#jestro hitting the griddy

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I don't remember this scene from nexo knights...

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babe wake up knightlybastard is posting banger au stuff again

Hello!! I've been meaning to ask for a while. In Nexo Swap what are Clay's motives to become evil? Are they like Jestro's from the show or is there anything more to that? I'm sorry if that's a dumb question , I'm just really interested in this AU.

Nah, it's not a dumb question at all! Glad you asked actually, as this was a main concept idea I was working on during my mini absence from Nexoswap fkjekjfe. While it’s not necessarily finalized and most likely would change in the foreseeable future, it's much more than I had before when I first brought this au to life.

To answer, Clay’s motivations to become evil are somewhat different than Jestors on account all the personalities in this au the same as in canon. This results in several events changing to fit on how the characters would act in certain situations, but still allow the story to progress the same.

In the beginning, the graduation events are still similar, if not almost identical, to what happens. The most change is with the rest of the knights as their intros have to change with what role they are presenting, Jestro and Clay however, are the most indifferent. Clay is still top knight with honor by his side, and Jestro is still the clumsy court jester.

But after the knights get handed their shields...an incident happens

I'm still struggling to come up with the events that lead up to the incident, but it still has the kingdom going into complete darkness. In short, a civilian in the audience ends up severely injured/dying when Clay was trying to save them during the incident. This...REALLY shook the kingdom, especially Clay due to witnessing the tragedy first-hand. Tying into his fear of failure, this really messed him up severely. Not even 10 minutes into his shielding, he fails to do the one thing he was sworn to do as a knight. Regret, same, and pure guilt consumed him into a full-blown panic, till eventually, he ran off just like Canon Jestro. He dropped his shield and sword in the process, mainly thinking he doesn't deserve them anymore after what he did. Jestro, who came out to see what the hell was going on, only managed to catch a glimpse of Clay as he ran off into the castle. 

After all that, Clay ends up in that familiar situation of confronting this au's "Book of Monsters" (which is a sword known as 'The Tainted Excalibur'). There, he gets gaslit into feeling he had no other option than to be a villain. He felt like he already failed as a knight, he feels like the kingdom already turned its back on him, he feels like his friends wouldn’t forgive him, his mind was in an awful place at this moment...So he ends up agreeing

Keep in mind, he isn't 100% willing, deep inside he didn't really wanna do this, but as soon as he grabbed the sword, it kinda did something to him. It's sorta like mind control/brainwashing in a way, just not as powerful, but it pushed him to dive deeper into the path of villainy that deep down he really didn't want. Unlike canon, the two were a bit more thorough with searching for specific books, resulting in the first evil book Clay technically touched/got was the book of Betrayal...and you know what that technically does.

Clay though, wasn't able to give a part of the sword's magic back to him as he was quickly interrupted by Jestro, who just wanted to give Clay's stuff back and to comfort him.

Things happen as normal, Clay summons Monsters using the sword as a staff (the Monsters got controlled in the process), Jestro gets beat up, Monstrox finds this happening and kills himself, etc. Thus begins the story of Nexo Swap

As I said, still revising this idea so that it feels like it fits within the Au/makes sense. It may change in the future, but at least provides a basis for everything. :)

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Friendly reminder to everyone that in canon lore, Jestro wishes Macy was his big sister (confirmed in the book of monsters novel) He also has a big family dynamic with the Halbert family (King Halbert treated that boy like a son) so Jestro could technically be considered an adopted prince of knighton. Bro went from being homeless to being ROYALTY. (not to mention almost all the halberts wear capes, AND in lego sets Jestro has a FRICKIN storm dragon)

(I plan to use this for my s4 rewrite somehow because who is going to pass the opportunity to have a cool STONE DRAGON!??!?!?!) not only that but the fact bro turns evil means he was basically being an annoying younger sibling to macy like "SCREW YOU SISTER I'M GOING TO BLOW UP KNIGHTON LMAO" he did it out of pettiness clearly. Evil jester prince of knighton. And they did barely anything with this dynamic. At all. Absolutely nothing i daresay. Anyways hey guys it's me Tommy anderson and Jestro gets officially adopted by the halberts in s5 I swear!!

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Toes is once again posting out of context doodles for their s4 rewrite if my rewrite is good enough can we pretend the rewrite is canon and that lego secretly ripped me off guys!1!/j

I promise i have been busy working on it btw.

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hello everyone! I have some lore to share!

prepare for a long winded rant about theories myself and a few others came up with on how magic works, as well as how monstrox's corruption works. To begin, let's start with the line between nexo magic and dark magic, and how colors of magic can verify the difference I'd imagine all magic is on the same spectrum, once magic becomes orange, it is completely controlled, but blue magic is completely uncontrolled. The purpleness seen from the lava monsters is sort if in the middle of this. (not to mention they had free will and abandoned monstrox by choice, which brings us to stone monsters in a moment) Now this brings us to two big big differences, nexo magic and forbidden powers! Ironically enough, i'd say both are a form of controlled magic as they shoot a controlled beam of energy and are sealed within tablets to KEEP them under control. Just their version of controlled magic is much... wicked-er, than nexo magic. Nexo magic on the other hand is used only for support, giving others strength, etc. however it IS still controlled magic (This might also be why merlok turned blue once in knights of the realm, he couldn't control his magic due to messy files and froze up, turning all blue). Monstrox's lightning is... fairly easy to explain, it's lightning that brings people to life, very powerful but very uncontrolled. Another thing, most magic used by individuals who are not wizards appears to be used through objects such as staffs and wands (and shields, as seen with the knights!). Once enchanted with magic, they seem to contain this magic which can be activated by another wizard. (Seen with Jestro and monstrox/The knights and merlok)

