how about fsm's and lloyds first meeting in the fsm lives au?

First of all thank you so much for asking!!! I had a lot of fun writing this even if took ages. Right so I haven't completely figured out when the ninja actually meet Fsm, but I'll get to that later. I do have a rough timeline so probably in between seasons five and six (Possession will obviously get retconned a lot). Garmadon is alive btw.

Lloyd had never really made the connection between his grandfather and the First Spinjitzu Master. Like sure he knew it logically, but there was a real difference between 'my grandfather is the First Spinjitzu Master' and 'the First Spinjitzu Master is my grandfather'. And besides, the guy was dead, as far as he could tell, so it didn't really matter other than 'hey I inherited cool powers and also his arch nemesis'. Honestly, the only things Lloyd knew about his grandfather were that he invented spinjitzu, used the golden weapons to create Ninjago, fought the Overlord, and he had two kids, who happened to be Lloyd's dad and uncle.

So naturally it was quite a shock when one day at breakfast Wu announced that his father was coming to visit in a few days.

What resulted from that statement was a rather long and, uh, productive (not really) conversation (a very loud debate).

Cole: What?! But he’s supposed to be dead! Kai: No no one of my village elders said he just left this realm and would return when we need him most. Morro: Nah grandpa just does whatever he likes. Though he was in another realm last time I checked, at least that's right. Jay: What the fuck does that even mean?!

That ,of course, sparked a whole other debate about why Morro knew that. It got sorted out in the end, eventually, after a few thrown noodle bowls.

But while the others seemed to calm down after that, Lloyd steadily got more anxious. Because this was his grandfather, the man who had created Ninjago itself, and fought the Overlord the first time. Yes, Lloyd had done that as well, but what if he didn’t met his grandfather's expectations? What if he was disappointed in him?

Morro, on the other hand, was pretty excited to see his grandpa again; it had been two years, and despite Morro taking advantage of Fsm's omniscience to inform him about various coming and goings, he hadn’t had an actual conversation, and he had a lot of things to show him as well. But Lloyd had seemed pretty anxious since Wu’s announcement, so, like any good older cousin, Morro cornered him on the way to breakfast.

Morro: What’s up with you? You’ve been anxious ever since dad told us grandpa was coming here. Lloyd, mumbling: What if I don't live up to his expectations? Morro: Huh? Lloyd, louder: What if he's disapointed in me? Morro: As someone who's actually meet him, his expectations are don't die, and don't kill innocent people. Pretty low expectations if you ask me. You'll be fine.

This makes Lloyd feel a bit better, but he's still anxious, and he refuses to talk to anyone else about it because, to him at least, it seems a bit dumb to be anxious about meeting his grandfather when no else is (they are, Lloyd just hasn't noticed).

Anyway fast forward to The Day of The Arrival. Lloyd gets up earlier than usual in order to mentally prepare himself for meeting God. And, since he's expecting to have a few hours before the First Spinjitzu Master arrives, he doesn't really bother to make himself presentable before making his way to the kitchen.

This was a mistake.

Because when lloyd enters the kitchen there's man(?) sitting at the table wearing a black kimono with gold detailing. And Lloyd's first though is 'fuck, its the First Spinjitzu Master' before he realises that the man (? seriously why is it so hard to tell) is in his late thirties at most. So Lloyd's next thought is 'why is this random person in my kitchen?'

Lloyd, suspicious: Who are you and why are you here? Fsm, smiling: I'm your grandfather, and I'm your grandfather. Lloyd: You can't be my grandfather! You're like thirty! Fsm: I am not thirty, I'm a shapeshifter. Fsm, now vaguely concerned: You didn’t know that? Why didn’t you know that?

So, luckily, Fsm, by being themself, manages to almost completely allay Lloyd’s anxiety by getting up, telling Lloyd to follow him, and going to find both his children so they can smack them on the head because come on you two this is Morro all over again (Fsm can't really talk though, his godly domain should really be 'forgetting to tell people important information'). Because he can understand Morro not knowing that Fsm - and subsequently their descendants - isn’t human, but Lloyd is actually related!

Lloyd, meanwhile, is shocked. God, his grandfather, is in his house, looking all of thirty, and stalking through the monastery all while grumbling under his breath about his kids not telling Lloyd something, all while Lloyd trails behind him like a lost fawn.

It’s then Lloyd remembers his pyjamas and bed hair, and he just, internally cringes. Like, c'mon, this is the First Spinjitzu Master, and here he is looking like he just got out of bed (that he actually did just get out of bed is completely pointless in Lloyd’s mind). But something about this thought process must have shown in his face and body language (never mind that Lloyd is behind his grandfather), because suddenly the First Spinjitzu Master (man Lloyd really has to get his name) is turning around, stopping Lloyd in his tracks.

Fsm: Stop that. There’s nothing to be embarrassed about. I am 25,000 years old, and I have raised two children, I have seen a lot worse than bed hair.

That makes Lloyd blush, but his grandfather is already on the move again, seeking out his children.

Of course, once Fsm does find their children, Lloyd has the pleasure of finding out that his grandfather his half oni, half dragon (“dragoni”, his father says, “easier on the tongue”).

