#kkpaaw rambles

[kkpaaw]

My au got me thinking, as well as a post I saw on twt and i was unfortunately reminded of a common trend in ninjago that I really didn't like is the show treating Jay's mental health as a joke

It's down multiple times, but the biggest offenders is the psychotic episode he had in Hunted and his grief with Nya's death

Both of these moments were treated as complete jokes as like haha look at Jay being weird! Look at the comedic relief doing wacky things! Look at how weirded out the others are!

But neither of these moments should have been funny jokes and it makes the others look bad because instead of being genuinely worried about their brother's spiraling mental health they were instead written to be weirded out by his behavior.

Like why are these moments treated like jokes when in reality they are extremely sad things??? Why is Jay's grief over Nya treated like a joke just because he handled his grief differently?? Why was his psychotic episode In the show treated like a funny haha like it isn't a serious thing???

Maybe I'm reading too deep into it but it just bothers me how eveything Jay did in the show was treated as a joke just because the writers dumbed him down to be comedic relief. Even to a point where his mental health somthing that SHOULD have been taken seriously, was waved off as a joke

Jay I'm sorry fam u got done so dirty in the latter seasons.

[kkpaaw]

Jay screams pretty boy to me

That just me?

Like his bio parents is gorgeous woman Libber and Cliff who let's be fr, 99% of famous on-screen actors are hot asf

So two hot folks = really pretty child and that's Jay 100%

He would have so many more fans in canon if his personality wasn't just off the rails LOL

Those rare moments of calm for Jay really let's the pretty boy genetics shine through and leaves you wondering how u never noticed how damn hot he is before

And then he opens his mouth

And then ur like OH

That's why LOL

[kkpaaw]

I crave to see more Lloyd interactions with the rest of the ninja outside the RGB siblings

Love them tons, don't get me wrong (PLZ don't I do love them lol) but we are critically lacking in some good bonding moments between Lloyd and Zane, Cole and Jay

Like they have so few notable interactions and it's a shame tbh cuz Lloyd isn't JUST Kai and Nya's lil bro he's EVERYONES lil bro and I'm sad that we don't get to see that more (Iike i've already made a post about how distant Lloyd and Jay feel, im very passionate about this)

Like they all took part im caring for Lloyd and it sucks that only Kai and Nya get any recognition in that area.

I just wanna see it man GIVE US MORE BONDING MOMENTS BETWEEN LLOYD AND THE REST OF THE NINJA PLZZZ

My lil found family your all siblings to meeeee

[kkpaaw]

Don't think about the fact that the ninja are all out here creating new bonds and a new family while Jay is out there all alone.

When bro comes back he gone feel so out of place, like he doesn't belong and I can't wait to see that :>

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PIXAL and Jay's friendship is so underrated imo. Folks either don't have them interact at all or if they do its PIXAL expressing annoyance at Jay and seeing him as incompetent and VERY little else

I think there's so much potential there beyond PIXAL just seeing Jay as an annoyance and a dumbass

Like cmon they are two capable inventors and you mean to tell me that nobody can think of any scenarios where they would bonding really well?

Imagine PIXAL being one of the only to notice Jay stopped inventing and wondering why cuz she considers him a very capable inventor

I could easily see PIXAL trying to encourage Jay to invent again too

I can easily see them having many conversations about mechanics n whatnot. Going long hours of the day just talking and brainstorming new ideas and just geeking out in general

Jay going all mad scientist with his ideas and PIXAL bearing witness to the absolutely bonker inventions he makes and wondering howww they are still alive

Jay helping PIXAL be more wild with her ideas and how she makes them while PIXAL helps Jay reign in his crazy

Together they make the coolest shit

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Nya has no fucking clue how to flirt cuz she's never had to put In effort to impress anyone like that before

Jay was smitten with her upon first meeting her so she really didn't need to do much of anything to impress him

And its a problem now cuz her yin has no memories of her and all her flirting skills are doing is weirding him out and pushing him further away

She is becoming acutely aware she has no idea what she's doing and it's both cringe and funny to witness

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If Jay had a YouTube channel it would be a mix of game reviews, him playing games, and making random shit like making a functional pokeball or designing fnaf animatronics irl, something crazy like that cuz he knows no chill

[kkpaaw]

Fav kind of plasma is Kai just being horrendously down bad for Jay and finding every possible way to be around him in the most unsubtle way possible (he thinks he's being Sooo subtle)

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The way the fandom just collectively forgot(or actively ignore) that Bonzle was ALSO stranded in the netherspace makes me sad

I have not seen a single person comment about Bonzle when talking about the netherspace situation

It's all been poor Kai! Oh Kai must have been suffering so much, Kai, Kai, Kai

WHAT ABOUT BONZLE HUH???

What about them huh?

They were stuck too!

