#ninjago zangst

[raishifts]

hihi 🫶🏻

[kitty-i-swear-to-gosh]

Environmentals practice or an excuse to draw Zangst? The world will never know

[perchatochkiii]

A drawing of Zane in style of the cover of the track "Memory Reboot" by VØJ & Narvent + the original cover

[destinysbounty]

I think what might easily be the funniest thing about Prime Empire is that even in a season where Zane is barely even present, they still find a way to torment him within an inch of his life

[imliterallysnakejaguar]

DRAGONS RISING S2 SPOILERS‼️‼️

okay but i actually really hope that zane is the first one to 'find' jay in dr. it actually makes perfect sense. zane is being hunted by the administration, and we now know that Jay is in that kind of field of work (retrieval of items and/or persons) as he was present during the mission at the other monastery.

and like, wouldn't it be so so sad. jay shows up to take him to his death, zane isn't able to fight him bc well, he's JAY, and thus gets taken into custody. he then realises that jay doesn't recognise him. he's lost his memories. the very worst thing to ever happen to zane is now happening to one of his friends and no matter how hard he tries, he can't stop it. he can't help him.

meanwhile jay is just trying to do his job (transporting this random robot to the incinerator), but the robot starts saying things that only jay should know. he talks about jay's lightning, and his food preferences, and his daily habits, and jay is frankly TERRIFIED. not of how much this stranger knows about him, but of the idea that he might have been wasting the past few years of his life working at a dull office job instead of being with a loving family.

thankq for listening to my ted talk (i DEFINITELY won't be writing a one-shot of this omg)

[officercooks]

I propose a season where Zane meets Fritz, he remembers what he did to the formlings and has another crisis

[cast-iron-bug]

" this isn't about numbers! ....it's about family-"

Day 14 of Ninjagotober!!

Prompt: Sacrifice

[spadookleds-void]

Zane's identity issues. Currently thinking about how in earlier seasons (particularly season 1 and possession) they wanted Zane to act differently than he was, whether that was by making him malfunction or making fun of his 'odd' behaviors

and then how in later seasons Zane seems to consistently lose himself, willingly or not

like he becomes the emperor and then he becomes a detective, and then a pirate captain

it's almost like at some point Zane becomes too scared to be himself (i mean that version of himself became the emperor, right?) and he knows that his friends don't like that version of him either (they've all but chased him out because of it...)

and then we get dragons' rising where he emerges AGAIN after missing so many years, and now he can't even put his own value onto Pixel, he just kind of stays home because at least he can plug himself directly into technology (he can become who his friends want him to be)

and then he finds out about the Zane festival and, amazing! maybe people do like him for who he is!

But the whole thing just seems to boil him down to a robot, the first awful truth about his identity that he realized (don't even get me started on him failing all of the tasks to be Zane's look-alike)

and he had accepted being a nindroid at the time, but slowly over time people begun to see him as 'the robot' There's something so profoundly sad to me about Zane and his fight to be himself, to be more than just a weapon, or battery, or 'the nindroid' Zane so desperately wants to be who he knows he is, but the world seems to put him in a box and it's easier to just make himself fit.

[bluescreenvirus]

If you're still looking at prompts, then how about a something with Kai waking up from a nightmare? Perhaps one where he was reliving Zane's death?

Where have you gone, Zane?

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A lil silly AU inspired by this ask! Imagine if the effect of the golden weapons was!! worse than death. So now, Zane is splintered between time and space, between existing and not existing. Now he "haunts" the ninja in hopes he can lead them to clues on how to bring him back to reality. But they can't understand him.

[only-lonely-stars]

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Oneshot – (FFN) (AO3)

Summary:

After the loss of Nya, everyone in the Monastery is grieving. While Pixal has found a constructive outlet, not everyone has done the same. Meanwhile, Zane makes a choice that he may come to regret. (Set between Seabound and Crystallized.)

Pixal sighed, setting down her tools for the first time in three hours. She'd been working tirelessly in the Monastery's garages, just as a Nindroid would. The enormous projects the Ninja requested wouldn't build themselves, and while she always grossly exaggerated the time necessary for construction, she usually worked on tight tolerances.

Even tireless Nindroids need a break.

After a moment, she stretched, listening to her joints grind from a lack of grease. All the lubricant in her joints had worn away while she worked over the past few days. She'd need to add more before her next working session in order to prevent rust and abrasion. Maybe Zane would help her reach the hard-to-access paneling– he always had before.

Zane…

He hadn't come down to the garage in weeks. It was silly of her to miss him so much, but it felt like he was gone. Zane knew that she spent nearly all day, every day, down in the garages building the equipment the Ninja needed. Usually he would join her when he was able, but not anymore. Now he refused to enter any space that bore signs of Nya's former presence. He had exiled himself to his own room, it seemed, and wouldn't budge for anyone.

