#Zane died with the end of the oni trilogy

[mislamicpearl]

UuuuuuuuuggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHH THEY NERFED ZANE AGAIN!!!! PLEASE can Wildbrain hire someone who can ACTUALLY write him as a character instead of just looking for any and every opportunity to render him useless every single season! It's not even funny anymore!

[drowsydregon]

u ever think abt how chen is basically responsible for everything that happens in the series

,, , pretty much everything in wilfilm era especially is correlated or caused by him

-- chen is directly responsible for pairing up garm and misako, which leads to lloyd being born down the line

-- he crosses the serpentine and elemental alliance, causing the serpentine to be locked underground by the end of the conflict. this dominoes into lloyd finding and unlocking the tombs. which dominoes into pythor unleashing the devourerer bc he was pissed abt being locked away. this snowballs into the first three seasons.

-- zane dies and chen tries to directly interfere with the main plot via the ToE. cursing chen to defeat him meant morro got unleashed, which dominoes into clouse being freed from the preeminent (i.e. DIT and skybound), which dominoes into cole confronting yang bc possession happened

-- there was the cut plot (or was it just a tommy lore tweet, idr) of chen manipulating krux and acronix. idk if that's a canon thing but i feel it holds up so i'm including it

-- harumi hatches the entire oni trilogy bc of the GD being unleashed ; again, chen is indirectly responsible for this one

and he causes AAAAAALLLLLLLL of this. because *checks notes* he gets bored easily and thinks it's funny to start drama

[rainbow-flavoured-skittles]

Can you tell me more about your bad endings au? Like, from where in the timeline are each of them? Cole is probably either from the day of the departed or that fall from season 10 but I don't know about the others lol

dlfahslhfjhkehjkhldfds yes! and you're absolutely right about where Cole's timline split lol

Cole - during DotD, the ninja forget about him as in canon, but he doesn't go after Yang. this means they don't get attacked by any of their past villains, but Cole also doesn't go through the rift because it's never opened in the first place. so he spends a few years wandering around ninjago forgotten, until he finally snaps and goes after Yang. the details after that are a bit blurry, but he uses dark magic to become human again and "kill" Yang. after that he goes after the ninja and becomes one of their enemies, though they still can't remember him

Kai - his timeline splits the earliest out of all the ninja, meaning that he is the baby of the group. during the volcano scene in s1, where he would have saved Lloyd and gained his true potential, he doesn't. he went after the fangblade instead, but that meant his version of Lloyd died. they still manage to defeat Pythor and the Great Devourer, after that the ninja basically shun/reject him because of what happened to Lloyd. he ends up running away and becomes this lone vigilante-type figure who stops crime in hopes of "atoning" for Lloyd's death

Nya - during s6, Nadakhan kills Jay. she ends up going through through the rest of the season alone as the rest of the group are picked off until she's the only one left. she doesn't go to the lighthouse or gather up people to help her though, and goes after Nadakhan on her own. she pretends to be his bride and kills him at the wedding with the venom. then she escapes, or maybe sinks the ship and kills the rest of the crew. either way, she continues being the last remaining ninja, since the rest of them were in the sword when the ship sank, and is still doing that when multiverse shenanigans happen

Jay - also from a s6 timeline! the season goes exactly as it did in canon, but he doesn't use his final wish to reverse the timeline. he uses it to wish he was far away from Nadakhan. so he gets his wish and immediately regrets it because the rest of the ninja are still with Nadakhan. when he finally finds his way back to the ship he learns that the rest of the ninja are also dead. he tries to start a resistance to stop Nadakhan but fails and ends up doing it on his own. he's still trying and failing when the time twins arrive, who cause the entirety of ninjago to go to ruin, which is also about the time he'd meet the rest of the alternate ninja

Zane - the ninja don't go after him in s4. they assume it was a prank or joke. so Chen's plan fails and he keeps being held prisoner for years. eventually he escapes, somehow, kills Chen, and gets off the island. at that point the oni trilogy has passed and he realises how long it's been. he becomes really bitter towards the ninja for not even trying to find out if he was alive and actually starts to hate them, though he can't force himself to become a villain, so he just. doesn't let them know he's alive. he doesn't go to the monastery or help behind the scenes, he just goes back to his father's old workshop and lives there. he probably got a decently happy ending compared to the others actually

