If There Is Love

I call it: metamorphosis

I’m so sleepy that I started rambling to one of my not-Ninjago friends about jay and bird symbolism. Do you know how much bird symbolism surrounds this man. There’s so much. So much bird stuff. Why is his animal a kraken and not a bird? Forever a mystery.

saw a video that said ‘when a found family’s motto gains a different meaning at the end of the series’ and like. dare i say ninja never quit.

at the beginning of the series it was motivating. they were little kids pushing themselves to be brave, trying to encourage each other that they can do this.

but now it’s borderline self destructive. they never quit, they never get a break, no matter what happens they have to push through, regardless of the cost.

zane holds onto the golden armor even as it starts breaking him apart, because he has to protect his friends, he can’t quit until the overlord is gone

jay holds out in season 6 even while being tortured, trying to convince himself that things would be okay if he just keeps going a little longer, that he can save everyone he just has to not quit

lloyd nearly and does get himself killed trying to defeat garmadon/the oni in s8-10, because ninja never quit.

nya sees the city get entirely destroyed, and realizes her only option is to give herself over to the sea. doesn’t matter the consequences, ninja never quit so if there’s a way to save everyone she has to do it even if it will kill her physical body

i’m sure there are tons more examples this is just off the top of my head, but like. it’s so heartbreaking to see them push themselves further and further as the show goes on, no matter the consequences. because ninja never quit right?

Not all heroes wear capes

i know this is a super controversial hot take but it has to be said: vex ningajgo

Ninjago characters as things people in my online class say/do:

Lloyd

-trying their goshdarn best to do the work, always having major technical difficulties (theyre using Wu’s computer and it’s older than Wu himself)

-has no idea whats going on, usually doesnt know what class they’re in

-once fell asleep in lesson and didnt realise it ended, they were just there alone in the zoom call for about 20 mins without realising it

-theres like an 80% chance they’re having a mild breakdown over not being able to do the work, and theyre sat on the floor eating cool aid powder like its sherbert and video calling Nya for help.

-profile pic is a cute (but blurry) group photo of all the ninja

Kai

-rarely actually goes to the lessons, especially morning ones

- if he does, he doesnt try to do any of the work

- (its fine, hes the sort of person whos like secretly smart and he understands it well enough to get about average grades without doing much)

-he once kicked everyone out of the zoom call because the teacher accidentally set it up wrong and let everyone do admin things on the call, he also kicked the teacher out of the call before, it was absolute anarchy :)

-profile pic is a really bad picture of Nya doing a weird face, she hates it

Cole

-unmuted his mic to show everyone a remix of making my way downtown and that video thats like ‘just did a bad thing’, ya ko this one

-still thinks he needs permission to go to the bathroom or get a snack even though the teacher cant see or hear anyone usually so nobody can stop him from just going

-shows everyone cute photos of pets, we dont know if theyre his or not but they are very cute.

-profile pic is a selfie with a snapchat filter

Jay

-sucks up to the teacher so that he can trick them

-always joins the lesson with a message like ‘hiii miss/sir :) ☺️ how’s your day so far 💛✨’ then makes everyone pretend they cant find the work. and of course, because Jay was one of those pretending they cant find it, the teacher thinks it must not be there, because he wouldnt lie, of course not

-hes also the only student who ever ever ever turns their camera on, exept maybe Kai, but Kai doesn’t do it on purpose

-profile pic is a stock image of a sunset that he found on google images thats been oversaturated to death and still has a watermark

Nya

-once unmuted her mic in a lesson where Jay and Kai were messing arround, yelled that she didnt want to be in a lesson that was a waste of her time, and that the teacher was a failure who couldn’t control a class, then left

-tries to seem like less of a nerd by adding meme formats to her answers to questions sometimes, nobody’s falling for it

-if the teacher picks on someone who doesn’t know the answer, she sometimes dms them the answer so they dont get in trouble, unless its Kai, she dms him the wrong answer sometimes

-profile pic is a really bad picture of Kai doing a weird face, he hates it

Zane

-absolutely carrying the class work-wise. always the first to answer the questions, unless its Jay, but Jay always just asks google or Nya

-usually never actually talks other than to answer questions, reacts to everything the teacher says in the chat with a 👍

-when Nya unmuted her mic and talked about the teacher not being able to control the class, Zane Jay and Kai spammed the chat with ‘Yess Nya!!! 🤠🎉’. Zane didnt realise that he was the only one doing it unironically

-hasnt changed his profile pic so its just his initials, but secretly, he has changed it, to an identical picture of his initials but in a different colour. Zoom automatically made his profile pic red, and he made it grey-blue.

hot take: lloyd in crystalized was not out of character. my reasoning for this is... actually there's a lot of reasoning. one of the biggest complaints people have about crystalized lloyd is how he treats his father in comparison to early seasons lloyd and to that i say: early seasons lloyd had not been disowned nor had he been beaten half to death by his father. i don't think i would be as willing to work with my father had that happened to me. his reasoning (garmadon being oni) may have been flawed, but i also think he was putting his own personal reasonings (being disowned and almost killed) behind, and attacking the thing that didn't include how he was treated.

i understand why people would be mad about lloyd attacking the oni side of his father, given the fact that mystake was amazing and also sacrificed herself for him, but when people are trauma responding, they tend to forget the good things and focus on the bad. lloyd didn't want to bring his own feelings into it, because he has invalidated his own feelings. therefore, he attacks the thing that has nothing to do with him.

DISCLAIMER: i am not attacking nor am i intending to invalidate people who think that lloyd suffered "character assassination" in crystalized. i just feel the need to give my own opinion about it. i will most likely talk about this topic again because i am so passionate about it.

Just r/ninjago having a normal one

if they don't give me THAT bruise card, I'll make myself THAT card.

yep, this is another thing that has kept me busy for a while, and now it's FINALLY finished mygod

2 post in one day!?? what??!?? am i crazy!?! nope just excited for it and got to post it like rn

and yeah yeah still nothing official with jay BUT I KNOW IT'LL HAPPENED IT HAD TO BE

Happiness is stored in the baby penguin

WYLDFYRE NO!!!! OUR AGE RATING!!!!!