But once Lloyd processes that he’s not fully human (and, like in the show, he’s pretty calm about because it makes a lot of sense when he actually thinks about) he starts to bond with his grandpa and damn the First Spinjitzu Master is not anything like he expected him to be, but honestly, Lloyd is actually kinda relieved about that. He’s a lot more approachable than Lloyd expected, and it seems he’s where Wu and Garmadon got the more, um, eccentric sides of their personalities. Lloyd is still a bit nervous around him, but that slowly goes away over the few weeks that Fsm is staying for.

Throughout those weeks, Lloyd kinda starts to get comfortable around Fsm. Lloyd shows Fsm a bunch of video games (I've decided this includes Minecraft because, listen, Fsm would be great at Minecraft (specifically creative mode) and you can't tell me otherwise), as well as board games, which leads to the interesting revelation that Mystake (Mystake?! Who runs the tea shop?!) banned Fsm from playing uno a few months after it come out because he tackled someone after he had to pick up 16 cards.

Hope you enjoyed!

But yeah I’ll probably do a separate post for the family bonding.

Also I feel like I need to give fsm a proper name at this point. I’ve been calling them imaragami (ih-ma-rah-gar-mi) since I started thing this whole idea up but tbh it’s just a bunch of random syllables put together (I’m kinda attached to it at this point tho). But anyway what do you think?

TIP!Echo Zane 100% has a red fox he calls fox/my fox friend and you cannot convince me otherwise

New hc about WHY the land of ninjago was formed unlocked..... will share more when I get home.... also my hc roots of the dragon hunters, if I ever freaking made notes about them....

Ninjago Secrecy AU

So in this AU, it’s basically the same as canon, EXCEPT, the ninja stay secret.

it's not JUST their identities. It’s also their literal existence and history.

FSM didn’t want humans, who often misunderstood and killed Yōkai-kind, to know about the Elementals. So he kept himself secret, his two sons secret, and the people he’d later choose to become the first human-ish Elementals secret. Those people were street orphans and abused kids he’d rescued from other humans.

Elementals have basically been behind the scenes (and doing illegal stuff like underage driving) for several millennia, they’ve managed to keep secret all this time and continue to do so in this AU. 

When something big comes, like the Great Devourer, the ninja fix it but there’s only eyewitnesses and no camera footage and most of the time they somehow aren’t seen by humans.

Or Jay causes a blackout to make things harder for them to be seen.

Oh, yeah. And Elementals aren’t sure if they’re Humans with powers, something between Yōkai and Humans, or just full-blown Yōkai. 

They just don’t know, but they have the senses of Yōkai and they can see very well in the dark- they also have a keen sense of smell, they can follow trails. And their eyes glow, but they can control the glow when they need to. Among other things, like feeling vibrations.

Elementals also have feral instincts, though they can ignore those instincts and act human when the circumstances demand it. Lloyd, his father, and uncle all have Dragoni features like in my Headcanon #1, and they're the most feral.

If you saw my HC about the Elemental Bond, that applies here too.

The Elementals just tell people who ask that they’re a clan. They’re kind of common amongst the Realms, and to help the ninja, their clan is tiny, and sort of IS a clan, just a special one. 

Said clans that do exist either live off the land or live modernly now but they all started back in old times, and they keep touch and all nowadays. 

The Serpentine often receives a similar reception that Yōkai get, just less than that, so they don’t give the game up- they keep silent about the ninja. 

After meeting the ninja, the Formlings, the Geckles and the Munce, and others were asked to and agreed to keep quiet about the Elementals. So does Vania, (idk how that part of Master of the Mountain works but yeah).

In the AU, other Yōkai, (Kitsune, Kappas, Tanukis, Bakenekos, ect.) are more apparent and present in this, and even most of them don’t know about the ninjas, just a few friends know. 

The Elementals frequently attack and ambush Yōkai Hunters, and free the trapped Yōkai. 

There’s also more mountains around the Monastery, it’s a literal mountain range, and many Yōkai live in them. Years ago they all combined their magic to create a barrier, so humans can’t get in (they just get turned around and all,) unless they’re led, and it's really hard for someone to just find their way in, but it happens occasionally. 

IN THIS AU, THE SIX SEE EACH OTHER AS SIBLINGS, EXCEPT MAYBE JAY AND NYA, I CAN'T DECIDE.

Arin knows about the ninja ONLY because he’s from a village near the mountain of the Monastery, and his family is one of the few that the ninja trusted with the knowledge of their existence, because one of Arin’s ancestors, a few generations back, accidentally found a way into the mountains, and got caught in a storm, so the ninja of the time saved him. 

Also all the Elementals speak Yōkai. It’s their second language, and their first language is Japanese, English is their third language.  

Yeah, that’s it really.

AND IF YOU HAVE AND QUESTIONS, FEEL FREE TO ASK!

Garmadon and Morro similarities in both my AU’s and in Cannon, though mainly cannon.

They’re both apart of the FSM’s family.

In their duos (Wu and Garmadon, Lloyd and Morro) they’re the older counterpart.

They’re also the resident evil ones.

They both had an evil sensei/master (Chen and the preeminent)

They both followed the lies of their respective sensei and master to a point, eventually coming to a realisation and becoming morally grey leaning to the good side characters.

