#Ninjao kai

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Guys my polyninja ass is gonna be so obsessed with oppositeshipping until part 2 comes out and they tell us where they been hiding cole and jay

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dating the ninja: series (headcanons) | lloyd garmadon , jay walker x reader<3 ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

a/n: theres a word limit, and i dont have enough space to add all the ninjas in one whole post, so we're doing this in parts of two. hence; series! part one will be lloyd and jay :) also this is mostly my old writing, words may not be spelled correctly.

warnings: none really, more like i cant remember lol

just enjoy (╥﹏╥)

 · It took him so long to consider liking you. He's been through so much, especially after Harumi, he's scared to fall in love again. 

 · But he's been with you, even before Harumi and he knows you're not a bad person. He just has some trust issues her's trying t deal with. 

 · Harumi kinda broke him :/

 · After considering his crush on you, it was Jay and Kai's mission to make him confess to you. Nya was with you on the other end. You told her you liked Lloyd for while and she had the biggest, dorkiest smile on her face as she squealed and hugged you. 

 · When Jay confessed to her, she was speechless, she can only imagine the pain you feel not being able to tell the person you liked them. 

 · Confessing to you was the hardest thing he's ever had to do. He would stammer on his words, make weird Lloyd noises like groans or whines when he messed up on a simple sentence, and his face would be as red as a tomato. 

 · You felt stunned when Lloyd stood in front of you waiting for a response. You would say nothing but give him a hug and said 'I love you too, Lloyd.' and he had tears of joy falling from his eyes.

 · Nya, Kai, and Jay would be in the back hiding, spying on the too. When they say them hug and kiss each other on the lips, Jay jumped out a screamed "LET'S GOO!!" 

 · Durning the relationship, Lloyd would be the sweetest boyfriend even though he has no clue what he's doing. He wants to give you the world, but has no idea how to do that. 

 · He's also not the best with PDA. He's never received much as a kid, so he gets a bit jumpy when someone hugs him by surprise or when he holds someone for a certain amount of time.

 · Comic store dates>>>

 · He has no idea how to plan a date, so he normally asks if you want to go to the comic book store with him and you'll go from there.

 · One time a date ended with you both getting ice cream and taking a walk around the beach docks. Wanting to take a peaceful selfie of you and him and a sudden seagull came and snatched his ice cream right out of his cone, hitting him in the face.

 · You now have a photo of a burry Lloyd losing a fight to a seagull while your in the back scared but laughing at the same time. 

 · You taught Lloyd how to ride a bike. When he was still younger you noticed how little he knew about riding a bike, so when he grew you were able to show him and he got a little bit embarrassed when the guys found out.

 · When you both sleep, Lloyd's normally the first to wake up but he's  g r u m p y !!! 

 · He wakes up because of training and because of that he's kinda forgotten how to sleep in in the mornings. Hence why's he's so tired in the mornings and sometimes afternoons? 

 · He's also nervous to cuddle you while you sleep, but it's cute when they guys catch him snuggling into him like a cat in the mornings. He tends to cuddle into you during your and his sleep, it's so cute to catch. 

 · Did I mention he's a cat person? Lol

 · Run your fingers through his hair, tell him he's worth it, just make him feel proud of himself and he'll be wrapped around your finger just like that.

 · He's willing to do anything for you, do the same for him!

 · Non-stop kisses. Whenever he sees you you better be ready to be bombarded by kisses to the lips, cheeks, nose, and even forehead from the Lightning Ninja!

 · He likes to sneak up behind you and give you surprise kisses on the cheek. He loves seeing the way you jump forward when he scares you and when he sees that blush that forms on your face? He's gonna 'awe' at it and poke your cheek.

 · He was the first one to confess to you. It was actually not planned out even though he did plan it out with the help from Kai and Cole, but of course, it backfired during a 'date' Kai and Cole made up for the two of you.

 · He ended up blurbing it out all in one breath-

  · "Y/NITHINKYOURTHEMOSTAMAZINGPERSONINTHEWORLDANDIDONTKNOWWHATIWOULDOIFINNEVERMETYOU!YOURTHEBESTPERSONIHAVEEVERMETANDIWANTEDTOTELLYOUILOVEDYOUFORSOLONGBUTIDIDN'TKNOWIFYOUFELTTHESAMEFORME!SOIUNDERSTANDIFYOU-"

 · You shut him by placing a gentle kiss on his lips, pulling away, and giving him the sweetest of smiles. "I love you too, JJ." 

 · The amount of confidence he's got now because of that moment>>

 · Kai got a bit jealous when he was told Jay was able to get himself a lover before him, and Jay took advantage of that always giving you a quick kiss on the lips when Kai walks by, wrapping an arm around your waist during movie night and seeing the angry look Kai gave him. 

 · Jay never felt more pleased- PFT

 · Kai soon found Skylor and his jealousy was soon gone. 

· Dates happen more often than you think. He takes you to the movies, gets some food, but he's sometimes broke and only has enough for take-out and you both sit in your room in your apartment and watch some Netflix. 

