#ninjago but musicals

[greenhoodiegremlin-blog]

ok since we’re all waiting on arins villain arc in part 2 *takes out comically large foldable spreadsheet about ninjago but told through musicals* please consider;

“Crossing the Line” from tangled (the series) starring arin and sora as cas and rapunzel. pls.

[teshiee]

siblingery ( WARNING: lloyd swearing in ninjargon... )

for context lloyd is NOT talking about kai.

(yk when youre like, talking, and then this one person is like "what're we talking about again?" and you're sick of repeating and you just say "you.")

[waterghostype]

hc jay does NOT play about his karaoke songs

[sillylloyd]

This some crazy friend group

art not mine!!!1!1

[arolegos]

2 sets of drawing jay walker (training myself to like him so ill gaf when DR focuses on him)

[secretly-an-automaton]

BEHOLD

my growing collection of characters who were on opposing sides of a love triangle when they should have just dated each other:

I eagerly welcome any suggestions for expansion

[y4rdbird]

THE SILLY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rainofthetwilight]

I FINALLY FINISHED THIS EDIT....this is my first time using capcut btw so uh, this might be a little wonky 😭 anyway, sora and arin angst for you all 🙏

[ameliadoesstuff]

ninjago & musicals

[seaghosst]

ninjago doesn’t want you to know this but actually all the forgotten side characters are just having the cowboy season during dragons rising. yeah your obscure fav too

[alastair-1205]

Yall remember that one scene where Zane is talking to Mr. Frohicky after losing the Zane-alike contest and has an existential crisis about not being the person he was before The Merge? Yea so fun fact about that, the music they play during that exchange is the FUCKING ICE EMPEROR THEME! It kinda feels like them finally acknowledging that canonically committing genocide would have fucked Zane up real good actually and I'm honestly here for it.

[hellsballz]

i was bored so i doodled movie cole

[get-acronixed-meme]

Listening to s7 Hands of time OST (music) be like:

[nyaskitten]

No offense, but not a single one of the ninja has ever listened to a NANOSECOND of Taylor Swift, none of them would be Swifties like ever.

[sharksandjays]

I think something that Dragons Rising is doing so so well is making the ninja cooler.

I know that sounds weird. But listen. The ninja aren't the main characters anymore! Wanna know who the main characters are? Arin and Sora. Two 15 year olds. Two kids, one of which was raised learning about the ninja and how cool they are.

And the thing is, they are cool! But in the older seasons, the ones focused on the ninja themselves, we focus on the flaws (because the whole point of their seasons are character development.) We don't see them as cool as they are because the narration is from their point of view. Everything that they do is just day-to-day stuff. And, honestly, we get desensitized to all the things we'd normally think is cool because to them its normal!

I think my first epiphany of this was back in season 2 i think when Jay, who is generally perceived to be the weakest of the ninja, easily judo flips Darreth like its nothing, and we know that guy isn't the lightest of people. I saw that and went "huh." because if it wasn't him interacting with a normal citizen i wouldnt think anything of it. If it was him sparring with lloyd or something id be like "yeah whatever ninja do that." but it wasnt until i saw it from outside the ninja's perspective that it really made me think wow these kids are cool.

And thats exactly what dragons rising is doing. Arin is the main character. Our narrative point of view is coming from his eyes. We focus less on the ninja's flaws and more on what makes them awesome. We are looking at them through an inexperienced, child based, point of view. When seeing Lloyd do fancy sword maneuvers would have been normal because pshaw everyone does that is now really cool because wow you dont see that every day.

Dragons Rising allows us to go huh. These are ninjas that have been training and fighting for more than 10 years together. They are really freaking COOL for that.

So Arin, i'm behind you kid. I get your ninja fandom too.

[rowebug]

the live action ninjago movie but its just two guys playing with the character minifigures