#ninjago general vex

[autumn2art]

If you still do request for vex….

Could Vex be purring while being hugged by Zane

Or

Vex in his ice form having a crisis

Does the first one count as a crisis? ^^ I hope you're still interested in it.

Yes, I still do request for Clouse & Garmadon or Huntsman & Syntax & Vex.

and I added a headcanon to my version of Vex

[spinchip]

There are no words in the English language

I could scream to drown you out

A side effect of a lifetime together

[spinjitzuladykaia]

Got Magazine,had to translate, Enjoy

Lmao Cole is loykita shipper

[acksolotel618]

Don't change.

[glitcheslikeslego]

so uhhhhhh

not me making two au’s for ninjago at once with one of them being ace attorney based

and trying to find villains so see who could be the murderer for case one and uhhhhhhh

i may hazard a guess, i think that’s general vex guys :0

[nyaskitten]

...Why did no one tell me that in-canon Vex has a hooked nose... why were y'all just casually keeping this information from me!!!

[em0-alpaca]

sorry for no acronix content i ermmm

not really motivated in drawing him <///3

[sepublic]

Thinking of how when Lloyd finds out Akita is actually a person and not just an unusual wolf, he gets really hostile and accuses her of being a liar, being untrustworthy. Because she basically 'tricked' him by pretending to be a regular animal through her Formling powers. And then we have Vex, who himself is a Formling but feels disconnected due to lacking the powers that set them apart from regular humans. And he demonizes them to Grimfax and Zane as liars and deceivers. They 'hide' their true identity/intent behind innocuous animal forms. Vex doesn't have a form himself, but he's actually the liar he makes out ALL Formlings to be. So it's like he compensates for a lack of animal form to deceive others with by lying more directly; His persona as a trustworthy advisor is his own 'form' to hide and blend in with, and to gain Zane's trust, just as Akita gained Lloyd's trust.

[shadow-the-clone-of-epsylonn]

" I don't mind.. I don't care.. as long as you're here... "

[npdzane]

I think the fandom of Ninjago should talk about Zane's fear of losing his humanity and his fear of any negative emotion in general. And how they contradict each other.

(warning, yap sesh ahead) TLDR: can nindroids get therapy? If so we need 5 therapists for Zane immediately

It's already established that Zane has a fear of being seen as just a machine, nothing but a freezer with fake coded emotions. But I haven't seen anyone talk in depth how he seems to turn off his emotions whenever he's faced with grief or stress, and how he only learnt to not do that far into his life.

He probably picked up that habit from when Dr. Julien turned off his memory switch before "dying" back in season 1. And he realized that if he went so long not feeling bad about the "death" of his creator by simply not remembering it or not having the actual emotion of grief, he wouldn't feel bad either when anything similar happened if he just turned off his emotions like Dr. Julien did to him.

The fact this lasted as long as it did meant nobody picked up on it* and tried to tell him he was wrong. Which only validated that idea because if there was a problem with it, someone would've told him..right?

But how can you say you don't want to lose your sense of humanity as a robot while simultaneously doing something humans can't whenever you're faced with stress? I'd say he'd overthink it, and feel guilty about not being honest with himself. He knows hes being irrational, but hes still terrified of the thought of no one seeing him as a person.

But at the same time, he's never been taught how to face stress by himself. Only for other people. It's not like he just doesn't know that ignoring your feelings is a way to avoid the problem and a bad coping mechanism, he obviously knows that. He probably just doesn't know any other solutions because his situation is so niche.

Because how could anyone not want what he has? In his position, he probably feels as if everyone would kill to be a nindroid. Since nobody tells him otherwise. We even see clips where the others use Zane's robot body as a joke or in one case, use him as a fucking cleaning robot. Can you imagine how dehumanizing it must feel for someone to be forced against their will like a puppet into doing a weeks worth of chores?

Zane probably feels as if his fears are irrational. Like he shouldn't have them because being a nindroid seems to be the only thing that others care about when they see him. He's a logical person for sure, but everyone has irrational thoughts and unless you face the reason you have those thoughts they aren't going to go away and they'll cloud your judgement. Zane, for sure, is not doing that. Because we can see he just simply forces himself to stop having emotions when they happen instead of facing them, which only fixes it temporarily.

