#ninja mystery solvers au

[basicallyjaywalker]

The Ninja Mystery Solvers AU has consumed my brain recently so lemme talk about some of the plots I wanna do

NSM and the Anacondrai Curse

The Gang get a call from Skylor Chen, the daughter of a wealthy restaurant owner who runs the popular chain Mr. Chen's Noodle House. The ghost of an Anacondrai general has been haunting the New Ninjago City branch for weeks, scaring off customers and stealing food. It's up to the gang to find out what's going on!

NSM and the Dark Island

After the disappearance of her husband weeks ago, museum curator Misako Garmadon finds a notebook he filled with information about a "Dark Island" off the coast. She wants to investigate, but with a young son at home she can't, so she calls on the gang to help her out.

NSM and the City of Ouroborus

Pixal and Nya have been working together with a Serpentine archaeology team on a dig site out in the desert when they discover an ancient city known as Ouroborus. Legend says unearthing the city would also unearth the Great Devourer, a giant snake which heralded the end of the world. The legend is just that, a legend... Right? But when members of the team start to go missing, Nya and Pixal start to wonder if there's more to this place than meets the eye.

[basicallyjaywalker]

Deep inhale. Well since you asked so nicely :D

On Razed Ground

Current WIP, takes place between S4 and S5 with some minor canon divergences (Pixal has a body already, Morro does not return in the same way) and is a three line story following the ninja, Pixal, and Ronin and Skylor respectively. Zombie AU! Telltale's Walking Dead inspired but I mostly wanna focus on the terrible human tragedy of an apocalypse (do you guys ever think about death?) and am going to draw on other zombie/apocalypse media (most of which was recommended by the very cool @finn-m-corvex ).

It's actually in the process of a semi-rework, taking my first outline and draft and doing a little extra planning. First thing I'm actually doing a full big plan for before writing because I want things to be really, really good

Broader Zombie AUs from that

And now, because ADHD is a menace, I have about 3 different other Zombie AUs that are scrapped ORG ideas.

One is the apocalypse happens at the very start of the series and all of the seasons/the pilots are rewritten with that as a change. So basically the day Nya would've been kidnapped is the day the outbreak hit their village

One is zombie apocalypse with the previous generation of EMs, not much aside from that, just a concept

And the last is just a series of unrelated one shots that mostly deal with death, grief, and ethical quandaries and will probably be the grab bag of any scrapped ORG ideas or scenes (because I have a lot of ideas but there's only one way someone can die)

The Grand College AU

What started as cute silly lesbian fluff spiraled into three separate storylines. Help

The first one is a Nya x Jasmine (OC) story. Both are workaholics whose friends encourage them to join one of the theatre groups on their campus to chill tf out. Jasmine is a sound and lights girlie, Nya is a minor actress, they both fall fast and hard and pine for weeks. Shenanigans ensue!

Then there's the polycule Jay fucked around and found himself in after he and Nya (amicably) broke up after graduation. Jay gets three boyfriends through autism rizz and it is similarly silly. Dumbassshipping + Kyle (OC).

And finally there's a cute friendship between Lloyd and his new roommate, Nataly (OC). Which I have one full scene thought out and it's them hashing out complicated feelings about their parents, and the rest is them getting into misadventure!

Overall a very silly AU. There's also Pixane but it's mostly Pixal being an exhausted wingman for Nya and Jasmine and she makes Zane watch movies with her after to decompress (he enjoys it)

Hallmark Movie (WIP title)

Another current WIP!

Another silly romance one! This is Kai x Hannah (OC) wherein they are both trying to get their shit together after some life fuckups.

Hannah moves into a new town after a breakup with her long-term girlfriend. There, she meets this annoying guy named Kai. Neither can stand each other at first, but they come together to restore an old building in town they have a connection with. They procees to slowly inch towards love in the process.

New Americana Inspired AU

Bruise celebrity AU! Jay was raised by Cliff and is groomed to be a child star. Hates this lifestyle. Cole has a similar backstory to canon, including running away from home and living with this weird old guy who runs a tea shop with his nephew. Lou still pushed him to be a dancer and Cole became famous for a bit before running away and disappearing off the face of the earth. They have a chance meeting and begin a forbidden romance. Themes of self-discovery and independence ensue! The finale is planned in my head

Scooby Doo AU aka Ninja Mystery Solvers

Monster Living AU

Fan season fan season! The basic idea is what if the people who ran Mega Monster Amusement Park were an evil megacorp and decided to make entire towns where everyone in them works for the Corp and the Corp controls everything in their lives! Very WIP

Kai, Nya, Pixal, Jay, and Cole are the Scooby Doo gang and I reimagine seasons/plotlines through the lens of Scooby Doo

Jay and Cole are Scooby and Shaggy (who has whose energy changes)

Nya is Daphne

Pixal is Velma

Kai is Fred

No planned ships other than some possible side character crushes and would mostly be a collection of the sillies

