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NINJAGO POST-CRYSTALIZED THEORY

What if Pythor knew everything and initially did not want to go over to Over's side?

He knew about the return of the Overlord, even when he bought the vengestone. Chumsworth realized that the Crystal King would kill him if they weren't on the same side, because he knew Over better than anyone, no matter if the anacondrai was neutral or with the Wu Kru. Then he ALLOWED the new ninjas to catch him, because the Kryptarium is the most guarded place in Ninjago. He wanted to wait there until the old ninjas defeated the enemy once again, but when they ended up in prison, he had to change tactics.

Once he was invited to join the Crystal King, he didn't even ask for details so as not to arouse suspicion.

The new plan was to pretend to be helpful. In "The fall of the monastery", Pythor grabs Nya and holds the nagitana to her throat, but does nothing. In the "Safe heaven" series, he was able to send an army to fight Skylor, but began to fight a stronger opponent alone. Why?

Overlord is Pythor's main rival in the conquest of Ninjago. The fewer ninjas and their friends die, the easier it is for them to get rid of the Crystal King.

As a result, Chumsworth achieved his goal and not only remained alive, but also without the pressure of Over. In addition, we were not shown how the villains were put in jail, which means that, as a bonus, he received freedom.

This means that Pythor's plan worked perfectly for once!

Что, если Пайтор всё знал и изначально не хотел переходить на сторону Овера?

Он знал о возвращении Оверлорда, ещё когда тот закупал венджестоун. Чамсворт понял, что Кристальный король убьёт его, если они не будут на одной стороне, потому что он знал Овера лучше, чем кто-либо, при том не важно нейтрален ли анакондрай или с Ву кру. Тогда он ПОЗВОЛИЛ новым ниндзя поймать себя, ведь Криптариум – самое охраняемое место в Ниндзяго. Он хотел переждать там, пока настоящие ниндзя не победят врага в очередной раз, но когда и они оказались в тюрьме, пришлось менять тактику.

Как только ему поступило приглашение присоединиться к Кристальному королю, он даже не спросил деталей, чтобы не вызвать подозрений. Новый план заключался в том, чтобы притворяться полезным.

В серии "The fall of the monastery" Пайтор хватает Нию и прислоняет нагитану к её горлу, но ничего не делает. В серии Safe heaven он мог послать в бой со Скайлор армию, но начал сражаться с более сильным противником в одиночку. Зачем?

Оверлорд – главный конкурент Пайтора в завоевании Ниндзяго.

Чем меньше ниндзя и их друзей погибнет, тем легче им от избавиться от Кристального короля.

По итогу Чамсворт добился своего и не только остался жив, но и без давления Овера. Кроме того нам не показали, как злодеев садят в тюрьму, а значит, как бонус, он получил свободу.

Это значит, что план Пайтора в кои-то веки идеально сработал!

If Paleman can make himself invisible using light could he also create illusions?

Ok so I remember hearing that the season 14 villains were a tribe that used storm magic (i’m unsure if this is 100% confirmed though cause i’m lazy) and i was causally rewatching season 8, as Harumi stans do, and as they were flying through a storm Nya tells Jay that there was an ancient tribe that worshipped a storm spirit called “Wohira” and now all i can think is that’s gonna be the tribe in season 14

So I saw this tweet and

It reminded me of a theory I once had about Crystalized — which got quickly debunked when the trailer for part 2 came out (no surprise there)

But I just thought that when Lloyd goes apeshit, Garm comes back into the picture and is forced to fight him — only, he's back to being Sensei Garmadon once more on the inside. My dude finds himself in a position where he's supposed to save his son like how Lloyd saved him before but...he doesn't. He can't.

So in others words, Crystalized ends with Lloyd dying like Morro. Maybe Lloyd would think the only way to be redeemed after all he's done is by deciding to do some sacrifice to destroy the Overlord...once and for all, this time.

And Garm watches. He'd feel the guilt forever.

HAVE YOU SEEN THE TRAILER!?!?! Now here come my theories!!!!

