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for the giggles, what if evil!wu au was like an inverted world and it has something like Magenta Ninja Harumi and Sensei Garmadon taught the elements of destruction instead
Bruuuuh you can't just drop banger au ideas on me like thissss, I don't have the time or mental capacity!
...So, anyway, INVERSE!AU?!?!? LegacyInverse?!
BUCKLE UUUUUUP-
Wu, having been bitten by the Devourer as a child (with miscellaneous yet currently undetermined side effects), doesn't outright long for destructive conquest like his brother, but instead simply wants revenge, quietly biding his time with his brother being none the wiser as he plots and plans for his moment (because here he would've begged Garm to get the sword and Garm would've just told him no, and as a child he'd already been resentful and bitter over that...but then that unresolved malice that festers all the way into Garm winning over Misako and having Lloyd <- and that's Wu's breaking point)
But instead of realizing Lloyd's the Green Ninja (as the Green Element wouldn't have been "discovered" here, similar to how [REDACTED] is now, thus the genetically-ideal Lloyd only inherited his grandfather's full essence), his family realizes Lloyd runs the risk of fulfilling the prophecy of the Golden Master, and if left unchecked he'll experience the same fate as his grandfather (and also possibly destroy the world, if he doesn't destroy himself first, heyo).
And Garmadon knows the only thing can could even possibly suppress the pure Golden Essence/Power is the combined might of the Golden Weapons (which *we* know is because Core Four = Green Element, Green Element -> diametrically opposed to GP), so Garm asks for Wu's help in keeping them protected until the time comes.
...But Wu DOESN'T, gasp! And he successfully manages to steal all four Golden Weapons! The one thing they think is capable of saving Lloyd from a horrible fate! Which for Wu is the ultimate revenge against Garmadon (being made to be unable to save his son) and Garm FIGHTS! And via some miscellaneous yet undetermined might of the forces that be, he's the one banished to the Underworld...and from there, both brothers get to work.
Wu, unable to leave the Underworld, manage to coerce the Skulkin to seek out the Inheritors of the Four Core Element—the only other possible solution to contain Lloyd. They first "kidnap" a runaway boy with marigold eyes from a mountain ("kidnap" is in quotes; Cole thinks he's got nowhere better to go and surrenders pretty easily snksnksn), then actually kidnap an amnesiac robot from his father (maybe Julien dies in the process here, idk), then a boy with cobalt blue eyes head to city to test his invention and never comes home one day...and finally, Destiny set its sights on the future Master of Fire.
Long story short Skulkin kidnaps Kai instead of Nya -> Kai basically becomes Wu's "General #1" (hehehe), and Garm, who realized too late what Wu had been scheming and had been working on "countermeasures" in the meantime, just barely manages to save Nya from a similar fate. OFC Nya wants to fight to get her brother back, and Garmadon's totally down to let her—but, specifically because he'd arrived in the first place for her...as he seeks the Inheritors of the Elements of Destruction to counteract Wu's plan
Since there's no "Green Ninja" prophecy here to counteract the Golden Master one, and Garmadon's desperately needs a solution on how to save Lloyd without the Golden Weapons/Core Four...he devises his own theoretical prophecy—that the Combined might of the Outlier Elements, the "Elements of Destruction", would also be enough to yield a force capable of standing up to the Golden Power. Theoretically.
So he begins devising together a team—his first member is Morro, the Jade Ninja and Master of Wind. 40-something years old (and never died due to Garm not running off to Chen/Wu not having the compassion to try and raise him himself) and is known as Garm's first and finest pupil. He takes role as the leader of the group (in Cole-flavor, that is), and is without a doubt the strongest member.
