#Ninjago Grixal AU

[the-painted-siren]

In the PIXAL and Lloyd role swap AU, how would PIXAL handle all that responsibility and power? Will it lay as heavily on her shoulder's as it does Lloyd's? Will she have people to turn to? Will she be slaying as usual but in a green gi?

And how will Lloyd be in PIXAL's role? Will he eventually be Samurai X? How is his health?

The Pixal and Lloyd roleswap AU (or as I affectionately call it: The Grixal AU) starts out pretty similarly to an OverLloyd AU - the Overlord possesses Lloyd in s3, wreaks havoc, the whole nine yards.

S3 progresses as you would expect. Zane sacrifices himself to defeat the Overlord, both he and Lloyd “die,” and they get their funerals and their statues. Zane goes to the Digiverse and Lloyd goes… actually, I’m not sure yet. My original idea was to put him in the Digiverse with Zane but I’ve turned to other potential ideas:

A) Lloyd ends up in the Borg Ind. electrical system and communicates with flashing lights.

B) Lloyd ends up among nature and Pixal must resort to trying to talk to a very grumpy house plant.

Anyway, as it goes, Ronin comes to collect Zane at Chen’s request and a scuffle ensues. In this scuffle, Lloyd transfers a lot of power through Zane and into Pixal in an attempt to electrocute Ronin. It works—but lands them all in a predicament.

Pixal accidentally downloads Lloyd’s powers and Zane downloads Lloyd’s sentience/soul.

Hence the Role Swap - Pixal becomes the Green Ninja.

And Lloyd gets stuck in Zane’s head.

This weighs very heavily on Pixal. The green energy is a LOT and the whole thing slingshots her into an identity crisis and struggle for autonomy bc she feels as though she’s suddenly gone from all powerful being’s control (the Overlord) to another’s (destiny/the prophecy.)

She can always rely on Dr. Borg, of course. He is her creator and father and would always advocate for her choices.

The others don’t take it so well. Garmadon, especially, is both extremely hurt and yet understanding. He and Wu are under the impression that Lloyd has chosen Pixal to succeed him, for whatever reason. (Despite Pixal’s yelling that THAT’S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. Lloyd is out there somewhere, she can feel it.)

As for Zane, well…

Zane’s arc progresses into s4 but instead of having the calm, rational Pixal in his head, he has his gremlin baby brother.

Now, I interpret Zane has having few impulses and low impulse control and Lloyd as having powerful impulses and fantastic impulse control.

Tell me, friend, what do you think happens when you combine Lloyd’s strong impulses with Zane’s low control.

Is the answer “chaos?” Because that would be correct.

“Zane, you should kill that guy… WAIT I WAS KIDDING!!”

And thus, these two knuckleheads get left trying to navigate each other minds and Chen’s island—and perhaps come to an understanding about each other’s ideas in regards their purpose and powers.

(To answer your question, no I don’t think Lloyd will become Samurai X—or if he does, it’ll be very temporary. I really only want 1-2 seasons worth of content and for Pixal’s goal to culminate in asserting her choices. I think this au is more meant to serve as a deep character analysis on Zane, Pixal, and Lloyd than it does any actual changes to the series.)