 · You both like to help PIXAL repair some of the vehicles. The Bounty is the main vehicle you repair. The Super Sonic Radar is also one of them and Jay adores the time you both have while PIXAL'S basically third-wheeling. 

 · If you go to school, Jay loves to walk with you. He'll offer to carry your bags, books, heck he even offered to carry you! 

 · When you make it to school, Jay acts like it's the last time he'll ever see you again.

 · 'Do you haaave to go? I'll be alone allll day without your cuddles." 

 · He gave you the cutest of puppy dog eyes, but you tried to endure it and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek, "I'll be back later, Jay. Don't get your bolts in a knot!"

 · You came back and he tackles you, every daywhen you come home it's adorable.

 · His favorite place to kiss you has got to be your nose. The way it scrunches up is so cute he can kiss it all day. His hands are on your cheeks, but they're sometimes also in your hair or hands. 

 · He's a cuddle bug, if you haven't already known, he can hug you all day and he will! One morning he refused to remove himself from your touch, so he rolled onto your back and you struggled to stand up...but once you did you basically gave him a piggyback ride until it was time to train. 

 · For breakfast he just chewed on a piece of buttered toast and Zane was not pleased. He told Jay to eat a proper breakfast but Jay was too into the toast and your warm touch to listen to the Nindroid. 

 · Speaking of mornings, Jay takes up almost the entire bed it's so hard to share one with him, but you're able to somehow get some room, but his hand is smacking you in the face and his legs are tangled with yours. Thank god you are used to it.

 · When he wakes up there's drool on the sheets but he just wipes it down with his hands and turns back onto his back where he accidentally pushes you off the bed now he's awake when he hears a loud thud and you standing up with a scream causing him to scream.

 · You rarely cuddle in the morning because one Jay pushed you out of bed and two you're both wide awake. 

 · He uses such dorky nicknames like, what??

 · " Hey Cutie Patootie!  "Snuggle Muffin"   

       ( or if your a boy )

 · "Mister Man"  "Baby Boy"

 · He's cringe but that's okay 

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Dialogue for translation purposes

Hidden Scars, Part two

Page 1

Kai: Nya, did you have to grab all that junk? It's slowing you down.

Nya; It's not junk, and it's not slowing me down at all.

Kai: It literally came from the garbage.

Kai: Here, I'll carry your stuff.

Kai:You take this, but be careful.

Kai: This is our dinner.

Page 2

Kai:Next time, only the essentials, alright?

Kai: Now hurry up.

Kai:I got this weird feeling.

Page 3

Shadow 1:Look it’s them.

Shadow 2:Shhh

Page 4

(Bully) Bryn: Why are you running?

Bryn:We just want to talk, isn't that right, guys?

Kai: Talk to each other then and leave us alone.

Page 5

Bryn: Oh, don't be like that, Kai. We're just curious if the rumors are true.

Nya: What rumors?

(Girl bully) Alda:That you two eat from the trash.

(Big bully) Jerome:Yeah, just like filthy animals.

Group: Makes animal sounds at them

Bryn: I heard you two have been the ones hitting all the shops.

Bryn: Is this your stolen goods?

Page 6

Jerome:You two were going to eat this stuff?

Jerome:Gross.

Kai:It's not garbage!

Kai:It's just a bit past its expiration date.

Bryn: Way past, I’d say.

Kai: Hay! (Yes it should be spelled like (Hey!) but whatever.

Page 7

Nya: Hay!

Bryn: Ha, Dumb kid.

Page 8

Kai:Hands off, my baby sister!

Bryn:You'll pay for that!

Page 10

Nya: Kai, your bleeding!

Jerome:Whoa, Bryn don't kill him.

Page 11

Shut up Jerome!

Jerome: This is too much, man.

Jerome: I'm out of here.

Nya: Stop!

Page 12

Jay:Whoa, It's OK. Kai, it was just a dream.

Zane:A pretty bad one too.

Zane:If your screaming is any indication.

Cole: Well, nightmare or not, it's alright because it's not real.

Kai: But it was real.

Thank you all for reading.

This story was hawkflame999 idea. I wrote it and stuff but you can thank them for the plot and story beats. We worked on it together.

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Now that I’ve posted all of my dragons rising designs of the “main cast” I thought it would be fun to make a lineup of them with my heights for them

The height is written in ft

Here’s the lineup but also with my headcanon ages for them!

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I wanna as well draw the Ninja in Cookie Run style. I really did my best of drawing these elemental ninja homies as cookies and lookie how cute they are! ^w^

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I just realized: Harumi, Mr. E, Ultra Violet, and Killow parallel the og four ninja.

Zane and Mr.E are both obviously robots, but they also both died in front of their friends from a very evil character and was rebuilt and came back later.

For Harumi I think she parallels Kai the best. Both of them were orphaned at a young age and had to survive. We get a lot of depth about both of their pasts. Also both pull a switch, in the beginning Kai was framed as the main character(especially for the pilot) but then he becomes part of the team. Harumi s the same, she’s first framed as the love interest but soon grows into the villain.

The next two aren’t as deep.