1. more than a year ago I told my theory that the Golden Legend is directly connected with DR. Then I said that perhaps the dragon disciple is Riyu in the future. So if you look closely at the trailer for Monstrosity, they are united with GL not only by the visuals, but also by the fact that closer to the middle of the trailer Kai begins to look like the monsters from GL. Throughout the trailer, you can see moments of Kai trying to get back his red headband, which symbolizes his identity, which he is afraid of losing. THE BANDAGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT COLOR ELEMENT IN THE VIDEO. So the theory that GL is directly connected with DR makes even more sense!!!!!

2. WHAT IF IN THE SECOND SEASON, WHEN THE NINJA SAW THEIR FEARS, WE WERE NOT SHOWN KAI'S FEARS BECAUSE THEY WERE RELATED TO MONSTROSITY!!!!

Hear me out-

ok legit head cannon here: Borg made the spider crawler thing right, so it stands to reason he's, or his companys, at least developing robotic prosthetics, particularly for those injured during the Great Devourer/Final Battle incidents & other distasters.

I think Morro coming back will definetly have to do with whatever happened to the Departed Realm. It has been said by Doc that it will be explored how death works in the Merged Lands now.

So my theory, Morro will be there and the team ends up finding/searching for the new Departed Realm and run into Morro. Maybe he will be the one to explain how it all works now after the merge idk.

Its important to note, Morro isn't shown to be hostile in the set image so that could mean he's helping the team.

Alright guys time for another theory post:

What did we really see in the Phantasm Cave?

We’ve generally accepted that the Ninja and Co. saw visions of their (arguably) greatest fears: Nya and Jay, Riyu and Wyldfyre, Sora and Arin. All pretty rudimentary.

Then we get to Lloyd. Main character that he is, his fear is much more layered. This got me thinking back on the visions we saw, and even those we didn’t, and what they might mean. I’m going to highlight the interesting bits that you may have missed upon a first-watch.

Arin:

- scene opens with Arin misidentifying his parents as Sora and Lloyd, then he approaches them

- not the last time he does this: shows up again in the season 2 finale after Arin fights Ras, but the opposite way. Arin thinks he sees his parents when it’s just Nya and Lloyd.

- after his parents are revealed, he suddenly can’t move anymore. He just runs at them without moving forward

- notably, his mother asks “Why haven’t you found us, Arin? Are the Ninja your new family now instead of us? Did you forget us?”

- Arin only responds to/denies forgetting his parents, but doesn’t address her other questions.

Arin fears that his attachment to the Ninja compromises his parents’ love for him. He’s able to make progress in his ninja training, albeit slowly, but hasn’t gotten anywhere closer to finding his parents. He blames himself for taking so long. He’s not worried that he won’t find them: he’s scared they’ll hate him when he does.

Sora:

- notably, her vision isn’t in or about Imperium itself. Beatrix and Ras represent the regime of Imperium that she ran from.

- these two appearing on a video screen ties in her elemental tech powers, as well as her “we are all dragons” speech from the season 1 finale, which was aired on a similar TV system

- she’s grabbed and pulled into the screen by a bolt of electricity: not a hand, not any involuntary movement, but the lifeblood of her element. We’ve known about elements having overlap since season 11, so this is likely another tie-in to her powers.

- a golden hand appears through the screen at the last moment to grab her. It’s unclear if this is Ras or Beatrix, though the electricity appears from Beatrix’s hand.

Sora has been exploited by Imperium before, and that was before she discovered her element. With a power that’s so utility-based, she’s afraid that her powers are going to bring her more pain. Choosing to activate the Photacs back in season 1 must have really stuck with her, especially since the Ninja nearly lost the battle because of her decision. She couldn’t stand to put others in danger again like that. And unlocking her true potential solidified the divide between her and her parents. In her own words: “I’m a dark cloud. Bad luck seems to follow me everywhere.”

Lloyd:

“Your team needed strong leadership and did not receive it.”

