#maya ninjago

[noirbunnydeluxe]

Day 14: Gender swap.

✨️Zhane and Kailani✨️

Also, female Kai is just Maya with brown hair.

[mimenoises456]

A funny little crack headcannon my friend and I talked about in a hypothetical world where euphrasia doesn't exist . Jay and nya's hypothetical child develops wind powers and they come to a horrible realization

[kindaasrikal]

I love thinking about children looking like their parents, what with the Ninja looking so much like their own.

Do you think Lou has to make sure he doesn’t accidentally call Cole Lilly because he’s the spitting image of her? Do you think once, after Lilly had first died and Cole hadn’t been sent to his school yet, that Lou accidentally called Cole ‘Lilly’ and Cole thought that she was back, she was there and here with them and when he glanced around to see her he realised that his father was looking at him in guilt? Do you think ever since then, before Cole found peace within himself, he looked at the mirror and only saw his mother? His mother’s face, her smile and kind eyes, reflected on his own?

Do you think when Cliff Gordon held Jay, the new born baby of Libber, that he only saw her face reflecting back at him? The adorable freckles and the curly hair? Do you think when Libber died, Cliff Gordon couldn’t look at the last thing Libber ever left him, and had to give Jay away less he broke down?

Did Wu look at Lloyd and see his brother’s young face reflected back at him? Do you think Wu wonders if Lloyd is what Garmadon could’ve been like?

Do you think Misako looked at Lloyd and saw her husband’s innocent face staring back at her, a lost memory that could never be her present or future?

Do you think Garmadon looked at Lloyd and saw all the things of Wu and Misako and knew that when the day came that he saw himself in Lloyd all he would-could- do was cry?

Do you think Kai looked and Nya’s young face, freshly orphaned and alone, and saw his mother’s gentle eyes and comforting softness? That when he would wake up, blurry eyed and tired, he would look at Nya’s face and have to make sure it isn’t his mother finally coming home?

Do you think Nya only barely remembered her father, so when she looked at Kai, old enough to actually remember and recall, she automatically thought he was her father?

Do you think Dr Julien looked at Zane and knew that this child was everything he could, and couldn’t be?

How many times did Chen look at Skylor, only to look away is disgust once he saw a face he wished he could never recall?

Man, i rlly need to stop with the do you think bull, its getting repetitive 😭

[s0ull3ss-p3rs0n]

Yeah idk how Ninjago timeline works but wouldn't that be fucked up if like, Garmadon getting banished happened a few days after Morro left, and Wu had barely processed the loss, then Misako proceeds to disappear with Lloyd and then Ray and Maya's kidnapping happened. Like, that would be kinda fucked up if Wu just had to watch himself lose everyone in the span of a fucking week.

[iloveacronix]

RAYA ART RAYA ART RAYA ART 😭😭😭😭😭

Literally Cadence and Shining Armor

[absolutelynotsanebaby]

Villain au || for context, by the time the au starts back up, Maya's been gone for over two centuries.

[potatounicoorn]

I wonder if Maya ever felt betrayed, when her longest friend, the ocean, took her daughter away from her?

[pepmint-art]

meow

[nyaskitten]

DAWG GET OUT OF HERE SHUT UP TOT NO WAY...

(Edit: The gif only plays if you click it for some reason... at least on my end)

[the-ninjago-historian]

Got a whole BUNCH of Nya fun facts here! Interesting that Nya's bracelet was originally her mother's. I wonder if Maya was the first Samurai X or if Nya just upgraded the bracelet?

