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my new addiction to the fantastic browser game fallen london gave me ideas

if you’re in the ninblr gartic phone server you’ve probably seen me infodump about the fallen ninjago AU, here it is in full, here’s all my ideas + some rough character designs for FN!jay, kai and zane

some bg info: the ships here are conductor (kai x jay x zane), lost (cole x geo), samurai (nya x pixal) and citrus (echo zane x morro), though i think the AU’s quite conductor-centric due to jay’s amnesia and kai and zane trying to solve it

the basic plot of the AU (lifted almost directly from fallen london, i take no credit for like half the plot) is that inbetween crystalised and dragons rising, the city of ninjago was sold to the cursed/departed realm (pick and choose, company merger, whatever), specifically to the shadowy elite of the realm the masters, and the city fell into a large cave system, on the edge of a vast underground ocean. i have no idea what to call the cave system so for simplicity i’ll just refer to it as the neath like it’s called in fallen london. the AU takes place six years after the fall, known informally as The Incident. the ninja have largely gone their own ways as things are… weird in fallen ninjago. there’re dead(ish) people walking about, the cursed realm has an embassy with a depressed housekeeper (will get onto that later), death is just an inconvenience (though if you die you can’t see the sun again), etc.

everybody retains their elemental powers. everything in the plot of ninjago remains the same up until that point inbetween crystalised and DR (however jaya, pixane, any lloyd relationship and kailor aren’t there for obvious reasons). i did find a way to put lost in this though

anyways CHARACTER STUFF

lloyd garmadon (they/them): the green ninja whose still trying to help the residents of fallen ninjago. they usually tend to the bar of laughys’, a popular bar in downtown ninjago, and is aroace. they unofficially officially/adopt a little kid whose parents went missing during The Incident, one arin crossroads. lloyd gives the remaining ninja tasks to do, as though they’re still a team, there’s simply too much going on in fallen ninjago to constantly stick together

jay walker (he/him): the amnesiac owner of a tech workshop/mechanic in the preeminent’s market, a very popular market (and the equivalent of the bazaar from fallen london). he was in a polycule with kai and zane, though obviously he doesn’t particularly remember them anymore (they get back together in the end + kai and zane are still together anyway). during The Incident, he suffered a quite nasty fall, damaging his legs (possibly through hitting them on a stalagmite) and giving him temporary amnesia. he’s a wheelchair user (though whenever he doesn’t have to walk very far he uses his cane) due to this accident. unlike dragons rising he isn’t evil dw he’s very kind but is slowly getting all his memories back. one by one. all of them. oof. he just goes along with kai and zane because they’re pretty and he’s slowly remembering them

(I CAN’T DRAW CANES VV SORRY)

zane julien (he/any (except it/its)): a freelance detective who works with kai (his only remaining boyfriend 💔💔💔). LARPs as a victorian gentleman. takes on cases in search for clues of just what happened to ajy

(i did this design at like 12am so its not that good sorry)

kai jiang (he/they): hothead. is potentially the most aggressive in his efforts to get jay to remember them and the rest of the team, though when with zane and/or jay is much softer in terms of personality.

(i messed up on his ears)

cole brookstone (he/him): the others (usually lloyd) give him tasks and investigations to do. he has that natural Dad Energy. was told to investigate the cursed realm’s embassy in ninjago and woopsy daisy he accidentally got with the literal housekeeper (and became dad to the housekeeper’s adopted kids). anyways onto the housekeeper in question

geo finder (he/any): an artist who got caught up in The Incident whilst running away from shintaro. they eventually developed chronic pain from the overexertion on their legs caused by working from a very young age in shintaro, so he uses a vv pretty cane he decorated over time instead. the cursed realm people found him and gave him a job to keep him off the streets. he adopted three “kids” (fritz, spitz n bonzle (the “kid”)) from an orphanage (they also got caught up in The Incident) and lives in the embassy as its housekeeper. geo’s a very anxious and rather quiet and mysterious individual largely due to his childhood, but he gradually warms up after adopting them and finding cole

(rough design)

nya jiang (she/her): pixal’s girlfriend, kai’s sister, mostly resides in borg tower (the equivalent of the house of chimes (big ben), essentially half of borg tower is submerged in water, image from fallen london of the house of chimes for reference below) with pix in order to keep cyrus company and to keep an eye on any potential shady business going on there

pixal borg (she/it): keeping her father company in borg tower. she helps nya keep an eye on both the tower and the rest of the city. she conducts a lot of research (scrolling through chirp mainly) on the… strange phenomena occuring in fallen ninjago, as she often can’t see it herself due to only venturing out of the tower a few times a month.

morro wu (he/they): alongside the other ghosts + a very special biker robot person, he’s one of the equivalents of the masters of the bazaar, known simply in this AU as the masters. on first glance, morro appears to be the main man of the masters, though he’s simply a puppet for the true ruler of fallen ninjago, the queen herself the preeminent. still he has, alongside the others, somewhat of a say in what goes down in the city. he has some kind of friendship with geo, though they mainly act like coworkers and morro only goes down to the embassy whenever there’s really important business matters to attend to

echo zane julien, or mr. e (he/they/it): morro’s boyfriend. he uses mr. e as a pseudonym, nearly everyone except the other masters refer to them as such. he’s the quietest member of the group and often only really opens up to morro. during The Incident, the lighthouse kinda got womp womped and he ended up on the streets of fallen ninjago, and morro found them and took him in like a sad pathetic wet cat (/lh)

harumi jade (they/them): the former jade heir apparent (prince/princess) of ninjago, now someone who works odd jobs (mercenary, housekeeper, detective, etc.) to earn money and build up an even better reputation amongst the citizens due to the fact that the royal family’s kinda,,,, not really there anymore. they’re on slightly good terms with lloyd but lloyd’s still very distrustworthy of them

arin crossroads (he/him): young impressionable fan of the ninja, of whom lloyd took in. he has the unusual ability to perform object spinjitzu, an ability that could’ve been caused by the strangeness of the masters and The Incident. in this AU he doesn’t end up going off with ras, at least that’s the plan right now, idk if i might make him become a master or something though