#but all of these aus are greenflower aus

[twigs-sprigs]

You

I’m throttling you

YOU CANT JUST PUT A PERFECTLY GOOD ANGSTY AU CONTINUATION AND N O T ELABORATE

Void

The darklies kids

Hngn

Ok but honest question sorry for being stoopid is the darklies kids group sometbing that happens after the initial “final” battle in the PA au? And how do they meet Lloyd?

If these four are the focus of the continuing PA au, then are the other ninja just off doin their own thing?

Again sorry if this sound stupid I am… actually stupid

HHUDWJDW I HOPE THIS CLEARS UP ANY CONFUSION I MAY HAVE CAUSED ON PA AND RPA. your questions aren't stupid at all!!! as for your questions! yes! the darkleys kids do end up taking the main role in pa for the time being (part 2). after the "final" battle of part 1, lloyd is found to be alive and rescued by zane, who helps him keep a low profile. lloyd meets brad because he's a barista at the coffee shop lloyd frequents, brad takes a liking to lloyd (unknowing of his troubled past) and lloyd meets sally and gene thru brad. things somewhat go downhill from there. the ninja take a step back as they are kidnapped by the overlord-possessed brad in part 2, but they return to the focus in the part 3 i have yet to work on. and about the three aus, i do *not* plan to make them all into fics or anything like that, as that would be way too challenging for me and i simply do not have the time to do so, as passionate i am about them, and as much as i'd love to. i would be happy to post about them from time to time though! like, little bits and pieces. you can send asks about them, but i do not guarantee an answer all the time, as making long written posts about it all proves very exhausting! not to say i wouldn't love to see any questions you all have! it's just that i can't exactly say for sure i'll answer each and every one! (still would love to see tho!! :D) hope this clears stuff up! (OH! and also!! P.A. and the two R.P.A.s both have tags! if you want to look through i'll leave them both (the rpas share a tag) down there, but remember that most of the info about pa is unreliable, since i have changed a lot about the au since i made a majority of the posts about it)

transparent stickers under the cut!!!

[bonefall]

are the descendants of Thistleclaw treated any different for their ancestor basically coming up with a violent right-ist philosophy? Is there any expectations for them to "take up the mantle" or smth?

Not at all; Thistleclaw's only child was Whitestorm, who was notoriously distant from him. As soon as he was an apprentice, he was spending time elsewhere.

Shocking! Controlling, violent, petty founder of Thistle Law makes a bad parent!

BB!Whitestorm speaks about him like a politician when it comes up. "Brutus was an honorable man," type grindset. He is also a bit older than Tigerpaw, Redpaw, and Spottedpaw. He was just graduating or already a young warrior; Thistleclaw had already given up to focus on Tigerpaw.

Sorreltail, Rainwhisker, and Sootfur consider themselves Whitekin in honor of their father, who considered himself Bluekin.

It would have been wise for Whitestorm to handle Bramblepaw. But unfortunately, Fireheart's paranoia won out.

Thornclaw might have tried it with one of his nespring, had Firestar not utterly punished him for his "mixed clan" stunt. But, circumstances have lead to Tigerkin cats being associated more strongly with inheriting Thistle Law as a legacy.

[srwgrin]

HEAR ME OUT…

GREENFLOWER AU BUT SETTING IS THE NINJAGO HIGH SCHOOL MOVIE AND THE NINJAS ARE SOULMATES (platonic) AND THEYVE ALL SLOWLY STARTED REVEALING THEIR IDENTITIES TO EACH OTHERRER EXCEPT LLOYD

and because lloyd is so dead set on hiding his identity he usually deals with his injuries by himself or hides them and one day BRAD (from a different school) stumbles upon him in an alley or smthg and they become best ish friends. brad helps him when he can and all that jazz and he’s the only one who knows everything abt lloyd for a while.

so like the greenflower is minor. platonic ninjas soulmatism is major. but they make my heart hurt.

[askthatoneanacondraikaiguy]

Hi!! Im really curious about your opinion on lavashiping! Becouse i personally really like it but i want to see your perspective of it.

Thats all! Have a nice day/night!!

I like Lavashipping too! I honestly like most Ninjago ships (I don't really get Greenflower but I do think it's cute), I've been a multi-shipper for most fandoms I've been in. The varied dynamics between all the characters mean that each relationship would be different in a romantic sense and I find that very interesting in different ways. Like, a romantic relationship between Kai and Skylor would be very different from a romantic relationship between Nya and Skylor or Kai and Cole, especially in the Permanent Anacondrai AU.