Also, Edna with a picture of Jay and Nya in her wallet? THAT'S FLIPPING ADORABLE!😍

[yunmaobao]

nya and kai ur mom is hot

[crossroads-of-the-raven]

Kai, Nya and their Parents - The Difference between knowing and not knowing what you're missing - and the sacrifices made by a caring brother

The day Nya was brought home - the day Kai met Nya face to face for the first time; Kai is two (Hands of Time, episode 3, A Time of Traitors)

Three years later

Ray and Maya are kidnapped, thus forcing Kai to take on the responsibility of becoming a five year old Dad aka the death of Kai's babyhood and childhood so as to preserve Nya's babyhood and childhood (Hands of Time, episode 8, Pause and Effect)

Thirteen years later

Kai and Nya are reunited with their parents (Hands of Time, Episode 8, Pause and Effect)

Three years later (vid from Seabound, episode 2, The Call of the Deep)

Though Kai had pointed out that Nya and Maya did not get along (due to Nya's independence from having grown up without her parents); at Master Wu's insistence, Kai calls in his mother to help Nya with her power problem.

Nya, however, dislikes Maya's mothering (what she considers babying).

When Wu suggests that Nya should discuss her issues with Kai, Nya insists with scorn that Kai likely enjoys being waited on and loves to be treated like a baby.

(Note how Nya goes from the probability statement of "probably, likes, being waited on" to the presumption in her absolute statement of "I bet he loves being treated like a baby" -- Nya, please tell me if this is your thoughts on your brother who raised you and gave up everything for you then when has he ever previously behaved in such a way that would suggest your statements to be true.)

The difference here is that Kai remembers what it was like to have someone taking care of him only to have it ripped away - to go from being the baby boy to suddenly having to be the adult for his sister.

Nya, though, doesn't really remember what it was like to be cared for by her parents; but, she remembers what it was like to be cared for (by her brother).

Kai is, in a way, reveling in the joy of being able to play games with his father, eat food cooked by his mother, and learn once more from his parents.

All things he hoped for but never once thought he'd ever have again.

While growing up, Nya was likely allowed to play games, eat homemade food that she didn't have to cook, and learn from Kai the lessons that he remembers their parents teaching them.

Kai on the other hand, had to get straight to work, schedule time in a busy day to cook so that Nya could eat, and be the one to teach trusted lessons from his parents (while likely having to weed out good advice from bad, given to him by whichever random adult decided to give it to him).

Kai's sacrifices for Nya can even be seen in the clothes they wear in the pilot.

When we first see Nya it looks like she's dressed in silk clothes which we know didn't come from Maya's closet since she generally dresses in blue.

Kai on the other hand is introduced in his blacksmithing clothes and goes to train with Wu, in his blacksmithing clothes, which may indicate a limited closet - he may even be wearing his Father's clothes as a way to save money.

But, you might say, he has different clothes in the episode, The Royal Blacksmiths.

Yes, he does have different clothes, but these clothes, like his and the Ninja's matching pajamas (color coded but with the same golden dragon on the chest pocket) are likely the result of Kai now being able to lean on Wu, financially.

Note that Kai's clothes are the only ones that indicate his elemental power - the others likely already had these clothes on hand before they met Wu (except maybe Zane - IDK).

Another way Kai's sacrifices and generosity torwards his sister can be shown is by comparing the first pilot episode to the Season 2 episode 6, Wrong Place, Wrong Time.

In this episode it is shown that, were it not for Nya getting kidnapped by Garmadon, Kai would never had cared about becoming a ninja.

It was only the knowledge that becoming a ninja was the only way to save Nya that motivated Kai to become a ninja.

Yet in a timeline where Nya was never kidnapped, all Kai cared about was getting the blacksmith shop back on its feet after the Skulkin attack.

So how did Wu convince Kai to come to the Monastery, the answer, he didn't - Nya did.

Wu unintentionally convinced Nya to become a ninja and since Kai wasn't just going to let her go off on her own (this is his fourteen year old little sister who he raised after all) Kai went with her so they could become Ninja.

Kai gave up what he wanted in favor of what Nya wanted.

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Kai's sacrifices, his giving nature, and everything he does for Nya is almost practically an automatic habit, because he and Nya lost their parents at a young age thus forcing Kai to give up being a child to be Nya's caretaker.

And yet throughout the series whenever the siblings bring up their parents, it becomes clear that Kai made sure that Nya never forgot them and that they were remembered well, that they were missed and not forgotten.