The second member is Toby (name pending), the Variegated Ninja and Master of Time. When the Spinjitzu Bros dealt with the Time Twins, instead of hiding away the Time Blades and cutting the element from the Compass, Garm made the call to give the element to the "next of kin" (so an Elemental Descendant of Time from a generation or two back) in order to reunite the element...which wound up in now currently 20-something Toby. He stays with the Destructo-team for a few years but eventually retires to raise a family (growing up to be Roby's dad! ..but he also might wind up being murdered by his own brother out of jealousy, but that's neither here or there)
(...look I gotta work in my "Roby is a Time Descendant hc SOMEWHERE. He just winds up as an Inheritor in DR in this universe instead but he'd still rather host a tournament than partake in one ghfgfd)
Anyway, if Toby's theoretically anything like his son, then he's the Jay of the group jhgfhgffds (especially with an OP power like time at the his fingertips—but just imagine the pranks hgfdgfd)
The third member is one Skylor Chen, Amber Ninja and Master of Amber (she's mad at the lack of originality but she cannot say it isn't effective). Garmadon ofc never trained under Master Chen here, but also never learned of the hand he had in the stirring of the Serpentine War, thus Chen was never banished to his island. He still managed to make a fortune with a slave-run noodle company, and with the Elemental Compass NOT taboo info in this universe since the Green Element "doesn't exist" to take advantage of, he instead FLAUNTS the fact that his wife and daughter were/are Masters of Amber (in a similar vein to Skylor's "situation" from the Royal!Au), and....shady dealings arise from that. Garmadon basically winds up helping Skylor run away from her crazy father, and she becomes like a surrogate child to him (and big sister to Lloyd!) (though this makes the cause of Tournament of Elements a plan for Chen to get his daughter back in his clutches, and continued revenge on Garmadon...and also become a snake, but I digress)
The fourth member is Nya herself, the up-and-coming rookie Silver Ninja and Master of Water! She's the only one of the team without a True Potential from the start, so the "pilot season" is her bonding with everyone and coming to terms with herself while also dealing with constant attacks from the Core Four (the Corrupted Four, if you will), who are trying to learn about the whereabouts of Lloyd for their Master...
...who learns from Misako accidentally about his fate and winds up running away to "become evil since that's what I'm destined to do anyway". So, that much is still the same anyway. (I just dunno at what point this happens, but it's prior to Nya's TP)
Anyway, Nya gets her TP, the Destructo Four perform some ritual, and their elements combine........and they manifest The Overlord (who, while far more chill here, is still gungho about trying to kill Lloyd) (*also, note, this is just a thing for this hypothetical au only jsaghfds. that's not how it works in "actual" legacyverse)
BREATHE.
Pause. Settle. Rest. Sip tea.
CONTINUE-
So the first time around for The Final Battle, the FSM and the Overlord had been evenly matched, and the FSM was too consumed by the might of the Golden Essence to rely on his friends and combine their might to manifest the Green Element to be able to overtake + seal the Overlord. As a result, their fight lasted centuries, and the FSM was driven further and further into madness by his unchecked power, turning him into an unrelenting menace. Similar to "legacy!canon", he winds up "taking himself out" to stop himself from harming anyone, and an unsealed Overlord simply goes dormant (instead of having centuries to build up a relentless rage in a metaphorical metaphysical case).
...until he is forcibly brought back by the Destructo Four, and learns that a new Golden Master may be on the rise. Garmadon begs and pleads with the Overlord to not kill Lloyd, and asks if there's any other way for them to subdue Lloyd. The Overlord considers this, and theorizes that if there was another mortal being to take the Overlord's place/powers as a counterbalance to Lloyd, then Lloyd would be less likely to go berserk and he wouldn't have to kill him—but not just anyone can wield the Void Essence. Only the most empty, desolate, and quiet of souls could ever hope to do that.
Anyway as The Overlord searches for a "Champion", the Desctructo Four search for Lloyd, who still releases the Serpentine, yadda ya, Great Devourer still eventually gets unleashed, Harumi's parents still die, and the Overlord happens upon her at the peak of her despair and is like "YOU'RE PERFECT", and grants her the Void Essence and serves as her floating cloud Guardian companion.
Also having Void from the get-go allows a grieving Harumi to oneshot the Devourer with an oblivion blast or something lol since Garmadon can't do it here. This causes her to pass out and the Destructo Team kidnap bring her to the monastery to explain the situation I mean what else is she gonna do? go home to her parents?
"....So I'm cursed with oblivion powers and I'm fated one day to kill the Golden Master?" "...we're trying NOT to kill my son here.........!" "Well he released the Devourer, so I think I should still kill him—" "No, that was Pythor." "...Oh, ok."
And then the legendary Magenta Ninja is born! With the power to obliterate and leave voids in her wake! Cue training arc to achieve her true potential!