So hes afraid of being seen as just a freezer with fake emotions (i have more to say about the "fake emotions" part), and because he doesn't face his feelings about why hes afraid of that he lets himself believe that is how people see him. Which causes him to think that fear is stupid and that he shouldn't have it, which makes him turn off his emotions for a while, and the cycle continues.

He also might believe his emotions arent needed. Like maybe at some point he convinces himself that if everyone else only sees him as a calculator with ice powers, maybe that's what he actually is. So on top of everything, he feels like since hes only a computer, all his emotions are fake. Therefore unnecessary.

Not to mention he most likely feels as if he's weak for letting Vex manipulate him. And emotions = weak, weak = manipulated again, manipulated again = letting everyone down. But thats just a little thought i had to let out.

If i could write I'd probably make a fic about him being confronted by this fear, but until then it'll stay in my brain.

Poor boy. Just look at him. He doesn't deserve this bro AUUGIGUGJGJGGHHGHHHH IM AUTISTIC 🥹

Edit: *i rewatched crystalized today and realized the other ninja ARE aware of Zanes habit. They just dont gaf 😭WHICH MAKES IT WORSE!!!

[zanezanezane123]

Quest of The Lost Powers (Zane)

Chapter 1:

“Zane, please hold still,” PIXAL said in a patient voice.

“I am holding still,” Zane protested.

“No, you are not,” PIXAL countered, “Now, I just have one more sensor to attach to your circuits…”

PIXAL and Zane were busy in the Samurai X cave, located deep beneath the Sea of Sand. They had retreated to Nya’s old hideout after their underground hangar bay became buried in the rubble of the Monestary of Spinjitzu during the assault of the Crystal King

Filled with computers, vehicles, and parts to build mechs, PIXAL had found the alternate space to be very useful. In the weeks since the ninja had lost their elemental powers, the android had dedicated herself to finding a way to help Zane restore his power of Ice.

Zane’s journey to become the Titanium Ninja contained many twists and turns. This extraordinary Nindroid was created by the brillian Dr. Julien and then given the power of Ice from the Elemental Ice Master. Yet, before he passed away, Dr. Julien, had turned off Zane’s memory switch. Believing, he was just an ordinary boy, Master Wu took in the nindroid and trained him to be a ninja alongside Kai, Cole, and Jay.

Zane regained the memory of who he was, but as the ninja faced ever-growing challenges, his memories came and went. He was nearly destroyed during a battle with the Overlord, and then reborn again as the Titanium Ninja. PIXAL had helped him regain his memories then.

Later, when Zane had used the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu to try and stop Aspheera, he became stranded in the Never-Realm. The evil General Vex had found him and erased his memories, manipulating him so that he became the cruel Ice Emperor. Then Lloyd had helped Zane regain his true identity. And recently, when the Crystal King had set his forces on Ninjago, Zane had crashed his mech and damaged his memory circuit. He reverted back to his Ice Emperor programming (programming???), and this time, it took the brilliant engineer Cyrus Borg to repair him.

PIXAL believed that the key to Zane’s recovering of is power of Ice was connected to exploring these fractured memories.

“We must look for clues,” she had said, “And I believe those clues can be found within you.”

Zane had complete trust in his android friend (friend zoned??? PIXANE??? Noooooo), because PIXAL understood him better than anyone else. But the idea of exploring his memories made him uneasy. Some lost memories felt like an ache deep within him. And he would rather not think about some of the things he could remember.

He twitched nervously in his chair as PIXAL inserted a sensor into a port in the back of his head.

“These sensors are critical to your journey,” she explained in her calm, steady voice. “They will immerse you in your memories so you can experience them as though you are actually there.” Zane twitched again. “And the others in the memory will be able to see or hear me?”

“No,” PIXAL replied, “You will be an observer only. Now keep still.”

She stepped in front of him and moved to the bank of computer screens. They cast a blue glow on her silver hair and the purple conduit lines on her face.

“It will be interesting to see if this technology can restore your Elemental Powers,” she remarked as she entered a code into the system, “I am working on a way to adapt the tech to work with biological memory banks, perhaps helping the other ninja regain their powers.”

“I am sure they are all searching for a way to unlock their True Potential again,” Zane replied, “Although it is rather odd that I have not heard from any of them.”

PIXAL spun around in her chair and fixed her green eyes on Zane.

“For this first session, I will bring you out of the program in four minutes and thirty seconds,” she said, “If something goes wrong, or you want to leave the memory, just say something.”

