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lloydskywalkers · 3 years

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“This is why I never let you drive!”

#lego ninjago #ninjago #kai smith #nya smith #ninjago spoilers #theyre siblings ur honor #me: gee i hope we get more kai and nya sibs shenanigans soon!!#gee i hopE :))#nothing would :)) ruin that :)))#T-T #myedit

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lloydskywalkers · 3 years

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Just reached 1k on Instagram and whipped this drawing of all the Ninja in their season 11 gis as soon as my hand healed

#ninjago #the squad #them...

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lloydskywalkers · 3 years

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Her name is Nya and she’s a talllll glass of water

#ninjago #ns15 #ninjago spoilers #nya smith #SAD WHALE NOISES #she’s beautiful but at what cost

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lloydskywalkers · 3 years

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salt

i’ve been incredibly absent and beyond behind on the show but i happened to glimpse the season finale and i. ah. hm. have yet to process my feelings but i’m tired and kai and nya deserve better so here is a humble offering of pain

(spoilers for s15 finale!! big spoilers)

Kai’s never liked the taste of salt. Not the bitter, acrid kind that comes with seawater, stinging and choking as it fills your lungs, burning your nose when you gasp for air. Not the dry, sandpaper-aftertaste that lingers on your tongue for hours after. Not the hot, slip of salt that sticks to your cheeks and leaves your eyes red and aching.

He swipes angrily at the fresh burst of warmth that slips free from his eyes, cursing under his breath as he sniffles thickly. The last rays of the sun on the horizon feel like they’re slicing into his eyes, making his head ache further as he desperately squints at the horizon. It’d be easier to look down, away from the brightness of the sun. He knows that.

But he won’t. Kai’s not going to give the sea that satisfaction. He’s not going to even acknowledge it, the ocean where it churns below, the sound of the crashing waves just barely audible from the roof of the abandoned building he’s picked to hide on. The ocean can go on like that, endlessly chasing the shore, and Kai’s not even going to look at it. Never again. He’s hated the ocean for so long, a little longer is—

Forever is—

His breath catches on the edge of a sob, and Kai chokes it back, burying his head in his arms where they’re braced atop his knees. Forever. He’s stuck with the ocean forever. Stuck with the memory of everything that was saved and lost, all at the power that lies beneath the waves.

Kai hates it. He hates it. The ocean can’t make bad tea with him after nightmares in the night. The ocean can’t come up with stupid jokes to pass the hours with. The ocean can’t tease him with a fire that burns brighter than his own.

Even if he did try not to hate it, tried to love it — the ocean can’t love him back.

Something clenches terribly in his chest, like a twisting of a particularly sharp blade, and before the burn in Kai’s eyes can win out again, he grabs the nearest piece of debris, chucks it at the ocean, and screams as loud as his rasping lungs will let him, as if howling out the horrible ache inside him with lessen the pain.

It doesn’t. All Kai is left with is aching lungs, a pounding head, and more hot, salty tears staining his cheeks.

He hates salt. He hates it so much.

Footsteps rustle from behind him, slow enough to consciously let him know he’s being joined. Kai slumps, his legs giving out as he collapses back on the rooftop. There aren’t a lot of people that’d come after him when he’s like this. There’s only one that walks with a barely off-beat gait, the remnant of another injury Kai couldn’t prevent.

“Stupid, isn’t it,” Kai mutters, painfully conscious of how his voice croaks. He gives a ragged, bitter laugh. “At least it’s not a bar this time, right?”

Lloyd says nothing, merely crosses the remaining distance between them to carefully sit beside him. Drawing his own knees up, Lloyd raises his hand, offering Kai a scrap of something white. It takes him a moment to realize that it’s a tissue.

Kai gives a thick snort, this one less bitter. “Thanks,” he says, shakily accepting it. He blows his nose once, twice, wincing at the throb in his head. Lloyd remains quiet, staring out at the horizon. Kai takes a shuddery breath, exhaling as he wipes at his eyes. They sit there in silence, the only sounds the repetitive crashing of waves on the shore below, slow and mocking.

“It’s funny,” Lloyd finally says. His voice is quiet, but Kai can pick up the rasp at the edge of it. Lloyd’s eyes aren’t exactly dry, either. “Back when we thought we lost you all — when Harumi took the city — she was so strong. Said all this stuff about how we couldn’t give up. How we had to keep on living, even without you guys.”

Kai bites his tongue until the sharp burst of copper floods his mouth. He can only find it in himself to be relieved that it drowns out the taste of salt.

Lloyd shakes his head, the watery sheen at the edge of his eyes gleaming. “I keep expecting her to come back and scold us for being like this, you know? But she’s not coming back, is she.”

It’s not a question. It’s a hollow statement, bitter and empty. Kai swallows.

Lloyd makes a choking sound, turning it into a strangled kind of laugh. “Are you going to leave again?”

Kai blinks, long and slow. It’s tempting, he won’t lie. To run from the idea of going back to some semblance of normal, when everything they’ll do will be stained with memories. The idea of even trying without her, when she’s been such a steady presence. The idea of moving on, like it’s possible.

But memories of Nya are going to follow him wherever he runs, and what’s left of them is so fragile — Kai can only find it in himself to cling tighter to his team, before they leave him, too.

Lloyd speaks up again, before he can reply. “Because I’ll come with you, if you want to,” he says, his voice suddenly hot. “I’ll leave. We can both leave, we can all leave. Let’s — let’s leave.”