Not even for her.

Pixal sighed again. There was nothing to be gained by missing him. She would simply have to go upstairs and find him if she wanted his company.

These days, going upstairs to the Monastery felt like entering a different world. No longer was Pixal safe in her garage, filled with tools and metal and things to tinker with. No longer did she have a gentle reminder of Nya everywhere she looked– she had to deal with the mess of six grieving men, along with all of the things they neglected. Every memory of Nya was hidden by a layer of neglect and tears. The picture frames hadn't been dusted in weeks.

Jay was long gone. Kai was planning on leaving…

It was only a moment of time until Pixal was left alone permanently. Was that her fear speaking for her?

Whatever it was, Pixal did not know. She stepped over an old pile of gaming equipment that hadn't been touched in weeks and made her way along the familiar path to Zane's bedroom door.

After a brief pause to collect herself, Pixal knocked on Zane's door.

No response came.

She knocked again, and this time she heard Zane's voice. "Come in, Pixal."

The flat tone of his voice struck her as being odd, and Pixal filed away the concern in her random access memory for later usage. She opened the door to see Zane standing in front of a mirror, his chest compartment open as he looked into it.

"Zane?" Pixal closed the door behind her. She folded her hands and came to stand next to him. "What are you doing?"

"I am examining my construction," Zane said quietly, eyes fixed on the mirror. He was staring at his internal components, eyes grazing over the wires and switches. "What is it you need, dear?"

"I was wondering where you were." Pixal frowned. "What are you looking for?"

"My emotion meter." Zane sighed, tapping a finger against the metallic piece in question. "Given that I no longer have a memory switch, this is the closest I can get to forgetting recent events."

Alarms began to sound in Pixal's interface, but she silenced them and rested a hand on Zane's arm. She gently removed his hand from his emotion meter, holding it in her own hand. "Is that relevant at the moment? What is wrong?"

Zane was quiet. "Pixal… are you grieving Nya as I am?"

She frowned again. "Of course I am. She was my friend too."

"Yes. She was." He hung his head. "How selfish of me to think I am the only one grieving."

"Zane, do not be so hard on yourself."

"Why not?" He looked at her now, pain written across his face. "I do not have the right to hurt so much over this!"

"What? Who told you that?" Pixal seized his hand. "Zane, that is not true. Nya was your sister too! You have every right to grieve. So many bad things have happened recently, Zane."

"Then I am even worse." Zane looked away, eyes closed tightly. "I cannot withstand this, Pixal. This grief too much to bear."

"Of course you can. Ninja never quit, Zane. You never give up."

"I have already given up, Pixal." He shook his head. "And I am sorry."

"Sorry for what? Have you done something wrong?"

"No. I am only about to do something wrong."

"Then stop!" She reached up to take his face and make him look at her, but he refused her touch. "Zane, what are you planning on doing?" She pleaded, touching his cheek. "Please, do not shut me out."

Zane took a long time to respond– fifteen seconds and thirty-seven milliseconds, as her interface unhelpfully displayed. "I want to turn off my emotion meter."

"What?!" Pixal exclaimed, finally being rewarded by Zane looking at her in alarm and shame. "Zane, you cannot do that!"

He sighed, looking incredibly tired… and more alarming still, afraid. "Pixal, I'm ready. I backed up every one of my files twice. I can't withstand this hurt."

"But you must process your emotions! You cannot ignore them or force yourself to forget!"

"It is not ignoring them if I do not feel them!" Zane snapped. "Pixal, I am suffering more than I can explain! I can't keep feeling this!"

"And do you not think I understand? Do you think I don't know how you feel?!" She glared at him. "Zane Julien, I was there when you died! I watched you sacrifice yourself and freeze the whole city! I was the only one who knew you survived for months! Do you think I do not know loss?!"

Zane shrank away. "Of course not! I am simply saying that this is the breaking point."

"Or you are being selfish, and fearful too." She prodded him in the chest. "Zane, you are a ninja and a nindroid. Neither are cowards."

He took her hand by the wrist and moved it away, stepping back. "You don't understand."

"Oh, I understand perfectly! You don't want to process these emotions. You want to stuff them away, like every other time." She crossed her arms. "I may love you, Zane, but I can't listen to this nonsense. Do you even hear yourself?"

"Do you even hear me?!" Zane accused.

"Of course I do, and I hear nonsense." She shook her head. "You're making a mistake."

"Maybe you think it is. After some time, when I am able to process my emotions, I will turn them back on." He reached for his emotion meter. "For now, I must abide by rational thinking."

