#keep Zane neurotypical

[obsessedbee]

Wait someone rewrite the Cole is straight petition copypasta but with Zane is not autistic

[cookii-moon]

I'm here to spread my Ninjago neurodiversity headcanons

because this fandom does not have enough of it and I felt like it. Also because i missed neurodiversity week by one day.

uhh yeah. I wanted to have an art too but I didn't expect posting this so soon-

Anyways.

Zaneeee the classic yay.

He's definitely neurodivergent.

I don't think he'd identify as anything in particular, but he identifies as neurodivergent cuz he's a nindroid and because of that doesn't fit in or think like neurotypicals.

He's a bit of an outlier because of that tho, even in neurodiverse places.

He's decently public because he's too innocent to see how anything could go bad just because he shared it. Poor Zane, bless him :,) he definitely ended up being harassed at least once.

Cole because everybody overlooks him and I'm disappointed /hj

Okay this man is autistic. Tell me otherwise. Tell me otherwise right now. Like have you seen him.

He's very closed off about being autistic. I feel like Lou was definitely not very accommodating of it and encouraged him to mask n stuff, (which btw can lead to a huge number of anxiety and self worth issues later down the line, so do not force people to mask).

There's a lot of stigma associated with autistic people that I feel like Cole definitely wouldn't enjoy, so he keeps it pretty tight under wraps and tries to mask when he can.

He especially doesn't like telling people he knows because he doesn't want a close friend to potentially start treating him like an infant or helpless, or assume he has no emotions or starting to distance themselves from him.

He hid it from the Ninja for the first few seasons. Around after S4-5 when he and Jay had become close again he decided to tell him. I feel like he was jealous or impressed by how open Jay is in comparison (we'll get to him in a moment) and how accepting the others were. Jay's reaction is easily summed up as *HAPPY NEURODIVERGENT SOLIDARITY SCREAMING* but also "I feel stupid for not connecting the dots" and then they went from bffs to... also bffs. But now they get to make adhd and autism jokes together.

Jay helped him be more comfortable and feel more confident in himself and he finally told the other Ninja after DotD because he ended up experiencing several massive sensory overloads at some point, since being autistic made it so that the issues you'd have from finally being able to touch things after a year or two would've been amplified ten fold, so he kinda had to tell them because it stuck around for several weeks.

He still isn't very public about it towards strangers, but he's getting better about feeling comfortable with it himself and not, yknow, experiencing social anxiety 24/7 around his friends.

He's definitely on like the mild-mid end of the spectrum. He doesn't need too many accommodations, but he does experience sensory issues and might need alternative explanations for some things.

He's usually pretty closed off when he first gets to know somebody, but overtime when he does get to know them and becomes comfortable with them he gets pretty social and sarcastic with them, which doesn't always go well since he can't tell when someone gets legitimately hurt or offended or when it's just part of the joke, so being more public about it with his friends has made it so they can communicate better with that type of stuff :D

...You may notice that this one is substantially longer than the rest and the reason for that is because I'm autistic so I feel more confident about writing about an autistic character. And also because autistic Cole makes me feel represented because way too many autistic characters are either robots (which is fine, but one of my symptoms is I have difficult to relate to those types of characters) or very stereotypical. So.

I try to keep the others shorter because I don't trust myself as much with those LOL.

Also he may be colorblind, but he's not sure.

Uhh Jay

Yeah

He has adhd, probably a comorbidity too like OCD or smthn. He's in the very hyperactive group, and he's pretty public about it because he feels comfortable with who he is and doesn't really care if some idiot takes issue with it (or well, pretends like he doesn't care, except he actually does)

And ye, that's uh, about all I have to say because I'm super hungry and tired sooo

Byeeee

[mcdenthusiest]

Maybe I should actually start drafting part of my mcd rewrite instead of making up scenarios in my head and writing down concepts for it in an unorganized notebook also I have never written anything in my life

Im starting with rewatching the ENTIRETY of mcd + mys post s6 + some of the livestreams and mini games to get a sense of like basic plot points character points and world building for it (It’s mystreet and the mini games that’s gonna be painful to rewatch, I’m rewatching mcd s1 and I forget to take notes on it bc of how ridiculous it was initially I love it!). WHILE rewatching jt im taking notes on what I initially see during my rewatch and putting down time stamps for like major exposition on plot charatcer or world, THEN going back and breaking parts of it down to make it make sense and see how that plot point COULD fit in. Mcd s1 is ridiculous cuz it was meant to be a silly little let’s play x roleplay and I don’t blame Jess for how it is bc like it LITERALLY didnt have the intention to go to like mys s6 and all ehehe (fuck mys s6 tho).

THEN from there I’m gonna focus on worldbuilding and establishing the rules for the world, IM SO EXICTED TO ESTABLISH LORE AND HISTORYYYY future history major I love history I loved the divine warriors i love how messy the romeave monarchy probably is

I already know that I want to keep the start and end to s1 (aphmau spawns in a world -> Irene dimension) I just don’t know HOW I wanna get there exactly and what I wanna keep and remove

Characters are gonna be tough bc I’m not an incredible artists BUT writing them is gonna be so fun like Aaron’s gonna be a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT person in my mcd rewrite with his backstory 💀 there’s also many characters that I’m gonna try to keep bc I liked them but they’re probably not gonna end up being super developed except for main ones (but asides from s1 aphmau idk who’s gonna count as that LMAO!)

I have an idea for what I wanna keep which are like the ICONIC iconic moments of mcd (werewolf wedding moment)

The issue is that the real world and minecraft has very different rules and so aphmau cannot travel from PD to scaleswind in a day like in minecraft or just place blocks down for a house so figuring out the timeline is gonna be funky

I also want there to be a prelude series into episode 1 which is just the guard academy days for garroth and some other characters (the day garroth decides to join guard academy -> a bunch of events (not in order)including running away and Nicole faking her death + vylad murder + katelyn joining the jo9 + Sasha’s death + genes death + laurance becoming head guard and johs death to sasha + aaron accidentally killing lily and living as a loner (L) + gene coming back and traumatizing dante + Zane’s accession to power -> the day aph spawns into the world

I’m not neurotypical if it’s obvious