Kai falters in surprise, and finally glances at him. Lloyd’s gaze is steady, but there’s a manic glint in his eyes, a kind of resolve that might scare Kai had the situation been any different.

“You’re the Green Ninja,” Kai tries.

The glint grows harder. “I’m Lloyd, first,” he says. “I want — I want to be Lloyd, first. Nya—” He cuts off, exhaling shakily before continuing. “Nya wanted to be a samurai. Not a ninja. And now…”

He shakes his head, barely rustling his salt-crusted hair as he glares outward, his eyes fixed on the ocean. “I don’t want that. I want to be Lloyd. Not — not—”

Lloyd’s voice finally wavers, catching on the edge of grief, but Kai gets it. He’s been thinking much the same, after all. If their powers only lead them to this — if he’s doomed to watch Cole fade to the earth, to watch Jay vanish on the crack of thunder, to watch Zane slow and stutter to an icy halt. To watch Lloyd fizzle out on his own crackling energy pushed too far. If he himself is only doomed to burn himself out to the end of his match, to flicker out like a flame in the night.

He doesn’t want to burn out. He doesn’t want to lose anyone else. He tells Lloyd as much, his voice wavering.

“We can’t leave,” he whispers. “This is — it’s all we know. It’s all we have. And I can’t—” Kai’s eyes are burning again. The ocean’s too close, too loud. “I can’t lose anything else.”

Lloyd’s expression spasms, the hard glint vanishing for something softer, something that looks more like Kai’s little brother. “Oh,” he murmurs. “Oh, Kai, I’m so sorry.”

Kai shakes his head, trying to wipe away the tears before Lloyd sees them, but Lloyd’s already snaking his arms around his shoulders, holding Kai tightly.

“I won’t leave,” he says, fiercely. “We’ll stay. We’ll — we won’t let it go to waste. For her. We’ll stay, for her. If that’s what you want.”

In another time, Kai could laugh, at how easily Lloyd would leave the team for him, now. In this time, Kai could scream again, rage against the setting sun and how the ocean looks beneath it, steady and present and there, always there.

Not like Nya. Not like his sister.

Instead, Kai crumples, buckling against Lloyd as hot, salty tears make tracks down his cheeks. He swallows thickly, his vision blurring over as he watches a wave crash onto the shore.

The taste of salt still lingers on his tongue, like drowning, like death.

Kai hates it.

#lego ninjago #ninjago #ninjago spoilers #ns15 #ns15 spoilers #lloyd garmadon #kai smith #my fic #ofc it'd be the angst that gets through the writers block

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lloydskywalkers · 3 years

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Ninjago Legacy Reimagined - Golden Legend

#lego ninjago #ninjago #ninjago spoilers #ninjago legacy #me dragging myself out of classes for dystopian lego dragons #i have nO idea what's going on but i dig it #myedit #pls dont butcher this tumblr the resolution T-T

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lloydskywalkers · 3 years

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*turns ocean man on blast* LET’S GOOOO

#lego ninjago #ninjago #ninjago spoilers #ns15 spoilers #lloyd garmadon #ns15 #me gasping on my few threads of regained stability #l...lloyd....gifs...#i have to finish eps but lloyd and jay are a delight this season #myedit

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lloydskywalkers · 3 years

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#ninjago #this is still the funniest post iconique

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lloydskywalkers · 3 years

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My honor… My dreams… They’re yours now.

(twitter. instagram.)

#ffvii #cc #chucks self in the crying corner #i did noT sign up for this i did nOT

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lloydskywalkers · 3 years

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Haha yeah so I recently got back into Ninjago

This is a gift for the lovely @lloydskywalkers who wrote Wishful Thinking, which is an amazing fic that you can read here!

#ninjago #animation #HGSKJDGHSDG GARM N O #im crying this is every lloyd and garm interaction post s9 #thaNK U FOR THIS im crying sjhgddfg

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lloydskywalkers · 3 years

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So I've been binge reading all of your fics to death (found family is better than drugs and yours is the crème de la crème) and you'll never believe what my my brain managed to short circuit. You know how FSM = first spinjutsu master and that's like really freaking obvious? Well, my sleep deprived brain couldn't figure it out, so I googled it. Guess what Google says FSM stands for?

That's right. Flying. Spaghetti. Monster.

So for like half of your fics, whenever I read FSM, I just figured that the ninja worshipped the flying spaghetti monster and I saw absolutely nothing wrong with that idea.

I lost my shit for the next three hours once I figured it out. Just figured I might as well tell you in case it makes you laugh.

(thanks so much for all of these stories! I love all of them so much! Big brother Kai is fantastic)

IM CRYING ASDFDSG FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER that would vastly improve my stories actually lloyd and his flying spaghetti monster grandfather XD

to be fair the first thing I remember doing when I started reading fanfiction for ninjago back in 2018 was immediately look up what “ninjago FSM” was because one of my favorite authors kept using it and it’s stuck with me ever since but i did nOT get to spaghetti monster and i wish i had

(also asdfgsfd thank you so much!! :D)

#answered #Anonymous

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lloydskywalkers · 3 years

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okay, let’s try this one!! “what’s your role in a found family dynamic?” on uquiz!!

#the proteCTIVE ONE #i knew it deep down im just kai ninjago

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