Lloyd - Garmadon actually succeeds in killing the ninja when he destroys the Bounty, so the earlier parts of the season just play out as in canon. they gather up a resistance and try to fight back against him, but then Nya gets executed and he's the last remaining ninja. he continues with the resistance, and when he finds the remains of the Bounty also finds that his brothers are dead rather than evidence that they're alive. this doesn't go well, obviously, and he starts bordering on insanity and vowing to kill Garmadon. he shuts out Misako and the rest of the resistance and is just about to go after Garmadon when he gets pulled into the multiverse

and now we arrive at when these versions of the ninja would meet each other. I'm still not sure on the details, but they end up in some sort of multiverse in-between space and attempt murder on each other before they sort everything out. none of them particularly want to stick together, but Lloyd convinces them. they figure out a way to go to different universes/timelines together and try to find one to live in, as well as going back to some of their original universes to cause chaos

[colesstar]

You all need to know that the ninja have canon pets (confirmed by me) (I’ve officially called them The Ninpanions im so smart its a mashup of ninja and companions)

Zane: his falcon buddy who DIDNT suddenly disappear

Cole: He got a leopard gecko called Pebble in s4 but it died sometime during the oni trilogy because he wasn’t cared for :( BUT he got another one after s13 and named it Gilly :3

Jay: Him and the lightning chicken have an odd attachment to each other they’re basically best friends atp you can’t tell me Jay doesn’t talk to it randomly

Lloyd: He has a cat. Its called Peppermint Swirl. He named her when he was in s2 before he got aged up, she just gets called shortened versions of it though, she started living with Misako from season 5 because yknow ninja stuff but she started staying at the monastery when it got rebuilt. He also co-parents one of Nya’s tarantulas called Fizz

Nya: She has two tarantulas, one is called Fizz, she’s had him since season one and Lloyd and her would look after it together because they were always left out of the ninja-ing (you cant tell me they arent the siblings ever i need more of them together) and she has a second one that she got in season 5 called Dew.

Kai: Kai is scared of most animals end of he DOES however have a fish tank with a goldfish called turbo

Pixal: She has a corn snake named Cody , Kai ADORES it and he wants one himself. He was wary of it at first but he’s Cody’s biggest fan

Wu: He used to have an owl when he was younger he doesn’t have her anymore due to obvious reasons. Now he simply cares for absolutely any creature that wanders into the bounty/monastery he leaves out water and everything

Misako: She has a dog named Buranji and she also looks after Peppermint Swirl

[spinjitsuburst]

YOU. does the Ice Emperor stuff still happen in CBM AU? If so, is it before or after Prime Empire?

ALSO, does Jay learn ab Harumi and the Overlord and all that stuff or does Crystalized just never happen, giving him no reason to learn about all that?

OUGH honestly i'll let y'all in on a little secret this au isn't just my excuse to give Jay more Main Character Energy it's also an excuse to have fun with Zane huehue

the ice emperor stuff does happen, yes! it's after Prime Empire (PE in this AU takes place where Skybound was supposed to happen, and Skybound ends up taking place AFTER Secrets of the FS. bunch of wacky timeline stuff i'm still working out) i already have plans about i'm gonna handle that season because honestly the canon events were. hmm. not DISAPPOINTING but not as well paced as they could've been (also i love ice emperor so much so i will take Any Excuse to delve more into that concept)

Jay does know about Harumi cuz he's there for the events of the Oni Trilogy. As for how I'm doing Crystalized I'm honestly not sure yet bc i haven't finished. the season HGKJFDHSGKJDFSHGKJDFHSKJ but i do know things between Harumi and the Overlord happen... differently because of a certain other character

As for if Jay learns about the Overlord before that season happens...

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"Did you ever feel like maybe you came out of the game... wrong?"

Jay's heart jumped in his throat. "What do you mean?""

A few years ago," Zane said, his voice low, near monotone, "I died."

"...Ah." Jay didn't know what to say to that one. Cole and Morro were dead once, too, but he doesn't think Zane means like that.

