My name is Brutus,

but the people will call me Rex.

everyone in the castle of ice is having such a good time

Ssso fuckign tired experiencing the Artist's Anguish trying to draw Grimfax. Sir I'm fighting for my fucking life over here for YOU. Crusty frosted over old man I wish the Emperor let Vex eat you 😭😭 hjate himnso much.. sory i lied i like him soeey. goodkigjt

Headcannon that Vex and Grimfax butt heads really often. Like, they could fight for hours about military tactics, and what the best move would be, and they go to the Ice Emperor for the final decision and he’s just like, “I don’t know, just do what Vex says.” (They have had countless unsuccessful attacks because of this.)

Like the ending of "A Fragile Hope," shoutout to my guy Grimfax!!!

Day 12: Samouraï/Samurai

I didn't really know what to do for this one, so at first i decided to draw Grimfax..but then i put him in the backround and my love for Zane resurfaced again- help 😭

Anyway, assuming Grimfax has been king/emperor for very long, i feel like he would be able to easily spot manipulation and or trickery, which is exactly whats going on between Zane and Vex.

I suppose that explains Grimfax trusting Lloyd, unless that was just him being desperate to free his rightful land from the eternal winter that had plagued the Never-Realm for decades.

Anyway, Prompt List:

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Ninjago card game except it's literally just everything canon and non-canon and is entirely nonsense

"Okay I equip Grimfax with the Obsidian Scythe so I end my turn." "ALRIGHT I PLAY ROBOT MANAGER FROM WU'S TEAS WITH PYTHOR'S NAGINATA ON THE ROCKET BOARD FROM CHENS ISLAND!" "YOU FOOL! THANKS TO MY YINYANG DRAGON SUPPORT CARD I AM IMMUNE TO ALL NEUTRAL CHARACTERS! YOUR PATHETIC ANDROID DOES NOTHING AGAINST ME."

First episode today, Once and for All.

We're getting real close to the end of the season, so I'm thinking there's going to be the start of a really big battle here.

Nya, Cole, Kai, Jay, and Krag are almost to the creepy Ice Castle. I'm thinking Boreal's going to welcome them. Akita... I'm thinking she's going to help them out, but they could also just find her with the mech.

Lloyd, Kataru, and Grimfax are working from the inside to dethrone Zane and stop Vex. And also figure out a way to get Zane's memory back.

I don't think they'll learn that the Traveler's Tea isn't strong enough to send them back to Ninjago in this episode, but that's something that's also coming up.

Ok, on to the episode!

@ninjamelissajulien

Ninjago au where Wu didn’t age quickly so the entirety of the wildbrain era is that but the ninja are also trying to raise a baby whilst saving the world.

So s9 consists of Cole carrying around a baby, then Faith bonding with the baby (and learning the innocence of youth uncorrupted by the savage cruel world), to the iron baron kidnapping baby Wu (for plot convenience Baby Wu has some sort of mental link with Firstbourne and points in the right direction) to find the armour, and when they get there, the dragon kills iron baron and saves the baby.

S11 goes on to show the ninja struggling to parent Wu and really miss having the time to go on missions, so when they hear that a pyramid has been discovered, they decide to go on an adventure and they bring Wu along because Pixal is actually horrible awful awful at babysitting (she doesn’t have the patience and gets grossed out when trying to feed and change wu). Whilst yes, bringing a baby on a dangerous mission isn’t exactly sensible, in all fairness baby Wu is kinda resilient and semi indestructible bc he’s a literal demigod. Aspheera doesn’t even realise the baby is wu until she finds out after she gets to Ninjago.

Then aspheera manages to blast Zane to the never realm with baby Wu in his hands and somehow the Never Realm gets taken over by the Ice Emperor… and his baby son. The Ice Emperor but he’s a dad. Yeah. Vex makes a pretty awful babysitter, Grimfax is an okay babysitter and what if Vex decided to just yet Wu into the dungeons and tell the Ice Emp that Wu was lost in war which makes him really angry at the rest of the realm. And actually Wu is being looked after by Kataru, and Lloyd goes to Zane and shows him that Wu is fine and then Zane immediately remembers everything. (Also for the sake of au, this means Zane is only ice emperor for like at least a few weeks).

They just take Wu into prime empire and Wu gets to play one of those kids colouring games. Okino also gets to know the joys of children.

The ninja take Wu to shintaro, and when the others get captured, Vania briefly gets to babysit Wu, before Cole Vania and Wu get trapdoored by Vangelis. Cole kinda just has Wu in one of those baby backpacks.

The Island is just an example of why Misako should not ever babysit children (actually tbf she just takes Wu on her adventure, which is what the ninja have been doing). Maybe Misako said she was just going to take Wu to a jungle gym, but they misheard her and she actually said jungle with a guy named Jim. Fun.

And Seabound, Wu finally stays home and is looked after by Cole, Kai, Kai’s dad and Misako (their level of parenting from best to worst are in that order specifically).

And (CRYSTALISED PART 1 SPOILERS) Cole actually stays him so he specifically can look after Wu. Life is hard when you’re a single parent because the rest of your found family left. Actually Kai visits frequently bc he has maternal instincts (although being at the monastery is a little painful for him). Wu is sad because Zane no longer sings songs at him, Pixal almost never leaves the basement where she works on vehicles and stuff, and he misses Lloyd and Jay and Nya.

It'll take me forever to make so many Ninjago characters into Spyro dragons so I'm just gonna make one big list of them depending on the clans.