While I've talked a lot about the relationship between Kai and Skylor in the Anacondrai AU, I don't think about them in romantic terms in this AU. They're friends, bonded by a shared traumatic event and their shared ways of dealing with it. Kai is one of Skylor's first real friends, since her dad controlled so much of her life for so long. In this AU, Skylor is a good influence on Kai, because she's doesn't have the same expectations of Kai that his friends do and she is able to draw him into doing things like trying on new clothes and foods that may be different to them now that they're Anacondrai.

Even without an added layer of them being romantic, it's a very fun and interesting relationship to explore. (It's helped me work out some more aspects of my HCs for Skylor's childhood too)

No ship is, like, "canon" in this AU to me, simply because that would exclude other relationships and other interesting dynamics, and the platonic relationships are already full of story and angst potential.

That doesn't mean I'm against any of the shipping stuff though. I love it and I'll happily engage with it.

[greenflowerceo]

Hi so just wondering, how does the greenflower ship work? Is Lloyd still aged up or did he aged normally. And if he did get aged up wouldn't there be like a big age gap between the two?

I'm not hating or anything I like this ship alot but I was just wondered how it works. Sorry if you already answered this kind of qns already

typically, in my aus, lloyd doesn't get tomorrow's tea so he grows with brad and stuff

for canon compliant lloyd, i have a headcanon for it, and i'm aware that not everyone may have the same thing and i completely understand, but i do view the effects of the tea differently

i don't think a tea can alter his mind entirely to be whatever the age his body grew into. sure, he started acting all mature, but i just think he feels the weight of the prophecy and tried his best to act accordingly

he's still some lost kid who was JUST kicked out of school a while ago. i'd like to think the tea just affected his body but it completely freezes until he reaches that age. like his hair, fingernails, and other things completely stop growing ( ˙▿˙ )

literally just looks the same but he develops throughout the years mentally and slowly fit into his body's sudden growth

same with how when the ninja got turned into kids, they still had their memories and, even if they indulged in "childish" things, they were still the same until their bodies got back to normal

so he's still relatively the same age-wise with his classmates from darkleys!

i never thought that he got fully aged up, but if i did, i would have never shipped him with brad (＃￣0￣)

(ah, what i also mean by "fully aged up" is that like, i don't think the tea changed him entirely to be as psychologically developed as an adult is, so he's still a kid, just in a taller body)

[legendsoffandoms]

Thinking about two Lloyd Dr aus rn

1. Is like a mercenary/bounty hunter(though he refuses to hunt dragons and oni) instead of staying at the monastery, because he needs money to buy food and supplies. So he starts doing bounty and/or letting people hire him. Though he doesn’t do jobs that kill people and/pr creatures at first, but over time he slowly starts taking them. But he only kills people who he thinks deserve it, so he’s a relatively good guy. He also doesn’t take jobs from clearly bad people, and doesn’t go through with a job once he realizes the person who hired him is bad.

But he still ends up finding Arin and Sora(and Ryu), and becomes their dad :). But oh no, he finds the ninja. And they aren’t supportive of the whole job, so that’s a big plot point. Oh and maybe Imperial (or however you spell it) try and hire Lloyd, another plot point. Arin and Soea get nervous thinking he’ll accept. Blah blah angst

He also looks like a bad ass, has horns because yes. Though his long hair hides it, because coolness. The kiddos love putting his hair up to reveal his horns and side shave. Oh, he also has dragon features like ears and a tail that he hides.(Fun fact: I gc them as dark green and black because his oni side is gold and purple. And I want them to be opposites but also really not)

Also the reason to me why he could not stay the monastery despite still being dumped there, is because he is traumatized. He doesn’t want to be in the place where he lived with his family. Because honestly, he doesn’t even know if they’re alive. And that thought alone convinced him to find somewhere else, now he didn’t settle far. In cause he did find the Ninja, but he hadn’t touch the place since he packed up his things and left. Just random check up’s to make sure no one tried to stay there. (This is just my hc for this au, you can have a different reason or him just not landing there at all. I honestly don’t mind if you don’t like the reason and go for something else, whatever you feel is right)

2. Is like an au where the events of the merge happen a lot sooner, and at the end of crystallized I hc Lloyd as 16(which is says on the fandom wiki but idk if that’s cannon or not). So instead of being in his early 20s Lloyd is like 14.

