#AND ITS HIM NOT ARIN

[shikai-the-storyteller]

> Wakes up

> Willy and Luzu are both logged onto QSMP

HUH

[opikiquu]

[ameliadoesstuff]

these are fun

[bluuscreen]

shows up to good game 7 years late with *remembers i’ve never been to a starbucks* um . some instant coffee i made at home i guess

[writer-room]

Obsessed with Lloyd never mentioning his grandfather is the First Spinjitsu Master, apparently to the point even Arin didn't seem to know, because "eh, it never came up". Cause like, yeah, sure, my grandfather is God, what of it? Normal day for me. Shit happens. My dad is also evil, you wanna talk about that? I sure don't.

It's also funny from a character arc perspective. Here's itty bitty baby first season Lloyd, loudly proclaiming he's the son of Garmadon, and probably also making sure everyone knows he's God part 3 electric boogaloo. And then one Tomorrow's Tea and a few more years later and he's doing everything physically possible to NOT care about his heritage. In fact he'd probably rather his parentage was literally anyone else. Dude could care so less he forgets about it most of the time. King behavior.

[vampirtulpe]

Poor Arin has yet to recover from this traumatic experience-

[kindaasrikal]

In dragons rising, Lloyd has three ages.

1) his mental age, probably early 20s

2) his physical age, probably mid-late 20s

And 3) the age he looks, which Arin and Sora has informed him is late 30s-40s

Yes, he did sit in his room and have another existential crisis.

And yes, he did ask both Zane and Kai advice on skincare. Right after trying to find some weird dragoni bull to maybe look his age. Instead he accidentally grew markings similar to Garmadon’s and he’s gonna cry again.

[legokingfisher]

Riyu growls and snaps when he’s startled.

He knows it’s not polite, but he can’t help it. It’s a knee-jerk reaction.

He’s done it since he was a dragonet. But of course, it was no big deal back then. He wasn’t strong. He wasn’t big. His spooked growl sounded more like a puppy’s yelp than anything. The others could always shake it off with a smile and an apology, even if he’d accidentally bitten.

He’s grown a lot since then. His claws are sharper, and so are his teeth. His voice has deepened, and thus his growl has turned into a predator’s snarl.

He doesn’t mean anything by it. Everyone knows that. Everyone tells him they know that.

It doesn’t stop him from feeling guilty, though.

He wishes he didn’t react like that. He knows what’ll happen if he bites. If he swipes. If he whips around too fast, knocks something over. He’s got the equipment to do damage, now. Damage that can’t be just shaken off with a smile. And he’s not done growing yet.

It makes him cautious. It makes him wary. He’s glad his hearing is good, and his smelling. Ninja training helps, too— he’s learned to become harder to sneak up on.

He’s pretty on-top of it.

Or. He was.

The matriarch of the mountain dragons, mighty as the peaks she roams, is dead. Departed. Murdered.

It’s hard to focus, now. Riyu visited her once, after the victory against Beatrix. Just that once.

(He’d assumed he’d have plenty of other opportunities to do so. She was in her prime, after all.)

He wishes he’d visited more. He wishes he’d stayed with her longer. He wishes he could have given her a proper goodbye. He wishes he’d been ready.

He feels hollow. Heavy. Lost.

He’s been off his game.

Seeing as his tribe mother’s grave is far out of sight from the monastery, he figures he can put it out of mind, too. He trains with the others. He chokes down his food. He makes sure his tail is wagging.

But he’s been off his game. It’s hard to focus, now.

Sora didn’t mean to scare him. She’d just tapped his shoulder. But he had missed her approach.

He’s been off his game.

Riyu growls and snaps when he’s startled.

Sora’s fast, her reflexes are good— but what if she hadn’t been fast enough? What if he’d bitten? What if he’d swiped? What if? What if?

He startled her too. She can reassure him to the moon and back, but he saw it. He saw her face.

He’s been off his game.

It’s hard to focus, now.

It’s made it easy to startle him.

Riyu growls and snaps when he’s startled.

He’s been sloppy on missions, too. Lloyd tells him he’s trying his best. Thats what’s important. Lloyd tells him it’s okay. He’s not the weak link.

Maybe a weak link is a good thing to be. He’s sure it would be better than being a monster. Something that lashes out like a cornered dog.

Or maybe he can be both. Somehow. Lloyd’s also said he’s talented. Maybe he’s ‘talented’ enough to do that.

After all,

He’s been off his game. He can’t do anything right, now.

After all,

Riyu growls and snaps when he’s startled.

[arolegos]

cooking up a ninjago arcane au rn and what if i was evil

[berryblu-soda]

[purpleleafsyt]

Always thinking about my Arin design

[neteyammeowmeow]

deepseaenegy family as canon'd by color theory...

[opikiquu]

my life a movie (PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR)

[senseiwu]

One glance at a section of my ninjago folder and you can tell what characters I love

[jinxed-ninjago]

Shade is voiced by Andrew Francis and honestly it's pretty clear after looking it up because how Andrew Francis voices Shade and how Andrew Francis voices Cole sound incredibly similar. Shade's voice is just more raspy and the tiniest bit deeper I guess? Regardless they sound very similar

[writer-room]

I've decided the only reason Lloyd, known descendant of dragons, didn't tell this to Egalt, who refuses to train non-dragons, is for the same reason he never mentioned he's the First Spinjitsu Master's grandson. It just never came up. Nobody asked him directly about it. And besides, he's only like, one-fourth dragon, so does it really count? He doesn't look like a dragon, and he has never in his life considered himself a dragon. Mentioning his ancestry to Egalt probably would've just made him look like some hotshot, or make him more annoyed. There's no need to bring up such a silly little fact. He's sure it won't be important later.