#ninjago crystallized spoilers

[figs-oliomedley]

Fuck you I’m right

[frootertooter]

Golden Oni Lloyd doodle!

[threemoonwatchers]

Garmadon in Crystalized part 2

[piereoglyphics]

hey guys its m again i made this myself

[angeldrawsstuffs]

I come bearing Survivalshipping

And also the poly version

Garmadon has two hands <3

[ninjacreature]

I just had a MASSIVE realization about Ronin's actions during The Island.

Looking at all of Ronin's other actions throughout the series, he always seems to have some kind of proper motivation. During Possession, it was paying a debt to free his cursed soul. During Skybound, he captured the ninja so his criminal slate could be cleared. By the time season 7 has rolled around, he has a pawn shop and he seems to have mostly settled down.

So what was his motivation during The Island? Money? That didn't make much sense to me at all. Sure, he likes cash, but what was he going to do with it? He'd been bounty hunting, he already had a source of income. He was turning things around in his life. So what changed? It didn't add up.

Unless, of course, we take these lines from Garmadon into consideration:

Upon being asked, during episode 20 of Crystallized, how he knew the Overlord would return, Garmadon answers this:

"I may have trouble understanding empathy, but anger and hatred are simple. I felt them growing all around me."

Judging by the fact that, despite seeming angry and hateful towards the ninja in the beginning of Crystallized, he later on defends them and makes the choice to help them, then the Overlord's influence on greater Ninjago realm could have gotten to him, too.

Ronin specifically tells Lloyd that not everyone can be a hero- that's the kind of thing that somebody angry and filled with hatred towards the world would say.

Notice how anger and hatred are not only the specific things he likely feels in the time before the Overlord makes his return, but also the specific things Garmadon points out as being symptoms of the Overlord's growing power. Maybe he wasn't directly targeted, sure, but Wu received a lot of newspaper clippings. Ronin wasn't the only one to be particularly crime-filled during that window of time.

Once the Overlord finished gaining his own vessel, his influence on Ninjago itself waned because he was more concentrated in a single location. It explains why so many Kryptarium prisoners were willing to follow Ronin when it came to helping the ninja- they weren't being powered by the growing anger and hatred anymore.

Sorry if this post seems stupid, I had an epiphany and I felt the need to make it. It seems logically sound to me, but I know not everybody will agree. I also haven't watched The Island in a while so bear with me please!

[chaoticfvckingdisaster]

"I do not know if there is anything after this life for beings such as you or I, but if there is, I will find you there. Goodbye my saint."

GHIS IS A CHILDRENS SHOW? OF LEGOS?

[fruitnoot]

Here’s an oni Lloyd sketch I did a little while ago after finishing Crystalized. I just think he should be able to be a little bit of a spooky villain

[coffeeisfortheresponsible]

Have you drawn any of the dragon forms before? I'm curious how a Kai or a Cole would look in your style 👀

this was super fun to do!!! and way out of my comfort zone in a good way if i’m being honest lol,, i never do full body poses but i love how this turned out! thanks for the request :)

i also just don’t know how to draw cole my b

@jalluzas this is also for you since you requested cole as well!!

[emerald-cloud23]

I genuinely enjoyed Crystalized. It was fun, there were references to old things that I loved seeing/hearing and I think it's good.

The only things I don't like about it is that Harumi was brought back, specifically that she was brought back to be like "do I have feelings for Lloyd or do I not? Oh well, time to serve the evilest being ever to help him destroy Lloyd!". When I watched s8 for the first time I didn't expect her to be the villain, she was written so well that I was a little surprised when she was revealed to be the villain. Then came s9 which.. also had her written well enough but I got seriously uncomfortable with her when she asked Garmadon to adopt her so he could forget about Lloyd. It still makes me uneasy to watch and I usually just skip that scene. And then she gets so scared of dying that she runs away from Garmadon until she sees a family in the same situation she was in many years ago. It takes her this long to see that what she's doing is just creating more people like her so she helps one (1) family to try and redeem herself before the building collapses and she dies. Heck, I wouldn't have been mad if they had brought her back to help the Overlord/Crystal King OR if she had been brought back to help the ninja. Not both. Not this "despite me manipulating and hating Lloyd I loved him so now I'll help someone destroy him" crap. And then that sudden switching sides in the final battle? Unnecessary. Just let her be evil and help the evil OR let her be good if you want to bring her back from the dead so badly. Both doesn't work and it ruins Lloyd in certain moments as well.

I wouldn't have multiple tags that mention her blocked so I can't see content of her if she hadn't been used by the plot like that. I just really don't like her after Crystalized. Before she was fine, even if that scene in s9 makes me uncomfortable.

But other than that, I enjoyed the season. Even that 'original ending' where Lloyd would've become the bad guy after defeating the Overlord/Crystal King? I would have loved to see that too (I do still like the ending we got, the only thing I dislike about it is once again Harumi).

[figs-oliomedley]

It is EXTREMELY FUNNY how incredibly nerfed most of the Council of the CK is

-Pythor is a support class who goes down easy. His biggest strengths are his intelligence and his invisibility, but without an army, he doesn't put up much of a fight

-Vangellis similarly is extremely nerfed without the skull. He can fly, but everyone on the enemy team has a projectile, and he's not a super intimidating fighter

-The only reason Mister E is threatening is because none of the ninja ever beat him, and the only reason for that is because Zane is too sweet to kick an enemy while he's down (he had him completely frozen for like 5 seconds, if he threw E over the cliff it was OVER)

The only one who can hold her own without any allies is Aspheera. This walking bomb can blast the shit out of anything and anyone, army or no army.

Honestly, a more interesting team-up would've been Aspheera and Pythor. He's got the brains and she's got the brawn. Pythor finally puts his money where his mouth is and plans his grand revenge, with him commanding a section of Aspheera's army behind the scenes while she blasts her way through Ninjago City, and while the two megalomaniacs step on each other's metaphorical toes, they hate each other a little less than they hate the ninja.

I did not mention Harumi because she is literally just a dude (I forgot her)

[pixanefan]

"and P.I.X.A.L"

[oshawottarchive]

The Crystal council’s reactions to Devourer!Cole

Aspheera - both terrified and fascinated by him. She wants to try and get him on their side so that 1. He won’t be as much of a threat and 2. So that she could study him.

Pythor - Refuses to even look at him. He doesn’t want to be reminded of what he did to him.

Vangelis - Still a bit salty that he got dethroned by what he considers an animal. Also, he doesn’t wanna get smacked in the face with a snake tail again.

Mr. F - Doesn’t remember him, and has no idea what to think about him.

Harumi - Hates him with a burning passion, even more then she does Lloyd. Wants him destroyed and doesn’t appreciate a few of the others wanting to turn Cole to their team.

[notmcubucky]

Yalls we have color

[strawberri-doggo]

Me looking back on the Survivalshippers that were writing fics before Crystalized based on one (1) scene in S10:

[theresistanceneverquits]

Screw it im gonna say this one thing -

The Garmadon that we see in SoG and onwards isn’t Lloyd’s father. He’s the embodiment of the evil in Garmadon (they lean towards Oni half in the show, whereas I firmly believe he’s the embodiment of the venom from the Great Devourer). He was born when Garmadon was bit and banished to the Cursed Realm at the end of s2.

Lloyd held hope that every version of his father would love him and had it thrown into his face in True Potential. Because this isn’t truly his father.

HOWEVER.

This new Garmadon is a new person, one who has every right to his own life as the og Garmadon did, and hence why he’s able to change once he accepts that his existence isn’t necessarily one of only evil. And he’s able to change.