#jay is using they/them pronouns for kai bc he doesnt know kais pronouns

[phantomrev]

Posting this to my profile just so people know a little more about my ninjago HC bc I like sharing stuff I like and bc I feel like sharing it

-Cole is trans, mlm & demisexual

-Kai is bi with a pref for fem presenting people and Gals, he also had a small crush on cole for a little but ultimately saw him as a friend

-Jay is pan and cis

-Nya is genderfluid- they really said "hey become fluid like water" and went full on with it and also had a small crush on cole until someone asked "hey do you wanna be with him or do you wanna be HIM" and something clicked... not to mention all the time Nya felt nice whenever someone used He/Him btw

-Zane is nonbinary (he/they/it) and doesn't have a preference

-Pixal is genderqueer and doesnt have any preferred pronouns but likes to only be called by name

-Lloyd is trans (he/him) and also Aroace but doesnt find out until after sons of garmadon

- garmadon and wu?? Allies and dont mind anything they love their skittle ninjas/ kid

Bonus:

-Morro is Nonbinary and masc presenting (they/them but dont mind he/him) also a preference for masc/guys

-Harumi and Vania are WLW. While Vania always knew, Harumi repressed it alot.

- Ronin is trans... thats it-

-Pythor is homophobic /j

[imaginebeingabletowritefics]

First Encounter

~Jay plays videogames by a lake sorta near his house and he meets a mermaid~

Jay

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Jay sat down on the grass near the lake he found the other day, pulling his switch out of his backpack. The lake was only a few minutes’ walk from his house and no one else seemed to live close enough to know about it, so it was a nice place to hang out on his own.

Jay moved his backpack farther away from the water and opened his Prime Empire save file. He was on level 25 and was hoping to get through at least 5 more levels before he had to head home.

-

Jay had just cleared level 27 when he saw something in the corner of his eye. He paused and saved his game, then glanced at the water.

Something was looking at him.

It was too deep in the water for Jay to see what it was, but, using common sense, he deduced it was probably a really big fish. He had no idea what kinds of fish lived in lakes, but it was probably a koi fish or something. Those got fairly big. The fish was still staring at Jay, so, not sure what to do, Jay waved. The fish blinked.

Wait.

Did fish blink? Jay thought they didn’t have eyelids or something? How could a fish blink without eyelids?? Before Jay could think too deeply about fish biology and if everything he learned in school was fake, the fish swam closer to the surface-

That was not a fish. That was a person. Which explaned the blinking, since people do in fact have eyelids, but why were they underwater? How long had they been there? What-

Woah.

Ok, that wasn’t a person either. Jay stared at its- uh, their? red scales scattered across their face and arms, their red fishy tail, their webbed fingers, and they waved back-

They waved back.

They were a mermaid.

A mermaid just waved to Jay.

Jay lived a few minutes walk away from a lake where a mermaid lived.

This was the coolest day of Jay’s life. Cole and Skylor would not believe this- actually, they really wouldn’t. He’d have to take a picture or something so he could prove he really saw a mermaid. But that might scare the mermaid away..

Jay would figure out how to get his friends to believe him later. Right now, he was interacting with a mermaid. Jay waved again, because he was smart like that. As soon as he did, he remembered that he had waved first and probably looked stupid for waving again.

The mermaid watched him for a few seconds before bringing their head above water. Their hair was dark brown and very fluffy. Even though the mermaid had just been underwater, their hair spiked upwards. That was not what water usually did to hair. Jay wondered if there was some sort of underwater hair gel product that mermaids used. They were also wearing what looked like a completely normal crop top t-shirt, which was not what Jay would’ve imagined mermaids would wear. Did mermaids have underwater clothes factories? What was the fabric made out of? How did mermaids dye fabric while underwater? Did they go above water to dye the fabric? Wait. That wasn’t important right now. Jay could ask about the mermaid clothing industry later.

Jay set his switch near his backpack. “Hi. My name’s Jay.” he held out his hand. The mermaid looked at it. Oh. Maybe mermaids didn’t shake hands. That might not be a thing in their culture. Jay felt a little bit stupid. “Uh. Sorry. I guess mermaids don’t do handshakes.” he retracted his hand. “What’s a mermaid greeting? What do mermaids do?”

“We usually just say ‘hi’.”

Jay stared at the mermaid. They just talked. They could understand Jay. He had expected that mermaids likely had a language, he just hadn’t expected it would be Ninjargon. Jay could have a conversation with a mermaid.

“YOU CAN TALK?!” Jay said, like an incredibly intelligent person.