Killow and Cole would be parallels. Both (especially Killow) are first introduced as very tough and intimidating guys. But once you warm up a bit they are both a lot nicer than what you first thought. I mean Cole help to attack Kai and then two seconds later is politely introducing himself. Not to mention how Killow aids the ninja a few times when the threat get really bad.

Ultra Violet was kinda hard too, but I think her outgoing energy fits well with Jay. Both are very energetic the difference is that Jay puts that into his many little hobbies while UV does the same but for more evil. Also they both have canonically had TV shows(which are also parallels. Jay brought people on willingly to go through obstacles. While UV picked people who were unwillingly hunter)

Any thoughts or things I’ve missed?

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i've been known to go on tangents for headcanons like these so be warned.

Kai def has a muscular frame too from yk years of being a blacksmith and then a ninja. Though I wanna say he prolly is on the skinnier side, maybe like Chris Evans but skinny? Seeing as he and Nya were alone for most of their childhoods, I would believe that he would give her bigger portions or if there was nothing left to eat, he would always give her the food instead of himself. He prolly has some body issues too. Height-wise prolly like 5'8" or 5'9" (he lies about his height constantly) he would be taller but due to him not getting enough food in his childhood he'd prolly be slightly shorter.

Nya is def buff-buff. It took her years to get definition in her muscles and she is very proud of it. She can def bench like half the team easily. She's a healthy weight, with a lil bit of a tummy, but overall fit as fuck. Both because of her years of blacksmithing and her mechanics' style (and fighting style, i think.) Height-wise I would say she's about 5'9" or 5'10" like just slightly taller than Kai yk? Enough for him to be absolutely pissed abt it lol.

Zane, he's an android. Nindroid. He is prolly v rectangular, just like straight up and down, no curves no nothin. He probably looks very unintimidating, easily approachable. Prolly looks just like your average jo. Height-wise, I think during s1-3 he was probably like 5'10" max, but after he was rebuilt then mayhaps between like 6'0" and 6'3" idk, shorter than Cole but tall enough to be intimidating?

For Cole, I usually like to write him/view him as very muscular and tall but like that chubby kind of muscle yk? Like real kind of muscle? Not the kind from those muscle competitions that are like pretty much for show. You can tell he's muscular and strong though. He's probably pretty intimidating, as he is just simply a big guy. The personification of gentle giant, if you will. Height-wise, prolly the tallest out of the ninja for my hcs. Like at least 6'3" or 6'4" (i also full heartedly believe that Lilly is taller than that)

On the other hand, I fully believe that Jay is the sleeper builds of sleeper builds. He looks like a fucking shrimp. It's just muscle does not want to appear on him. Unless he flexes. If he flexes all bets are off. He doesn't mind not looking muscular though. It keeps up his unintimidating factor, as well helps with his flexibility. In general, he's probably like very lithe. He'd have a dancer kind of body. Height-wise he's probably around 5'9" or 5'10" but he slouches so so so much that it's physically painful to watch sometimes, making him at least 5'5" or 5'6".

So, for Lloyd, I like to think he is very small and scrawny. Mainly because in real life, if a kiddo doesn't get enough to eat and exercises a bunch on top of that they end up being shorter and skinnier than usual. He can def build muscle, but he prolly also has a sleeper build like Jay. Not as much as him though, so you can still see the muscle if he's not flexing but it doesn't look like much unless he is flexing. Height-wise def like 5'6" or 5'7" he still might be growing, and if he does, it soley bc of his oni/dragon genes.

Pixal, I know she's not technically a Ninja, but I have a hc for her too. Seeing as she made to be all welcoming and whatever, I'd like to think that her s3 body was on the slightly curvier side and maybe slightly chubby? Overall, she just looked super fucking friendly. Max height for s3 would probably be about 5'2" or 5'3" just to increase her unintimidating standard. But when she rebuilds her body she is tall and buff as fuck. Like she's probably a mixture of Cole and Nya's build rn, all the while being 6'0" tall.

I wanna say Arin prolly has a natural runner's build. He's fit and strong but maybe on the chubbier side? Mainly because of all the pies he makes? But also I just think he'd have been really cute as a lil' chubby kid with all of his baby fat?? I think as he gets older and ninja training starts getting more intense, that baby fat quickly goes away and is replaced by muscle. Height-wise probably about 5'5" or 5'6" for rn, but he is still growing. Lloyd is absolutely thrilled to finally be taller than someone on the team. (Arin definitely surpasses him in height at some point.)

I think Sora would be on the curvier side? Like idk, she's probably what? 13-15 y/o, I started growing curves when I was eight. She def does everything to hide them, especially when they were in the crossroads alone. She def as muscle too, but it's hard for her to define them/get bulky but she's trying. She's probably also on the skinnier side too. Height-wise I would say she'd be around 5'5" or 5'7" but like 5'7" is her max height yk?

Wyldfyre, unironically, has the same exact build as Kai, but probably skinnier than him. She was raised by dragons. She constantly played with them, so her strength grew around them, maybe not as fast, but still. Say this, she was raised by dragons. She probably didn't get the correct nutrients that she needed as a human. So she's defiently on the skinnier side. She'll probably end up similar to Lloyd with that factor in play. She's not as muscly as Kai yet, but she's getting there. Height-wise she's probably like 5'4" for right now, but is definitely still growing.

reblog with ur headcanons for the ninjas builds. im curious.