Pixal turned her face away, too angry to watch him flip the switch. "Then this is the end of us, isn't it? All because of one small choice."

"I don't want to do it." His voice was small, scared. "I just want to stop hurting."

She closed her eyes tightly. "This won't help. All you'll do is hurt more later."

"I don't know what else to do."

"So you resort to something only we Nindroids can do, just to stop the pain?"

She didn't get a response for another seventeen seconds and ninety-eight milliseconds.

Zane spoke, his voice was flat and emotionless. "I am a Nindroid. It is logical to take advantage of my many dissimilarities to organic beings."

The emotionless tone of Zane's voice made Pixal close her eyes even more tightly. She fought back tears of sorrow and anger, but she could feel them building in her artificial eyes. "You turned off your emotion meter."

"I did."

She took a deep, mechanical breath and looked at him. "Then you cannot even love me, can you? You cannot feel."

Zane looked at her with a blank expression– eyes dark, brows straight, mouth only moving to speak. He had never looked more robotic. "My opinion of you has not changed."

"Your opinion. But you can't feel love." She closed her eyes, turning away again. "Do you understand what you have done?"

"I have made it so that I can no longer feel emotions," Zane noted robotically.

"No. Not that." She shook her head, looking at him through her tears. "You've ended our relationship. I won't stand by this. Until your emotion meter is back on, we are through."

Zane didn't react. "I see."

She shook her head, ready to burst into tears. "I can't even look at you."

"I am sorry to hear that."

"You're not sorry at all!"

"I am using common colloquial speech intended for expressing sympathy."

"I don't want your sympathy! I want you to understand me." Pixal turned around fully, making her way to the door and opening it without hesitation. "I hope you have the presence of mind to understand that I am angry."

"Yes. Perhaps a cold shower will be of assistance."

"I'll be in the garage."

No response came. Pixal exited Zane's door and closed the door behind herself.

Pixal stalked the whole way back to the garage, anger radiating through every part of her mechanical body. She shut off her tear producers until she reached the garages. She went to her nook– a corner filled with old blankets and pillows that radiated safety to her.

Only then did Pixal cry, and cry she did.

The only being with whom she could ever be compatible was gone. An uncaring robot stood in his place. She'd lost the love of her life, and worse, he couldn't even feel sorry about it.

She was left alone with her emotions now. No one would care. No one would come. Until Zane came to his senses, she didn't even have him.

Pixal had every right to be angry, but all she could do was sob.

[ratinthebins]

I’ve discovered I enjoy writing zangst

[npdzane]

Adding to my zane hcs - i think he gets mood swings. And they get worse or better depending on how well hes been maintaining himself. The only thing is, they aren't noticeable because he turns off his emotions the second he gets irritated because he doesn't think he should be letting himself get angry. So instead he'll turn off his feelings for a while and isolate until he's back to "normal"

[penofwildfire]

Zangst ft my OC Janus

[perchatochkiii]

my religion

[destinysbounty]

I've decided to try getting back into fic-writing again! Feel free to check this out if you'd like. Any and all support is appreciated!

Synopsis:

Aspheera didn't kill Zane, but she didn't banish him either. Instead, she trapped his soul inside her Staff.

Unfortunately for him, no one actually realizes this until they try using the Staff to restore Nya's humanity two years later.

[starwolf479]

Season 4 - Angst Idea

Okay - just a thought floating around in my noggin The ninja went to Chen's island on the idea that Zane was there - I think there was one line about it possibly being a trap but that idea was quickly shot down. If there was a possibly, they were going to try! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now onto the angsty au ideas: there are two options

Option 1) Zane was never revived. The rouse that he is alive continues for the entire season only for it to get ripped out from under the ninja at the end. Save for Skylor, they lost everything. They went there to get back Zane, didn't get him, AND lost Garmadon and PIXAL They find her scrapped in the dungeon at the very end- while gathering evidence for the police report - they have to inform Cyrus Borg that his daughter is dead Option 2) As soon as they arrive, Chen informs them that the island is inescapable. They are trapped... and Zane is dead. With Zane being dead the team no longer has a common goal and falls apart all over again but even more violently than the first time. To have hope and get it ripped apart violently... they can't handle it One problem Zane is alive. The others don't look for him. He hears the guards talking about the falling out. He hears Cole walking by his cell. He hears Jay and Cole arguing. With the bits of memories that he does have he remembers their happy times, and so, the fighting KILLS him. It is only after Skylor uses Zane's power that Kai realizes that Zane is still alive. He "betrays" Lloyd, which Zane hears about and believes. Alone in his cell, save for his scrapped girlfriend trapped in his head, Zane believes that he has lost everything