“If something goes wrong…,” he thought. An image of the Ice Emperor’s face, cold and fierce, flashed through his mind

“Understood,” Zane replied.

“Are you ready?” PIXAL asked.

“Ready.”

PIXAL turned back to the computer, “Initiating memory exploration in three… two… one!”

(Hi guys you guys might not remember this but I set up a poll asking if I should publish Quest of The Lost Powers in here. After every chapter, I will edit all the others so that you can use a link to get to the other chapters. After Zane’s one you guys voted for Cole’s, Jay’s and then Kai’s (my second favourite story after Zane’s))

[porter-pumpkim]

random headcannon

ngl after season 16 of ninjago, didn't really like season 16 and didn't finish it but I did get an idea

The whole thing with Zane still having the ice emperor personality, but not a "haha funny" joke

Zane with DID or some form of multiple personality disorder, there's definitely a lot of traumatizing events for alters to form from, and would explain when Zane acts weirdly out of character (i know they just changed him because the season 8 reboot but come on we all know he was different before)

So, DID Zane headcannon

The host Zane is the one we had in seasons 1 to 3, the more "human" out of everybody, makes sense considering he genuinly thought he was just a weird human for a while

After season 3 and the overlord situation he splits, resulting in the more robotic Zane that we primarily see in season 8, (the little bout of zane amnesia in season 4 was likely him) though Zane doesn't even realize that alter is there and for now they're interchangeable aside from the titanium Zane majorly struggling with basic expressions and seeming more robotic then the host Zane, who already figured that stuff out

Titanium Zane is the one who kept downloading bad movies to copy behaviors, like the noar detective and pirate situations.

And of course, season 11, ice emperor, he is entirely different from the other two, while host Zane is about 19 mentally, titanium is likely only 16, ice emperor is around 45 considering he was in the never realm for like 30 years and was fronting for almost that entire time after he formed

Ice emperor has an entirely different idea of their life, scrambled memories from host Zane and manipulation from vex convincing him that he is an emperor, plus his horrible memory issues, (idk if he has his own name other than maybe just ice?) He believes himself to be the son of an emperor and heir to the throne, his empire was taken from him in a horrid war during his rule, so he fought tooth and nail to get it back, using the power of ice that his family has held for generations, freezing any and all who stood in his path

Unlike host Zane and titanium, ice emperor is very ruthless and will not go easy on an opponent, if there is a threat, it must be removed.

(Also note, while both host zane and titanium zane know exactly who pixal is, and who all of the ninja are, ice emperor knows absolutely nothing about pixal and is still trying to understand the ninja arent userpers trying to take his throne or kill him)

So now host Zane has to struggle with one, realizing he even has alters sense he had no idea titanium even existed even though he was there the entire time (same for titanium not realizing that host zane existed), but he also has to deal with ice emperor not liking the ninja, and his much more ruthless approach to getting rid of anything that threatens them enough to make him front.

Ice emperor is less of a joke and more of an actual character that the cast has to get used to, after all, titanium and ice emperor are both parts of Zane, and can't just be deleted

[xdxenon]

As both a gamer and someone who has constantly been comparing his life with that of Lego ninja people for the past year, I am so excited that ninjago is being released in fortnite. And the fact that they have General Vex being the enemy and no one seems to know who he is, is giving me a bit of an ego. While I do wish it were garmadon or morro, or someone more interesting, it’s still amazing to see ninjago finally get some recognition from the main stream.

Any time I finish watching a show or anime, demon slayer, the office, especially attack on titan, as it just ended, there’s a huge fanbase with art, memes, and everything, and all of it has hundreds of thousands if not millions of likes and views. But the actual hardcore ninjago fanbase is really small compared to others imo. And I wish that wasn’t the case. Hopefully this is a first step in bringing ninjago back into the spotlight, like what happened when the movie was released.

I believe Fanbases make or break a show and the ninjago one is amazing. Thats the main reason I’m still a huge fan. My Hero Academia for example, I might of considered watching a while ago, but the fanbase is just so weird for the most part, that I probably will never watch it. I just hope that ninjago continues to gain traction and as the fanbase grows, so too will the show, and the community.

[acksolotel618]

Hey all can anybody explain to me how the hell Ice Emperor did all that while his systems were still all damaged?? Because Zane was pretty damaged before Vex came along because of his fall, and Vex certainly wouldn't know how to fix him up, and even if he did I don't think he would.