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komorebi 

[The aftermath and recovery of Lloyd falling from a coma, and is hospitalized after using too much energy in the Tornado Of Creation.

 Or, the Green Ninja is tired of fighting, and picks the happier place. For a while, at least.]

A/N: this fic is way too long help it’s supposed to be 500 words it’s now like 3.5k words also it’s kai centralized im sorry i'm partial to kai and lloyd’s brotherly relationship you know that ; anyways i did not do that much research drawing from my own experiences in the hospital which are actually a lot i should be a great reference yeah

• • •

komorebi: beauty in life, the space in between the canopy and branches that allows sunlight to gently filter through. 

the opaque patterned light this creates is called komorebi, created of the kanji characters for tree ( wood), shine through (水れ), and sun (日).

• • •

There’s a day when Lloyd Garmadon closes his eyes, and does not open them.

There’s a day where he weighs living with the new beginning that goes by the name of death, and picks the easier one.

There is a day where he takes the First Spinjitzu’s Master’s hand, and doesn’t look back. 

 • • •

It’s 2am when Wu’s resolve breaks from worry, and lets them bring Lloyd to the hospital. 

The green ninja is lying across their couch, a makeshift bed as Sensei Wu exhausts his supplies of magical teas and incense. Bruises flower against his skin, blood painting his gi crimson, and they try their very best to fix what they can; but the fact still remains that none of them is a doctor, besides Zane and his knowledge of medication scraped out from the internet.

 It’s a few long, painful hours of waiting and hoping until Wu finally relents and says there is nothing more he can do here. 

There’s a few long moments of unnerving silence, where everyone is trying to digest the question of where the hell did that leave them?

Kai is the first to snap into action, having been through too many close calls already. 

The car ride is quiet, and Kai wonders if it’s because everyone has too much on their minds or if they’re just all thinking about the same thing. He wagers on the latter; there’s nothing else really to consider at the moment. The highway runs past his window, cars and bright colored lights blurring into one. 

Hospital rooms are almost just as quiet. Squeaking medical carts are wheeled past the door, and quiet sounds of people talking spill in through the cracks. The constant sound of the heart monitor beeping is the only thing they can focus on steadily, the only relieving sound through all their worries. 

Kai glances through the room, at Nya and Jay, the former curled up in the latter’s arm, eyes closed in an impromptu nap. They’re all tired from the earlier fights, energy sucked completely and exhaustion sinking into their bones, but no one else can seem to find the time to spare for sleep.

 Zane is flipping through pages and pages of eggshell white documents, occasionally scribbling down pieces of scattered information about their medical history. 

Cole stares blankly at the wall opposite him, phone left abandoned in his lap. The screen flashes up with notifications every few seconds, but he doesn’t seem to see them. Or if he did, he couldn’t care less. 

The next few hours are a blur of waiting anxiously by glass walls of a MRI room, watching Lloyd disappear into machine after machine, trying to figure out his extensive injuries. Cuts, bruises, burns, and fractures pile onto the growing list, and Kai’s heart sinks, realizing just how much the fight had cost them all. 

Zane eventually manages to wrestle everyone into getting a check up themselves, forcing food and hot drinks into their hands.

It’s several more hours of waiting, a thick blanket of anticipation and worry clawing into Kai’s lungs until he feels like he can barely breathe. 

“Lloyd Montgomery-?” The nurse calls, and squints at her board as she tries to make out the last two names, but the ninja are at her side in the blink of an eye. 

“Garmadon. We’re, his, uh-” Cole glances around at him awkwardly, recalling that they’d never really officially signed any documents for the blonde. “Adopted family.”

“Oh.” The nurse lowers her pad, eyes full of uncertainty flickering down to the list of names jotted down. “The ninja, correct?”

“Yes, that’s what I put in the form for ‘occupation’” Zane cuts in, and she gives them a small wry smile. 

“Could you follow me to a more private area to talk about his situation?”

Five minutes later, they’re all squeezed into a little starch room, walls blindingly bright with whitewash. 

“Coma?” Kai repeats slowly, heart stuttering at the thought. The word fills the room with a heavy uncomfortable silence, digging its way into everyone’s thoughts. It feels like a metal hand is crushing his chest, shattering bones into a million little pieces. 

“Yes, Mr. Smith. It is unknown whether it is caused by his elemental powers or a brain injury, and it could even be his hereditary dragon blood causing an effect on it…” The rest fades into buzzing background noise, and Kai can only think about one word amongst them all. 

Coma. Coma meant not waking up, meant someone sleeping forever, meant possible death. 

• • •

A week flies by them, fast yet slow. Hours seem to disappear into nowhere when Kai’s away from the hospital, But sitting by the hospital bed, with nothing to do but sit and listen to the several machines humming away, every second weighs heavier on the fire ninja’s chest. 

The door closes quietly behind him, a quiet click echoing through the room, and Zane steps into the room, hands grasping two cardboard cups. 

