#and maybe thats why cliff never looked for reconnection with jay because clouse told him not to do it

[denkilightning]

thats literally all ive been thinking about while reading the dark island trilogy but especially part 3

because

really??? is that it??? is that it, mr. most unreliable narrator since the dawn of time????

i know ive fallen down a conspiracy rabbit hole i dug out myself BUT

here are the facts

1. libber, cliff, clouse and everyone else were very much alive and had a chance of meeting at a point in time (serpentine wars/hands of time fighting)

2. clouse doesnt have a last name

3. we dont see libber fight in serpentine wars, only with the hands of time

4. clouse at chens order magiced krux and acronix into fucking up the alliance and all went to shit

5. we only learn of libbers existence in the season with the hands of time. we never hear from her ever again and get 2 mentions from jay who doesnt even know her name or what she looks like

6. clouses magic in dark island trilogy is strictly shown through purple lightning

7. we dont see libber in the scene where clouse and chen are sent away

so my conspiracy has 2 parts:

1) cliff and clouse are brothers/twins

CLIFF AND CLOUSE HAVE EXTREMELY FAMILIAR DESIGNS. like if i didnt tell you its two separate people theres a high chance one would think its the same person

furthermore they have the thing where almost every siblings pair we have have a similar naming convention/something tying them together

like nya and kai having three letter names and krux and acronix having the [kr] and -x in their names

CLiff and CLouse sound a hell of a lot like something youd name your twins

2) libber and clouse were close friends

i genuinely think libber met cliff through clouse because it makes way more sense for an elemental master and a dark magic apprentice to meet than an elemental master and an actor

on top of that after all these years of studying edo magic (magic derived from the element of earth) clouse still chooses it to form as lightning

So What I Think Happened Is:

clouse libber and garmadon (along with cliff idk being there ig) met and were in regular proximity with each other/were friends while clouse and garmadon studied under chen. garmadon went off to fight in the serpentine wars while libber stayed behind.

then chen makes clouse manipulate acronix and crux to continue the war.

for some reason (probably because shes pregnant cus im pretty sure kai was already born during the hands of time battle?? like itd make sense timeline wise?? and we dont see lily so cole is prolly born too even tho i know its said it was 40 years ago, timelines suck in ninjago) that makes her leave clouses side and fight the time twins

what then happens i dont fucking know except that libb gives birth to jay, leaves cliff and leaves jay in the junkyard

what i think happened is she was on the run from the hands of time and destiny itself. since apparently fighting fate and space-time fucking up runs in the storm-amulet family. personally i think shes become one with the sky the way nya did in seabound (BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK DO SEABOUND AND SKYBOUND HAVE THE SAME NAMING CONVENTION HUHHH)

so clouse was cheated out of a position he worked for years for, tried to redeem himself in the eyes of chen, only for his best friend to leave him (and fight by his arch-nemesis' side) and then directly because of what he has done have her die/disappear without a trace and none of the 'good guys' did anything to save her.

THATS a good reason for harbouring this much poison for garmadon, wu and his students. Thats a good reason to save both himself and jay from getting blown up in season 4. Thats a good reason for wanting the entire world in darkness.

because he lost his best friend and his only light years ago. because maybe from the darkness and purple lightning and indiscriminate power maybe he can bring her back.

hi so can we talk about how lightning is representative of evil and dark magic in ninjago and how it reflects on the elemental masters of lightning or....????