(also also Olivia is Samurai X, and everything about Jesse is the same, unless we wanna splice in the Quiet!Jesse AU here so he can be the surrogate!Harumi in this au (like, he goes in to save Harumi's parents, they still die but he gets pushed in the elevator anyway/get scarred/can't save Miranda, and Harumi, while safe and not needing to be saved from a building, is still close enough to make the agonizing realization -> Fairy godmother Overlord appears with free powers!) ... Otherwise Harumi would be surrogate!Lloyd to him and Skylor is surrogate!Cole lmaoooo. Antonia is still Antonia.)
So then they train Harumi, Lloyd's being worked up about his destiny and trying to avoid it puts him right on the path to becoming the monster he doesn't want to be and he starts his career of mayhem! And while training, Harumi realizes she's internally imbalanced herself, and suffers from some of the same agonies that Lloyd does—and realizes she, too, is a threat to the world (not helped by the Overlord still trying to sway her into just killing Lloyd—even though they figure out that would just end her too)
So now Harumi and Lloyd are the only two people in the world that can even remotely understand what in the world the other is going through (potential tragic romance doomed diametrically opposed lovers fated to kill one another unreachable like the opposite ends of a magnet something something), but by training with her team and learning to accept the hardships of her life or something, Harumi gets her True Potential...which leads her to gain access to the [REDACTED] Element. (though for kicks everyone just calls it the "Magenta Element" lmao) (again, also not quite how it happens in canon, but roll with me)
BREATHE.
Okay, Act 3....!
With full powers in hand, Harumi finally feels fully like herself again, while the 2:1 imbalance throws Lloyd further in agony. Harumi wonders if there's a hidden element Lloyd hasn't tapped into either, leading Nya to bust out the OG Compass and finally theorizes that the combination of the Core Four might be what's missing here. So the next mission (while trying to keep Lloyd form going crazy) is to win over the Core Four and stop a now-enraged Wu from killing Lloyd himself (....there's a lot of attempted murder in this au; I'd never survive tiktok)
As Nya, Skylor, Toby, and Morro slowly win over Kai, Jay, Zane, and Cole (with Kai being particularly stubborn about Lloyd needing to die to "save everyone", being the surrogate!Olivia wheee), Wu grows more relentless, with Misako going in to try and talk to him and calm him down, but to no avail. Something goes down (a fight? an altercation? he captures her in a cage?) and that sets Lloyd off and he gets stuck in a Golden Outburst, which sets off the "second" final battle between him and Harumi.
But the whole time while both sides are trying to get through to Lloyd, the Overlord keeps whispering to Harumi about just being done with all of it—get rid of him and end everything. But Harumi doesn't want to die herself, and yet the Overlord insists "There is peace in the dark'.
But Harumi's like "noooo I want to LIVE" in cliche anime fashion and that snaps Lloyd out of it a bit, making the realization that he wants to live too and that he loves life -> bam opening for the Core Four to swoop in with the weapons and help him unlock his own True Potential, and thus access to the Green Element (cuz his element if life woop woop), which not only balances him internally, but externally with Harumi, meaning neither have to worry about going crazy, and neither "have to die".
The Overlord is outraged at this, claiming he "made" Harumi like this, she should understand his philosophy, something something (maybe there was a subplot where he was planning on making Harumi a permanent physical vessel for himself but he needed Lloyd out of the way, idk), EITHER way Harumi doesn't need him anymore, and neither does reality, and she poofs him away with his own powers (YEAH IRONY), as he no longer has his purpose to exist.
And now with his TP and full power, Lloyd's able to use his [REDACTED] NRG Ability to save his uncle from evil-compulsion, and they hug (very important) and Wu apologizes (but then goes on a long soul-searching journey to atone for his sins or something), the Core Four don't want to be ninja or soldiers or anything anymore, and wish to go back to their families to make up for the lost time (though Kai eventually winds up coming back for Nya, and the others are always on call at the sign of a crisis), and the Destructo Team stay on as the main ninja for the time being
...and even if it isn't wholly accurate, Nya, Skylor, Morro, Toby, and Harumi all come together to make a "compass" out of their own unified elements, symbolizing the time they spent together.
And it is fittingly called the Inverse Compass.
The End!