Kai accepts a steaming cup of coffee from the ice ninja with a mumbled ‘thank you’, and sips at the lukewarm liquid gratefully. 

The nindroid drops down on the seat next to him, carefully balancing his drink on the armchair. 

“Are you okay?” He asks, after a second of quiet drinking, and Kai gives a bitter laugh, shaking his head. 

“Me? I’m fine.” He says resentfully, glancing over at Lloyd’s small figure, surrounded by beeping machines and drip lines. He wishes he was the one there instead. 

“I do not mean physically, even though you have also acquired several injuries in the fight.” Zane says quietly, following his gaze to the hospital bed. 

“I’m okay.” Kai insists, voice hard, and almost instantly regrets it, watching the ice ninja reel back from the response.

There’s a few more moments of silence, and Kai looks back down at the paper cup in his hands, the dark brown liquid melting down white paper. 

“Sorry. I-” Kai stops, suddenly feeling hot tears building. “I’m—”

“Do not worry,” Zane says softly, and brushes a hand across his shoulder in comfort. “I am worried, too.”

“I just- I wish it’d been me, y’know. Not Lloyd.” Kai gives a sniff, and takes another mouth of the cooling coffee in an half-hearted attempt to hold back his tears. Zane is silent, and the fire ninja suspects he’s busy trying to take apart what he just said. 

“It wasn’t your fault, Kai.” The nindroid tells him, 

Dammit.

“I shouldn’t have let him do it. I should’ve found another way.”

“We had no other choice. Lloyd knew what could happen, and he did it anyways.” Zane points out, and Kai laughs tonelessly, swiping the sleeve of gi across his eyes.

“He’s always like that. Battling you for the most self-sacrificial team member position.” 

“All of us are, I suppose. ” The ice ninja gives a small smile, and nods. Kai doesn’t think he has enough brainpower at the moment to unpack that sentence, and settles for leaning his head onto the nindroid’s shoulder.

Zane doesn’t say anything, but shifts closer to him, cautiously tucking an arm around the fire ninja. 

“Do you think he’ll wake up?” He asks, and suspects that he just voiced the thought that has been weaving in out of everyone’s minds. Saying it out makes it even more terrifying, though, and Kai hates the possibility that Lloyd will never wake up more than anything else on earth. 

“I have the utmost faith that Lloyd will come back to us.” Zane reassures him quietly, and Kai is silent. 

“The doctors said he might never wake up after two weeks.”

“It has not been two weeks, yet. We just have to wait.”

Kai nods slowly, and a feeling of despair sinks into his chest. 

Wait. He just had to wait. 

• • •

Another week passes in no time at all. And then another. And another. They all subconsciously note down the date, the date that if passes, marks the day Lloyd may never make it back to them. 

Kai reaches up to touch a multitude of cards making its way onto the wall above Lloyd, bright colors and designs, all wishing him ‘get well soon’s’ and ‘we miss you’s’. News leaked out about the coma through hospital staff, and well wishes in the form of letters and gifts had been pouring in by the hundreds. 

He hated it a little. 

Cole’s careful sketches end up buried in the pile, dark pencil lines shading out beautiful scenes from their memories. Jay’s molded figurines sit on his bedside table, delicately painted clay glass dotted through ledges in the room. 

Nya leaves pictures, pinning them up on space left empty. She leaves old polaroids and prints out new ones, and Kai avoids them as much as he can, because it reminds him how much they might lose any second now. 

Zane brings new experiments to try, claiming extensive research from coma patients. Swatches of perfume through the room, currently accompanied by flowers and soft toys, and Kai wrinkles his nose at the odd scent of flowers and fruits mixing together. 

They’ve all left little parts of themselves in this room, spending hours and days here on end, and Kai just wishes Lloyd would wake up and see it all for himself. 

“It’s been a month, Lloyd.” Kai murmurs, glancing down at his pale pale, now long blonde hair fanned around the pillow. It hurts that he looks at peace asleep, happy almost. The fire ninja faintly wonders if it’s nicer there, wherever he is. 

“When are you gonna wake up?”

Lloyd doesn’t respond. He never does. 

• • • 

Kai always visits during the night, talking with soft words as he watches the lights of Ninjago City outside, wink like stars in the sky. 

The area is far too populated and cloudy to see much more than a stray star every once in a while, but if he squints hard enough he can pretend apartment lights and electric towers make up a constellation of burning suns. 

Sometimes he goes several times a week, whittling the time after his training by quietly reading in the hard plastic chairs all hospitals seem to have. Sometimes, he’ll play music, or sing or talk or hum, trying anything Zane recommends to all of them for waking coma patients up. 

It’s worth a try, more than keeping silent, and it helps to take his mind off things. For a little while, anyway. 

Cole comes in with him, once, different from the early schedule the earth ninja usually keeps. He usually prefers to drop in for a visit early in the morning, and keeps his claim that the sunrise is more enjoyable from the hospital room. 