They both later ended up helping the people they ‘don’t like’ (Morro helping Lloyd and Wu during the DotD, and the time evil Garm helped them and when teen Garmadon helped Wu in the serpentine war.)

They both have SEVERE daddy issues. (We all know its true)

They’re both evil turned good people who are now ghosts chilling in the departed realm.

They are both way more powerful and knowledgeable then most.

They both met unfair ends to their lives.

(Not a similarity, but ever notice how Garmadon is the evil dad to Lloyd, and Morro is the evil son to Wu?)

They both feel like they wronged the best person in their lives, who are unfairly good people.

They’re both definitely sassy. Morro’s got that normal “teenager whose been an emo teen for decades” rude sass, whilst Garmadon has the dignified “well maybe if you listen to me” old man sass that every older brother has.

They’d both definitely make horrible jokes. Garmadon would purposefully make the worst dad jokes he can find and say them in front of any of the ninjas normal friends. Morro would make puns. Legit just puns, bad ones, in the middle of a horrible situation.

They’d both meditate. I know Morro doesn’t seem like the type, but i feel like if you were to push away the whole green ninja thing, he’d be incredibly disciplined and follows Wu’s teachings to a T.

They’re both characters who have “leader” like personalities, and have led armies now, but would later-after their redemption- prefer to be a co-leader or smth.

They’re both old. Like Morro might not be age wise old with the whole death thing stopping him from ever aging again, but they were alive and grew up during similar years. They both have the soul’s of old people.

They both are incredibly passionate, determined, and protective.

They’d both burn a house down, say its an accident, and people would completely believe them.

Anyways thats all i got man, now i just need to find out why we haven’t used the fact that these two are in the same realm to our advantage. Also, i got this idea after making a post on my Tiktok under the same name doing that trend “and now i know how Joan of arc felt” and here we are.

incoming rant abt a possible ninjago atla au u have been warned

the gist of the au and what i have in me head is that lloyd is the next air avatar but for some reason the air nomads are skeptical/afraid of baby lloyd so misako takes lloyd and skidadles far away from the temple. because of this, lloyd grows up as a regular kid with no air benders around to teach him air bending And no knowledge that hes the avatar (and therefore that he can bend the other elements)

fast forward to when hes like 9?? 10? wu finds him, surprise ur actually the avatar its training time something something big spiritual evil that might be related to garm something something then wu Leaves and so the training bit falls onto the ninja. which. none of them is an airbender mind u and lloyd Still doesnt know airbending. so they teach him the other elements and Hope that he somehow learns air by proxy

i have a very small and not rlly thought out idea for what an equivalent of the aging tea could be but this is basically it in terms of bg and going forward its just ur usual avatar and ninja shenanigans

ok. now. i have a couple ideas for why the air nomads could be wary of lloyd. one is that they know garmadon is his dad and garm has been cursed by a Particularly Evil spirit and so they think evil dad equals evil son and they dont rlly wanna deal with that so they r like we must get rid of the child he will reincarnate either way its no biggie which,,, uhh yea lets not

the other one is that the nomads have discovered that lloyd is going to be the first avatar that is a direct decendant of the first ever avatar (the fsm) and so they want to like?? harness his power or smth idk.

(the only problem with these ideas is that it kinda relies ok the air nomads having kind of violent and evil solutions to problems so i stil. dont rlly know 😭)

the point is!! one way or another, misako starts seriously fearing for lloyds life and the fact that he might not ever have a choice over it as his own so she takes the baby and Runs.

[abt the fsm, raine lowkey gave me this idea entirely so shoutout raine hello but i was thinking that theres two of them. like. u have the FSM, the first ever avatar, all plwerful godly being. and then u have the dad, the f in fsm stands for Father, this guy is just wu and garms dad. i dint have much else thought out for him just. yea]

now. if i want to talk abt the possible aging tea equivalent i need to talk abt garm. soo augh idk abt garm but i think rhe gist of it is that hes been possessed/corrupted by a spirit bc of a deal he made or for messing with a spirit when he was researching things. the point is hes known as this being that brings chaos and stuff but then wu and misako reveal to lloyd like, thats ur dad actually, and misakos being researching ways to bring him back and lloyd stumbles on this research and decides (not so smartly) that if one qants their dad back one must do it himself so. he manages to contact the original spirit that garm annoyed

so they talk and the spirits like "well i Would give him back but he kinda made me lose my time and energy on him for like,, 4/5 years so unless u figure out a way to give me rhat time back i aint giving him to u" and lloyd goes bet take does from me no biggie

so then lloyd makes this deal not rlly knowing what hes doing and he goes back to the real world and suddenly he has a brand new dad and also abt two whole heads more in height woops

(this all happens post training arc starting so lloyd already knows the ninja and has been living with them for a while)

OK NINJA TIME

so ive been Rlly debating whether i should do the Usual thing and just stick em in the element rhat they have in the show. OR (and this is the idea im leaning more towards) i go with vibes. obviously the vibes are still informed and consider their element in the show

ok first kai and nya. i want them both to be fire nation buut idk if i should make them both firebenders or make them have their usual elements. i do wanna let nya be a waterbender, However since they do live in the fire nation (most likely in a more rural town far from the mainland) nya would be a waterbender that uses mostly firebending styles and techniques. i just have always found this type of mix and match they do with aang and zuko specifically SOO COOL i love it so im gifting that to nya

cole is an earthbender obvi. i havent rlly thought much abt cole bc i immediately decided he would stay an earthbender and didnt question him further.

