They look so angry… Why does everyone always look at you that way?…

Pounce !

I'm starting to think the anti-oni ideas of Crystalized emphasized by Lloyd + Tommy's insistence on Lloyd NOT embracing his oni side + them Never acknowledging Wu's oni side, despite Wu being one of Tommy's Favorite characters, is emblamatic of Tommy personally thinking the oni were only capable of being evil, despite what we were CLEARLY shown with Mystake and Garmadon. So. Yeah...

It's just a nightmare

(I think they could really be friends)

This goes out to @karamelsoupl who said they were feeling deprived recently!! I got you!

((Update on me: been a little busy but ibmve got some doodles to share dw.))

Love it when my headcanon of Wu being paranoid being the reason why he doesn’t tell people anything gets credibility

I Also love it when my theory of Garmadon not liking it when his dad says he has problems and thinks he’s perfectly fine, gets credibility.

Ah, these brothers are both complete messes.

Bonus, so aspheera happened BEFORE the venom. Thats nice to know. Also love the confirmation that Wu was the reckless one and Garmadon was the responsible one before they flipped out of guilt, another headcanon confirmed damn.

FSM showing his very good, great parenting skills here, this is what happens when a traumatised, highly paranoid war child soldier veteren raises kids thinking hes perfectly fine and gets no therapy 😔

Realistically, we need to explore Wu's guilt over the Ice Emperor situation. Because it really is just another Lord Garmadon, if you think about it; A loved one did something for him, only to take a blow from a snake that would doom them to commit horrific atrocities under a new identity as a corrupting influence whispers in their ear.

You can't tell me that Wu wasn't forever haunted and traumatized by Garmadon being bitten, just as Garmadon was; Thinking it should've been him. That his selfishness and cowardice and incompetence doomed his brother. His vivid flashback to "It's all WU's fault!" makes me think this was a recurring nightmare, a traumatic incident for him. Wu must've low-key bargained and fantasized at times if the one who was bitten was him instead, if his brother got to be the hero while Wu was designated the villain as he deserved to be.

Garmadon has it so bad while Wu gets to thrive, so Wu shouldn't let himself complain about anything! After Garmadon died in S4, he might've entered the bargaining phase of grief by telling himself it was only fair to let Garmadon have Misako after everything Garmadon sacrificed for him; It's not what Wu should think, but he'd realistically imagine that for a while, because Wu is the perfect child with the perfect life who should always be more considerate of his brother. He has no right being sad or frustrated, especially not with a brother who’s had it worse for Wu’s sake!

And then it happens all over again with Zane as the Ice Emperor. And the worst part is that unlike last time, it WAS supposed to be Wu; The Great Devourer bit Garmadon by sheer coincidence. But everything Aspheera did was to target Wu, because of Wu's own understandable mistakes as a child. It was all building up to Wu being sent to the Never-Realm, but Zane took the blow for him. Like Garmadon, he took the consequences without realizing just how unimaginably dire they’d actually be.

And because of that, Zane went mad because of the Forbidden Scroll; He became victim to Vex, and committed genocide and terrorized a land for sixty years, even longer than Garmadon's reign as a villain! And Wu would be haunted all over again. He'd tell himself that if he'd been hit by Aspheera instead, he probably wouldn't have become a villain due to a lack of a Forbidden Scroll; Meaning not only does this change who gets cursed to be a villain, it would've spared so many lives! It should've been him. We need to torture this old man but in a way that explores and gives cathartic validity to his trauma instead of just demonizing or sidelining Wu.

Another copy paste thing from Twitter but thinking about a tweet I saw that said that if Sensei garmadon was brought back then his sacrifice would’ve been a waste

But the thing is. It already went to waste. Garmadon was brought back. Sure it’s the evil version but it’s Garmadon nonetheless. If anything it’s even more wasted because he sacrificed himself for ninjago only to be resurrected by some white haired motherfucker salty about something that wasn’t even the ninja’s fault. Not only that but garmadon doesn’t feel the same love for Lloyd he used to, even when he was evil in the early seasons he still cared for Lloyd more than anything but now it’s just. This weird distance. Don’t get me started on fucking Christofern. Sensei garmadon is rolling in his ghostly grave I just know it

The emotions I have towards Sensei garmadon and Lloyd’s relationship is unmatched I miss them so much chat you could never understand

Familiar

BONUS

He may be old now but sometimes, they can't help but see THIS. Im guilty of that. The nostalgia just hits hard:

[🐍] TOXIC

More Garmadon father/son bonding for soul healing!

Info about the pieces underneath here:

The first one is set after rescue mission for Lloyd. I headcanon that Lloyd painted ribs on his hoodie after Garmadon went away for a while. While Garmadon really didn't want his son to follow in his footsteps, he's still really touched.

The last two are set precanon. I have an older piece that explains more detail about this time period between the two. Quick summary, Garmadon was pretty present in Lloyd's early life, either through shadows or sending his skeleton army to pick up his son on the weekends. But for a reason, he sadly had to stop communications with Lloyd for an unknown time. But let's not think of that now, look at the happy evil boys!

Garmadon as an Anacondrai General? A drawing of @kim2248 's cosplay! >:3

Young Lloyd's hair

Have some art from last November 🪄✨️

I just think these lego ninja are pretty neat :]

Bonus:

(I believe the meme qualifies as a sort of art)

"Lloyd is such a sad little wet cat in the movie!!"

Duh, where do you think he got it from?

mentor ponies