“Um. Yeah?” the mermaid replied, looking amused. “You asked me a question, were you not expecting an answer?”

“Well. No, not really. I didn’t think you spoke Ninjargon.”

“I didn’t think you spoke Merlopian. I guess they’re the same language.”

“Um. What’s your name?” Jay wanted to be able to refer to the mermaid as something other than ‘the mermaid’.

The mermaid looked at Jay for a second before answering. “Kai.”

Oh. That was a nice name. Kai.

“What were you doing earlier?” Kai asked. “With that,” -they pointed to Jay’s switch- “what is that?”

“Oh, I was playing Prime Empire! It’s this cool new videogame, it came out just last month.” Jay picked up his switch. “I’m pretty far in the game already, since I’m really good at videogames. Prime Emire works on pretty much all gaming consoles, even older ones! I play it on my switch since a switch is much more portable than, like, a playstation or something.” Jay began talking about the pros and cons of different gaming consoles until Kai interrupted him.

“I don’t know what any of that means.”

Ah. Right. Gaming console pros and cons would not make sense to a mermaid. Mermaids didn’t have videogames. Mermaids lived underwater.

“Oh, sorry. Um. This” -Jay motioned to his switch- “is my switch. It’s a gaming console. Gaming consoles are devices made to play videogames on, although most consoles can be used for other things, too.” Jay was probably doing a terrible job explaining, but to be fair he hadn’t had time to make a powerpoint about it first.

“If you want, I can show you how it works?” Jay offered.

Kai hesitated for a moment. “Sure.” They swam closer to the edge of the lake.

Jay turned on his switch and began rambling away about the inner workings of a switch as well as other electronics, and how some of them are built.

-

Jay looked at the time. It was 7:45. He was supposed to be home 15 minutes ago.

“Aw crap, I’m late! I was supposed to be home already!” Jay scrambled to collect his things. “Sorry, I have to go! But I can come back tomorrow afternoon? If that’s ok?” he hefted his backpack over his shoulder and looked at Kai.

“Oh. Um. Yeah, sure.” Kai replied, a shocked expression on their face- probably because Jay had stopped in the middle of his sentence to suddenly exclaim that he had to leave.

Jay nodded and ran off in the direction of his house.

On the way back home, he thought about Kai. He was going to hang out at the lake with Kai tomorrow afternoon. Kai wanted- or at least was willing- to spend time with Jay. A smile spread across his face.

Jay was friends with a mermaid. Sort of.

He was going to spend so much time at the lake over the weekend.

[peachpopfizz]

Hello may I ask if u can do Morro headcanon

*clasps hands* CAN YOU??? oh get ready for this i have sm to say

• for starters, morro wu is the name they go by!! the very first time sensei wu heard morro refer to himself with it he cried so hard

• morro is nonbinary, going mostly by they/them and he/him pronouns, but if you used she/her or anything of the like they wouldn't mind :)

• biromantic and greysexual!! can you tell im projecting yet?

moving onto my purely personal stuff:

• they play violin!! they picked it up after coming back to life. the wind responds to the song their playing. its a beautiful sight

• morro %100 needs glasses. do they get them?? no

• his gi's now associated more with the color yellow. he wanted to move away from green, and yellows pretty (and one of the few gi colors not taken already)

• cats!!! they love cats so much!!!!!! feeds all the strays. they love him

• the once green stripe in their hair is now grey, and they have a ghost scar across their left cheek, reaching all the way to their chin

• 100% was forced to read starfarer bc of jay and lloyd. he says he hates it (he ADORES it)

• they wear skirts and dresses when they feel like it!! clothes they can feel their element in? fuck yeah!!!

ok now done with the personal headcanons, onto more specific stuff :)

• in my 'morro is revived/redeemed/he just stays like we all wanted him to' au he does not move in directly with the ninja, instead living higher up in the mountains, in a small town southeast of Ninjago city. they feel at peace there, up in their element, away from most modern technology.

- both he and the ninja liked this decision more, while wu did not, but I'll get into their individual dynamics more later

-he doesnt really talk to anyone from the village, but anytime he goes to buy supplies and stuff he tries his best to give money and food to the homeless he passes. especially children.

-the children of the village therefore deem him a myth, some tell ghost stories of him, and others call him a good luck charm. morro thinks this is adorable, really, and plays into it; giving vague fortunes everytime a kid points him out.

• the ninja and wu definitely come to visit him sometimes too, and no matter how many times they do so morro's always suprised they care. the first time lloyd came to visit them on his own they were so astonished for like the next month

• whenever there's a world-threatening villain present and they need his aid, it is painstakingly obvious. they normally come to him all chill, but whenever they need help they come to him like akward in-laws.