NOW HEAR ME OUT HERE. i kinda rlly want to make jay earth kingdom and leave him as a non bender. why??? bc the Vibes man. i want to rlly focus on his engineering and tinkery side. i think he would still be rlly involved with bending and stuff and he tries to find different uses to bending outside of fighting. maybe him and cole are childhood friends and jay is always bugging cole to try some of his projects with coles bending.

and finally zane!! hes water tribe but i struggled to settle him on either tribe. i think the northern tribe could fit him in the future but i do think he's originally from the south. i feel like the south gives him more potential to be the specific brand of Peculiar that zane was in the beginning of the sbow. and since this is situated pre war, the southern water tribe would be bigger and better off than how we see them in atla so it would be cool to explore that

so im picturing him as the weird son of the local medic and whatever else dr julien gets up to . so maybe dr julien is teaching zane stuff and he gets Rlly Rlly good so they send him to a bigger settlement with better teachers and eventually he decides to leave the south pole to continue learning and stuff.

i do have ideas abt how wu gathers them together but ive ranted way too much so i will make another post on that if i remember to

All the ninjago kiddos! That I remembered, lol.

Also I'm not sure if Echo counts, but this is my art soooo... He does now

Fun fact, way before Dragons rising was an idea, I had a little theory/AU thingie, where the ninja got sent to another realm, where time passed differently. (How funny, it was way before SotFS...) So basically these kids formed a replacement ninja team to fight the evils treathening ninjago, discovering they themselves are elemental masters. And that's been in my brain, slowly adding all the new kiddos to it. Might make some art, and a post about that too, because I would love to draw them.

Here's my spitballing on these dummies and their designs.

The Darkleys kids!

The little shits. They would be the ones to have kidnapping as their first resolve.

- I kinda didn't know Sally existed, but I liked all the art, so she does now. Also, she loves pink, I love pink, we all love pink

- Brad is definitely the muscle of the group, with a big heart, but not the greatest mind. Also, he has a babyface, that's very hard to make look evil.

- His design kinda grew on me with time, but it still feels a bit lacking...

- There's this theory that Gene is Skylor's brother, and Chen's son, that I kinda absorbed into my brain and ran with it so yeah.

-Also, the hand thingie is not a glove, it helps hold his hand together after a nasty injury :)

- The bowlcut was uniform at Darkleys, but Gene was such a nightmare they just gave up with him.

- They have matching pins and earpieces. Cause of course they do. Also, dumbo boots uniform.

The Paperkids!

Antonia and Nelson are a given, and I just kinda added Unagami on there, since he waved at them once. Also, I think it would be cute if they were friends.

- I know he doesn't anymore, canonically, but I like to think he still wears his purple gi under the jumper. Who knows when someone will need the purple ninja?

- He has a scar from the injury he had when he met with the ninja. Also, am I the only one who tought something much worse was going on than a broken leg? Obviously a kid show can't have a terminally ill kid, but fsm that's still how I remembered it.

- Antonia! I loved drawing her hair. Also kinda like her badass big sis vibes.

- She has her hands out to make sure the two kids, but mainly Nelson, don't go missing somehow (happens more often than you think)

- Even if he can shapeshift, I like to tjink Unagami keeps his line-marks in whatever forms, since it's apart of his skin. He can hide them, but it takes effort, so he just doesn't bother.

- He can change his form generally, but you could still tell it's him by the lines, eyes, and hair

- He has a little nick in his eyebrow, and so does (did i guess) Jay. I just think that's a cute detail

The Forgotten ones...

Just called that cause I had to add them on a separate canvas after forgetting them. I forgot Skales Jr, shame on me, I tought Jake and Nelson were one character, and I was still debating Echo. But here they are!

- It was surprisingly not that hard to draw him, even tho I was very scared

- Since he has white on him, I was trying (and failing miserably) to replicate those partially albino reptiles. Also added some pink scales, since he is also Selma's son, who's pink.

- I don't know to this day why Echo was introduced only to be left behind.... Nevertheless he's a sweetheart

- I guess if you count Mr.E, but then he would be dead... Unless the kids fix him (lightbulb moment)

- Also, ahy is his head weirdly tiny? How did that happen?

- Jake. Goddamnit, how were you the hardest to draw? Somehow I couldn't get the head right...

- The giant pants is an idea that lived in my head. I like yo think he would be able to fix ancient artifacts with hairties, ductape, and sheer force of will.

- He might have a bowlcut, but cmon, are you telling me he wouldn't at least try to replicate whatever the hell Kai's hair was in the beginning?

I guess that's it folks, lemme know if any of you are interested in my weird Ninja kids au thingie!

Do you have any grass is always greener au fluff headcanon?

I'm keeping a list of memes and quotes for Pep Zane to say at some point, and add to it whenever I get think of a new one. Any suggestions are appreciated

The list so far is as follows:

“Duck around and find out!”

“Witch, please.” (to Harumi probably, or Asheera)

“I lived, beach/bench/witch!”