I really like Nya; and while Seabound is a great season it also points out that Nya may just be truly unaware of how much Kai sacrificed for her to the point where she doesn't understand exactly why Kai likes having their parents around; among other details that she and others misunderstand about Kai.

Believe me, I like the idea that Nya knows and helps her brother out where she can, and she definitely loves him, but it seems like Seabound has shown her to be unaware of Kai's trials and tribulations in raising her and keeping them both from landing in the grave of the fireflies.

[cable-salamdr]

Actually I find Seabound’s whole thing about Maya fucking fantastic because I distinctly remember Hands Of Time being moreso focused on Ray being the one Nya and Kai were meant to be angry at. Maya was on Ray’s side, yes, but the kids seemed to forgive her basically within the same episode they met her, while Kai was pretty pissed at Ray the whole way through.

I feel like Seabound puts that on it’s head and says “Actually Nya has been harbouring bad feelings about her mom this entire time and it’s time to talk them out” because yeah, they already did that with Ray in HOT. It’s Maya’s turn now.

(I do find it a bit of a shame that Maya and Kai didn’t get some screen time with the same topics as her and Nya got— I feel like those got pushed aside so that Nya and Kai could have some moments like that. Which I don’t really mind but still. maybe even Ray and Maya would have been nice, where they, idk, talk about their kids?? But that’s a conversation for a different post.)

[kindaasrikal]

Kai except when/if he returns from the nether realm (which is probably soon if I’m being honest) he breaks down like a lil baby after he reads and listens to the voice notes and messages EVERYONE left for him. Full on sobbing as he listens to Wyldfire trying to find her place and move on whilst also feeling so insecure.

Five tissue boxes, gone after hearing Lloyd talk about how unsure and scared he rlly feels and how he honestly has no idea what he’s doing.

Rocking back and forth as he reads Cole’s texts about his life and how everything is going, as well as his insecurities and how down he feels sometimes with everything having changed.

He’s full on koala-hugging Zane as he listens to the detailed texts that have misspellings about everything he’s been bottling up and how much he just misses so many people.

WATERFALLS are what his eyes are as he listens to Nya’s strong but almost broken voice talk about how lost she feels and the pain she’s experiencing with Jay and him gone.

Big old baby eyes that are watery as he reads texts from Arin and Sora talking about their struggles and insecurities as well as updates on everything going on.

He sits late at night, texting Wu and Jay’s old numbers, sending voice notes to Skylor, Ray, and Maya, about his life and everything that he’s suffered through so far. He tells them stories, updates, and how much he misses all five of them. He sends Pixal’s number photos of them and Zane, giving her small notes of what’s going on.

Before all that though, the ninja all realise Kai is about to read and listen to everything they’ve sent him and they all collectively jump him and run like their lives depend on it with his phone. They refuse to have that loser find out how big of losers they were with him gone.

[weepingtalecowboy]

When I think about how in seabound Nya absolutely seemed to hate her mom being there for her

And it got me thinking that maybe the reason why is because she thought that her mom was undermining her true parental figure Kai

Considering that she did say that she isn’t truly mad at her mom for being hold hostage for so many years of her life and not being there for her

But rather she was upset at her for not being there for Kai

She always had him to parent her

But he had nobody

The reason why I thought that was because she seemed to be more then happy with her dad playing games with Kai as long as her dad didn’t bother her even her mom feeding him sandwiches was only weakly called out

But the second her mom started annoying her with her parenting she always seemed to be upset with it

Which is why I headcanon that she not only felt that her mom was trying to undermine her true parent (even if She wasn’t doing it on purpose) but also thought that her mom and dad should have been there for Kai instead of her (seeing as she had a parent already)

But yeah. It just is a small observation of how she acted that I noted nothing more

[alizibtheterrible]

something something Ray and Maya something something

probably gonna draw the other previous EMs

I NEED A SPINOFF WITH THE SERPENTINE WARS COME ON LEGO