- *sliding inside their door* "heyyy morro-"

- *exhausted sigh* "what is it now? another giant snake???"

NOW speaking of his relationship with the ninja

• this is a vv common headcanon, but morro and cole would become friends the fastest i think. oh? you were a ghost too? you like food?? quiet and prefers to not be in social situations??? hey bestie

- bonus thing: morro hasn't heard of cake because they were first an orphan/homeless, and when they were adopted by wu they were too focused on getting their body in perfect condition to eat sweets. therefore, a conversation between them has most definitely happened like this:

- "hey, morro, im craving sweets, wanna go get some cake?"

- *genuinely confused* "whats cake?"

- "..."

- "cole???"

- "oh you poor sweet summer child"

- tldr; out of kai, zane, jay, nya, and cole, morro and cole get along the best!!

• i think morro and jay would get along mostly by jay being the one who informs him of modern technology. y'know, teaching him about it. morro flipped his lid the second he learned what a microwave was.

- i also think jay brings out his inner sassy side. they have a lot of nicknames for each other.

- oh also also you know how nya can move ice if she tries hard enough? jay can just barely move wind, same goes for morro with lightning. they definitely use each others powers responsibly

- (jay almost caused a minature tornado once and morro made a week long power outage. they don't speak of those things)

- tldr; morro feels rather relaxed around jay. even if he takes a lot of their energy, its not too hard for them to get along. they would probably cause doomsday if left alone together for too long tho

• morro and zane!! or as I like to call it; therapist friend to therapist friend

- while untrusting of morro for a while, Zane was able to connect with them by seeing their walls come down

- i think morro would go to zane to vent if need be, hes a great listener. same goes vice-versa.

- both wind and ice are very reactive to their weilders emotions, so like it or not, these two have to bottle up their feelings sometimes for the safety of others

- thats why they work so well together, actually. fire, earth, lighting, and water arent as emotionally reliant. and we're getting 2 energy

- whenever zane is over and makes food morro will steal some or get thrown out the kitchen trying

- tldr; their friendship is very (heh) chill

• kai and morro!! aka 'i don't like you very much but we have the common interest of protecting lloyd to make up for past mistakes so ig ill tolerate you'

- unstable relationship!! they bicker the most, lloyd mostly being the peacekeeper

- they have their moments tho

- i think kai would've found morro in a vulnerable state once, like crying or having a panic attack or something, and he just sat next to him and held his hand

- they both refuse to acknowledge that happend, but they were nicer to each other after it

- they don't get along very well mostly to kai holding a grudge, but morro doesn't blame him. they haven't completely forgiven themselves, either

• morro and nya. dictionary definition of 'its complicated'

- can they get along and work together? yes, surprisingly so. do they WANT to? nah

- even though hes human again, morros still highkey-lowkey scared of nya. its the ptsd innit

- thats why nyas so compliant with him in the first place, bc even though she holds almost a big a grude towards them as her brother, she sees morros use

- i do think they made a small storm once though, using their powers. just out of boredom. it was beautiful

• and last but most certainly not least: disaster cousins! i cant fit these two's entire journey together in this one post, but I'll highlight the most important bits

- loyd was terrified that morro survived the drowning of the Preeminent, so he was immensely relieved that morro wasnt staying with them

- the first time they saw each other after styxx shit was so akward. they were left alone in a room together for 5 seconds and they hated it

- lloyd never wanted a verbal apology from morro, saying that the only way they could probably get forgiveness is through action

- only got close to morro after he proved himself through his actions. i mean, after helping them and Ninjago many times, lloyd couldn't say he hated them anymore

- the first time lloyd visited on his own with the intention to just, like, hang out; morro broke. mf bluescreened. thought he was hallucinating for a solid 20 minutes.

- they play video games together and read comics and the like.

- they rarely do anything like sparring tbh. whenever they're together they let their inner children come out

- lloyd: *bringing out a coloring book and crayons* "hey I know we're like in our early 20's but-"

- morro: *snatching them* "y e s"

- Morro's EXTREMELY overprotective to compensate for what hes done. lloyd doesn't stop them, he knows it makes them feel less guilt, but it does get a liiitle overbearing sometimes

- wu bawled once he learned they were getting along, the hardest he cried in a while

- tldr; these two mean SO MUCH TO ME

do i have more? oh, yes, many. am i stopping? yes, sadly. i don't want peoples Tumblr to crash once they see this post.