Because this happens before seabond, so Lloyd is 14. And trying to navigate the world(now to make this au line up, Arin and Sora are gonna be a bit older than they would be. So like 8-10)

And now Lloyd is a dad with two kids and a baby dragon, he has no idea what to do. And is on the verge of a meltdown 24/7 like dr Lloyd is.

Oh and he hasn’t unlocked his oni powers yet cause of the timeline, so angst anyone??

There’s my aus, do what you will with this lol

And have fun out there! Oh and I would love if someone would rope in Greenflower/Forgiven Shipping in to these aus, I don’t feel like it cause I gtg write chp. 2 of my Greenflower fanfic. Which is based off a ninjago hc post I saw lol

Anyways have fun! And be safe with these traumatized kiddos

[iunpackmyadjectives]

A Ninjago Heathers AU Idea

I adore Heathers with my whole soul(candy store, meant to be yours, dead girl walking and seventeen all ended up on my top songs of 2023 playlist for context), and I love ninjago with my whole soul(70k words of fics in my Google docs, so many hours spent reading and drawing for it, and multiple cosplays), so naturally I want to combine them. But I(probably)don’t have the patience for writing all that, so the skeleton of it is landing here

Cast:

Veronica: Lloyd

JD: Harumi(but like she’s the perfect JD change my mind)

H. Chandler: Kai

H. Duke: Cole

H. McNamara: Jay

Kurt and Ram: Nya and Skylor

Martha: Brad Tudabone

Ms Fleming: Dareth(it just…I don’t think I need to explain it)

Notes:

If you can’t tell, the whole thing is gender bent. tinylifeboat123 has a lovely gender bent Heathers au I used for inspiration/reference 

And to clarify it’s still set in 1989

Okay but Kai definitely gives Heather Chandler. Like he would be popular, a mythic bitch, and sing lead in candy store

Similarly, I think Jay would make a great Heather MacNamera. Also, this would be a Gordon situation, as he is loaded because his dad’s an actor

Look, Llorumi isn’t a popular or generally liked ship(for good reason, I don’t ship them at all when it comes to canon), but idk to me they fit for Veronica and JD??? Like, especially Rumi being JD? She already blew up a building and murdered people in canon

Give me big fun at the Smith house please

Dead Girl Walking would play out differently specifically because I hc Lloyd as hella ace. It still ends in him and Rumi becoming official, but no sex

Blue would also play out differently since Nya is taken(yes by Jay) and Skylor just had her bf(?) die. They would try to convince him to do stuff with a girl(probably Akita but it doesn’t really matter), and when he refuses they spread a rumor that he said no because he’s gay. Cue Rumi using an uno reverse card in Our Love is God(idk maybe a mention about how they both are queer but the world doesn’t love them for who they are and people saying stuff like that are the problem?)

Dead Gay Son could go whatever way you want, but I would probably have it be about scruffshipping(Dareth/Ronin) because I hc Ronin as becoming Nya’s functional uncle post season 5

The dead trio would have a lot more dynamics with each other, considering there’s a pair of best friends, a couple(?), and a pair of siblings(something something Kai and Nya could have been the older siblings Lloyd never had something something)

I definitely could see Dareth leading shine a light. Seems like a very in-character thing for him to do.

Give me Jay having a breakdown over how he rides the bus because all his rides to school are dead. Give me Jay singing lifeboat. Give me Lloyd stopping Jay from doing that one thing in the bathroom. I need it. I NEED it.

The kindergarten boyfriend was Lloyd. He didn’t die, but he has so strongly left Brad behind that in his eyes he might as well have. This also makes the line “I’m so sorry” sooo much worse

Is 90% of this au just for the last 5 songs? Absolutely. They just fit the Llorumi dynamic. Like Lloyd realizes that she is crazy and her being stopped is far more than their relationship being saved. Does Lloyd wish they could have work out? Yes. Does he still try to save her until the very last second? Yes. Is there remorse from both parties? Yes. But in the end she's “beaten fair and square” and dies, and there isn’t a shoved in rushed redemption arc I’m looking at you Crystalized you butchered my girl.

Greenflower in beautiful(reprise)? Maybe a kiss???

[finn-m-corvex]

Masterpost!

Brand new and shiny masterpost! Let's see what I can do!