“This bench is empty. YEET!” (throws a bench)

“Okay Boomer.” (probably to Chen or Krux)

“Why does ____call you Babygirl? (maybe about a Harumi to a Lloyd or a Garmadon)

“They don’t even have dental” (about some minions, maybe Chen's)

“Road work ahead. I sure hope it does.”

Zane sneezes. Someone unseen says ‘Bless you’, and Zane looks around confused. “First Spinjitsu Master (God)?”

“Don’t mess with me! I have the power of the FSM and 3D Animation on my side!”

“I’m a bad droid, you can’t kill me!”

“What? Like it’s hard?”

Someone: “How do you lose a ____?” Zane: “You forget to cherish her/him/it.”

“And I took that personally.”

Zane: “SOME-” *kicks in a door* “-BODY ONCE TOLD ME-!”

What was the prophecy that involved Harumi? Why did Zane decide against killing her? And does she ever end up fulfilling it? :3

I had a whole animatic idea about it but basically the never realm (when Zane used to live in it) was in a war. I always imagined the never realm being filled and ruled by demons around the creation of Ninjago (For lore reasons, demons (oni, serpentine, formlings, aka everything not human (minus dragons) were hunted by humans because of the FSM). The war was caused by humans looking to hunt down more demons. Zane during a fight had a vision of a masked ice entity destroying the realm, he was told by the past EM of Ice that a human child in Ninjago would grow up to be the never realms end. Zane was sent to Ninjago to end the life of said child. He disguised himself as a crow and went on a hunt for them. When he finally found Harumi (the child) he can't bring himself to end her life so he goes back to the never realm empty handed and lies to the higher ups of the never realm. Akita's mom (who used to be a higher up in the never realm) knows he's lying and tries to pry on why he lied. Zane gets scared that she'll tell the others and in a panic freezes her completely. He then fleds the never realm and is considered a traitor to the realm. After he fleds, he finds out that the Great devourer attack is going on and finds out Harumi died in the attack He decides to pass on his powers onto Harumi to revive her and becomes a guardian spirit. And to answer your last question, she does end up fulfilling it! Ice empress Harumi arc lmao. Though ironically enough, Zane was the factor that made Harumi fufill her destiny because the ice powers that were given to her slowly took over her body after all of her deaths. She gets better though!! She gets a silly arc where she's recovering from basically being possesed by her powers TY FOR THE QUESTION SO MUCH!!! I LOVE RANTING ABOUT THIS AU EVEN THOUGH MY ANSWERS ARE SO. LONG

Ok look, whenever I post about the Nutcracker AU, it’s some kind of angst. So, I offer you all some domestic Jaya fluff:

So, after a particularly eventful loop of the story, the squad agrees to take one loop to get some much needed and deserved R&R. So, for the toy trio (Kai, Nya, and Jay), they do the battle scene and just don’t leave the living room area after that. While Kai relaxes with his boyfriend, White (Movie!Zane), Jay and Nya wander off to, for once, explore the rest of the space, since they’ve never really done so in previous loops due to time constraints to progress the story.

Eventually, after poking around a bit, they come across a massive, even by regular human standards, dollhouse. One they can assume was probably made by Dr. Julien (who, for the curse’s sake is filling the role of Drosselmeyer) for White and Echo’s new toys (aka them and Kai), so, out of curiosity, they take a look inside.

It’s a nice dollhouse, definitely. Almost indistinguishable from an actual house, if it weren’t in a giant living room and if they weren’t toys themselves, that is.

Nevertheless they decide to have a peek inside because why not, you know? They find that the inside is just as nice as the outside, once again almost indistinguishable from a human house (if you forget about the fake food and seam line where the house opens up right down the middle, though the house is close up right now so that’s not an issue). The couple ends up hanging around the “kitchen” for a while, and eventually Nya says something…

She mentions that it’s funny how the closest to a normal, domestic life with the other they’re ever going to get is in this dollhouse as toys.

Jay tries to refute this, but ultimately can’t, because Nya is right. They’re likely never going to get something so peaceful in their real lives, at least nowhere in the foreseeable future with how many enemies they have.

So, Jay has an idea: if they’re toys in a dollhouse, why not run with that? How about they play a game of house? If they can’t have a peaceful, domestic life outside of this cursed world, they might as well get a taste of it while they’re here.

Nya loves her dorky boyfriend, so she plays along, taking part in Jay’s proposed game as, of course, a working wife, returning home after a long day to her stay at home husband, who obviously prepared dinner for his beloved!

For the rest of the loop, their game continues, at times breaking character from how silly it all feels in the moment, but it’s nice, especially for Nya, who had to see all too young just how difficult maintaining a home is, even when her and Kai got help from the other adults in the village. To have a fun game where doing all that stuff isn’t so hard, especially with her partner… it’s nice.

FSM, she loves her boyfriend. And if his goofy smile is anything to go by, he feels the same way and more.

So congrats to anyone who actually read all this- somehow I couldn’t condense “Jay and Nya play house in a dollhouse” into less words. Anyway, hope y’all enjoyed the Jaya fluff (or maybe it’s hurt/comfort idk), because there’s not much softer than this for this AU (as of writing this, that is).