“But, I had these visions, and—“

- in an attempt to justify his actions, Lloyd tries explaining his visions; though he doesn’t know how much he can trust what he sees, it’s the only lead the team has. Lloyd continuously doubts his decisions based on his visions, so why would he be excusing them now? Perhaps as a way of justifying his inadequate leadership?

“I blame myself, nephew. I felt you were ready to take over for me. But I was wrong.”

- Lloyd puts Wu on this pedestal for being a “perfect” master. He’s able to call him that despite Wu’s mistakes and shortcomings, but Lloyd can’t give himself the same treatment. He doesn’t deserve it: he’s not worthy.

“You will never / be good enough.”

- Ras appearing here is really telling. He appears in his Imperium garb because this was the point when Lloyd’s mistakes in leadership came with tangible consequences: during the battle for the second monastery. His team was put in danger because of him. Not only is Lloyd not good enough to be a master, but he isn’t good enough to properly deal with this looming threat.

- Lloyd has also observed Ras’ leadership of both the Claws of Imperium and the wolf mask warriors and how effective he is. He’s much more organized and mentally sound than Lloyd, and he keeps winning. He consistently keeps coming back. By all of Lloyd’s metrics, Ras is a better leader than him.

Nya:

- this vision seems to be set up to imply that Nya regrets not loving Jay more before he disappeared. Because she didn’t care about him enough, he’s gone and forgotten their relationship altogether.

- Nya’s previous fears in the series have been: failure (S5) and becoming ordinary (S11 + 15). This vision ends up combining these two: In Nya’s failure to find Jay after the merge, she’s become ordinary to him.

Nya is the first to realize her vision is fake. I believe this is because hers was the only purely external conflict among all the visions. She’s able to separate herself from the given situation because what she feels for Jay hasn’t changed. She hasn’t been absorbed by her self-criticism or mistakes because she’s not doing anything wrong: Jay forgot her. She has no fault or control of that.

Riyu and Wyldfyre:

- Riyu and Wyldfyre are implied to have had similar visions regarding Wasting Sickness. It’s revealed later with Egalt that Wyldfyre has experienced the effects of Wasting herself among her clan. And Riyu coming from the Mountain dragon tribe would have also likely seen the devastation of Wasting.

- Both of them would have encountered this disease when they were much younger.

- We also learn from Egalt and Wyldfyre that Wasting primarily impacts older dragons. Both Riyu and Wyldfyre have older dragon mentors/family members: Heatwave and the Matriarch. I bet they saw these two suffering from the disease and were unable to help.

Kai:

- we are shown next to nothing about what Kai saw (thanks, show 😤), but his reactions paired with this pattern of analysis can give us some idea.

- after coming to, Kai glances to Nya, huffing a sigh of (what seems to be) relief. He looks to Nya first, notably. Remember, these animation choices are deliberate.

- when Nya says “It couldn’t be real”, he makes this face:

- Her conversation with Lloyd seems to sour his mood. Nya seems to think that just because her vision seems impossible, everyone else’s must have been just as unrealistic. And Kai disagrees. What Kai saw was likely something that could feasibly happen, or something that already happened.

- In a more meta sense, we can also assume this is a more recent conflict, seeing how none of the OG Ninja’s visions touch on relevant plot beats from before Dragons Rising.

- taking into account this ask to Doc Wyatt from a few months back:

I believe Kai’s vision had something to do with wandering the merged lands alone. This would explain the attention drawn to his relief at seeing everybody ok. I imagine we’ll get more info from Kai about his travels, but I’d respect the writers’ decision to leave this ambiguous.

So where does that leave us?

What I believe we’re seeing in these visions are the Ninja’s regrets. These commonly stem from underlying fears of theirs, but there’s not as much terror involved with this sequence.

From a writing standpoint, this is a deeper exploration of character than simply living their greatest fears. Given the opportunity, what’s one thing you would go back and change? One mistake that you’d fix? These visions force these characters to confront these questions head-on as they struggle to rationalize their past behavior.

Feel free to share your thoughts and theories in the comments or reblogs! I’d love to know if I’m cooking or not on these longer theory-crafting posts.