#ninjago#legacyverse#legacyverse spoilers#ninjago spoilers#(for certain characters)#master wu#lord garmadon#harumi hutchins#nya smith#skylor chen#morro wu#lloyd garmadon#jadedgoldshipping#(for three seconds and also not really)#info tag#content tag#long post#inverse!au#legacyinverse#<- im so CLEVER HAHAHAHAHA#anyway this took three hours and probably falls apart at the end#but it was either this or draw harumi in a cool ninja outfit#and i dont have my ipad rn#there's a lot diff from actual canon so don't use too much of this to theorize please lmfao#just have fun~#what ifs
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I think its a neat touch that the first true demonstration of Garmadon’s power in sons of Garmadon was to create that big stone thing out of a mountain, when in season 3 he was trying to teach Lloyd how to move mountains
dont look in the tags btw i have things to say about the elements again :/
#we know that the elements fire earth lightning and ice kinda roll into one to create creation and/or Lloyds powers ish#but thinking of Cole’s powers ofc with him being the master of the mountain himself#to what extent do these elements roll into one to create destruction as well?#i mean all of those elements on their own can cause destruction#it seems that the difference between the elements of creation and destruction lies more within intent than the power itself#which begs the question of why the first spinjitzu master named Wu and Garm’s elements as creation and destruction in this way?#did he even do that?#the great devourer seemed to force garmadon onto the path of destruction#and in a balance effect wu’s element was assigned creation#if garmadon had not been bitten by the devourer then would the lines between creation and destruction powers be more blurred?#so what is the actual distinction between wu and garm’s powers? oni and dragon? no. too close to creation and destruction#i want to go back to what i was saying about the difference in their powers being intent#Garmadon’s powers are fueled by combat. this makes me believe that Wu’s are fuelled by peace#Wu’s powers are designed to change things up when things are going well. Garm’s are designed to change things when they are not going well#this makes me think that if Garmadon had not been bitten then Wu’s element would likely be seen more for its destruction. and vice versa#because we see that garmadon can use his powers to create. even in that stone giant to terrorise ninjago#garm and wu have both oni and dragon blood which is why its so interesting that we assign them each traits of only one#like come on guys i know their colour schemes stereotypically say good and bad but that doesn’t mean the element itself is like that!#lego#ninjago#lego ninjago#lord garmadon#garmadon ninjago#lloyd garmadon#lloyd ninjago
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Maybe its just the early hours of the morning and im going bonkers but tumblr refused to show my posts with tags about elemental powers again so im forcing you to look at this
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You guys are gonna have to ignore the way that when i copy paste tags it goes onto a new line at some points when it doesn’t need to, sorry
#we know that the elements fire earth lightning and ice kinda roll into one
to create creation and/or Lloyds powers ish #but thinking of Cole's
powers ofc with him being the master of the mountain himself #to what
extent do these elements roll into one to create destruction as well? #i
mean all of those elements on their own can cause destruction #it seems
that the difference between the elements of creation and destruction lies
more within intent than the power itself #which begs the question of why
the first spinitzu master named Wu and Garm's elements as creation and
destruction in this way? #did he even do that? #the great devourer
seemed to force garmadon onto the path of destruction #and in a
balance effect wu's element was assigned creation #if garmadon had not
been bitten by the devourer then would the lines between creation and
destruction powers be more blurred? #so what is the actual distinction
between wu and garm's powers? oni and dragon? no. too close to creation
and destruction #i want to go back to what i was saying about the
difference in their powers being intent #Garmadon's powers are fueled by
combat. this makes me believe that Wu's are felled by peace #Wu's
powers are designed to change things up when things are going well.
Garm's are designed to change things when they are not going well #this
makes me think that if Garmadon had not been bitten then Wu's element
would likely be seen more for its destruction. and vice versa #because we
see that garmadon can use his powers to create. even in that stone giant
to terrorise ninjago #garm and wu have both oni and dragon blood which
is why its so interesting that we assign them each traits of only one #like
come on guys i know their colour schemes stereotypically say good and
bad but that doesn't mean the element itself is like that! #lego #ninjago
#lego ninjago #lord garmadon #garmadon ninjago #lloyd garmadon
#lloyd ninjago
#this is why i made the blog title.. it is not the first time ive done this :/#lego#ninjago#lego ninjago
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