Yall only wanna talk about Kai like he was all on his lil lonesome with nobody with him and that don't sit right with me at all

[kkpaaw]

MY SHAYLAAAAA 😭😭

Also potential Arin and Rogue interaction next season??? 👀

[kkpaaw]

It's honestly funny how much the fandom labeles Jay as incompetent qhen it comes to basic things when tbh out of ALL the ninja he would be the most capable In normal everyday scenarios

He's the only one to have grown up with a normal as hell childhood, two loving parents who cared for him, basic bitch energy

Yea he grew up in a junkyard but aside from that u can bet his childhood was likely very normal

Compared to everyone else who either grew up without parents, or had a shaky relationship with their parents.

So to see folks lable him as someone who can't do this basic thing or that basic thing (lookin at u random ninjago polls i see on here where Jay is somehow always voted the worst no matter the question) bothers me

Like out of all the ninja yall think the guy with the most normal basic childhood can't do basic things??

And tbh this ties into my frustration with the show cuz they definitely didn't help the perception of Jay by the fanom by making him so..dumb in the later seasons, but damn the fandom certainly ain't helping remedy that

This man canonically also has had like many different jobs in the show. So if any of the ninja are perfectly capable to adjusting to normal life without being a ninja its Jay 100% and the show makes that known

So I think he's more capable than majority of the team of doing the things yall for some reason think he's incapable of doing

Give my boy SOME credit he's proven how capable he is too many times for yall to be labeling him as some incompetent dumbass who can't do anything.

We get on the show for butchering the characters many times but yall contribute to that more than yall are willing to accept

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Ed n Edna are single handedly THE best parents in all of ninjago and I will NOT be hearing anyone out on this

They deserve so much more praise then they get and it's irritating to see how much they have been discarded as Jay's parents by a good portion of folks

Especially Edna.

Listen I love Libber and want more on her too

But all she did was give birth to Jay

She didn't raise him

Unlike Edna

So to see folks who consider her to be more so Jay's mother than Edna is so rage inducing

Ed gets this treatment too but less being discarded for Cliff and moreso just being forgotten in general

Ed and Edna yall deserve better

[kkpaaw]

YALL SEE THAT TRAILER?!

WE GOT A GLIMPSE OF JAY MY BOIIII

He got some new wings and those lighting bolt katanas.

Im seeing fols speculate he made the wings and tbhhhh im more convinced Jay made his Lightning bolt shaped katanas than the wings

Cuz all the ninja we see in the trailer that used wings had the exact same ones if not a different color

But where are ya gonna find lightning bolt shaped katanas tho?

Either way I pray they actually brought back Jay's inventor skills PLZ WRITERS

[kkpaaw]

Unironically I think the only one who would possibly understand Arin's feelings of urgency about his parents is the one who's forgotten his

Cuz u can't tell me that if Ed n Edna went missing Jay wouldn't drop everything to go look for them, world saving be damned.

Even now without is memories I still feel like he would understand more than the others and that not me saying that the others wouldn't care

I'm just saying that out of the entire ninja group Arin and Jay are the only ones who's had loving doting parents in their lives this entire time up until now.(Arin presumably im hoping they dont make Arin's parents pieces of shit ngl kinda tired of the ninja having parental issuss LOL) They haven't really had lives without their parents (Kai, Lloyd, Nya n Zane(the special case he is)) or with parents who may not have been the best (Sora, Cole, etc)

Jay's biggest conflict with his parents was just them being too overbearing and doting unlike someone like Cole who has been at odds with his dad for presumably years before they made up and started reparing their relationship or Sora who's parents fucking suck ass

I'm convinced that if Jay hadn't lost his memories he would be either with his parents right now or looking for them, wondering about them etc. Either way they would be on his mind

Anyway thank u for coming to my Ted talk

[kkpaaw]

Jay, who thrives on interactions with others

Jay who's presence you can't help but noticed first when u walk into a room

Jay who's charisma always draws people into his corner

Jay who's always trying to lighten up the mood with a quick joke or pun

Jay who's lost his memories and believes he truly has no one

Jay who's shattered his soul and now feels incomplete

Jay who's now trying to find his place In the world but may end up spiraling so far down a ditch he may never get out

Jay who is so terrified of being alone and now he's out there, more alone now than he has ever been before

Give my pookie a friend man end his loneliness 😭

[kkpaaw]

Random headcanon I just thought of for Jay cuz I can't be stopped

He's known for rambling a LOT when he's anxious and since he's usually always anxious we see it a lot. but he also has another layer to his anxious state that he rarely gets to but when he does it's grounds for worry.

Going mute

The others don't know exactly what causes him to completely silent but everytime it happens it scares them

Cuz he'll go hours or even days without saying a single word

They r used to him being loud and larger than life with his voice so to have him go from that, to deadly silent is extremely concerning and kind of scary for thdm

It doesn't happen often, luckily but they have found that just being there for him, cuddles and comfort helps alot as he has said multiple times before

Tho they do fear the possibility that one day he'll go silent and never speak again.