Yes, the scroll probably gave him all that power and will to do so much, but what about Zane post-neverrealm?? He was there for 60 years with damaged systems and they probably got worse over those decades, how much repairs did he NEED when he got home?? How did he even function is my question, how did he not immediately pass out from mental and physical pain?? How is he not dead??

[bastards-utopia]

I feel like authors of Ninjago greatly underestimated Zane's potential as the Ice Emperor. Even though I think it was mostly Vex who convinced him that everyone wanted to dethrone him. The general filled Zane with so many doubts and manipulated him into actually believing that. (Me an ice emperor apologist?)

Moreover, Kai being transported to the Never Realm as a fire master (and gradually regaining his powers over time) could have greatly unsettled the Ice Emperor, as he likely understood that the element of fire posed a serious threat to his regime... I guess they could have focused on this issue from the point of competing elemental powers ? What does even Lloyd know about Zane anyway, to be the one to talk to him. He wasnt even there when he discovered he was autistic a machine.

I just watched this season but I may have overlooked and forgotten many key things, feel free to correct me

[your-local-uwu-artist]

HELLO

So I have finished both season 10 and just last night season 11 of ninjago!

Season ten I finished at like 1 am staying up late to watch it so that's why I forgor to post about it

So I'll do that first!

Season 10 was a 10/10!!!

Really liked garmadon's characterization. My favorite part was when a random ass guy explained the meaning of life to him. I liked seeing Faith again. I thought the Cole death fakeput was really well done. Specifically how it like, tied into multiple things going on with the story. This shows always been good at that. Like how the grief leads to garmadon character moments and also internal struggle for nya and sense Cole's actually fine now we have to parrelell threads of story to follow and wait to reconnect

SEASON 11

Holy SHIT

-I think I like the new rendering style, it makes the colors look brighter. No real opinion on the added hair texture but I enjoyed the added texture to clothes and stuff. There were some scenes where I was like 'animators having fun' and really that's what I think is most important :3

-Cole's dumbass soda hat my beloved

-loved the episode where they were just like: looking for problems. They are all such silly Billies. Borderline menaces on occasion

-also loved the episode with the paperboys and the news network. I've thought a lot about the citizens of ninjago city and these episodes finnally gave me a proper look into it. Was not dissapointdd!! I am delighted!!!

-jumping ahead here but pixel and Zane's reunion hug was SO fucking cute. My God. There little photo too!!!! My God there always adorable together but it still just ajgfiabduaks my heartttt. Tbh personally I see them as more of a qpr/soulmates kinda thing rather then a conventional romance. Like just, they love each other and that's all that matters <3

-GOD DAMMIT the ice emperor shit goes SO hard. Lots for the fanfics to explore here.

-I fucking LOVED how they had the hand on the scroll all frozen over and whenever he stood up from the throne there was ice breaking just my godddddd

-also I am sorry to admit I did at one point think to my self 'very Elsa core'

-I feel like there was a lot of things this season why I found myself thinking that there's three sides to every story. A lot of stuff where I felt like what we the audience were being shown wasn't quite the reality. I think the episode with the jailbreak proves this. Like with aspheera and wu. I'm sure there's something more there. That ashpeera's retelling of events would be different. Maybe king mamba was actually a huge asshole or smth. Idk. The point is there is something unknown there... CUE THE FANFICTION PLEASE.

-this leads into vex. I'm CERTAIN his story of leaving the formlings and when he came back to give evil speech went down VERY differently then what we were able to see. Not that Vex snt a fucking loser piece of work. He stalked a vulnerable individual and went 'I can manipulate this guy! '. Just that I thing things are a little more complicated then what we saw. Kinda like with nadakhan: still a fucking horrible person, but there was some characterization that showed them as A person. Rather then a stand in for a generic monster. I think that makes them scarier monsters actually

-speaking of monsters Krag was great. Love how Cole really just went 'Krag comes with us, Krag is friend now'

-I loved akita! Fun design!!!! She'd bite people for fun and she's real for that

-god dammit Zane's little goodbye video message was so fucking sad and sweet

-oh yeah the random ass 2d segments! I defiantly enjoyed them! They weren't perfect but who cares. I wonder like: how that happened tho???

-welp that's all from the top of my head.