#╰ * arin : isms ⧽

[felikatze]

it has been A Full Year and i finally finished DR season 1. so that's right fuckers. it's time for the grant return of Feli's Season Review

the short of it: i like it!

the long:

Okay it's been a bit since i watched the first episode (a year.) but i remember that I really liked the opening. The set design is gorgeous, the character designs are extremely varied by ninjago standards, i love including more of the weird and wacky species across ninjago that only get their one off appearance.

love seeing serpentine again, and skulkin, and those underwater snake guys, and all sorts of new creatures brought in. it really opens pandora's box to potentially bring in any setting that was usually only reserved for special appearances.

like the realm of madness. the administration as an extension of it is so fucking funny. passierschein A58 bitte. it's just that asterix and obelix skit. it's FUN that they can just pull as many places out of a hat as they want without having to justify it at all. also chima is canon and i think that's where raz is from.

arin and sora are also just a great first duo. i have mentioned it before (a year ago.) that having arin as the fanboy and sora knowing fuckall is a great setup for some natural exposition, AND YET it doesn't overstay it's welcome, with arin (and later, the ninja) only ever giving as much info as is required to understand something and not a single bit more. no we are not going to explain in depth what the geckle and munce are you can understand enough to interpret this as an allergory for a mixed race bastard unwanted by either of his cultures god bless

sora is so trans coded i love it. generally a lot of really good rep going on! it's down low, but i do think a lot of ppl r gonna see themselves in this show. again, sora trans real, arin being black coded (his VA is also black, i believe), it's good!

and cole is gay godspeed. (alive, but gay.)

I LIKED THEIR ARCS AS WELL... i think it was very hamfisted when cole just went "wow the power was in me all along and geo just helped me believe in myself!" and sora was standing Right Next To Him and internalized none of it. girl. girrrrl. mädel.

but generally harkening back to the s1 arc of sora having to find her true potential and then making nya her mentor figure in that, pretty great. the entire story seems to revolve around sora and her potential as she also gets to be the one to dismantle beatrix' weapon right at the end. lloyd gets to do the final bit but sora got the big moment ysee.

and from discussion floating about arin not having powers and being mildly sidelined in the big moments in favor of sora will actually be relevant to his arc?? i'm so excited for that?? especially since it was revealed that beatrix, our big bad, hates elemental powers because her older sister had them and she was jealous. (reminds me of pre s5 nya a little bit??? why does my big brother get to save the world and i just have to sit around when i'm also capable of doing shit). if all that gets paralleled against arin's increasing feelings of uselessness, that'll be fucking fantastic.

arin's so charming. it's a bit sad to watch that he starts out starry eyed and enthusastic, yet his fanboy-isms wane as he trains with lloyd because he sees himself as a burden, no matter how often lloyd reiterates that what arin did, teaching himself spinjitzu, is Fucking Incredible.

in that way, putting arin in a duo w lloyd was also great, because lloyd is once again, The Plot's Special Boy, being the dragon conduit and all. i like all the new dragon lore.

love how more and more it seems like the first spinjitzu master was a hack, lol.

oh he created ninjago? well, um, the world already existed before he came there. it was just a big ocean. he created the elements? wellllll, the source dragon did that, actually? it's really funny, considering he's canonically a neglectful father and the plot probably could've been prevented if he told garmadon "i'm proud of you" just once, he can take the L.

but again like, Lloyd, Grandson of God, up with Arin. And Arin at first doesn't know all the previous adventures, just what's shown to the public, so seeing the actual day to day of his heroes AND how much more they did than he thought, tis sobering. AND YET, HE TRIES HIS BEST. ending the season with arin making pies to cheer everyone up was cute.

as you might notice, i really like the duo structure set up with the cast. first, we meet our new Main Characters and then we're reintroduced to the ogs one by one. It keeps up suspense, obviously, to see what's become of the ogs, but it also stops them from stealing the spotlight and lets the new faces find their footing first.

I also just, kinda, appreciate that not all the og ninja have to be main characters. Zane is pretty clearly a side character, and Cole has other shit to worry about. And Jay has less than a minute of screentime that is SO fucking funny because a new viewer isn:t even going to know he's important.

Anyways yeah, the focus is on Lloyd, Kai, and Nya, for the old characters, and they get much stronger scenes as a result. Narrowing the focus, yknow.

wyldfire is fucking hilarious and her and Kai are probably my favorite duo. Again, great to make duos of one new one old (even with Cole & Geo, and Zane & Frohicky) (i dont know how his name is spelled). Allows the new character to find their footing while also giving old viewers the characters they're familiar with. By connecting the cast so thoroughly across generations, you prevent old cliques from forming, stop the plot from separating the new and the old out. It's more transformative and cohesive that way, it's interesting new character constellations.