“Do you think he wants to go?” He asks, voice distant and quiet, a far stretch from the usual confidence and calmness he holds in everything. Kai looks over at him from his place across the room, eyes narrowing.��

“What do you mean, ‘go’?” He questions, and rests the book down on his lap, quietly wishing it isn’t exactly what he thinks. 

“I mean, do you think we’re holding him back? Keeping him alive?” Cole gives a vague wave at the faint machines, medical tubes and lines tying themselves to Lloyd. Kai’s heart skips a beat, and he pastes an expression that he hopes looks determined onto his face. 

“Lloyd wouldn’t want us to give up on him. You know that.”

“I know that.” Cole echoes, after a long pause. “Yeah.”

They resume their activities at hand, Cole looking back down at his sketchbook, sharpened pencil in hand, and Kai picking up his book again. There’s a different silence this time, though. 

The question sits in both their minds, itching for an answer: What if he does?

    • • •

There’s a time whe Lloyd Garmadon looks back at his old life, one where there was pain and hurt and betrayal all the time. 

This time, he remembers the family waiting for him, and remembers the happiness and memories and joy that came with it all. 

He looks at the choice kept open for him, all through this time, and steps through the doorway of life and death for the second time in his life. 

• • •

Spring and summer come and go, leaving in it’s wake golden leaves and soft sunlight across the skies. 

And just like clockwork, Lloyd wakes up to meet the first snowfall. 

Kai’s watching the flakes flutter to the ground softly, like shattered white on the ground, when he gets the call. 

The car ride to the hospital with Zane is just as quiet as the first time, both thinking about the possibilities that they’ve been prepared for. There’s too many open endings and ‘maybe’s’, possibilities that Lloyd will not remember them, or suffer from severe memory loss, or even forget basic skills. 

All too fast, Kai’s standing at the bright ICU door, breathes coming short. 

After so long of waiting and hoping and staying, finally reaching the end of the journey is…terrifying.

The door cracks open with a small screech, and Kai steps through the hold, 

For the first time in what seems like forever, he sees Lloyd, jade eyes bright and alive. 

“Kai?” He croaks, voice broken and cracked with months without use. The fire elemental barely notices, though, and Lloyd is tackled in a suffocating soft hug.

“I missed you.” Kai tells him, familiar tears prickling at the corner of his eyes again. Only this time, they’re tears of joy, unlike the other, and he smiles. Lloyd grins back at him,  a hint of the cheekish humor spilling back into his expression. 

Zane steps in at that moment, metallic smile shining, and Lloyd is engulfed into another hug, one of the first few amongst the many to come. 

The others arrive at the room in a matter of minutes, a rainbow colored blur spilling into the room. Zane has to peel a half-shrieking Jay off the hospital bed, shooing the others away to give the blonde a little space to breathe. 

Months worth of news and updates and gossip fills the room, and Kai suspects Lloyd will remember nothing, but the green ninja looks so elated he can’t bear to do anything but go along with it. 

It takes a few weeks of learning how to coax spoonfuls of food into the blonde, propping him up on pillows to watch lame tv shows together, and making routine trips back and forth between the hospital and the ship, before life returns them a semblance of normalcy. 

It’s a bright Sunday afternoon, and Lloyd is lying on the bed, Kai next to him as they binge The Big Bang Theory. 

“How long have I been out, actually? I forgot to ask.” The blonde says, eyeing the amazing collage of cards and letters pinned onto the walls, the team’s additions buried through the sheer amount of fan mail. 

“...Three months?” Kai says, eyebrows creasing as he tries to pin down an exact date. 

“Give or take about two weeks.” He confirms, fingers fumbling with the duvet as he counts the days. 

“Three moNTHS—” Lloyd’s jaw drops, and he attempts to push himself into a sitting position, only to have the fire ninja push him back down with a disapproving expression.

“Geez, don’t do that, I’ll have a heart attack—”

 “—How many Starfarer episodes have I missed?” He wails loudly, and Kai gives a short laugh, face breaking into a wide smile. 

“Don’t worry, Jay recorded them all for you. Said you’d two would have the biggest marathon of your life once you woke up.”

• • •

Recovery is a slow and painful process, and Lloyd gets to learn the extent of just how much he has lost in these few short months. 

He relearns walking through Cole supporting him on a walker, as Jay runs around them snapping pictures. Lloyd frowns at him, a facade of annoyance, but doesn’t try to stop the lighting ninja, either. 

It takes many long physiotherapy sessions to get him to function normally on his own, and Kai discovers that this leads to some awkward experiences on bathroom related topics. 

And there’s also first time they return to the Destiny’s Bounty, Zane wheeling him along the deck as the only one trusted enough, as Lloyd asks about new things they’ve added to the ships in that time, rambling so fast Zane is forced to warn him to slow down before he faints. 

Slowly, the recovery gets easier and easier. Kai books them all for therapy sessions, and it takes to the point of literal threats to make Zane go, through his protests of being a nindroid. 

After almost losing so much, everyone finds it easier to appreciate what they do have. They have each other, and Kai thinks maybe, just maybe, they’ll be fine with just that. 

They go out more often, pushing Lloyd around on a wheelchair Jay creates when he’s too tired to walk, and wheedling Zane out to laser tag and shopping trips. 

