#i almost forgot to mention wyldfyre and robbie

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continuning off my tags on this post

i went off but like tumblr kinda cut my tags inhalf so

But the thing is, this wouldn't be a problem if Ninjago had better written female characters. This is an intresting storyline. But Ninjago doesn't write their female characters as characters. They write them as love intrest or maternal figures.

Yes ninjago got better with it later into it's life span, season 8 being the first or closet season to introducing a prominate female character who are more than just their relationships with the male characters, multiple even. Harumi having goals and motivations other than her relationship with Lloyd and was her own character. Mystake is her own character. Nya is seperated from Jay and is allowed to act as her own character outside of Jay.

But this was seven years into Ninjago's lifespan. There is genuniely no good excuse that Ninjago took so long to have their female characters be characters. And even then it's not perfect, with Harumi's character being heavily linked to Garmadon. And frankily being ruinned in crystalized, by her character getting boilled down to Lloyd's love intrest. Her motivations being 'because the plot said so.' instead of her own goals and intrests.

But at least that's a turning point, a shift in writing towards their female characters that Ninjago is mostly consistant on, ignoring Harumi's character deterioration.

But the treatment of Ninjago's treatment of female characters in the early seasons still echo's on towards late in the series. Skylor remaining as a plot device for all of her appearances, because of early Ninjago failing to establish Skylor as a character of her own character, so the writers don't know what to do with her beyond her powers. Even adding a previously unestablished limit to her power, purely just for the sake of the plot.

And the idea that all girls in the show are love intrests or mothers, deeply embeded itself into the fandom. Most people assuming that Cole and Vania was a canon relationship, dispite them being comfirmed to be purely platonic, both in and out of the show. Purely because, He's a guy, she's a girl, and that's what Ninjago normally does with their female characters. That's what they're expecting.

It's why i love Sora. She is so much more than her relationship with the male main characters, and it's the same with all female characters in DR. But it's ashame Ninjago took so long to get to this point.