Stone monsters on the other hand are tricky, after all, I JUST mentioned that orange = controlled magic and blue = uncontrolled magic, so you may be asking "Toes, why do stone monsters have orange eyes then?" My answer? Monstrox needs to CONTROL the stone monsters right? If he didn't, they'd just pull the same thing the lava monsters did. The easiest solution is to simply use magic to keep them under control. our best examples of out-of-control stone monsters are the grey knight, and the gnomes. The gnomes are one of the only monsters to not have orange eyes (along with krakenskull but technically he does still). The gnomes are actually an interesting case, as they are not afraid to attack their own leaders, they just crave violence and destruction and will attack whatevers in their way, this is surprisingly similar to the way the grey knight is as well. As the grey knight goes from the mindset of destroying FOR monstrox to... just destroying, and would you look at that? anything that stands in his way he ALSO wishes to destroy. Who knew gnomes and knights had so much in common. but yeah, there's two types of stone monsters, the controlled ones and the uncontrolled ones. Clay's flashing between orange eyes however may have been more-so monstrox's influence regaining it's hold over him, likely trying to get him to use his destructive tendencies for actual purpose.

Now lets take a look at our favorite wizard in training (unless you're a Fletcher fan, Fletcher fans i'm sorry but I just don't know enough about him to add him to this list, but from what i do know the forms of magic he used in the book are uncontrolled magic, therefore probably blue) Clay's nexo arm is another great example of uncontrolled magic being harmful and controlled magic being not harmful, when Clay's arm was that blue color, it seemed to be causing the most harm to the knight. However when it turned orange (Via downloading some nexo-magic tylenol from merlok), it became easier to control and stopped acting up. The spells clay used before getting the nexo arm are also blue, showing his inexperience as well as monstrox's corruption still being on him (as seen with the uncontrolled beam of blue energy he had been shooting, as well as him breaking free from his stone stasis)

(MAJOR credit to @edenflowers for helping me come up with some of these next few theories!) Now, let's take a look at monstrox's corruption and the main 3 characters impacted by it Jestro, Clay/The grey knight, and Wanda/Ruina. all 3 of these characters were corrupted by monstrox, which altered their mindsets completely. However there's a bit more to it than one would think, for example, it seems corruption takes the worst traits of a person and makes them the most prominent ones. A good example for each character: Jestro was already a little chaotic before his corruption, when he became corrupted, he went batshit insane and became chaotic as fuck. (the lightning form of jestro seems to be a little more unhinged than the original evil jestro) Clay already had a slight temper before he was the grey knight, though he was much better at controlling it, the grey knight on the other hand is incredibly angry at ALL TIMES. Wanda was, according to merlok, a very playful individual/Known to tease others. Ruina is the darker side of this trait and just straight up manipulates people, she is a gaslighter. Corruption however can be fought against and eventually dispelled if one is determined enough, in fact, the only character who truly managed to break free from Monstrox's corruption was Jestro. Since corruption is based all around making the flaws of oneself super prominent, accepting these flaws would be, well... it's biggest weakness, one can't be corrupted if they accept their actions and decide they wish to grow and change from them. Basically, corrupted individuals are still themselves, just the worst version of themselves. And accepting that this corrupted version of yourself WAS still you, and deciding to learn and grow from it is the best way to defeat it. Jestro took responsibility for his actions in s1/2 and eventually decided he WAS at fault for initiating the whole problem in the first place, whereas s3/4 he didn't (because it wasn't his fault in that case, that and monstrox learned from his mistakes and made sure jestro wasn't going to betray him again) Jestro is also the only corrupted individual to accept his flaws as his own actions, rather than blaming them on some alter ego (such as the grey knight, or ruina stoneheart)

This also goes to show that corrupted individuals can be so wildly different from their counterparts that they don't recognize each other as the same person, BOTH the grey knight and Clay show this The grey knight refers to himself as his own person, and Clay refers to the grey knight as if he were a different person as well. Example dialogues: "I am no longer the one you call Clay, I, am the grey knight." "It's a Grey Knight thing." "if you don't believe i'm dangerous then The grey knight will just have to show you how dangerous he is." He didn't accept his flaws as part of himself, therefore didn't fully break from monstrox's corruption. Ruina is likely a similar case, but we just don't know enough about her to confirm this. In conclusion Blue magic is uncontrolled/harmful, Orange magic is controlled/used to control, Magic is contained within inanimate objects and wizards can wake it up, Corruption flips your flaws and good traits to be the opposite, and jestro is the most self-aware character in the series and accepts who he is both in evil and in good. And for those who made it all the way through this rant, or for those who just thought the silly little doodles were funny, here's a dumb little doodle i made involving this theory a while back.

This has been my long ass rant, I hope you enjoyed!

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Jestro hitting the griddy for knighton

give me some nexo knights art requests!!

please no ship/romantic requests!!

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JESTRO SONG JUMPSCARE this ones pretty much all original! however the main melody does sort of come from the "Transfer forbidden power" scenes!