#pleinairpril Day 16: Mareep (random street view taken from MapCrunch)
I 1000% did this one solely for myself because I absolutely LOVE Mareep. (Just look at it munching away on its grass, not a thought between those eyes 😭💖) It is my favourite Pokemon and I need more art of it to exist in the world so I was delighted I got to use this as an excuse to do it 😈
So Jay had the Chinese character for sheep. It’s probably a case of the designers injecting Asian symbols into Ninjago without bothering to understand their meaning. But I like to think of how it can pay homage to clouds, because sheep are white and fluffy like them. Clouds are where lightning spawns from, a crackling cloud is Jay’s original symbol… And I can imagine wool generating static electricity.
In other words, Jay must have a Mareep in a Pokemon AU.