Ao3 Fics

Would You Like To Enter Prime Empire? - My rewrite of Prime Empire! Words: 53k Chapters: 4/16

Survivors - Jay and Lloyd bonding over survivor's guilt Words: 17k Chapters: 3/3

Blue Goes Boom - Rewrite of the later parts of S4 if Jay had actually gotten injured when the mech blew up Words: 14.1k Chapters: 2/?

Even the Earth Trembles - Cole angst involving touch starvation after DotD! Words: 7.2k Chapters: 1/2

Hugs When You're Blue - Collection of smaller things involving Jay getting hugs from the others! Written for @/sharksandjays based on his incredible artwork here! Words: 6.7k Chapters: 1/1

Mechanical Hearts - My college Jaya AU! Cole and Jay are adopted brothers, and shenanigans ensue when Cole has to play matchmaker between a lovesick Jay and an oblivious Nya! Words: 13.6k Chapters: 2/?

Blue and Green Make Aquamarine - first Greenflower fic! Written as a gift for @/phantombasketofmuffins for Han's Secret Santa event! Words: 4k Chapters: 1/1

Tumblr Fics / Snippets

Sounding Sea - Jay angst revolving around Edgar Allan Poe's poem Annabelle Lee! Very proud of this one! Words: 1.8k

Someone You Loved - songfic with Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi and Jaya mixed together. Has the MondotheBombo seal of approval! Words: 2k

Shopping for Wires - Snippet from Ch3 of my rewrite! Probably won't understand unless you've read it. Written as a request for @/juniperjellyfish! Words: 1.4k

Lightning in a Cubicle - My take on what happened to Jay after the Merge in Dragons Rising (very much an AU) Words: 9.4k Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Aftershocks - 5+1 series involving Jay and his sensory issues! Words: 3.7k Cole | Nya | Kai | Zane | Lloyd | Jay

Falling Sleeves - Cole fluff and angst over MotO! Words: 4.3k

Headcanons

The hoodie headcanons used to be here but I'm going to redo them so soon to come!

Moodboards

Would You Like To Enter Prime Empire? - here!

Chapter 4 - First Contact Beta Jay-137 | Dee-Jay 081 | Talon - 066

Chapter 5 - Forest of Secrets The Father

Challenges

Jaya Week 2023 - Days 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Words: 17.6k Find the full version on ao3 here!

Whumptober 2023 - Days 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 Words: 68.5k Find the whole version on ao3 here!

Memes

Office Jay memes!

WYTYAA memes! Made for @/mondothebombo

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PLEASE let me know if I'm missing something super important. I know there were a couple things here and there (esp art-wise) that I'm missing but I either don't have it or I'm going to rework it. This should be all of the fics though!

[likeapro42]

The Forgivenshipping/GreenFlower Language of Flowers AU

(Where I become incredibly self-indulgent and mash like 65% of my headcanons into a single story)

In which Brad was a tad more open about his love of plants to Lloyd. Lloyd isn’t all that interested until Brad reveals the language of flowers. When Lloyd learns about how plants can be used as a secret code, he starts getting into plants, too. Then, Brad and Lloyd start exchanging origami bouquets to talk to each other (because paper is easy to get your hands on; flowers will get you in trouble). Also, they develop mutual crushes, but both don’t know it yet (they’re like ten or eleven).

And then Lloyd gets kicked out. Brad secretly misses his old roommate (can’t get emotional at Darkley’s, or you’ll get eaten alive) and his friendship with Gene gets strained because of how indifferent Gene seems (he isn’t indifferent but, again, Darkley’s. Gene just doesn’t know how to express the warnings of getting too emotional without belittling Brad for being so emotionally open)

Durring Lloyd and Pythor’s joint-attack on Darkley’s, Lloyd places a bouquet of flowers on Brad’s bunk, complimenting the other boy platonically. However, the meanings of the flowers can also be read as romantic. After the attack, Brad reads it as romantic and immediately starts blushing.

Brad definitely presses/preserves those flowers and hides them in a floor board under their shared his bunk

Meanwhile, when Lloyd is adopted by the Ninja, Lloyd immediately wants to create a garden. So, while no one is watching him (due to the Ninja vs Samurai thing), he starts sneaking soil, fertilizer, and seeds on board, in the back corner of a storage room that gets lots of sunlight.

Wu figures this out almost immediately, and he only confronts Lloyd after a few weeks into his stay onboard the Bounty. However, Lloyd is embarrassed (he was taught that liking flowers was shameful all his life, after all), so Lloyd tries to lie about it until Wu start complimenting it. Lloyd finally admits to the garden being his and asks if he can continue taking care of it. Wu agrees, even giving Lloyd money specifically for his garden.