"We were taking down the... a villian of unspeakable abilities. I died to save everyone. I rebuilt my physical body, but sometimes I feel as if I came back... incorrect. Different."

Jay frowned, walking over to Zane and putting his hands on his arms, ignoring the freezing cold seeping through his gloves. Zane still had blood on his gi.

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Jay finds out one way or another :)

[jinxed-ninjago]

PLEASE tell me I’m not the only one who’s realized that Jay is the only ninja who hasn’t died (or he did and I completely forgot about it. No I’m not counting the Crystal Zombies you can leave the replies/reblogs now). I know the other five were temporary but that doesn’t matter.

Let’s go through the other 5:

Zane - I don’t think I have to go over Zane

Lloyd - died at the end of the Oni Trilogy, but First Spinjitzu Master let him go back to Ninjago if he wanted to, which he did

Nya - was turned into the sea; I wouldn’t count this as a death but considering in The Call of Home Nya is shown forgetting who she is, I’m counting it because it was basically “death of the mind and soul” and not necessarily “traditional death”. She was also hit by tiger widow venom in Skybound and died in Prime Empire.

Kai - Prime Empire

Cole - also Prime Empire. Was also turned into a ghost. I don’t care what you or the wiki say, ghosts are dead.

Jay has, however, had near death experiences, including these:

Nearly drowning in Seabound

Almost being killed by Slag in The Pit in Hunted

Almost being crushed alive by rock in Crystalized

Almost being attacked by the tiger widow in Skybound

Just Skybound in general tbh. Who knows what Nadakhan put him through, you remember how much it seemed like he was barely holding on when Cole found him in Wishmasters right???

He had that close call with Clouse’s snake in Tournament of Elements

Like???? I know we say Lloyd is traumatized as hell but JAY??????? He watched his girlfriend die THREE FUCKING TIMES, watched his best friend die multiple times, watched his other three teammates die more than once, probably thought something really bad had happened to Cole in the Tournament of Elements before he was found to be safe, had to deal with the whole Never-Realm fiasco (to be fair that was probably mostly traumatizing to Cole and Kai but still), was abandoned in a JUNKYARD by his birth parents for unknown reasons (a JUNKYARD. What kind of message is that gonna send, whether he was left with Ed and Edna on purpose or not????), has anxiety that’s so bad it’s a running joke that it causes him bladder issues AND is the cause of his iconic freak out moments, this guy is fucking TRAUMATIZED.

Not saying the other ninja aren’t (they are. I know they are). But it sure feels like Jay’s gone through the most traumatizing stuff when it comes to situations that have happened on screen.

[pubbee]

uhhhh so overall Crystalized Part two thots??

Immensely better than part one first of all. I still think this whole saga should have been like two seasons long for pacing's sake but part two handled it wayy better like. Part one genuinely felt like it was just impatiently trying to get to the point.

-the begining of part 2 threw me off tho like. With how hard they seem to be pushing this idea that Harumi is in any way into Lloyd. Please no. I felt neutral to her coming back tbh bc I was pretty satisfied w her arc in the Oni trilogy but was still curious as to how they'd handle her here. I think Harumi's whole deal this season was... Okayish. I don't mind her being redeemed, I think it could have been done a bit better though, and I find it weird that she's just. There now. I hope whatever relationship she has with Lloyd in the future is anything but romantic lmao

-garmadon is perfect

-literally all of Wu's fights were sick as fuck go grandpa go!!

-ronin being the only Normal one in his group of baddies is so funny

-okino got no lines :(

-vania got no lines :(

-mechanic misogynist???? Fuck off since when????

-zane died again lol

-ice emporer episode funney

-minipix should have been called like. Pixie or something instead

-kailor is still fwb and you know it

-mr f died like a bitch. Also... NO ECHO???

-lloyd breaking the Speedrun world record for losing ur Oni form

-this doesn't feel like a real series finale at all lol. Too many open ends.

Overall I had fun w a good chunk of Crystalized but it would have definitely been better if this show was not a Toy Advertisement and thus can focus on more things than trying to sell me something but ya know I can fill the gaps in my brain where things are unsatisfactory :p