Cole never really complains when Jay drags them out for a night filled with crappy horror movies, and Kai changes his constant criticism into more compliment. Even Sensei Wu joins in on the trend, and doesn’t tell them off nearly as much when they oversleep on training, or miss a day or two. 

There are bad days, when Lloyd sinks into a depressive episode, over his father and his limited movement and everything gone wrong over the years, and there are days when Kai is always angry, at something or the other. 

Days when Zane lingers on a sentence too long, smiles a little too mechanical, and when Nya fumbles with her machines and tools a little more, wincing at a pain or a touch that isn’t there. When Cole’s hands shake from memories of his fall, or curls up on the sofa a bit longer, recalling his time as a ghost, and when Jay’s smile isn’t as bright or not there at all, electric energy disappearing for a makeshift mask. 

But recovering and healing is a road filled with relapses and accidents, and they always get back up on, in the end. 

As long as they’ve got each other, they’ll find a way, and Kai figures nothing could ever really change that. 

Waiting was worth it, in the end, and he’s willing to do it as many more times it takes. 

[themadauthorshatter]

To relieve some of the angst I've given to this PG-13 Ninjago UA, HERE'S SOME STUFF I THINK IS FUNNY!!!

Kai and Jay know how to floss, as in the dance move, and it drives Cole, Zane, and Wu crazy.

Zane wins ALL the satring contests, as long as he isn't going against Wu. Then he'll lose.

When Wu gave the ninja the "the best way to defeat an enemy" riddle, it drove Zane crazy. He knew he'd heard it before and knew the answer, but didn't know the answer. He progressively started making more noises, from groaning to full on screaming. When they got answer, Zane stayed out of the bunk rooms for fifteen minutes screaming and shouting into the sky. He didn't swear, he just had a lot to say.

Cole can bench press all of the ninja.

Cole likes picking up and carrying people, mostly, though, Zane. Zane is like a kohala on his back and it's so cute.

Jay once shouted to Zane, "I'm hungry! When are you going to make dinner!?" to see what would happen; he told Wu and the other ninja in advance. Zane made him a grilled cheese sandwich and locked him in the bunk room.

Cole is the first up... because Zane wakes him up. He is Cole's alarm clock.

DO NOT WAKE UP ZANE FOR HIM. HE WILL DO IT HIMSELF. WAKE HIM UP, AND YOU WILL REGRET IT.

Kai learned that lesson the hard way.

The stuff Jay zones out about is actually really interesting, depending on who he talks to; Cole learned that if your were to follow the pavement road in all of ninjago consecutively, you'd wind up walking in a circle, Zane learned that owls' wings, which are shorter than a falcon's, allow for better evasive maneuvers, Wu learned that it takes the blink of an eye for someone can die from electrocution, given the right amount of energy, and Kai learned that the finer flour is, the better it burns.

Zane does yoga, which the other ninja think is weird. Except for Nya. She joins in

Zane can not fly the bounty. Nothing to do with directions, he juat can't sail.

Cole knows a lot of ballet moves and is very agile for a muscular guy

Kai listens to a lot of rap music.

Nya once did the boys' nails, because their nails were hideous, and she unintentionally scared the hell out of Zane, who never had his nails painted before.

Kai accidentally made Jay sleep for a whole day; they were both up pulling an all nighter to fix the bounty and he gave Jay a bunch of energy drinks to keep him up so they could het done. All he did instead was knock Jay out and make himself really hyper and restless.

Zane has a photographic memory. Even if you forgot something you said you'd do, Zane won't forget.

Fangirls still love Zane. He doesn't get the appeal, both pre and post discovering he's dead.

When the ninja get turned into kids, Zane did not become a child. He just had a huge existential crisis and 'OH SHIT' moment because now he was really the oldest of the ninja and, aside from Lloyd, had no prior experience with kids.

You will know if Zane is mad at you.

Cole wins every arm wrestling match, as long as he isn't going against Zane. Nothing to do with strength, Zane's just really cold and cheats by smiling at Cole, which gives him butterflies in him stomach.

Kai is so scared of spiders, it's almost funny.

Jay prefers sour things over sweet, but will eat just about anything.

DO NOT GIVE HIM OVERLY SOFT FOODS LIKE COOKED CARROTS. IT MAKES HIM VOMIT.

Cole is Wu's right hand. He trains and trains with the other ninja.

Zane can fly Shard while riding in his tail. The other ninja don't get him doing it, but whatever.

Kai is still protective of Nya. If she gets hurt in training, he'll be the first to check on her.

Cole makes sure he is the leader. Kai keeps trying to take the position, but Cole puts him back in his place.

Lloyd doesn't like meditating. He has little kid energy, so he, like Jay, has a hard time sitting still. Unlike Jay, caffeine will make it worse.

Jay is part of the reason the ninja are such sound sleepers; he practically saps them of their energy

When Zane adopts the falcon, he, to be a dick, said he adopted a bird. It scared the ninja shitless when a large, carnivorous bird landed on his arm.

They were surprised because Zane doesn't know his birds very well; he called an owl a dove once.