Also I might do a comic of this idk, we’ll see if the diverged neurons permit it.

okay new Morro AU

so okay Morro run away from the monastery let’s say between 12-15y old cuz why not he was angry sad and went to get a tea a special kind of tea that will help him through his suicidal journey he went to the ‘tea shop’ using his ninja skills to steal that tea he went unnoticed slowly went to the shelf that has the tea he wants he was about to grab it until the tea shop owner opened the lights Morro quickly grabbed the tea and run out avoiding the owner but little dose he know the tea he grabbed was the wrong one it was the time travel tea not what he wanted but it was too late to realize now he was far away from the shop now all he has to do is make the tea and hold it when he needed it he made the tea and put it in his cloth? Stick? thing now his next move to the caves of despair the original plan was get in grab the shit he wanted and get the fuck out but that backfired when he got stuck inside he tried to use his elemental power to get him out but it didn’t help the rock won’t move and the air around him made him feel lightheaded everything started to spin he looked around to see the lava rising knowing he will die at that moment made him panic there was now way out until he remembered the teas he had with him the tea he thought he grabbed was the tea to get him out tight situation but the one he actually grabbed was the time travel he immediately drank the tea he had with him he slowly felt the tea warp around him then poof he was out he closed he eyes the whole time and he only opened it when he felt like he was falling opening his eyes he found himself falling to the ground he started to scream and cursing at the tea for not teleporting him to the ground and not in the fucking sky (he still clue less that he time travelled thinking he just got teleported out) he used his element to help him but he felt the air was different he didn’t have time to think Because he was falling he used his element and it made the falling slow until he was close to the ground and landed unscratched well physically but mentally he was not okay he was about to fucking die thank FSM that he had that tea he relized all the green ninja destiny is bullshit he just wants to live with his dad forget this ever happened he looked around anything similar to help him navigate back to the monastery but everything was weird he doesn’t know anything around him panicking if he can’t find his dad sensei he’ll probably die he just Almost died few minutes ago he felt himself crying he started to backdown he went to a tree and sat under it hugging his knees putting his head down he started to cry he didn’t want to be the green ninja he didn’t even want to be special he only wanted his dad, sensei he started to cry until someone tapped on his shoulder he looked up to see a boy probably around his age wearing strange black clothes blond hair with a bowl cut with a lollipop in his mouth he looked oddly familiar

“Hey emo what’s up with you” the kid said? Was he insulting Morro!?

“Pardon?”Morro said swiping away his tears by his clothes

“Pardon!? Who uses that were in 20 century”Lloyd says as he removes the lollipop from his mouth

“Wait what excuse me- were in 19##”Morro said with confusion in his face as he looks at the blond boy

“what-“Lloyd looks at Emo boy with the same kind of confusion

Okay I didn’t know this would be this tall but if you like it I’ll make a fan fiction about it!

au where the fsm is still alive but can't interfere with the prophecy of the green ninja. But they're paranoid and love their family so sometimes they'll turn invisible to follow their family around, maybe occasionally sending little signs that they're there or something.

Now honestly while this be very angsty I've decided this should be mainly done for comedic purposes.

Lloyd, releasing the serpentine: Muhahaha! Now all of Ninjago will be under my control!

Fsm, sipping a martini: Good for him

Wu: Lloyd is the green ninja

Fsm, still with their martini:

Death of destiny au Garmafam.

Misako, Garmadon, Skylor, Lloyd, and Unagami.

And a bit more info about the au!

So, the whole things actually starts right after the FSM imprisoned the Overlord on the Dark Island. He's realized that the two of them are equally matched, and even though FSM has managed to stop the Overlord for now, he would never be able to permanently stop him.

FSM travels to Cloud Kingdom, gifting the inhabitants the magic destiny-altering scrolls and quills and ink, and tasking them with finding a way to permanently end the Overlord.

From there, the Green Ninja Prophecy is written, and the scribes of Cloud Kingdom spend the next few millennia rewriting the lives of the citizens of Ninjago to try and fulfill the Prophecy.

Things go as cannon until Garmadon gets banished. Misako, instead of trying to just research the Prophecy and find a way to get around it, decides that the best way to save both Garm and Lloyd from the Prophecy is to take Lloyd and raise him to be evil with Garmadon.

The lead scribe (Fenwick? Was that that fuckers name?) doesn't think anything of this, writing off her efforts as too futile to even be a threat to their plan (cannon. The plan is everything that happens in cannon).

After all, what can a single mortal woman do against the power of Destiny?

A whole fuckin lot, actually.

Misako studies dark magic, takes control of the Stone Army, and breaks Garmadon out of the Underworld while Lloyd is still young, no older than a toddler.

The couple then turn their attention to conquering Ninjago, and raising Lloyd together.

Lloyd being raised by a demon warlord and a dark sorceress who absolutely adore him leads him to genuinely wanting to be just like them, and the Green Ninja proudly proclaiming that he wants to be evil, and actually meaning it, breaks the Prophecy.

And all the scrolls in Cloud Kingdom, freeing everyone in Ninjago from the grips of destiny.

Which leads to many characters forging different paths for themselves, like Skylor. She escaped from Chen's island when Clouse finally has enough and stages a mutiny, and gets caught trying to steal supplies from a camp of Garmadon soldiers. Garmisako realize that she's the Elemental Master of Amber (which is a Wild Element in my sort of expanded Ninjago lore), and decide to take her in.