Nya finds out about a week later and asks him about it. Lloyd feels extra defensive and uses his knowledge on Nya being The Steel Samurai to blackmail her into not saying a word. Nya isn’t really intimidated (he’s too small and floofy and addicted to candy to be), but realizes he’s terrified of other people finding out. So she agrees, but only he promises not to say anything about The Steel Samurai in return. They strike a deal and Nya will occasionally help Lloyd out when the boys are gone.

A few more weeks pass and Kai starts to get suspicious. The runt keeps unexpectedly leaving from the boys room in the middle of the night. He must be up to something nefarious!

So Kai using his super ninja stealth to follow Lloyd one night, but instead of an evil plot or a horrible prank, it’s a tiny garden filled with all sorts of flowers and veggies and herbs and-

That’s around the time Lloyd realizes Kai is there and belatedly tries to hide the garden. Lloyd eventually realizes it is futile and Kai asks why Lloyd is hiding such a thing. Lloyd explains (in a manor that is very horrifying, and even worse Lloyd thinks this behavior is normal).

Kai tells Lloyd that the others won’t think less of him for having a garden. Lloyd doesn’t believe him and makes Kai promise not to tell the others. Kai agrees.

When they’re alone a few days later, Kai asks what got Lloyd into gardening in the first place. Lloyd explains with a blush on his face. Kai figures out Lloyd’s crush, but doesn’t let Lloyd know, assuming Lloyd already does (and Lloyd already shared something he viewed as embarrassing to Kai. No need to make it worse by teasing the brat about his super obvious crush).

Maybe throw in a a few instances where the ninja and/or Nya feel crummy (before they know [besides Kai and Nya, of course]) and the mysterious bouquet that appeared on their bed or pillow. Wu translates the first bouquet which leads to everyone rushing the flowers to him in a translation. They start to try and figure out who is leaving the bouquets, but never suspect Lloyd because he’s, well, Lloyd.

A few weeks later, Lloyd gets kidnapped by the serpentine. Kai, after a lot of research, (and enlisting Wu for help,) starts taking care of Lloyd’s garden until Lloyd is found again.

In the process, he bumps into Nya, who is doing the same, and they do the Spider-Man-pointing meme before working together on the garden.

Over time, the other ninja, one by one, stumble upon the garden and Kai swears them all to secrecy (after explaining everything and trying to convey Lloyd’s fucked up thought process. And Kai’s efforts to gain Lloyd’s trust so he can hopefully settle in and be more comfortable/open with everyone else).

That person then also starts helping out with Lloyd’s garden.

Once the last person discovers it, Kai gives up and it’s no longer a secret, so they work together to maintain he garden. Well, until Wu returns with Garmadon.

Kai is already pretty protective of Lloyd due to the unexpected bonding pre!kidnapping, so he makes sure that Garmadon doesn’t even come anywhere near Lloyd’s secret garden. (Kai knows Lloyd looks up to Garmadon [it’s all over his clothes for Pete’s sake!], and Lloyd would be crushed if his father insulted the kid for it. Kai wasn’t about to take that chance.)

Lloyd comes back (like in canon) and, while coming to terms of being the prophesied Green Ninja, he sprints to his safe space: his secret garden. He is immediately in awe of how much all of plants have grown, the expansion of the garden’s size, and all of the new additions.

The ninja and Nya all go to find him and comfort him (after talk of the Fangblades and what to do next), immediately heading to the garden. They reveal who did what and why they helped to take care of the garden. (“Because it’s important to you Lloyd, and your family. Which makes it important to us”). They also thank Lloyd for the amazing bouquets from before and how much it meant to them.

Lloyd cries and they have a huge group hug.

When the group hug breaks, Jay ruins the mood by demanding to learn about the language. Lloyd agrees to start teaching them (he doesn’t really get around to it until Season 2)

When the Ninja head off to steal back the Fangblades, Garmadon finally stumbles upon the garden (thanks to Kai, he thinks that is where some of the ninja’s secrets/weaknesses are hiding) with Lloyd taking care of it.

The two have a heart to heart about how Lloyd isn’t pathetic and how Garmadon will always love him, Green Ninja or not, etc., etc.

(Which makes the stealing of secrets thing that more heart wrenching)

When Garmadon goes to leave, Lloyd begs for him to stay a minute and rushes to the garden to pluck to few flowers to apologize for his outburst earlier as well as saying farewell. Garmadon actually stays (they need a tad bit more closure, TOMMY) and promises to treasure it.