Cole has tattoos, which Kai and Jay think are cool, Nya doesn't mind, Wu frowns upon, and Zane is very confused by; he drew on his arm with a marker and it washed off. Cole's ink has not washed off in the two years he's trained with Wu.

All the ninja are encouraged to meditate, but they've all had varying degrees of success.

Cole has tried teaching Jay and Kai martial arts, and ended up giving them more bruises than the training course.

The ninja tried teaching Zane about practical jokes. Biggest mistake of their lives

[son-of-stars]

this hurts in words i cannot say /pos i love angst so much. my life force is literally teathered to how much angst i consume

we don’t have enough art of the ninjas patching each other up after a fight. with blood. with the one getting patched up looking off to the side tired and guilty. with the other seething with anger but also so in pain seeing the other like this. with blood btw.

anyone who draws this and tags me in will have my undying gratitude

[tellsfromninjago]

Hidden Scars part 3.1 The End

[remmys]

I drew the funky fire guy in a hoodie with some ice cream at some point

Why is he eating cold food when it's clearly cold out?

no idea

[maniacalmilk]

Pt 3. Of the chibi Ninjagi characters we got Jay Walker!

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[everyfandomsprincess]

I don’t really like Cole. Out of the main group he’s my least favorite and it’s mostly because he doesn’t have that much going for him.

The later seasons make him better and I really liked his part in Dragons Rising but he’s still near the bottom

I hate how Zane became so robotic. Like it sometimes feels like the show forgets what he originally liked like. I’ve said it before but I wish they did a half and half look with him

I’m not a fan of Skylor, maybe cause Kai’s my favorite character. But she was so rude and then a twist villain in s4. Then every time she shows up after that feels clunky and weird. Not to mention her and Kai’s not relationship is so weird and forced

Confess to me your Ninjago Sins.

I know you have them.

I'll start. My biggest Ninjago Sin is that I genuinely don't like Morro.

[fires-of-ninjago]

Some ninja head-cannons that I’ve had banging around for a while.

Kai: He may not be great at a lot of things outside of fighting, but the one thing he’s second to none at is money. It’s something that he’s always had to manage while growing up, so that they could have enough for food and basic necessities. 

The only other person on the team that Kai will ever leave alone with the purse strings is Zane, but that’s because he knows that the nindroid can and will keep track of every cent. Speaking of which…

Zane is OBSESSED with baking. He’s one of the best cooks that Master Wu has ever known, but the one thing that Zane has always had problems with, is baking! His original body had a full range of senses, including taste. But once he built his new body, he included a much better sense of sensors. They work great, except now they’re too sensitive, so everything he bakes either tastes too sweet, or not sweet enough.

Zane does enough baking, but it’s Cole and Lloyd who usually eat most of it. The boys both have one hell of a sweet-tooth, and Cole absolutely loves cake, mainly because of how much he works out. Lloyd on the other hand craves it because of his Oni-side.

Cole once finished-off 2 and a ¼ cakes on a dare, and he loved every minute of it! That’s also the one time he ate himself sick. After that, he swore-off having cake ever again. To help him with his cravings, he took up meditation, where every time he got a craving for cake, he would chant: “My body is a temple…” 

Lloyd craves sweets not only because he’s a kid, but also because sugar is as addictive to Oni, in the same way that cocaine and other hard drugs work on human addiction. That's why Wu makes sure that all of the sugar and coffee is hidden and locked up tight! They lock the coffee with the sugar because they don’t need Jay bouncing off the walls with Lloyd.

Jay is truly the one ninja who’s really hyperactive. It’s enough that Nya has more once considered slipping him a sedative...Just like everyone else. He once got ahold of some coffee when her and Kai first came around. Jay was so hyper that he ran the training course from lunch until close to midnight!

Nya is the cool head of the group (and the one who usually timeshares their lone, collective braincell). She’s great with machines, but she is absolutely TERRIBLE with money (Hence why Kai doesn’t really trust her with it). She’s just too generous when it comes to negotiating prices (and she tips half of the bill!) Zane also doesn’t let her near the kitchen, because like Cole, she’s about as good at cooking as Wu is about telling the ninja about potential villains BEFORE they become a problem!

That’s all I’ve got for tonight folks!

[queenofspoons]

It’s Ninjago City Gardens update time again, today we are looking at the rooftop zen garden and the student apartment.

The rooftop zen garden is kind of like the tea time balcony, it’s mostly set dressing but with nothing but a table with a baby bonsai tree on it inside. But it’s purple wall and unique door shape really adds to the overall appearance of this set, and sometimes people just need need a simple place to relax. Also the roof is mad of treasure chest lids and hidden underneath is a reference to an episode I have yet to see on my Netflix watch of the series (in currently on season 4).

Underneath the zen garden is the Student apartment which is my dream apartment, I just love the green brick walls and the flower boxes made from Poppy’s skirt piece from the Trolls line. The student living there appears to be an inspiring artist who’s working on a painting of her neighborhood.

Also she has a umbrella holder and a tv tuned into the NGTV where Gayle Gossip is reporting on a burglary, I wonder what’s that all about?