They raise her like she's their own, and after some time passes Skylor comes to view them fully as her parents, and Lloyd as her little brother. As a teen, she is a brutal second-in-command to her parents.

Confession time, I still haven't fully seen S12 yet, but I know enough about Unagami to throw him in there too. He's found by or reaches out to the Garmadons, starts working with them, and quickly becomes friends with Lloyd.

The little drone thing is one of many that Unagami uses to interact with the physical world, haven't decided if/when he can start trapping people in the digital world, or what that would be used for.

Lloyd is a chaotic gremlin of the highest degree, fights with a mech, and also has a stinger hidden in that tuft on the end of his tail.

They're all Disney villains, and having an absolute blast menacing the entire continent of Ninjago together.

Lloyd and Morro cousin Headcanons because I can't not do it. (I.e I read some Greencousin Fics and they have me by a chokehold.)

All of these would take place a while after Crystalized btw, in an AU where Morro ends up a human again after Crystalized. (I wanna write sum this ngl)

Lloyd and Morro are so touch starved it's ridiculous.

Morro is now an ex-ghost at that point. SECOND CHANCE AT LIFE BAYBEE!

"Why didn't you take Wu's hand?" "Because I didn't think I deserved it."

Morro kept asking Lloyd about modern inventions bc he didn't really have time to acknowledge it when he possessed Lloyd in Possession. He was kinda mix of both Acronix and Krux when it came to how he reacted to technology.

At first, Morro and Lloyd were kinda closed off from one another, and they kinda "ignored" each other, otherwise bantering (Morro more so than Lloyd), but they slowly started to realize that they had more in common than they realized after a few arguments, (And a ton of angsty trauma. A ton 🥲) And Thier bond built from there. Now, they are practically inseparable.

Morro doesn't want to be the green ninja anymore. He's seen how much pressure Lloyd is under, and he totally understands that he could've never handled it. He had just thought it was fame and being worth something, especially after so long of being worth nothing. When he was denied being the green ninja, he thought it meant he wasn't worth anything anymore. That's why he'd worked so hard for it in the first place. He wanted to be worth something. He also really doesn't...care...that much anymore?

Morro still has Aquaphobia (not Hydrophobia, as that's actually a different term than "fear or phobia of water.)

Lloyd still gets Morro flashbacks and nightmares. Lloyd usually hides them from Morro, since he doesn't want his cousin to worry. Morro has noticed though.

Morro no longer has the little markings on his face, as that was only there when he was a ghost. He does have a small green scar under his eye like Cole did, and it will most likely be there longer than Cole's was. (Potentially the rest of his life)

Morro's nicknames are forever "Emo-boy" and "green wanna-bean" XD-

Morro still has a really tough time with handling objects and handling the upkeep of his mortal body. (He'll forget to eat and drink, drop cups from time to time, bump into a door or wall, freak out from a stray drop of water, ect.)

Going with the previous one, when Morro first ended up human, he had a hard time even eating food, since he hadn't been human for a long time. (Sensory issue based, since it was too overwhelming for certain tastes or textures because of that)

Morro and Lloyd are StubbornCousins™. They are the most stubbornest of cousins.

Morro actually hated it when he was brought back to life by the Crystal King. He hated destiny constantly toying with him and just wished that they would put him to rest for FSM's sake.

He decided to lay low for a while, until they caught Lloyd. He then tried to get Lloyd out, and escaped with him.

Morro has sensory sensitivities. Like, severe ones. It's taking him a lot of time to actually get used to his human body, as his ghost body didn't do all that.

Morro and Kai still somewhat dislike each other. Kai is protective over his lil bro and doesn't really trust Morro all that much. Morro is still slightly closed off towards him, but he gets that Kai is the overprotective sibling. They grow to tolerate each other, and eventually bond somewhat.

Morro, after everything that he did wrong, feels really guilty for it in all honesty. Oh FSM he was such an idiot. Nowadays, he does everything he can to make it up to Lloyd.

Morro does infact swear. He tries to limit it though.

Morro actually has never had things like Pizza before and more modern foods. The ninja are constantly surprised by what he'll be confused by next.

Lloyd actually can do things like hot-wiring a car. He was taught at Darkley's, unsurprisingly. (Inspired by Captain Bookworm's Land of the Living Fic)

They throw banter around. Like a lot. Especially when they met after Morro became human again.

Morro actually came back during Crystalized. The Crystal King wanted to use him along with Harumi, but Morro "agreed" long enough to earn their trust. He wanted to help the ninja since he hated the Overlord, and ended up helping Lloyd, much to the Green Ninja's surprise. He also saw through the Crystal King's lie faster than Harumi ever did. He knew that the Crystal King would only keep him around for as long as he was needed, so any promises the King made was void.

Lloyd has two little fangs and no one can change my mind.

Morro's right eye is his normal eye color (dark olive green), while his left (the one with the ghost scar under it) is paler.

Someone please draw my OC (This Includes My Headcanon #1)

My OC's name is Arcturus, but he prefers being called Arc.