(Lloyd doesn’t know it, but Garmadon presses the bouquet and stores it in a picture frame, now hanging in the old house Garmadon, Lloyd, and Misako used to live in.)

Maybe have a short introspective moment either during “The Day of the Great Devourer” or afterwards, Lloyd’s grief over not only the only home he’s ever known, but the amazing garden he had.

The ninja find out why he’s so upset and promise to help him set up an even better garden that is 10x better in a more permanent location.

(They don’t make good on the promise until after S2)

When they finally move into the crummy apartment: Lloyd buys a few pots and has a small assortment of tiny plants that sit on the windowsill.

As the ninja train Lloyd, Lloyd teaches the ninja the language of flowers.

(He also sneaks a few more pots into the Mojo Dojo)

A few months pass and the Lloyd gets invited to Darkley’s. Lloyd freaks out (but for more than one reason this time), and starts going through his entire collection of plants to debate on which one to give to Brad.

Gene became Brad’s new roommate sometime during S1, btw, because he’s still a bit of a troublemaker and Brad would keep rein him in (the staff doesn’t know that Brad is also a harbinger of chaos and sometimes helps Gene cause trouble). After Brad hears Gene crying at night over missing Lloyd, Brad confronts Gene. They argue, they fight, they emotionally break down, they help each other pick up the pieces, they hug, they forgive each other, they have a better understanding of one another, and the two become besties

When Brad greets the ninja, there is a lot more blushing and stuttering between the two (Brad is a year older and has shot up in height and his voice is deeper and smoother; Lloyd hasn’t grown much, but he has definitely gained some muscle mass)

(Unbeknownst to the two, the ninja are storing the knowledge for later and definitely going to tease Lloyd about this)

(And, unbeknownst to the everyone, part of Gene’s ploy to turn Lloyd back to the “evil” side is to tempt Lloyd with Brad. Gene even makes Brad look his best and forces the kid to greet the Ninja when they first arrive [not that it was that hard to convince Brad]. After all, Gene put together that his two best friends are down bad for each other AGES ago)

When the ninja are packing up to leave, Brad catches Lloyd. Brad gathers some courage and (while blushing profusely) shoves his confession bouquet in Lloyd’s arms. Brad compliments Lloyd for being so brave and pecks Lloyd in the cheek. Brad then quickly thanks Lloyd for believing in him before scurrying away.

Lloyd freezes, putting a hand to his cheek, and that’s when it clicks where he’s in love with Brad. He’s the reddest he’s ever been and walks in a daze back to the others who start teasing and congratulating Lloyd.

Lloyd sends Brad a letter with a couple of pressed flowers and the two awkwardly flirt while talking about hilarious pranks and hijinks the two have in their day to day lives

Unfortunately, Lloyd never has a chance to really act on his feelings because he suddenly finds himself half a decade older and far more responsibilities on his shoulders.

Add a scene where the baby!ninja prove who they say they are by shouting out flowers names which roughly translate to (trust us, we’re your friends, just younger)

Lloyd tells Brad this through a letter, so the two remain friends (while secretly mourning what could’ve been)

From here on out, it’s training, training, training for Lloyd with a smattering of interruptions in between of:

Letters between Lloyd and Brad that are much more stilted and platonic

Lloyd dealing with speedrunning puberty

Lloyd dealing with the stress of the situation via frantically planting

Brad definitely sneaks out of Darkley’s (with a reluctant Gene) to give Lloyd a send off to the Dark Island

The rest of the story I have “plotted out” is just an assortment of moments here and there that aren’t super cohesive and coherent yet. Just know this is a MEGA slow burn. Like the slow burn of the century, folks. (Legit, from my obsessive planning, I figured out they won’t get together waaay until after March of the Oni because Harumi trauma). And when the story isn’t focusing on Brad and Lloyd, it’s found family fluff from both angles of the city (Brad and the family he’s building at Darkley’s and Lloyd and the Ninja).

(Also, I’m sorry Sally fans. I wrote a majority of this AU before Crystalized came out. I’ll figure out how to work her in eventually. But she’ll definitely be one of the boys at Darkley’s and will have a mini coming of age arc in the background of her realization of being transfemme and bisexual [because that’s the only explanation my brain will accept about how a girl ended up in an all-boys school. Because she didn’t know she was a girl to begin with, which: mood])

[memory-redacted]

Lloyd questioning how someone who was so good to him in school and respected all of their secrets could still be on the bad side.

