#also if anyone wants to draw cabinet man jay with his little tail i will love you forever

[galaxyhanart]

The gang finds out about Jay’s Snake Tail

“Fascinating…”

Jay struggled to stand still as Pixal lightly pulled at his ears. His blue skin and yellow eyes had faded fully a few days ago, but there seemed to be no change to some of the more permanent body modifications he’d made to himself while in Prime Empire. It wasn’t even something he’d thought about - he’d spent over two years at this point looking like Superstar Rockin’ Jay, so he hadn’t bothered changing his avatar or anything before leaving Prime Empire for good. 

Just another thing to get used to, he supposed.

After a moment, Pixal let go of his ears, half-hazardly grabbed his face, and pulled his jaw open, squinting to get a better analysis of his teeth. He made an alarmed sound, but he HAD given her permission to run any tests she wanted. 

“Take it easy on Sparky, Pix,” Morro said from somewhere off to the side. “He’s a person, not a machine.” 

Morro and Kai were in the lab as well, watching in fascination. Morro and Jay had become particularly close in the past few weeks, so Jay had asked him to be there for this check-up/experimentation/whatever Pixal considered this. As for Kai, as much as he’d tried to hide it he was still skeptical of the new Master of Lightning, so he’d insisted on being there as well.

Pixal looked sheepish as she took her hands out of Jay’s mouth. “My apologies, Jay. I got a bit too excited.”

Jay stretched his jaw out a little before closing it with a snap. “Nah, ‘s fine. It is kind of interesting to figure out what stayed and what didn’t from my avatar.”

He didn’t mention how awkward he felt, with his pointed ears and fangs and-

Speak of the devil, Pixal looked him up and down, giving him a quick scan. “Any abnormal coloration seems to have faded according to my scans, and you seem perfectly fine and healthy. Your top surgery scars as well as fangs, ears, and tail are all intact and seemed to have remained from your game avatar.

Everyone in the room went silent.

“Sorry, tail?” Kai said. “What tail?”

Pixal looked between Kai and Jay. “Was I not supposed to say that?”

Jay groaned. He knew that the people of Ninjago were still not… entirely big fans of the Serpentine, so he was hoping to keep this one on the down low, but he supposed it’d be fine if the Ninja knew, so…

Jay undid a small button in the back of his shorts and let the small snake tail that he’d been trying to keep hidden pop out the back. It rattled as everyone stared at it.

“Surprise! I… had some snake-based power-ups in the game that decided to… stick around,” Jay said, face bright red.

Everyone was quiet for a moment until Lloyd walked into the room, took one look at Jay, and nearly spit out the soda they’d been drinking.

“OH MY FIRST MASTER WE’RE TWINS.”

Lloyd let their own dragon-esque tail pop out from the back of their gi, and pulled his hair back to reveal his similarly pointed ears. 

“TWINS.”

Jay blinked for a moment, before pointing at Lloyd with a grin. “TWINS!!”

The two kept shouting at each other while Kai, Pixal, and Morro watched off to the side.

“Well, glad he feels better about it now,” Morro said with a shrug. “I’m sure it’ll take some getting used to.”

“I don’t get the big deal,” Kai said. “Why be nervous about the tail? He already knew that most of this team isn’t exactly ‘human’ anyways, it’s not like we’d judge him for it.”

“Pretty sure he just wants to have as normal of a time as possible now that he’s coping with everything,” Morro said, his voice lowering. “A few weeks ago, he thought he was a video game character and now he’s learning he’s destined to protect Ninjago and Lloyd. That’s a lot to shove on someone all at once, and thinking about he’s different from most people probably wasn’t helping.”

Kai hummed in agreement. “Guess that makes sense.” Then he blinked. “Man, since when are you the sensible one of the group?”

Morro snickered. “Not like it’s hard with you lot.”

“...Yeah fair.”