shatterspin, Jay would’ve lasted more than just one round. oh well. this isn’t really something that ruins the whole season for me or anything, this one nitpick is pretty much nothing compared to how many things I DID love about this season, but it’s still a writing decision I don’t really care for.

and thats all my yappings.. I’ll definitely come back to talking about this season, perhaps I’ll make separate posts on each character/aspect of dr s2 I want to analyze, but for now, that’s all. thanks for reading this huge thing! I really appreciate it!! 💙💙

Ninjago as aroace Tumblr comments part 2

German isn't my main language but when I was a kid I used to watch lots of cartoons in German. I think my parents wanted me to learn the language. It was actually the first language in which I ever watched Ninjago, but I haven't done that in over a decade.

Luckily I still understand about 75% of it so I can watch the new episodes early, but that's not what I wanted to say. They kept the same voices, man! 😭 It's been ten years and they sound the same. When I heard Kai and Nya speak I felt like sobbing. Oh, how I missed them and I didn't even know. This is what they sounded like when I first met and fell in love with these characters. I've been following their adventures in English all those years, but hearing them in German again felt like meeting an old friend.

Also, German Sora, Arin and Wyldfyre are perfect and incredibly spot on.

I might be a little biased when it comes to Lloyd, but Arin lost some major rizz points in my book since the whole "Not from you" thing.

I mean, my dude, Lloyd specifically said when you first met he doesn't have what it takes and doesn't want to be a sensei, but you insisted. It was your idea.

It's not Lloyd's fault Spinjitzu came so naturally to him. It literally took him less than an episode because, yeah, he was that OP. What was he supposed to do? Stick you in a barrel and tryna hit you with a sword because that's literally how he did it.

If anything, you should have asked Kai to teach you. It took him a whole week and he struggled hard, so he might relate at least.

And people comparing Lloyd with Wu now. Lloyd might be a motivational speaker kind of teacher, but he didn't get Arin's hopes up just to shatter them like Wu did with Morro. He just had more pressing matters to deal with than finding Arin's parents at the moment, being the Green Ninja, the dragon conduit and all. And he didn't keep important secrets from him either.

Wu was always a strict teacher who wouldn't let the ninja catch a break and would punish them if they did. Lloyd tried to imitate him at first, but it was like him trying to imitate Garmadon as a kid. He's the exact opposite of that. Lloyd's patient, kind and understanding, and he's doing his best.

Wyldfyre: Hey, Kai. Why did the chicken cross the road?

Kai: To get to the other side?

Wyldfyre: You were supposed to say “I dunno, why?“

Kai: Uh... fine. I don’t know. Why did it cross the road?

Wyldfyre: To get to the idiot’s house.

Kai: ...Ok?

Arin: Hey, Kai. Knock knock.

Kai: No.

Arin: You were supposed to say “who’s there?”

Kai: Fine... let’s get this over with. Who’s there?

Arin: The chicken.

Kai:

Arin:

Wyldfyre:

Kai: Listen here you little shits-

Master Lloyd taking the kids out for ice cream

Spoilers ahead!!!

I really like how in the new Dragons Rising season each RGB sibling gets a trainee (kid) of their own

I mean there's Lloyd and Arin...

Lloyd: This is my student, Arin, he's so sweet and amazing he makes me want to be a better person.

Nya and Sora...

Nya: This is Sora, she's so bright and talented she reminds me of myself when I was her age.

And then there's Kai...

Kai: This is Wyldfyre. She's got rabies.

I don't know if this has been said before but I like how the heroes of each new generation of my favorite shows are just some random orange fangirl/boy of the old generation.