Little do they know brads only on the bad side to protect this little child. He was going to run when he was 18 but then he figured out about the plans for the lab rat and decided to stay to protect it if their plans did work.

Some greenflower remembrance in the rewritten au. Cute flower friendship bracelets that theyve kept after all these years. Ill probably rename the au to secrets bloom into lies.

[sillylloyd]

have i ever talked about this greenflower merge inspired au????

soso 3 days before the merge, lloyd was practicing in secret some old techniques from what the fsm has wrote on scrolls( smth with elemental energy,creation and destruction) he practices,, and then BAM everything becomes super shiny and the technique is like PULLING things like CO2 and HO2 ans shit ykyk it forms an orb,, then two orbs. a purple one and a blue one. BUUUT the orb had also pulled one of his and Brad's hair into em. leaving lloyd after he approaches the two orbs , with two babies made of magic!! one with black hair and blackish purple eyes (oni heritage) one with dirty blond hair and blue eyes (dragon heritage) and from a fic lloyd knows where brad is(he works at a small flower shop and healing idk teas and all with an old man) so what if what if lloyd plays the role of FSM, Blondie wu and black hair garmadon but they r actually having a good childhood. (also lloy_ didn't get to reveal it to the ninjas and hid the babies for 3 days and was about to say ut but kaboom merge) imagine kai finding lloyd with two kids and a finance or boyfriend..HUSBAND???? would be better for raising kids. also obv they r older since it took years for the ninjas to find each other

i was think blondir had some..creation and emptying ppls brains and spirits for truth with jellyfish looking tech Rubens thingy power and dark hair is just shadows and possession. he can cut islands in half cuz ur dad isn't god™ for nothin and blondie creates or like absorbs everything he destroys AND dark hair can teleport while blondie somewhat time travels or smth

[colesstar]

greenflower frozen au

Instead of two sister, we got two childhood friends, Brad and Lloyd, which everyone assumes is platonic but definitely isn’t.

Elemental power doesn’t exist here, instead it’s magic which only the highest members of society have access to like Prince Lloyd and definitely something son of the gardener/a low-ranking noble Brad shouldn’t have.

Brad has secret flower power. Instead of the kingdom being frozen, a bunch of flora is overgrown that risks destroy the land

Other things are Lloyd gets poisoned, Harumi is the mastermind behind this all, and Gene and Sally are respectively Kristofff and Sven

THANK YOU VES !!!

[bonefall]

What’s Whitefang up to in your au? Does he still exist? Does he have a family? I would like to know everything >:D

Also I drew something for your millie collar au but idk if it got eaten by the void or not, I sent it in I’m pretty sure

[ID: Dragonclaw and Whitefang from the Better Bones AU. Whitefang is laying on his back with a smug grin. Dragonclaw is looking at him with love.]

Your background blorbo got married to the cat with the coolest name in warriors. I needed them for the RiverClan Family Tree to make sure I had enough diversity to cross the Missing Generation Fog and ended up making a neat little power couple out of them!

Their children are Duckfur and Greenflower. Duckfur is killed in a fight over Sunningrocks in early TNP, and Greenflower was Sedgecreek's mate for many years before a cat divorce in late TNP.

Whitefang

His sister was Brightsky, making him Leopardstar's maternal uncle!

I think he has one of the coolest canon designs in warriors tbh so I didn't stray much. I just gave him this sleek, doberman-ish face with cool teeth.

Also his back paw boots go up a little further because Catboy Stockings is a VERY funny concept.

You ever notice how much Whitefang looks like a fanon design for a lynxpoint Hawkfrost? I dooo

He wasn't very scheming though, in fact he was a straightforward dude and a good teacher.

He helped his wife when they were young, she was a drypaw just like Leopard so Crookedstar hoped he would work his magic again.

I do not respect Leopardstar's Hacksaw and I'm willing to totally overhaul his death, but dying in a battle for Sunningrocks is fitting.

The patrol that kills Sunfish has been totally redone. It was THISTLECLAW taunting RiverClan as Redtail tried to tell him to knock it off, and Leopardfur killed him for mauling Sunfish.

So there's not really a need for Whitefang to be on that particular run.

It's likely that Whiteclaw died sometime in TPB, either during TigerClan or just before.

His specialties were teaching and hunting.

