#{ ♡ } nao : ninjago . . .

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it keeps me up at night knowing that morro wanted so desperately the role that lloyd had because he wanted to mean something, to make people proud, to be important. and lloyd hates the role he was given because he lost the tiniest chance he had at a normal life. he has to live up to expectations that he never wanted, he has to be something that he never wanted to be. maybe in another universe, destiny isn't so cruel to them.

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what if the reason lloyds voice was deep so late on isnt because hes younger than the other ninja but its because hes a trans guy who just started t

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i see people asking what morro's appeal to the fandom is, and after some thought, i think i realised what it is.

it's the tragedy of his entire story, from start to finish. the helplessness of it all, the grief, the longing, the parts of your past that haunt you forever (ghost pun not intended).

you look at morro and you don't see the big scary monster that the writers painted him as. you see a boy, a child, who spent his entire life pursuing one single goal that was just barely out of reach. you see a child who died for that goal suffocated in toxic fumes, who lost his home and family and safety for that goal.

we don't know why he was cursed. but as if he hadn't been through enough agony, as if the world hadn't broken this child enough, he wound up in a realm flooded with evil. his mind couldn't handle the trauma of what happened. as if he wasn't fixated enough, his desire became stronger.

he wanted nothing more than to prove himself.

you can see it in the way he talks and acts. he doesn't care about taking over. he doesn't care about the preeminent's goals. if anything, dying in that cave on that night made him all the more determined to prove himself worthy.

he had so much anger, so much terrible sadness in him that he didn't know what to do with it. he had to blame someone. the only person he could reasonably reflect his agony onto was sensei wu, the only man to ever help him.

he came back to ninjago years and years later. the person who got the green gi was no more than a little boy, who had never been trained like he was. who never spent years and years of his life pursuing this goal, dedicating everything to it. hell, he didn't even want it?

even his defeat was tragic. you can see him panicking, doing everything he can to escape destiny. destiny will always wrap its chains around him once more though, because he was finally dragged down to the depths. once more, he would fail his goal. once more, he would watch everything he dedicated himself to simply fade away before his very eyes.

he could have saved himself. he could have taken wu's hand, dragged himself onto that dragon and started a new life.

but he didn't want to. i love the “morro takes wu’s hand and redeems himself” aus as much as the next person, but he didn't want to. he made the active decision to shove the crystal in wu's hand and let death take him once more.

because in the end, he'd lost so much that living wasn't worth it anymore. his goal was never going to be achievable. he was never going to be truly happy. he never learned how to stop and appreciate life, how to love himself and reach his true sense of self like the rest of the ninja.

he died before he could reach his true potential, guys. that dragon was not his, it was lloyd’s. he died before he even got the chance.

unlike the ninjago villains both before and after him, morro has genuine emotion and life to his story. he's not bad for the sake of being bad. he's not just another enemy for lloyd garmadon to defeat. he's a kid who got in over his head, who wasted away trying to break free of his own fate. and he failed.

if anyone reading this has seen day of the departed, then you know morro came back only long enough to warn sensei wu of what was coming for him. the other villains immediately picked up their weapons and scurried off to cause mayhem for the sake of it, but morro was different. he changed. he let go of his grief and accepted his role in the world.

he helped the ninja despite his prior hatred for them (although i truly believe it was jealousy fueled by insecurity and grief, not hatred). sure, he taunted wu a little at first, but you could tell that it was nothing more than a little fun. he was a boy again, he was okay again. there was no reason for him to hurt anyone. he's moved on.

no one knows what happened to him in the departed realm, or why he healed and the other villains didn't. i don't think i want to know, though. it doesn't matter. all that matters is the fact that he's better now.

so, yes. unlike the other ninjago villains, morro’s story is so painfully and breathtakingly human. he has emotion and development that no other antagonist like him got to have. or at least, it certainly didn't feel as raw as his did.

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who up ninjago sims

cole and jay are together, morro and kai are together. i will make more sims later

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“why do you ship destiny?”

look at them. they're basically kissing.

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friendly reminder acronix is a grown man at least 30 years old btw

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does anyone actually have any clue what acronix and krux's green eye mask things are

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i love watching morro slowly start losing his shit to the pressure on him as the season goes on like yes girl have your mental breakdown you deserve it

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i feel like we as a fandom should talk more about how morro was literally forgotten to history. like, the only person who could have told anyone about him was wu, and he only told morro's story once morro was back to destroy the world

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i feel like acronix spends a lot of time just arguing on the internet over miniscule things

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watching dragon's rising and i genuinely can't get over how much cole sounds like morro

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morro says “nee-ther”. lloyd says “nigh-ther.” kai says both are wrong and its actually “kuh-nigh-thur”

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the ice mirrors of the tomb of the first spinjitzu master except it shows the looker’s childhood and lloyd cries upon seeing what could have been

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is bentho and morro already a rarepair or am i a genius

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i still don't get how morro got out of that icicle trap in episode 8

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i really really want to know more about morro's friends.