I guess my main complaints are the pacing in the middle kinda dragged. Splitting the plot three ways during the search for the dragon cores REALLY stalled progress to a standstill. That's what I loved about wildbrain era of the original - every 10minutes, every episode, you Accomplished Something. The plot moved forward in blocks. With it split three way, you'd have moments where all three duos eat shit at the same time. As much as I love the dynamic between Kai and Wyldfire, their segment was definitely the weakest outside of that.

And also the fight scenes are kinda boring. Really doesn't take advantage of elemental powers in any cool or interesting ways. They're all just lobbing around recolored fireballs. (Or just regular fireballs). Those then plink of the enemy, and they get smacked around. The fight choreography was overall just Lame. The fights were never my favorite part anyways.

yeah so like, i think i talked myself outta words. I could talk more how all the duos parallel each other, but I kinda don't want to atm. ninjago says trans rights

[vveridtime]

ethan cutkosky, cis man + he/him  | you know arin roque, right? they’re twenty-one, and they’ve lived in irving for, like, fifteen years? well, their spotify wrapped says they listened to do you want me (dead?) by all time low like, a million times this year, which makes sense ‘cause they’ve got that whole broken skateboards, idly flipping a zippo lighter & toy dinosaurs left in strange places thing going on. i just checked and their birthday is november 3rd, so they’re a scorpio, which is unsurprising, all things considered. ( axel, 24, est, they/them  )

henlo, meet my idiot son who��s nothing more than a mishmash of like 4 different indie muses of mine <3

spent the first few years of his life living in his mom cadence’s hometown of albany, new york; where the two of them lived with her cousin. he’d been an unexpected baby, and his dad took off before he was even born. her parents were/are supportive, but had just had their last child leave home so they’d downsized to a smaller house and didn’t quite have the room to take them in. but living with his uncle derek had it’s perks, and arin got to spend a lot of time hanging out with him playing video games and sports in the yard and going to hockey games on the weekends.

they spent 5 years there, his mom working and saving up money to go after a dream of hers. as a kid she’d spent summers in irving and the place had kept a special place in her heart all those years. they moved the year before he started kindergarten, into a little two-story shop near the pier with an apartment taking up the upstairs that his mom would slowly turn into a bakery. (i’ve been watching bob’s burgers again, leave me alone.)

his mom is a good baker. it’s no surprise that the place turned into one of those hidden gem places that any good town has.

when he was 10, one customer started coming around pretty much every day. always asking for the same thing until eventually getting up the courage to ask the owner out on a date. one thing led to another, and a year later she married one carson roque in a tiny ceremony. until then, arin had his mother’s maiden name for a last name, but when she had hers changed he asked if he could change his too so they would all match. his parents went on to have two more kids: nolan, who’s 6, and wren, who’s just shy of a year old now.

right now, he’s working in the bakery. taking a “gap year” that’s currently on it’s 4th year. still living at home. no intention to enroll in even community college any time soon. but he’s helping the family and working at the family business, so nobody’s too upset. if he’s not at the bakery, he’s probably off ignoring the “no skateboards” signs on the boardwalk or otherwise causing trouble. sometimes with nolan in tow, occasionally with baby wren. 

misc. fun facts:

a textbook chaos bi

peaked in elementary school when everyone wanted to be his friend for the free cookies and cupcakes kjsbfdkjdsfb

babysits his siblings a lot despite maybe not being the best influence ? his siblings are his soft spot, but say anything about it and you get punched

his mom is also a soft spot, he’s just a big momma’s boy. you know the gag where the guy is yelling and telling his friends he’s gonna kick their asses then answers his ringing phone like “hi momma :)” ? that’s him.

has 2 guinea pigs who are technically family pets, but he takes care of them most. their names are beef and ravioli. nolan named beef, so he thought ravioli would be a complimentary name to go with it.

owns more hi my name is mark octopus tshirts than he probably should, mark hoppus does not need his money

[notsaviors]

i added side muses to my doc. tossed nez up there and a dumbass for another axel and mack sib set :)  (this is a side muse tag dump + the ones i forgot to do last time)

[thickcrskiin]

real talk though. the cute sort of flirting between daniel and jan kills me because flirting has never been one of jan’s best skills--- the fact that she gets these sorts of reactions from daniel make her weirdly giddy because that’s not ever been something that’s happened before ( in that verse, anyway ).

but i mean, if she ever figured out moments when he was actually actively flirting with her, she’d probably also have the same reactions that he does. or even if he just calls her cute out loud. she turns to mush pretty quickly with nice words from cute boys.

[crvsaded-aa-blog]

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