He has ice-blue-white wings, a night fury tail that is also ice-blue-white, ice-blue-white ears, and deep ice-blue blue eyes. He has dull dark gray horns that are somewhere between Oni horns and Dragon horns. His hands are clawish (Like his hands look normal but they have all the claw abilities and all). Otherwise, he looks human with white hair, wearing white stuff because somewhere along his bloodline there's an Ice dragon.

So this is an AU where there are more Oni-Dragon-Human hybrids, but the FSM fam is one of a kind, they're also Elementals but they stay low profile... But the ninja-elemental clan has no qualms about taking in orphans or runaways or rescuing kids that are mistreated (kidnapping in extreme cases, like abuse), no exceptions, all species. Including Dragoni pups.

in this AU, Some Dragoni go through this thing called the Oni phase- where their Oni blood controls them, and they are more aggressive in short bursts for some time, the length of time and when in a Dragoni's life -or if it even happens to them- varies from Dragoni to Dragoni.

Arc's father, Azymondias (I stole that from the Dragon Pince, sue me) looks just like him but with bigger wings, those claws-talon things at the wing joint like some dragons, Oni horns, a spiked tail, darker blue eyes, silver-blue scales that run down from his hair in a straight line to between his eyebrows, Oni fangs, and he's really big.

Arc has two older brothers, Adam, six years older than him, who is completely their father's spitting image except he has dragon horns and teeth, and a rare Oni tail.

His other brother is Asher four years older than him, who looks exactly like Arc except his scales are brown his eyes are purple (Oni trait) and he has Oni horns.

When Arc was born was around the time Azym went into the Oni phase. thanks to this, he horridly abused his youngest son, Arcturus, while his two other sons, Adam, and Asher, could just watch.

But one day, when Arc was almost 4, his father was, well, chasing him, and this other Dragoni-Elemental, who was a younger Garmadon, crashed into Azym, and started trying to fight him off, away from Arc, while another Dragoni-Elemental, a younger Wu, grabbed Arc and flew while Garmadon unsuccessfully tried to get Adam and Asher.

Arc was pretty badly hurt, and by the time Garmadon and Wu got him back to their clan's hideout, the monastery, he was barely alive.... but somehow, he lived.

Now, there was another young ninja at the monastery- Zayde, Ice ninja, the one who later chose Zane. Zayde (Zay for short) was just three years older than Arc. He saw when Wu and Garmadon brought Arc in and hung around the room he was in before sneaking in once the adults left. He and Arc got pretty close, so Zay's father, Zack, took Arc in.

Arc trained to be a ninja and learned Spinjitzu (because why not)

He and Zay got to the point of referring to each other as their brother, Zay will actively call Arcturus his little brother.

Nowadays Arc lives on a mountain near the monastery and generally just helps with training and is a friend. He’s pretty close to the six.

I will or already have released a poll on whether i should have Arc run back into his reformed father and brothers, and have them reconcile. Here is the link to the poll

(@the-ninjago-historian @nyaskitten @senseiwu @s0ull3ss-p3rs0n @tellsfromninjago @owlrabbit09 @rainbow-lust,) (I'm interested to hear what y'all think of this,)

Your Hellspawn au is pretty fun so I wanted to ask a couple of questions

1. How did Lloyd creating her actually go? Did he realize what he was doing in the middle of the process and couldn’t stop it? Was he just fooling around and suddenly heard a baby cry somewhere? I really want to know his initial reaction there

2. Was Hellspawn aboard the bounty when the merge began and was she separated from Lloyd for awhile? I really wanna know how they each handled that if so

1. I guess you could say he was fooling around.

It all started one day when he had a break during his tour and was spending it in Sensei G's new monastery. Basically, he had the thought that if his god grandfather managed to create anything using the same confusing essence that he recently won in the lottery, then he could too, right? And with Garmadon now occupied as a new teacher and Misako often aiding him or studying new scrolls, this idiot realized he needed something to do.

It started small. He managed to make a leaf after several hours and later on succeeded having a flower on his palm. But the problem was both of these were things he hadn't planned to create. All he did was think he wanted to make something and try to focus on that only to end up with a completely different object—unlike the fsm who'd had centuries to master his abilities before fathering two sons.

Lloyd's sessions went on for a few more days until one afternoon when he was concentrating on trying to create a kitten to bring with him when he resumed his tour. Considering his experience so far with all this, he didn't have very high expectations but hey, it was worth a try right? Besides, if he ended up with some other pet, it could still be a great companion. (accepting awards on the other side of the country does get lonely after all)

Slowly, he could feel a strange weight gradually getting heavier in his arms, so he figured he was doing something right and didn't stop. Well surprise, surprise it wasn't a kitten.

The next thing he knew, he was looking at a newborn. Perfectly healthy, ten fingers and ten toes—a living, breathing, baby.

Then, said baby began to cry and he immediately panicked.

Misako started calling him for lunch not long after. He took a long time to show up, and his face was completely bloodless.

2. During the merge, she was on the monastery porch just playing with her toys. And yes, she was separated from Lloyd for about five years, I guess. (That's how long I assume the time-skip between the merge and dragons rising is) Lloyd was a mess for most of that time — thank fsm that Kai was at least with him. For hellspawn though, I'm gonna need to save that elaboration for when part 2 of dragons rising comes out. I need to get a full picture of what kind of world the merge is making everyone deal with here.