Original Masters AU

Story where the original elemental masters/embodiments of the elements are like gods. Some of them come back to Ninjago and try to make everything anew, disliking the direction the FSM's creation has taken. Problem being they have very little regard for life! Oops. There's also a possible crime drama/ace attorney scene in this. Because I can. Because it's fun

Other horrors include the masters having the ability to possess the current EMs and use their abilities. This requires having physical access to both the EM and the EM being extremely weakened though, as their powers naturally fend off the possession when at the level of strength that would interest one of these gods

And yeah that's about it! I have a few others but none of them are really fleshed out enough to talk about here

ANYONE that has a Ninjago AU omfg, please spill, I really want to hear ur guys’ ideas, AUs are so awesome and it’s so cool that creativity can bring so much insane stuff, DROP THEM NEOWWWWWW (and if u reblog don’t put it in tags…😞) I want to read them, I’m curious…

[botherkupo]

[That fandom edition ask thing] P — So, what's your take of an AU for any fandom?

Alright, random AU. This is actually tricky since I don’t tend to write “total” AU for fanfiction. That said, if I went AtLA, I’d probably do a detective/crime solver AU. Probs not modern. I like more the idea of Sokka and Katara being a detective sibling duo who end up getting a lot of assistance from the mysterious “Blue Spirit” ninja.

And of course it would end up being Zutara. ^__^

[basicallyjaywalker]

Not necessarily! I'm planning on adapting some of the Ninjago and some of the SD lore into this AU, so Ray and Maya might be more background than evil. Ngl though the idea of evil mayor Garmadon and the rgb siblings is funny enough that I'm considering it as a possible plot now

I'm also approaching it more like classic Scooby Doo (Where Are You and What's New specifically) so less of an overarching plot and more spooky one shots ft the gang

[basicallyjaywalker]

A Non-Comprehensive List of AUs I really wanna do fanfics for in the future (and may do a poll on which ones I should do first)

Whumptober has sparked my love of writing fanfic and taken away literally all of my insecurities with writing fanfic so I need to tell you guys a small bit of the fifty million aus spinning in my brain (most of them are stock standards) (long post)

Zombie Apocalypse

I've got two prompts set in this so far and I killed both of the blorbos off now am I guaranteeing that's canon no am I saying I wanna make em all suffer cuz i've been rewatching StephenPlays's Telltale's TWD playthrough again yes yes i am

2. High School

Self explanantory make em human don't give em powers make em survive high school (and make all of the parents alive and possibly some of them are teachers or local figures

3. Band!!!! BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!!

Hot and cool and I need Hannah shredding on the guitar for all to see

4. Gods

Mentioned this before but kill the superpowered children make them deities it'll be SO funny

5. Monster Living

Fairy Tale Living but for emos. Based on a submission from @/blursed-ninjago-ideas

6. Ninja Mystery Solvers aka Scooby Doo AU also i can't believe I've been calling it nsm what a fool i've been it's nms

Jay, Cole, Nya, Pixal, and Kai are all the Scooby Gang. Based on What's New, Scooby-Doo? and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? more than anything else

7. Organized Crime

AMORAL NINJA WITH GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8. Wrong Ends

Based on @/saline-coelacanth's bad ends AU but with my OCs and I mix and match as I please (not bad ends because some of them aren't evil just screwed up) (jasmine is just a weird hermit)

9. Celebrities

They don't have powers but they are rich and famous. New Americana by Halsey core.

10. Greaser/Surfer/Soc

My absolute favorite silly stock AU, sort everyone into one of the three categories and make em fight. Better is siblings are divided Even BETTER if it's Teen Beach Movie core and insanely goofy. Jay is so soc coded he is such a prep y'all.......

[basicallyjaywalker]

Fred: Kai (kind of airheaded but loving and owns a Netflix account)

Daphne: Nya (street smart, badass, girl power)

Velma: Pixal (book smart, has connections, immediate Google access)

Shaggy: Cole (can be a fraidy cat but isn't scared to step up, bit of a foodie, WHY WOULD WE DO THAT?!, random abilities from his time at Marty's)

Scooby: Jay (noted fraidy cat but also most likely to spring a booby trap, goofball, loving)

I'm currently also thinking of plots that handle the various challenges of seasons like the movies do ie Ninja Mystery Solvers and the Curse of the Anacondrai, NMS and the Dark Island, NMS and the Cyberchase (S3 but it's the plot of the Cyberchase)

Gang im this close to a ninjago Scooby Doo au (mystery solvers au? Meddling kids au?)

I'd need to change up the dynamics to make it work but I already know Pixal and Nya should make an appearance (both are criminally underused by me) as Daphne (specifically badass girl power) and Velma (cool pilled smart pilled)

[basicallyjaywalker]

I've been thinking a lot about Ninja Mystery Solvers but also Monster Living AU so now I have brainstorming docs for both. AO3 gonna looooooove this