Dragonclaw

She is a rescued Missing Kit! Dragonflykit was the stillborn child of Greenflower, along with her brother Duckkit. Instead, I've made them her mother and a brother.

I dropped the 'fly' part of Dragonfly. In Clanmew it's all one word anyway. They're beloved and respected animals, excellent and agile hunters.

It is suspected that Dragon was the result of a half-clan crossing, or maybe found somewhere. She looks nothing like a RiverClan cat.

HUGE and sleek-furred, she's all muscle with a short tail and really big teeth, with huge ears that make her get cold really fast.

She is a trash-tier swimmer because of that, she sinks like a rock and can barely steer.

She was terrified of water for a while, but Whitefang was there to help her out. She can stay safe in the river but prefers marsh hunting and net-fishing.

Probably taken out by sickness, sometime shortly after Duck and Green became apprentices.

Her specialties are construction and brawling.

[srwgrin]

GREENFLOWER MODERN HS FLOWERSHOP AU

technically lloyd works at the flower and tea shop combined with a dojo his uncle and dad created (w/ the other ninja but thats besides the point) !! and lloyd originally doesnt really like the flower & tea side of it bc its boring, plants are so boring, i do not care, UNTIL brad waltzes in one day, and he’s just UNBEARABLY nice.

eventually lloyd keeps noticing him until he cant help but start crushing and he starts studying all this extra stuff abt plants and flower arrangements and meanings just to go up to brad and be all “do you need help” and seem remotely competent at his job and maybe even impress him.

AND BRAD, captain of gardening club, owner of a bajillion plants, is so shocked that LLOYD, his long time crush from middle school to hs, who is not supposed to know he exists, who only went to the shop to maybe bask in the atmosphere after soccer practice and silently admire lloyd, is talking to him that he jumps at the chance and pretends to not know anything abt plants so he has an excuse to talk to him more! and he pretends to get excited to try a bunch of different tea and love it even though he HATES tea (he is a coffee man) because he likes seeing sensei wu, sensei garmadon, ninja, & lloyd’s reaction to him trying the tea. they’ve become very avid tea lovers.

[greenflowerceo]

would it be ok to draw the dtiys later on? not for contest ofc but just because cuz i haven't had much time to draw recently and i really like the dtiys' idea and all

also a small pirate au greenflower doodle? 🥺

HEKLL YEAH I'D LOVE THAT! I'm honored that you'd still like to draw it even after the contest...... i'm excited to see if you do! feel free to tag me :]

here's some older pirate au doodles! these are mostly brad but i'd love to supply more if i get asks abt it

[twigs-sprigs]

Tag 9 People You Want to get to Know Better

DAMNN @legogeek33 AND @whitexisneutral!! yall so cool for taggin lil ol me of all people

CURRENTLY READING:

i'm actually currently reading Framed Ink by Marcos Mateu-Mestre! I wanna get into animation school one day, and this book is one of the ones i was recommended :D

FAVORITE COLOUR:

vibrant lime green and teal!!! ...oh god i just realized those are greenflower colors. no NO WAI-

LAST SONG:

Someone Gets Hurt from the mean girls musical. I CAN EXPLAIN. I CAN EXPLAAAAIN I CAN-

LAST MOVIE: puss in boots the last wish... haha! very good stuff. LOVED it. watched it 3 times actually.. ALSO not a movie but i'm binging b99 again, comfort show babyyyy

SWEET/SPICY/SAVOURY:

savory!! i really like seafood, salmon and guacamole are my fave things to make. ive been slowly learning how to cook other things too! i also really like sweet drinks... ive been surviving on milk tea and hot chocolate..

CURRENTLY WORKING ON:

MAINLY me and @shadesofvermillionvoid's PA au... i've been closely working with not just kai here but also some other peeps on part 2. and im trying to wrap my head around making a comprehensive plot for it! i've ALSO been working on a bit of a secret project with a secret someone... so watch out for that when it's done ALSO ALSO patiently waiting for more dtiys entries wink wink nudge nudge. ADWNMWDHKWKDL and of course....working on me and kai's rewrite as usual... brain so FULL of ideas and headcanons...will explode.... (it's only been greenflower lately tho HAHA)

Let's tag some mutuals i look up to lots! Love yall and the stuff you make.

@acidsaladd @clambuoyance @mrsnaildood @marsipain @hiddensneker @general-yasur @greenflowerceo @fishybehavior @art-i-sticks @galaxygermdraws and of course... @shadesofvermillionvoid