Hybrids: Lloyd, Wu, and Garmadon (all clans), Kai and Nya (Artisans & Peace Keepers), Zane & Echo (Magic Crafters & Dream Weavers), Jay (Magic Crafter & Dream Weaver), Cole (Artisan & Beast Maker), Pixal (Peace Keeper & Magic Crafter), Skylor (Magic Crafter & Beast Maker)

Artisans: Misako, Arin, Harumi, Ronin, Neuro, Jacob, Krux, Acronix, Pythor, Samukai, Unagami, The Mechanic, Gayle Gossip, Alfonzo Frohicky, Clutch Powers

Peace Keepers: Dareth, Karlof, Griffin Turner, Faith, Iron Baron, Scott, Okino, Plundar, Ultra Violet, Killow, Grimfax, Skalidor, Cryptor

Magic Crafters: Sora, Cyrus Borg, Ash, Chamille, Paleman, Akita, Kataru, Geo, Skales, Clouse, Vex, Aspheera, Beatrix, Mystake

Beast Makers: Wyldfyre, Toxikita, Bolobo, Benthomaar, Kalmaar, Fangtom, Chen, Kozu, Machia, Fugi-Dove, Ras, Jordana, Cinder

Dream Weavers: Morro, Shade, Gravis, Vania, Vangelis, Sensei Yang, Acidicus, Euphrasia, Nadakhan, Arrakore, Fenwick, the Mailman

Vex: I just ended a four year relationship.

Cara: Oh, really. I’m sorry to hear that. Are you alright ?

Vex: Hm? Oh yeah, I’m fine. It wasn’t My relationship.

*Grimfax and Formling chef fighting from across the room*

Cara: 😑 really vex…again!?

my favorite hobby is recreating scenes w paper cut outs in the subway back room sink

Ninjago s11 AU the guards are sentient and can think for themselves, Zane AND Vex just have some bodily control over them so that’s how he makes them attack and stuff.

They realize like 40 yrs into Zane’s ruling that the Ice Emperors not really the one in control of everything but instead it’s Vex, then they realize that Vex doesn’t allow the Ice.E to leave the palace without him and even that’s rare. So the guards come up with this idea for a coup, and then they suddenly decide to actually do it when Grimfax joins them.

So they start their plan off by befriending the Ice.E so they have his trust, while doing it they realize that the real REAL bad guy is Vex. So they decide to take him away form there. Then one night they barge into the throne room dragging him up and when he goes “the hell u doin’?” they’d go all like “Vex is totes planning a coup so we’re taking u someplace safe”. So they leave the castle with him, while walking they throw away his armor, expect the staff because it’s stuck to his hand.

Vex, when he realizes what happened, is of course mad. And icing on top of the cake is that every ice samurai that went had been an alive one, so he only had ice zombie samurais left, a.k.a. Blizzard Sword Masters and Blizzard archers. So Vex starts chasing them with the ice zombies while the samurai run away with Grimfax’s lead while protecting the Ice.E, who still doesn’t realize that he’s Zane. During their travels Zane starts to bleed through the Ice.E, this of course confuses the samurai who get him to open up. They kinda go “shit” when they realize that he’s amnesiadic, so while they travel they try all kinds of way to bring his memories back.

At one point they end up at the ice fishers village, the villagers are of course scared of them but when they explain their situation to them they kinda understand but don’t trust them. When Sorla learns that the Ice.E has no memory of his past she offers to help, he agrees and the ceremony begins.

It’s around the fire, with everyone from the village and the samurai there watching by the walls, or through the windows. Then it goes through kind of a montage of sound and flashes of events in the fire, some notable ones are about his father and the fact that he was a good guy. Also the fact of his brothers and sister (the ninja) existing.

Zane ends up befriending the villagers and he and the samurai end up staying there, but nothing good can last long. So Vex shows up, while the samurai (still iced) are fighting the ice zombies the Ice.E is having a mental breakdown. When Vex shows up to the place he’s panicking in he goes onto this tangent how only he can be trusted and he’ll make sure that the Ice.E’ll be alright, the Ice.E doesn’t really answer because panic. So Vex has two ice zombies escort him out, then he drags him into the middle of the lake and shouts something about the Ice.E being on his side and that they should just surrender.

But guess what, the Ice.E wans’t panicking for no reason. No, he was having wivid flashbacks and getting his memories back. So Zane just fucking explodes with ice, sending Vex of to the side, destroying the ice zombies and freeing the samurai while destroying the scepter. Basically freeing the realm in the process. Everyone’s of course confused as fuck, but they quickly contain Vex before he can scamper away.

So then they kinda gather around a crying Zane, having no idea what to do. But fun times! Zane’s gone back to the point when he was just a few years old, so he snaps out of the crying confused as to where he is and asking about his dad. He consistently gets his memories back one by one, so that’s not a thing they have to worry about. Grimfax is put back into rule and all is well, and Vex is executed because fuck him. Zane ends up living with the samurai, with them getting attached to him. He keeps boreal, but he’s now more like a giant guard dog that really loves petting.

So then he spends the next 20 years gaining back memories and bonding with the samurai, then the ninja come. They still take super long to get to the castle, but this time it’s because of ice birds, wolves some off road trips to magical tea trees and a montage of Kai getting his powers back. He leaves on a god note, even though the samurai are all in tears and many of them are totally not feeling like their kid is leaving home. No, they totally aren’t. Grimfax especially, somebody’s just cutting onions and he has allergies. Nothing more.

Ice Emperor: …Vex… where do babies come from…?

Vex: *Spits out his drink* WHAT!?