Misc doodz.

dragons rising or future okino !!!! been thinking abt him recently and I like giving the side characters dr designs it's fun :] I wanna eventually make a full sheet for him since I have ideas too we'll see

The legos got me today.

BROTHERS!!

Day 6

prime empire was kind of a sick season idc that it had no impact on the storyline,, it was funky

Mannn... Okino's story was so sweet... why does he only get like two cameos for later seasons after this I NEED HIM BACK !!!!!!!!

Rewatched a bit of s12 Wu and Okino would be friends

their friendship shall exist im about to make it happen.

Uhmm

I have ideas in my mind

I wish I was joking

Eh, we probably already knew this. Still! It's kinda neat!

normal response to a disagreement I think

I love ninjago for so many reasons but the way personhood is never a doubt does something to me

It’s never even a question if artificial life forms count as people. Even way back in season one when Zane found out he was a robot, it threw him for an existential loop but all his friends were like “oh wow, huh… kinda explains some things, you’re still you though.” There’s the internal tension of questioning one’s own identity and self-worth, but his loved ones love him nonetheless. New information doesn’t change anything — he’s always been a nindroid, just as he’s always been Zane.

In season three when we meet Pixal the gang is concerned at Zane’s willingness to give up half his power source for her, not because they don’t think she’s a person but because he hasn’t known her that long. There’s the short lived question of her allegiance, but Zane confidently argues that she has free will just the same as him when not under the overlord’s control. The whole situation reads more like being surprised at how serious this new relationship is than questioning or invalidating Pixal’s autonomy.

And then, of course, we have Prime Empire. When Okino — an NPC — is told that the world they’re currently in isn’t real he is quick to denial, but as soon as the truth becomes inarguable he falls into a depressive episode. His whole life is fake, everything he sees is fake, he is fake. Even as Okino vehemently argues that he should be left behind, that his presence as part of the game puts them in danger, that their enemy — the creator of said game — could use him against his new friends, the ninja refuse. They firmly tell him “No, you’re our friend. You’re a good person and we trust you, trust yourself too” and it just freaking breaks me for some reason.

Some lined + colored concept sketches for my characters I made a few months ago

Super late Valentines day drawing

The "show ended before they can be pushed into a half-assed written hetero romance" club feel free to add members