#But I'm. Absolutely now imagining things that I could work on in the soft reboot!!!!!

[grokebaby]

HI WAVES MY HAND IN THE AIR. PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT JARMO AND THE RED HOTEL. You mentioned the whole thing is gaining sentience slowly, how does that work ? Do its residents (when there are any) notice it, and how does it manifest at first ? Does it feel fear and stuff when there's like bad people inside ? And what about Jarmo, can he talk ? Considering he's less a person and more just a puppet apparition, I'd suspect he doesn't actually have a voice, but rather just uses one that he THINKS the people staying in will recognize as friendly. OH and and. Do you have a front of the hotel drawn :3 /NF IM JUST GENUINELY CURIOUS BECAUSE I IMAGINE THE FROMT COULD KINDA LOOK LIKE A FACE IF YOU SQUINTED. ENOUGH. Sorry im excited this concept is fascinating

HII WAVES BACK AT YOU. LOVE THE ENERGY LOVE THE CREATIVITY MY BROTHER

I realise now that my wording made it seem like the hotel itself, first and foremost, starts developing personhood and while that wasn't what I intended to say,.... Oh boy the potential??? You always present ideas so awesomely I can't not be inspired by them like. Oh man.

Okok I wouldn't say the hotel develops sentience (or rather sapience, like Jarmo) in that way but like. I imagine that further along the line it would kinda become like the house in Encanto, bc the hotel, in some sense of the word, is absolutely alive. It's like a self sufficient video game map that generates whatever is needed and it's capable of expanding and generating more space and items (granted it has enough energy, ykno, it needs sustenance). It's reactive, proactive, and has the ability to adapt. So while, with Jarmo I kinda debated over the emotions thing, with the hotel I....... (stares off into nothing) uh.

To tackle the part about fear and bad people, no the hotel doesn't have the capacity for judgement necessarily but it definitely will get aggressively more defensive, if for example, there are guests actively breaking shit and trying to break into places they're not supposed to go. Jarmo is actually meant to take care of this part if the guests start going too far and getting too destructive towards the hotel, bc it too is just trying to survive. I feel that yes, the guests would likely notice that this hotel sorta.. "behaves" very differently from how normal buildings should (which is to say, not really at all). The hotel is aware enough to know when a certain door should be "locked" (aka not have the capacity to be opened at all), or where a hallway should lead (exactly the place the guest was looking for. Unless it contradicts with being a place the guest isn't allowed into). I wanna say, you might be able to trick or outsmart the house, but you'll definitely get hit with the consequences later if you manage to do so as a guest.. And since the hotel is Jarmo's "natural territory", he too can influence it. Going back to that locked door thing, the hotel will know to make a door or area unavailable if Jarmo tells the guests that it is so. Also, if Jarmo states that some guest in particular is banned from something, the hotel will act accordingly

The hotel is also capable of being injured.

ALSO that idea about how the hotel looks from the outside. Fucking mint, I gotta say. That is so cool. But no I've almost never drawn locations or buildings, so I've got nothing except word description of how the red hotel looks. Even then tho, it is a place capable of warping with your perception or even independently from it. So.

And, you are so correct about Jarmo's voice! He is always and in every way, customer service mode 24/7. He does have a distinct voice, so it's not just a different one every time (consistency is convincing), but yes, it is a very manufactured, ad-reading esque, customer service voice. Actually, as I mentioned in some tags earlier, this started as a (LIVE ACTION) Roleplay setting, which meant I had to voice act Jarmo, so he does have his own voice! It's generic tho, yes. But it very much fits his face, and it's nuances can change with what the guests would expect to hear from a face like that, but generally it's a jolly, enthusiastic but contained, warm buttery voice belonging to an older man. With no discernible accent. Simultaneously so full of personality and so devoid of life.

[mx-julien]

observations of canon: a few of the many reasons why i ship glacier

does Cole take care to be caring to people? yes. is that an indicator of being in love with someone? ...only sometimes. why do i see a lot of other Cole ships as platonic? good question. in his case he'll, with the others, get into fights and honestly i see him as a counterweight to Jay's nervous energy, Kai's hotheadedness, and Nya's hardheadedness. that, combined with their lack of casual affection, it just seems that he's good, if sometimes argumentative, friends with the others. with lloyd he practically helped raise the boy and i will not accept any other take

it's Zane that he calls nicknames and works so hard to save and doesn't get into fights with

LITERALLY the only fight i've seen them have is in the pink ninja episode when lloyd makes cole think that Zane's beaten his high score, so i'm not counting it because it's peak Young Man Dumbass that blows over in like a minute

EDIT: @imaginehavingmotivation just pointed out that this was, in fact, Kai getting mad at Cole, so he hasn't actually even argued with Zane at all, which is just A+

also i think that it's absolutely hilarious how they try to do the "oh but he actually cares about her safety" thing as like an Exclusive Dating Indicator for Pixane [ref: Possession] but it just BACKFIRES because Zane's like that with literally everyone [ref: sacrifices himself for everyone in Rebooted, everyone yet again when he goes into Bernie's stomach, for the mission(?) when he fights against Mr. E, Wu in Secrets of Forebidden Spinjitzu, and Wu again in Prime Empire]

EXCEPT for Cole in Oni and the Dragon and Snake Jaguar, which sets him apart from the others and just shows their chemistry even more since it's in contrast to how they treat everyone else. tl;dr zane's real sweet to everyone but then to his boyfriend he's just like "nah you can deal breaking out of biker jail and rescuing a baby. have fun! i'm going to infiltrate an urban terrorist group, btw"

they're also hilarious in that Cole is One Loyal Boy and always comes back for him and goes along with his plans, trusting him implicitly [there are a lot of references for this so here are a few: Tick Tock, the pink ninja episode, when he breaks Zane out of his cell on Chen's island, the plan where he has to sing in order for Zane to infiltrate the SoG, i think there's at least one in The Island, and the last few episodes of Seabound]

both of them have to live such crazy lives anyways that i think they'd enjoy the chance to be chill with each other back @ the monestary or in their free time on the bounty; the two of them seem to have the most relaxed hobbies, anyhow, so they're compatible in that way

both of them love animals! Cole has such a soft spot for the big ones, like Rocky, and Zane just seems to love all [ref: falcon, fish, his general demeanor]

they were the first two to get recruited, too (i think), so they've known each other the longest. they were each other's first sparring partners, roommates, and just THINK about how back then they were novice ninjas both wearing black and learning how to use shuriken and scythe and not knowing what's ahead of them only that a weird old guy brought them there

also i just realized that Cole was probably playing hooky from the Marty Oppenheimer School of Perf. Arts in order to climb that mountain and he seemed very keen to leave and he had a strained relationship with his father, so the monestary with Zane was probably the first space in a while where he could be really happy (kai and nya had each other and jay pretty obviously enjoyed building things with his parents) just please don't imagine tired weary Cole following a strange old man who's offered him a place to be himself because apparently now he has to leave home to get that and then he walks into the monestary and meets this kind boy who's a little strange but is nice and likes to train and doesn't judge him for anything he does and also cooks really well and is cute and-