#AND HWO THAT ATTITUDE IS DECONSTRUCTED BC WHILE THE TOMB COULDN'T BE OPENED FROM THE INSIDE THIS FACTORY IS NOT THE SAME | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

razzle-zazzle · 3 months ago

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once again thinking about how growing up in that tomb affects cole's beliefs and ideals in raised by serpentine, more specifically the idea of the constrictai and tomb dwellers as this one big community where everyone gives to the collaborative effort. how that's reflected in cole's own friendliness and desire to Be Involved and Help Out even when he's with the ninja, how community and banding together are important to him. thinking about how earth masters have a semi-celebrated role in the community as Guardians and Pillars of Strength and Peace and Giving, how the legacy cole has to measure up to—one of selflessness and honor—further colors his decisions to the point where he almost fixates on the idea that one day he'll have to pay the ultimate price for the greater good—and how that idea fares against the reality of watching zane do exactly that in rebooted. i just.... augh. cole <3

#lego ninjago #raised by serpentine #cole ninjago #also just. tournament of elements oh my god #for one there's chen who should not be alive after 250+ years but still is bc ofc he is /neg #and also chen's like. a really nasty sort of boogieman figure to the serpentine at large bc of his involvement in the war #so cole is. especially off-balance when looking at this skeletal old man bc he's grown up with the stories surrounding chen and the war #so he's. he is genuinely pretty afraid of chen in a ''this is the fucking boogieman'' kind of way #idk if i'm explaining it right but yeah #AND THEN. WHEN COLE FORFEITS HIS FIGHT TO JAY. HOW IT'S A RETURN TO LIVING UNDERGROUND CUT OFF FROM THE SKY #HOW COLE STARTS OFF WITH THE GENERAL PRE-OPENING TOMB MENTALITY OF ''this isn't smth we can fix so let's not worry too hard''#AND HWO THAT ATTITUDE IS DECONSTRUCTED BC WHILE THE TOMB COULDN'T BE OPENED FROM THE INSIDE THIS FACTORY IS NOT THE SAME #AND IT'S BOTH A REBUTTAL OF SOME OF COLE'S BELIEFS REGARDING HIS ROLE IN THE WORLD #AND OF EVERYTHING THAT CHEN STANDS FOR AND EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED TO THE SERPENTINE AFTER THE WAR #BC IT WASN'T RIGHT TO LOCK THEM UNDERGROUND. AND IT ISN'T RIGHT FOR CHEN TO DO THE SAME WITH HIS FACTORY WORKERS #and then how that plays into cole as the master of earth and thus as one with the downtrodden and lowly #who's own ascension sheds light upon those below and raises them up as well #i just. oh my god. oh my fucking god #me when the silly au makes me fucking ill thinking about it (in a good way)

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